Richard Rohr 
AARP Falling Upward [EPUB ebook] 
A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

The Invitation to a Further Journey vii
Introduction xiii
1 The Two Halves of Life 1
2 The Hero and Heroine’s Journey 17
3 The First Half of Life 25
4 The Tragic Sense of Life 53
5 Stumbling over the Stumbling Stone 65
6 Necessary Suffering 73
7 Home and Homesickness 87
8 Amnesia and the Big Picture 97
9 A Second Simplicity 105
10 A Bright Sadness 117
11 The Shadowlands 127
12 New Problems and New Directions 137
13 Falling Upward 153
Coda 161
Notes 169
Bibliography 177
The Author 183
Index 185

Fr. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province. He founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1986, where he presently serves as founding director. Fr. Rohr is the author of more than twenty books, an internationally known speaker, and a regular contributing writer for Sojourners and Tikkun magazines and the CAC’s quarterly journal, Radical Grace.