March 22, 2016
Each of us is free. We are free of the limitations of our past. We are free to be the whole, complete, joyous, divine beings that we are created. We are free to be the happy learners in this world as we journey here. What is stopping any of us from being all we are? The answer to this is not so much the specifics of what we do, but the attitude with which we approach the way we think about this life and make decisions on our journey. It is possible to create a mindset – thought system – for ourselves that optimizes the conditions for learning. We needn’t do it alone. It’s difficult to do alone. However, Spirit will guide us to the optimum conditions for learning if we will allow ourselves to be guided. Our willingness is all that’s needed.
Once we release to Spirit our attachment to all we have learned, Spirit unlearns it for us. The ideas and beliefs we have learned are mostly rooted in our past experiences and so keep us living in the past rather than the present. Once we have released our attachment to the past from our minds, we can begin to learn the joyous lessons that come quickly on the firm foundation that truth is true. As we allow our minds to be open to reality and truth, the universe of learning opens up before us in all its gracious simplicity. The world we made up, rooted in our misperceptions about the past, is complicated and convoluted. The world within us – the Realm of Heaven – is rooted in reality which is the utmost in simplicity. Once we reawaken to the simplicity of who we really are, we will never look back.
Of the happy learner and freedom, the Couse tells us:
The happy learner meets the conditions of learning here, as they meet the conditions of knowledge in the Realm of our Source. All this lies in the Holy Spirit’s plan to free us from the past, and open up the way to freedom for us. For truth is true. What else could ever be, or ever was? This simple lesson holds the key to the dark door that we believe is locked forever. We made this door of nothing, and behind it is nothing. The key is only the light that shines away the shapes and forms and fears of nothing. Accept this key to freedom from the hands of the One Who gives it to us, that we may join the One in the holy task of bringing light. For, like our sisters and brothers, we do not realize the light has come and freed us from the sleep of darkness. T-14.II.7.1-9
Awaken to another in their freedom, and learn of them how to be free of darkness. The light within us wakens them and they, now awakened, will surely not leave us asleep. In the quietness of its simplicity, it is so compelling we will see it is impossible to deny its simple truth. With the joyous realization that we are One with all reality in Oneness, can we possibly sing the dirge of sorrow any more when our heart is singing the ancient song of joy that wells up within us? In this simple joy we cannot help but be the happy learner.
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