Your subconscious mind never grows old. It is timeless, ageless and endless. It is a part of the universal mind of God which was never born and it
will never die.
Fatigue or old age cannot be predicated on any spiritual quality or power.
Patience, kindness, veracity, humility, good will, peace harmony and
brotherly love are attributes and qualities which never grow old. If you
continue to generate these qualities here on this plane of life, you will always remain young in spirit.
I remember reading an article in one of our magazines some years ago
which stated that a group of eminent medical men at the De Courcy Clinic, in Cincinnati, Ohio, reported that years alone are not responsible for
bringing about degenerative disorders. These same physicians stated that
is is the fear of time, not time itself, that has a harmful aging effect on
our minds and bodies, and that the neurotic fear of the effects of time
may well be the cause of premature aging.
During the many years of my public life, I have had occasion to study the
biographies of the famous men and women who have continued their productive activities into the years well beyond the normal span of life. Some
of them achieve their greatness in old age. At the same time, has been
my privilege to meet and to know countless individuals of no prominence
who, in their lesser sphere, belonged to those hardy mortals who have
proved that old age of itself does not destroy the creative powers of the
mind and body.
A few years ago I called on an old friend in London, England. He was over
80 years of age, very ill and obviously was yielding to his advancing
years. Our conversation revealed his physical weakness, his sense of frustration and a general deterioration almost approaching lifelessness. His
cry was that he was useless and that no one wanted him. With an expression of hopelessness he betrayed his false philosophy, “We are born, grow
up, become old, good for nothing, and that’s the end.”
This mental attitude of futility and worthlessness was the chief reason for
his sickness. He was looking forward only to senescence, and after that –
nothing. Indeed, he had grown old in his thought life, and his subconscious mind brought about all the evidence of his habitual thinking.
Unfortunately, many people have the same attitude as this unhappy man. They are afraid of what they term “old age,” the end and extinction which
really means that they are afraid of life. Yet, life is endless. Age is not the
flight of years, but the dawn of wisdom.
Wisdom is an awareness of the tremendous spiritual powers in your subconscious mind and the knowledge of how to apply these powers to lead a
full and happy life. Get it out of your head once and for all that 65, 75 or
85 years of age is synonymous with the end for you or anybody else. It
can be the beginning of a glorious, fruitful, active and most productive life
pattern, better than you have ever experienced. Believe this, expect it,
and your subconscious will bring it to pass.
Old age is not a tragic occurrence. What we call the aging process is really
change. It is to be welcomed joyfully and gladly as each phase of human
life is a step forward on the path, which has no end. Man has powers,
which transcend his bodily powers. He has senses, which transcend his
five physical senses.
Scientists today are finding positive indisputable evidence that something
conscious in man can leave his present body and travel thousands of
miles to see, hear, touch and speak to people even though his physical
body never leaves the couch on which it reclines.
Man’s life is spiritual and eternal. He need never grow old for life, or God,
cannot grow old. The Bible says that God is life. Life is self renewing, eternal, indestructible and is the reality of all men.
The evidence gathered by the psychical research societies both in Great
Britain and America is overwhelming. You may go into any large metropolitan library and get volumes on The Proceedings of the Psychical Research Society based on findings of distinguished scientists on survival
following so called death. You will find a startling report on scientific experiments establishing the reality of life after death in The Case for Psychic Survival by Hereward Carrington, Director of the American Psychical
Institute.
A woman asked Thomas Edison, the electrical wizard, “Mr Edison, what is
electricity?”
He replied, “Madame, electricity is. Use it.”
Electricity is a name we give an invisible power which we do not fully
comprehend, but we learn all we can about the principle of electricity and
its uses. We use it in countless ways. The scientist cannot see an electron with his eyes, yet he accepts it as a
scientific fact, because it is the only valid conclusion, which coincides with
his other experimental evidence. We cannot see life. However, we know
we are alive. Life is, and we are here to express it in all its beauty and
glory .
The Bible says, And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only
true God. John 17:3.
The man who thinks or believes that the earthly cycle of birth, adolescence, youth, maturity and old age is all there is to life is indeed to be
pitied. Such a man has no anchor, no hope, no vision and to him life has
no meaning.
This type of belief brings frustration, stagnation, cynicism and a sense of
hopelessness resulting in neurosis and mental aberrations of all kinds. If
you cannot play a fast game of tennis, or swim as fast as your son, or if
your body has slowed down, or you walk with a slow step, remember life
is always clothing itself anew. What men call death is but a journey to a
new city in another dimension of life.
I say to men and women in my lectures that they should accept what we
call old age gracefully. Age has its own glory, beauty and wisdom, which
belong to it. Peace, love, joy, beauty, happiness, wisdom, good will and
understanding are qualities which never grow old or die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet and philosopher, said, “We do not count a
man’s years until he has nothing else to count.” Your character, the quality
of your mind, your faith and your convictions are not subject to decay.