Welcome to Active Meditation,
The Course in Miracles.
Lesson 164.
Now are we one with Him who is our Source.
Time but now can truth be recognized.
The present is the only time there is.
So today,
This instant,
Now,
We come to look upon what is forever there.
Not in our sight,
But in the eyes of Christ.
Christ looks past time and sees eternity as represented there.
Christ hears the sounds the senseless busy world engenders.
Yet He hears them faintly.
For beyond them all,
He hears the song of heaven.
He hears the voice for God.
More clear,
More meaningful,
More near.
The world fades easily away before His sight.
Its sounds grow dim.
A melody from far beyond the world increasingly is more and more distinct.
An ancient call to which Christ gives an ancient answer.
You will recognize them both,
Both the call and the answer.
For they are your answer to your Father's call to you.
Christ answers for you,
Echoing your higher self.
Christ uses your voice to give His glad consent,
Accepting your deliverance for you.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
Now are we one with Him who is our Source.
Repeat after me,
Now I am one,
My Source,
With my Source.
How holy is your practicing today as Christ gives you His sight and hears for you and answers in your name the call He hears.
How quiet is the time you give to spend with Him beyond the world.
How easily are all your seeming sins forgotten.
How easily are all your sorrows unremembered.
On this day is grief laid aside.
Your sights and sounds that come from nearer than the world are clear to you,
Who will today accept the gifts Christ gives.
There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude.
There is an ancient peace that you carry in your heart and have not lost.
There is a sense of holiness in you that the thought of sin has never touched.
All this today you will remember.
Faithfulness in practicing today will bring rewards so great,
So completely different from all the things you sought before,
That you will know that here your treasure is.
You will know here is your rest.
This is the day when vain imaginings part like a curtain to reveal what lies beyond them.
Now what is really there is made visible.
Now all the shadows which appeared to hide it merely sink away.
Now is the balance righted.
Now is the scale of judgment left to Christ,
Who judges true.
In His judgment will a world unfold in perfect innocence before your eyes.
Will you see it with the eyes of Christ?
Now is its transformation clear to you.
Brothers and sisters,
This day is sacred to the world.
Your vision given you from far beyond all things within the world looks back on these things in a new light.
What you see becomes the healing and salvation of the world.
The valuable and valueless are both perceived,
Both are recognized for what they are.
What is worthy of your love receives your love,
While nothing to be feared remains.
We will not judge today.
Instead,
We will receive what is given us from judgment made beyond the world.
Repeat to yourself after me.
Now I am one with my Source.
Our practicing today becomes our gift of thankfulness for our release from blindness and from misery.
All that we see will increase our joy because its holiness reflects our own holiness.
We stand forgiven in the sight of Christ,
With all the world forgiven in our own.
We bless the world as we behold it in the light in which our Savior looks on us.
We offer the world the freedom given us through the forgiving vision of Christ,
Not through our own vision.
Open the curtain in your practicing by merely letting go of all the things you think you want,
Your trifling treasures put away.
Then leave a clean and open space within your mind where Christ can come and offer you the treasure of salvation.
Christ has need of your most holy mind to save the world.
Is this purpose not worthy to be yours?
Is not Christ's vision worthy to be sought above the world's unsatisfying goals?
Let's practice.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
Now I am one with my Source.
Open the curtain.
Let go of all the things you think you want.
Put away your trifling treasures.
Leave a clean and open space within your mind.
This is the space where Christ comes and offers you the treasure of salvation.
Now clear your mind.
Open the space and say to yourself,
Now I am one with my Source.
I'll be silent.
Clear your mind.
This is the space where Christ comes.
I am one with my Source.
Let not today slip by without the gifts it holds for you.
Using your consent and your acceptance,
We can change the world if you acknowledge these gifts.
You may not see the value your acceptance gives the world,
But this you surely want.
You can exchange all suffering for joy this very day.
Accept this in earnest and the gift is yours.
Would God deceive you?
Can God's promise fail?
Can you withhold so little when God's hand holds out complete salvation?
Now my Source.
My Source.
Nothing real,
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace.
