To recapture the days of your youth, feel the miraculous, healing, self renewing power of your subconscious mind moving through your whole being. Know and feel that you are inspired, lifted up, rejuvenated, revitalized and recharged spiritually. You can bubble over with enthusiasm and
joy, as in the days of your youth, for the simple reason that you can always mentally and emotionally recapture the joyous state.
The candle, which shines upon your head, is divine intelligence and reveals to you everything you need to know; it enables you to affirm the
presence of your good, regardless of appearances. You walk by the guidance of your subconscious mind, because you know that the dawn appears and the shadows flee away.
Instead of saying, “I am old,” say, “I am wise in the way of the divine life.”
Don’t let the corporation, newspapers or statistics hold a picture before
you of old age, declining years, decrepitude, senility and uselessness. Reject it, for it is a lie. Refuse to be hypnotized by such propaganda. Affirm
life not death. Get a vision of yourself as happy, radiant, successful,
serene and powerful.
Former President Herbert Hoover, now 88 years old, is very active and is
performing monumental work. I interviewed him a few years ago in his
suite at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York City. I found him healthy, happy,
vigorous and full of life and enthusiasm. He was keeping several secretaries busy handling his correspondence and was himself writing books of
a political and historical nature. Like all great men, I found him affable,
genial, amiable, loving and most understanding.
His mental acumen and sagacity gave me the thrill of a lifetime. He is a deeply religious man and is full of faith in God and in the triumph of the
eternal truth of life. He was subjected to a barrage of criticism and condemnation in the years of the great depression, but he weathered the
storm and did not grow old in hatred, resentment, ill will and bitterness.
On the contrary, he went into the silence of his soul and communing with
the divine presence within him, he found peace, which is the power at the
heart of God.
My father learned the French language at 65 years of age, and became an
authority on it at 70. He made a study of Gaelic when he was over 60,
and became an acknowledge and famous teacher of the subject. He assisted my sister in a school of higher learning and continued to do so until
he passed away at 99. His mind was as clear at 99 as it was when he was
20. Moreover, his handwriting and his reasoning powers had improved
with age. Truly, you are as old as you think and feel.
Marcus Porcius Cato, the Roman patriot, learned Greek at 80. Madame
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, the great German American contralto,
reached the pinnacle of her musical success after she became a grandmother. It is wonderful to behold the accomplishments of the oldsters.
General Douglas MacArthur, Harry S Truman, General Dwight David Eisenhower, and American financier, Bernard Baruch are interesting, active and
contributing their talents and wisdom to the world.
The Greek philosopher, Socrates, learned to play musical instruments
when he was 80 years old. Michelangelo was painting his greatest canvases at 80. At 80, Cios Simonides won the prize for poetry, Johann von
Goethe finished Faust and Leopold von Ranke commenced his History of
the World, which he finished at 92.
Alfred Tennyson wrote a magnificent poem Crossing the Bar, at 83. Issac
Newton was hard at work close to 85. At 88 John Wesley was directing,
preaching and guiding Methodism. We have several men of 95 years who
come to my lectures, and they tell me they are in better health now than
they were at 20.
Let us place our senior citizens in high places and give them every opportunity to bring forth the flowers of Paradise.
If you are retired, get interested in the laws of life and the wonders of
your subconscious mind. Do something you have always wanted to do.
Study new subject and investigate new ideas.
Pray as follows: As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth
my soul after thee, O God. Psalm 42:1.
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s; he shall return to the days of his
youth. Job 33:25.
Old age really means the contemplation of the truths of God from the
highest standpoint. Realize that you are on an endless journey, a series of
important steps in the ceaseless, tireless, endless ocean of life. Then, with
the Psalmist you will say, They shall bring forth fruit in old age; they shall
be fat and flourishing. Psalm 92:14.
But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23.
You are a child of infinite life, which knows no end, and you are a child of
eternity.
1. Patience, kindness, love, good will, joy, happiness, wisdom and understanding are qualities which never grow old. Cultivate them and express
them and remain young in mind and body.
2. Some research physicians say that the neurotic fear of the effects of
time may well be the cause of premature aging.
3. Age is not the flight of years; it is the dawn of wisdom in the mind of
man.
4. The most productive years of your life can be from 65 to 95.
5. Welcome the advancing years. It means you are moving higher on the
path of life which has no end.
6. God is life and that is your life now. Life is self renewing, eternal and
indestructible and is the reality of all men. You life forever because your
life is God’s life.
7. Evidence of survival after death is overwhelming. Study Proceedings of
Psychical Research Society of Great Britain and America in your library.
The work is based on the scientific research by outstanding scientists for
over 75 years.
8. You cannot see your mind, but you know you have a mind. You cannot
see spirit, but you know that the spirit of the game, the spirit of the artist,
the spirit of the musician and the spirit of the speaker is real. Likewise, the spirit of goodness, truth and beauty moving in your mind and heart
are real. You cannot see life, but you know you are alive.
9. Old age may be called the contemplation of the truths of God from the
highest standpoint. The joys of old age are greater than those of youth.
Your mind is engaged in spiritual and mental athletics. Nature slows down
your body so that you may have the opportunity to meditate on things divine.
10. we do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.
Your faith and convictions are not subject to decay.
11. you are as young as you think you are. You are as strong as you think
you are. You are as useful as you think you are. You are as young as your
thoughts.
12. Your gray hairs are an asset. You are not selling your gray hairs. You
are selling your talent, abilities and wisdom which you have garnered
through the years.
13. Diet and exercise won’t keep you young. As a man thinketh, so is he.
14. Fear of old age can bring about physical and mental deterioration. The
thing I greatly feared has come upon me.
15. You grow old when you cease to dream, and when you lose interest in
life. You grow old if you are irritable, crotchety, petulant and cantankerous. Fill your mind with the truths of God and radiate the sunshine of His
love – this is youth.
16. Look ahead, for at all times you are gazing into infinite life.
17. Your retirement is a new venture. Take up new studies and new interests. You can now do the things you always wanted to do when you were
so busy making a living. Give your attention to living life.
18. Become a producer and not a prisoner of society. Don’t hide your light
under a bushel.
19. The secret of youth is love, joy, inner peace and laughter. In Him
there is fullness of joy. In Him there is no darkness at all.
20. You are needed. Some of the great philosophers, artists, scientists,
writers and others accomplished their greatest work after they were 80
years old.
21. The fruits of old age are love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance.
22. You are a child of infinite life which knows no end. You are a child of
eternity. You are wonderful!