At a time when I was feeling very unhappy, I met a student of Christian Science who fairly glowed with happiness. I am grateful that he shared with me what he had perceived of happiness with such simplicity and clarity because it has immeasurably blessed me.
As I recall, he said something like this: "You know you are honest. You possess honesty because it is a quality derived from Principle, God. And likewise you possess happiness, because happiness is a spiritual quality. Honesty and happiness both have their source in God."
If one should say that he is only occasionally honest, we should decide, and rightly, that the individual did not understand honesty at all. But, let us carefully examine our thought and see if we have been misled into believing that happiness any more than honesty can be affected by the temporal, geographical, seasonal, or economical. Have we thought happiness is partial and personal? Have we been deceived into thinking of it as influenced by others' thoughts and actions, by false prophecy, predestination, the activity of planets, or by any unseen, magical forces? There is neither belief nor deception where there is understanding.
