However, should you let your youth ascend, should you be able to say: “It was good to be twenty, good to be thirty, good to be forty, and fifty, and sixty; but it’s even better to be seventy!”—then pentecost will happen. You will receive the spirit for the life that you are already in fact living, the life of a seventy-year-old, which is a different spirit than for somebody who is twenty. Some of the happiest people in the whole world are seventy years old and some of the unhappiest people in the world are that age. The difference is not in who has kept himself or herself the slimmest and most
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