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Love created me like itself.
²I am in the likeness of my Creator. ³I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die. ⁴I am not a body. ⁵I would recognize my reality today. ⁶I will worship no idols, nor raise my own self-concept to replace my Self. ⁷I am in the likeness of my Creator. ⁸Love created me like itself.
You might find these specific forms helpful in applying the idea:
²Let me not see an illusion of myself in this.
³As I look on this, let me remember my Creator.
⁴My Creator did not create this as I see it. (A Course in Miracles, W-84.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 84 Insights.)
The ego thought system does not acknowledge Love as the source of Life. It denies that our true Identity is the oneness of Love we share with our Creator. As long as we believe we are a body, we will experience lack of love, conflict and fear. But we can change our mind about what we believe we are.
This lesson is encouraging us to be willing to open to a different awareness of our Identity. When we let go of illusions about what we are, the Holy Spirit can help us remember the Love that created us. Divisive judgments are replaced by inclusive recognition of the Love that joins us with all of Reality. We learn to overlook appearances of differences and see our unity with every brother in God’s Love. God sees us all as one in His Love.
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You see the flesh or recognize the spirit. ²There is no compromise between the two. ³If one is real the other must be false, for what is real denies its opposite. ⁴There is no choice in vision but this one. ⁵What you decide in this determines all you see and think is real and hold as true. ⁶On this one choice does all your world depend, for here have you established what you are, as flesh or spirit in your own belief. ⁷If you choose flesh, you never will escape the body as your own reality, for you have chosen that you want it so. ⁸But choose the spirit, and all Heaven bends to touch your eyes and bless your holy sight, that you may see the world of flesh no more except to heal and comfort and to bless.
Salvation is undoing. ²If you choose to see the body, you behold a world of separation, unrelated things, and happenings that make no sense at all. …⁶Salvation is undoing of all this. ⁷For constancy arises in the sight of those whose eyes salvation has released from looking at the cost of keeping guilt, because they chose to let it go instead.
Salvation does not ask that you behold the spirit and perceive the body not. ²It merely asks that this should be your choice. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VI.1;2:1-2,6–3:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Do we want to keep our unique identity in a world of differences? The price we pay for this identity is a “life” of uncertainty, loss, pain, fear and guilt, and ultimately death.
But if we are willing to recognize the spirit in which we are eternally joined with our Creator in the oneness of changeless Love, all effects of choosing a body as our identity are undone. We experience the comfort, peace and joy, free of pain, fear and guilt. We live in the constant flow of giving and receiving Love. Today we choose to recognize that we are spirit.
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Faith and belief and vision are the means by which the goal of holiness is reached. ²Through them the Holy Spirit leads you to the real world, and away from all illusions where your faith was laid. ³This is His direction; the only one He ever sees. ⁴And when you wander, He reminds you there is but one. ⁵His faith and His belief and vision are all for you. ⁶And when you have accepted them completely instead of yours, you will have need of them no longer. ⁷For faith and vision and belief are meaningful only before the state of certainty is reached. ⁸In Heaven they are unknown. ⁹Yet Heaven is reached through them.
⁵You made perception that you might choose among your brothers, and seek for sin with them. ⁶The Holy Spirit sees perception as a means to teach you that the vision of a holy relationship is all you want to see. ⁷Then will you give your faith to holiness, desiring and believing in it because of your desire. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.III.4;6:5-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The ego is maintained with the attitude that “we believe it when we see it.” The body was made with limited vision so that we cannot “see” the Reality of Love. We can only have faith that Love exists in the ego’s belief system. The body’s limited equipment for perception makes it impossible to experience what real Love is.
The Holy Spirit will help us with His faith, belief and vision to go beyond the ego’s limited perception. He offers us a way to see past the ego’s limitations to awaken to the reality of Love. Thus the Holy Spirit gives a new purpose to the ego’s mechanisms made to protect itself.
With the Holy Spirit’s purpose, we learn through experience that Love is everywhere. With faith, belief and vision, we learn we are Love and nothing else. When that lesson is fully learned, without exception, faith and belief are no longer needed. All we see and know is Love.
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Christ asks that He may use my eyes today, and thus redeem the world. ²He asks this gift that He may offer peace of mind to me, and take away all terror and all pain. ³And as they are removed from me, the dreams that seemed to settle on the world are gone. ⁴Redemption must be one. ⁵As I am saved, the world is saved with me. ⁶For all of us must be redeemed together. ⁷Fear appears in many different forms, but love is one.
