Article December 24, 1979 Issue

Getting along with the office "family"

ROSALIE E. DUNBAR

Spending eight hours a day, five days a week, in an office with the same people can lead to "close encounters" of the pleasant—or unpleasant—kind, depending on how we identify ourselves and them.

If we look at our work situation from a material, mortal standpoint, we may see an office, assembly line, corporation, or department store with any number of beings, each with an independent but finite mind capable of mistakes, irritability, or fatigue. It may appear that such a mind is ours, too.

In reality, however, there is only one Mind, God; and man, His idea, is subordinate to this Mind. To the degree that we understand this one Mind's governance of our thoughts and actions, we can have positive, helpful relationships with our fellow workers. Mrs. Eddy writes, "As mortals give up the delusion that there is more than one Mind, more than one God, man in God's likeness will appear, and this eternal man will include in that likeness no material element."^{ Science and Health, p. 191;}