Wisdom at Your Fingertips
“This instant is the only time there is.” What does this statement imply? It implies that linear time as you know it is a construct and not a fact. An experience is a fact, but only in the happening of it. That is what you call the present moment, or this instant. The fact of
“There is no cruelty in God and none in me.” There is no cruelty in anyone. There is only perceiving under the spell of a misunderstanding that cries for release. Responding within the framework of a misunderstanding solidifies it in your experience. That is why today’s text says: You make what you defend against, and
“By grace I live. By grace I am released.” Forgiveness is something you can decide to do or not. Grace, on the other hand, happens; it is what you enter into when you have forgiven. We have explained forgiveness as the setting free of others and self from the constraints of mistaken concepts. When you
“Your grace is given me. I claim it now.” According to today’s lesson “His grace is yours by your acknowledgment” (W-pI.168.2:5) and sleep will be over. Doubt, despair and death will dissolve. Grace is omnipresent; it is the quality within creation’s flow that does not look back, that ignores illusions and gathers up all things
“There is no death. The Son of God is free.” The Son of God is a sparkling idea, the idea of Creation in extension; death is a flat thought. When you narrow your focus to a certain form or outcome, your view of the full dynamics of the creative stream diminishes. The discrepancy between the