Article May 24, 1969 Issue

Breaking the Barriers

[For young adults]

PATRICIA JOAN WOLF

Isn't it too bad someone hasn't come up with a book on How to Break Down Barriers in Three Easy Lessons or Ten Short Steps to Overcoming Limitations? Sometimes old habits and limited thinking seem so much a part of us that we either fail to recognize them as such and make no effort to free ourselves from them or we feel the task is too great for us to go to the trouble of changing our thinking.

We learn in Christian Science, however, that if we desire to overcome limitations and break barriers nothing can hinder us.

What are these barriers? Are they external to us? No, they are right in our own thinking, where we can come to grips with them, whether they are habits that would enslave us or limitations such as fear, apathy, selfishness. If we entertain these undesirables as house guests, they limit our lives and keep us from experiencing vital, interesting activities and from reaching out to help others. In short, they chain us to a limited concept of ourselves and of God and keep us from really living.

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