Monday, September 29, 2008
Meditation, Prayer: True Prayer
The purpose of true prayer is to deliver you straight to God without any delays. In this world of illusion, everything is a delay if it is not viewed as illusion and unreal. We need to concentrate our efforts in discovering the real source of the problem which is in the mind. The following prayer accomplishes just that. Once in a while you will feel guilty or uneasy when you come out of it, or during the day as an after effect. That is the result of an honest request to look at your illusions with Holy Spirit or Jesus. So they come up for you to look at them and let them go. If you experience not peace then this is your forgiveness lesson right now! Don’t delay your homecoming to God by dwelling where it is wasteful; “The world of time is the world of illusions”(ACIM.M.5.3:1). And so we begin to dwell where it is helpful for us to awake; the presence of the Creator, our God. We will make this prayer in 7 steps that lead to God and freedom.
Step one; Joining with the Inner Teacher
Step two; Asking the Inner Teacher to take you to God [“Take Me To Truth”]
Step Three; Seeing Light
Step Four; The Alter – Surrendering of idols
Step Five; Honoring your brothers as part of your Self
Step Six; Appreciating and being grateful to God
Step Seven; Dissolving and disappearing into the Heart and Mind of God.
1.Step one entails the willingness to be lead instead of leading. The inner Teacher is your Teacher and you should always ask His help in leading you on your way whenever you attempt to undo the ego and surrender guilt. The whole process of forgiveness begins with this simple step;“Jesus, or Holy Spirit, I request that you join with me in my mind and help me unlearn what I taught myself. Guide my perception and my thoughts and lead me where you would have me be.” Then you spend a while joining with your inner Teacher, respecting and honoring his presence.
2. Then you ask the inner Teacher to take you to God. See your hand and your Teachers come together, and you begin to ascend as He take you to God.
3. Now you see a beautiful bright white Light and It is shining and radiating joy and happiness, and you feel overjoyed and happy that you see this Light. You feel your whole being uplifted and carried over to this Light. You feel very cared and protected in this Light, you feel safe and loved. You cannot be hurt here. All is taken care of. You see all your troubles behind and now you step into this Light and allow it to encompass your entire being. You see this Light everywhere, there is nowhere this Light is not. You are glad to be here and you like it here. You feel at home.
4. Now you might see an alter that appears to you. Perhaps in golden white light. This alter is the place where you put all that you are ready to release and heal. Here is where you place all of your idols and false god’s before the Almighty God. You might want to say;“I would have no other God’s before You, Father.”“What is it that I am ready to heal and let go of?”Now you wait in silence. If the false voice attempts to speak first, and it always will, you have to not listen to it. Just ignore what ever it tells you are ready to let go of. And when you are being guided to really let go of what He knows you are ready, you will feel it so. Now place that idol, or thing,or person, in the alter. Acknowledge you made it and take responsibility for making it. Might be like this, from the Course: ”I have done this thing, and it is this I would undo”. Now you want to look at it with your Teacher and allow His forgiveness to shine upon it. Pretty soon you see it [idol] disappear into the light. Now it disappeared completely and you forgot what you were forgiving. The true effects of forgiveness is forgetfulness of illusions.
5. Now you want to gather all those brothers and sisters that you have taught and that have taught you, and join with them on the level of the mind. Say to them:” I who am as God Created me, am worthy of your joining now. And so I seek to do exactly that so I may recognize the Christ we are”. Today let this be the day when you proclaim your innocence and joy to all the world and tell it. “I am one Son.” See all your brothers and yourself become one as Christ. Be the joy of God and extend that to all the Sonship and say: “Let us all unite and celebrate our Oneness as one Son”.See this Sonship uniting and becoming one with the Light. Now there is no individuals. There is only peace.
6. Now you wish to express gratitude toward your Creator and Source. He is the only Reason you can be alive. Ego can never give life, but God can and is Life. If you are alive that means you owe your life and your awareness of being alive to Him. His gift is your own. Be the humble and thankful child you are in your heart. Open up to God and love Him with all your heart and mind.
