This world you seem to live in is not home to you. And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true. A memory of home keeps haunting you, as if there were a place that called you to return, although you do not recognize the voice, nor what it is the voice reminds you of. Yet still you feel an alien here, from somewhere all unknown.
We speak today for everyone who walks this world, for he is not at home. He goes uncertainly about in endless search, seeking in darkness what he cannot find; not recognizing what it is he seeks. A thousand homes he makes, yet none contents his restless mind. He does not understand he builds in vain. The home he seeks can not be made by him. There is no substitute for Heaven. All he ever made was hell.
When you are still an instant, when the world recedes from you, when valueless ideas cease to have value in your restless mind, then will you hear His Voice.
Be still an instant and go home with Him, and be at peace a while. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 182, W-pI.182.1:1-4;3;8:1;12:9. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)
The memory of our true Home is forever in our mind. It is the part of our mind that accepts the thoughts we share with God — our true Self. This Self has never left its Home. It shares the changelessness of God’s Love. This is Who we truly are.
But the world we experience is a dream made by the part of the mind that believes it is separate from our Source. This dream can never be our Home because it denies the reality of Love’s oneness. Yet the part of our mind that is our true Self calls to our heart to awaken from the dream. While we are engaged in the dream, this call is interpreted as a need to fill an emptiness, a sense of loss. But this need can never be satisfied in the dream. Searching within the dream always leaves us empty handed, searching for more.
To find the answer for this emptiness, we need to practice being still a moment and opening to the peace that is in us now, the peace of our true Self. Each time we pause and choose peace in place of conflict or loss, we open to receive the message of the inner Voice that calls to us unceasingly.
When we attend to this Voice, It will guide us to the memory of our true Home. It will teach us to recognize that the dream is not real and show us it can be replaced by the reality of Love’s oneness. Each time we step back and welcome peace, even for a moment, we take another step toward awakening and remembering our true Home.
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