If you think you're too old to solve your problem then you're too old to solve your problem. If you don't think you're too old to solve your problem then you're not too old to solve your problem. It's as simple as that and everybody knows it. Ernest Holmes in his marvelous book Creative Mind and Success may have said it best:
One of the besetting errors of people is a belief that they are too old to do things. This comes from a lack of understanding of what life really is. Life is consciousness and not years.The man or woman that is seventy years old should be better able to demonstrate than the man who is only twenty. He should have evolved a higher thought, and it is thought and not conditions that we are dealing with.
Amelia Barr was fifty-three before she wrote a book. After that she wrote over eighty, all of which had a large circulation. Mary
Baker Eddy was sixty before she began her work, and she attended to all her great activities until she passed from this plane to a higher one. The author of this book once took a man who was over sixty, one who thought his choice for success had gone, and through teaching him these principles in a year's time made him a prosperous business man. He is now doing well and was never before in his life so happy. The last time he was interviewed he said that business was increasing every day and that he had not begun yet.
What is a few years of eternity? We must get over these false notions about age and competition. In the truth the word competition is never mentioned. The people who think about it have never known the truth.
Life is what we make it from within and never from without. We are just as old as we think we are, no matter what the number of years may have been that we have lived on this planet.
A person born in 1920 could expect to live to the ripe old age of 57. Today life expectancy is 78. Soon it will be 80. Depending upon how one takes care of their body, it is logical to assume that many will be very active at ninety.
When we were twenty, people of fifty seemed old. Most of us set our goals for that 30-year span. All of a sudden some of us are sixtyish and faced with a lifespan that may well be 20 to 30 years longer than we planned for. That's a little discombobulating. Past generations didn't have the problem. They figured they'd be dead by now. We now need to figure out what to do. The truth is, we can do anything we want, at any age whatever. But, whatever the age, the teachers agree, the Power we seek is in us.
The Kingdom of God is within you.
-Luke 17:21
Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are
Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue,
but because men's minds have become inverted
through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.
-Buddha
He is in you, and it is God that has prompted you to project Him into the outer world, as this idol or that image, to listen to your outpouring and give you peace. Without the inspiration, solace, and joy that He confers from within, you will be raving mad, as one who has lost his moorings and is tossed about, rudderless on a stormy sea. Hold on to Him in the heart, hear Him whisper in the silent words of counsel and consolation. Hold converse with Him, guide your footsteps as He directs, and you reach the goal, safe and soon. The picture before which you sit, the flowers which you place on it, the hymns you recite, the vows you impose on yourselves, the vigils you go through-these are activities that cleanse, that remove obstacles in the way of your getting aware of the God within.
