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nA couple of year back, as I approached my 75th birthday, I found myself obsessed and downtrodden about growing old. So many of my close friends and associates were dying or facing serious illness. Moreover, what I will call the diminishments of the aging process were getting me down for sure. Losing my hair, my physical strength, and my good vision and hearing, were thoughts dominating my mind each day. I decided to take some action to alter my daily focus. I began to read material from various spiritual mystics and write down my reflections of what I gained from the reading. n nn nIn particular, I saw that I had to decide whether my life was over or was I just beginning a new and exciting chapter in my life? Can the last quarter of my life be a time of new awakening instead of diminishment and decline? As it has turned out, this daily practice has totally changed my perspective with respects to the aging process. n nn nI named the book The Last Quarter because once you hit 75, it is pretty certain statistically that you are in the final quarter of your life. But it came to me that none of us truly know when we are, in fact, in the last quarter. Death has no age requirement and we all just have the one moment in time that we breathe together on this earth. As such, my hope is that many of the thoughts and reflections in this book will ring true for many of us regardless of our biological age. n nn nSince I began these writings, I have lost my wife of over 50 years two years