Question: What exactly is Enlightenment?

Many thanks for asking the questions that come to your mind, regardless of whether they seem “rather peculiar” for your requirements. In Enlightenment all perceived pain has gone, for which but wrong-mindedness did actually make the misperception called pain.

Pain was the illusion that Christ could leave a Loving Creator’s Mind. “If pain is real there is no God. If God is real there’s no pain.”(W-190.3) The second applies because God does not have any opposite. Enlightenment entails no pain or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Pure, Constant Happiness, Peace, Freedom, and Joy. Being Constant, Enlightenment knows not of change. The illusion of vulnerability and fluctuating emotions went at the same time. There isn’t any ego to fall “back into.” Spirit Abides in gentle Love. All pain is finished Now and nothing remains however a blessing of Stillness.

The Holy Spirit is the reminder that Every day life is Eternal. The existing Moment may be the gateway to Eternity. The joy of images was obviously a realm of illusion. Images are thus neutral for the Holy Spirit. We were holding “neutralized” when they gave the impression to arise.

Simply what does this suggest in relation to your second question? You can’t kill what needs never lived, along with the Holy Spirit’s Outlook during forgiveness harm is not possible. Bodies were never born and don’t die since the whole world of images is the past. It’s impossible to get beginnings and endings in a script that’s already written and also over way back when. There is absolutely no life in images. This is actually the concept of “Hold no graven images prior to Lord Thy God.” All images were made to obscure the facts from awareness, and so they can only be forgiven as one illusion. If illusions could possibly be divided up into living and dead, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment can be impossible. For which is Enlightenment but Pure Oneness, beyond the opportunity of division of any type? The split mind was the illusion. Seek to not project the split mind to forms and call some forms alive plus some forms dead. God knows not form. The split mind was the “killer” illusion, however the Holy Spirit reminds the sleeping mind that precisely what is whole and unified can’t ever BE split. In Heaven System is One Spirit, as well as with regard to our planet forgiveness reflects this Oneness. The forgiven world recognizes the unity with the healed mind and understands that there’s nothing “outside” on this single mind which dreams softly a cheerful, gentle dream. The aim of ACIM is always to dream softly of a sinless world. This goal is a bit more than possible, it really is inevitable!

In terms of my seeming diet, “eat what is served” is the Guidance I was given from your Holy Spirit many years ago. Join using your brother and let no concept come between the Love you share. This Guidance has not changed. “Dinner” is always a backdrop for sharing the industry of the Living Moment. What the world calls “breathing” and “eating” and “drinking” and “sleeping” are really the same in the Enlightened State. The Healed Perspective sees the sameness of all things because they all share exactly the same Purpose: forgiveness. This Perspective isn’t “personal,” for in unified perception nothing is personal. God isn’t any respecter of persons. I literally cannot “take” an animal’s “life” because Life’s Spirit and may only be extended or Given as God Gives. “Take” doesn’t have meaning in my mind as well as animals have not “lived” it can be impossible that they can could “die.” The idea expressed inside the thought “personally take an animal’s life” has several underlying assumptions which are false. In right-mindedness it is obvious that ideas are strengthened because they are given away for free or shared, and “taking” a “life” or anything at all doesn’t have any meaning. Everything that I give emerges to mySelf, as well as in giving there’s no loss, no sacrifice, and absolutely nothing is ever recinded from wholeness and unity. The teacher of God won’t want whatever can not be distributed. Such is the Joy of miracles! The idea seeds seem to be flung everywhere, yet there’s never obviously any good glance back to see the place that the seeds land. The seeds will never be on an “other,” and also, since giving and receiving are similar the mind receives the gifts it offers. This can be in truth the feast you search for within the ego’s questions.

The only real question that require get asked is a question that’s not really silly in any respect: Are we able to know that God’s Will and My own, personal are similar? God’s Will for Me is made for Perfect Happiness. And just what however Will is the Will of Christ? Happily, nothing can alter Eternal Love. Many thanks God!
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