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Teaching Only Love

To teach is to demonstrate. There are only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you believe one or the other is true all the time. From your demonstration others learn, and so do you.

The curriculum you set up is therefore determined exclusively by what you think you are, and what you believe the relationship of others is to you.… It is the teaching underlying what you say that teaches you. Teaching but reinforces what you believe about yourself. Its fundamental purpose is to diminish self-doubt. This does not mean that the self you are trying to protect is real. But it does mean that the self you think is real is what you teach. (M-in.2:1-3;3:1,6-10)A Course in Miracles,

In truth we are only Love and every brother is only Love. It is Love that unites us as God’s one Son. As we accept the truth that only Love is real, we teach it through demonstration. Because we are both teacher and learner, as we teach every brother that they are only Love, we are learning that we are only Love. We teach this by letting Holy Spirit shine His Light on all our thoughts. This is our practice for today.

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Accepting and Sharing the Touch of Christ

The gifts [of God] are yours, entrusted to your care, to give to all who chose the lonely road you have escaped. They do not understand they but pursue their wishes. It is you who teach them now. For you have learned of Christ there is another way for them to walk. Teach them by showing them the happiness that comes to those who feel the touch of Christ, and recognize God’s gifts.

Become the living proof of what Christ’s touch can offer everyone. God has entrusted all His gifts to you. Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. Such is your mission now. For God entrusts the giving of His gifts to all who have received them. He has shared His joy with you. And now you go to share it with the world. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 166, W-pI.166.13:1-5;15:2-8. See also ACIM Lesson 166 Insights.)

As you allow the touch of Christ to heal your mind, you know that it is shared equally with everyone. You feel the happiness and safety that come with remembering the truth about our one Identity in God. You let yourself be carried to the truth all through the day. These are God’s Gifts. Instead of feeling vulnerable to an outside world, we accept our invulnerability. We feel the joy of receiving Love and extending it equally to all. Fear fades away as our Identity in Love is recognized.

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I See Peace When I Accept Peace

Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward. It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world arises.

Search your mind for fear thoughts, anxiety-provoking situations, “offending” personalities or events, or anything else about which you are harboring unloving thoughts. Note them all casually, repeating the idea:

I could see peace in this situation instead of what I now see in it.

(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 34, W-pI.34.1:2-4;3:2-3;5:4. See also ACIM Lesson 34 Insights.)

We are training our mind to choose with the Holy Spirit, instead of with the ego. With Holy Spirit, we are reversing thoughts of conflict to thoughts of peace, joy and Love. We reversing thoughts of vulnerability and weakness, and claiming our Higher Power within. We are accepting enlightened thoughts instead of dark, depressing thoughts.

Today we practice accepting peace from our inner Teacher, the Holy Spirit. We allow ourselves to feel the calmness and safety that eternally surround us.

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Resting in Quiet Remembering

The miracle comes quietly into the mind that stops an instant and is still. It reaches gently from that quiet time, and from the mind it healed in quiet then, to other minds to share its quietness. And they will join in doing nothing to prevent its radiant extension back into the Mind which caused all minds to be. Born out of sharing, there can be no pause in time to cause the miracle delay in hastening to all unquiet minds, and bringing them an instant’s stillness, when the memory of God returns to them. Their own remembering is quiet now, and what has come to take its place will not be wholly unremembered afterwards. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.I.11. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

A chaotic series of thoughts seems to be constantly flowing through our mind. Many seem to be completely disconnected from the others. Others seem to be connected to each other but lead nowhere. These are the thoughts fed to us by the ego thought system. They do not come from our true Self, which has only one Thought, that It shares with God.

Our true Self’s singular thought is the joyous extension of the Thought of Love, Which created us and extends through us. It does not help to try to do battle with the ego’s chaotic thoughts in an attempt to manage the chaos. That is simply asking the source of chaos to manage its own chaos.

The way out of the chaos is to simply let it pass by without participating in the chaos. In this world the ego thoughts will enter our minds. As we learn to give them no attention, they pass by with no effect because the ego’s thoughts have no substance and no energy. It is the attention we give to the ego thoughts that seem to give them effects in our life experience.

