Clean Up Your Act

"Think of the freedom in the recognition that you are not bound by all the strange and twisted laws you have set up to save you. You really think that you would starve unless you have stacks of green paper strips and piles of metal discs. You really think a small round pellet or some fluid pushed into your veins through a sharpened needle will ward off disease and death. You really think you are alone unless another body is with you... There are no laws except the laws of God. This needs repeating over and over, until you realize it applies to everything..." -- A Course in Miracles

There is only One System, One Law, One Self… all other laws and systems are made up, like rules to a children’s game that is still always and only make-believe, with no real tears and no real joy or effects. Entertainment perhaps, but easily left behind to go home when your loved ones call.

Truth is absolute. There is no adjustment or compromise in what is all-encompassing. What IS remains what IS, eternally. What isn’t, never was, and can have no past or future effects or results. Period.

Thinking that imagined past or future stories based on imaginary laws have any effect or any ability to cause anything at all is simply the foolishness of a child thinking his life is over when the game doesn’t go his way. You’ll wake up tomorrow having forgotten all about it. Only the game you cling to can cause you imaginary suffering.

There is not one rule of cleanliness or health or behavior that has any cause or effect, not one rule of beauty or housekeeping or kindness that has any truth to it, because it is all based on the illusion of separate bodies and separate entities, all in imaginary competition. There is only One. And yet, you must clean up your act in the game, not because it is wrong not to, not to please someone else, not to avoid punishment or to appease the powers that seem to rule the world. But simply because you are demonstrating to yourself that whatever it is has absolutely no power over you. When you avoid doing something you are saying that it is to be feared, and therefore saying that it is SOMETHING. It is NOTHING. So walk through the fire. It cannot burn you. Clean up your act, whatever it is. Why not? What you fear to face you give power over you. Walk there. It is where the power to realize the Truth lies.

"I am under no laws but God's." -- A Course in Miracles