Lesson, 66 - Revived '16 - My happiness and my function are one-IamACIM.Com - a podcast by therapyofthesoul

The HD version of this program and many others, are available for free @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com lesson 66 â??My happiness and my function are one.â?? You have surely noticed an emphasis throughout our recent lessons on the connection between fulfilling your function and achieving happiness.This is because you do not really see the connection.Yet there is more than just a connection between them; they are the same.Their forms are different, but their content is completely one. The ego does constant battle with the Holy Spirit on the fundamental question of what your function is. So does it do constant battle with the Holy Spirit about what your happiness is. It is not a two-way battle.The ego attacks and the Holy Spirit does not respond. He knows what your function is. He knows that it is your happiness. Today we will try to go past this wholly meaningless battle, and arrive at the truth about your function. We will not engage in ceaseless arguments about what it is.We will not become hopelessly involved in defining happiness and determining the means for achieving it.We will not indulge the ego by listening to its attacks on truth.We will merely be glad that we can find out what truth is. Our longer practice period today has as its purpose your acceptance of the fact that not only is there a very real connection between the function God gave you and your happiness, but that they are actually identical. God gives you only happiness. Therefore the function He gave you must be happiness, even if it appears to be different. Todayâ??s exercises are an attempt to go beyond these differences in appearance, and recognize a common content where it exists in truth. Begin the ten-to-fifteen-minute practice period by reviewing these thoughts: â??God gives me only happiness.â?? â??He has given my function to me.â?? â??Therefore my function must be happiness.â?? Try to see the logic in this sequence, even if you do not accept the conclusion. It is only if the first two thoughts are wrong that the conclusion could be false. Let us, then, think about the premises for a

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