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Copyright © 2007 by Robert A. Johnson and Jerry M. Ruhl

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Excerpt from “Little Gidding” in Four Quartets, copyright 1942 by T. S. Eliot and renewed 1970 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.

“Last night, as I was sleeping” by Antonio Machado from Times Alone, tr. (Wesleyan University Press, 1983). © Antonio Machado. © 1983. Translation by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.

Excerpt from “Burnt Norton” in Four Quartets, copyright 1940 by T. S. Eliot and renewed 1968 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.

“Silently, a flower blooms” by Zenkei Shibayama from A Flower Does Not Talk, copyright 1970. Reprinted with permission by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Johnson, Robert A., date.

Living your unlived life: coping with unrealized dreams and fulfilling your purpose in the second half of life / Robert A. Johnson and Jerry M. Ruhl.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-1-1012-1618-7
1. Self-actualization (Psychology) in middle age. 2. Middle age—Psychology. 3. Life.
I. Ruhl, Jerry M. II. Title.
BF724.65.S44J64 2007 2007022969 155.6'6—dc22

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