…the essential thing is learning that you do not know. Knowledge is power, and all power is of God. You who have tried to keep power for yourself have “lost” it. You still have the power, but you have interposed so much between it and your awareness of it that you cannot use it. Everything you have taught yourself has made your power more and more obscure to you. …Yet all that stands between you and the power of God in you is but your learning of the false, and of your attempts to undo the true.
Never believe that any lesson you have learned apart from Him means anything. T-14.XI.5. You have one test, as sure as God, by which to recognize if what you learned is true. If you are wholly free of fear of any kind, and if all those who meet or even think of you share in your perfect peace, then you can be sure that you have learned God’s lesson, and not your own.
…say to yourself:
I do not know what anything, including this, means. And so I do not know how to respond to it. And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now.
By this refusal to attempt to teach yourself what you do not know, the Guide Whom God has given you will speak to you. He will take His rightful place in your awareness the instant you abandon it, and offer it to Him. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.XI.1:1-5,9;4:9-5:2;6:7-11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
If our peace is disturbed in the slightest, we are using the ego’s lessons from the past as the basis for the meaning we are giving to our perception. A sigh of frustration, a feeling of sadness or loneliness, a wish that a present circumstance be different, a feeling of guilt for something done or not done in the past, all the way to intense rage or terror, are all the same attempt to apply past learning to the present. This is how the ego thought system is maintained to hide the perfect peace that is our natural condition as God’s Son.
All signs of lack of peace are an opportunity to release them; a lesson God would have us learn. We need only be willing to turn them over to the Holy Spirit. When we willingly release our thoughts to Him, He replaces them with the vision that shows us the perfect Love and peace that are always present behind the false meanings the ego offers.
Our job is only to be willing to release our own meanings to the Holy Spirit to be undone. In that moment of willingness, we welcome the peace of God. We accept the Light of Love into our mind and the ego’s dark thoughts are shined away. We return to the peace of our holy mind.
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