An Equal Joy : Reflections on God, Death and Belonging Miles Franklin Literary Award (2014) It’s about trusting your talents

It’s about trusting your talents and doing only what you want—but having the courage to get lost and see where the path leads

It's about changing the world

Self-transformation means that nothing of the old remains

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An Equal Joy : Reflections on God, Death and Belonging Miles Franklin Literary Award (2014) It’s about trusting your talentsI have noticed, increasingly, that people after the age of 65 or thereabouts begin to experience the fear of death in a very palpable way. While in their childhood and youth they had viewed death as happening only to grandparents, while in middle age they could still afford to relegate death to remote corners of their consciousness where it could not intrude upon the pleasures of living, the advent of old age after 65 brings to them a deeply