T. 27. IV. 1 – 4. Jesus: “In quietness are all things answered, and is every problem quietly resolved. In conflict there can be no answer and no resolution, for its purpose is to make no resolution possible, and to ensure no answer will be plain. A problem set within the context of a basic conflict has no answer, for it is easily seen in different ways. And what would be an answer from one point of view is not an answer in another light.
In your seeming separate state, you are in conflict! Thus it must be clear you cannot answer anything at all, for conflict has no limited effects. Yet if God gave an answer, there must be a way in which your problems are resolved, for what He wills already has been done!
Thus it must be that time is not involved and every problem can be answered now. Yet it must also be, that in your conflicted state of mind, solution is impossible. Therefore, God must have given you a way of reaching to another state of mind, one in which the answer is already there.
Such is the holy instant! It is here that all your problems should be brought and left. Here they belong, for here, beyond all conflict, is where their answer is. And where its answer is, a problem must be simple and be easily resolved. It must be pointless to attempt to solve a problem where the answer cannot be. Yet just as surely, if it is brought to where the answer is, it must be resolved.
Attempt to solve no problems except within the holy instant’s surety. For there the problem will be answered and resolved. Outside there will be no solution, for there is no answer there that could be found. Nowhere outside the Holy instant is a single, simple question ever asked.
The world can only ask a deceptive double question, one which cannot be simply answered. One with many answers can have no answers. None of them will do. It does not ask a question to be answered, but only to restate its point of view! All questions asked within this world support only a way of looking, and are not an honest question asked. A question asked from hate cannot be answered, because it is an answer in itself. A double question asks and answers, both parts attesting the same thing in a different form.
The world asks but one question. It is this: ‘Of these illusions, which of them is true? Which ones establish peace and offer joy? And which can bring escape from all the pain of which this world is made?’ Whatever form the question takes, its purpose is the same.
The worldly question asks but to establish sin is real, and brings answers in the form of ‘preference.’ It asks, ‘Which sin do you prefer? Well, that must be the one that you should choose! It is the others then that must not be true. What can the body get that you would want the most of all? It is your servant and also your friend. Just tell it what you want, and it will serve you lovingly and well!’
And this is not a question, for irrespective of its different forms, it tells you what you value most, what you want and where to go for it. It leaves no room to question its beliefs, except that what it states for your belief merely takes a question’s form.“