"Eternal stillness"

Amid the noise and sheer speed of mechanized existence and the disquieting reports of world power struggles, we may become so accustomed to the excitement of the material senses that we forget the presence deep down in consciousness of spiritual stillness. Yet this stillness is the normal state of man, God's spiritual likeness, the idea of divine Mind.

David knew spiritual stillness and immortalized it in the twenty-third Psalm: "He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul." Ps. 23:2, 3; How often and in how many people have these words quieted a turbulent spirit!

Spiritual stillness is not a human acquisition; it is an established, universal fact. Christian Science reveals it as the permanent state of man. It is demonstrable even in the midst of mortal disturbances, because it is as ever present as God. Mary Baker Eddy links this state of Mind with power when she says, "Mind demonstrates omnipresence and omnipotence, but Mind revolves on a spiritual axis, and its power is displayed and its presence felt in eternal stillness and immovable Love." Retrospection and Introspection, pp. 08, 89;

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