Editorial July 21, 1945 Issue

Man Is Superior to Homesickness

Paul Stark Seeley

A common form of mental illness is homesickness, sometimes called nostalgia. It is an intense pining for home. Fortunately a specific cure for it is provided in the truths of being taught by Christian Science. This Science teaches that one's health and happiness depend, not upon where one's physical body is, but on where one's thought is. There are, for example, many mortals as unhappy in their homes as others who, unable to be in their homes, are sick from pining for them.

The antidote for this phase of sickness (as for all others) is for the individual to understand what he really is, and where he really is. What am I? Where am I? are two questions that are correctly answered only by an understanding that man is the son, or expression, of God; that man's being is ever in the Mind that is his Soul and Life. For someone to say, "I am Mr. Black, and I am where my body is," is to admit that one's identity is merely an animated bundle of material atoms tagged with a name, and that his whereabouts is in the billions of material cells called his body.

Fortunately the true selfhood of you and me is something more than a material physique linked to a limited material consciousness and environment. Our only true selfhood is the individual expression, or reflection, of the universal Mind or Life that is God, and is in reality always reflecting this Mind in intelligent, constructive qualities and thoughts.

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