In a certain definite sense, every man is a physician in his own mind, to his own body, and to his own affairs. The chances are more than even that should we go to a modern physician for a physical diagnosis, he would explain that there are certain fundamental emotional attitudes toward life that everyone must have if he expects to remain whole and healthy. If we were to go to someone who has made a study of human relations and tell him that we are out of sorts with our environment, he would not try to change our environment for us because this he could not do. But he would show us how to adjust our own thinking to that environment. For all human relations simmer down to the art of getting along with others.

If we were in business and hired an expert to analyze what we were doing and perhaps show us how to do it better, he might point out certain wrong adjustments, particular situations that could be corrected only by a new viewpoint. This leads us right back to the self, to that something inside us that is the arbiter of our fate, and to the way we are using certain laws in nature which govern everything.

We have always spoken of Jesus as the Great Physician, the one who could point out the reason why we have difficulties. If Jesus were the Great Physician, then it was because there were certain adjustments that he must have made to life and to living. This was the result of his communion with the Spirit – he had harmonized himself with Life. He had formed a partnership with God. He had plumbed the depths of human existence and human experience and had discovered that there is a spiritual Reality at the center of every man’s being, a Divine Presence, and an infinite Wisdom that can and will lead, guide, and direct when we let It.

We think of Jesus as the most inspired man and the greatest spiritual teacher who ever lived, and we are right. But there is something else that we may have overlooked. Jesus had a spiritual common sense and logic that history has never been able to refute, and human experience cannot deny. For instance, Jesus said: