springs. God really is the object of our search since Divine Power alone can make us whole.

So now, as never before in human history, we need God. We need to enter into a close communion with the living Spirit and feel the warm embrace of Its eternal Presence around us. We need to know that we are not pawns on a checkerboard of chance, that there is a real and deep meaning to existence – a meaning that includes this life and everything in it, and after this a life to which we may look forward with happy anticipation. Nothing less than this can give us happiness and peace.

The singer wishes to sing; the dancer wishes to dance; the man engaged in business wishes to be a success; the man with a family wishes to provide for them and be happy with them. Self-expression is not selfishness. Selfishness is in seeking our individual good at the expense of others. Self-expression means that we live with others in happiness, giving to each the privilege of expressing every talent he possesses and rejoicing with him in his success.

There is nothing wrong with self-expression. Life has entered into each of us in an individual way, animating everything we do and apparently always urging us to greater things, as though there were no limit to the expansion of the individual life. But we are so constituted that the greatest self-expression includes our relationship with others and our relationship with everything in life.

Jesus told us that if we find God, we will find all these things, for all these things are added to the great discovery. Jesus made heaven and earth come together. He did not say that there is a