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 And if you recognize you need do nothing, you have withdrawn the body’s value from your mind.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 [separation] loses all attraction right now. For here [in recognizing you need do nothing] 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.
Yet there will always be this place of rest to which you can return. And you will be more aware of this quiet center of the storm than all its raging activity. 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 it so in your awareness of it.” (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VII.7-8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
There is a center of peace within us all that we can go to for refuge from the busyness of the world. Peace is perfect calmness, with no activity, nothing to do but be what we were created to be. This peace is always accessible to us because it is the nature of our true Self. To reach this state we must be willing, at least for an instant, to set aside the activity and seeming needs of the body.
When we connect with the quiet center of peace within, the demands of the body are temporarily set aside. From this place of peace we will be directed by the Holy Spirit in how to use the body to move toward recognition of our oneness instead of to reinforce guilt and separation. There is doing needed in the world to bring the Holy Spirit’s message of release from the limitations of the ego.
This direction for our doing in the world must come from the Holy Spirit in this center of peace. As we follow the Holy Spirit’s direction, we use the body sinlessly. It becomes an instrument of healing under His direction. Each time we step back and open to the center of peace within, we return to doing in the world with a new perspective. The more we practice this, the easier it is to not be taken in by the ego’s projections of fear and guilt. We become instruments of peace instead of conflict. Under Holy Spirit’s direction we become God’s messengers in the world.
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