How often do you return to the same state? Well, it becomes constant, really. It’s like going home tonight. You always return to the same place where you live, really. That place to which one most constantly returns constitutes their dwelling place. So if you return night after night to the feeling of being wanted, being secure, being whatever you want in this world, that becomes a normal, natural dwelling place. So if you can actually make it tonight natural, you’ll find yourself returning through the day to the feeling of being wanted or being happy or being whatever you want. So I can’t say you can number it once, twice, thrice or what not. It’s entirely up to you to make it natural. When it becomes natural so that the mind returns there constantly, that’s your dwelling place. As we’re told in scripture, “Where do you dwell?” they asked him. He said, “Come and see.” Where am I dwelling? Well, I dwell wherever I most constantly return in my Imagination. If in the course of a day someone is faced with a problem and they find themselves thinking all day long on that problem, that’s where they’re dwelling. Though they go to the Waldorf Astoria, the body is there, but they’re not dwelling there. So where is a man dwelling? Tonight we have in our world many a person, many who are dwelling in some wonderful neighborhood, with outward appearances of dignity and security, but they know what they’ve done and they know that the hounds are on them. So they’re dwelling where they know the hound is going to find them. Embezzlement, you find it every day. You and I only get one little paper on the West Coast, but there are thousands of papers across this country. In every little hamlet you find men who are prominent in the eyes of the world, in their environment, who are dwelling where they know what they’ve done, and they know that the hounds are against them or coming for them. You find it every day if you read the paper carefully. So, where are you dwelling? I ask everyone to dwell this night in the house of Jesus Christ. Say, “I am Jesus Christ.” You may not be familiar with all that he taught and all that is said of him in scripture, for the whole Bible is about Jesus Christ. The entire Old Testament writes only about Jesus Christ, and the New fulfills it. So if you just simply say, “I am he” and try to feel it…the average person would feel embarrassed to feel it and feel that’s blasphemy. And others wouldn’t dare…they wouldn’t want it. I had a friend of mine, a very successful playwright—he had, I think, three very successful Broadway plays; I know one ran over a year—and he and I would always discuss this. He said, “No, I have no time for that. I’m afraid of it.” Well, just about two years ago he was watching TV, he got up to go to the bathroom and fell; he was gone. He is still waiting before he would dare assume it. He thought the fleshpots were far more attractive…that sex to him was such a marvelous thing in this world. He’s, well, he’s ten years my senior. He still was living in the dream of that sort of thing in this world. Well, he’s now clothed in another garment, playing a part based upon what he needs, for God is infinite compassion. But he had the chance here[...].860 ¶41