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Recognizing Our Reality as Love

You see the flesh or recognize the spirit. ²There is no compromise between the two. ³If one is real the other must be false, for what is real denies its opposite. ⁴There is no choice in vision but this one. ⁵What you decide in this determines all you see and think is real and hold as true. ⁶On this one choice does all your world depend, for here have you established what you are, as flesh or spirit in your own belief. ⁷If you choose flesh, you never will escape the body as your own reality, for you have chosen that you want it so. ⁸But choose the spirit, and all Heaven bends to touch your eyes and bless your holy sight, that you may see the world of flesh no more except to heal and comfort and to bless.

Salvation is undoing. ²If you choose to see the body, you behold a world of separation, unrelated things, and happenings that make no sense at all. …⁶Salvation is undoing of all this. ⁷For constancy arises in the sight of those whose eyes salvation has released from looking at the cost of keeping guilt, because they chose to let it go instead.

Salvation does not ask that you behold the spirit and perceive the body not. ²It merely asks that this should be your choice.

Your will be done, you holy child of God. ²It does not matter if you think you are in earth or Heaven. ³What your Father wills of you can never change. ⁴The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself. ⁵And you _are_ worthy that your will be done! (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VI.1:1–2:2,6–3:2;7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We see a world of bodies and differences because we have identified with the ego thought system of separation. This choice prevents us from recognizing the reality of spirit, our true Identity. The grandeur of this Identity is so vast that the world of separation would disappear when we choose to accept spirit as what we are.

To free ourselves from a limited self identity we only need to let go of our defenses against our reality as spirit. Forgiveness is the way we make this choice. As we forgive the wish for a special identity, we open our mind to recognize the Love that unites us with all of Creation. This unity is the will we share with our Father eternally.

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Accepting Our Unity with God

⁶God is the Alternate to dreams of fear. ⁷Who shares in them can never share in Him. ⁸But who withdraws his mind from sharing [dreams of fear] _is_ sharing Him. ⁹There is no other choice. ¹⁰Except you share it, nothing can exist. ¹¹And you exist because God shared His Will with you, that His creation might create.

It is the sharing of the evil dreams of hate and malice, bitterness and death, of sin and suffering and pain and loss, that makes them real. ²Unshared, they are perceived as meaningless. ³The fear is gone from them because you did not give them your support. ⁴Where fear has gone there love must come, because there are but these alternatives. ⁵Where one appears, the other disappears. ⁶And which you share becomes the only one you have. ⁷You have the one that you accept, because it is the only one you wish to have.

You share no evil dreams if you forgive the dreamer, and perceive that he is not the dream he made. ²And so he cannot be a part of yours, from which you both are free. ³Forgiveness separates the dreamer from the evil dream, and thus releases him. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.V.1:6–3:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we insist that bodies and what they do are real, we lock ourselves in dreams of fear. Only in dreams of differences, where some images are valued more than others, can fear seem justified. Such dreams are quests for value to reign supreme over those of lesser value.

Forgiveness withdraws the value given to differences. It releases our mind to accept the oneness of Love that is its natural state. Here we share in the peace and happiness of knowing our unity with all Creation.

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Willingness to Remember We Are Love

³Love is one. ⁴It has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergencies and no distinctions. ⁵It is like itself, unchanged throughout. ⁶It never alters with a person or a circumstance. ⁷It is the Heart of God, and also of His Son.

Love cannot judge. ²As it is one itself, it looks on all as one. ³Its meaning lies in oneness. ⁴And it must elude the mind that thinks of it as partial or in part. ⁵There is no love but God’s, and all of love is His. ⁶There is no other principle that rules where love is not. ⁷Love is a law without an opposite. ⁸Its wholeness is the power holding everything as one, the link between the Father and the Son which holds Them both forever as the same.

²Love’s meaning is your own, and shared by God Himself. ³For what you are is what He is. ⁴There is no love but His, and what He is, is everything there is. ⁵There is no limit placed upon Himself, and so are you unlimited as well.

Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. …⁴He will shine through your idle thoughts today, and help you understand the truth of love. ⁵In loving gentleness He will abide with you, as you allow His Voice to teach love’s meaning to your clean and open mind. ⁶And He will bless the lesson with His Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-127.1:3-7;3;4:2-5;9:1,4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 127 Insights.)

The oneness of Love is our natural habitat. It a state of mind that is at peace and never changes. It is our Self Which encompasses all of Reality. It does not condemn because it sees nothing different or apart from Itself.

Today we ask the Voice of Love to help us look past appearances of differences. We want to see everyone as united with us in Love. We are willing to remember that we are Love and nothing else.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Lessons in Love

³Father and Son and Holy Spirit are as One, as all your brothers join as one in truth. ⁴Christ and His Father never have been separate, and Christ abides within your understanding, in the part of you that shares His Father’s Will. ⁵The Holy Spirit links the other part—the tiny, mad desire to be separate, different and special—to the Christ, to make the oneness clear to what is really one. ⁶In this world this is not understood, but can be taught.

⁴It is the Holy Spirit’s function to teach you how this oneness is experienced, what you must do that it can be experienced, and where you should go to do it.

⁴Yet must It use the language that this mind can understand, in the condition in which it thinks it is. ⁵And It must use all learning to transfer illusions to the truth, taking all false ideas of what you are, and leading you beyond them to the truth that _is_ beyond them. ⁶All this can very simply be reduced to this:

⁷What is the same can not be different, and what is one can not have separate parts. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.I.5:3-6;6:4;7:4-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego is the denial of oneness, so it cannot understand what oneness is. As long as we identify with the ego, we need to be taught how to experience the oneness that is our natural state. That is the Holy Spirit’s function. He is our bridge of return to knowing the truth at that we remain at one with the Love that created us one with Itself.

