'ONE WITH EVERYTHING' isn't just a Zen Hot Dog---A Course in Miracles 18.7 part 2

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What is the point--of anything? Stephen Covey wrote the self-help book,"The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People," a hands-on look at what we are up to individually and as groups. The program he suggests often falls under the category of 'time-management,' even though he does not give ways to chop up a day and set priorities among those allotments.
You might be asking, "What is the point of this?" considering these are 'show-notes' under a meandering part 2 Course in Miracles podcast. Here's the science--I had the thought, 'what's the point,' and saw Steven Covey's smiling bald Mormon face float into my awareness, asking me in his distinctive Utah-esque midwest cadence, "Whad-ja think you were doing while you were driving across the country? Were you finding solitude amidst the noise? Seems kinda indirect, dont it? Or were ya just trying ta proove something, get attention doncha-know..." After that apparition, his famous glyph of 'the four quadrants replaced his inquiring face in my mind's eye. I therefore assume this has a point of some kind, and so proceed finding it.
Imagine if you will a square. Subdivide that square into quadrants. [This is yantra-yoga, a very mystical Eastern practice, though it will seem to only be a replacement for graphics that are unavailable on this platform.] In this shape you are holding with attention that surpasses any goldfish, number these 1 and 2 across the top, then 3 and 4 across the bottom. Now, like a juggler, asked to include a bowling ball among the milk bottle, soccer ball, and alarm clock, label the diagram thus: the top row is important,' the bottom row is 'not important.' Then label ''urgent' for the first column and 'not urgent' for the second column. Hold this image until you truly know what is important from what is not. Or just never mind...
The POINT IS that in box one, there are things that are important and urgent--they scream at you and you better do them or things fall apart. This includes the third warning letter from the IRS or a strange Mercedes Benz that appears in your garage overnight. Quad 3 is urgent but not important, like a phone call from Sly or fixing a rust spot over the wheel well of the front right tire [for some people]. Quad 4 we need not discuss--throw it out, leave it alone it is urgent NOT TO DO ANYTHING IN QUAD 4. This includes reading National Geographics from 1989, checking emails for the third time in one hour, or organizing audio cassettes and eight-tracks into alphabetical order. Mr Covey's strategy is simple--get rid of 4 immediately; use discretion on what you do on 3; deal with 1 as you must; but [Ta Da! HERE IS THE POINT!]--Focus all your time on quadrant 2, the location of things that are not urgent but IMPORTANT. He says [and it seems right] that this is the 'secret of life' in 7 Habitual Terms. In short, when I am about to wax the cassette covers or read about the inner meanings of Taylor Swift's Eras tour, just stop and donate every penny of that attention-coin to something important. But tell us Stephen, "What is important?!" What he says is not important. We are tuning into the voice of ACIM and that says, 'forgiveness.' But what is forgiveness?
Here is the very center of our 'quad 2' of IMPORTANT but lacking apparent urgency. We have literally billions of years to deal with this one, as much time as we feel like taking. If it seems like a good idea to do serious research on Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, and Justin Beber's ideas about painting--Holy Spirit say, "Have at it--I'm not stopping you." And this is where my eyes well up with an inkling of what 'fear of the Lord' means. God will not push the truth on me--His Truth is absolutely without urgency and at the same time is the only important thing --and I am clueless as to what is, where it is, how to get it, why it is important or anything else. My quad 2 has to be a working dialog with The Holy Spirit.
I apologize here, I'm just trying to use logic and reason--a day has about 16 waking hours which gets packed with preparing, loading, and unloading food; attending to dire needs of one color code or another; making or counting money and wondering 'who the hell I am'---but Sweet Jesus, when will I realize what is important? When will I rush, 'like a man with his hair on fire' to my Quadrant 2 , throw open all the windows and doors and scream with urgency born of self-honesty, Holy Spirit, set me straight here! 'Calmate, por favor' as Luz Helena used to tell me, freaking out about my gold fish attention span will not help, at all. In fact it might be better to say that what I put in quad 2 is 'what makes me truly happy.' Well, a lot of us have quite a bit of space in numero duo. So, grasping the sink with steady hands and a firm stare in the bathroom mirror of mind, be brave and say, "I want to be happy---it's important."
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[@evanunley6571]

I just found you and am enjoying these! Thank you!

[@hamiltonconstellation]

Excellent! Thanks for saying so...

[@greenhornet5186]

It seems "doing nothing" is what allows direction from the HS. Thanks for the discussion.