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desire to pour more of Himself --- the substance of all good things --- through us into visibility, or into our lives.

Surely all these things do not make it look as though, when Jesus said that the way to be like him and to possess a like power was to deny oneself, he meant that we are not to go without the enjoyable comforts of life or in any way deprive or torture ourselves.

In these lessons, we have seen that besides the real innermost Self of each of us --- the Self that is the divine Self because it is an expression or pressing out of God into visibility and is always one with the Father --- there is a human self, a carnal mind, that reports lies from the external world and is not to be relied upon fully; this is the self of which Jesus spoke when he said, "let them deny themselves" (Mt. 16:24). This intellectual man, carnal mind, or whatever you choose to call him, is envious and jealous and fretful and sick because he is selfish. The human self seeks its own gratification at the expense, if need be, of someone else.

Your divine Self is never sick, never afraid, never selfish. It is the part of you that "does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful" (1 Cor. 13:5). It is always seeking to give to others, while the human self is always seeking its own. Heretofore we have lived more in the human region. We have believed all that the carnal mind