It is all about love. Love as we know it has little to do with the love from which we "came". Love is right where we are; we have only to become aware that we never could leave it, and it appears as if from somewhere else. But we had it always. It is ours forever.
There is nothing outside us...what we call "God" is all around us...only this. Nothing else is real. Look for God, and God has always been; do not look for God, and God still remains, and we still remain as created. God remains unchanged.
We make images, call this "seeing". It is not seeing. What we think is real is unreal, and what we think is unreal is real. What we call "God" did not create the world. The world is unreal, and nothing unreal has any reality.
We are one Self, dreaming of separation, isolated from even ourselves...the selves we made to hide in our fear. When we wake up in the morning, we think we are no longer sleeping, but we are still sleeping.
Love protects us, but it protects us from only what has no existence. Love knows there is nothing but love. Love protects simply by being what it is. Love did not create a world that falls into dust, and dies.
It seems strange only because we keep hold of our fear, no longer recalling our true state of perfect love. Ask a question, and calmly await the answer. The answer was given long before you, we, were "born". Time fell away the instant it came into our mind. It is gone, we just keep holding on to our memory of it. It is not so that we cannot see these things. These teachings are not "mine", they are ours.
The peace that reveals itself could never leave us. I awoke long ago, and went home. Herein lies peace, but let us understand, "long ago", and "went home" are in our terms. In truth, we never left, and this perfect instant is the only time there is.
The love is real.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
There Are No Opposites
We are blessed simply because of what we are. We are blessed because there is no opposite, thus no possibility of being "not-blessed". This knowledge is in the open for all to see. We are one with our Source.
There is nothing anywhere that can damn you. You can deny yourself your own knowledge of this truth, but you cannot change it. Nothing is true but the truth. Nothing was created that had not been created. This is another way of saying God is all there is.
We are not self-created. "Something" created us...Something completely beautiful, but beauty without opposite, for we came up with the idea of opposites. We have hypnotized ourselves into believing that one cannot have beauty without ugliness--peace without war--and our word for this is "Balance". We are simply afraid. We do not understand who and what we are, so we run from what seems too good to possibly be true. We dream of monsters and forget we made up the monsters; our world that we dream seems to come without our volition, yet we know we make it as we go along. We are precisely as we were created. Nothing can change the truth of our holiness, our oneness with God, this Something, Whose Love has no opposite...there is no such thing as "Opposite".
Change the way you see the world, and the world you see will change.
There is nothing anywhere that can damn you. You can deny yourself your own knowledge of this truth, but you cannot change it. Nothing is true but the truth. Nothing was created that had not been created. This is another way of saying God is all there is.
We are not self-created. "Something" created us...Something completely beautiful, but beauty without opposite, for we came up with the idea of opposites. We have hypnotized ourselves into believing that one cannot have beauty without ugliness--peace without war--and our word for this is "Balance". We are simply afraid. We do not understand who and what we are, so we run from what seems too good to possibly be true. We dream of monsters and forget we made up the monsters; our world that we dream seems to come without our volition, yet we know we make it as we go along. We are precisely as we were created. Nothing can change the truth of our holiness, our oneness with God, this Something, Whose Love has no opposite...there is no such thing as "Opposite".
Change the way you see the world, and the world you see will change.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
The Spontaneous Present
The world we think we see is a memory of the world we made to hide from our Creator. That world, as we said before, was over in the same instant it seemed to appear. We made the world. All that we think happened, never happened, except the love. A Course In Miracles teaches that loving thoughts are all that is real here. (There is no "here" here.)
I am having a memory of writing these words; I think I am writing them "now", but I am writing them in what we think of as "The Past". What we call memory is only our insistence on holding events/ images in our mind, rather than allowing them to disappear. As you sit there reading these words, slowly turn your head. As you do, the original position your head was in is now gone, but you keep recalling it. That position is gone. This is our idea of "Past". It is all over. It is not the truth of us; it is not our home. We never left home, nor could we.
"What about spontaneity?" What we think of as spontaneity is just part of the awesome power of mind. Our mind. All time is at once, we just experience it in slow-motion. The first day of this world, this earth, and the last day, are in the same moment. When we watch a movie, we know that it is already over, because its beginning, middle and end are contained within the disk. The first scene of the movie, and the last, are at the same moment. We just experience it in slow-motion.
As long as we insist on remembering what never took place, we will not know the Present. Everything we do and think and say, is in the past. But there is no past...the past is only our holding onto events that we imagined. A Course In Miracles says, "I see nothing as it is now." I am recalling this keyboard, I am remembering the taste of my coffee as I sip. But it is over. None of this happened because God did not create it. God created us by extending perfect Love to us, through us, as us. We are not weak, or sick. We do not die. We are God's Son.
Remember the Present. Therein thrives peace...the peace from which we have come, are created, have our whole being. Demonstrate to yourself that it is so. Herein lies our release from dreams of separation.
God is alive, not alive and then dead! There is no death, and the beauty is that we all know this is true. Every living thing knows we are whole, eternal, in this holy Present. This is why the following is true:
Change the way you see the world, and the world you see will change.
I am having a memory of writing these words; I think I am writing them "now", but I am writing them in what we think of as "The Past". What we call memory is only our insistence on holding events/ images in our mind, rather than allowing them to disappear. As you sit there reading these words, slowly turn your head. As you do, the original position your head was in is now gone, but you keep recalling it. That position is gone. This is our idea of "Past". It is all over. It is not the truth of us; it is not our home. We never left home, nor could we.
