Let us return the dream he gave away
unto the dreamer, who perceives the dream as separate from himself and
done to him. Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad
idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh. In his forgetting
did the thought become a serious idea, and possible of both
accomplishment and real effects. Together, we can laugh them both away,
and understand that time cannot intrude upon eternity. It is a joke to
think that time can come to circumvent eternity, which means there is no time. (ACIM:T-27.VIII.6)
When
you take your clothes off without guilt, and you put them under your
feet like little children and trample them, then you will see the son of
the living one and you will not be afraid.
(Pursah's Gospel of Thomas, Logion 37)
So,
a sense of humor is part of the cure, as taking things too seriously is
our biggest problem a lot of the time. One dear friend and teacher
constantly reminds me of this by calling me 'Harpo,' particularly when I
take things too seriously. What Jesus suggests in the passage from the
Course which I quoted above, is that the serious consequences and "real
effects" of the "tiny, mad idea" can be dissipated by joining with him
in laughter, which is the best cure for taking them seriously, for that
is what our ego wants us to do. Never mind how hard we try we cannot
put eternity out to pasture by pretending otherwise, nor can we fire
God, or kill him off, despite all our imaginations to the contrary. That
literally is a joke, a cosmic joke, a world that does not exist.
(Pursah's Gospel of Thomas, Logion 37)
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