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The Dialogues: Coming to
Voice
(Mari Perron channeling Jesus) Chapter Two
Acceptance and Denial http://tinyurl.com/bcuwx (PDF
file)
You are now asked to do two things simultaneously: To accept the new and to deny the old. Acceptance is a willingness to receive. Obviously, when you consider this definition of acceptance, you will see that this is not the way of the old. Willingness to receive is quite contrary to the attitudes and actions with which you have led your life thus far. You were told within A Course of Love (the Course) that willingness was all that was necessary for you to be able to take the Course into your heart and let it return you to your true identity. Those of you who found within this willingness an ability to receive and left behind your effort to "learn" the Course, began the work that is being continued here, the work of replacing the old patterns of learning with the new pattern of acceptance.To deny is to refuse to accept as true or right that which you know is not true or right. This is the denial of insanity in favor of the acceptance of sanity, the denial of the false for the acceptance of the true. Although you are called to these two actions simultaneously the action of acceptance and the action of denial it can thus be seen that they are, in truth, one and the same action, just as means and end, cause and effect are one. You are asked to accept or receive the truth of who you are and the revelations that will show you how to live as who you are within the world and you are asked to refuse to accept who you are not and the ways of life that allowed you to live within the world as a false self. The patterns of the new will begin to arise naturally when you deny the patterns of the old. As you have been told, you now "know what you do" and are no longer a victim to the circumstance of a split mind that allowed the confusion that led me to once say, "They know not what they do." You must understand that you do know, and you will know, as soon as the patterns of old have been denied. Denial is the correct word here, for I do not want you combating or resisting the old patterns. Patterns are not in quite the same category as the false remembering you were able to purge through unlearning. Patterns are both learned systems and systems of design. The pattern of learning was a pattern of divine design, created in unity and cooperation to enable the return to unity. This pattern has achieved its desired end and so is no longer needed nor appropriate. While it was once a pattern whose design was perfect for the desired end, continuation of this pattern will now but interfere with your full acceptance of who you are in truth. An example of a pattern whose design was perfect for the desired end is that of formal education. Education has a natural endpoint. When the education of a doctor, teacher, scientist, priest, or engineer is completed, it is time for the student to claim a new identity that of doctor, teacher, scientist, priest or engineer and to begin to live that new identity. To continue to feel a need to learn rather than realizing that the time of learning has come to an end, would be to not realize completion. In the example used here, an example that illustrates only one aspect of the learners life, an inability to claim the new identity could at times be acceptable and even appropriate. In regard to the learning that you have now completed, learning that has revealed the true nature of who you are, your inability to realize your completion and claim your new identity cannot be seen as acceptable or appropriate. This is not a judgment but simply the truth. To learn the truth and not accept it is different from learning what is necessary for a career. To learn the truth and not accept the truth is insane. To learn the truth and not accept the completion of your learning is insane. If you do not realize that you have learned all that you need to learn, you will retain the consciousness of the separated self rather than sustaining Christ-consciousness. It is because the patterns of old have at times provided you with a false certainty that they are difficult to deny. When we speak of denying here, we speak of denying yourself the use of the old so that the new can serve you. We speak of denying modes of learning in favor of simple acceptance of what is. http://www.acourseoflove.com/dialogues.php - more from "A Coourse of Love" The inner light can answer any of this world's queries and resolve any of its problems. Beyond all of these concerns, the inner light will show you who you are and your relationship to all...and bring you an understanding of love and peace that transcends ordinary human thought processes. Discover what it truly means to "love one another" and to "see peace."
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