Recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety in all the separated ones. It represents a situation in which God and the ego “challenge” each other as to whose meaning is to be written in the empty space that meaninglessness provides. The ego rushes in frantically to establish its own ideas there, fearful that the void may otherwise be used to demonstrate its own impotence and unreality. And on this alone it is correct.
ACIM
Meaninglessness <> indescribably happy
INDESCRIBABLY HAPPY !!
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What is meaningless is neither good nor bad. Why, then, should a meaningless world upset you? If you could accept the world as meaningless and let the truth be written upon it for you, it would make you indescribably happy. But because it is meaningless, you are impelled to write upon it what you would have it be. It is this you see in it. It is this that is meaningless in truth. Beneath your words is written the Word of God. The truth upsets you now, but when your words have been erased, you will see His.
A Course in Miracles
ACIM
You’ll laugh anything ego throws GR
To forgive means to give ahead of time. In other words, your attitude is that you’re ready to forgive, no matter what it is that comes up in your awareness. At first, that seems like a tall order. Yet I promise you the day will come when you’ll be capable of laughing at anything the ego throws at you — just like J[esus] could, and just like we did eventually.
Gary Renard
The Disappearance
of the Universe
Different forces in univ pull at you GR
[… I]nstead of being a robot, you have a mind —and […] you can change it. It doesn’t matter if you have different forces of nature pulling at you, electromagnetic chi telling you what to do, gravity pulling you one way and dark energy pulling you the other way, and allowing the universe to expand at the same time —and a thousand other forces that all work together to cover up the mind during the dance of duality. No matter what appears to be happening, you can outmaneuver the ego simply by remembering there are really only two choices, then forgiving the contents of your own ego mind. You were being trained in the art of true forgiveness the second you started hearing these ideas —because from that moment on you were looking at the world differently. To emphasize an important point, you still believe you have a thousand different problems, but the Course knows you have only one problem —the seeming separation from God.
Gary Renard
The Disappearance
of the Universe
Less world successful = more spiritual success GR
It should be pointed out that people who are not as successful in the world have a tendency to get more out of the Course than highly successful people . Some of the people who appear to have it made in the world, and who are relatively satisfied with their lot in life, are actually falling into a trap. The ego sucks them into thinking the world is a good place.
Gary Renard
The Disappearance
of the Universe
Only forgiveness can change world GR
True forgiveness can change the world, for the world is merely a symbol of the collective or the one ego mind. To put it even more emphatically, forgiveness is the only thing that can really change the world, and that isn’t even the purpose of forgiveness! The real benefits of true forgiveness go to the forgiver.
Gary Renard
The Disappearance
of the Universe
Prayer must be directed within JSG
TO FURTHER CLARIFY: PRAYER
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To many, prayer means supplication and petition to a God in a place called heaven. That this prayer has resulted so universally in failure to attain its ends must prove that this is not prayer and that the God prayed to is not there listening. Human thought eventually realized the lack of an answer to such prayers and turned to a search for the true God and the right concept of prayer. This led to a revelation of truth as understood and practiced by Christ Jesus and many earlier revelators. Here we learn that “the kingdom of God is within you,” and therefore prayer must be directed within to that point in consciousness where the universal Life, God, becomes individualized as you or as me.
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way
The “Old (mortal) man” didn’t die: never there JSG
There is that part of us which has never sinned, never been sick, was never born, and will never die, and the activity of God is to reveal that man. To our sense, that may remove sin, disease, or lack, but that is only to our limited sense. It does not really do it any more than light removes darkness. What light does is to reveal the absence of darkness, the nonentity of darkness, the nonexistence of darkness.
So it is that what we call a human being, “the natural man,” has an existence only in the universal mind which is separate and apart from God. The whole of the human experience is an imaginary experience, a dream-experience, taking place in the universal mind which does not have its seat in God.
The proof of that is that in the moment that you can still that mind and open the door for the Spirit of God to come in, that man is not there any more. That man of sin, disease, and death is just as absent as is the darkness when light touches it.
We say that the “old man” has “died” and the “new man” has been “reborn,” but where did the “old man” go?
He did not go any place: he was not there to begin with!
Joel Solomon Goldsmith
Beyond Words & Thoughts:
Toward the Experience
God’s not gonna do, already in us
God’s gonna do this… God’s gonna do that… God is about to do a great thing in this generation… God will do…
Well, sorry a big part of the prophetic… I’ve heard this for almost 45 years, I still hear it all over and ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
YET, YET, YET GOD HAS DONE A WONDROUS, MARVELLOUS, MIRACULOUS, FAR OUT, OUT OF THIS WORLD, THING IN ME. I’M ONE WITH HIM, HE PUT HIMSELF IN FULLNESS IN ME AS MY SPIRIT, THE “I AM” IN ME AS ME, MAKING HIMSELF KNOWN TO ME, HIS CHILD DESTINED TO BE CHANGED IN HIS FATHER’S IMAGE, JUST AS HIS DAD FROM GLORY TO GLORY. THE KINGDOM IS IN ME AND IT’S LEAKING OUT.
What d’you say God’s gonna do?
God has limited His doings to the alignment of our consciousness to Him, His Son and Spirit.
Jesus has come back already as we let Him live His Life in, through and as us. I’m not saying that there won’t be some other kind of manifestation of His return. But we’ve gotta KNOW HIM and His return IN US with this intimate relationship that HE DESIRES ABOVE ALL THINGS, AS HIS BRIDE NOW AND HIS SONG OF SONGS.
This kinda consciousness won’t come from the outside in.
Sure this realm is gonna be transformed, but only from the inside of us out.
He’s changing MY WORLD from the inside out, it comes from REST IN THE FINISHED WORK.
Claude Noirjean
No more affirm-deny conditions JSG
There comes a time in our experience when spiritual inspiration reveals to individual consciousness a state of being free of mortal conditions and beliefs. Then we no longer live a life of mental affirmations and denials, but rather receive constant unfoldments of truth from Consciousness. Sometimes this comes through no other channel than our own thought.
Joel S. Goldsmith