One might say that anyone indulging in wrongdoing, evil in any of its various forms, is not in a state of good mental health, is not wholly in his right mind.
Perhaps you have seen someone, maybe on television, dive from a high cliff into the ocean, drive a car at high speed in a race, or talk to a large audience, and have thought, "I wish I had the courage to do that—I wish I weren't afraid.
"Undue concern or worry about the body is useless and can be harmful, but concern to keep the state of one's thinking right is most necessary to maintain a normal body."
We can all effectively put these verses from the book of Proverbs into practice in our daily lives: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
The saying "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage" points to the teaching of Christian Science that a human being's place is essentially the outward manifestation of the state of his consciousness.
In the morning recently, at seven twenty-five, I put my suitcase into a rental car outside the motel and started driving toward the airport on a business trip to another city.
