A SINGLE right motive will take a man triumphantly through a seeming chaos of wrong conditions. This the student of Christian Science learns amid the worst suggestions of evil. Thus he proves that the suggestions subside while the truth of living remains untouched. Attacked by insidious arguments presenting themselves as "I," suggesting "I am sick," or "I am surrounded by discord," or "I am not proving Christian Science," one needs to assure himself as to what he really knows. By starting from the simplest basis of surety, he is able to reject the suppositions of evil and to realize the unfoldment of good. Any one can find for himself and rejoice in at least a single point of true understanding, a single true motive, from which to reason humbly and effectively on the basis of infinite Principle.
One may first feel the desire for healing, or just a dissatisfaction with mortal conditions. Even if one does not willingly admit to himself that he wishes to turn altogether away from the human sense of things to the consciousness of good, the fact is that he must turn thus to the one Life, divine Mind, and rely on it, for that is the sole cause of living. Infinite intelligence expressing itself is the cause and motive for every right impulse.
Any feeling, whether a desire for good or a dissatisfaction with evil, presents itself as a consciousness of something. The very being conscious at all proves that consciousness exists. There could not be any kind of consciousness, moreover, without there being true consciousness. Even a counterfeit indicates that there must be a genuine to be counterfeited. Of course any seeming counterfeit of infinite Mind is now and always sheer illusion without the slightest entity. It is good to know that true consciousness actually is, in spite of whatever may seem wrong.
