Quote from anti ad hominem:
I promise you my life is bound by no limit, in either what I am capable of feeling or creating, just because I do not believe in god. My material life is bound only by the same thing as yours, a material death.
The body is a limit on love.
The belief in limited love was it's origin, and it was made to limit the unlimited.
This is not merely allegorical.
The body was made to limit
you!
And while you limit your awareness to it's tiny senses, you will not see the grandeur that surrounds you.
God cannot come into a body, nor can you join Him there.
The body was made as a "Keep Out" sign, where love is not allowed to trespass.
Limits on love will always seem to shut God out, and keep you apart from Him.
The body is a little fence around a glorious and complete idea.
The body draws a circle, infinitely small, around a very little segment of Heaven, splintered from the whole, proclaiming that within it is your kingdom, where God can enter not.
Within this kingdom the ego rules, and cruelly. And to defend this little speck of dust it bids you fight against the universe.
This fragment of your mind is such a tiny part of it that, could you but appreciate the whole, you would see instantly that it is like the smallest sunbeam to the sun, or like the faintest ripple on the surface of the ocean.
To do anything involves the body. And if you recognize you need do nothing, you have withdrawn the body's value from your mind.
Neither the sun nor ocean is even aware of all this strange activity. They merely continue, unaware that they are feared and hated by a tiny segment of themselves.
Little do these tiny segments know they could not survive apart from the whole. And what they think - ie. "there is no God" - in no way changes their total dependence on the whole for its being.
Without the sun, the sunbeam would be gone. Without the ocean, the ripple would be gone.
Such is the strange position in which those in a world inhabited by bodies seem to be.
Each body seems to house a separate mind, a disconnected thought, living alone and in no way joined to the Thought by which it was created.
Each tiny fragment seems to be self-contained, needing another for some things, but by no means totally dependent on its one Creator for everything.
Like to the sun and the ocean your Self continues, unmindful that this tiny part regards itself as "you".
"You" are not missing from the whole, for the whole would not be whole without the "it" that you call "you".
I merely ask you not to accept this little, fenced-off aspect as yourself.
Much as you think, your little kingdom is not separate. Nor does a fence really surround it but in your mind.
Would you remain within your tiny kingdom, a sorry queen, a bitter ruler of all that she surveys, who looks on nothing yet who would still die to defend it?
This little self is not your kingdom.
Arched high above it and surrounding it with love is the glorious whole, which offers all its happiness and deep content to every part. The little aspect that you think you set apart is no exception.
Love knows no bodies!
Love's total lack of limit
is it's meaning.
In your tiny kingdom you have so little!
Upon its barren ground would the Thought of God irrigate it with living water...waiting for you to open your gates to love.
A single instant is all it takes.
A single instant is all it takes to invite love to enter your bleak and joyless kingdom, and to transform it into a garden of peace and welcome.
This instant comes as you let the body go from your awareness. For it is only the awareness of the body that makes love seem limited.
Can you see yourself within a body and know yourself as an idea? No.
Prepare for this instant by doing nothing.
To do nothing is to rest, and make a place within you where the activity of the body ceases to demand attention.
Community service? Stop it!
When you withdraw the body's value from your mind it opens a door through which you slip past centuries of effort, and escape from time.
There is one thing you have never done. You have not utterly forgotten the body.
The body has perhaps faded at time from your sight, but it has not yet completely disappeared.
You are not asked to let this happen for more than an instant.
Yet it is in this instant that the miracle of Atonement happens.
Afterwards, you will see the body again, but never quite the same.
At no single instant does the body exist at all! It is always remembered or anticipated. Only it's past and future make it seem real.
Time controls the body entirely, for sin is never wholly in the present. It has no attraction
now. Its whole attraction is imaginary, and therefore must be thought of in the past or future where imagination rules.
Therefore you cannot reach this instant unless, just for an instant, you are willing to see no past or future.
Release is given you the instant you desire it. It is possible because you want it.
The sudden expansion of awareness that takes place with your desire for it is the irresistible appeal the instant holds.
There, the laws of limit are lifted for you, to welcome you to openness of mind and freedom. Peace will join you there, simply because you have been willing to let go the limits you have placed upon love.
You need to do nothing.
Find a quiet center in yourself, as if looking for the "I" of a hurricane of raging activity.
This quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain with you, giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing on which you are sent.
From this center you will be directed how to use the body sinlessly. It is this center, from which the body is absent, that will keep it so in your awareness of it.
Here is the ultimate release which everyone will one day find in his own way, at his own time.
However, I am interested in saving you time.
It is not necessary to spend a lifetime of contemplation and long periods of meditation aimed at detachment from the body.
All such attempts will ultimately succeed because of their purpose. Yet the means are tedious and very time consuming, for all of them look to the future for release from a state of present unworthiness and inadequacy.
On some of these long winding roads, enormous effort is expended to make holy what is hated and despised.
Many have spent a lifetime in preparation, and have indeed achieved that instant of success.
I aim merely to save you time.
Save time for me by only this one preparation, and practice doing nothing else: Do Nothing.
"I need do nothing" is a statement of allegiance, a truly undivided loyalty.
Believe it for just one instant, and you will accomplish more than is given to a century of contemplation, or of struggle against temptation.
Come to this instant with a brother, and you save even more time.
Prepare you
now for the undoing of what never was.
If you already understood the difference between truth and illusion, the Atonement would have no meaning.
Do not prepare for this instant by attempting to remove all fear and hatred from your mind. That is
its function.
The instant is the result of your determination to be holy. The desire and the willingness to let it come proceed its coming.
You prepare your mind for this instant only to the extent of recognizing that you want it above all else.
It is not necessary that you do more. Indeed, it is necessary that you realize that you cannot do more. It is your realization that you need do so little that enables the Teacher to give you so much.
Trust not your good intentions. They are not enough. Trust only your willingness, and concentrate only on this. Be not disturbed by other thoughts that surround your willingness.
The miracle lies in your willingness to let it be what it is. And in your willingness for this lies also your acceptance of yourself as you were meant to be.
Humility will never ask that you remain content with littleness. But it does require that you be not content with less than greatness that comes not of you.
It is impossible to make arrogant preparations for holiness. The instant comes as your little willingness is combined with the unlimited power of the Will of God.
Atonement cannot come to those who think that they must first atone, but only to those who offer it nothing more than simple willingness to make way for it. Purification is of God alone, and is given you in an instant.
You find it difficult to accept the idea that you need give so little to receive so much. But it is this that makes this instant so easy and so natural.
Each instant that we spend together will teach you that this goal is possible, and will strengthen your desire to reach it.
It is a desire to be holy. And in your desire lies its accomplishment. For you desire the only thing you ever had, or ever were.
Jesus
In fact, we humans often (usually) see it the other way around ie. order in randomness. We don't have to stray too far from home for evidence of this ("Random walk down Wallstreet") 