Place is altogether mental. It's a concept. So the Christian Scientist goes further than to voice the vague cliché about being in one's "right place." He sees that one can't really be in a physically located place, whether right or wrong, but that if one gets the right idea of what place means, he will manifest a better sense of it in his daily life.
What is this idea? The question can be answered best by recognizing God, Spirit, as all-presence and by translating the subject into its spiritual components. What does place, when seen in the light of spiritual reality, mean to us? It may mean usefulness. It may mean joy. It may mean expanding opportunity. It may mean safety. It may mean much besides, but in any event, as Christian Science shows us, it means the consciousness of some God-bestowed reality. In God we find usefulness, joy, opportunity, safety, and the like; and since God is infinite, we find these realities in Him altogether, without measure.
Basic to proving this, as Christian Science also shows us, is the understanding that, in reality, we are the man of God's making—His spiritual "likeness, His manifestation. The reason man possesses the elements of progressive usefulness is that man has all good from God, and is therefore not a mortal, not a material entity occupying space.
