Holy Instant - Words used in A Course in Miracles

 You can claim the holy instant any time and anywhere you want it.   T-15.IV.4:4.

The holy instant is this instant and every instant. The one you want it to be it is.   T-15.IV.1:3,4.

It is impossible to accept the holy instant without reservation unless, just for an instant, you are willing to see no past or future. You cannot prepare for it without placing it in the future. Release is given you the instant you desire it.   T-18.VII.4:1-3.

In the holy instant nothing happens that has not always been. Only the veil that has been drawn across reality is lifted. Nothing has changed.   T-15.VI.6:1-3.

The holy instant is a miniature of eternity. … the whole of Heaven lies in this instant, borrowed from eternity and set in time for you.    T-17.IV.11:4,8.

The experience of an instant, however compelling it may be, is easily forgotten if you allow time to close over it. It must be kept shining and gracious in your awareness of time, but not concealed within it. The instant remains. But where are you? T-17.V.12:1-4.

The necessary condition for the holy instant does not require that you have no thoughts that are not pure. But it does require that you have none that you would keep. Innocence is not of your making. It is given you the instant you would have it.                      T-15.IV.9:1-4.

Only within the holy instant can an honest question honestly be asked. And from the meaning of the question does the meaningfulness of the answer come. Here is it possible to separate your wishes from the answer, so it can be given you and also be received. The answer is provided everywhere. Yet it is only here it can be heard.                 T-27.IV.6:1-5.