Having and Being

"In your own mind, though denied by the ego, is the declaration of your release. God has given you everything. This one fact means the ego does not exist, and this makes it profoundly afraid. In the ego's language, "to have" and "to be" are different, but they are identical to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit knows that you both have everything and are everything. Any distinction in this respect is meaningful only when the idea of "getting," which implies a lack, has already been accepted. That is why we make no distinction between having the Kingdom of God and being the Kingdom of God." -- A Course in Miracles

Being is the principle of creation. Even in this world, you cannot HAVE what you are not willing to BE. True creation, when we know our Self as One, is the radiant extension of Being. The Light of Being effortlessly shines and extends throughout its Allness. In the dream we call life, this principle shows up in varying forms and experiences, because we are asleep and have forgotten who we are. Our being seems conflicted and confused in this dreaming that we are separate, and so the dream will never be anything other than an ever-changing kaleidoscope of projections of our forgetting and confusion.

Jeshua ben Joseph taught very clearly that out of remembering comes the restoration of our Will to Be as God created us. And so he could change water into wine, multiply the loaves and fishes, heal the sick, raise the dead, and find money for taxes in a fish’s mouth. He could shed the Light of His unified Vision on any aspect of the dream, and it would effortlessly reveal the Truth and Life and Completeness of Being. The darkness and lack and confusion of the seeming nightmares were illuminated and shown to be nothing at all.

A Course in Miracles puts it this way: "No force except your own will is strong enough or worthy enough to guide you. In this you are as free as God, and must remain so forever. It has never really entered your mind to give up every idea you ever had that opposes this knowledge. You retain thousands of little scraps of fear that prevent the Holy One from entering. Consider how much vigilance you have been willing to exert to protect your ego, and how little to protect your right mind. Who but the insane would undertake to believe what is not true, and then protect this belief at the cost of Truth? If you cannot hear the Voice for God, it is because you do not choose to listen. That you do listen to the voice of your ego is demonstrated by your attitudes, your feelings, and your behavior. Yet this is what you want. This is what you are fighting to keep, and what you are vigilant to save."

The restoration of our will to HAVE and BE as God created us is the remembering of Self.

"Instead of "Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven" say, "Will ye first the Kingdom of Heaven," and you have said, "I know what I am and I accept my own inheritance." The Kingdom of Heaven is you." -- A Course in Miracles.