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POINTERS ON THE PATH OF
AWAKENING
1. I do not know the way home
Is it not He Who knows the way to you? You need not know
the way to Him. Ask and receive. But do not make demands, nor
point the road to God by which He should appear to you.
Lesson 189
2. I don't have to know the way home.
The way to reach Him is merely to let Him be. For in that
way is your reality proclaimed as well. .... Salvation's
ways are not our own, for they belong to You. And it is unto
You we look for them. Our hands are open to receive Your
gifts. Lesson 189
3. I only need to know how to get myself out of the way as I
am the problem.
Father, we do not know the way to You. But we have
called, and You have answered us.
We will not interfere. Lesson 189
4. I only need to allow the obstacles to awakening to be
removed by the light of spirit.
Your part is simply to allow all obstacles that you have
interposed between the Son and God the Father to be quietly
removed forever. God will do His part in joyful and immediate
response. Ask and receive. Lesson 189
5. I do not remove the obstacles.
You are still convinced that your understanding is a
powerful contribution to the truth, and makes it what it is.
Yet we have emphasized that you need understand nothing.
Salvation is easy just because it asks nothing you
cannot give right now. T-18.IV.7:5-7
6. My part is to undo denial and look at the obstacles, my
judgement of myself and others, with acceptance. This is
forgiveness.
Forgiveness ... is still, and quietly does nothing. .... It
merely looks, and waits, and judges not.
W-pII.1.4:1,3
7. I need not try and change my ego or another's but learn to
gently smile at the ego.
Today we smile on everyone we see, and walk with
lightened footsteps as we go to do what is appointed us to do.
W-pI.123.4:3
8. I do not need to fight the ego or love it as this would
make it real.
The ego is nothing more than a part of your belief about
yourself. Your other life has continued without interruption,
and has been and always will be totally unaffected by your
attempts to dissociate it. T-4.VI.1:6-7
9. I need to see the world as a classroom where I take my
small daily steps of forgiveness. Awakening is a process.
I will forgive, and this
will disappear. .....To every apprehension, every care and
every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. And then
you hold the key that opens Heaven's gate, and brings the Love
of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to
Heaven. God will take this final step Himself. Do not deny the
little steps He asks you take to Him. Lesson 193
10. I need do nothing if I create a space in my mind for
spirit to enter and guide my life. Surrender will take me
home.
To do nothing is to rest, and make a place within you where
the activity of the body ceases to demand attention. Into this
place the Holy Spirit comes, and there abides. He will remain
when you forget, and the body's activities return to occupy
your conscious mind. T-18.VII.7:7-9
Michael
Dawson,
June 2005, with thanks to Kenneth Wapnick for the inspiration.
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