Ideas have not left their source. That's what joining is. -
We're getting happy lately. Yes. Isn't that interesting? - Yes.- Happy. Yes.-
Now, we've done a lot of work.
We have faced a lot of our own demons, which we created.-
It seems, it's like what you say, there's a remembering and a forgetting.
And when you really come into the present, that you really do forget the past.
I mean It's not like there was work necessary to reach this point.
And that's a common phrase I hear a lot of times. -
I did the work? -
I did the work, I've done all the work and everything that I've done has brought me to this point.
And the Holy Spirit says to me; No, I'VE brought you to this point.
But, the past, the ego NEVER will bring you to the present.
The Holy Spirit uses the symbols of the past to help us release the past.
And, I always think that's important because that the Holy Spirit brings us to where we are.
And even that, the illusion of the journey starts to just fade and there's so much joy,
that there's not the sense that having a resume of how you got back to Heaven. You know, that doesn't come with this.-
That's comforting. The Holy Spirit brings you to where you are.
It's like that given pool of love. It's there. It just is.
And it's waiting. At all times. There are no stages of having to do the work.
It's just been there all along. -
Yes, it's like, someone asked me one time, is forgiveness a process or an instant?
I said it's a process UNTIL it's an instant.
But, I would like to say right now that it IS an instant.
And, what that instant is, I think is what we're going to look very closely at.
Because while it seems to be a process, there still seems to be frustrations,
there still seems to be vacillations, there still seems to be the need for vigilance.
But, vigilance implies the need that you need to be vigilant against something. -
That doesn't exist? -
That doesn't exist.
And that's where the joy, the REAL joy comes in of Heaven.
Of just seeing that I am as God created me. And that Perfect Love IS all that there is.
The Course tells us that the opposite of love is fear, But what is ALL ENCOMPASSING CAN HAVE NO OPPOSITE.
And that's what heals.
That's what all the saints and the mystics have come to is just this absolute certainty that love is all that there is.
So, forgiveness is not first seeing the error of separation in yourself or in a brother and then trying to go through steps.
Some people tell me there's three steps to forgiveness, some say there's two.
But, forgiveness is a state of mind in which you see that there IS no error. -
There is no error. - Yes. -
That means that you let go of whatever you think has occured.
We're back to the idea in linear process still implies linear time.
The Course is teaching us that time is first of all, simultaneous.
It's just the miracles collapse time down and show us it's all happening simultaneously.
Which is the step to opening to, there IS no time.
That the Eternal Present, that the Eternity of God and the Kingdom of Heaven is all that there is.
So, as long as we're using concepts like linear time, process, you know, that's--
journey?-
journey. That's like a script or that's the story.
And what we're really starting to realize is it's possible to drop the story entirely. -
Yeah, That needs to be honored because that's the Instant.
That's the instant healing. That's the Holy Instant. -
That's very important to me. The story it's like parables are very important.
In the sense that when the mind gets so conditioned into specifics, that's all it can think in.
It can only think in linearity when it believes concretes and specifics and persons and places and things.
And, when we talk about healing, it's a lot of times it's assumed that people heal.
Where the bodies heal.
And I mean, even, or even that bodies live and bodies die.
But, if we want to really get at this, what we have to first start to see is that the mind is the one thing that's in need of healing.
And the body is something that really can't be endowed with the attributes of Holy Spirit or the ego.
Because, it's just neutral.
I use the example of like a pen or a pencil.
You know, of saying, "your pencil looks very well today."
Good tone or it looks very pale and sick.
It would be ridiculous to talk about a pencil as looking well or sick or ill.
And, it's just as ridiculous to talk about the body that way.
Because, it is completely neutral and that is how the Holy Spirit sees it.
But, we know from experience that the mind can seem to be upset.
Or it can seem to be healed and whole.
And, really what we are coming to see is that the Wholeness is what is True and Real.
And, illness, irritation, annoyance, whether it's psychological, or it SEEMS to be physical is of no matter, it's just impossible. -
Yeah, and we make that up if we choose.
I mean, that's not being an I AM.
That's not recognizing the Source. -
Even when we say we make it up or we authored the dream, we need to come back on that, too.
The ego made up the body, the ego made up the world, the ego made up the dream.
And, so we pull back to the I AM. And then, ahhhhhh, free. -
Then, there's no opposite. -
Yes, there's no opposite. -
And love -
We do play a lot with it. -
Yes, that's it. The we part, it's starting in the end to let go as you go into meditation and to let go of the WEs.
Because, that's a common thing and, really when we talk about, we've done this or we've done that, it's just describing the problem.
Where another way of saying is, declaring that I am an ego.
And, so when we come into the I AM presence and you know, the joy is there we open the mind to the stillness.
The, be still and know that I Am God. And that is just total clarity. -
Doesn't get any better. -
Oh, that's everything.
There's a vote for being still, and finding time and going within.