7. This is your final step. Here you as one Son, with all your brothers as your Self, come to dwell in Heaven for a while. You come with nothing and you disappear into the Heart of God completely. Now you are forever joined in Him and let His Love encompass and direct your experience. You let go of all that is not of God. And you forget and pretend as if you where not a body and as if you where not in the world of time and space, and let yourself be carried across the “little gap”. Now you disappear and nothing else comes into your mind’s awareness but God’s Love and Being. You are Him, and He is You. Be His…
Monday, September 22, 2008
The Only Goal
The Only Goal
The sameness of your Father is your goal
The need for time has ended, you are here
You need do nothing for I live in you
You have come great distance from your Source
But now you are transported back to Where you came from to abide in peace again
What “will” is there but God’s?
It’s but a wish there be no God
But really it makes no sense to kill your God
If it were a possibility, life would cease to be and even dream would not been able to arise in you if God was dead
How foolish is your pretending act of “killing God” and therefore establishing illusions in place of Truth
There is no Will but God’s and that is fact
What could you be but His?
Where else would you rather be but where you are already?
He pleads you that you will release His Son and let Them be Themselves
Choose again my child, now you are protected
There is no fear of God for God is loving yes
And therefore it is yours to be Himself
God Is Good
God Is Good
What comes to the Holy Spirit is merely looked at and dispelled
There is no need to push yourself where nothing can seemingly be found
In nothingness there is no joy but only sorrow
The joy that comes from knowing God is the only worthy gift for you who are His Joy
The gift of perfect freedom comes with no strings attached
You are either whole in your awareness, or are you not
Who are you, what are you, why are you – all meaningless to God, What knows Itself as doubtless Truth
You are the Truth of God, there are no other gods
The gods you worship over your Creator worthy only to be laughed away as none of “them” exist in Him
Your God is still and quiet, asking nothing but you be your Self
How generous is He Who wills your good!
There is no good outside of Heaven
God is Good and Goodness is your God – your Self
The god that is temporal nowhere to be found once you awake to Truth
There is only one God and you are one with It
If you are one with It you are the same
And herein is your peace – to know yourself as His
Changeless Facts Of Life
Changeless Facts Of Life
We need to love God because He is our beloved Cause and we are the Effect
There is no need for arrogance and strife for you are humble and Divine
The true always stays the same, the state of constancy
The false need but correction in one fraction
The sameness of your Father extends to you as All there is
You need to look at fear to recognize it’s unappeal
It is but shadow of yourself that isn’t true which you are willing to undo
Your gifts of individuality and deceit have served no purpose but to make you blind, mad and miserably sad
You change not, no matter what
What can we want but be eternally at peace?
No answer lies but this
You need but question the belief of what you are, to realize the changeless facts of Life are always true
Be at peace now, you are whole and innocent as All
Helpful ideas to consider before and during prayer:
1) Before prayer calm your mind and recognize that your are attempting something beyond this word! Believe that this attempt will succeed because God Wills you to be successful in your attempts to come closer to Him and remember His eternal Love for you as His Son. All the power of God is with you, you cannot fail.
2) When practicing the prayers, mean every word as if it where your own. See yourself reaching onto God with these prayers.
3) Keep in mind that words are just symbols, and that behind the words there is an intention and purpose. Try to see that and recognize that this is what you truly want: To know God - To remember God
4) The purpose of every prayer is to bring you closer to God and your true Relationship with your Creator.
5) Be always humble and grateful. Appreciate that you live, not as a body of individual, but as Spirit Part of Him. You can only be alive if you are somehow somewhere still in communication with God. He is Life, and your life is His!
Giving In To Love; As a reflection of ACIM
You are the Love in which I forgive my brother and myself, Father.
Forgiveness is the means by which I will recognize my innocence. It is the reflection of Your Love on earth. You are the strength in which I trust. It is not my own strength through which I forgive. It is through Your strength in me, which I am remembering as I forgive. As I begin to see, I feel the stirring of Your strength in me. And I begin to remember the Love I chose to forget, but which has not forgotten me. What could there be to fear in a world that I have forgiven, and that has forgiven me? There is nothing to fear. Your Voice speaks to me all through the day. There is not a moment in which Your Voice ceases to call on my forgiveness to save me. There is not a moment in which Your Voice fails to direct my thoughts, guide my actions and lead my feet. I am walking steadily on toward truth. There is nowhere else I can go, because Your Voice is the only Voice and the only Guide that has been given to His Son. As I listen to Your Voice, I am sustained by Your Love. As I open my eyes, Your Love lights up the world for me to see. As I forgive, Your Love reminds me that Your Son is sinless. And I am Your Son. Nothing real is outside Your Mind Father, that holds within Itself all Life, which is eternal. I am life, and I am eternal, in my Father's Mind. In Y'shuas name, amen.
