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LEANING

From the December 1887 issue of The Christian Science Journal


On what? Toward what? Is our attitude of mind like the forest tree, which leans for support on its more robust neighbor? Do we aspire toward Spirit, and inspire enough of it to offset our rootedness in the material beliefs by which we are surrounded, that we may not compare unfavorably with a more aspiring and inspiring neighbor?

Do our aspirations and inspirations yield to the belief in attraction, which is the result of an aspiration toward and inspiration of Spirit alone, which has developed itself in the grandest proportions, the sublimest comprehensible sense?

Has comparison still the power to make us feel our littleness in contrast with our neighbor, who has better appreciated and utilized the very resources which we have at hand? Has envy still the despotic control of our belief?

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