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THE SECRET OF STAYING ETERNALLY YOUNG

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By Allen L Roland (about the author)

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This short essay by Samuel Ullman captures the secret of staying eternally young and the benefits of living with a childlike, joyful and grateful heart . It is only then that you can celebrate the true gift and delight of yourself ~ as I most certainly do : Allen L Roland  

  " Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.

We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self- distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living.

In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and women and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at Ninety. "   

Of course, one of the surest ways of staying eternally young is completely opening your heart in relationship ~ and here is the proven cure ~ http://myrelationshipcure.com/

 Allen L Roland        http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2008/11/14.html  

Freelance Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for commentsinterviews, speaking engagements and private  consultations ( allen@allenroland.com

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on  www.conscioustalk.net

Courtesy of Samuel Ullman's comments on Youth

 

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I disagree with extreme prejudice. by John Hanks on Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:50:14 AM
COMMENT by Allen L Roland on Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:00:12 PM
Eternal is relative by Margaret Bassett on Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:27:53 PM
Secrets by Mad Jayhawk on Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:33:21 PM

 
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