What is the next best right thing?

His symbolic function makes the Holy Spirit difficult to understand, because symbolism is open to different interpretations. As a man and also one of God’s creations, my right thinking, which came from the Holy Spirit or the Universal Inspiration, taught me first and foremost that this Inspiration is for all. I could not have It myself without knowing this. The word “know” is proper in this context, because the Holy Spirit is so close to knowledge that He calls it forth; or better, allows it to come. I have spoken before of the higher or “true” perception, which is so near to truth that God Himself can flow across the little gap. Knowledge is always ready to flow everywhere, but it cannot oppose. Therefore you can obstruct it, although you can never lose it. T-5.I.4:5 - 11

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

Artists call it the “Muse.” Christians call it the “Holy Spirit.” People in Twelve Step programs call it “Higher Power.” In the verses above, it is called “Universal Inspiration.” Psychologists call it “intuition.” So many words for what the Course calls “knowledge” which comes from revelation from God. It is often felt rather than thought or believed, but at its best it is thought and emotions together or more colloquially, “head and heard.” The human activity through which it is experienced is prayer, meditation, and discernment. The question is “What is God’s will?” or as we say, “What would love have me do?”

In Unitarian Universalism we join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This “search” involves the head and the heart and a lot of listening based on a desire to discern what the loving thing is to do?

Today, take some quiet time and go to the Holy Spirit, the Muse, your Higher Power with a question about what choice you should make, which path you should take, what is the next best right thing?