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Choosing the Way to Happiness

There are two teachers only, who point in different ways. And you will go along the way your chosen teacher leads. There are but two directions you can take, while time remains and choice is meaningful.

…why should you waste [time] going nowhere, when it can be used to reach a goal as high as learning can achieve? Think not the way to Heaven’s gate is difficult at all. Nothing you undertake with certain purpose and high resolve and happy confidence, holding your brother’s hand and keeping step to Heaven’s song, is difficult to do. But it is hard indeed to wander off, alone and miserable, down a road that leads to nothing and that has no purpose. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.V.1:7-9;2:3-6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

In every moment we are choosing either the ego or the Holy Spirit as our teacher. It seems easier to choose the ego. It is a long, established and familiar habit. There seems to be comfort in the familiar and the ego’s options are the first to come to mind.

But the Holy Spirit offers us the way to perfect happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed. The ego’s options never offer this, though sometimes it appears to offer fleeting instances that we deem good or desirable. Yet even in these happy moments that we know within are temporary, we are waiting for something undesirable that is sure to follow.

So in every moment we are choosing between unpredictable chaos and the certainty of God’s changeless Love, perfect happiness and eternal peace. It seems like choosing Holy Spirit’s lead is the obvious decision. But old habits that lead in the opposite direction need to be let go.

To do this we need to be vigilant to recognize when we are choosing the ego and turn the other way. It can be as simple as pausing, taking a deep breath and relaxing to make way for Holy Spirit’s inspiration. Sometimes it may take more focus to shift in the direction of Holy Spirit’s lead. But the payoff is perfect happiness. We are worth the effort.

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