Editorial July 26, 1947 Issue

FROM DISSATISFACTION TO SATISFACTION

Paul Stark Seeley

A certain amount of dissatisfaction with oneself and a resolute desire for improvement evidence a healthy state of mind. But progress is hindered if the dissatisfaction becomes so severe that the possibility and necessity for self-improvement are lost in a sense of dark despair and hopeless self-condemnation.

Probably not many mortals would say that the material sense of life is a very satisfactory order of existence, but most have come to accept it as the only order they know, and many have become resigned to it. More than a few are prone to believe they are for the moment satisfied with it, at least to the extent of not being willing to make any consistent effort to get free from it by searching out a more satisfying sense of being.

This resignedness to the material misconception of life as mortal and in matter, and of man as a transient aggregation of material atoms subject to birth, affliction, and death, is a substanceless delusion. Christ Jesus came to awaken men from it. Not many then saw the mighty import of the spiritual idea of Life and man which he taught and demonstrated, but through Christian Science his teachings are being better understood, assimilated, and practiced. To a large part of the human race his teachings represent the only basis on which men can find lasting solutions for the manifold problems of human existence, individual and collective, and thereby can attain enduring satisfaction and peace.

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