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The Consistent Choice of Truth

It is extremely important to be conscious of the activity of your mind as it takes place in your life in the form of a continuous or near continuous stream of thoughts, images, feelings, emotions and responses to outward conditions. Without this awareness, the willingness to choose Truth over illusion cannot be brought into play consistently. Through the consistent choice of Truth, the mind is quickly and skillfully undone. In fact, the willingness to be vigilant even every moment, to be consistently present in your mind, is necessary for your willingness to choose Truth to have a chance to do so.

Willingness itself will grow under the Holy Spirit’s tutelage until it includes your entire life and all that you think, feel and do. Willingness is the single requirement you must supply to the undertaking of the process of awakening to and as the Self. The Holy Spirit will provide everything else that is needed, and will supplement your little willingness with His. (From the Christ Mind Book II, p. 125)

What do we really want? Do we want peace of mind, certainty of purpose, limitless Love, and perfect happiness? All this is ours when we accept the Truth of our Self. We have made up a false image that we experience in the world which hides the awareness of our Self from our awareness. Yet the gifts of our one Self remain ours.

Willingness to consistently monitor our thoughts and bring all thoughts of fear and guilt, lack and loss, to the Holy Spirit is the key to remembering our True Self. We need only be willing to lay aside the false images and be taught to recognize the Truth that we remain as Love created us.

We have taught ourselves to see a world of images that is not there. We can be taught to recognize them as false and see past them to the truth of our Self, Which has already accepted God’s gifts and shares them with every brother. Today we are willing to accept Holy Spirit’s lessons in truth and share them with every brother. We are ready to consistently choose Truth with Holy Spirit’s help.

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Remembering the Love We Are

Steady our feet, our Father. Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. We have no words to give to You. We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.

So do we bring our practicing to You. And if we stumble, You will raise us up. If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. And we accept the Word You offer us to unify our practicing, as we review the thoughts that You have given us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Review V, W-pI.V.2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 171 Insights.)

The way out of the world of fear and guilt is to quiet our minds… As we let our minds be still… we open our minds to the Holy Spirit’s Word that we are only Love… held safely in the Love of God.

We begin the day with quiet listening, letting thoughts of the world pass by, giving them no attention. Our attention now is focused on remembering and accepting God’s gift of changeless Love. Certainty of our safety comes as we accept this truth… We bring our brothers with us into the circle of Love for no one is excluded. Today we embrace the Love in all our brothers.

The circumstances and situations of the world lose their effect on our peace of mind. We are steady now, anchored in the certainty of the truth that we are Love. The Love we are reaches out to everyone and everything. it blesses us as we bless the world. We remember we are safe. We are innocent. We are loved… and we are Home.

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Freeing Ourselves from Fear

There is never any reason to complain or be afraid. You cannot be unfairly treated or threatened in any way. To believe you can is to live in fear and a constant sense of grievance. Let the Holy Spirit teach you there is no reason to fear; no one is attacking you. Your belief in the reality of attack is the source of the fear and guilt that dominates your mind. The Holy Spirit will teach you that you are not guilty and fear is never justified.  And He will demonstrate, if you follow His guidance, that you can live from the perspective of Love and forgiveness which will heal the guilt in your mind and free you from fear. Do not let unconscious resistance prevent you from asking for help and gladly receiving it that you may be free.

Whenever you think you are alone and in danger, remember Who walks with you. The only limits on the help He can give are established by you. The Holy Spirit’s ability to help is unlimited and available for the asking. You must ask and listen with an open mind, receive what is given, and respond as guided.” (From the Christ Mind Book II, p.119)

We do not need to live in a constant state of concern, worry, anxiety or fear. We do not need to be on constant alert, wary of potential danger. The help we need to learn that we are eternally safe is available to us now. To know that we have it, we need to ask for help with an open mind, without a predisposition of how the help should come or what it should look like.

As we receive the help, we need to accept it and act upon it. It does not serve us to receive help but not act upon it. If we follow through by acting on the help we receive, we will demonstrate to ourselves that the help works. We will gain confidence that we have help. We will be less willing to wallow in fear because we know there is a better way.

Today is a day to practice asking for help, accepting it and acting upon it. Thus will we free ourselves from fear.

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The Thought God Holds of You

The Thoughts of God are far beyond all change, and shine forever. They await not birth. They wait for welcome and remembering. The Thought God holds of you is like a star, unchangeable in an eternal sky. So high in Heaven is it set that those outside of Heaven know not it is there. Yet still and white and lovely will it shine through all eternity. There was no time it was not there; no instant when its light grew dimmer or less perfect ever was.

