What am I going to do with my future? Do you spend time each day planning out events in your future, or feeling guilty about something you did in the past? Have you been tricked into believing that the future is different from the past? Let your ideas about time be retranslated!
The whole of A Course in Miracles brings home one central teaching. Much like a kaleidoscope or a fractal, this teaching might be said with thousands of different words, and in a thousand different ways, but the core remains the same:
“Jesus says in A Course in Miracles that you will be used to teach people that what is to come has already happened. It’s no big deal. It is part of a prearranged script. You don’t have to get so worried about the future. It is already over and done. That is a deep lesson. Because that is not the typical human perception.
We’ve been fooled; we’ve been tricked into believing that the future is different from the past, and that the future is yet to be seen and the past has already happened. But the ego invented both the future and the past. It invented linear time. It runs the pool table. All it wants you to do is to forget the present moment and stay stuck in time. This way your whole day is filled with future worries and past regrets. That is how the guilt stays in place.”