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Learning What We Really Want

³Our emphasis is not on giving up the world, but on exchanging it for what is far more satisfying, filled with joy, and capable of offering you peace.

Is it a loss to find a world instead where losing is impossible; where love endures forever, hate cannot exist and vengeance has no meaning? ²Is it loss to find all things you really want, and know they have no ending and they will remain exactly as you want them throughout time?

⁴Value… not [the little things the world sets forth], and they will disappear. ⁵Esteem them, and they will seem real to you.

Such is the choice. ²What loss can be for you in choosing not to value nothingness? ³This world holds nothing that you really want, but what you choose instead you want indeed! ⁴Let it be given you today. ⁵It waits but for your choosing it, to take the place of all the things you seek but do not want.

³Beyond this world there is a world I want. ⁴I choose to see that world instead of this, for here is nothing that I really want. (A Course in Miracles, W-129.1:3;3:1-2;5:3-6:5;7:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 129 Insights.)

The only reason we seem to be in this world which never fully satisfies is because we chose to believe that specialness, having something to ourself alone, is what we want. Yet this wish is the denial of all that is real. The Love we are, in unity with our Creator, is one and the same. There can be no differences or uniqueness in Its oneness. Only this Love is truly satisfying, because It is all that is real. It is eternal and cannot be lost in truth.

The universe of Love is all we really want. Love is our Identity. It unifies us with all that is real. Only our dedication to specialness makes us unaware that we have all that we really want, now and forever. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive this mistaken wish. As we forgive, the awareness of Love will fill our mind.

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Remembering We Live in God’s Love

God goes with me wherever I go.

Today’s idea will eventually overcome completely the sense of loneliness and abandonment all the separated ones experience. ²Depression is an inevitable consequence of separation. ³So are anxiety, worry, a deep sense of helplessness, misery, suffering and intense fear of loss.

The separated ones have invented many “cures” for what they believe to be “the ills of the world.” ²But the one thing they do not do is to question the reality of the problem. ³Yet its effects cannot be cured because the problem is not real. ⁴The idea for today has the power to end all this foolishness forever. ⁵And foolishness it is, despite the serious and tragic forms it may take.

Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you and out into the world. ²It will cure all sorrow and pain and fear and loss because it will heal the mind that thought these things were real, and suffered out of its allegiance to them.

You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its Source goes with you wherever you go. ²You can never suffer because the Source of all joy goes with you wherever you go. ³You can never be alone because the Source of all life goes with you wherever you go. ⁴Nothing can destroy your peace of mind because God goes with you wherever you go. (A Course in Miracles, W-41.1:1–4:4. See also ACIM Lesson 41 Insights.)

The Course tells us repeatedly that the world we perceive through the body’s senses is not real. This is because we are so heavily invested in this mistaken belief that we need frequent reinforcement to help us let go of the belief that brings us only pain and loss. We have embraced a belief system that is built to defend its mistaken beliefs.

We cannot let it go without help from outside of our belief system. By God’s grace, we have been given the Holy Spirit as our Guide to freedom. He is aware of what we perceive, but does not believe it. When we are willing to pause and let peace return to our mind, He shows us the reality of Love that has been hidden by the images of separation.

The power of Love dispels the illusion, bringing relief to our troubled mind. Though we may let our limited beliefs close our mind again, each time we welcome His help, we are able to maintain our awareness of the Love we are a little longer. We remember our reality in the Love of God. It is worth the practice.

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Choosing Forgiveness to Awaken to Love

I love You, Father, and I love Your Son.

My gratitude permits my love to be accepted without fear. ²And thus am I restored to my reality at last. ³All that intruded on my holy sight forgiveness takes away. ⁴And I draw near the end of senseless journeys, mad careers and artificial values. ⁵I accept instead what God establishes as mine, sure that in that alone I will be saved; sure that I go through fear to meet my Love.

Father, I come to You today, because I would not follow any way but Yours. ²You are beside me. ³Certain is Your way. ⁴And I am grateful for Your holy gifts of certain sanctuary, and escape from everything that would obscure my love for God my Father and His holy Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-298. See also ACIM Lesson 298 Insights.)

Love is our true Nature. We live in Love. The dream world we see with the body’s eyes portrays the effect of denying Love. To return to our true Identity, we need to forgive our denial of Love. This denial shows up as judgment, victimhood, a need to be right, depression, a sense of loss of any kind, wrapped in a garment of fear and guilt.

None of this is in God’s plan. As we forgive our mistaken beliefs, we clear away the veil and the Love we are, along with our Father, is revealed. Today we choose forgiveness, for we want to remember the Love we are.

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Dwelling in Love with All

It is God’s strength in you that is the light in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think. ²His strength denies your weakness. ³It is your weakness that sees through the body’s eyes, peering about in darkness to behold the likeness of itself…

Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances. ²It keeps its steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them. ³It unites with light, of which it is a part. ⁴It sees itself.

