It is a plain fact that many people feel a hunger for something beyond themselves, a hunger for affection, for experience, for what they call life. Properly interpreted, this is a search for God; but when misinterpreted, it may result in various immoral acts, experimentation with drugs, a searching for satisfaction in worldly ways and in material sense. The real answer to such a need comes only through an understanding of the reality and immanence of Spirit, God, divine Love, and of the completeness of man's nature as God's image and likeness.
According to Christian Science each individual must eventually come to recognize that all good comes from within, not from without. It comes from within man's true relation to God. Completeness is the absolute state of man's being as the child of God, and satisfaction, fulfillment, wholeness, must be demonstrated from that perfect standpoint. This may well result in human experience as rewarding companionship, meaningful occupation, abundant living. But one can never find a true and lasting sense of fulfillment if he starts from the mortal standpoint of life and intelligence as existent in matter. Mortal, material man is an unreal concept of man, an illusion. Anyone who starts with this concept will continually feel the hunger of unsatisfied being, for this concept is everlastingly inadequate to fulfill the need.
A misunderstanding of these facts may be the reason for many problems in personal relations, broken homes, and frustrating business experiences. We do not attain from without, but we demonstrate from within. We are not in the "getting" business; we are in the "expressing" business. If one comes to a marriage with the attitude What can I get? instead of What can I give? he is bound to experience unhappiness. But such is the awakening of the Christ brought forth in Christian Science that one may find the kingdom of heaven within and then demonstrate it from that standpoint. Mrs. Eddy says, "Spiritual living and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love." Science and Health, p. 264;
