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Word Gems
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A Course In Miracles
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You who are part of God are not at home except in His peace... you are at home only in eternity
Time is under my direction, but timelessness belongs to God. In time we exist for and with each other. In timelessness we coexist with God.
Time is a belief of the ego, [and] so the lower mind, which is the ego's domain, accepts it without question. The only aspect of time that is eternal in now.
The purpose of time is solely to "give you time" to achieve [right-mindedness]
... a [mental] state of [miracle-]readiness [is no] more than a potential for a change of mind... You may think this implies that an enormous amount of time is necessary between readiness and mastery, but let me remind you that time and space are under my control.
Editor’s note: This is a very important comment by Jesus. He asserts that "you are afraid of what your spiritual sight will show you," meaning, people believe they will find out that they’re a bad person if they “go within.” And even when they begin this introspective path, they fear it will take a very long time to clean up all of problems inside. What I’ve just said constitutes the essential argument made by those who insist that reincarnation is necessary to spiritual evolvement: “I’m so flawed that it will take much time, a thousand life-times, to turn myself into a good person.” But this is not true, at all. As the Course says, "Time is a belief of the ego." Time has nothing to do with coming to awareness of the inner riches. When it happens, it happens for the “miracle-ready” mind in one hot moment of cosmic clarity: "I was blind, but suddenly I see." This is Jesus’ whole point when he says not to worry about huffing-and-puffing our way through endless ages of self-development: “time and space are under my control.” See the “Reincarnation” page for much discussion on this essential error of “R.”
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