My Father, Christ has asked a gift of me, and one I give that it be given me. ²Help me to use the eyes of Christ today, and thus allow the Holy Spirit’s Love to bless all things which I may look upon, that His forgiving Love may rest on me. (A Course in Miracles, W-295.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 295 Insights.)
When we let Christ use our eyes, we see only the Reality of Love. Images of separation are past by as meaningless. His vision helps us forgive those false images so that we can look at our brothers as joined with us as the one Self that is God’s Son.
Our willingness to accept Christ’s vision opens our mind to receive His gift of joy and perfect peace. We are only asked for our willingness to give our eyes to Christ. His response is a gift without measure. Today we are grateful to accept Christ’s vision and awaken to our Home in Love.
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The Name of God is my inheritance.
²God’s Name reminds me that I am His Son, not slave to time, unbound by laws which rule the world of sick illusions, free in God, forever and forever one with Him.
³I am not a body. ⁴I am free.
⁵For I am still as God created me.
(A Course in Miracles, W-204.1:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 204 Insights.)
The body is a limit that seems to set us apart from everyone and every thing. It limits our awareness to what we can perceive with the body’s senses. While we believe the body is our identity, we cannot know the peace and joy that is our natural state.
We are a mind at one with the Mind of God. All that He Is, we are, for He has shared all of Himself with His one Son. This is our true Identity. This Identity has no limit, being eternal and infinite. It is eternally joyous because It is only Love, and Love is all that is Real.
Today we welcome the message that we are not a body. We are free to be limitless Love, at one with our Creator. In this Love we are joined with every brother in God’s eternal universe of Love.
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I am one Self, united with my Creator.
²Serenity and perfect peace are mine, because I am one Self, completely whole, at one with all creation and with God.
Salvation comes from my one Self.
²From my one Self, Whose knowledge still remains within my mind, I see God’s perfect plan for my salvation perfectly fulfilled. (A Course in Miracles, W-113.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 113 Insights.)
If we accepted that we were whole, invulnerable and all our needs were met, we would remain perfectly serene, knowing we are safe. Actually, this is our true state, now and forever.
But we are dreaming a dream that denies our reality. We have made up a self that is incomplete, constantly has needs and is vulnerable to loss and harm. We need to awaken from this dream to find the peace that cannot be found in the dream. God’s plan for our awakening is given us through the Holy Spirit in our mind.
He is the Voice of Truth. He is there to guide us to see the certainty of Love’s reality beyond the mistaken images of the dream. With His help, we forgive the dream, the made up stories of attack and defend. He will show us the Light beyond the dark dream. The peace it offers draws us to the Light, where we awaken to the one Self that is God’s Son, eternally united with our Creator.
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…in forgiving dreams is no one asked to be the victim and the sufferer. ⁷These are the happy dreams the miracle exchanges for your own. ⁸It does not ask you make another; only that you see you made the one you would exchange for this.
The miracle establishes you dream a dream, and that its content is not true. ²This is a crucial step in dealing with illusions. ³No one is afraid of them when he perceives he made them up. ⁴The fear was held in place because he did not see that he was author of the dream, and not a figure in the dream. ⁵He gives himself the consequences that he dreams he gave his brother.
This world is full of miracles. ²They stand in shining silence next to every dream of pain and suffering, of sin and guilt. ³They are the dream’s alternative, the choice to be the dreamer, rather than deny the active role in making up the dream. ⁴They are the glad effects of taking back the consequence of sickness to its cause. ⁵The body is released because the mind acknowledges “this is not done to me, but I am doing this.” ⁶And thus the mind is free to make another choice instead. ⁷Beginning here, salvation will proceed to change the course of every step in the descent to separation, until all the steps have been retraced, the ladder gone, and all the dreaming of the world undone. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.II.5:6-8;7:1-5;12. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Every moment is an opportunity for a miracle. Each moment that we are willing to take our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His correction, we open our mind to receive a miracle. He will shine the Light of Love on our perception to reveal that beyond the dream images we made up, there is only the joyous presence of Love.
As we accept His help, we free ourselves from images of fear, hate and guilt. Our dream becomes increasingly happy, peaceful and loving. Today we will accept miracles of dreams transformed by Love.
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