Everyone has experienced
what he would call a sense of being transported beyond himself. It is a sense of actual escape from
limitations. “Transportation” entails a
sudden unawareness of the body and a joining of yourself and something else in
which your mind enlarges to encompass it.
It becomes a part of you as you unite with it. And both become whole as neither is perceived
as separate.
What really happens is
that you have given up the illusion of a limited awareness and lost your fear
of union. The love that instantly
replaces it extends to what has freed you and unites with it. And while this lasts, you are not uncertain
of your identity and would not limit it.
You have escaped from fear to peace, asking no questions of reality but
merely accepting it. You have accepted
this instead of the body and have let yourself be one with something beyond it
simply by not letting your mind be limited by it.
This can occur regardless
of the physical distance which seems to be between you and what you join. Time is not relevant; it can occur with
something past present, or anticipated.
You joined it without reservation because you love it and would be with
it. And so you rush to meet it, letting
your limits melt away, suspending all the “laws” your body obeys and gently
setting them aside.
There is no violence at
all in this escape. In these instants of
release from physical restrictions, you experience peace and joy, the lack of
awareness of the body, and the questioning whether or not all this is possible.
It is possible because you
want it. The sudden expansion of the
self which takes place with your desire for it is the irresistible appeal the
holy instant (awakening) holds. It calls to you to
be yourself within its safe embrace.
Come to this place of refuge where you can be yourself in peace.
Reference~ A Course In Miracles
