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Learning to Live in the Eternal Present

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.

…time, according to ego’s] teaching, is nothing but a teaching device for compounding guilt until it becomes all-encompassing, demanding vengeance forever.

The Holy Spirit would undo all of this now. Fear is not of the present, but only of the past and future, which do not exist. There is no fear in the present when each instant stands clear and separated from the past, without its shadow reaching out into the future. Each instant is a clean, untarnished birth, in which the Son of God emerges from the past into the present. And the present extends forever. It is so beautiful and so clean and free of guilt that nothing but happiness is there. No darkness is remembered, and immortality and joy are now. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.I.1;7:7-8:7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The guilt we feel is always about something in the past we believe caused harm. The fear we feel is always about the future being a repeat of something that brought pain in the past. Both guilt and fear skip over the present. If we would allow ourselves to experience the present with no thought of the past, the experience would be total Love, joy beyond description and peace that cannot be disturbed.

Guilt and fear are based entirely on the illusion of time. The Holy Spirit teaches us that only the present exists. This lesson, wholly learned, will free us completely from fear and guilt and return us to the eternal presence of Love. In this presence, the ego cannot seem to exist, for it is wholly dependent on maintaining belief in the past and overlaying the present with its mask built upon the past. This is why we must learn the Holy Spirit’s lessons to help us let go of our allegiance to the ego. This lesson frees us to remember our Home in God’s Love, where we have no worries, no fear, but only the joy and peace of Heaven.

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