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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
"THE DREAM AND THE REALITY"
VIII. "We Need Do Nothing" 

69 To do anything involves the body. And if you recognize you need do nothing, you have withdrawn the body's value from your mind. Here is the quick and open door through which you slip past centuries of effort and escape from time. This is the way in which sin loses all attraction right now. For here is time denied and past and future gone. Who need do nothing has no need for time. To do nothing is to rest and make a place within you where the activity of the body ceases to demand attention. Into this place the Holy Spirit comes and there abides. He will remain when you forget and the body's activities return to occupy your conscious mind.

            

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I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
     

[184] The name of God is my inheritance.   

  

God's name reminds me that I am His Son    
not slave to time, unbound by laws which rule
the world of sick illusions, free in God,  
forever and forever one with Him. 
  

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
    

       

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   With this review, we take but one idea

   each day, and practice it as often as

   is possible. Besides the time we give

   morning and evening, which should not be less

   than fifteen minutes, and the hourly

   remembrances we make throughout the day,

   use the idea as often as you can

   between them. Each of these ideas alone

   would be sufficient for salvation, if

   it is learned truly. Each would be enough

   to give release to you and to the world

   from every form of bondage, and invite

   the memory of God to come again.

 

   With this in mind, we start our practicing

   in which we carefully review the thoughts

   the Holy Spirit has bestowed on us

   in our last twenty lessons. Each contains

   the whole curriculum, if understood,

   practiced, accepted and applied to all

   the seeming happenings throughout the day.

   One is enough. But for that one there must

   be no exceptions made. And so we need

   to use them all, and let them blend as one

   as each contributes to the whole we learn.

 

   These practice lessons, like our last review,

   are centered round a central theme with which

   we start and end each lesson. It is this:

 

   "I am not a body. I am free.

    For I am still as God created me."

 

   The day begins and ends with this. And we

   repeat it every time the hour strikes,

   or we remember, in between, we have

   a function that transcends the world we see.

   Beyond this and a repetition of

   the special thought we practice for the day,

   no form of exercise is urged, except

   a deep relinquishing of everything

   that clutters up your mind, and makes it deaf

   to reason, sanity and simple truth.

 

   We will attempt to get beyond all words

   and special forms of practicing for this

   review. For we attempt this time to reach

   a quickened pace along a shorter path

   to the serenity and peace of God.

   We merely close our eyes, and then forget

   all that we thought we saw and understood.

   For thus is freedom given us from all

   we did not know and failed to understand.

 

   There is but one exception to this lack

   of structuring. Permit no idle thought

   to go unchallenged. If you notice one,

   deny its hold and hasten to assure

   your mind that this is not what it would have.

   Then gently let the thought which you denied

   be given up in sure and quick exchange

   for the idea we practice for the day.

 

   When you are tempted, hasten to proclaim

   your freedom from temptation, as you say:

 

   "This thought I do not want. I choose instead..."

 

   And then repeat the idea for the day,

   and let it take the place of what you thought.

   Beyond such special applications of

   each day's idea, we will add but few

   formal expressions for specific thoughts

   to aid your practicing. Instead we give

   these times of quiet to the Teacher Who

   instructs in quiet, speaks of peace, and gives

   our thoughts whatever meaning they may have.

 

   To Him I offer this review for you.

   I place you in His charge, and let Him teach

   you what to do and say and think each time

   you turn to Him. He will not fail to be

   available to you each time you call

   to Him to help you. Let us offer Him

   the whole review we now begin, and let

   us also not forget to Whom it has

   been given, as we practice, day by day,

   advancing toward the goal He set for us;

   allowing Him to teach us how to go,

   and trusting Him completely for the way

   each practice period can best become

   a loving gift of freedom to the world. 

     

  ~ Original Handscript ~ September 1, 1970

 

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Lesson 204
Review VI
[184] The Name of God is my inheritance. 

