Nothing and Everything

"The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions. Very few have realized what is actually entailed in picturing the past or in anticipating the future. The mind is actually blank when it does this, because it is not really thinking about anything... and while thoughtless ideas preoccupy your mind, the Truth is blocked. Recognizing that your mind has been merely blank, rather than believing that it is filled with real ideas, is the first step to opening the way to Vision." -- A Course in Miracles

"God breaks no barriers; neither did He make them. When you release them, they are gone." -- A Course in Miracles

"What is loosed on earth is loosed in Heaven." -- The Bible

I had an ex-husband who accused me of being extreme... to the point where he dubbed me 'extreme Mary.' And he was and is correct. I could never accept anything at face value, and questioned everything. I used to accept his judgment, that this predilection for questioning everything was a liability and a bad thing. After all, isn't moderation the key to health and happiness?

Nope. As it turns out, everything that the world accepts as true is really nothing at all. Thank God for questioning minds, that lead us to the shedding or molting phase of consciousness. Without this phase we would never remember Who We Are.

We have to question, to begin to see that it is all a world of ideas that add up to nothing, nada. When we think in this unquestioning manner, we are not thinking at all, but looking at a blank screen. Picture a group of hypnotized people, sitting in front of a big T.V. set with nothing on it. But each of them is projecting onto this screen a series of imaginary stories, and populating an imaginary world with them. Now let's say they snap out of their mesmerized state. They see there is nothing on the screen, and that they've been making it all up. Only then do they bother to question the whole shebang. This is where we are. The questioning phase of Awakening.

Vision is an authentic trait of Who We Really Are. But in our sleep, we have substituted our projected dreams of illusory war and peace for the Vision of Reality, of Divine Love and Truth and Peace and Joy. And so the long winter of the hibernation of the Son of God appears to go on and on and on... when in reality it never happened... it is nothing at all. What a hat trick!

The gift of Everything is our birthright... not by human birth, but by Being reflections of God, Sons of God. But the Vision of Everything isn't possible until we stop trying to make something out of nothing. This is the addiction we need to give up. This is our ticket Home, our ticket to Freedom. For never will nothing and Everything meet. Darkness appears to exist only until the Light is turned on. And where is the nothingness of the world we thought we knew, when the Allness of God is realized to be Everything?

"God created His Sons by extending His Thought, and retaining the extensions of His Thought in His Mind. All His Thoughts are thus perfectly united within themselves and with each other. The Holy Spirit enables you to perceive this Wholeness now. You cannot extend His Kingdom until you know of its Wholeness." -- A Course in Miracles