July 27, 2021
Lesson 208 –
Review of Lesson 188
I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
(188) The peace of God is shining in me now.
I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me. And in that stillness we will find the peace of God. It is within my heart, which witnesses to God.
I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me. W-pI.208.1:1-7
As I begin to reflect on this review lesson I think, “What else is there to say?” Peace is shining in me now. Yes, I an at peace. I am experiencing the joy of Oneness. I am filled with and surrounded by love. I am whole and complete, limitless and holy. And so we all are; all of Creation. We are perfectly happy. Step into the stillness where there is rest and quiet.
Yet, it slips away from our awareness from time to time. The mistaken perception of our egoic thought system distracts us from what we know to be true about ourselves. But even when our mind is distracted by our egoic thought system, the knowledge of our true holiness and peacefulness is still within our heart and mind. Eckart Tolle teaches that the stillness is there in the spaces between the words. It’s always there. It’s between our thoughts, between our experiences, between the words we speak and listen to. We can listen for the silence between all the din of the world. It’s there if we will simply align with that space that seems so insignificant. That silence and stillness has great power if we will allow ourselves to see and hear it. It is a place of rest and quiet. We need not forcibly get rid of the noise, just set it aside for a moment and rest in God; Oneness. The following passage is from Lesson 188.
Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. It is the only thing you bring with you from the One Who is your Source. It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home. W-pI.188.1:1-8
The light of Oneness is within us. This light has always been within us. We did nothing more than place false barriers that have no substance whatsoever between our egoic mind and our One Mind. This beautiful glorious light is there for us to see in the stillness, the space between the words, the space between our thoughts. We can let go of the words, the noise, the thoughts that distract us and seem to drown out everything else. Set it all aside and listen to the Voice for Oneness, Spirit, in the space, in the stillness. There we find peace and love. There we find the awareness of our holiness and our wholeness. Allow yourself to see the light within and be the light. This is your truth. This is your destiny. Let it be so.
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