March 29, 2016
As long as we are living and experiencing this temporal world, we are deciding to identify with separation or Oneness. We are deciding to acknowledge our wholeness or deny our wholeness. At the root of each decision we make is the choice to be who we really are or deny and reject who we really are. This decision is the acceptance or rejection of our guiltlessness. Our choice determines whether or not we are happy. Guilt is the accumulation of all the feelings around our belief that we are sinful. It is the rejection of our sinlessness and the At-One-ment. There is no real lasting happiness in this denial and rejection.
Guiltlessness is freedom. It is freedom from the bonds of guilt. Any belief that we are separate, limited, incomplete or unwhole blocks our minds from the awareness of our wholeness and the guidance of Spirit. It blocks our minds from correct learning. The happy learner is free of guilt for the happy learner has accepted their guiltlessness through the At-One-ment. The Course tells us:
The happy learner cannot feel guilty about learning. This is so essential to learning that it should never be forgotten. The guiltless learner learns easily because his thoughts are free. Yet this entails the recognition that guilt is interference, not salvation, and serves no useful function at all. T-14.III.1.1-4
There is no compromise that we ca make with guilt. We either accept or deny our guiltlessness. Learning is living here in this temporal world, as creating is in heaven. Whenever the pain of guilt seems to attract us, remember that if we yield to it, we are deciding against our happiness and will not learn how to be happy. When the pain of guilt seems attractive, be gentle with yourself, and look within with the conviction of the Love and Peace within you and remind yourself:
What I believe I manifest in my experience.
I have nothing to fear as I am guiltless.
I choose to accept rather than deny the At-One-ment.
I accept my guiltlessness by making it manifest and sharing it.
I bring peace to all through my awareness and belief in my Oneness and my wholeness.
Each day, each hour and minute, even each second, you are deciding between the crucifixion and the resurrection; between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The ego is the choice for guilt; the Holy Spirit the choice for guiltlessness. The power of decision is all that is yours. What you can decide between is fixed, because there are no alternatives except truth and illusion. And there is no overlap between them, because they are opposites which cannot be reconciled and cannot both be true. You are guilty or guiltless, bound or free, unhappy or happy. T-14.III.4.1-6
It really is this simple. A simple choice. Our egoic thought system doesn’t want us to believe it’s that simple, for complication keeps us believing in separation. But once we release our attachment to the pain of guilt, we will find ourselves soaring free in happy learning. The ease of our happy learning will rise within us and flow in peace and love. We will learn to be happy with the little effort that willingness brings us. Say yes to the At-One-ment. Say yes to the acceptance of your guiltlessness. Make your decision for guiltlessness and be the happy learner you already are.
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