Self Help

hat they secure this fulfillment and they weep and complain when they do not accomplish it, not knowing that disease is just as great a factor in the production of God-consciousness as health is. There are many who call human love success, and they keep their human senses drugged with the narcotic of this race belief: they count themselves successful and go on each day rejoicing in their idol, and in just the degree that they demonstrate human love they feel they have made a success of their lives. When they fail in this and have to walk the pathway of life alone, uncompanioned, save by the crowd, they send forth a cry of sorrow and of failure, and do not understand that to be alone and not lonely is a part of the law of The One. There are others who hold success to be such material and methods as will link them in a great law of service to the race, they count the opportunity to give of their time and supply to others as the greatest success possible for them, and in the degree that they can select place and opportunity to serve the world they feel they are successful, but if they have to stand idle while every pulse is 4 throbbing to serve, they again, send out the cry of failure and feel like a cast off atom and they join the mighty army of complaint that they are wasting their time, they never realize that one of the highest laws of consciousness is that "he also serves who only stands and waits." New Thought looks at all these evolving degrees of race consciousness and strikes for it a higher note of understanding, it answers the question of "What is success?" in a way that it was never answered before then it follows this with scientific instructions of how to attain that thing which the mind designates as success. We see clearly that everyone in the world is doing just the thing they should do and that when they have gotten enough of the old thing and include all its laws in their consciousness they will quit and naturally pass on into the inclusion of something else. Everyone in the world is doing the very best they know how to do with their time opportunity, and their materials. If they knew better they would do better, and New Thought seeks only to increase their "know how." It does not condemn, it does not control, it does not punish, it only points the way to larger powers and privileges and better materials from which the individual may select or reject and through which he or she may express a higher self-hood. The New Thought answer