But, be ready. An internal argument begins to rage as soon as we open ourselves spiritually. “If all is spirit, therefore harmonious and good, and if spirit heals false experience, why is my disease or pain or fear or lack or insecurity not yielding?”

The answer is that, for a short period, belief and its pictures of sense still grip us. We still believe that there is God and “this world.” Our remaining belief out-pictures itself as seemingly real condition.

The battle within and without ceases as we lift higher into the realization of God alone.

Paul F. Gorman