I Already Am

"God asks for nothing, and His Son, like Him, need ask for nothing. For there is no lack in Him. An empty space, a little gap, would be a lack. And it is only there that he could want for something he has not." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 28, Section VII, 1:1-4

"You are prepared. Now you need but to remember you need do nothing. It would be far more profitable now merely to concentrate on this than to consider what you should do. When the goal is finally achieved by anyone, it always comes with just one happy realization; "I need do nothing." Here is the ultimate release which everyone will one day find in his own time, in his own way. You do not need this time. Save time for me by only this one preparation, and practice doing nothing else. "I need do nothing" is a statement of allegiance, a truly undivided loyalty. Believe it for one instant, and you will accomplish more than is given to a century of contemplation, or of struggle against temptation." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 18, Section VII, 5:4-6, 7, 6:1-2, 6-8

This is the razor's edge of Awakening to Self. Our entire existence as limited human bodies within the dream is a negation. It's based entirely on what we're NOT, with the illusion that we can or will become what we're not. It never happens. Though the plot twists and turns and people have success along with failure, the one sure thing is that we remain mortal, subject to sickness, struggle, suffering, and death... the rich and famous along with the poor and lost. And the most interesting part of this dream of negation is that we pretend that none of this is true, while secretly believing it is reality and fearing it. And none of it is true.

How can a negation be true? Even within the dream this is not possible. The very nature of a negative is that it is the reverse image of what it exposes. So it is not reality, but a reversal. This is why ACIM reminds us over and over that not one thing the world believes is true, and so we must reverse ourselves. And that even more to the point, there is no world. Like quantum physics, the Truth of Being exposes that what we pretend is solid and real is nothing more than a smokescreen, the dream of the person who is looking. As Mary Baker Eddy so clearly stated, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is Infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-All. Spirit is Immortal Truth; matter is mortal error." --Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; Page 468, Lines 9-12

Reality is solid and dependable, but not as we imagine it. It is the Ground of Being, the clear Light of Omnipresence. There is nowhere and no one and nothing that does not share this Omnipresent Being that is Reality. We have nothing to do to make this so... it already and always IS. Yet we cannot know this when we are intent on dreaming a negation. We struggle against phantoms and say that we want what we already are.

"Evil is a negation, because it is the absence of Truth. It is nothing, because it is the absence of Something. It is unreal, because it presupposes the absence of God, the Omnipotent and Omnipresent. Every mortal must learn that there is neither power nor reality in evil." -- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; Page 186, Lines 11-16

As long as we struggle with the negations that make up the world of the dream, we remain lost in the maze of forgetfulness. How can I remember Who I already AM, when I am intent on remembering and living what I imagine I am NOT? And here's where it gets tricky.

We already are the Son of God, collectively. We individually reflect this Light and Truth. Of ourselves, we literally are nothing. The imagined separate self is simply a negation of what is... it is a fiction. So when ACIM reminds us that we need do nothing, literally, it is speaking the absolute Truth. Who we think we are is not real. Our True Self doesn't need anything from our fictional self except the willingness to let it go by not feeding it, by not doing anything to perpetuate the fiction. The statement, "I already AM" is not spoken by the contracted awareness of the fictional personality. It is the statement of Awareness of Being, the expanded, inclusive awareness of Our True Self.

This is the razor's edge of Awakening, because we still appear to live and move and interact within the dream. We dream Awake, yet know that we do nothing. Jeshua ben Joseph spoke the literal Truth when he said, "I can of mine own self do nothing." -- The Bible; John 5:30

As we Awaken, we reflect the Truth even within the dream, not by anything we do or by any external changes in behavior or appearance of the fictional self, but by Being One with God and reflecting only this Awareness. There is no individual I, only the Allness of God as I AM. I ALREADY AM is the literal Truth.

"No miracle can ever be denied to those who know that they are One with God. Let me remember I am One with God, at One with all my Brothers and my Self, in everlasting Holiness and Peace." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 124, 6:1, 12:2