 So then you have a teaching like the Course, which basically says bring the illusions to the truth. You cannot bring that experience into the world. And that's a huge thing. I mean, how many spiritualities are based on the premise that you can bring the Kingdom of Heaven to earth, that you can bring the Divine Spirit, the Divine Oneness into form, that you can make a paradise on earth? Not only for yourself but for everyone else. That's what's so sneaky about it. It's still the attempt to bring the truth into the illusion and just generalize it so that, oh no, it's going to apply to everybody. I'm going to do this for everybody and there's no everybody to do it for. It's like, again, the whole teachings are no, bring the illusions to the truth. Bring all those thoughts about the painting to the truth within. Bring all the thoughts about the art. All the thoughts about marketing. All the thoughts about distribution. All the thoughts about friendship. All the thoughts about social relating to society. All the thoughts about surviving as a human being. All the thoughts about the human experience. just bring them all inside to the light within your mind and they will disappear. You see how different that is from bring the light into the darkness. It's a completely opposite message of that. And even the Course has passages like, I need to do nothing section is so beautiful because He's saying, make a space in your mind that is so still and so quiet that you can abide there. And practice just this one thing for me, you know, and you will show your loyalty to me, Jesus is saying. And I'm like, okay, what is it? Just give it to me, whatever it is. Whatever it is that I'm to do to show my loyalty to the Christ mind, I will do it. Just one thing and I need to do nothing. That's the thing that's going to show my loyalty. Well, how many of us have actually given that one a shot? And you know what happens when you start to give, I need to do nothing, some priority in your mind? The ego gets stirred up like a hornet's nest. Like, oh no, you don't. You guilty, unworthy piece of worthless shit. Don't you dare give me this, I need to do nothing stuff. Because I need to do nothing is alignment with what? Beingness. Beingness needs to do nothing. Beingness doesn't even know of doing. And that's like a total insult to the ego when you actually start to entertain the I need to do nothing idea. And you even sometimes get Course in Miracles teachers that will say, Jesus doesn't really mean you need to do nothing. There are Course teachers that will actually say, He's not really serious. He's just throwing you a bone to chew on a little bit. But He doesn't really mean that. And of course then you can go and find lots of passages in the Course that would reinforce that. Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy. It's easy to get busy in the ego's thought system. In fact, it is counting on your busyness to take a priority over I need to do nothing. It's counting on it because it needs to maintain the guilt. And if you're just a busy doer and it always is saying, I'm not good enough, do, do, do, do, do, not good enough. More doings, nope, still didn't make it. You see how the ego makes up the concept of a doer and then it makes it into an impossible situation that you can never do enough. How many of us have felt that we can never do enough? We can never do enough to be loved. We can never do enough. You see how the equation is do, do, do. Now, I'm speaking at a conference in San Francisco in February and they took the title of the conference from the Urtext where Jesus says, Listen, Learn and Do. And here I am, I'm speaking at the conference and I'm telling you those last two concepts are bogus. Learn, learn what? You know, this is a course in unlearning. This isn't learning how to be a better something. This isn't learning how to become something. Oh, the ego can jump on that one. And do, it's very practical in terms of the mind training but remember the mind training involves the ego and doing involves the ego. Spirit doesn't do anything. Spirit has never done anything. Spirit, the Holy Spirit is teaching us that what you thought you did was separation. You never did. It doesn't make the error real first and say now we're going to have to find out a way to undo this terrible mistake that you actually did. Saying, you know, if you can come in with this presence and this stillness and you can give yourself enough permission and allowance to really merge with this stillness and see yourself as the stillness, that's it. Home free. Be still and know that I am God. No simpler words were ever spoken.