{"id":44391,"date":"2019-12-23T23:10:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=44391"},"modified":"2019-12-18T09:50:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T16:50:43","slug":"gentle-healing-year-1-lesson-298","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/gentle-healing-year-1-lesson-298\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 298"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the Real World?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our special theme says, \u201cThe Holy Spirit has no need of time when it has served His purpose. Now He waits but that one instant more for God to take His final step, and time has disappeared, taking perception with it as it goes, and leaving but the truth to be itself. That instant is our goal, for it contains the memory of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NTI Matthew, Chapter 11, says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The search for truth is not truth itself, so do not stop there. Many have heard the call to search and have accepted it, but then they have stopped, thinking themselves complete. You are not complete until you <em>are<\/em> Truth, so do not stop at the call. It is your beginning, but it is not your end. To find the truth, you must walk until your end.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cmemory of God\u201d is the realization of truth as our Self. The real world is the sign that truth realization is near. It is the end of the bridge, but it is not yet the shore on the other side of the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>For me, that means that my commitment to spiritual practice must be complete. Some people may reach the experience that <em>A Course in Miracles<\/em> calls the real world and feel awakening is done. If they feel awakening is done, they might stop spiritual practice.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, some types of practice will fulfill their purpose and no longer be needed. A purified mind doesn\u2019t need the practices that purify the mind. 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