Everyone has experienced what he would call a sense of being transported beyond himself. …It is a sense of actual escape from limitations. …it is a sudden unawareness of the body, and a joining of yourself and something else in which your mind enlarges to encompass it. …you have given up the illusion of a limited awareness, and lost your fear of union. …You have escaped from fear to peace, asking no questions of reality, but merely accepting it. You have accepted this instead of the body, and have let yourself be one with something beyond it, simply by not letting your mind be limited by it.
In these instants of release from physical restrictions, you experience much of what happens in the holy instant; the lifting of the barriers of time and space, the sudden experience of peace and joy, and, above all, the lack of awareness of the body, and of the questioning whether or not all this is possible.
Come to this place of refuge, where you can be yourself in peace. Not through destruction, not through a breaking out, but merely by a quiet melting in. For peace will join you there, simply because you have been willing to let go the limits you have placed upon love, and joined it where it is and where it led you, in answer to its gentle call to be at peace. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VI.11:1,3-4,7,10-11;13:6;14:5-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The only reason we do not experience being Love, in perfect peace and indescribable joy, is that we have chosen to believe in an identity of limitation. When we believe we are a body, we deny the truth of the Self that Love created. That Self is ever-present but unknown to us by our denial. This is why the Course asks us to affirm repeatedly for 20 days, “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.”
This affirmation is a denial of our denial of our true Self. It is reminding us that we are as unlimited as our Creator, timeless and infinite. We are free, right now, to be our Self. The practice of asking Holy Spirit to be our Interpreter of all our perceptions will teach us to free ourselves from our self-imposed limitations and remember that we are Love.
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