"After midlife, one falls back on C G Jung and determines that the first years of life were in themselves symbolic. To learn a profession (calling) doesn't mean that you are called. To obtain money doesn't mean that you are rich. To marry doesn't mean that you have learned to love. To build a house doesn't mean that you are at home. All the things you did until you turned forty confront you again after midlife as a task, but this time inwardly."
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Wort des Heils, Wort der Heilung. II p 148 (1989)
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Eugen Drewermann
deutscher Theologe und Schriftsteller
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