Self Help

with no uncertain hand when he understands that the past, present and future are one. There is no such thing as a mistake; no such thing as lost opportunities; there is no such thing as the past there is just life, and more and more life. Everything is the Eternal now, and every hour behind us on the path was that this hour might be, and our experiences of yesterday were simply the methods which life took to drive us on into higher things. Everyone always does exactly the best they know how to do, they often think that they did not do the best, but the fact remains that one's actions are always based on one's own consciousness, and somewhere in an individual's own mind certain laws obtained which made it impossible for them to do differently just at that time. Perhaps they might have done differently had they known five minutes before what they knew five minutes after the doing, but this wisdom came as the result of doing. "Experience is a dear teacher, but fools won't learn any other way." Since we know that life is for experience, expression and inclusion, we stop our failure method we do not look back we keep out of the past. It has no message that we can understand, save what it speaks to us in the today. What we built into yesterday must come out in our today, and if we are continually recreating our old hours with our thoughts of today, we will never get free. If we want to go on to the new success awaiting us we must unwrap ourselves from the grave clothes of our yesterday. 30 There is no use grieving over anything; no use recalling a painful memory, let it go! Life is always a going on; man's face was set to go forward, walking backward he stumbles. And there are always big new things ahead if we keep after them. One continuing and persistent obsession is the one of old age. "If I were young" has stood in the way of multitudes. This certainly is a young people's age, and the really old man or woman has little hope of success as long as he/she holds on to old age. But in truth there is no old age, there is age; youth and age have no relationship to each other, and each has its own laws of success and conquest. Only the person who allows themselves to really be old in their age will ever be a failure. Old age is waning enthusiasm as long as one keeps enthusiasm and interest and unity they will find their place waiting for them. True it will not be among those of youth, nor in the occupations of youth, but age has its demands which youth c