A holy relationship is a means of saving time. One instant spent together with your brother restores the universe to both of you. You are prepared. Now you need but to remember you need do nothing. It would be far more profitable now merely to concentrate on this than to consider what you should do. When peace comes at last…, it always comes with just one happy realization; “I need do nothing.”
Time has been saved for you because you and your brother are together. This [holy relationship] is the special means this course is using to save you time. …“I need do nothing” is a statement of allegiance, a truly undivided loyalty. Believe it for just one instant, and you will accomplish more than is given to a century of contemplation, or of struggle against temptation.
To do anything involves the body. And if you recognize you need do nothing, you have withdrawn the body’s value from your mind. Here is the quick and open door through which you slip past centuries of effort, and escape from time. This is the way in which sin loses all attraction right now. For here is time denied, and past and future gone. Who needs do nothing has no need for time. To do nothing is to rest, and make a place within you where the activity of the body ceases to demand attention. Into this place the Holy Spirit comes, and there abides. He will remain when you forget, and the body’s activities return to occupy your conscious mind.
This quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain with you, giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing on which you are sent. For from this center will you be directed how to use the body sinlessly. It is this center, from which the body is absent, that will keep [the body sinless] in your awareness of it. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VII.5:2-7;6:3-4,7-8;7;8:3-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The ego is high maintenance. To maintain the illusion that the body and the world is real requires constant attention on the past and the future and ignoring the present. It is this ego “doing” that needs to be let go to allow the present instant into our awareness.
This is why the Course talks about “undoing.” We need to undo our dedication to time and separation to make way for the recognition of our eternal unity with every brother as the one Son of God and our Creator. The awareness of this unity is at the center of our Being. It is our true Self, which has never lost Its connection with Love’s oneness.
The unity of Love is welcomed in the holy relationship. Here separation is no longer valued. In this holy instant of recognition we find the peace and joy of our true Self, united with our brothers.
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