As we move through the stages of our lives - birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age, and death - we become less joyful and more set in our ways.

This decline is not inevitable. We can learn to bring more of our original enthusiasm into everyday encounters. To do this we need to move past the thought patterns in which we are stuck and begin to see others and the world anew.

This book is for everyone who is getting older, which is all of us. It is about putting the original spark back into our lives by seeing who we really are and bringing that understanding into everything we do.

Returning to our original joy and spontaneity requires the "death" of the rigid concept of ourselves we hold in our minds. It allows us to open to new possibilities for how we see ourselves and interact with the world.