The Branching of the Road

A Course in Miracles, Combined Volume, Third Edition as published by Foundation for Inner Peace.
A Course in Miracles, Combined Volume, Third Edition as published by Foundation for Inner Peace.

From A Course in Miracles

1. When you come to the place where the branch in the road is quite apparent, you cannot go ahead. 2 You must go either one way or the other. 3 For now if you go straight ahead, the way you went before you reached the branch, you will go nowhere. 4 The whole purpose of coming this far was to decide which branch you will take now. 5 The way you came no longer matters. 6 It can no longer serve. 7 No one who reaches this far can make the wrong decision, although he can delay. 8 And there is no part of the journey that seems more hopeless and futile than standing where the road branches, and not deciding on which way to go.

2. It is but the first few steps along the right way that seem hard, for you have chosen, although you still may think you can go back and make the other choice. 2 This is not so. 3 A choice made with the power of Heaven to uphold it cannot be undone. 4 Your way is decided. 5 There will be nothing you will not be told, if you acknowledge this.

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