I give public lectures in Caxton Hall, London, England,
every few years, and following one of these lectures, a surgeon
aid to me, “I am 84 years of age. I operate every morning,
visit patients in the afternoons, and I write for medical and
other scientific journals in the evening.” His attitude was that
he was as useful as he believed himself to be, and that he was
as young a
as his thoughts. He said to me, “It’s true what you
said, ‘Man is as strong as he thinks he is, and as valuable as he
thinks he is.”””. This surgeon has not surrendered to advancing
years. He knows that he is immortal. His final comment to me
was, “If I should pass on tomorrow, I would be operating on
people in the next dimension, not with a surgeon’s scalpel, but
with mental and spiritual surgery.”