Isn't it amazing
That if we really trust and we open up and we really do hand it over to God
And say, I don't know how this is going to work or how I'm going to do it. My best plans
have never brought me the peace and happiness.
My best imaginings...all my so called creative imaginings
of how could I phenagle that or how could I work that out.
It sends you in a tizzy. Because it's still this belief that somehow we're in charge of our own awakening.
And then in the Course in Miracles, Jesus says these beautiful lines, "You cannot wake yourself, but you can allow yourself to be awakened."
Wow, "You cannot wake yourself but, you can allow yourself to be awakened."
If you believe you're a small identity. If you're a little personality - a little body identity, how could you possibly really really believe that you have the know-how
To get out of a dream
that you believe in
That the ego made up so tricky, with so many entanglements and so much complexity
That you would be more likely to get depressed
Or be suicidal than you would actually to have hope that you could escape from the dream.
So, that is a big line. "You cannot wake yourself but you can allow yourself to be awakened."
It sounds like our theme - we were talking about last night - about allowance and permission.
Nobody talked to us about allowance and permission.
We heard about grades, we heard about survival
We heard about becoming bigger, better, more
Becoming the best
And all these things in the world
But, nobody was there saying, just give yourself permission to let it all go.
Just give yourself the allowance to be in touch with your feelings
And then to be lifted up and carried beyond whatever you are thinking and percieving
Einstein was talking about you can't solve a problem from within the problem.
You literally have to go beyond the problem for the solution.
And that's what we call faith in the Spirit.
When something in our heart just cries out, help me! Really!!! I mean it. I'm really sincere now for that help!
And then we call it divine intervention - the Spirit is able to use the symbols to reach you wherever you believe you are - whatever you believe you are.
To use those symbols.
But we still have to have the faith and the trust
To get out of the driver's seat.
To believe that we're the ones
That are personally in charge of our waking up from this dream.
That's the frustration.
No matter how ingenious we become
No matter how our skill level rises up
And even no matter how much recognition we get from the world
with our acheivements
With awards or with skills and abilities
There is still a sense of depression until we finally surrender
Until we symbolically get down on our knees and say
I will step back and let you lead the way
You show me.
You guide me.
Let me not try to inform you, Spirit, on the ways
You inform me.
We finally are willing to be instructed
Yes, intuitively instructed in the awakening process
There's a part in the Course
One of the most beautiful lines in the Course is
Resign now as your own teacher!
Resign!
Hand in your resignation.