Governments and business communities are spending millions of work hours and dollars attempting to teach executives and employees the art of communicating. Techniques of all sorts have been evolved, yet the gaping want persists. A great fact, which mankind fail to see, a fact that illumines the teachings of Christian Science, is that true communicating is not based on many minds trying to get together as one. It is based on one Mind, divine Love, expressing itself as All-in-all.
We can truly communicate only what we have demonstrated of divine Love in our daily lives. This communicating is not merely saying words. It is living love. A domineering employer, a critical church member, a faultfinding parent, a self-willed, unlistening teen-ager, never really communicates. Sometimes he causes spontaneous combustion, but rarely does he uplift and heal.
The color of our thought about ourselves determines in large measure how we evaluate others and relate to them. If we think of ourselves in terms of smallness and lack, of beginnings and endings, we are likely to saddle others with the same limitations. It is important, then, to ask What am I? At what mental altitude do I live and move? Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes to a branch Church of Christ, Scientist: "As an active portion of one stupendous whole, goodness identifies man with universal good. Thus may each member of this church rise above the oft-repeated inquiry, What am I? to the scientific response: I am able to impart truth, health, and happiness, and this is my rock of salvation and my reason for existing." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 165;
