TO EXPRESS LOVE
Question—How may one learn to express love toward others? It seems I cannot express love at all toward those I should, and still I know I love them. I seem cold and hard toward others, not just knowing how to get close to them, and always thinking maybe they don't want me or don't understand me.

ANSWER—Your problem is sensitiveness and a reluctance to express yourself. Probably you are both sensitive and c0nservative. Try to feel in your own thought that the love which goes out from you to others is reciprocated by them and comes back to you again. If you break down the intellectual formality in your own thought and sense the unity underlying all life until it becomes a part of your mental make-up, you will find the corresponding reaction will be a closer relationship with people and events.

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INSTRUMENTS OF VISION
Question—I do not go to shows or read for any length of time, as I feel that to do so would be a strain on my eyes. Do you think that I am expressing fear, or am I doing what is best?

ANSWER—As long as you feel that going to shows and reading will strain your eyes, you should refrain from these indulgences. But in the refraining, you should take the time to sit in meditation. At this time you should definitely feel that your eyes are spiritual ideas, perfect in Divine Mind, which created them, and that this original idea of the organs of sight is also perfect, strong, vital and unimpaired in your own mind. You should practice BELIEVING that your eyes (page 83) are the perfect instruments of vision, and that they are not subject to strain, fatigue or any other negative manifestation. This, however, does not preclude normal and sensible care and protection of them. If you feel that fear is a factor in the case, treat yourself for the elimination of fear in the subjective. Realize daily that there is no obstruction to vision, there is no weak vision, for there is only the One Perfect Vision, which is NOW seeing through you. Be definite and specific in your work.

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