²A holy relationship is a means of saving time. ³One instant spent together with your brother restores the universe to both of you.
³Time has been saved for you because you and your brother are together. ⁴This is the special means this course is using to save you time.
To do anything involves the body. ²And if you recognize you need do nothing, you have withdrawn the body’s value from your mind. ³Here is the quick and open door through which you slip past centuries of effort, and escape from time. ⁴This is the way in which sin loses all attraction right now. ⁵For here is time denied, and past and future gone. ⁶Who needs do nothing has no need for time. ⁷To do nothing is to rest, and make a place within you where the activity of the body ceases to demand attention. ⁸Into this place the Holy Spirit comes, and there abides. ⁹He 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. ²And you will be more aware of this quiet center of the storm than all its raging activity. ³This 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. ⁴For from this center will you be directed how to use the body sinlessly. ⁵It is this center, from which the body is absent, that will keep [the body sinless] in your awareness of it. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VII.5:2-3;6:3-4;7:1–8:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The most repeated statement in the Workbook is, “I am not a body.” It is repeated so often because it counters the investment we have made in the body as our identity. The change this recognition induces opens us to become consciously aware of our true Self, which dwells eternally in the Mind of Love. As we detach our identification with the body, we let go of the limitations it imposes. The body is the chief illusion the ego uses to make separation seem real.
Bodies were made to be unable to be aware of Love’s oneness. The body’s senses can only sense separation. Our true Self remains unlimited by time, space and the body. Without our identification with the body, we are free to experience our eternal union with every brother and with God in the universe of Love.
There is nothing we need do to be what God created us to be. But while we maintain identification with the body, we do need to practice letting go of its limitations. The holy relationship, which we can experience in the holy instant when the body’s limitations have been set aside restores our awareness of our true Identity.
We set aside limitations through forgiveness. What we perceive in other bodies, what they seem to mean, is a reflection of what we believe about ourselves. Each time we let the Holy Spirit show us that beyond this appearance is Love and nothing else, we loosen our identification with the body.
We dedicate today to frequently pausing to go to the quiet place of rest within and let the Holy Spirit reveal Love’s presence everywhere, in everyone.
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