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Study of Text, C 14: II. The Happy Learner, P 2. 2-13-17

II. The Happy Learner, P 2

2 The Holy Spirit, seeing where you are but knowing you are elsewhere, begins His lesson in simplicity with the fundamental teaching that truth is true. This is the hardest lesson you will ever learn, and in the end the only one. Simplicity is very difficult for twisted minds. Consider all the distortions you have made of nothing; all the strange forms and feelings and actions and reactions that you have woven out of it. Nothing is so alien to you as the simple truth, and nothing are you less inclined to listen to. The contrast between what is true and what is not is perfectly apparent, yet you do not see it. The simple and the obvious are not apparent to those who would make palaces and royal robes of nothing, believing they are kings with golden crowns because of them.

Journal

What I used to believe every day of my life, and to a lesser degree still do. I am a body and am separate from other bodies. I have certain needs and goals and they are different from the needs and goals of others. There is a limit to what is available and I am in competition for that limited supply. I need, I need, I need, because I think I lack. I am small and vulnerable and very fragile. I am alone. I am going to suffer in my life, and my only hope is to suffer less. My life is dedicated to that purpose of less suffering. In the end, no matter what I do, I am going to die. God is to be cajoled and begged and manipulated into giving me what I want. God might say no and so God is to be hated and feared.

What I am learning now to be the truth. I am spirit. This body I use does not exist anywhere but in my mind. I am very holy because God is in my mind. There is absolutely nothing my holiness cannot do. I can believe anything I want to believe and while I believe it, it is true for me. If what I believe is not the truth I will suffer as if it is the truth. My mind is the most powerful force in the universe and absolutely decides my experience. Do I have a pain in my neck? If so it is because I saw some value in having that pain and decided on it. Being free of that pain is as simple as deciding I have no use for it. Everything in the world I see is there because I chose for it to be there and all that is missing is missing because I chose for it not to be there. I am one with all that is. There is nothing outside of me. There is no one and no thing that exists anywhere but in the mind. I love God and He loves me. This is the truth and only the truth is true.

Or put more simply: I am the Son of God, exactly as I was created and nothing has or could change that. Everything else does not exist.

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