Every mortal is troubled with many and various anxieties, and yet all desire, through various paths, to arrive at one goal; that is, they strive by different means to attain one happiness: in a word, God. He is the beginning and the end of every good, and He is the highest happiness. Then said the Mind: This, methinks, must be the highest good, so that man should neither need, nor moreover be solicitous, about any other good besides it; since he possesses that which is the root of all other good, inasmuch as it includes all other good, and has all other kinds within it. What is it then but the best happiness, which gathers the other felicities all within it; and to it there is a deficiency of none, neither has it need of any, but they come all from it and again all to it, as all waters come from the sea, and again all come to the sea?— (A.D. 475-525).
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Every mortal is troubled with many and various anxieties...
From the June 1905 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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