Prayer: The perfect peace
Prayer: The perfect peace
It matters not what our name is nor where we come, but only what You, Father, share through us. Blesses us all through the day with happiness and peace. Let us not interfere with Your plan today so peace would be restored to us. Share with us Your perfect Love so we will extend it in Your Name. We are complete and perfect because You created us like Yourself. Help us find our mind so we can see again What we truly are. Teach us true forgiveness, so we will not imprison Christ. Lead us and help us to identify all barriers of failure we have interposed between our Relationship. Help us become like little children so we can listed to your Voice. Let today be used for us to facilitate the coming of Your peace into our mind, one mind. Forever we are blessed as Part of You. In Y'shuas name, amen.
Prayer: Teach us
Father bless us with the truth and correct all illusions in our minds. Guide our every step toward the journey’s end, and send the witnesses of love our way. Help us by showing us what truly is, ever was, and will be, is the same as changeless as our Self. Send the angels before our every step so they will remove all stumbling blocks and make the way effortless and easy. Teach us what the wise brothers and sisters, who awoke from the dream learned. Teach us to recognize and understand what is true and what is false. Helpe us live the truth every instant of every day. Let us be aware of the internal Teacher You have sent, and be like Y'shua in every way. In Y'shua name forever is Your glory, amen.
Prayer: Of us to You
Forever is Your glory, Father. Manifest Your Will through us today so we may share It to receive It. Purify our minds of all illusions and restore Your eternal Laws of perfect Love. Bless us with Your gifts so we can fulfill Your Will, which is our own, with ease and peace. Bless us with Your peace... Your strength…Your happiness… and Your Love… so we can follow Your Guide. Correct our perception and guide our thoughts with clarity and peace. Let us unite with Y'shua, and follow his example and the lessons he has learned for-to-all of us. Let us not wander into temptations, for temptations is not Your Will. Teach to truly forgive. Let us accept and use Christ vision so we may see what You would show us. Keep us mindful of Your Love for us and of our love for You. Let us listen to Your Voice within the holy instant, and allow the Holy Spirit to decide for us with all decisions we may come across. Let us be kind to one another and recognize we give it to our brothers so we may have it for ourself. Let us receive Your eternal Justice and recognize we are wholly sinless, guiltless, blessed as Your Expression. In Y'shuas name, amen.
Prayer Thankful Heart
Prayer: Thankful Heart
Father we honer You, in thankful heart we pray. Prepare our minds for Your Glory by practicing forgiveness. Bless us with Christ vision that we may see we are not separate form our brothers. Help us to recognize what You gave, and accept only what You would have us be. Today let us turn against our false decision, and see what we have made with lies. What is it You would ask of us today? We can accept only what we share. So therefore let us learn and teach that sharing peace is all we need. Today we turn all judgment into bliss, by giving all our thoughts away to Truth. Now we recognize we have no will apart from Your's. Be our guiding Light, our Father throught the darkened land. In peace and blessings we arise to praise and honer You forever. In Y'shuas name, amen.
