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A Practice That Leads to Happiness and Love

Let every voice but God’s be still in me.

Father, today I would but hear Your Voice. ²In deepest silence I would come to You, to hear Your Voice and to receive Your Word. ³I have no prayer but this: I come to You to ask You for the truth. ⁴And truth is but Your Will, which I would share with You today.

Today we let no ego thoughts direct our words or actions. ²When such thoughts occur, we quietly step back and look at them, and then we let them go. ³We do not want what they would bring with them. ⁴And so we do not choose to keep them. ⁵They are silent now. ⁶And in the stillness, hallowed by His Love, God speaks to us and tells us of our will, as we have chosen to remember Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-254. See also ACIM Lesson 254 Insights.)

What voice would we listen to today — ego’s or God’s? This choice is ours in every moment. Today we dedicate to listening to God’s Voice. When ego’s thoughts come up, we pause to welcome peace in our mind. We observe the thought, then let it go.

In quiet we let God speak to us of His Love and His Will for us to join with Him in happiness and Love. With this practice, the ego’s voice will recede from our awareness and the Thoughts we share with God will direct our words and actions.

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Letting the Past Fall Away

Be very still an instant. ²Come without all thought of what you ever learned before, and put aside all images you made. ³The old will fall away before the new without your opposition or intent. ⁴There will be no attack upon the things you thought were precious and in need of care. ⁵There will be no assault upon your wish to hear a call that never has been made. ⁶Nothing will hurt you in this holy place, to which you come to listen silently and learn the truth of what you really want.

⁷For next to you is One Who holds the light before you, so that every step is made in certainty and sureness of the road. ⁸A blindfold can indeed obscure your sight, but cannot make the way itself grow dark. ⁹And He Who travels with you has the light. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.II.8:1-6;11:7-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Hanging on to the past keeps us from experiencing the present as it is. The past distorts our recognition of Love’s Reality now. Instead, we see projections of beliefs that overlay images of the past which block our awareness of Love’s presence.

The Light of Love is always with us. As we forgive the past, we let the Holy Spirit light our path of return to our Home in our Father’s Love.

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Remembering Our Safety in God’s Peace

Let me not see myself as limited.

Let me behold the Son of God today, and witness to his glory. ²Let me not try to obscure the holy light in him, and see his strength diminished and reduced to frailty; nor perceive the lacks in him with which I would attack his sovereignty.

He is Your Son, my Father. ²And today I would behold his gentleness instead of my illusions. ³He is what I am, and as I see him so I see myself. ⁴Today I would see truly, that this day I may at last identify with him. (A Course in Miracles, W-250. See also ACIM Lesson 250 Insights.)

To know our true Self we need to see the truth in every brother. He is the Son of God, along with our Self. We remain eternally one Self, united with our Creator.

We cannot know this as long as we see anyone as different from ourselves. Differences only seem real while we believe separation is real. By the grace of God, beliefs cannot change Reality. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us use the vision of our true Self to see past the images of separate bodies in a dream of separation. His vision will show us that we live safely in God’s peace, along with all His Creation.

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Seeing the Presence of Love Everywhere

Do not be afraid of the ego. ²It depends on your mind, and as you made it by believing in it, so you can dispel it by withdrawing belief from it. ³Do not project the responsibility for your belief in it onto anyone else, or you will preserve the belief. ⁴When you are willing to accept sole responsibility for the ego’s existence you will have laid aside all anger and all attack, because they come from an attempt to project responsibility for your own errors. ⁵But having accepted the errors as yours, do not keep them. ⁶Give them over quickly to the Holy Spirit to be undone completely, so that all their effects will vanish from your mind and from the Sonship as a whole.

The Holy Spirit will teach you to perceive beyond your belief, because truth is beyond belief and His perception is true. ²The ego can be completely forgotten at any time, because it is a totally incredible belief, and no one can keep a belief he has judged to be unbelievable.

The whole purpose of this course is to teach you that the ego is unbelievable and will forever be unbelievable. (A Course in Miracles, T-7.VIII.5:1–6:2;7:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We each are responsible for our beliefs. They are the basis of all our perceptions. We see what we want to see. The wish for specialness leads to seeing images of differences. These images may be frightening or comforting, but none represent the unified, changeless Love that is all of reality.

The Holy Spirit in our mind is there to teach us to perceive beyond the images of separation to the truth of our unity with all. As we join with Him, we will learn that nothing we have perceived under the ego’s direction is believable. With this lesson, the veil of separation is dispelled. We see the presence of Love everywhere.

