yourself for any wrong you sow a seed in your mind that will later on produce more wrongs of the same kind. This is a fact of extraordinary importance and clearly explains why it seems so difficult for most people who want to be right to live up to the doctrines they profess. If we wish to emancipate ourselves from sickness, trouble and discord, want and misfortune we must not sow any more seeds of that sort. And to condemn ourselves for any wrong is to sow seeds that will produce another harvest of those wrongs.

We are living in a world where many things are imperfect. Things in general are in a state of becoming and many parts are incomplete, but those things are not incomplete because we may be looking for incompleteness. They are incomplete because the world is not finished. And so long as the world remains unfinished those things will remain incomplete whether we look for incompleteness or not. So long as we are moving about in the world we will meet the imperfect whether we are looking for it or not, but those imperfections will not do us any harm if we meet them in the proper attitude. Green apples will not give you pain so long as they are not taken into the system. Nor will incomplete circumstances and conditions disturb you if you do not take those conditions into your mind. The fact is what things are to do to us will depend