It would indeed be strange if you were asked to go beyond all symbols of the world, forgetting them forever; yet were asked to take a teaching function. You have need to use the symbols of the world a while. But be you not deceived by them as well. They do not stand for anything at all, and in your practicing it is this thought that will release you from them. They become but means by which you can communicate in ways the world can understand, but which you recognize is not the unity where true communication can be found.
Thus what you need are intervals each day in which the learning of the world becomes a transitory phase; a prison house from which you go into the sunlight and forget the darkness. Here you understand the Word, the Name which God has given you; the one Identity which all things share; the one acknowledgment of what is true. And then step back to darkness, not because you think it real, but only to proclaim its unreality in terms which still have meaning in the world that darkness rules. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 184, W-pI.184.9-10. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)
This section is reminding us how important it is to step back daily from all the busy doings of the world. If we want to be truly helpful, we will give time to moving past the clouds of separation to the unity of God’s Love and peace and happiness we all truly are. We give time to remembering we are still as God created us. God is but Love, and therefore the whole Sonship is only Love.
We give time to breathe the pure air of Love’s oneness… We give time to remember only Love is real… We take time to rise above the busy doings of the world to remember the peace that is our natural state…
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