The Memory Of God
The Memory Of God
As he wakes from the dream within a dream
He looks for meaning from the role he acts, but finds it not
His search will fail, in spite the fact he seeks for love, for he looks for it where it is not
So he invents imaginary satisfactions that never last
He looks at death and sees fear but in his heart he knows only love is real
The nightmares seem so real
And yet love will find its way back, when he will give away his miscreations
His willingness to know the truth diminishes all possibility of failure
So he welcomes today’s lesson knowing it is a step toward his Memory of God
And so he blesses everyone he thinks he meets, knowing he is blessed
No thought of fear nor guilt or sin can find the home inside his holy mind because he is choosing as the host One Who offers only peace
Him Who holds the universe within Himself
Happy is you who invited Him today so He may shine the light of Heaven on your holy mind and bless you with your heart’s desire
Come in dear child, nothing is there to fear of perfect love
Rejoice that walk you not alone but yes you hold the hand of Him Who holds the universe within Himself
So great the power of the universe that goes with you and nurtures your every step toward the journey’s end
The road for Heaven ascends into the light of God where you belong with all your brothers as your Self
There is no madness nor illusions, that may take many forms as you perceive them in this world, in Heaven
Nor is there vessels limiting your praise to your Creator
In Heaven you have all and you are all
Earth was made with change
Heaven created with-as changeless
Therefore seek not to understand Heaven with the limitations you made for yourself during your stay
But humble yourself and give your beliefs to Him Who would free you from the prison you made
And know that God loves you perfectly completely and eternally for you are His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased
Behold your brother as he is today
In your deepest despair you call on my Name to uplift you
Your call for help will never be ignored for dear you are to Me
In journey you chose to undertake without a meaning there always is a war against yourself and your Creator
The nightmares came to your awareness because you called on them to replace God’s Creation
I would but guide you from your own mistakes to where no war can ever reach you there
This is where your Father Wills you are
God Wills you only good as He created you with perfect love
Nothing good is but His Will for you
The “good” you make to give yourself without your Father but gives you more of what you hate because not keep it youFor only His Will is there at all
The joys of hell are but illusions intended to replace the truth
The mind still cherishes illusions for a while more before it recognizes there are none but in dreams and fantasies of its own making
The light of Heaven shines everywhere you look as you choose let the past go; where nothing real kept in your sight
Behold your brother as he is today without errors of past choice which you perceived in him as sin, for where you have him be there will you believe you are
Give your brother the happiness, the joy, the peace, the strength and the love you want God to give you, for, as you give so shall you receive
And, what you share you strengthen, therefore share what you desire God bless you with
Christ Vision shows you; lovely is the world to you who know God and His holy Son as One where no illusions ever enter the reality of God, where the miracle of Love extends forever without end
To your brother offer your forgiveness as a sure sign that Heaven is your goal
See innocence in place of guilt in him who would return your gifts to you
And Heaven is known to you as an awareness of perfect oneness
Perfect happiness now
Perfect happiness now
God Wills you perfect happiness now
And is it possible that this is not also your brother’s and your will?
Must it be then that in this, joint will, you are all united
Then it must be, that this is where you meet the illusory enemies as friends for purpose unifies your goals
Think you not that future holds what present offers not
Nor will any more of things or castles bring you what you deny inside, for that is where the treasure lies
Not think you that some land is more important than another for what you fight amongst yourselves is not of value to Him Who values only perfect Love and you as part of what It means
Then lay the tiny little toys you made to play the painful game of war and follow Him Whom God gave to you so you may find that perfect happiness can only be accepted now with perfect peace and joy if so you wish
Nothing can the past serve when its sole dying echo “it is not here”
Know you then that only here and now can God be found
Seek not then Truth in past but in the present, which is a borrowed aspect of eternity where you belong
And in the end of time your brother holds your hand as Christ
And God’s Joy extends forever that His beloved Son is Whole within His well known Home where They abide in perfect Union as One
God’s sheep is found
What is Love and what is lack of Love is not the same
Love holds within Itself everything and everyone, including you
Lack of love what you consider fear has no existence in reality for how can nothing be one with everything?
