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“parents dead. Can’t backpack, can’t do hip hop. Who am I, really? Now I get to find out.”
― Susan Moon, This is Getting Old

“But even the venerable Zen teacher Robert Aitken Roshi, in an interview about being old—he was in his eighties at the time—admitted with a laugh, “I often feel like a young person who has something wrong with me.” It”
― Susan Moon, This is Getting Old

“I keep driving, slowly, hoping I’ll remember where I’m going before I get there. So far I always have. Zen”
― Susan Moon, This is Getting Old

“Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good.”
― Susan Moon, This is Getting Old

“wanted to teach myself how to get old without getting bitter. Then, as I kept on getting older, other things happened, both wonderful and painful. I became a grandmother, my mother died, and I kept on writing. Not only did I write about the things I didn’t like that were happening to my body and my mind, I also wrote about how my relationships were changing because of age.”
― Susan Moon, This is Getting Old

“I have learned some things about pain through my sitting practice. If I move to adjust my posture prematurely, the pain will chase me wherever I go, but if I just sit still when the pain starts, it often goes away, or recedes into the background.”
― Susan Moon, This is Getting Old

“Wabi-sabi” is a Japanese expression for the beauty of impermanence,”
― Susan Moon, This is Getting Old

“The nearer I get to death, the more alive I feel. The more I consider my own mortality, the less afraid I am of dying. And the older I get, the more readily I can put myself aside.”
― Susan Moon, Alive Until You're Dead: Notes on the Home Stretch

“At first, I made a list of the difficult things that I was experiencing myself, like memory loss, sore knees, and fear of loneliness, and I set out to write an essay about each one.”
― Susan Moon, This is Getting Old