“The sudden expansion of the self that takes place with your desire for it is the irresistible appeal the holy instant holds. It calls to you to be yourself, within its safe embrace.” (16.1-2)
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“The body is a tiny fence around a little part of a glorious and completely limitless idea. It draws a circle, infinitely small, around a very little segment of Heaven splintered from the whole, while … continue reading
“God did not create His dwelling place unworthy of Him. And if you believe He cannot enter where He wills to be, you must be interfering with His will.” (3.5)
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“It is impossible to let the past go without relinquishing the special relationship. For the special relationship is an attempt to reenact the past and change it.” (1.1-2)
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“In the holy instant guilt holds no attraction, since communication has been restored. And guilt, whose only purpose is to disrupt communication, has no function here.” (3.5-6)
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“In the holy instant you recognize the idea of love in you, and unite this idea with the Mind that thought it and could not relinquish it.” (5.4)
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“In the holy instant you see in each relationship what it will be when you perceive only the present.” (8.5)
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“The necessary condition for the holy instant does not require that you have no thoughts that are not pure. But it does require that you have none that you would keep.” (9.1-2)
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“In the holy instant you will unchain all of your brothers and refuse to support either their weakness or your own.” (7.2)
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“Each instant is a clean, untarnished birth, in which the Son of God emerges from the past into the present… No darkness is remembered, and his immortality and joy are now.” (9.4,7)
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