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"Living as human beings has cut us off from the Kingdom of God which is within us, and what we are doing in our periods of silence and quiet is maintaining a contact with this Withinness in which our entire Good is already established. The Kingdom of God is within us. It is within us in all its fullness, completeness, and perfection. This means that the fullness of life, its completeness and perfection, is already established within us from everlasting to everlasting. If we were to live a thousand year on earth, our completeness for that length of time is within us: fulfillment, infinite supply, infinite wisdom, infinite Grace; Infinity ItSelf." -- Joel Goldsmith, from Parenthesis in Eternity

"Let me remember I am One with God." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 124

How do we remember what is the antithesis of everything we have been taught and exposed to since being born into this world? How do we remember Who We Are, and find our true Home?

Every thought and every action within the world is aimed at demonstrating that we are limited beings fighting for dominion over other limited beings, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral. Even our interpretations of scripture are spun to justify this erroneous perception. All scripture everywhere is a map of consciousness, a road map Home. But we can't read the map when we think the map itself is the territory. Or when we are so intent on hearing and seeing through the interpretations that have been spun, that we can no longer hear or see at all.

How do we remember in the midst of this? How do we open our eyes and ears and come to Truth newborn and open? How can we directly experience Truth, not through study, not through interpretation, not through figuring it out, not someday, but now?

Some have said that long periods of meditation are necessary to still the mind. Others have said that forgiveness is the key. Still others insist that the study of Truth alone will bring the mind back into alignment with what Is. But if not one thing the world believes is true, then we must question even the spiritual beliefs. Because aren't they, too, saying that we are limited beings trying to work our way home? If I am One with God... not someday, not when I am quiet enough, not when my errors are corrected, but NOW... if I am One with the Allness of God, what more can be needed?

It has been said that a good teacher is one that quickly becomes unnecessary. Our spiritual beliefs and practices, though comforting and absolutely necessary at certain stages of unfoldment, become limitations if we see them as the point. The map is not the territory. The Kingdom is within you... not within a limited body or personality, not within some teaching or practice, but within your Awareness of Being. Returning Home is the acceptance of where Home IS. It is not 'out there', even in the most beautiful of experiences. Even in the most beautiful and comforting spiritual practices. Everything in the external dream is simply a projection of what is Known Within.

The Kingdom within is what every map of scripture or practice of Truth points to. The direct experience of Home is closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet. And all that is required to Be Home is to let go of all the stories and techniques and limits that you have mistaken for yourself.

"This is the miracle of creation; that it is One forever. Every miracle you offer to the Son of God is but the true perception of one aspect of the whole. Though every aspect is the whole, you cannot know this until your see that every aspect is the same, perceived in the same Light and therefore One. They are all the same; all beautiful and equal in their holiness. There is one miracle, as there is One Reality." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 13, Section VIII, 5:1-3, 6:1,3