Of course I have been many times since then tempted to drop a thing before it was finished; just as I have many times broken my habit of quietness and confidence by a momentary hurry; but the habit of slighting things, like the habit of hurry, was healed by steady, persistent effort at being what I wanted to feel myself. I ACTED what I DESIRED to feel, and feeling followed.

In all the years I have lived and healed since then I have discovered no profounder principle than that --- to act what one desires to feel.

The reverse of this is likewise true --- act what you do not want to feel, and you will come to feel it. I could, by acting hurry and lack of continuity, again bring upon myself those old dis-eases; just as I could by living in the old ways bring back any sort of disease. But I do not desire to go back to the old ways. I not only do not desire to hurry and to leave things undone but I know from experience that it is. painful to do so. If I had been told all this it is doubtful if I could have believed it, but having lived the experience I know it, and there could be no temptation to return to the old ways. Having done the "will of the Father" I KNOW too much to ever want to go back to the old habits. I am healed to stay.

And I healed myself. No one taught me how, or helped me. The spirit in me, of which I then knew nothing at all, showed me wherein I needed healing, and prompted me to take the right course to accomplish the work. To act health is to "express health." It makes no