“What has happened here is that words have been put on the feelings and remembrances that you have within your minds and hearts and have been sharing in this dialogue. The way of saying this perhaps is new, but the way of saying this is the expression of the human being receiving it. The way in which you are hearing and responding to these truths is perhaps new, but that way too is of the human being receiving it, in this case, you. (A Course of Love: Dialogues, p. 183)”
Affirmation: “May I come to understand the ‘new’.”
Reflections:
We have long depended on learning, on our minds, to live as comfortably as possible in this world. Day Twenty clarifies that we cannot learn the truth that way, the unknown cannot be taught. We know intuitively, and have always known intuitively, the truth of our being, the unknowns for which we have sought externally for solutions.
The first transition ends when we realize that we are in a state of transition, the state of knowing that we cannot learn anything, that we have always held internally the truths of which we are becoming aware. The more we turn inward, the more we will know these truths. Our minds are not the way; our hearts are. Thus we are at the true end of learning.
We are preparing here, at the halfway point of our Forty Days and Forty Nights, to return to level ground, to leave the mountain top. We will be different people when we have returned to level ground. We will know the beauty, truth, and wisdom of the one Self, the Self that we share with all our brothers and sisters.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
It seems to me that You are teaching me that I have always known intuitively what is just now becoming clear to me. How foolish I have been! I have put more faith in what others have told me than in what I knew internally.
Perhaps I needed to learn from others. But now You are teaching me to rely on the inner Word that You have place in my heart. May I rest in the comfort of this concept.
Amen.
ACIM Workbook Lesson for Day 113:
For morning and evening review:
I am one Self, united with my Creator.
Salvation comes from my one Self.
Mari Perron
/ April 27, 2010We are being moved continuously to acceptance of a new way of knowing and I offer these parts of this Day’s message to expand what Celia has provided to include expression.
“You are the expression of the unknown and the only means of the unknown becoming known.
In other words, all the truth and all the wisdom that is available but unknown to you, takes you to make it known. And if this is the only way that the beauty, truth, and wisdom of the One Self can be made known, then you are the source and the power of coming to know and making known.”
The unknown, Jesus says, is “the reception and expression of truth.” This is what changes with us as human beings — not the truth — but our way of receiving and expressing it. I feel this all the time, particularly with writing, because I can see so clearly how my reception and expression of the truth changes. I’ve been writing on the discoveries I’ve made through A Course of Love for years now, and just today, came upon something written in 2006. It was so different than my recent writing and yet it was a true expression of how it was affecting me at that time.
We each continue to grow and change and discover the new “newly” and it’s so heartening if we can take judgment out of it and see that our various understandings are never “wrong” or even partial so much as they are expressions of who we are as we transition day-to-day and year-to-year from who we were.
Mari
celiaelaine
/ April 27, 2010Dear Mari,
Thank you for sharing! It is reassuring to know that we will continue to expand and to grow, long after we have read “A Course of Love,” and, in the beginning, assimilated its meaning. Sometimes I reread the portion in which Jesus says that he does not intend for us to make the trek to the mountain top repeatedly. I know that many do. And he says that this too is alright.
I think that we are meant to realize, somewhere along the way, that we must just stop the incessant searching and to “be.” But this being is not a static thing, as you pointed out, above. We would not want Awakening if it were static, even if it was ecstasy.
Most fondly, Celia