July 26, 2016
Can you imagine what it is like to be in perfect peace? What would perfect bliss be like? Can we imagine being without a care in the world? Imagine no urgency, no anxiety, no angst. This Chapter begins with this thought:
Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties, but merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time? Yet that is what time is for; to learn just that and nothing more. God’s Teacher cannot be satisfied with their teaching until it constitutes all your learning. God’s Teacher has not fulfilled their teaching function until you have become such a consistent learner that you learn only of your Teacher. When this has happened, you will no longer need a teacher or time in which to learn. T-15.I.1.1-5
Time, though an illusion in eternity, has purpose in this world. Time is not real, for reality has no time, but it has purpose. That purpose is learning. Time can be used to learn separation, or it can be used to learn unity and joining.
Learning is our function in time. Time provides the framework that enables us to learn. We can use it to learn correctly or incorrectly. We have used time thus far to learn separation. We have used it in partnership with our egoic thought system to learn and reinforce the idea that we are separate from God and each other. We have used this method to convince ourselves that we have an identity that is completely independent from all the universe and all creation. We have learned this so well that we believe we are autonomous and control our own destiny, yet also believe we are victims in this world.
There is an alternative to this destiny. We can also learn to recognize who we really are. We can learn to recognize that we are One with God and all creation. We can learn that God’s Teacher can guide us to an awareness of a different reality – a reality that is real – that is peace and calm, that is free of cares, worries and anxieties. This is the reality we seek but do not know that It is already within us but hidden by our belief that we are separate – not as we really are. We expend great effort maintaining our egoic learning, for we are attached to that learning by our commitment to it. Yet I know each of us has had moments of bliss, of complete peace and calm where there seemed not to be a care in the world. Essentially our egoic thought system keeps us attached to the past and its outcomes. They are predictable. They are familiar even though they are not happy. Wouldn’t you rather have those moments of bliss and peace? Wouldn’t you rather have peace and calm and bliss be the constant state of your experience in this life?
Turn toward the Teacher God has placed within you. This Teacher is an integral part of you. It will guide you in unlearning the lessons you need to unlearn and will teach you the perfect lessons you need to learn in the form that you will learn best from. And if we don’t learn from the first lesson, another will be offered and even another until we learn the lesson we need to learn. Open your inner eyes. Allow this Teacher to guide you in your learning. What is holy and good will remain while what is not real or true will fade from your mind as you allow. Come, join with us in the holy instant. Peace and love are always with all of us. Allow the holy instant to arise in your mind. This is what you’ve been seeking.
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