*Quotes in this article are from Foundation for Inner Peace edition; To locate the same quotes in the 'Original Edition', use this link:  http://www.jcim.net/acim_us/Acim.php 
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Sarah's Commentary:

The idea in the lesson today is that when we name things in the world we assume a space between things that does not exist in the unity is behind all forms, and unity is the only truth. Thus naming things in the world is further validation of the separation. The reality is that there is just oneness and we are all part of that one. "God's Name reminds me that I am His Son, not slave to time, unbound by laws which rule the world of sick illusions, free in God, forever and forever one with Him." (W.204.1.2)

This means that everything that God is I am: purely loving, non-judging, perfect, unchanging, exquisite, pure, unlimited, free, totally innocent, and any other attribute that is of God we can assume for ourselves. Of course to the ego, that all sounds very arrogant. Who do you think you are? Well, most of the time it seems that we think that we are this image that we made and which we try to change and improve because it does not feel innocent. Yet Jesus tells us that we are wrong.

Arrogance is of the ego, which argues with God and says "I am not what you, God, say I am; look at me, I am lowly, guilty, judging, special self, alone, doing the best I can in a challenging world," but the truth is that we are perfect, unlimited and not lacking in anything. That is not the reality of this bodily identity, but it is the truth about who we truly are as God's Son. Can we allow God His truth today and affirm it for ourselves? Can we accept that maybe we have made something of ourselves that we are not? When we awaken from this dream, we will know the truth about ourselves and everyone else. Can we acknowledge that maybe we have been wrong about everything and now be willing to learn what Jesus is teaching?

Our part is to bring to awareness our thoughts and be willing to let them go. The Holy Spirit will do the rest. Our journey of awakening to who we are is about denying the ego's denial of the truth. That is quite a statement. It simply means we chose to listen to the ego's story, which told us that we have messed up and therefore need to run from God's punishment. What this looks like is that we bought into the belief in sin, guilt and fear. It is the thought system Jesus describes as the first shield of oblivion from the truth of our reality. When that happened, the ego quickly created another shield of oblivion, which is the body and the world. We believe that we have been cast out from the Kingdom, on our own, separate from everyone else and struggling for whatever scraps of happiness we can find. Now we want to get for ourselves at the expense of everyone else.

At some point we heard the Call and agreed to look at the guilt we projected outside of ourselves. This started the healing that will take us back to our right minds where truth resides. By looking at our thoughts, with honesty, not denying our feelings of distress, we can now choose to let them go. By bringing them to awareness and looking at them without judgment from outside of this dream, from above the battleground, they are dissolved. When our thoughts are brought to Love and dissolved, the truth can shine through. When we express our upsets without attack and are honest about our fears, we are authentic. Jesus does not ask us to deny our emotions. On the contrary, he asks us to look at them and take responsibility for them. We are not what we seem to have made of ourselves. We are eternal spirits. The Name of God is truly our inheritance. We can't change this about ourselves. The Atonement principle is our guarantee. We have only lost our awareness of this truth.

We are not the product of our past. We are not a slave to time. We do not have to put off our awakening. It does not have to be a long road, if we truly desire to awaken from the dream. We do not have to buy into the laws of this world, which seem to dictate our well being. We are slave to them only because we have given power to the wrong mind. This came about when we made the choice to align with the ego, but it is a power that we can choose to withdraw. We are not bodies. We are free of the limitations placed on our minds. We are in the process of releasing our false beliefs and choosing to open our eyes to the truth of who we really are.

We start our day by reminding ourselves of the truth, withdrawing from the world in meditation, letting thoughts go by without attaching to them, and entering into the stillness where the truth abides. This is an experience of leaving the prison house of this world of illusion and going into the light of our being. It is here where the truth abides, and when we return we recognize, "There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before." (W.PI.155.1.1-5)

It is important to remember to start each day right with quiet time. Keep the thought for the day at the forefront and set the goal for peace, so that when there is any temptation to get upset about anything in the day, we can remember to ask for help to see it differently. Remember this world is a classroom to undo what we have come to believe we are, and, if that is the case, then everything that shows up in our day is a perfect learning opportunity for undoing the wrong mind.

