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Accepting All Encompassing Oneness

…separation is the source of guilt, and to appeal to [separation] for salvation is to believe you are alone. To be alone is to be guilty. For to experience yourself as alone is to deny the Oneness of the Father and His Son, and thus to attack reality. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.V.2:5-7)

To want to have a unique identity with private thoughts we would keep as our own is to want separation. To want separation is to want guilt. Guilt is attractive because it reinforces the isolation of separation. It is the principal means the ego uses to hold belief in separation in place in our minds.

While we choose to maintain a separate identity, we cannot experience Love’s oneness. We cannot experience peace. We cannot experience the joy of God. Thankfully we have the means in our mind to step away from the mistaken idea that separation offers us anything of value.

As we practice being vigilant for every thought of littleness, of uniqueness, of separation, and bringing those thoughts with an open mind to the Holy Spirit, His Light will shine away the false ideas and reveal the all encompassing oneness of God’s Love. This practice is the practice of forgiveness. It is how we accept all encompassing Oneness.

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We Are Perfectly Safe Forever

The only safety lies in extending the Holy Spirit, because as you see His gentleness in others your own mind perceives itself as totally harmless. Once [your mind] can accept this fully, it sees no need to protect itself. The protection of God then dawns upon [your mind], assuring it that it is perfectly safe forever. The perfectly safe are wholly benign. They bless because they know that they are blessed. Without anxiety the mind is wholly kind, and because it extends beneficence it is beneficent. Safety is the complete relinquishment of attack. (A Course in Miracles, T-6.III.3:1-7)

As we make seeing through the eyes of the Holy Spirit our highest priority, we find the truth about ourselves and everyone… We see past the ego’s thought forms of separation… We find the beneficent Light of the Holy Spirit within our own minds…

In time we learn to give this inner Light more and more of our full attention… We open to the Holy Spirit’s Thoughts and see as He sees… We step back and let the Holy Spirit lead the way… We let our minds quiet to receive the Love of our true Identity… As we identify with the Love within us, we naturally extend it because that is Love’s nature…

We experience Love’s eternal safety… We know that everyone is eternally safe in the Mind of Love… We know that this can never change. As we remember the changelessness of Love, we know that we are invulnerable. We know that we are perfectly safe forever.

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In Truth We Are God’s Will, Extended and Extending

Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its laws, and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours. Yet what I am in truth is but Your Will, extended and extending. This am I, and this will never change. As You are One, so am I one with You. And this I chose in my creation, where my will became forever one with Yours. That choice was made for all eternity. It cannot change, and be in opposition to itself. Father, my will is Yours. And I am safe, untroubled and serene, in endless joy, because it is Your Will that it be so. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.329.1)

Since God is Love and nothing else, it’s good news that God’s Will is our will. It means that our will is to be Love and extend Love and nothing else. All we really need to do is to stop trying not to be our Self. The world we see is a denial of our Self because it is a world that denies Love. Separation and Love are mutually exclusive, because Love is one. Being one, there are no differences in Love — no forms, no greater and lesser, no lack nor loss.

Because Love is one and changeless, we are absolutely safe in Love. We are always wholly immersed in the eternal giving and receiving of Love. When we believe what the body’s eyes show us, it seems that we are anything but immersed in Love. That loveless world is what the body and the body’s eyes were made to show us. It is a self deception and could never be true. In truth, we are God’s Will, we are God’s Love, extended and extending.

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Finding Our Self Through Honesty

Today we focus on being honest with ourselves. When we recognize thoughts of separation in any of their myriad forms, we turn them over to our True Self for help to see past the appearances to the truth of Love’s oneness. We are willing to give up our self deception and welcome the truth of our Self.

This is how we undo the dream of separation and return to the experience of our Home in Love. This is how we undo the dream and return to the reality of Love. As we accept this gentle correction, we naturally extend Love to all our brothers. Our healing serves the healing of the world. And we give thanks.

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Accepting Clear Vision

…we watch our thoughts, appealing silently to Him Who sees the elements of truth in them. Let Him evaluate each thought that comes to mind, remove the elements of dreams, and give them back again as clean ideas that do not contradict the Will of God.

Give Him your thoughts, and He will give them back as miracles which joyously proclaim the wholeness and the happiness God wills His Son, as proof of His eternal Love. And as each thought is thus transformed, it takes on healing power from the Mind which saw the truth in it, and failed to be deceived by what was falsely added. All the threads of fantasy are gone. And what remains is unified into a perfect Thought that offers its perfection everywhere. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.151.13:3-4;14:1-4)

Watching our thoughts is an important step toward releasing ourselves from the pain, fear and guilt of the ego thought system. But with that, it is important to appeal to the Holy Spirit, our True Self, for help to see beyond the appearances of the world. Our True Self sees the elements of truth beyond our perceptions.

When we are willing to receive our True Self’s vision, we are shown the elements of truth beyond appearances. We thus are able to bring the Light of Truth into the shadowy world of the ego. The Light dispels the shadows and Love’s blessing extends to all. The appearance of conflict is transformed into joining in the oneness of Love. This is how we fulfill our function as God’s Son to bring healing to the world.

We dedicate today to watching our thoughts and asking for the clear vision of our true Self.

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From Complexity to Simplicity

In keeping with the ego’s goal of seek and do not find, the world seems to be filled with things to do. The world’s complexity keeps us focusing on survival as we try to negotiate all the distractions and detours.

Peace is the doorway to release from the weight of the world’s complexity. In peace, our minds are open to the understanding the Holy Spirit brings us. The Holy Spirit is always ready to shine His Light on everything we experience to show us the truth behind the appearances. In one way or another, He always shows us that only Love is real.

As we are willing to open to the center of peace within, the seeming complexity of our daily experience in the world fades in the Light of Love’s oneness. In this Light we can be receptive to solutions in form of our perceived problems. These solutions always bring greater ease with kindness and appreciation for the Love that is ever present.

Today we practice being vigilant for peace and accepting Holy Spirit’s help to see truth in every situation.

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Accepting Help from the Holy Spirit

While unconscious tendencies dominate your mind, you cannot freely choose. The choices you make in your life will follow a repeating pattern, even though situations and circumstances may change. Yet the outcome will be the same. To bring about meaningful change, you must learn to know your own mind, not superficially but deeply. You must become aware of your mind in action, for it is always active. Its activity either multiplies and strengthens illusion, or move you in the direction of Truth.

To reinforce Truth in your mind, you must follow the guidance you receive from the Holy Spirit, for He alone knows Truth. You have lost the awareness of It, and banished It even from your memory. He is the link between you and your Creator, between you and your Self. As long as you are lost in the play of illusion, He will never leave you. The Holy Spirit is always available and will give you all the help you need, and can accept, at any time. You need only develop the habit of asking, and be receptive and open, to receive answers. (From the Christ Mind, pp. 126-127)

Because we are believing in illusions of loss, lack and vulnerability, we are very fearful. The ego mind creates a constant flow of problems to keep our mind occupied. It is only when we are willing to open our minds to our true Self, the Holy Spirit, that we receive the true answer to every problem. At this stage we don’t realize we are making up fearful stories of being separate from Love. We don’t realize that we are trying to be separate from our Source.

But we do have Help. As we openly welcome mind purification by recognizing that we don’t already know, the Holy Spirit shows us a way to look at the world we are seeing differently. We are brought to the truth of Love’s Presence behind the dream of separation. All this comes with accepting help from the Holy Spirit all through the day.

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