Awakening from the Dream

"Life is, like Christ, "the same yesterday, and today, and forever." Organization and time have nothing to do with Life. You say, "I dreamed last night." What a mistake is that! The I is Spirit. God never slumbers, and His likeness never dreams. Mortals are the Adam dreamers. Sleep and apathy are phases of the dream that life, substance, and intelligence are material." -- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; page 249, lines 18-25

"Nothing can prevail against a Son of God who commends his spirit into the Hands of his Father. By doing this the mind awakens from its sleep and remembers its Creator. All sense of separation disappears." -- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 3, Section II, 5:1-3

"You are not really capable of being tired, but you are very capable of wearying yourself. The strain of constant judgment is virtually intolerable. It is curious that an ability so debilitating would be so deeply cherished. Yet if you wish to be the author of reality, you will insist on holding on to judgment." -- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 3, Section VI, 5:5-8

Awakening from the dream we call life is what this blog is always about. You may wonder how I can continue to write about this same topic, day after day. I wonder it, myself. And the only answer that always arises is, "Because more than anything, I want to know the Truth. More than anything, I want to Be as I Am. More than anything, I want to Awaken fully." You see, this blog is my daily reminder of Who I Really Am. And if it helps to remind you, too... wonderful!

Even if only for this brief space and time we remember and cease to judge the world according to man-made laws, we have shared a Holy Instant. Even if only for a moment we glimpse the grandeur that We Are, beyond the dream of material existence, then we have Awakened. The imagined ongoing and interminable dream of matter has no power, no substance, no real existence at all. All it takes is these Holy Instants of knowing. Awareness is Everything.

In Reality there is only Awareness or dreaming. There is nothing in between, and only One of these is True. Our Awareness of Being, Our True Self, is always and eternally effortlessly Present, with Clarity and Peace and Love as its hallmarks. The dream is like a self-reiterative computer virus that feeds on itself, and yields no clarity or awareness of being... only a sort of pseudo-life that sometimes feels like life, sometimes like death, but is always shifting and changing, morphing into new and sometimes interesting appearances that keep us immersed and preoccupied... but never will it be real.

As we dream we are material bodies subject to material laws, we dream ourselves tired and weary or temporarily energized and inspired. But it is always changing. Remember that "the Holy One of Israel never slumbers nor sleeps." We are not bodies... we are Spirit, created "in the image of" Infinite Life, Infinite Love, Infinite Truth, the only Infinite Substance. We are not capable of being tired or lost or confused or limited in any way. So who questions? Who cries? Who is tired and discouraged? And if that is not 'I', then Who Am I?

Self-inquiry is the only path to the Freedom of knowing Who We Really Are. Every moment of every day we need to know who we are being. Either we are being a dream of a self, or We Are Being as God created Us, in Reality. There is nothing in between. Awakening from the dream of the little, separated I is the only pursuit worthy of any of us.

"You are surrounded only by Him. What limits can there be on You Whom He encompasses?" -- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 18, Section VI, 10:6-7