The ego thinks in terms of different images which symbolize its wish for specialness. The Holy Spirit uses symbols we can understand to help us transfer illusions of differences to recognition of our oneness with all that is real. If we are willing, He will teach us how to open our mind to receive the Love that is given to us eternally, without limit. Today we practice listening to His kind and gentle lessons in Love.

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Accepting the Self God Created One with Himself

³To everyone who lives will Christ yet come, for everyone must live and move in Him. ⁴His Being in His Father is secure, because Their Will is One. ⁵Their gratitude to all They have created has no end, for gratitude remains a part of love.

Thanks be to you, the holy Son of God. ²For as you were created, you contain all things within your Self. ³And you are still as God created you. ⁴Nor can you dim the light of your perfection. ⁵In your heart the Heart of God is laid. ⁶He holds you dear, because you are Himself. ⁷All gratitude belongs to you, because of what you are.

Give thanks as you receive it. ²Be you free of all ingratitude to anyone who makes your Self complete. ³And from this Self is no one left outside. ⁴Give thanks for all the countless channels which extend this Self. ⁵All that you do is given unto Him. ⁶All that you think can only be His Thoughts, sharing with Him the holy Thoughts of God. ⁷Earn now the gratitude you have denied yourself when you forgot the function God has given you. ⁸But never think that He has ever ceased to offer thanks to you. (A Course in Miracles, W-197.7:3–9:8. See also ACIM Lesson 197 Insights.)

As an extension of God Himself, our true Self is everything that He is. This Self knows everyone is one with It. It sees no differences. We all were created as the holy Son of God. Today is a day of gratitude for the Love that unites us all in the Love of our Father.

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Seeing the Loving and the Lovable

Today we will again give thanks for our Identity in God. ²Our home is safe, protection guaranteed in all we do, power and strength available to us in all our undertakings. ³We can fail in nothing. ⁴Everything we touch takes on a shining light that blesses and that heals. ⁵At one with God and with the universe we go our way rejoicing, with the thought that God Himself goes everywhere with us.

…God is our Companion as we walk the world a little while. ⁵And those who come to follow us will recognize the way because the light we carry stays behind, yet still remains with us as we walk on.

²And God, Who loves us with the equal love in which we were created, smiles on us and offers us the happiness we gave.

Today we will not doubt His Love for us, nor question His protection and His care. ²No meaningless anxieties can come between our faith and our awareness of His Presence. ³We are one with Him today in recognition and rememberance. ⁴We feel Him in our hearts. ⁵Our minds contain His Thoughts; our eyes behold His loveliness in all we look upon. ⁶Today we see only the loving and the lovable. (A Course in Miracles, W-124.1;2:4-5;3:2–4:6. See also ACIM Lesson 124 Insights.)

The wish for specialness breeds judgment, hate and fear. It makes an image of our self which it believes is constantly under attack. This self needs to attack to protect its vulnerable identity.

Forgiveness releases us from hate and fear. It opens our mind to receive the Love that created us one with All, eternally at peace. It lets us remember that wherever we go, God is our Companion. With His Light in our mind, we see only the loving and the lovable.

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Forgiveness Lets Us See with Christ’s Vision

Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. ²It lets you recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your mind.

God’s plan for your salvation cannot change, nor can it fail. ²Be thankful it remains exactly as He planned it. ³Changelessly it stands before you like an open door, with warmth and welcome calling from beyond the doorway, bidding you to enter in and make yourself at home, where you belong.

Here is the answer! ²Would you stand outside while all of Heaven waits for you within? ³Forgive and be forgiven. ⁴As you give you will receive. ⁵There is no plan but this for the salvation of the Son of God. ⁶Let us today rejoice that this is so, for here we have an answer, clear and plain, beyond deceit in its simplicity. ⁷All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth.

²Today it will be given you to feel the peace forgiveness offers, and the joy the lifting of the veil holds out to you. (A Course in Miracles, W-122.3:1-2;5:1–6:7;11:2. See also ACIM Lesson 122 Insights.)

The ego is a judgment against God. It is a thought that condemns God for His ‘unwillingness’ to offer specialness to anyone. God is one Love and all His Creations remain one with Him in that Love. When we forgive the wish to be separate and unique, we open our mind to receive God’s gift of all of Himself.

When we forgive, the veil of condemnation is lifted. Love’s Light reveals the Love that is the truth in everyone. The forgiving eyes of Christ see only our unity that holds us forever in the Heaven of God’d Love.

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How to Read References for
Quotes from A Course in Miracles

Below are example references to specific sentences using the notation of the Second & Third Editions of A Course in Miracles published by the Foundation for Inner Peace:

T-26.IV.4:7 = Text, Chapt. 26, Section IV, paragraph 4, sentence 7.

W-169.5:2 = Workbook, Lesson 169, paragraph 5, sentence 2.

W-pII.1.1:1 = Workbook, Part II, Question 1, paragraph 1, sentence 1.

M-13.3:2 = Manual for Teachers, Question 13, paragraph 3, sentence 2.

C-6.4:6 = Clarification of Terms, Term 6, paragraph 4, sentence 6
The above numbering system of the Second & Third Editions published by The Foundation for A Course in Miracles

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