Atonement

Atonement teaches you how to escape forever from everything that you have taught yourself in the past, by showing you only what you are now.

Learning has been accomplished before its effects are manifest.

Learning is therefore in the past, but its influence determines the present by giving it whatever meaning it holds for you.

Your learning gives the present no meaning at all. Nothing you have ever learned can help you understand the present, or teach you how to undo the past.

Your past is what you have taught yourself. Let it all go.

Do not attempt to understand any event or anything or anyone in its "light," for the darkness in which you try to see can only obscure.

Put no confidence at all in darkness to illuminate your understanding, for if you do you contradict the light, and thereby think you see the darkness.

Yet darkness cannot be seen, for it is nothing more than a condition in which seeing becomes impossible.