IN working with people over a period of years, I have noticed that their reactions to situations or to others may result in difficulties, in enmities, and even in ailments. I have found too that people manifest peace and poise when they joyously accept and willingly demonstrate man's God-bestowed imperviousness to evil. From these experiences, I have learned in a measure to say quietly and firmly to myself, "I do not need to react to that lying suggestion." And my conviction has been strengthened that when one understands and applies the truth of man in God's image, he cannot be made to react unconsciously or adversely to any phase of evil.
Viewing from a Christianly scientific standpoint the problem of gaining dominion over reactions, we begin with one all-inclusive Mind. This one, omniactive Mind, God, is not affected by anything external to itself because nothing is acting outside of it. Consequently, as we become conscious of our oneness with or inseparability from infinite perfect Mind, we too shall express freedom from irritation.
Our example is Christ Jesus, who left the world, with its wrong thinking and illusions, completely out of his reckoning and declared (John 16:28), "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father." It's evident that his strength lay in a conscious sense of his unity with God, for he said (John 8:29), "He that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him." Like our Master, we should be governed by divine Love alone, whose impulsion is peaceful, restful, harmonious.
