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Healing the restless spirit

From the October 1986 issue of The Christian Science Journal


One of the problems in today's society is a feeling of restlessness. Many people feel a hunger for something beyond themselves—for affection, for experience, for what they call life. If they knew exactly what they were looking for, they would see that it's God. But when this hunger is misinterpreted, it may result in various misdirected efforts, immoral acts, experimentation with drugs, a search for satisfaction in worldly ways, in material sense.

The real answer to restlessness is found only through the consciousness of God's presence and power, and of man as Deity's complete image and likeness, satisfied with his status as God's child.

Eventually each individual must learn that all good comes from within, not from without. Good comes from God, and we find it within man's consciousness of sonship with God. Completeness is the true state of man's being as the child of God, and satisfaction, fulfillment, wholeness, must be demonstrated from that standpoint. Good health, satisfying companionship, meaningful occupation, abundant living, are the natural byproducts of turning to God for an understanding of completeness. We can never find a true and lasting sense of fulfillment if we start from the mortal, material standpoint of life and intelligence in matter. Mortal man is an unreal concept of man, an illusion. Anyone who starts with this concept will continually feel the hunger of unsatisfied being. This concept is forever inadequate to the demonstration of completeness and fulfillment.

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