Released from the grind of full- or part-time work and the needs of young children, we have more time to consider the “Big Picture.” This search for meaning can provide us with a spiritual curriculum that enables us, as Rabbi Schacter-Shalomi puts it, to “consciously transform the downward arc of aging into the upward arc of expanded consciousness [and] crown [our] lives with meaning and purpose.

Try this exercise to “Engage the Spirit” and explore the notion of Letting Go.