Life's struggels/competition can drain our "emotional tank" when we approach them with the win-at-all-costs ethos of professional sports. We can fill our emotional tank by remembering that our education and personal development, and the lifting up of others, is a moment-by-moment joy.  SOUL/LOVE fuels us.

Neuroscientists, Kahneman and Tversky, have shown us how the human mind is a wildnerness of biases, presumptions, ignorance, misperceptions, false memories, and habit-traps.  These limitations are overcomed by educating ourselves with opposite concepts, being at ease with contradiction, and pursuing spiritual enlightenment.

We can walk in the midst of the human crowd, but choose to live spiritual values.  This is a Wisdom-story: "There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ‘Morning, boys, how’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, ‘What the hell is water?’

Spiritual laws/forces/values are the "water" we swim in every day.  The ALL-SPIRIT/LOVE can sometimes be "hidden in plain sight." It is, therefore, imperative and salubrious to remind ourselves, "I am moving in SPIRIT/LOVE!" 

A pearl of Wisdom/Truth from novelist David Foster Wallace:

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the ‘rat race’—the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.”

1 Chronicles 16:27, New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

²⁷ Glory and majesty are all around him. Strength and joy can be seen in the place where he lives.

Eddy: “In the order of Science, in which the Principle is above what it reflects, all is one grand concord.”

PRINCIPLE/MIND is sovereign intelligence, love, dominion and harmony.  We live in the prosperous and concordant ambience of PRINCPLE, and are endowed with its illimitable qualities and resources. 

Romans 8:2, New Life Version (NLV)

² The power of the Holy Spirit has made me free from the power of sin and death. This power is mine because I belong to Christ Jesus.

Eddy: “In the illusion of death, mortals wake to the knowledge of two facts: (1) that they are not dead; (2) that they have but passed the portals of a new belief.”  And, “Mortals waken from the dream of death with bodies unseen by those who think that they bury the body.”  Finally, “One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual understanding of Life and Love, is a foretaste of eternity.”

We have SPIRIT-impelled lives.  We are time-death-free, non-physical, expressions of SOUL.  We thrive with SOUL’s irrepressible health, love, intelligence, purpose and achievement.

John 3:16, New Century Version (NCV)

¹⁶ "God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son so that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but have eternal life.

Eddy: “Life is deathless.  Life is the origin and ultimate of man, never attainable through death, but gained by walking in the pathway of Truth both before and after that which is called death.”

LIFE produces in us its full and incessant splendor.  Our incorporeal, ever-lasting essence is the one and only outcome of LIFE, (is the only “Son/Daughter” of LIFE-GOD).  Our SPIRIT-drawn wholeness and vitality defines us, and this view overrides hindrances, losses, decay and death.