frustrated because they could not get at the food they could see and smell. The frustration became so great that when they finally removed the wire fence and the trough with the food in it was finally accessible, the pigs simply lay right down beside it and made no attempt to eat. It is a funny thing to think of pigs having nervous prostration, but that is what happened.

Well, you and I are not pigs, but the lesson applies. For we too have erected a wire fence, a barrier, without even knowing it, between ourselves and the Source of our being. A Chinese sage once exclaimed: “O man, having the power to live, why will ye die?” We add to this: “O man, having the capacity to be happy, why will you be unhappy? Possessing the intelligence to know what to do, why do you continue in your mistakes? Having the ability to get along with others, why are you surrounded by discord?”

The pigs had lost the will to try; they had lost the ambition to make another attempt. This is what frustration is. They were stopped. And the poor animals did not have the ability to sit down, like the prodigal of old, and think things over.

But we are different. We do have the ability to analyze the situation and find a solution. But we must also have the will to do this; we must have the imagination to see how it can be done. And we must have a faith to believe that when it is done, everything will be well with us.

Since there are no pills that we can take that will produce happiness, since there is no medicine that can give us peace of mind, and since there is no physical manipulation that can give us faith, we must look for a different kind of medicine. We must look for it in the only place it can be found – within ourselves. We are the physicians. We must heal ourselves.

But there is something we must remember. We are some part of the Divine Life. There is within each one of us a spark of Divinity. It is this original Thing within us that we must become adjusted to, for all of our thoughts and actions flow from it. This is why