I think it is very helpful to remember that forgiveness and spiritual awakening is not really
a matter of things and doings and form.
It's really a matter of desire.
It can be very very rapid if you desire for it to be rapid.
So the ego dismantling can be very rapid.
For many if not most it's as Jesus says, each is given a slowly, evolving curriculum.
That's more the norm. And yet it may not be very long and slow and tedious.
It can be more rapid, if that is your desire.
But, it's really your desire over this moment, in your desire for this moment.
It's a self honesty. Is this what I truly want?
Because this world is a world of distraction and a world of isolation and a world of hiding.
Hiding from the light
And if you really have that be the prayer of your heart of wanting to experience the love and the light,
then the symbols can be given quite rapidly.
It can be fairly quick escape from time and space.
But it does take a willingness to let everything up into awareness.
And, there's certain things that are so heavily reinforced,
and so believed to be true that truth can seem to be a threat to those things.
There's a site, some of you may have heard of Brian Green
that he's done lots of experiments to show what Einstein discovered decades ago
that time and space are not fixed and they are not absolute. They're relative.
And so, it contradicts human common sense.
Because human beings are part of a product of a belief system and so is time and space.
Even the increments of time and space.
Whether we call them inches, and feet and yards and miles or the increments of time
milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years.
Those are not solid set increments.
Even the conception of time and space is subject to belief.
And will change.
And that contradicts human common sense.
And so, it can be that way with your awakening.
You know, it can be very sad to think it will take a long, long, long time
to wake up from the dream of guilt and fear, it can be a depressing thought
of how long it will take and yet, my experiences have been with the Course and with miracles
that the rapidity which Jesus can work with the mind is quite amazing.
It's a matter of desire, not a matter of time.
And, even in the 1990's with my early students, they would say; "well, David if I had your situation I could wake up a lot faster,
but here is my situation" and everybody is always describe what they described as
too entangled, too complicated and nothing to work with.
Jesus had nothing to work with.
There aren't the lucky ones and the unlucky ones, the fortunate ones and the unfortunate ones.
They all are subject to the same experience. That truth has no exceptions and that's a good thing.
We're all subject to the same belief system, the ego and the same limits,
and we're also subject to the same intuition, Spirit, Guide
and we all have equal access to that and therefore that's the good news.
It's all really a matter of desire.