Editorial August 2, 1969 Issue

You Can't Escape from Yourself

William Milford Correll

Many people find that they are in a constant state of dissatisfaction. They find that they are always running from something, keeping themselves occupied with trivialities, trying to escape boredom. This may take the form of compulsive TV watching or overemphasized social activity. It may take the form of immorality, trip-taking with drugs, or any one of a number of ways that human thought has devised to divert attention or amuse. But why this necessity to escape?

Christian Science explains that the material, mortal sense of things is unreal and that it can never be complete or satisfied. It explains that one can never escape from himself; and if he continues to think of himself as a mortal, he will pursue the treadmill of unsatisfied being. It is only through awakening to the spiritual reality of being and expressing the nature of divine Love that one can demonstrate fulfillment and wholeness. Christ Jesus came to open the way for mortals to see and to realize the true nature of man in God's likeness. He said, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you."^{John 14:27;}

In the Bible the search for peace, fulfillment, and satisfaction is likened unto the kingdom of heaven, and this kingdom is defined in various ways. It is spoken of as hid treasure, as the good seed, as the leaven of Truth. Jesus preached that "the kingdom of heaven is at hand";^{Matt. 4:17;} and he said that it was not to be sought outside: "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."^{Luke 17:21;}