To quiet our minds, we can notice the ego thoughts and let them pass by. As we withdraw our attention to these thoughts, we make way for the Thought of our true Self to rise to our awareness. Like the sound of a railroad train passing by fades off into the distance, our minds return to quiet as we no longer feed the ego with our attention. Now the way is clear to remember the Thought of Love that created us. Now we have freed ourselves to extend the Thought of Love and let It shine on all our brothers. Now we remember our Father and we rest in His peace.

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Seeing the Light of Love in Everyone

When a mind has only light, it knows only light. Its own radiance shines all around it, and extends out into the darkness of other minds, transforming them into majesty. The Majesty of God is there, for you to recognize and appreciate and know. Recognizing the Majesty of God as your brother is to accept your own inheritance. God gives only equally. If you recognize His gift in anyone, you have acknowledged what He has given you. (A Course in Miracles, T-7.XI.5:1-6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The ego is the denial of Light. We cannot know the Light we are while we believe we are the ego. Nor can we recognize the Light of Love in our brothers because the ego cannot see the presence of Love.

To see the Light of Love in anyone we must use a different way of seeing — we must use Christ’s vision, the vision of our true Self. This vision is not seen with the body’s eyes. It comes from within, from the part of our mind that remembers our eternal unity with the Source of Love.

Holy Spirit, help me release my attachment to the ego’s way of seeing. I am willing to let it go. My heart’s desire is to see the Light of Love You see, to recognize it in all my brothers and to learn that it is in me. I offer you all my thoughts with willingness to let You wash them clean of the dark images of denial. I welcome these cleaned thoughts, which show me only the presence of Love.

I desire to be Love’s messenger. I desire to offer only Love in response to calls for Love. I desire to join with the Love that is eternal, now and everywhere. I am grateful for Your help.

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Our Guide to Perfect Happiness

A Course in Miracles,

Only the Holy Spirit knows what you need. For He will give you all things that do not block the way to light. And what else could you need? In time, He gives you all the things that you need have, and will renew them as long as you have need of them. He will take nothing from you as long as you have any need of it. And yet He knows that everything you need is temporary, and will but last until you step aside from all your needs and realize that all of them have been fulfilled. Therefore He has no investment in the things that He supplies, except to make certain that you will not use them on behalf of lingering in time. He knows that you are not at home there, and He wills no delay to wait upon your joyous homecoming. (T-13.VII.12. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. If we want to be happy, it makes sense that we follow the Guide given us by the Source of happiness.

Since the ego is the denial of the Source of happiness, it does not know what happiness is. The best the ego can do is offer illusions as substitutes for God’s gifts. Everything the ego offers can only be temporary. The images may seem to make us happy, yet they do not last. And so, with the ego as our guide, we are on a journey that leads to disappointment and dissatisfaction.

Thankfully we have another Guide in our minds ready to lead us to the ultimate satisfaction of perfect happiness. We need to step back from the ego’s advice, remembering that on our own we do not know what will really bring us true and lasting happiness.

As we practice turning to the Holy Spirit as our Advisor in all things, we learn that the things we thought would bring us happiness in the world only lead to further dissatisfaction. We learn to recognize what is truly valueless. We make way for God’s joy and peace to come forward in our minds. Under the Holy Spirit’s guidance, all things in the world are used to help us awaken to the eternal presence of joy that is our natural state.

Today we practice giving our attention to the Guide to perfect happiness.

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We Rest in God Today

This thought has power to wake the sleeping truth in you, whose vision sees beyond appearances to that same truth in everyone and everything there is.

You rest within the peace of God today, and call upon your brothers from your rest to draw them to their rest, along with you. You will be faithful to your trust today, forgetting no one, bringing everyone into the boundless circle of your peace, the holy sanctuary where you rest. Open the temple doors and let them come from far across the world, and near as well; your distant brothers and your closest friends; bid them all enter here and rest with you.

You rest within the peace of God today, quiet and unafraid. Each brother comes to take his rest, and offer it to you. We rest together here, for thus our rest is made complete, and what we give today we have received already. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 109, W-pI.109.2:4;8:1-9:3. See also ACIM Lesson 109 Insights.)

As we go through our day, we practice letting ourselves remember that we rest in God. We rest in peace eternally. As we dwell in this state of mind, no appearances, no one’s behavior or words, can disturb our peace. We are confident that we rest in God today.

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