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The Means to Remember Only Love Is Real

It is as certain you will fear what you attack as it is sure that you will love what you perceive as sinless. He walks in peace who travels sinlessly along the way love shows him. For love walks with him there, protecting him from fear. And he will see only the sinless, who can not attack.

Walk you in glory, with your head held high, and fear no evil. The innocent are safe because they share their innocence. Nothing they see is harmful, for their awareness of the truth releases everything from the illusion of harmfulness. And what seemed harmful now stands shining in their innocence, released from sin and fear and happily returned to love. They share the strength of love because they looked on innocence. And every error disappeared because they saw it not. Who looks for glory finds it where it is. Where could it be but in the innocent?

Let not the little interferers pull you to littleness. There can be no attraction of guilt [temptation to judge] in innocence. Think what a happy world you walk, with truth beside you! Do not give up this world of freedom for a little sigh of seeming sin, nor for a tiny stirring of guilt’s attraction. Would you, for all these meaningless distractions, lay Heaven aside? Your destiny and purpose are far beyond them, in the clean place where littleness does not exist. (A Course in Miracles, T-23.in.2:4-4:6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The world of bodies and images of forms only seems real because of our belief in it. Our life experience has shown us that our beliefs can change. This experience assures us that we can change our belief about the world and its seeming reality. Our ability to change our beliefs is the means the Holy Spirit uses to free us from the limitations of the world and open our minds to the truth that only Love is real.

If we are willing to let the Holy Spirit teach us to see as He sees, we can learn to see the innocence of Love everywhere. His vision shows us the reality beyond the images of the world. With His vision, we know there is nothing outside us that can harm us, for Love is one. With His vision, we see the innocence and harmlessness of Love. We are certain of our safety, for we have accepted the strength of God’s Love. The choice for Holy Spirit’s vision in place of what we see with the body’s eyes and the world is the choice of Heaven in place of hell. it is the choice for our Life in God in place of choosing death by believing in separation.

Today we would make no judgments on our own. We let Holy Spirit judge all things on our behalf. His singular judgment of everything is that it is real or unreal; what is not real is nothing. As we accept His judgment, we welcome God’s Love as our Identity.

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Choosing Our True Self’s Vision

[God is in everything I see] explains why you can see all purpose in everything. It explains why nothing is separate, by itself or in itself. And it explains why nothing you see [with the body’s eyes] means anything. In fact, it explains every idea we have used thus far, and all subsequent ones as well. Today’s idea is the whole basis for vision.

You will probably find this idea very difficult to grasp at this point. You may find it silly, irreverent, senseless, funny and even objectionable. Certainly God is not in a table, for example, as you see it.

Try then, today, to begin to learn how to look on all things with love, appreciation and open-mindedness. You do not see them [as your true Self sees them] now. Would you know what is in them? Nothing is as it appears to you. Its holy purpose stands beyond your little range. When vision has shown you the holiness that lights up the world, you will understand today’s idea perfectly.

Real vision is not only unlimited by space and distance, but it does not depend on the body’s eyes at all. The mind is [real vision’s] only source. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 29, W-pI.29.1:1-2:3;3:1-6. 30.5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 29 Insights.)

It is important not to confuse what we see with the body’s eyes with real Vision. The image of a body and what is seen with the body’s eyes are mechanisms of the ego thought system made to make separation seem real. In the oneness of Love, there can be no separate images — only the unity of God.

Vision is of the mind. The Holy Spirit is in our mind to teach us how to see as He sees. As our Helper, He is aware of the images we perceive, but He does not believe they are real. His vision looks past the unreal images to the unified Love of God that is everywhere. Because God is everywhere, our true Self sees beyond the forms of the world and joins with God’s Love that is ever present no matter what forms the body’s eyes perceive. God is not a body, a table or a coat hanger. God is all that is real, and only Love is real.

To free ourselves from the pain, guilt and fear of the ego thought system, we need to overlook what the body’s eyes see and accept the vision of our true Self, which will always show us that only Love’s oneness is real.

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The Lesson in Love God Would Have Us Learn

Forgive, and you will see this differently.

These are the words the Holy Spirit speaks in all your tribulations, all your pain, all suffering regardless of its form. These are the words with which temptation ends, and guilt, abandoned, is revered no more. These are the words which end the dream of sin [and guilt], and rid the mind of fear. These are the words by which salvation comes to all the world.

Shall we not learn to say these words when we are tempted to believe that pain is real, and death [separation from the Source of life] becomes our choice instead of life? Shall we not learn to say these words when we have understood their power to release all minds from bondage? These are words which give you power over all events that seem to have been given power over you. You see them rightly when you hold these words in full awareness, and do not forget these words apply to everything you see or [that] any brother looks upon amiss.

How can you tell when you are seeing wrong, or someone else is failing to perceive the lesson he should learn? Does pain seem real in the perception? If it does, be sure the lesson is not learned. And there remains an unforgiveness hiding in the mind that sees the pain through eyes the mind directs.

God would not have you suffer thus. He would help you forgive yourself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 193, W-pI.193.5:1-8:2. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Seeing anything other than changeless Love is a misperception that needs to be forgiven. When we forgive, we let go of a perception that hid the truth that only Love is real from our awareness. We are able to see past the appearance of harm and guilt.

The perception of anything that disturbs our peace and happiness is a lesson God would have us learn. This perception can only come because there is a hidden belief that somehow we are excluded from the changeless Love of God. In reality this is impossible, but belief makes it seem real. The undoing of this belief is the lesson that must be learned in every situation that disturbs our peace.

The practice of reminding ourself to forgive when anything seems to bring up a sense of apprehension, guilt or fear will free us from the bondage of the false belief of separation. Without belief, any disturbance disappears, for the veil is lifted and we are able to see the reality of changeless Love. The Holy Spirit in our mind is ever present to teach us the lesson in Love God would have us learn.

