We all have legitimate human needs. Some of us need to be freed from a sense of fear, inadequacy, sin, disease, or grief; others of us may need companionship, a purpose, employment, or a home. Our human needs may vary; but as Christian Science teaches, there is one important factor that is always needed in human thinking if we are to experience spiritual healing and the fulfillment of every legitimate human need.
Spiritual sense is the important factor. This sense reveals that human existence is a mental state, that discordant circumstances and a sick body objectify negative, mortal mind, and that a healthy, harmonious existence is the natural outcome of the spiritual qualities of real being. When we acknowledge that true identity bears witness to the nature of God, good, in consciousness and action, the erroneous, material sense, or personal sense, which gives preponderance to evil and limitation, is destroyed, and human existence blossoms in health, accomplishment, success.
Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health, "Through spiritual sense you can discern the heart of divinity, and thus begin to comprehend in Science the generic term man." Science and Health, pp. 258, 259
