Only within the holy instant can an honest question honestly be asked. And from the meaning of the question does the meaningfulness of the answer come. Here is it possible to separate your wishes from the answer, so it can be given you and also be received. The answer is provided everywhere. Yet it is only here it can be heard. An honest answer asks no sacrifice because it answers questions truly asked. The questions of the world but ask of whom is sacrifice demanded, asking not if sacrifice is meaningful at all. And so, unless the answer tells “of whom,” it will remain unrecognized, unheard, and thus the question is preserved intact because it gave the answer to itself. The holy instant is the interval in which the mind is still enough to hear an answer that is not entailed within the question asked. It offers something new and different from the question. How could it be answered if it but repeats itself?
Therefore, attempt to solve no problems in a world from which the answer has been barred. But bring the problem to the only place that holds the answer lovingly for you. Here are the answers that will solve your problems because they stand apart from them, and see what can be answered; what the question is. Within the world the answers merely raise another question, though they leave the first unanswered. In the holy instant, you can bring the question to the answer, and receive the answer that was made for you. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.IV.6-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The holy instant could be called an instant out of time, free of the past and future. The baggage of past memories clouds our awareness of the eternal now, which is all that is real. The world we experience is the domain of time where the past is valued for its “lessons” to use as the basis of our judgments. It is these judgments which color our questions with memories of the past. These questions are not honest because they are based on the lie that the past is real.
In the purity of the holy instant our minds are not closed by our judgments. We are open to a way of seeing that cannot be found in the world. Now we are free to seek an answer to the real problem which is a mistaken perception of separation. In the holy instant only oneness exists. In the peace of oneness we can receive an answer that heals the division we believed was real.
We open to the holy instant through connecting with the peace within, our true Self. Here is the Answer. Here is the Truth, for peace and understanding go together and never can be found alone.
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