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Learning to Offer Only Gifts of Love

As the ego would limit your perception of your brothers to the body, so would the Holy Spirit release your vision and let you see the Great Rays shining from them, so unlimited that they reach to God. ²It is this shift to vision that is accomplished in the holy instant.”

Our task is but to continue, as fast as possible, the necessary process of looking straight at all the interference and seeing it exactly as it is. ²For it is impossible to recognize as wholly without gratification what you think you want. ³The body is the symbol of the ego, as the ego is the symbol of the separation. ⁴And both are nothing more than attempts to limit communication, and thereby to make it impossible. ⁵For communication must be unlimited in order to have meaning, and deprived of meaning, it will not satisfy you completely. ⁶Yet it [communication] remains the only means by which you can establish real relationships, which have no limits, having been established by God.

²Love would always give increase. ³Limits are demanded by the ego, and represent its demands to make little and ineffectual. ⁴Limit your sight of a brother to his body, which you will do as long as you would not release him from it, and you have denied his gift to you. ⁵His body cannot give it. ⁶And seek it not through yours. ⁷Yet your minds are already continuous, and their union need only be accepted and the loneliness in Heaven is gone. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.IX.1:1-2;2;4:2-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

While we identify with a body, the symbol of the ego, we believe bodies, and what they seem to do, are real. Unreal itself, the body can only see illusions. It cannot see the truth in anyone.

To break free from this cycle of belief and misperception, we need to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to look directly at the ego’s interference. With His help we see the nothingness of images of separation, and look past them to the Love that unites us with all Creation. As we let Love guide our seeing, we will rest in God’s peace and joyously offer only Love to all.

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Letting Our Mind Serve Love

I rule my mind, which I alone must rule.

I have a kingdom I must rule. ²At times, it does not seem I am its king at all. ³It seems to triumph over me, and tell me what to think, and what to do and feel. ⁴And yet it has been given me to serve whatever purpose I perceive in it. ⁵My mind can only serve. ⁶Today I give its service to the Holy Spirit to employ as He sees fit. ⁷I thus direct my mind, which I alone can rule. ⁸And thus I set it free to do the Will of God.

Father, my mind is open to Your Thoughts, and closed today to every thought but Yours. ²I rule my mind, and offer it to You. ³Accept my gift, for it is Yours to me. (A Course in Miracles, W-236. See also ACIM Lesson 236 Insights.)

The wish for specialness denies our true Identity. To hide from this Identity, the mind dedicated to specialness makes a false identity that needs constant defense. The body is its central focus which is flooded with distractions that seem to need attention to maintain its safety.

But the mind can serve a different purpose. Today we give its service to the Holy Spirit to use to extend Love, our true Identity. We join in God’s eternal Creation. As let our mind be open to Thoughts of Love, our world is transformed. We recognize the Life we live in Love.

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Opening to Receive Love’s Blessings

The real world is the state of mind in which the only purpose of the world is seen to be forgiveness. ²Fear is not its goal, for the escape from guilt becomes its aim. ³The value of forgiveness is perceived and takes the place of idols, which are sought no longer, for their “gifts” are not held dear. ⁴No rules are idly set, and no demands are made of anyone or anything to twist and fit into the dream of fear. ⁵Instead, there is a wish to understand all things created as they really are. ⁶And it is recognized that all things must be first forgiven, and then understood.

⁷The world becomes a place of hope, because its only purpose is to be a place where hope of happiness can be fulfilled. ⁸And no one stands outside this hope, because the world has been united in belief the purpose of the world is one which all must share, if hope be more than just a dream.

²The real world is a state in which the mind has learned how easily do idols go when they are still perceived but wanted not. ³How willingly the mind can let them go when it has understood that idols are nothing and nowhere, and are purposeless. ⁴For only then can guilt and sin be seen without a purpose, and as meaningless.

Thus is the real world’s purpose gently brought into awareness, to replace the goal of sin and guilt. ²And all that stood between your image of yourself and what you are, forgiveness washes joyfully away. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.V.1;2:7-8;5:1–6:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We cannot understand God’s Creation as long as we want to maintain a unique identity. As long as we want separation to be real, we cannot understand the oneness of Love. Thus forgiveness of our mistaken wish for specialness opens our mind to receive Love’s blessings of peace and happiness.

When we are willing to learn, the Holy Spirit will teach us to recognize that all conflict is based on illusions that are nothing and nowhere. We forgive our mistaken perceptions and we see a world united in the limitless extension of 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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