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Chapter 12 - AT HOME. - p. 46
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. You're 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, learn better. You are to the manor 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," bye-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
