Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto nothing.
Is it not He Who knows the way to you? You need not know the way to Him. Your part is simply to allow all obstacles that you have interposed between the Son and God the Father to be quietly removed forever. God will do His part in joyful and immediate response. Ask and receive. But do not make demands, nor point the road to God by which He should appear to you. The way to reach Him is merely to let Him be. For in that way is your reality proclaimed as well.
And so today we do not choose the way in which we go to Him. But we do choose to let Him come. And with this choice we rest. And in our quiet hearts and open minds, His Love will blaze its pathway of itself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 189, W-pI.189.7:1-3;8:1-9:4. See also ACIM Lesson 189 Insights.)
The ego is the wish to usurp the Will of God and control its own domain. It is a control freak. It tries to tell us what we need to do to be happy and at peace. But the ego does not know what brings true happiness and peace.
To remember God’s gifts of joy and peace, we need to set aside the attempts of the ego to stay in control. We simply need to let go and let God. We have such a strong habit of trying to do everything by ourselves, separate from God, that it takes vigilance to set aside all thoughts of trying to do what it takes to remember our true Self. The ego is insulted by how little is required of it.
As we let go of our ideas for how to find the Love of God, we open the door to receive His Love. In that opening we accept the Love that has always been there, hidden only by the ego’s substitutes for Love. We no longer choose to accept substitutes. We want the real thing. We want the Light of Love to shine upon the world. We want to see the forgiven world that disregards the ego’s illusions and sees with the eyes of Christ.
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