Keeping It Simple

"Miracles are seen in Light. The body's eyes do not perceive the Light. But I am not a body. What am I?" -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 91, 6:2-5

"What you think you are is a belief to be undone. But what you really are must be revealed to you. The belief you are a body calls for correction, being a mistake." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 91, 6:7-9

"We learn in the Scriptures, as in Divine Science, that God made all; that He is the universal Father and Mother of man; that God is Divine Love: therefore Divine Love is the Divine Principle of the Divine Idea named man; in other words, the spiritual Principle of spiritual man." -- Prose Works by Mary Baker Eddy; Page 186, Lines 13-17

Let's keep it simple. We are One with God, Who is our Source, and in Whose Mind we live and move and have our being. This means that we are pure Spirit. When Aware of our Oneness with God, our world mirrors the perfection of that union, even in the dream of a material existence. This is because we can easily see, in the Light of Awareness, that it is only a dream, and can be seen however we choose. But when suffering from the delusion of separateness, we are in darkness. There is no light in which to see the unreality of a material self, and so we see only projections of our own guilt and error. This includes all sickness, suffering, lack, loss, and death. There is no one else to see or not to see. We are it.

You see yourself as human, "a ridiculous parody on God's creation; weak, vicious, ugly, and sinful, miserable and beset with pain. Such is your version of yourself; a self divided into many warring parts, separate from God." (ACIM; Workbook 95, 2:1-2) It takes a lot of self-honesty to admit that this is simply a ploy; and at the heart of the ploy is the fear of the enormity of the Love that is Your Self.

In keeping it simple, there is only one thing to know: if we see ourselves as less than perfect and innocent and holy in any way, we are still afraid of the Truth. Through self-forgiveness we are able to gradually let these false ideas and projections of self go like the nothing that they are. And through our willingness to BE as God created us, we Remember.

So here is the crux of the matter. Are you willing to BE as God created you? Are you willing to stop repeating the lies that keep you endlessly a victim of your own story? Are you willing to Remember Who You Are? A Course in Miracles tells us: "Let all these errors go by recognizing them for what they are. They are attempts to keep you unaware that you are One Self, united with your Creator, at One with every aspect of creation, and unlimited in Power and in Peace. This is the Truth, and nothing else is true." (ACIM; Workbook 95, 10:1-3) Or as Mary Baker Eddy wrote: "Whatever appears to be law, but partakes not of the nature of God, is not law, but is what Jesus declared it, "a liar, and the father of it." God is the Law of Life, not of death; of health, not of sickness; of good, not of evil. It is this infinitude and oneness of Good that silences the supposition that evil is a claimant or a claim. The consciousness of Good has no consciousness or knowledge of evil; and evil is not a quality to be known or eliminated by Good." (Miscellaneous Writings; Page 259, Lines 3-11)

Keeping it simple, simply remember that you are as God created you. There are not two selves, the good you and your evil twin. You did not create yourself, and no amount of stories and manufactured identities will make your limited, material self-concepts real.

"Nothing is required of you to reach this goal except to lay all idols and self-images aside; go past the list of attributes, both good and bad, you have ascribed to yourself." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 94, 4:1

"I am as God created me." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 94