Inventions of Human Belief

 

Longmont, Colorado - PC: Marsha Havens

For students of human behavior, it’s been fascinating to watch select groups of people's evolution during these past few years. Many folks seem to be incapable of making a decision until they hear others speak in favor or against a topic. Perhaps they need confirmation that their beliefs about a situation are worthy of them, and so they wait for someone else to tell them they think that way, too. This need for validation is not a rare condition. I believe I may have suffered from it at points in my life. The tools we have at our disposal from the study and practice of divine metaphysics tend to let us walk past the temptation to feel so self-important that we're afraid to be wrong. While it's usually thought of as low self-esteem which causes this indecision and need for confirmation, it seems to me that it's valuing your own forever-believed image of yourself over your true image as the likeness of God. Releasing many long-practiced ways of living facilitates our recognition of this, and thus we are freed! This spiritual sense allows us to speak without fear. I love listening to the guidance afforded by divine Mind, rather than running in circles following so-called mortal thoughts. It's more interesting, it frees me from worry and doubt, it leads me in fascinating paths, and it teaches peace.

"Human belief has sought out many inventions, but not one of them can solve the problem of being without  the divine Principle of divine Science. Deductions from material hypotheses are not scientific. They differ from real Science because they are not based on the divine law."

Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 273:4-9