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We Let Holy Spirit’s Judgment Replace Our Own

Today I will judge nothing that occurs.

I will be honest with myself today. I will not think that I already know what must remain beyond my present grasp. I will not think I understand the whole from bits of my perception, which are all that I can see. Today I recognize that this is so. And so I am relieved of judgments that I cannot make. Thus do I free myself and what I look upon, to be in peace as God created us.

Father, today I leave creation free to be itself. I honor all its parts, in which I am included. We are one because each part contains Your memory, and truth must shine in all of us as one. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 243, W-pII.243. See also ACIM Lesson 243 Insights.)

As long as we identify with the body and its limitations, we cannot recognize the truth of our oneness with all that Is — the Love of God. It is the arrogance of the ego that believes we understand or know the meaning of anything in the world. This is why we free ourselves by welcoming the Holy Spirit’s judgment in place of ours, which is based on the limitations imposed by the ego thought system.

The key to our freedom from limitation is remembering that we do not know what anything means on our own. The Holy Spirit in our minds offers us the means to let go of our seeming limitations and learn of our oneness with the Love in every brother and our Creator. As we accept His judgments on our behalf, we accept the key to peace, happiness and the certainty that we remain changeless Love.

Today we would make no judgments on our own. We welcome the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in our minds.

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Calling Upon God’s Strength in Us

If you are trusting in your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious and fearful.

God is your safety in every circumstance. His Voice speaks for Him in all situations and in every aspect of all situations, telling you exactly what to do to call upon His strength and His protection. There are no exceptions because God has no exceptions. And the Voice which speaks for Him thinks as He does.

It is obvious that any situation that causes you concern is associated with feelings of inadequacy, for otherwise you would believe that you could deal with the situation successfully. It is not by trusting yourself that you will gain confidence. But the strength of God in you is successful in all things.

…reach down into your mind to a place of real safety. You will recognize that you have reached it if you feel a sense of deep peace, however briefly. Let go all the trivial things that churn and bubble on the surface of your mind, and reach down and below them to the Kingdom of Heaven . There is a place in you where there is perfect peace. There is a place in you where nothing is impossible. There is a place in you where the strength of God abides. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 47, W-pI.47.1:1;3;5:2-4;7. See also ACIM Lesson 47 Insights.)

All sense of uncertainty, anxiety, loneliness, guilt and fear come from misplaced trust in the belief in the ego thought system of separation. It is the effect of trusting in what could never be true. Yet the truth of What we are remains in us, eternally.

To claim the strength of God in us, we need to pass by the ego’s images of weakness, loss and separation. There is a place in us where the peace and strength of God abide eternally. We reach this place by letting go of the chaotic thoughts on the surface of our mind. They represent the chaos of the ego thought system. They are simply a meaningless interference that seems to draw a veil across the center of peace within.

Yet the peace and strength of God are still there to be called upon in every moment. Every time we pause and step back from the ego’s chaotic thoughts to allow the peace of God to come forth, we call upon His strength. As we accept His strength in us, we receive the clarity of His Voice, which guides us safely in all our doing.

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Welcoming the Real World of Forgiveness

The real world is the state of mind in which the only purpose of the world is seen to be forgiveness. Fear is not its goal, for the escape from guilt becomes its aim. The value of forgiveness is perceived and takes the place of idols, which are sought no longer, for their “gifts” are not held dear. No rules are idly set, and no demands are made of anyone or anything to twist and fit into the dream of fear. Instead, there is a wish to understand all things created as they really are. And it is recognized that all things must be first forgiven, and then understood.

The real world is a state in which the mind has learned how easily do idols go when they are still perceived but wanted not. How willingly the mind can let them go when it has understood that idols are nothing and nowhere, and are purposeless. For only then can guilt and sin be seen without a purpose, and as meaningless.

Thus is the real world’s purpose gently brought into awareness, to replace the goal of sin and guilt. And all that stood between your image of yourself and what you are, forgiveness washes joyfully away. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.V.1;5:2-6:2. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Forgiveness does not insist on defining anyone by the appearance of a body or personality. What is not real cannot define anything. We, as the one Son of God, are defined by what God created us to be — Love and nothing else. Forgiveness overlooks the ego’s definitions of its idols, its forms of separation.

Our holy function is to bring the recognition of the truth of Love in everyone to our brothers. As we let go of and overlook images that deny the oneness of Love, we teach ourselves and our brothers that we are united in Love.

This is our sole purpose as we welcome the real world of forgiveness in our minds. We want to remember God’s gift of joy. We want to let go of the mistaken value we have given to images of separation, fear and guilt in the world. This is the purpose we accept, for it leads us back to Heaven.

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Remembering Our Identity in Love

I feel the Love of God within me now.

The Love of God is what created me. The Love of God is
everything I am. The Love of God proclaimed me as His
Son. The Love of God within me sets me free.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 209, W-pI.209. See also ACIM Lesson 209 Insights.)

Our experience in the world is that we are bodies with individual identities. But if we are not a body and still as God created us, then we must be God’s Creation, His one Son, and nothing else. God is only Love so we must be Love and nothing else. As we disidentify with a separate identity attached to a body, we identify with the Love of God. An appearance of anything else is a call for Love. We answer the call for Love by seeing past appearances to the Love that is ever present. We overlook what is not real to join with the Reality of Love in our brother and with God.

As we identify with the Love we are, we feel God’s strength and peace. We feel God’s joy. Our experience in the world is transformed from isolation and loneliness to oneness with the Reality of Love. Our peace cannot be disturbed. Our joy is unlimited, for we have remembered our unity with our Creator. We are filled with gratitude that this Reality can never change in truth.

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