Our Perfect Holiness

"This is the way salvation works. As you step back, the Light in you steps forward and encompasses the world. The past is gone, with all its fantasies. They keep you bound no longer. And in the little interval of doubt that still remains, you may perhaps lose sight of your Companion, and mistake Him for the senseless, ancient dream that now is past. "Who walks with me?" This question should be asked a thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and established peace." -- A Course in Miracles

"I walk with God in perfect holiness. I light the world, I light my mind and all minds which God created One with me." -- A Course in Miracles

"Let this Mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." -- The Bible, Philippians 21:5

We are so mesmerized by the shifting, changing kaleidoscope of our lives that we have forgotten our own Perfection. Our stories are all so fascinating and so they must somehow be important and meaningful. Isn't this what gives life meaning? And so counsels the not-so-subtle voice of the ego, the part of us that longs for autonomy and specialness. We want to be complete, safe, cared for, and affirmed just as we are in all our dysfunctional ego grandiosity. We even call it love. But calling a skunk a rose doesn't make it so. As Jeshua ben Joseph told us, "Ye shall know them by their fruits." We can recognize the unreal by the way its logic stinks.

Let's start from what we DO know to be true. Even from a quantum physics perspective, there is only ONE, which in popular jargon is called Einstein's Field. And out of the ONE, consciousness arises... or does it? First it's a wave, now it's a particle, then... oops, now you see it, now you don't. Not one thing, not one person (including this one!) has any objective reality. All that appears to be is merely a projection of the observer who is imagining him or her self to be separate and creating other imaginary thought forms. End of scientific story.

So what we do know to be true is that there is One Self. The rest of it is all made up, all story, all dreaming. Our Perfection lies in remembering our True Self, and allowing It to run the show. Then we all wake up and live happily ever after. Only this time it is not a fairy tale... it is the Truth of Our Being.

"Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of Love and Peace shall be with you." -- The Bible, II Corinthians 13:11

"There is a Light in you which cannot die; whose presence is so Holy that the world is sanctified because of you. All things that live bring gifts to you, and offer them in gratitude and gladness at your feet. The scent of flowers is their gift to you. The waves bow down before you, and the trees extend their arms to shield you from the heat, and lay their leaves before you on the ground that you may walk in softness, while the wind sinks to a whisper round your holy head." -- A Course in Miracles