Deep within every person is a hunger for the bread of life.  Friends, relatives, and even acquaintances who find their way to your home ostensibly seeking companionship, supply, or any form of material good, even though from their point of view that may be their purpose, are in reality longing and craving for the true substance of life, the meat that perisheth not.  If you give them money and give them that alone, if you give them your physical, human companionship, and give them that alone, you are giving them a stone:  You are not giving them the bread of life; you are not lifting their state of consciousness.  This you can do only in the degree that you are specifically entertaining the consciousness of truth within your being as they come to you: [...]