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In no situation that arises do you realize the outcome that would make you happy. Therefore, you have no guide to appropriate action, and no way of judging the result. What you do is determined by your perception of the situation, and that perception is wrong. It is inevitable, then, that you will not serve your own best interests. Yet they are your only goal in any situation which is correctly perceived. Otherwise, you will not recognize what they are.
If you realized that you do not perceive your own best interests, you could be taught what they are. But in the presence of your conviction that you do know what they are, you cannot learn. The idea for today is a step toward opening your mind so that learning can begin.
Broadcasting in total the unity and singleness
of purpose of the universe.
We understand that conceptual consciousness is based on the continuity of ideas emanating from mind in apparent cause and effect relationships.
If you insist, however, on relating them sequentially, your mind will be forever held captive in the necessity of maintaining a limited form of apparent reality based on a past genetic retrospective recall that in truth has nothing at all to do with your present state of consciousness. You are held in the bondage of time exactly by the notion of sequentiality or the distance between cause and effect.
The Truth that cause and effect can never be apart comes with recognition that only your limited self-establishment stands between them. You have invented time and it is absolutely at your disposal. It is important to remember, however, that the act of creating, unlike inventing, is not sequential and there is nothing potential about eternity.
