Do Only That!

“So we talk a lot about letting go of the self-concept, and it is pretty late in the Course: ‘Self-Concept versus Self.’ T-31.V Basically who you seem to be or believe you were in the world, a person, a man, a woman, family ties, work skills and abilities, etc., the whole package, that is part of a make-believe self-concept that was made to take the place of your Christ reality. It is like it is superimposed on top of perfection, this make-believe identity, and it always comes with guilt. It is never good enough. If you are a mom, you are never good enough. If you’re a dad, you are never good enough. If you are a worker, you are never good enough, and your manager is telling you, ‘improve your quota,’ ‘do better,’ ‘work more,’ or whatever. Even with A Course in Miracles, you can practice it for many, many years, and the ego will try to run a number on you with that. You didn’t do the lesson good enough. You didn’t apply yourself enough. Oh you are going through the Workbook now for the fourth time. You are a slow learner. The ego is going to run a running commentary. It is even going to make a self-concept out of studying A Course in Miracles, because it is quite clever, and it does not care what it does as long as you remain guilty, because that is how it seems to stay in awareness.

But we are actually into this, ‘Do only that.’ It makes it very, very clear and simple because as you go through the day, and you live that presence, you have eliminated all kinds of pseudo options that really are not options at all. The Course teaches us, ‘It is quite possible to listen to God’s Voice all through the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way.’ W-49.1:1 Well hallelujah! That means I do not have to go and live in a cave. That means I do not have to go and live in the forest. It is great if there are mystics and saints who lived like that and if it helped them reach enlightenment, like Siddhattha, Jesus 40 days in the wilderness. That is wonderful! But it is possible to hear the Voice for God all through the day without interrupting your regular activities. But the deeper you go into ‘Do only that,’ you will become less and less identified with the body, less and less identified with the personality, less and less identified with the story. It says, This is the way I was, and these are my future ambitions. Spirit is saying, Right now. Come to me now. You are perfect right now. Rest in me. Abide in me. Walk with me. Live with me.

That presence is so strong, and that symbolically is what the community is about even though I say the community is just a state of mind. You do not have boundaries, who is in and who is not in the community. The community is in the mind. We are all the same one, but what it means to live in that is to lay aside those obstacles, lay aside those false identifications and learn to trust in divine providence. It is not a person earning money that allows us to have sustenance. Our supply does not come from jobs. Our supply does not come from the government and pensions and all those things in the world. The ego tells us we are sustained by all these things in the world. We are sustained by the Love of God! And when we get into ‘Do only that,’ we start to feel that, like, Whoa this is amazing! This is joyful. This is easy to be as I am created. And then the fruits of the Spirit come through. Wow, we have so many fruits that have been waiting for us to say ‘yes’ to the Spirit. The fruits are ready to just come gushing through like Niagara Falls, but we have been building dams in there to try to hold the light, the gushing, back, and when you let go into that experience, and all of a sudden, all these skills and abilities that were made by the ego, suddenly they come into alignment with the Spirit just to make me an instrument for your peace, just to extend joy, love, and happiness, and then everything else shows up without effort.”