All of us have talked about this idea of responsibility because the ego will take
the concept of responsibility and it will project it to the world.
You know I said, don't project the error to time, ego will take a concept like
responsibility and will project it to the world and there will always be guilt
when you take an idea, a concept like responsibility and you project it.
It doesn't matter whether it's
parental responsibilities or
spouse responsibilities or citizenship responsibilities or anything regards to
being a human being. Anything regards to a house, to a
neighborhood to a country, even to health of the body. Remember the body is just a
device that the Holy Spirit can use as a teaching device but it's not who we are.
And we're really not even to project health onto the body because it's a
neutral device to the Holy Spirit, no different than a leaf. No different
than a butterfly or a rock. Everything to the Holy Spirit is
completely neutral and the only value and the only purpose anything has is the
purpose which you give it. Nothing has any value, nothing has any inherent value
except the purpose that you give it. That's lesson number two from A Course
in Miracles workbook, "I have given everything I see all the meaning it has
for me". And the only way we can forgive and the only way we can let the
Holy Spirit's meaning be written on everything is to withdraw the meanings
the egoic meanings that we have projected onto everything and so that's
why this is not really a course in learning it's a course in unlearning
because it's a course in erasing every thing
every speck of meaning that was given to the world and letting it become an empty
slate. The first newsletter I ever put out was called Tabula Rasa and some of
you know tabula rasa is a blank slate but the blank slate is very important
because the Holy Spirit cannot really give you the forgiving world unless you
are willing to give the Holy Spirit the blank slate. The Holy Spirit cannot write
a new meaning on the world while an old meaning remains on the world. While the
past is stuck to the world in terms of associations then the new, clean, fresh
pristine vision of Christ cannot appear and the happy dream and the healed
perception of the Holy Spirit cannot even appear.
While there's an old meaning given to it. So now you know why it takes trust
because it's our having to accept you become as little children you
shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven really means except you become as
dependent as infants are on to their parents, that dependent on the Holy
Spirit for everything, you shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The Holy
Spirit is the gateway. And the Holy Spirit isn't a specific path in form, there
are many paths in form so we're not even meant to judge the path.
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