Thanks for wondering the questions that come to your brain, even if they seem “fairly peculiar” to you. In Enlightenment all observed pain has vanished, for what but wrong-mindedness appeared to make the misperception called pain.
Pain was the dream that Christ could leave a Loving Creator’s Mind. “If pain is actual there is no God. If God is true there’s no pain.”(W-190.3) The latter is true because acim Lord doesn’t have opposite. Enlightenment entails number pain or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Natural, Constant Happiness, Peace, Flexibility, and Joy. Being Continuous, Enlightenment understands maybe not of change. The impression of weakness and changing feelings moved as well. There is no pride to drop “back into.” Spirit Abides in light Love. All suffering is finished Now and nothing stays but an advantage of Stillness.
The Sacred Soul may be the note that Life is Eternal. The Present Time could be the gate way to Eternity. The world of photos was a full world of illusion. Images are therefore basic to the Sacred Spirit. These were “neutralized” the quick they seemed to arise.
What does that suggest in relation to your second issue? You cannot destroy what’s never existed, and in the Holy Spirit’s Perspective of forgiveness hurt is impossible. Figures were never born and never die since the entire world of photos could be the past. It is impossible to locate origins and endings in a program that’s currently written and around long ago. There’s no living in images. This is actually the meaning of “Maintain number graven images before the Lord Thy God.” All photographs were made to hidden the Truth from understanding, and they can only be forgiven as you illusion. If illusions might be divided up into living and lifeless, natural and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment could be impossible. For what’s Enlightenment but Natural Oneness, much beyond the likelihood of division of any sort? The separate mind was the illusion. Seek to not challenge the separate mind to forms and call some forms alive and some types dead. Lord understands maybe not form. The split mind was the “killer” dream, yet the Holy Heart reminds the sleeping mind that what’s whole and good cannot BE split. In Heaven Mind is One Spirit, and also regarding this world forgiveness reflects this Oneness. The forgiven earth identifies the unity of the healed mind and considers that there is nothing “outside” of the single mind which dreams gently a pleased, soft dream. The target of ACIM is to desire lightly of a sinless world. That aim is significantly more than possible, it is certain!
As for my appearing diet, “consume what is served” could be the Advice I was handed from the Sacred Heart many years ago. Join along with your brother and let number concept come involving the Love you share. This Advice hasn’t changed. “Dinner” is definitely a backdrop for sharing the Joy of the Living Moment. What the world calls “breathing” and “eating” and “drinking” and “sleeping” are very the same in the Enlightened State. The Healed Perception sees the sameness of all things since each of them share the exact same Function: forgiveness. This Perception is not “personal,” for in specific notion nothing is personal. Lord is not any respecter of persons. I practically can not “take” an animal’s “life” since Living is Soul and can just only be lengthy or Given as Lord Gives. “Take” doesn’t have indicating within my brain and because creatures haven’t “lived” it is difficult that they might “die.” The opinion stated in thinking “individually get an animal’s life” has many main assumptions that are false. In right-mindedness it is apparent that ideas are heightened because they are given out or provided, and “taking” a “life” or anything more does not have any meaning. All that I give is fond of mySelf, and in giving there’s no loss, no lose, and nothing is actually recinded from wholeness and unity. The teacher of Lord does not want anything that can’t be given away. Such is the Joy of wonders! The idea vegetables seem to be flung every-where, however there is never even a glance back to see where the vegetables land. The vegetables are never for an “other,” and since providing and obtaining are exactly the same your brain receives the presents it gives. This really is truly the food you find for beneath the ego’s questions.
The sole issue that need be requested is a question that is not necessarily foolish at all: Am I prepared to learn that God’s Can and My Possess would be the Same? God’s Will for Me is for Great Happiness. And what but that Can is the May of Christ? Fortunately, nothing can alter Endless Love. Thank You God!