This book is written for you...

• If you want to thrive and find spiritual strength, wellbeing, wisdom, and wonder as you grow older.
• If you are willing to recognize that we live in a new period of history where we can live longer and with more vitality than people ever have.
• If you are ready to embrace this new reality and live the fourth quarter of your life creatively, lovingly, and joyfully.

We are living up to 30 years longer than people a few generations ago did. In Aging Strong Dr. Harris shows that this "extraordinary gift of a longer life" is the opportunity to go deep inside ourselves and meet the spiritual challenge to develop a new story and purpose for ourselves during the fourth quarter of life. It is the opportunity to explore our creativity, discover new vocations and callings, learn to thrive, hold a sense of wonder, and establish a new sense of security in life. It is the gift of deeper emotional connections, wisdom, and newfound joy in living.

The most exciting part of this gift is that the more we pursue a larger life by deepening and transforming ourselves as we grow older, the bigger our gift to our families, friends, community, and culture becomes. Let us recognize this challenge as one of the greatest opportunities in human history. Let us shape our lives from the inside out and be fully alive with grace and passion so that we may give this gift to our communities and to our world.