Inner Clarity

"What God did not create does not exist. And everything that does exist, exists as He created it. The world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making, and it does not exist." -- A Course in Miracles

Inner clarity is always loving and always kind. When the chatter of the mind is still and all agendas are dropped even temporarily, the luminous clarity of Self arises effortlessly. The unreal stories and conversations fall away, and all the beliefs that held them in place are revealed as simply false. And there is endless peace and joy, without limit.

I invite us all to make this the focus of our lives. Why would we spend even one more day giving our time and attention to what is not true? Why would we give even another minute of our thought to telling lies and hurtful stories to ourselves and others? And the truth is, literally everything we have believed and talked about is untrue, and has nothing to do with reality.

In order to make this shift, some inner discipline is necessary. In Paul's Letter to the Ephesians in the Bible, we are told to, "Put off the old nature which belongs to former conversations, and put on the new nature, created after the image of God." In other words, we have to actually become aware of our own conversations, inner and outer, in order to give them to God.

In A Course in Miracles, Jeshua ben Joseph says it this way: "You would not excuse insane behavior on your part by saying you could not help it. Why should you condone insane thinking? The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. You are much too tolerant of mind wandering, and are passively condoning your mind's miscreations. The particular result does not matter, but the fundamental error does. The correction is always the same. Before you choose to do anything, ask me if your choice is in accord with mine. If you are sure that it is, there will be no fear. Fear is always a sign of strain, arising whenever what you want conflicts with what you do."

Inner clarity arises when we let go of our little illusory thoughts and imaginings and give our whole mind to the Holy Spirit, our true Self. Inner clarity is effortless. It is the constant worry of our own thoughts that is exhausting, because it takes lots and lots of effort to maintain the illusions we have created in the place of truth. And thus it takes the effort of choice to let them go. This is the discipline of inner vigilance that is required to remember Who We Really Are.

"The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating. It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. It appears at first glance that to believe such power about yourself is arrogant, but that is not the real reason you do not believe it. You prefer to believe that your thoughts cannot exert real influence because you are afraid of them. There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form (and thus illusions) at some level." -- A Course in Miracles