Age is the antidote to personal destruction, the call to spiritual growth, because age finally brings us to the point where there is nowhere else to go but inside for comfort, inside for wealth, inside for the things that really count . . .
The interior life, the search for the sacred, takes over to the point that we can begin to assess how much energy the passions and flaws have drained from our life.
— Joan Chittister, The Gift of Years