"What about spontaneity?" What we think of as spontaneity is just part of the awesome power of mind. Our mind. All time is at once, we just experience it in slow-motion. The first day of this world, this earth, and the last day, are in the same moment. When we watch a movie, we know that it is already over, because its beginning, middle and end are contained within the disk. The first scene of the movie, and the last, are at the same moment. We just experience it in slow-motion.
As long as we insist on remembering what never took place, we will not know the Present. Everything we do and think and say, is in the past. But there is no past...the past is only our holding onto events that we imagined. A Course In Miracles says, "I see nothing as it is now." I am recalling this keyboard, I am remembering the taste of my coffee as I sip. But it is over. None of this happened because God did not create it. God created us by extending perfect Love to us, through us, as us. We are not weak, or sick. We do not die. We are God's Son.
Remember the Present. Therein thrives peace...the peace from which we have come, are created, have our whole being. Demonstrate to yourself that it is so. Herein lies our release from dreams of separation.
God is alive, not alive and then dead! There is no death, and the beauty is that we all know this is true. Every living thing knows we are whole, eternal, in this holy Present. This is why the following is true:
Change the way you see the world, and the world you see will change.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
With You Always
Listen. It is not so that you cannot hear, it is not so that you cannot see. It is not so that you are no more than bones wrapped in skin. Listen, not to "me", but to the reaching within yourself.
Be still. Your mind is restless, yet there is eternal rest in you; you seem at war, yet there is peace in you that has no opposite. This seeming war whose battles have no validity, thus no meaning for you, ended in the same instant that it occurred to you. Nothing has taken you away from your Source. Your Source is all that exists. Only your Source, or God, or Creator, or Great White Spirit...it matters not at all what names you choose...only this exists. It is "within" you, and you are "within" it. It does not seem so, but it is true. Be still.
There are no opposites. There is no "outside". Light and dark, good and bad, up and down...these are meaningless, unless you persist in giving them meaning. But that giving was in vain. You still believe to give is to lose, yet inside you the knowledge lives that true giving is receiving. Yes, it lives, thrives, within every cell of your body, even though the cells in truth do not exist. What we call "Physical" is no more than tiny particles, themselves without solidity. You are, in truth, invisible.
How could this be? Invisible! Not possible. Remember, these things are not so because I say them...I say them because they are so. Remember too, that we are "both" saying them to each other. "We" are actually the same Self, what A Course In Miracles calls "God's Son". We are teaching each other that this world is over.
We became afraid, and the world we think we see is the "result", but it lasted an instant, and was gone. Why? Because our Source knows us only as our Source created us. What God knows...IS. Nothing has changed, we remain as created. Sense it. It is right where you are, right now. Please do not turn away. You simply became afraid, but there literally is nothing to fear. You can find the peace that lives in you. It is not hiding from you, you have hidden from it, inside bone and tissue. But this camouflage of nothingness you have hypnotized yourself into witnessing, has no validity of itself. But you do. You are valid forever, we are valid forever, you and I, as one.
Only look, only listen...One goes with you. One could never leave you, would never want to. You are not alone, encased in flesh, isolated from all around you, incapable of communicating. The peace that you are already exists, you need not create it, or struggle to uncover it. It is everything you are, behind these illusions of separateness.
Stop being afraid. Change the way you see the world, and the world you see will change.
"Look: I am with you always."
Be still. Your mind is restless, yet there is eternal rest in you; you seem at war, yet there is peace in you that has no opposite. This seeming war whose battles have no validity, thus no meaning for you, ended in the same instant that it occurred to you. Nothing has taken you away from your Source. Your Source is all that exists. Only your Source, or God, or Creator, or Great White Spirit...it matters not at all what names you choose...only this exists. It is "within" you, and you are "within" it. It does not seem so, but it is true. Be still.
There are no opposites. There is no "outside". Light and dark, good and bad, up and down...these are meaningless, unless you persist in giving them meaning. But that giving was in vain. You still believe to give is to lose, yet inside you the knowledge lives that true giving is receiving. Yes, it lives, thrives, within every cell of your body, even though the cells in truth do not exist. What we call "Physical" is no more than tiny particles, themselves without solidity. You are, in truth, invisible.
How could this be? Invisible! Not possible. Remember, these things are not so because I say them...I say them because they are so. Remember too, that we are "both" saying them to each other. "We" are actually the same Self, what A Course In Miracles calls "God's Son". We are teaching each other that this world is over.
We became afraid, and the world we think we see is the "result", but it lasted an instant, and was gone. Why? Because our Source knows us only as our Source created us. What God knows...IS. Nothing has changed, we remain as created. Sense it. It is right where you are, right now. Please do not turn away. You simply became afraid, but there literally is nothing to fear. You can find the peace that lives in you. It is not hiding from you, you have hidden from it, inside bone and tissue. But this camouflage of nothingness you have hypnotized yourself into witnessing, has no validity of itself. But you do. You are valid forever, we are valid forever, you and I, as one.
Only look, only listen...One goes with you. One could never leave you, would never want to. You are not alone, encased in flesh, isolated from all around you, incapable of communicating. The peace that you are already exists, you need not create it, or struggle to uncover it. It is everything you are, behind these illusions of separateness.
Stop being afraid. Change the way you see the world, and the world you see will change.
"Look: I am with you always."
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