We were taught how to take care of ourselves, how exactly to survive, how exactly to be much more effective, just how to become the most effective, etc. while it is a course in miracles only through an allowance of making your thoughts and ideas up that you may be moved beyond that which you are planning and perceiving.
Einstein was the main one who discovered a problem cannot be resolved from within the situation, you’ve to exceed the problem to get the solution. That’s what we call having trust in the Sacred Spirit. Trust that he’ll look after it for you.
You cannot wake your self, but you are able to let yourself to be awakened.
If you think that you are a tiny identity, a body, a little personality, then how can you possibly believe that you understand how to escape that dream you perceive yourself to stay? You would, much more likely, get depressed or suicidal than you would already have the hope of escaping from the dream. Your absolute best ideas have never produced you peace and happiness. When we are ultimately ready to be advised and claim, Nature, you show me, you guide me, let me not try to advise you on the ways to lead me, then we are intuitively diving in to the awakening process. As A Course in Miracles claims, “Decide now as your own teacher.” (T-12.V.8.) Decide! Turn in your resignation!
Attempting to always be in control is a practice of a mind that believes it’s a human being, a mind that thinks it is really a “doer.” We should contact it a human “doing” as opposed to an individual being. Whenever you really cry out for support, with sincerity, Soul has the capacity to use a myriad of designs to achieve you. You simply require the trust and confidence to escape the driver’s chair of thinking that you are personally in charge of getting out of bed using this dream.
A Course In Miracles brings you instruments to opposite all fearful ideas and beliefs. Using these instruments makes it possible to obtain the total feeling of flexibility and peace you have been yearning for.