September 17, 2009
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What Is Life?
Logion 59 speaks of “not putting off until tomorrow what you can do today” namely accepting the atonement for yourself.
The terminology this Logion uses – looking on “The Living One” is evocative, and more neutral than”Jesus,” and yet more concrete than “the Holy Spirit,” for the “Living One” surely is a good indication for Jesus who calls himself (in A Course in Miracles), the manifestation of the Holy Spirit. Here is what it says:
Look to the living One as long as you live. Otherwise, when you die and they try to see the living One, you will be unable to see.This statement simply breaks the ego’s spell of time and space by saying in effect, do not buy into the ego’s strategy, which always is to have you think there’s a future that will be better, and somehow that you can get tomorrow what you need. Jesus’s point is that the only time to change your mind is in the now. Putting it off till tomorrow does only one thing, it ensures there will be more of the same. Thus, just like there is “no life outside of Heaven,” (ACIM), the only time to choose is now.
Comments (5)
exactly…
What is Life? I was in that mode that there were some things needed to do that were very important. From what this is saying that it is much simpler than that. One can save time, as well as a cycle, that repeats itself. This as the course warns to “be aware of good intentions.” Accepting the Atonement is simple. I guess on this slippery slope that counts the days, hours and months, one would have to be very vigilant for what is life means, because for the most part one forgets how simple it really all is.
Billy
I always kind of liked Scarlett O’Hara’s motto in Gone With the Wind: “I’ll think about it tomorrow.”
So, so, true.
Right on as usual, Rogier. Thanks for posting these.