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To drug the mind with the idea that pain, poverty, suffering, and sickness do not exist because, finding them unpleasant, we do not want them to exist, is not a heroic act nor even so spiritual as it seems. Behind it lies physical fear and prompting it is personal desire.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 8 : Christian Science, Other Spiritual Movements > # 69