Remembering

"As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man, Father and Son, are One in Being. The Scripture reads: "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being." -- Mary Baker Eddy

"Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. Light is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source." -- A Course in Miracles

Remembering Who we really are and where we really come from is called Enlightenment in all spiritual traditions. The forgetting and subsequent suffering, our imagined separation from Self is the unpredictable and painful process we call life. In fact it doesn't resemble our true Life at all.

If we all come from and so are One with God, as a drop of water is one with the ocean, then we can never be separate from those qualities that define our true Being. Oneness, Allness, Light, Endless Love and Joy without interruption, Infinite Life and Being that is all-encompassing. We can go unconscious and dream that we are 'other'... but never can we make it so in reality. Waking and remembering our Being as One is as certain as God.

ACIM reminds us, "This Light can not be lost. Why wait to find it in the future, or believe it has been lost already, or was never there? It can so easily be looked upon... It is not difficult to look within, for there all Vision starts. There is no sight, be it of dreams of from a truer Source, that is not but the shadow of the seen through inward vision. There perception starts, and there it ends. It has no source but this."

Enlightenment is allowing the Light of God to illumine and unify our inner Vision. We see only the Truth in All, Omnipresent and Radiant. When we attempt to see without this Light, we dream an endless dream where Truth is relegated to shadows, and the illusory world becomes a hiding place for the Sons of God. This is why the prayer, "Let there be Light," is such a true and powerful prayer.

Let there be Light. Let there be remembering throughout the dream that we call life. Let there be Light.

"What would you see? The choice is given you." -- A Course in Miracles