Love and blessings, Sarah 

huemmert@shaw.ca

 

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A Course in Miracles   
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Chapter Eighteen

The Dream and the Reality

VIII. I Need Do Nothing                         

63 You still have too much faith in the body as a source of strength. What plans do you make that do not involve its comfort or protection or enjoyment in some way? This makes it an end and not a means in your interpretation, and this always means you still find sin attractive. No one accepts Atonement for himself who still accepts sin as his goal. You have thus not met your one responsibility. Atonement is not welcomed by those who prefer pain and destruction.

 

64 You have made much progress and are really trying to make still more, but there is one thing you have never done-not for one instant have you utterly forgotten the body. It has faded at times from your sight, but it has not yet completely disappeared. You are not asked to let this happen for more than an instant, yet it is in this instant that the miracle of Atonement happens. Afterwards, you will see the body again, but never quite the same. And every instant that you spend without awareness of it gives you a different view of it when you return.

 

65 At no single instant does the body exist at all. It is always remembered or anticipated, but never experienced just now. Only its past and future make it seem real. Time controls it entirely, for sin is never present. In any single instant, the attraction of guilt would be experienced as pain and nothing else and would be avoided. It has no attraction now. Its whole attraction is imaginary and therefore must be thought of in the past or in the future.

 

66 It is impossible to accept the holy instant without reservation unless just for an instant you are willing to see no past or future. You cannot prepare for it without placing it in the future. Release is given you the instant you desire it. Many have spent a lifetime in preparation and have indeed achieved their instants of success. This course does not attempt to teach more than they learned in time, but it does aim at saving time. You are attempting to follow a very long road to the goal you have accepted. It is extremely difficult to reach Atonement by fighting against sin. [Enormous effort is expended in the attempt to make holy what is hated and despised.] Nor is a lifetime of contemplation and long periods of meditation aimed at detachment from the body necessary. All such attempts will ultimately succeed because of their purpose. Yet the means are tedious and very time consuming, for all of them look to the future for release from a state of present unworthiness and inadequacy.

 

67 Your way will be different, not in purpose but in means. A holy relationship is a means of saving time. One instant spent together restores the universe to both of you. You are prepared. Now you need but to remember you need do nothing. It would be far more profitable now merely to concentrate on this than to consider what you should do. When peace comes at last to those who wrestle with temptation and fight against the giving in to sin; when the light comes at last into the mind given to contemplation; or when the goal is finally achieved by anyone, it always comes with just one happy realization: "I need do nothing."

 

68 Here is the ultimate release which everyone will one day find in his own way, at his own time. We do not need this time. Time has been saved for you because you are together. This is the special means this course is using to save you time. You are not making use of the course if you insist on using means which have served others well, neglecting what was made for you. Save time for me by only this one preparation and practice, doing nothing else. "I need do nothing" is a statement of allegiance, a truly undivided loyalty. Believe it for just one instant, and you will accomplish more than is given to a century of contemplation or of struggle against temptation.

 

69 To do anything involves the body. And if you recognize you need do nothing, you have withdrawn the body's value from your mind. Here is the quick and open door through which you slip past centuries of effort and escape from time. This is the way in which sin loses all attraction right now. For here is time denied and past and future gone. Who need do nothing has no need for time. To do nothing is to rest and make a place within you where the activity of the body ceases to demand attention. Into this place the Holy Spirit comes and there abides. He will remain when you forget and the body's activities return to occupy your conscious mind.

 

70 Yet there will always be this place of rest to which you can return. And you will be more aware of this quiet center of the storm than all its raging activity. This quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain with you, giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing on which you are sent. For from this center will you be directed how to use the body sinlessly. It is this center, from which the body is absent, that will keep it so in your awareness of it.

 

 

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