Editorial September 6, 1947 Issue

SUCCESS IS FOR EVERYONE

Paul Stark Seeley

Almost everyone wishes to succeed—to have his efforts result in worthy accomplishment. The true sense of existence, which Christian Science reveals, shows that we are all divinely entitled to succeed, and to succeed now! God never causes or condones failure for anyone. Failure and defeat, like sickness and sin, are misconceptions of life and man, which an understanding of God annihilates.

True success may be gained by an individual with comparatively few people becoming aware of it, for success is first of all the overcoming of evil and false self in individual consciousness through an understanding of man's oneness with the source of all success—God. True success is ours, regardless of race, station, or physical location, in the degree that we discover and demonstrate our individual unity with the Life, Mind, and intelligence that is the source and substance of man's being.

An individual's success is correctly measured not by the variable praises of men, but by the enduring approval of God. Personal influence or material possessions are not a criterion of success. Real success appears only in the degree in which you and I through quiet, persistent mental effort acquaint ourselves with the intelligent cause of our being, the Mind we call God, align our thoughts with this causative Mind, and progressively comprehend and express our status and destiny as an idea of the one Ego.

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