Mind Awake

"God creates only Mind Awake. He does not sleep, and His creations cannot share what He gives not, nor make conditions which He does not share with them." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 167, 8:1-2

"God is All-in-All. From this it follows that nothing possesses reality nor existence except the Divine Mind and His ideas. The Scriptures also declare that God is Spirit. Therefore in Spirit all is harmony, and there can be no discord; all is Life, and there is no death. Everything in God's universe expresses Him." -- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; Page 331, Lines 11-17

A Course in Miracles points out that in our everyday life, our dreaming minds are simply blank. What passes for life is really nothing at all. What passes for thinking is really a void. Only when we are reflecting God are we Mind Awake. "No one really sees anything. He sees only his thoughts projected outward. Your mind cannot grasp the present, which is the only time there is. 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." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 8, 1:2 & 5, 2:3-4

There is only One Mind, and that Mind is All. So the endless preoccupation with an illusory self... a home for a self, and work for a self, and food and clothing and transportation for a self, and companionship for a self, and a healthy body for a self... the endless litany of needs and wants that the ego, the illusory self, seeks... this cannot be at all. If God is All, then what appears to be unlike the All is simply a thought form, a projection, a very convincing mirage.

Tell me, what do magicians do to convince you of the reality of their illusions? They redirect your attention, misdirect and distract. Have you ever noticed that every time you glimpse the profound Truth that there is no world as we imagine it, your life gets very busy, or very involved, or that you get sick or have some drama, or simply feel very tired and your mind wants to shut down for a while and distract itself? Who is doing this? Who is the dreamer of your dream?

There is only one dreamer of your dream, and that is you. Just as there is only One Mind in Reality. You chose to dream instead of remain Awake in God. So now the choice must be made again, and yet again. "Choose this day whom you shall serve."

We are always and only Mind Awake. Dreams change nothing in reality. But how long would we suffer in dreaming? For the love of God, let's forgive ourselves and all our dreams, and return to our right Mind... Mind Awake and Aware of Truth, Love, Light, and Life eternal.

"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; Workbook Lesson 8, 3:2-3