Holy Spirit comes to carry through the tiny little part of love that seeks its way back to perfect Wholeness
The little part of love you think is yours belongs to everyone as everything of love belongs to you
You seek but find it not for know you not what
What you seek you cannot find alone nor can you not find it, for Love Itself has found you and all your brothers at the end of time where Love knows Itself as Whole and you are part of Its completion
You are the little sheep that ran from everywhere away to nowhere forgot your Self, seeking to deny that you belong with God as One
Be calm and cool the sins you think you made God forgave, although they even never made
No sin can touch you who belong in God, for God is Love and Love is perfect in Itself without any delay
Evil or delay is fear of What you truly are as One with all creation
Evil has no power in itself as all power is of God, therefore fear will hold back as much as you are willing to delay your Homecoming to your Self and God
So seek not ways to blame the evil one for what you choose yourself to become, but withdraw all power given by you to your enemy over you, and give it to the Holy Spirit Who will teach you what is yours and what is God’s there is no difference
Therefore every brother belongs to you to whom God gave Himself
Rejoice you yes for no one will be left behind to die, as God Himself is incomplete without His Whole Herd
Knowledge Remembered Illusions Forgot
Always teach you what believe you, and always do the witnesses appear to testify what you believe reality to be
Teaching and giving is one, so it is true that what you give you receive
Therefore what you teach you always receive, and is it not true that you made beliefs about everything you perceive as you would have it be? Then you receive what you believe
Teaching, then, is everything you do, say, and think
Real teaching is only of the mind for the mind, therefore you teach what you think
Doing as well as speaking is the consequence of though which stems from your mind
Then mind teaches mind of its beliefs, but all are equally the same with this simple fact; all beliefs must change as they were made with doubt
Only certainty is changeless as Itself, therefore certainty knows all things like Itself as Itself as One
So now I say to you, "teach only love for that is what you are"
Give Holy Spirit every thought of fear, appearing as a doubt, to be replaced by Thoughts you think with God, which are forever changeless
In time you struggle, in timelessness you really rest, and where rest is there peace is welcome, offering-accepting simultaneous the Will of God as yours
Remember always to teach only through approach; that which wish you accomplish-succeed, and not that which you wish avoid-fail
Recognize now that failed you as a teacher, for taught yourself all things temporal you have - valueless in God’s Mind
Recognize you yes that what God values not has no life
And now resign as teacher of lies and instead accept the Teacher within your mind
Heaven is in you, and to know it you must be willing unlearn all that you tried teach yourself, which only obscures truth with illusions
Holy Spirit is here, let Him fulfill the function given by God
That knowledge remembered illusions forgot, is God’s Will for His Son
The Effect Of Love
With spit mind you are of little use to me, for conflict still remains part of the attraction hold you dear
Nothing can be given you, of real value, who values guilt and all its hellish, though unreal, effects
As happiness is the effect of Love so misery and chaos the effect of guilt
But only the effect of Love is real
All your attempts in trying making the unreal into that which lacks Loves presence, is an attempt to destroy Love’s meaning, unsuccessfully, by bringing Heaven into hell, Love into fear, and therefore failing to establish illusions as reality, change as part of God
God established all reality as perfect changeless Love
So how can fear or change establish its existence within eternity if change represents a beginning?
And is it not certain that what began so shall it will see an end?
For beginning is a form of limitation that God created not, and so it is inevitable that all limit dissolves in the Unlimited
Nothing real changes
Nothing unreal can not change
Seek not you Heaven in the world of form but within your mind
Where nothing changes there you know yourself as Christ
Christ is everything within Himself so you must be within Christ for aware you are of life
As God is changeless so Christ is, and Christ belongs not apart from you and your beloved brother
Now is it the time to choose the timeless and your real Identity as Christ
For there is but the present in worlds and dreams of your own making
Delay yourself no more of joy and peace that is your natural inheritance blessed as Christ, Son of God, One within your Self and your Creator
Peace be upon you in whom God is pleased as you always give Him What He gave to you; What perfection is
Truth Needs No Defense
Truth Needs No Defense
What needs defense is vulnerable and unsafe in need of constant readjustment away form threat, therefore change is what it represents as death
Change is inconsistency where all illusions hide from truth, but changelessness is constancy where life abides with all of Heaven in God’s Mind
The best defense is offense, but what you are is love not fear, therefore offense and defense belong not to you who seek truth, because nothing is there to fear for you who is consistency not vulnerable to hurt in any form or shape
If were you inconstancy within the world of change you could not be aware of life
See you now the madness and insane belief you change, for here salvation is wide open to be accepted as the truth
You cannot change you never have
You choose to change beliefs about yourself and what you think you are, but never has the inner awareness changed of simply being aware of life
Then must it be that you are life amidst the dead and death
Aware yes you are alive, and what is life but the eternal and the changeless?
