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Is it all in your thinking?
Reprinted from the December 18, 1971, Sentinel
Christian Science practitioners hear patients say, when troubled with an illness or other problem, “I know it’s all in my own thought.” Such individuals are cruel to themselves.
So as not to indulge in or ignore any error, any materialism, we need to meet it in our own thought, with or without the help of a practitioner. But although the place to meet error is in our own thought because the physical is no more than the outward manifestation of the mental, error is never really a part of our thinking.
Fortunately, error is not personal and not real. It is invariably a suggestion of some phase of the fear or ignorance or sinfulness of the carnal mind, the world belief in the presence and power of evil, which, of course, inevitably yields to the exercise of divine intelligence. Christian Science makes a distinction between the real, perfect, spiritual man of God’s creating and the erroneous concept of man as material and limited. It teaches that man’s true consciousness is always free of error because it reflects God, the one infallible divine Mind.
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June 29, 2015 issue
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Letters
S T H, Marie in Florida, Linda B in STL, Jill Rees-Robson
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Release from anger
Nancy Atkins
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‘The world has need of you’
Lynn G. Jackson
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The Beatitudes: a guide to Christian practice
Caryl Emra Farkas
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‘Even there …’
Dorcas Strong
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The freer step, the fuller breath
Photograph by Ann Blamey
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My church homecoming
Kim Wiklund
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I prayed for my brother
By Blake, second grade, Utah
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Prayer for a newborn
Alexandra Salomon Ziesler
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An end to severe menstrual cramps
Bonnie Tchuileng
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Freed from back pain
Caroline Martin, Michael Munson
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Is it all in your thinking?
Milton Simon
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Building with divine energy
Margaret Rogers