The Four Life Phases

“Life’s racecourse is fixed,” wrote Cicero near the end of his life. “Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its appropriate quality.” Across all cultures and epochs, all classes and races, the experience of aging is a universal denominator of the human condition. “From a biological standpoint,” observed Chinese philosopher Lin Yutang, “human life almost reads like a poem. It has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and decay.” ~ Source