When peace comes at last to those who
wrestle with temptation and fight against the giving in to sin; when the light
comes at last into the mind given to contemplation; or when the goal is finally
achieved by anyone, it always comes with just one happy realization;
"I need do nothing" is a statement of allegiance, a
truly undivided loyalty. Believe it for just one instant, and you will
accomplish more than is given to a century of contemplation, or of struggle
against temptation.
To do anything involves the body. And if you recognize you need do nothing, you have withdrawn the body's value
from your mind. Here is the quick and open door through which you slip past
centuries of effort, and escape from time. This is the way in which sin loses
all attraction right now. For
here is time denied, and past and future gone. Who needs do nothing has no need for time. To do nothing is to rest, and make a place within you
where the activity of the body ceases to demand attention. Into this place the
Holy Spirit comes, and there abides. He will remain when you forget, and the
body's activities return to occupy your conscious mind.
This quiet center, in which you do
nothing,
will remain with you, giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing on which
you are sent. For from this center will you be directed how to use the body
sinlessly. It is this center, from which the body is absent, that will keep it
so in your awareness of it. ACiM - Text Chapter Eighteen
- The Passing of the Dream - Section 7 - I Need Do Nothing
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