Completely unaffected by the turmoil and the terror of the world, the dreams of birth and death that here are dreamed, the myriad of forms that fear can take; quite undisturbed, the Thought God holds of you remains exactly as It always was. Surrounded by a stillness so complete no sound of battle comes remotely near, It rests in certainty and perfect peace. Here is your one reality kept safe, completely unaware of all the world that worships idols, and that knows not God. In perfect sureness of Its changelessness and of Its rest in Its eternal home, the Thought God holds of you has never left the Mind of its Creator. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.III.8;10:2-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

God has not changed His Mind about us. His one and only changeless Thought is the Thought of Love. That is What we are. No matter what we think we see in the world around us, we are still God’s Thought of Love.

We see ourselves as many, with diverse interests and conflicting needs. He knows us as one, not different from Himself and with but one need — to extend the Love we are. That is why in every moment there is one answer to all appearances — to offer only Love, for That is What we are. That is the Thought God Holds of us.

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Remembering the Love We Are

We have a mission here. We did not come to reinforce the madness that we once believed in. Let us not forget the goal that we accepted. It is more than just our happiness alone we came to gain. What we accept as what we are proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. Fail not your brothers, or you fail yourself. Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are part of you, and you of them.

We have not lost the knowledge that God gave to us when He created us like Him. We can remember it for everyone, for in creation are all minds as one. And in our memory is the recall how dear our brothers are to us in truth, how much a part of us is every mind, how faithful they have really been to us, and how our Father’s Love contains them all. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 139, W-pI.139.9;11:4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 139 Insights.)

Imagine what it would be like if we recognize everyone as Love and nothing else. We would feel perfectly safe. Our hearts would be filled with joy as we share the Love we are with the Love that surrounds us in everyone and everything. There would be no loneliness nor sadness, for we would know that we are one with all and there is no loss. There would be no guilt, for Love is innocent and sees only innocence. There would be peace that cannot be disturbed because Love is changeless and limitless. It is this awareness that we are here to remember.

Gratefully we have a Teacher Whose mission is to help us remember What we are and have always been.

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Welcoming the Quiet Mind

The mind must be checked in its headlong flight through time, not by opposition but by relaxing in the present, by slowing down its race to the future. Release of the inner tension must be achieved, that the mind may become capable of being quiet and present. You must give up the need to force outcomes or set timetables for results; in other words, you must develop patience.

A quiet mind, resting in the present, is ready and open to receive Truth. Truth cannot enter a mind that is busy, driven to distraction, filled with its own ideas and goals. In such a mind, there is no room for Truth nor would It be welcome, for the restless, constantly active mind is interested only in itself, its needs and wants. Virtually all spiritual practices aim to achieve just this quietness of mind that is the condition in which Truth can be experienced. (From the Christ Mind II, p. 230)

Unforgiveness resists a quiet mind. This is why the dedicated practice to maintain a quiet mind is essential for our mind to be open to the Truth that brings true forgiveness. Unforgiveness keeps us focused on the illusions of the ego. When we welcome the Truth with a quiet mind, the Light of Truth dispels the darkness of unforgiveness. Without illusions of separation, there is nothing to forgive. It is this recognition that Truth brings to our quiet mind and leads us Home.

Today we dedicate to maintaining a quiet mind in the midst of all our doing that we may bring the Light to see beyond all appearances.

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God’s Strength Is Ours

[“I am as God created me” means] that you have made no changes in yourself that have reality, nor changed the universe so that what God created was replaced by fear and evil, misery and death. If you remain as God created you fear has no meaning, evil is not real, and misery and death do not exist.

Today’s idea is therefore all you need to let complete correction heal your mind, and give you perfect vision that will heal all the mistakes that any mind has made at any time or place. It is enough to heal the past and make the future free. It is enough to let the present be accepted as it is. It is enough to let time be the means for all the world to learn escape from time, and every change that time appears to bring in passing by.”

If you are as God created you, then there has been no separation of your mind from His, no split between your mind and other minds, and only unity within your own. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 110, W-pI.110.1:3-2:4;4:2. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

Accepting that we are as God created us is a complete reversal of the belief that is the foundation of the world we see. The world we see through the body’s eyes cannot exist in God’s Universe because the world is the denial of God’s Creation.

In each moment we choose between denying God’s Love and accepting His Love. Because we believe that the body is our identity, we are afraid of the formless unity of God’s Love. Yet releasing ourselves from this false identity would bring us unspeakable joy and peace that cannot be disturbed. It sees like a simple choice yet our fear interferes. Because of it, we need God’s Helper to guide us out of the quagmire of false ideas and to support us with His strength to let them go and open to our present reality.

Today we will remind ourselves often that we remain as God created us and His strength is ours. Thus will we accelerate our journey Home.

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