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I. The Two Uses of Time

1. Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties, but merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time? ²Yet that is what time is for; to learn just that and nothing more. ³God’s Teacher cannot be satisfied with His teaching until it constitutes all your learning. ⁴He has not fulfilled His teaching function until you have become such a consistent learner that you learn only of Him. ⁵When this has happened, you will no longer need a teacher or time in which to learn.

2. One source of perceived discouragement from which you may suffer is your belief that this takes time, and that the results of the Holy Spirit’s teaching are far in the future. ²This is not so. ³For the Holy Spirit uses time in His Own way, and is not bound by it. ⁴Time is His friend in teaching. ⁵It does not waste Him, as it does you. ⁶And all the waste that time seems to bring with it is due but to your identification with the ego, which uses time to support its belief in destruction. ⁷The ego, like the Holy Spirit, uses time to convince you of the inevitability of the goal and end of teaching. ⁸To the ego the goal is death, which _is_ its end. ⁹But to the Holy Spirit the goal is life, which _has_ no end. (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/190 | T-15.I)

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ACIM says that we already have done so in beginningless time.

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1. To heal is the only kind of thinking in this world that resembles the Thought of God, and because of the elements they share, can transfer easily to it. ²When a brother perceives himself as sick, he is perceiving himself as not whole, and therefore in need. ³If you, too, see him this way, you are seeing him as if he were absent from the Kingdom or separated from it, thus making the Kingdom itself obscure to both of you. ⁴Sickness and separation are not of God, but the Kingdom is. ⁵If you obscure the Kingdom, you are perceiving what is not of God.

2. To heal, then, is to correct perception in your brother and yourself by sharing the Holy Spirit with him. ²This places you both within the Kingdom, and restores its wholeness in your mind. ³This reflects creation, because it unifies by increasing and integrates by extending. ⁴What you project or extend is real for you. ⁵This is an immutable law of the mind in this world as well as in the Kingdom. ⁶However, the content is different in this world, because the thoughts it governs are very different from the Thoughts in the Kingdom. ⁷Laws must be adapted to circumstances if they are to maintain order. ⁸The outstanding characteristic of the laws of mind as they operate in this world is that by obeying them, and I assure you that you must obey them, you can arrive at diametrically opposed results. ⁹This is because the laws have been adapted to the circumstances of this world, in which diametrically opposed outcomes seem possible because you can respond to two conflicting voices. (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/108#1:1-2:9 | T-7.II.1:1–2:9)

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All our kin are partners in the story of life, from the bacteria in our yogurt to the breeze that touches us, the flies that want to share our food, and the tomatoes we grow, pick, and put in our salads.
They can be powerful allies when we are respectful and attuned.' In every moment, we can take up Lame Deer's aim: "I wanted to see with the eye of the heart... All nature is within us and all of us in is nature."19 Sensing with the heart is the first step toward acting with heart, according to our deepest, awakened intuitions. When we act with heart, we Will not be destructive but instead will follow the courageous red road path of sustainable parnership with all our kin.

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-Restoring the Kinship Worldview


(The Eye of the Heart)