UNIFYING THE SELF WITH THE WHOLE OF LIFE
Question—How can one who has always thought of God as being away from himself change his thought so that he can feel closer to life?

ANSWER—He must convince his reason that the Infinite must be an indivisible Unit. An indivisible unit must be present everywhere in its entirety, hence it must be in him. The Divine Being is within, outside, over-dwelling and indwelling him and responds directly to him by responding through him, so that he no longer speaks to a far-off God but to an interior Presence that fills all time and all space, but in him It is the Infinite Spirit of his own life and is his Spirit.

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GIVING HELP TO OTHERS
Question—If a person has not removed from his own consciousness all sense of imperfection and has not demonstrated in his own affairs, how can he help another person through a mental treatment? (page 35)

ANSWER—We can help others in so far as we can sense their perfection in the Law and in the Spirit. It is entirely possible that one, even while he might be himself suffering, could help to relieve the suffering of another. If we all wait for the dawning of a complete realization of our inherent perfection, then we might have a long time to wait, and during the process of waiting nothing would have happened. The Law is, but we must enforce It. And so far as the individual unity of life is concerned it will remain unenforced, other than through the law of averages, until he consciously individualizes himself. I would not hesitate to help others simply because I had not, myself, attained a complete recognition of perfection.

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