Commentary on ACIM Lesson 286

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

The hush of Heaven holds my heart today.

I have been reawakening to my Self a lot in the last few days, I suspect triggered by my fasting. I say that because I am remembering a lot of wisdom that I know I have known but it appears that I have not been accessing 'so well'. The one that arose today spontaneously while driving was: My own thinking is a barrier to my spiritual awareness.

Todays lesson and several of the past few have had a focus on the quietness of the mind of God. What I saw clearly for a moment (before my mind started thinking again) was that it is exactly that quietness of mind that is the goal here.... that that is the doorway to true Knowing. You see, I think most of us most of the time think we get our intelligence by thinking about things. Not that there is not a proper purpose for thought, but thought and intelligence are not the same thing at all. Intelligence arises from pure being, at one without limit with the universe.... with what we have been calling, for lack of a better name, God.

We talk about attaining the peace of God often. That peace is: to have a quiet mind. A quiet mind is free of reaction to the world. A quiet mind is fully present to what is truly SO. A quiet mind is the main necessity for accessing and experiencing Divine Love.

All the practices of all the various paths to God found in this world eventually bring us to seeing the need to do the work of quieting our mind. If we do not, we may develop great mental capacity, but never know peace. And, even a great mental capacity pales before the brilliance of intuitive insight that awakens as the mind truly quiets.

Therefore, I realize I am called to deepen all my practices that give me mental quietude. And I recommend the same to you, certain that it will bear wonderful fruit in your life.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 286

The hush of Heaven holds my heart today.

Father, how still today! How quietly do all things fall in place! This is the day that has been chosen as the time in which I come to understand the lesson that there is no need that I do anything. In You is every choice already made. In You has every conflict been resolved. In You is everything I hope to find already given me. Your peace is mine. My heart is quiet, and my mind at rest. Your Love is Heaven, and Your Love is mine.

The stillness of today will give us hope that we have found the way, and travelled far along it to a wholly certain goal. Today we will not doubt the end which God Himself has promised us. We trust in Him, and in our Self, Who still is One with Him.