only the ego wants to awaken

This is the sad and brutal truth. And yet it is also the kindest.

It's a bitter pill to swallow and yet the greatest gift.

It is nearly impossible to understand and is probably the only thing worth understanding.

What it means is that you have done nothing wrong, which is great news, but also that you, the person who believes you have something to achieve, are not real—which is not such easy news to absorb.

This is the meaning of the Atonement. This is what "I need do nothing" means.

It is not surrender in the sense of 'I surrender because I secretly believe that this is the way to awaken, to make it, to achieve enlightenment.' It is surrender in the sense of realizing that all doing, all wanting, all trying to get away from the state in which you find yourself is utterly and completely unnecessary, because the whole thing, the whole thing, is fiction.

"Nothing employed for healing represents an effort to do anything at all. It is a recognition that you have no needs which mean that something must be done." T.28.I.3

Comments

[Aileen]

So true.... This is why I'm drawn to ACIM. Because instead of looking for awakening it simply points to the barriers that stand in the way of knowing who we are.

[Ron Marson]

Free of need, Love descends from no place to wear 10,000 coats of desire.

Egos want to awaken.
Brains want to know.
Matter wants to evolve.

Creation is held between existence and nonexistence, Love's two fingers. Only Love is Real. We've never left home.

[Harish]

I have just started reading the book Healing the Addictive mind and from just the first few pages I read, it is clear that once we base our happiness as absolute rather then relative then life does not have the fear or guilt. When we see happiness as our birth right and all our actions as choices.Thank you for recommending the book for me to read. Once my happiness becomes absolute then naturally I grant that gift to all other beings. For example now I do not see any conditions to my love for others eg my son is loveable irrespective of how well he does in his school or other external choices he makes in his life. That love will not be withdrawn for myself and him just because some choices he or I make need re choosing.
I truly think choice is a great way to be patient and loving to my behaviour and others.

Hope this makes sense from someone who has all his life felt guilt fear and regret. But now after granting myself and others absolute love and the right to make choices,
I feel a freedom and happiness.

Thank you