Editorial August 25, 1980 Issue

Breaking bad habits

NATHAN A. TALBOT

There are good habits. There are bad ones. The good ones deserve to be developed. The bad need to be broken.

Good habits can be cultivated by understanding that spiritual truths sustain right action. Action derived from divine Mind is far from unthinking repetition; it is the orderly and regular exercise of spiritual intelligence, of purposeful thought. The more we love to do God's will, the more we realize that good habits exhibit qualities far beyond mere human patterns and routine; they take on characteristics of vitality, joy, inspiration.

When we are in the habit of doing something constructive, unselfish, useful each day, we feel good about it. That's because such regular and consistent right action has its roots in good, in God. It is not simply a repetition of material acts.

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