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
His teaching until it constitutes all your learning. He has not fulfilled His
teaching function until you have become such a consistent learner that you
learn only of Him. When this has happened, you will no longer need a teacher or
time in which to learn.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen -
The Holy Instant - Section 1 - The Two Uses of Time
The Holy Spirit teaches thus: There is no hell. Hell is only
what the ego has made of the present. The belief in hell is what prevents you
from understanding the present, because you are afraid of it. The Holy Spirit leads
as steadily to Heaven as the ego drives to hell. For the Holy Spirit, Who knows
only the present, uses it to undo the fear by which the ego would make the
present useless.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen - The Holy Instant - Section 1 - The Two
Uses of Time
The
Holy Spirit would undo all of this now.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen -
The Holy Instant - Section 1 - The Two Uses of Time
This lesson takes
no time.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen -
The Holy Instant - Section 1 - The Two Uses of Time
How long is an instant? It is as short for your brother as it is
for you. Practice giving this blessed instant of freedom to all who are
enslaved by time, and thus make time their friend for them.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen -
The Holy Instant - Section 1 - The Two Uses of Time
How long is an instant? As long as it takes to re-establish
perfect sanity, perfect peace and perfect love for everyone, for God and for
yourself.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen - The Holy Instant - Section 1 - The Two
Uses of Time
The Atonement is in time, but not for time. Being in you, it is eternal.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen - The Holy Instant - Section 2 - The End of Doubt
The holy instant has not yet happened to you. Yet it will, and
you will recognize it with perfect certainty.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen -
The Holy Instant - Section 2 - The End of Doubt
Start now to practice your little part in separating out the
holy instant. You will receive very specific instructions as you go along.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen - The Holy Instant - Section 2 - The End of Doubt
This
course is not beyond immediate learning, unless you believe that what God wills
takes time. And this means only that you would rather delay the recognition
that His Will is so. The holy instant is this instant and every instant.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen - The Holy Instant - Section 4 - Practicing the
Holy Instant
Your practice must therefore rest upon your willingness to let
all littleness go.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen - The Holy Instant
- Section 4 - Practicing the Holy Instant
The reason this course is simple is that truth is simple.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen - The Holy Instant - Section 4 - Practicing
the Holy Instant
The
necessary condition for the holy instant does not require that you have no
thoughts that are not pure. But it does require that you have none that you
would keep.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen - The Holy Instant - Section 4 - Practicing the
Holy Instant
To believe that special relationships,
with special love, can offer you
salvation is the belief that separation is salvation.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen -
The Holy Instant - Section 5 - The Holy Instant and Special Relationship
In the holy instant no one is special, for your personal needs intrude
on no one to make your brothers seem different. Without the values from the
past, you would see them all the same and like yourself.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen -
The Holy Instant - Section 5 - The Holy Instant and Special Relationship
GOD (G∞D, Good) knows you now.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen -
The Holy Instant - Section 5 - The Holy Instant and Special Relationship
The holy instant is truly the time of Christ.
ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen - The Holy Instant - Section 10 - The
Time of Rebirth
Your
question should not be, "How can I see my brother without the body?"
Ask only, "Do I really wish to see
him sinless? "And as you
ask, forget not that his sinlessness is your
escape from fear. Salvation is the Holy Spirit's goal. The means is
vision. For what the seeing look upon is
sinless. No one who loves can judge, and what he sees is free of
condemnation. And what he sees he did not make, for it was given him to see, as
was the vision that made his seeing possible.
ACiM - Text Chapter Twenty -
The Vision of Holiness - Section 7 - The Consistency of Means and End
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