Approaching Your Person's Life With Curiosity

            God, being All, must contain the idea of Its Own opposite. But being All, God cannot have an opposite. So, the idea of not-God is undone even as it arises.

But within the idea of not-God is time, the opposite of Timelessness. And in time, it seems that the idea of not-God arose long ago and will be undone in some indefinite future. Consciousness is the space in God’s Mind where these ideas take form and are depicted.

As it depicts an idea simultaneously undone, what unfolds in time/consciousness is predetermined. The story of your person expresses the Atonement, or the undoing of the idea of not-God. It is part of the whole of the Atonement and cannot be separated out. There is no individual soul or spirit on a journey, just one consciousness depicting the Atonement through various ideas that take form, nonmaterial and material. So, your person is a singular expression of consciousness, part of the whole of consciousness, and is not a vehicle for individual achievement, attainment, or fulfillment. So, you can approach your person’s life with curiosity, wondering how it will unfold, seeking what will happen, rather than to make things happen.

And whatever happens is what was to happen. Knowing this does not change how you experience the person. Whatever you are moved to have your person do is the Atonement unfolding through you. Whatever you feel you are to keep your person from doing is the Atonement unfolding through you. You cannot go wrong. So, why not relax and watch what unfolds?


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will said…
"Those who would see the witnesses to truth instead of to illusion merely ask that they may see a purpose in the world that gives it sense and makes it meaningful. Without your special function has this world no meaning for you."
T.26.I The "Sacrifice" of Oneness.
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will said…
Your special function. T.26.II
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9:33 PM
will said…
Correction
The Special Function: T.25.VI
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