This man is a sucked orange and is meeting the natural fate of such. But unlike the orange, he was a free-will offering to the world I DO. His young ideals were choked off and crushed out. He said, “A salary in the hand now is worth two fortunes I might develop if I followed my ideals. I think I might in time work into something great if I worked along another line for myself, but I know I can draw a salary if I work for this man. I fear to trust ‘the world I AM.’ And, anyway, life is short and what’s the use of trying so hard? So I’ll add up columns, draw my salary and eat, drink and be merry.” So his ideals for lack of expression went into winter quarters, and are still hibernating -- awaiting a new incarnation in the world I DO.

But it is never too late to turn to the sun I AM. One’s muscles may be weak and his joints stiff; his brain cells may cry out for a little more slumber, a few more columns and then a long sleep; but still one can turn over if he will. It is never too late to begin putting what I AM into what I DO. Even if one is 45 and a sucked orange, with not time to accomplish much in this incarnation, he can at least get ready for a better start in the next. So it is never too late to consider and express what I AM -- the ideal.

Do you know that your ideals and desires are really YOU? -- the I AM of you? Your body and your doings and even your education are but white caps on the surface of YOU. They are but an infinitely small and evanescent portion of your resources. They are what you have already realized of your infinite resources.

The giraffe used to have a short neck. That was all he had expressed of himself. But his pasturage ran short and he began to reach up after the palm leaves. He reached and looked and reached again. This unwonted exercise stretched his neck until it is now long enough to easily reach the palm tops. So it has ceased to grow longer. As long as he kept reaching out his neck kept growing.

What are you reaching out after? Do you see in the world I AM something that is worth while? 11 you reach after it in the world I DO? Do you keep on reaching, and looking, and reaching again?