Death is lack of life, not enemy trying to attack God, but hiding itself away from God because it fears that it never was real, therefore it will attempt with all its madness and despair establish the lie as truth and claim; death God made as well as life
God Who is the Source of life, created only that which never changes and never dies
God Who is the Source of perfect Love, knows not of change or death but only Life Which is forever changeless and eternal as Himself
Always shall Truth remain invulnerable and changeless as God created it to be
Seek not to be a martyr , but a miracle of perfect love you are
martyr: One who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause, or principle.[Seek not to convert the world of your beliefs - namely the ACIM, the world is not real any way]
The Changeless God
The Changeless God
Become you witness to God’s creation by acknowledging Love’s presence in everyone and everything, extending Its benevolence forever
Be you content that all is well within eternity forever changeless as your Self
Not easy it is to deny your Father and the gift of life eternal He has given you, but fooled be not that somehow you offended God
His gift is changeless, awaiting not on time to be accepted but known in timelessness
This changes not the fact; "there is no Will but God’s", but only proves that the denial of the gift in time is not denied in Heaven where you truly are with all creation
If God Wills always know His Son complete as One, can it be that He need wait when He is timelessness itself?
He waits not on time to know you, as His laws bound not by the temporal little laws you made, but supersedes them all into infinity
The gift of peace is not bound in any way, the mind that is totally free can know its whole meaning, for knowledge excludes partiality, and only total knowledge can offer everlasting peace given you by God Himself
God offers grace in place of guilt for His beloved Son
Nor asks He that you do anything except you do precisely nothing, that His Voice may restore to your mind the awareness of your Self
Now is it up to you to choose, again, between truth and all illusions
The Love of God gives you only what you will to love, or madness of your own making that offers you only what you always hate, because your gifts are all temporal to yourself, and you will recognize soon enough that true happiness and peace comes only from that which you will always keep, forever recognizing it is yours no matter what
The Only Friend
Would you walk by your own choice alone separate and different? Possessing what others have not, recognizing you share your misery and fears with those whom are most dear?
If this the choice you make then death and darkness, you call friends, bring before your flesh all temporal pleasures which fill an instant with false joy
In this world of dreams that think you God is cruel, that He gave all the burdens of hell on your little plate so you may choke to death believing He has killed you, there is little hope where stand you now unless had you enough of madness and insanity
This matters not what you believe reality should be because created not by you it has
But you may deny reality and make your own instead of God’s which is where you find yourself today
How can darkness challenge light when light is lack of darkness?
Think not that making dreams in some way affects Heaven, for Heaven created not by change and all illusions which you believe to be the truth, but by Him Who holds all light within His Mind and what is there but the Light of God?
If your hallucinations try to make you more confused and weak ask, for your own good, Him Whom God sent to save you from all illusions and despair and He is there on your request to speak on God’s behalf to you
And now you found the only Friend you have for He knows What you truly are and therefore your inheritance
Seek His Help and you found Heaven, and Heaven found its resting place in your awareness
Notes on change
You are here to learn of truth and love so welcome change with the awareness that only good will come of it when you welcome God into your life and make room for what you treasure, which is peace and happiness.
You Do Not Know Any Thing
"I don't know the truth but You do, and therefore I surrender my beliefs and theories to Your Wisdom and let You guide me along the path to true freedom of the mind"
So dear friend, humility is the opposite of arrogance and humility is the open mindedness that allows God to guide and direct your life to the realization of perfection as your true and only Reality!
The experience of this world is only temporary and it will disappear with all time. Therefore we are like visitors here giving this and that a taste and try different things but ultimately we will awaken from this to the Reality of our perfect oneness with God, our Natural State of Mind. In our natural state we only rest in perfect harmony and peace. Is that make sense to you dear friend? I hope it does.
I Am Eternal Spirit, I Am One With All That Is.
... the experience of perfect oneness has no levels of perception it merely is. It's simplicity leaves no room for error, doubt, or levels of fear. Love is perfect oneness with our Creator and Source. This is the only time you need to give to Him right now, for that is all there is. There is no future and no past, your experience only depends on your interpretation in the present. And if you hold the oneness in your awareness you are forgiving, for you acknowledge that Spirit is real and the human - individuality- unreal, for such is the truth. God is you Source and Giver of Life Whom you truly love and He loves you. There is no levels because Truth is one, and It is eternal as Itself. You need but say and mean the following direction from the Source:
"I am eternal Spirit, I am one with All that is."
