If your general impression is that the world is liable to fall off and break into two,” that “fate has it in for you,” that you were “bom to hard luck”, that you never had a chance and never will have one.” and that “you will not live long anyway,” then, of course, you will lose courage and without the will to spur you onto effort, you will not succeed either in your business or in prolonging your life. That pessimistic state of mind retards your digestion and has a bad effect upon your liver. Such despondent people are usually unhealthy and therefore unhappy, feeling that “there is nothing to live for’,
they usually age more rapidly than optimistic people. The remedy lies in both physical and mental activity, for the same law applies to the mental organization as to the rest of your body, so that if you would keep young mentally you must exercise your brains. The list of old men, thinkers, writers, statesmen and orators, who have achieved their greatest successes in advanced years, is too long to recite, but the secret of their success in every case was, that they kept busy. –Akhand jyoti March-April 2019