Old age

One of the mistakes that many people are constantly pursuing is that they consider themselves too old to do anything. This error arises due to a lack of understanding of what life really is. Life is consciousness, not years. A seventy-year-old man or woman should be better able to show the truth of this than a man who is barely twenty. He has to think for a long time to get to a deep thought, and we are dealing precisely with thoughts, and not with external conditions.
Amelia Bar was over fifty-three years old when she wrote the book. After that, she wrote more than eighty books, and they all had great success.
Mary Baker Eddy was over sixty when she began her work, and she paid great attention to all her numerous occupations, until she moved from this world to a higher one. The author of this book once took a sixty-year-old man, one of those who considers the chances of success to be lost, and, teaching him the principles of this book for a year, turned him into a successful businessman. He is all right now, and never before has he been so happy. During the last conversation, he said that the business is expanding every day, so that he is just starting. Every day, standing in his store, he proclaims mentally that the trade will be even more active.
He turns these words to the Spirit and constantly realizes them. And if all that was said was not true, then it would not be worth living. What means several years in comparison with eternity? We must get rid of the wrong opinions about age and competition. Those who have found the light of truth never remember competition. People constantly thinking about it, never knew the truth.
Life is what we create from our own depth, and not from the world around us. We are just as old as we think it is, and the number of years we have lived on this planet does not matter.