Lesson 96: Salvation comes from my one Self
Minnesota singer and songwriter Peter Mayer sings in his song World of Dreams:
In the smallest measure of anything at hand
Entities of energy are alive in a whirling dance
Even our own bodies are not as we perceive
But made of the same stuff our thoughts are made
In this world of dreams
It’s an echo of today’s lesson that asks: “Who can resolve the senseless conflicts which a dream presents?”
We live in a world of dreams – an ego drives us to dream up all sorts of wacky beliefs about two different worlds. One is good and one is bad; one is full of love, another full of hatred and yet another is where our mind lives and in another is our body. We try so many things to recognize the duality we perceive – so many rituals, programs, systems, religions, dogmas … the list is endless. It’s all part of what A Course in Miracles calls the ego’s mantra: “Seek but do not find.” If the ego can keep us wandering in a world of dreams, fruitlessly searching to resolve senseless conflicts, it can keep us from discovering that there is only one world – the realm of God where our Self has never left.
When we can remember our function – to be the light and salvation of the world – then we recognize, once again, that salvation can only come from “my one Self.” It’s only in unity that miracles occur – only when we are willing to let go of the duality of the ego’s world and step into the oneness we all possess.
We cannot fix anything that happens in dreams. All that’s needed is for us to awaken from the ego’s dualistic illusion into the Reality of Love that beckons us, as Hafiz says, to drink the good wine the Divine offers in every moment.
He writes:
I never quite feel right until the effects of
wine reach my head
and kick it back like a mule might
whose hoofs just landed a clean solid blow.
With my vision now corrected and aimed
toward the heavens
and my ticket of intoxication firmly in hand
for at least an hour,
there seem so many interesting possibilities
that I wasn’t fully aware of before.
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