Keep in your awareness the joy that is your natural inheritance of being one with All that is.
Be at peace, be one.
I Need Do Nothing
"I Need Do Nothing"
"Your way will be different, not in purpose but in means. A holy relationship is a means of saving time. One instant spent together with your brother restores the universe to both of you. You are prepared. Now you need but to remember you need do nothing. It would be far more profitable now merely to concentrate on this than to consider what you should do. When peace come at last to those who wrestle with temptation and fight against the giving in to sin; when the light comes at last into the mind given to contemplation; or when the goal is finally achieved by any one, it always comes with just one happy realization; "I need do nothing."
Here is the ultimate release which everyone will one day find in his own way, at his own time. You do not need this time. Time has been saved for you because you and your brother are together.
Save time for me by only this one preparation, and practice doing nothing else. "I need do nothing" is a statement of allegiance, to a truly undivided loyalty. Believe it for just one instant, and you will accomplish more than is given to a century of contemplation, or of struggle against temptation.
To do any thing involves the body. And if you recognize you need do nothing, you have withdrawn the body's value from your mind. Here is the quick and open door through which you slip past centuries of effort, and escape form time. This is the way in which sin loses all attraction right now. For here is time denied, and past and future gone. Who needs do nothing has no need for time. To do nothing is to rest, and make a place within you where the activity of the body ceases to demand attention. Into this place the Holy Spirit comes, and there abides. He will remain when you forget, and the body's activities return to occupy your conscious mind.
Yet there will always be this place of rest to which you can return. And you will be more aware of this quiet center of the storm than all its raging activity. This quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain with, giving you rest in the minds of every busy doing on which you are sent. For from this center will you be directed how to use the body sinlessly. It is this center, from which the body is absent, that will keep it so in your awareness of it."(ACIM.T.389.5-8)
[Note; turn the page to 642 in the Text. This section will help you recognize the truth in these writings.]
This is your invitation to the Holy Spirit to come in and guide you from now on. Do you want illusions? Or do you want to awaken? What you choose in this moment will determine your experience in what seems to be your future. It's all made up and therefore it will change. If you place your life, or what you make of life(joke), under my supervision then you cannot go wrong. I am here to guide you and direct your every step. You cannot fail when you have trusted God to lead your way to Himself. What else would you rather learn then how to be happy and make happy? What else is there for you here that you value more then happiness and peace? You my child, have chosen wrongly and that is why you are confused. Confusion is not of God's effect, but it is of your own making by believing in something that is not real. You cannot exist, secretly opposing God's laws of Life and eternity, and still hope to be happy and content with little piece of scrap of false perception you might call "a life". If you are committed I invite you to surrender to the Will of God entirely and completely dissolve what is not there, namely your belief in duality. You cannot be as God did not create you,
"You are Spirit whole and innocent. All is forgiven and released."(Your Immortal Reality)
I declare to you my child that from this moment you will be tempted less and less, if this is what you wish off course, with false idols and illusions that hold nothing before your holy mind. You can release and be released when you recognize that only Truth is what will make you happy! You are not happy while you think of yourself whatever you are not, namely your ego. "You need do nothing" - practice this when you think you need. Let this be your lesson of salvation and release from guilt and fear right now. Make of it your daily prayer. Let this single though be all that you are aware of trough your entire day, and you will see the benefits of not believing you are a body. You will know yourself as changelessness Itself. Peace and blessings from above.
Hi the following is my own impression on the "I Need Do Nothing" thought. Actually it is more then a though it is the thought! If, which you should, practice it let's say for a week consistently every day you will marvel and wonder at what you will experience. My experience with this type of approach is awesome, I can't tell you how much of solid experience it puts in your bag of experiences. You really get a taste of changeless and you experience real peace, resting and coming with still mind. Your body is not your primary focus because now all you want is peace. So ACIM has all your answers, all that you are asked is to try and see for yourself. Perhaps you will like it too...