January 17, 2017
Do we really know ourselves? Do we really understand ourselves? We have learned much about who we really are. But, do we believe what we have learned about who we are? We have learned that we are both teachers and students. Just as giving and receiving are the same, so are teaching and learning the same. We have learned that Spirit uses everything for good, that each perception we have can be looked at differently when our perception is reinterpreted for us by Spirit. We have learned that all things, all experiences, may be repurposed as learning experiences when we allow Spirit’s guidance into our minds.
We all teach, and teach all the time. We may have taught well, and yet we may not have learned how to accept the comfort of what we taught. If we will consider what we have taught, and how alien it is to what we thought we knew, we will be compelled to realize that our Teacher came from beyond our own egoic thought system. Therefore, our Teacher could look upon what we taught fairly, and perceive it was untrue. Our Teacher must have done so from the basis of a very different thought system from ours, and one with nothing in common with ours. For what our Teacher has taught, and what we have taught through our Teacher, have nothing in common with what we thought we taught before. And the results have been to bring peace where there was pain, and suffering has disappeared to be replaced by joy. We have, within us, the truth of who we are even when we deny it or don’t recognize it. The fact that we have not learned what we have taught shows us that we do not perceive all of Creation as one. It also shows us that we do not regard ourselves as one.
The Course explains it this way:
This is a course in how to know yourself. You have taught what you are, but have not let what you are teach you. You have been very careful to avoid the obvious, and not to see the real cause and effect relationship that is perfectly apparent. Yet within you is everything you taught. What can it be that has not learned it? It must be this part that is really outside yourself, not by your own projection, but in truth. And it is this part that you have taken in that is not you. What you accept into your mind does not really change it. Illusions are but beliefs in what is not there. And the seeming conflict between truth and illusion can only be resolved by separating yourself from the illusion and not from truth. T-16.III.4:1-10
We have taught what we are, but have refused to see and believe the obvious about what we are. We have denied our own higher teaching. How insane is that? We choose to deny the one thing about us that is true – our Holiness in Oneness.
Your teaching has already done this [separating yourself from the illusion and not from truth], for the Holy Spirit is part of you. Created by the One, Spirit left neither the One nor the One’s creation. The Holy Spirit is both the One and you, as you are the One and the Holy Spirit together. For the One’s Answer to the separation added more to you than you tried to take away. The One’s Answer – Spirit – protected both your creations and you together, keeping one with you what you would exclude. And they will take the place of what you took in to replace them. They are quite real, as part of the Self you do not know. They communicate to you through the Holy Spirit, and their power and gratitude to you for their creation they offer gladly to your teaching of yourself, who is their home. You who are host to the One are also host to them. For nothing real has ever left the mind of its creator. And what is not real was never there. T-16.III.5:1-11
It is time for us to accept our own real Teaching, that which we have been teaching all along. We have hidden the peace, love and joy of that teaching from our consciousness for so long. Accept your own teaching and rest in the reward of that teaching.
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