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The God-State
- The one thing that the human mind cannot readily conceive of is that God’s spirit resides in this body: that I am
a child of God, an heir of God, that the world is given to me, that all of the qualities of God are gifts to me, that the
mind of God is one with my mind, that the will of God is one with my will, that the love of God is one with my love, and that
everything else is just a story. Any other will, any other mind, any other feelings, beliefs and manifestations are just part
of the story of separation, lack and entrapment. It is truly unbelievable!
Even when you say or read these words, the mind cannot conceive of their reality. To believe
that I am a 1000 carat sparkling diamond of light is incredible.
To believe that God is not somewhere outside of us, that god is within, is incredible. Is this
body a temple of God? Is it true that in this son of God there is no disease, no lack, no poverty, no darkness? Is it true
that all of our stress, fear, pain, doubt and warlike qualities are strictly illusions, strictly part of the story that we
tell ourselves about this world and our place in it? Can you be aware of this for ten minutes? How about five?
Hear, then, your story in the dream you made, and ask yourself if it be not the
truth that you believe that it is not a dream. A dream of judgment came into the mind that God created perfect as Himself.
And in that dream was Heaven changed to hell, and God made enemy unto His Son. How can God’s Son awaken from the dream?
It is a dream of judgment. So must he judge not, and he will waken.
A Course in Miracles
The mission impossible is to be aware of who you are. To remember your infinite nature, even
1 % of the time, would be incredible. 10% of the time would be a revolution. If we are awake 16 hours a day, 10% would be
96 minutes a day, dedicated to remember our divinity. We watch more useless television than that per day. Can we even do it
even 9.6 minutes (1%) of one day? Who can remember for 9.6 minutes the truth and glory of God within? Jesus said "I and the
Father are one." What a glorious realization! Jesus seemed to be aware of that incredible fact in some of the most difficult
of circumstances and not just in a flash of prayer. He said that his own mind and consciousness is given to us and is growing
in us, but if we do not receive and acknowledge this growth, it will be shut out by the circumstantial story that crowds in
upon us from every direction in every waking moment.
Perhaps when we go into deep sleep at night, we enter that God-state, but can we reside in that
God-state during the day, for 9.6 continuous minutes (1%) much less 96 minutes
(10%)? Can we stay in that god-state long enough to realize that there is no disease, no poverty,
no loneliness, nothing to fear? Long enough to realize that divinity is our natural enlightened state of being? No one can
say "I and my Father are one" except the individual by the gift of the Spirit. No one can say it for you or about
you. You can only say it for and about yourself. That is why Jesus could not teach it to others. He had to come to that realization
and embody that awareness himself. To say that there is no evil and no lack, is a personal awareness that cannot be taught
or conferred upon another. Is God perfect? Are you one with God? Then you too are perfect, except for your beliefs otherwise.
Can you say unequivocally "I am separate from nothing; I lack nothing; I am trapped by nothing ? Aside from my story of self-deceit,
I am free, I am one with the god-state."
- I just now took 9.6 minutes dedicated entirely to the realization of oneness. At first there were words, thoughts, feelings,
images. Then there was a stretch or jump or letting go of thoughts, words, images and feelings. There was a vast silence ,
a vast light, a vast peace. Words kept crowding back in and I let them go, but they returned again and again. Words about
the god state are just a beginning, a springboard, from which I had to jump, a cliff from which I had to fall. I did not succeed
in attaining the god-state of awareness for my allotted 9.6 minutes. I did sense that Eternity was right there, that Infinity
was very close, but the word "Eternity" and the thought about "Infinity" were not enough. I just gave 1% of my day to an incredible
mission impossible! Could I stand 10% of god-state awareness? Could the god-state become something permanent that could be
simultaneously sustained while other things are going on? Could the God-state become the background music and awareness of
any self-created story that my mind is running in the foreground? Is that the way life can be? Today I will try to determine
if I can sustain any of this awareness while I am doing my usual routine.
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