October 10, 2017
Our true Identity is shared. We share it with all creation. We share it with each other, without exception. When we take the hand of another – our brother, our sister – and reach beyond the appearance of our bodies to our shared Identity in Oneness. We reach to Heaven beyond our bodies but not outside ourselves. Our shared Identity is within us, but cannot be contained within the body. For our Identity is limitless. It knows no boundaries and extends in perfect peace and love to all creation. We know this deep within us in that place of knowing wisdom.
Everyone has experienced what they would call a sense of being transported beyond themselves. This feeling of liberation far exceeds the dream of freedom sometimes hoped for in special relationships. It is a sense of actual escape from limitations. If we will consider what this “transportation” really entails, we will realize that it is a sudden unawareness of the body, and a joining of ourselves and something else in which our mind enlarges to encompass it. It becomes part of us, as we unite with it. And both become whole, as neither is perceived as separate. What really happens is that we have given up the illusion of a limited awareness, and lost our fear of union. The love that instantly replaces it extends to what has freed us, and unites with it. And while this lasts we are not uncertain of our Identity, and would not limit It. We have escaped from fear to peace, asking no questions of reality, but merely accepting it. We have accepted this instead of the body, and have let ourselves be one with something beyond it, simply by not letting our mind be limited by it. T-18.VI.11:1-11
As we join with another we are transported in the holy instant to an awareness beyond the body. We transcend into an awareness of our limitless freedom that can know no bounds. We are no longer limited by our attachment to the past as we soar in perfect peace and love. Time, space, differences in size or any physical attribute have no impact whatsoever on this transformation for it is a transformation to reality. It is a transformation in our awareness of who we really are. Time is not relevant; it can occur with something past, present or anticipated. The “something” can be anything and anywhere; a sound, a sight, a thought, a memory, and even a general idea without specific reference. Yet in every case, we join the holy instant without reservation because we love it, and would be with it. And so we rush to meet it, letting our limits melt away, suspending all the “laws” our body obeys, gently setting them aside. We even set aside our “need” to question whether this is even possible.
It is possible because you want it. The sudden expansion of awareness that takes place with your desire for it is the irresistible appeal the holy instant holds. It calls to you to be yourself, within its safe embrace. There are the laws of limit lifted for you, to welcome you to openness of mind and freedom. Come to this place of refuge, where you can be yourself in peace. Not through destruction, not through a breaking out, but merely by a quiet melting in. For peace will join you there, simply because you have been willing to let go the limits you have placed upon love, and joined it where it is and where it led you, in answer to its gentle call to be at peace. T-18.VI.14:1-7
What more could we possibly want? Could we want more than bliss? All we need do is be willing to look beyond the appearance of the body – the symbol of separation and illusion – to the freedom that lies beyond where we accept the awareness of who we really are. Answer the call to be in perfect love and peace now. Allow yourself to be transported into the transcendence of the holy instant. Choose now to let this be so.
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