Course II - Teaching 9: Material Circumstances

However the individual rises over human things, he is unable to get entirely rid of them, and many times the struggle for life and for earning a living, apparently hinders the progress. But it is not so.
Happiness was the starting point in the Cosmic Creation, and sorrow shall be the ending point in the great drama of the Universe. But life is kept by the conjunction of these forces.
The daily struggle, the call of bodily needs is the painful point that along with the inner happiness of the spiritual knowledge keeps the balance that is indispensable to achieve the perfection.
Many people say, “The city harms me; if I lived far from the noise, it could be better”. Others complain for his job; seemingly to them it is an obstacle and an occupation entirely against their inner aspirations. But nothing is despicable in daily tasks assigned to man.
Fleeing from material duties, a man ever will find his enemy; but by sacrificing himself and trying to do better and better what he dislikes, he will transmute these ugly things into beautiful, pleasant and advantageous deeds.