ACCEPTING TEMPORARY POSITION
Question—When mental work is being done for securing a position of a certain kind in accordance with one's abilities and experience and a minor position is offered, should one accept it?

ANSWER—When one is working out problems as suggested by this question, he should be willing to follow his demonstration step by step, knowing that each step is a movement in the right direction. Thus he rejects nothing and accepts everything. Since we do not see the principle at work we cannot always understand the reason for certain steps being taken. But with the right mental vision behind our work and the right objective method on our part we are led, sometimes gradually but always certainly, to the desired goal.

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GETTING NEW START
Question—A few years ago we lost a great deal of money. Since then it has been hard to get a good start. Now we have become interested in a business which looks good but we need some help to overcome fear. Please tell us how to proceed to feel assured of prosperity and right action in this business.

ANSWER—I should work to know that the Spirit of Truth within me, which is God, and which is perfect intelligence as well as right action, is directing every move and compelling right action in every instance in my life. Work to remove not only the sense of doubt but also the sense of loss. The mind should come to feel that there has been no real loss, since the Spirit of wholeness can never lose anything. The endeavor in mental treatment is to bring to the mind a realization that this Spirit of wholeness is our own active spirit (page 142) right now producing right results in everything we do. Shift the burden of any sense of loss or any personal responsibility over into an assuming that the law is both willing and able to direct your actions and bring affairs into perfect harmony with itself.

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