Midlife is not a crisis; it is a time of rebirth. It is not a time to accept your death. It is time to accept your life and to finally, truly live it, as only you and you alone know deep in your heart it was meant to be lived.

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Product Description

This book is a passionate call to embrace the power and inspiration that opens up to us in the middle of our lives. Best--selling author and lecturer Marianne Williamson psychologically and spiritually reframes this transition so that it leads to a wonderful sense of joy and awakening. Midlife is not a crisis; it is a time of rebirth. It is not a time to accept your death. It is time to accept your life and to finally, truly live it, as only you and you alone know deep in your heart it was meant to be lived.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30516 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
"'I consider Marianne to be one of our most profound teachers of transformational wisdom' - Dr Wayne W. Dyer"

From the Back Cover
'I consider Marianne to be one of our most profound teachers of transformational wisdom. This book is truly a gift to the world.' Dr. Wayne W. Dyer What we have called our 'middle age' need not be a turning point toward death. It can be a turning point toward life as we never knew it, as we could never know it, when we were too young and arrogant to appreciate its limits. Ageing may humble us – but it also awakens us to how precious life is and how very fragile. It's time for us to become the elders and caretakers of this precious planet, not just in name but in genuine practice. Until such time as God calls us home, we should make this world the home of our dreams. The realization that we're no longer young collides at this moment with a sense of historical urgency. Our eyes are opened to the seriousness of this time, and our deepest desire is to do something about it. As we renew our commitment to the processes of life, then the processes of life will recommit to us. We'll feel forgiven for a past that wasn't all it should have been when we commit to a future that is all that it can, should and will be – now that we've finally grown up. Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed lecturer and the bestselling author of A Return to Love, among other works. She is the world's leading teacher in A Course in Miracles. Marianne is involved in extensive charity work, including founding The Peace Alliance, a non-profit grassroots organization dedicated to fostering a culture of peace. www.marianne.com Category: Self Help/Women's Studies Cover Portrait: Paul Bednarski Cover Design: Amy Rose Grigoriou For further information on other titles published by Hay House, visit our website.

About the Author
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. She has published nine books, four of which have been #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. She is a close friend of Oprah Winfrey and ex president Clinton. In Dec 2006, Newsweek named her one of the fifty most influential baby boomers.

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Customer Reviews

Antidote to a Midlife Crises
If you are in midlife and not wholly happy with your life, read this book. This book is meant to empower.

Marianne Williamson asks us: "How would we live were we not afraid of death? How would we live if we felt full permission from ourselves and others to give to life everything we've got?"

With those thoughts in mind, Williamson guides the reader to go after the life they want; to be proactive. Only when "we go for it" do we flourish.
Midlife is what you create. We are not too old to change, if anything, with age comes knowledge, Williamson counsels.

Williamson believes midlife is another stage of life and should be celebrated as such--not unlike the transition from childhood into teenager. She claims the bar or bat mitzvahs, the Jewish traditional rite of passage, is an ideal way to acknowledge the transition from childhood to adolescence, allowing the child to comes to terms with the change in life.

Likewise, we need to celebrate our transition into midlife. Williamson claims that if we don't, we risk a midlife crisis, most often manifested as depression in women.

She says, "Now is the time to burst forth into your greatness--a greatness you could never have achieved without going through exactly the things you've gone through."

It's our perception of middle age that counts --not the old stereotypes.
Midlife is like second chance. We learn who we are and know what we want. Midlife is the time to allow whatever it is into our lives.

Author of the award winning book,Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet

A Profound Message for This Day and Age
There is one idea Marianne Williamson expresses in this book that I especially like. It's the idea that in this day and age we have added more years to our lives -- but those years are in the middle! What she means is that mid-life at this point in time is far more than just a transition from youth to old age. It has become a vibrant, powerful time that gives us the opportunity to leave our driven, desperate, ego-based lives behind, and truly heal ourselves -- and heal the world in the process. No matter what your age, Marianne's eloquence and passion will ignite a fire in your soul, filling you with a true desire to finally live your life the way it is supposed to be lived . . . with unconditional love, compassion, understanding, and forgiveness. I feel like I am living this book right now, and I highly recommend it.

Steven Lane Taylor, author of Row, Row, Row Your Boat: A Guide for Living Life in the Divine Flow

Not bad (but a very Ameri-Christian viewpoint)
Although I also found this book an interesting read, I also found the viewpoint was more heavily christian/american than I'm used to.
Don't get me wrong, there isn't anything particularly preachy about it, it is a positive call to reclaiming your life, and for 80% of the peopel in the uk or us it's probably just normal.
However there are elements such as talking about God having a plan for your life that just scratch a tiny bit to those of us who don't take that viewpoint for granted and they make it less multiculturally accessible than it could be.
Many books of this type are formatted as self help books, chapter building on previous chapter with guidance of steps to take for your own growth in a progressive manner. So far (I'm about 7/8 of the way through) this is far more of a treatise on emotional and mental hangups holding us back from our potential - an extended essay on getting round to growing up properly.
Valuable but not really what I expected - I suspect it's not aimed at those who've immersed themselves in personal development and spiritual study for the last 10 years tho.