³Truth is a savior and can only will for happiness and peace for everyone. ⁴It gives its strength to everyone who asks, in limitless supply. ⁵It sees that lack in anyone would be a lack in all. ⁶And so it gives its light that all may see and benefit as one. ⁷Its strength is shared, that it may bring to all the miracle in which they will unite in purpose and forgiveness and in love.

The light of strength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, because it cannot give but to itself. (A Course in Miracles, W-92.3:1-3;4:1-4;5:3-7;8:1. See also ACIM Lesson 92 Insights.)

The world we seem to live in is a place of division and conflict. We react to it as if it were real because we have chosen to believe that a unique, separate identity is valuable. This denies the power of Love’s oneness to keep us safe.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive this choice.  As we forgive our mistaken beliefs, we see past the conflicting images to the Love that unites us with our brothers. We increasingly experience the peace and joy of dwelling in the Love we share with all our brothers.

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Letting the Christ Within Lead Us to Peace

The Christ in you is very still. ²He looks on what He loves, and knows it as Himself. ³And thus does He rejoice at what He sees, because He knows that it is one with Him and with His Father. ⁴Specialness, too, takes joy in what it sees, although it is not true. ⁵Yet what you seek for is a source of joy as you conceive it. ⁶What you wish is true for you. ⁷Nor is it possible that you can wish for something and lack faith that it is so. ⁸Wishing makes real, as surely as does will create. ⁹The power of a wish upholds illusions as strongly as does love extend itself. ¹⁰Except that one deludes; the other heals.

There is no dream of specialness, however hidden or disguised the form, however lovely it may seem to be, however much it delicately offers the hope of peace and the escape from pain, in which you suffer not your condemnation. ²In dreams effect and cause are interchanged, for here the maker of the dream believes that what he made is happening to him.

Where could your peace arise but from forgiveness? ²The Christ in you looks only on the truth, and sees no condemnation that could need forgiveness. ³He is at peace because He sees no sin. ⁴Identify with Him, and what has He that you have not? ⁵He is your eyes, your ears, your hands, your feet. ⁶How gentle are the sights He sees, the sounds He hears. ⁷How beautiful His hand that holds His brother’s, and how lovingly He walks beside him, showing him what can be seen and heard, and where he will see nothing and there is no sound to hear. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.V.1:1–2:2;3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Forgiveness lets the Christ in us step to the forefront. Christ is the Self that is our true Identity. This Self sees Itself united with the one Self that we all share as God’s one Son. It sees nothing to condemn, for It sees only the reality of Love. This Self calls to us in our dream of separation, isolation, loss and guilt. It calls to us to awaken to the Love we are and always have been in truth.

As we let go of our judgments, our mind is open to receive the Light of Love. It sees Love radiating from the truth in every brother. It freely disregards images that seem to hide Love’s presence. As we welcome the Mind of Christ within, today is a time of peace and happiness.

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Letting Love Guide Us to Peace of Mind

Where darkness was I look upon the light.

Father, our eyes are opening at last. ²Your holy world awaits us, as our sight is finally restored and we can see. ³We thought we suffered. ⁴But we had forgot the Son whom You created. ⁵Now we see that darkness is our own imagining, and light is there for us to look upon. ⁶Christ’s vision changes darkness into light, for fear must disappear when love has come. ⁷Let me forgive Your holy world today, that I may look upon its holiness and understand it but reflects my own.

Our Love awaits us as we go to Him, and walks beside us showing us the way. ²He fails in nothing. ³He the End we seek, and He the Means by which we go to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-302. See also ACIM Lesson 302 Insights.)

Our forgiveness welcomes the Light of Love. Our judgments blind us to the Love that forever surrounds and is in us.

We start our day by opening our mind to the Holy Spirit. We relax into His peace. We remember that He is present to guide us to see with Christ’s forgiving eyes. His vision shows us the Love that is the truth in everyone. There is no distance between us, for we are all united in Love’s oneness. As we accept His help, we become beacons of Light to guide our bothers Home to the quiet safety of our Father.

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Willingness to Let Holy Spirit Lead the Way

Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ.

I can obscure my holy sight, if I intrude my world upon it. ²Nor can I behold the holy sights Christ looks upon, unless it is His vision that I use. ³Perception is a mirror, not a fact. ⁴And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. ⁵I would bless the world by looking on it through the eyes of Christ. ⁶And I will look upon the certain signs that all my sins have been forgiven me.

You lead me from the darkness to the light; from sin to holiness. ²Let me forgive, and thus receive salvation for the world. ³It is Your gift, my Father, given me to offer to Your holy Son, that he may find again the memory of You, and of Your Son as You created him. (A Course in Miracles, W-304. See also ACIM Lesson 304 Insights.)

The sight of Christ is seen through forgiving eyes. We have the Holy Spirit in our mind to help us forgive our illusions of separation and differences. By accepting His help, we open our mind to see as He sees. What we see with this vision is the Presence of Love everywhere, and nothing else.

We heal our brothers as we see past forms to the Love that keeps us one with everyone, including our Father. We are willing to to step back from our perceptions and let the Holy Spirit lead the way.

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