Getting Back Home

Have you ever had that feeling that while this (your life and everything around you) seems like reality, a part of you recognizes that it doesn’t quite feel complete? As if you are a stranger in a foreign land. You’ve learned to speak the language, understand the customs, and seamlessly blend into the tapestry – but it still isn’t home.

If you’ve had that experience, then you’ve tapped into the part of your mind that recognizes the true nature of reality.

As the intro to ACIM teaches, “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.” Recognizing that the part of us that feels threatened, feels fear, feels sad – that part isn’t real. We’ve been led to believe – by the wrong minded thought system of the ego – that reality is birth into a body, striving a brief while for compassion and worldly possessions, and then decaying back into dust.

But that quiet place in our right mind recognizes that this world and this body aren’t home. As Wayne Dyer would often say, “We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings immersed in a human experience.”

Recognizing our spiritual nature – getting back to our right mind – leads us on the path to the home we never left.

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