Chapter 15: The Holy Instant – I. The Two Uses of Time

In the holy instant, in which you see yourself as bright with freedom, you will remember God.  For remembering Him is to remember freedom.

 Workbook Lesson 308

This instant is the only time there is.

Chapter 19 – IV. The Obstacles to Peace

Stand you here a while and tremble not. 5 You will be ready. 6 Let us join together in a holy instant, here in this place where the purpose, given in a holy instant, has led you.

T-18.VII.4. It is impossible to accept the holy instant without reservation unless, just for an instant, you are willing to see no past or future. 2 You cannot prepare for it without placing it in the future. 3 Release is given you the instant you desire it.

T-18.VI.13 In these instants of release from physical restrictions, you experience much of what happens in the holy instant; the lifting of the barriers of time and space, the sudden experience of peace and joy, and, above all, the lack of awareness of the body, and of the questioning whether or not all this is possible.

T-18.VI.14. It is possible because you want it. 2 The sudden expansion of awareness that takes place with your desire for it is the irresistible appeal the holy instant holds. 3 It calls to you to be yourself, within its safe embrace. 4 There are the laws of limit lifted for you, to welcome you to openness of mind and freedom. 5 Come to this place of refuge, where you can be yourself in peace. 6 Not through destruction, not through a breaking out, but merely by a quiet melting in. 7 For peace will join you there, simply because you have been willing to let go the limits you have placed upon love, and joined it where it is and where it led you, in answer to its gentle call to be at peace.

Lesson 227: This is my holy instant of release.

W-pII.227.1. Father, it is today that I am free, because my will is Yours. 2 I thought to make another will. 3 Yet nothing that I thought apart from You exists. 4 And I am free because I was mistaken, and did not affect my own reality at all by my illusions. 5 Now I give them up, and lay them down before the feet of truth, to be removed forever from my mind. 6 This is my holy instant of release. 7 Father, I know my will is one with Yours.

W-pII.227.2. And so today we find our glad return to Heaven, which we never really left. 2 The Son of God this day lays down his dreams. 3 The Son of God this day comes home again, released from sin and clad in holiness, with his right mind restored to him at last.

Workbook Lesson 241: This holy instant is salvation come.

W-pII.241.1. What joy there is today! 2 It is a time of special celebration. 3 For today holds out the instant to the darkened world where its release is set. 4 The day has come when sorrows pass away and pain is gone.