The Meat Which Perisheth (John 6:27)
by Dr. Ernest Holmes
“Labour not for the meat which perisheth.” Jesus knew that we need food to eat while in the flesh, so he could not be referring to literal food, but rather to that inner substance which is spiritual. Starvation takes place on more than one plane. More people are starved spiritually and intellectually than physically. A full stomach will never appease an appetite for learning, nor can a loaf of bread satisfy the inner craving for reality. The whole being needs to be fed—bread and meat for the body, knowledge and wisdom for the soul, atmosphere and consciousness for the Spirit. We live on three planes at the same time. To attempt to desert any one of these, to the cost of the others, is abnormal. To live only on the physical plane is to become a brute. To live on the intellectual plane alone, might produce a learned and a scientific man, but he would lack true perception. To live only on the spiritual plane, might cause one to become a dreamer without any practical way of making his dreams come true.
Holmes, Ernest. The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition (pp. 476-477). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.