November 25, 2014
As I read this introduction again, my heart swells so as my mind becomes immediately in tune with my true Self. Nothing beyond us can make us anything other than who we really are. Fear and love cannot come from outside of us because there is no “outside of us.” Fear and love are both within our mind, and because they conflict, we cannot experience both at once. We choose what we experience. Time and eternity are similarly conflicting. They will continue to conflict until we realize the sole purpose of time as a means to regain eternity. We cannot make this realization as long as we believe that things happening to us are caused by factors outside of us. We must learn that time is solely at our disposal to use for its designated purpose, and nothing in this world can take this responsibility away from us. We are responsible for the world we perceive.
The One created nothing but us and nothing but us exists, for we are part of the One. Nothing beyond the One can happen because nothing beyond the One exists. Our creations add to the One as we do, but nothing is added that is outside the One because everything has always been and is always One. The One created us eternal, so time is meaningless to our true creation. Our holy mind establishes everything that happens to us. Every response we make to everything we perceive is up to us, because our mind determines our perception of it. We are responsible for our perception. The One is certain of who we are and is certain we are whole and as the One created us. Nothing from outside the One can reach us because being in the One, we encompass everything. If any perception threatens our peace of mind ask, “Has the One changed Its mind about me?” Accept the decision of the One is changeless, for deciding against us would be the One deciding against Itself.
At times we may feel banished from peace and love, even from our home. The One is our home. We are actually at home in the One dreaming of exile, but perfectly capable of awakening to reality. What prevents us from awakening to reality? We understand from our own experience that what we see in our dreams seems very real while we are asleep. Yet the instant we wake up we realize everything that seemed to happen in the dream didn’t happen at all. It may even have appeared to have an effect on our body. Perhaps it is possible we have shifted from one dream to another without really waking. We don’t bother reconciling what happened in conflicting dreams, so why do we insist on reconciling the waking dream with reality? There is no reconciliation for the waking dream is not real. Listen, then, for the Voice of Spirit, holding the memory of our true essence. What we have been is so now. And so when we remember, we will know that what we remember is eternal and therefore is now. We are wholly responsible for our perception and choosing to remember. Return to the remembrance of the awareness of the eternity of being the One and step into the Heaven we never left. We are at home in the One.
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