Speaker 1: At home. Don't be afraid. You are at home, not
here by chance. You belong here. You are the soul.
You cannot be hurt, you cannot be banished. You are
right in the universe, and there is no outside. Great
things are before you. Make yourself at home. Don't be
afraid your living in your own home. This universe was
built for you to inhabit, to occupy, to enjoy. Do
not feel strange. Make yourself at home. The wonderful laws
of nature, those which have been discovered and those which
remain to be discovered, are all laws for your use
when you grow large enough to understand how to make
use of them. Did you think you were here by chance,
or that you were an alien? If so, better you
are to the manner born. You are the heir. Everything
around the place is for your use. When you grow up.
No one can dispossess you. No one can put you out.
You are at home. Do you long for another home?
Do you fret and chafe at the trials and troubles
of this world and imagine that somewhere else things will
be better. Well, they'll never be better for you until
you have met and conquered the trials and troubles of
this place. You are just where you belong. You are
surrounded with just the things you need. You are getting
just what you deserve. And until you learn the truth
of this, you will have the same surroundings, the same environments.
And then when you learn that the things around you
are all right, that you are being treated justly, that
you are getting just what you have attracted and are
attracting to yourself, then you will be ready for the
next step in the journey, and you will have new
surroundings and new environments, new tasks, new lessons, new pleasures.
I hear some of you talking about death. You seem
to think that you will be another order of being
as soon as you take your last breath upon earth.
You talk about being a spirit by and bye. Do
I believe this? Of course I believe it. I know it.
But I also know something else, and that is that
you are a spirit now, just as much as you
will be in another world. Did you think that some
wonderful essence was going to grow from you, and that
that essence would be what you call a spirit? Nonsense.
You are the spirit and the not you part which
will be discarded. Never was you the you which says I,
Am is the real thing, the real self, and the
rest of you is but tools and instruments which you
are using. Why can't you see this? You talk about
my soul, my spirit, and so on. You make me tired.
Why the thing which is thinking and speaking you is
the soul or spirit of which you are talking. You
talk as if the physical part of you, which is
changing continually was you. You are like the boy with
the old knife. He was continually having the knife repared.
He had had seven new blades and three new handles
put on it, and yet it was the same old knife.
Why you could step right out of your body, and
maybe you do more than you have any idea of,
and it would be the same old you. You could
scard your body, just as you do your clothes, and
yet you would be the same individual. There is a
wonderful difference between individuality and personality. One you cannot get
rid of, the other may be changed. What's the use
in being afraid? Nobody can hurt the real you. You cannot
be wiped out of existence. If a single spirit Adam
should be destroyed, the entire structure would smash up. You
cannot be banished from the universe, for there's nowhere else
to put you. You cannot get outside of the universe,
for there's no outside. There's no place for you outside
of everywhere. And you talk about time and eternity, Why
you are in eternity right now? You are right in
it this moment. It is always today, Tomorrow never comes,
and you are right at home in the universe and
always will be. You are always there, for there's nowhere
else to go. So what's the use in being afraid?
Who's going to hurt you? They can't kill you, they
can't put you out of existence, they cannot expel you
from the universe. So what are they going to do
about it? Anyhow? And after all, who are they? You
talk as if there were outside forces and influences antagonistic
to you, outside of what No matter what beings of
earth or air there may be. They are creatures like yourself.
They are all a part of the whole thing, all
made of the same material, all come from the hand
of the same maker. You are all cut from the
same piece of goods. The apparent difference, says, are illusions.
The difference and separateness is only relative and not actual.
So make yourself at home. Take a look around and
see what a nice bit of the universe you have
to live in. Some of your family have been trying
to occupy the whole house instead of only their share
of it. But those things are gradually working out, and
all will be better within a comparatively short time. This
is going to be a better world to live in
when men take time to think a little, and you'll
be around to enjoy it when it comes. Never fear
you cannot get away even if you want to. And
what's the use of waiting for tomorrow. There's lots of
things in which you can find happiness today if you
will only stop worrying about tomorrow. The little child knows
more about enjoying life than you do. The little child
feels at home anywhere and starts in to enjoy it
and get the most out of it, until he grows
old enough to be hypnotized by the race belief. You
are at home here just as much at home as
is the fish in the sea the bird in the air.
Realize this and make the most of it. Stop being afraid,
stop fretting, stop worrying, Realize that yesterday to day and
tomorrow you are here in the universe. It's a good universe,
and it grows better as man grows in wisdom to
take advantage of its goodness. And it is not yet
sun up here. Great things are before us, and you
will see them and take part in them. Make yourself
at home, for your going to be around here for
some time.