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A Commitment To Be Truly Helpful

A therapist does not heal; he lets healing be. He can point to darkness but he cannot bring light of himself, for light is not of him. Yet, being for him, it must also be for his patient. The Holy Spirit is the only Therapist. He makes healing clear in any situation in which He is the Guide. You can only let Him fulfill His function. He needs no help for this. He will tell you exactly what to do to help anyone He sends to you for help, and will speak to him through you if you do not interfere. Remember that you choose the guide for helping, and the wrong choice will not help. But remember also that the right one will. Trust Him, for help is His function, and He is of God. As you awaken other minds to the Holy Spirit through Him, and not yourself, you will understand that you are not obeying the laws of this world. But the laws you are obeying work. “The good is what works” is a sound though insufficient statement. Only the good can work. Nothing else works at all.

This course offers a very direct and a very simple learning situation, and provides the Guide Who tells you what to do. If you do it, you will see that it works. Its results are more convincing than its words. They will convince you that the words are true. By following the right Guide, you will learn the simplest of all lessons

By their fruits ye shall know them, and they shall know themselves. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.V.8-9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

If you are dedicated to being truly helpful and letting Inspiration be your Guide, you become the Holy Spirit’s messenger. As you let inspiration from the peace within guide you, you will offer helpful “therapy” to your brother. Perhaps a smile will bring Light to a mind darkened by sadness. Perhaps a kind gesture will help a mind believing in unworthiness to recognize they do have worth. Or perhaps you may have an opportunity in a more formal setting to help someone connect with the Holy Spirit within and find a clear vision of what is real and what is not.

Let us join today in a shared commitment to be truly helpful with Holy Spirit as our Guide. This is how we will bring healing to the world and receive our own healing. It will be truly a blessed day.

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How to Bring Peace to the World

The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness. My forgiveness is the means by which the light of the world finds expression through me. My forgiveness is the means by which I become aware of the light of the world in me. My forgiveness is the means by which the world is healed, together with myself. Let me, then, forgive the world, that it may be healed along with me.

Let peace extend from my mind to yours, [name].
I share the light of the world with you, [name].
Through my forgiveness I can see this as it is.

Let me not use this to hide my function from me.
I would use this as an opportunity to fulfill my function.
This may threaten my ego, but cannot change my function in any way. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 82, W-pI.82.1;2:2-4;4:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 82 Insights.)

Whenever anything in the world disturbs our peace, we are believing something really happened to cause a change that we do not want. Yet this is a belief that an illusion can have a real affect. But illusions do nothing. What is unreal cannot affect what is real.

When we let Holy Spirit help us truly forgive, we learn that what we thought happened to disturb our peace did not really occur. Because we now know that nothing has happened to cause a change, we easily overlook the appearance. We let it pass by without causing a ripple on the quiet calm of our true Self. This is true forgiveness. This is how we let the Light that we are shine forth in the world. With our peace undisturbed, we bring peace to the world.

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Seeing the Light of Innocence Within

Guilt makes you blind, for while you see one spot of guilt within you, you will not see the light. And by projecting [guilt] the world seems dark, and shrouded in your guilt. You throw a dark veil over it, and cannot see it because you cannot look within. You are afraid of what you would see there, but it is not there. The thing you fear is gone. If you would look within you would see only the Atonement, shining in quiet and in peace upon the altar to your Father.

Do not be afraid to look within. The ego tells you all is black with guilt within you, and bids you not to look. Instead, it bids you look upon your brothers, and see the guilt in them. Yet this you cannot do without remaining blind. For those who see their brothers in the dark, and guilty in the dark in which they shroud them, are too afraid to look upon the light within. Within you is not what you believe is there, and what you put your faith in. Within you is the holy sign of perfect faith your Father has in you. He does not value you as you do. He knows Himself, and knows the truth in you. He knows there is no difference, for He knows not of differences. Can you see guilt where God knows there is perfect innocence? You can deny His knowledge, but you cannot change it. Look, then, upon the light He placed within you, and learn that what you feared was there has been replaced with love. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.IX.7-8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The ego’s defense against guilt is to project it onto others. It does not tell us that seeing guilt in others reinforces our own guilt. We hide from our guilt by making it unconscious and seeing it only in others.

The perception of guilt in a politician, co-worker, friend, family member or anyone, boomerangs back to us, reinforcing our belief in our own guilt. It is the ego’s mechanism for keeping us believing that we deserve pain and punishment, now and forever.

The antidote for this mistaken belief is to let the Holy Spirit help us look within. He will show us the perfect innocence our Father knows is the truth in us. We will be shown that we all remain perfect Love as Love created us, united as His one Son. With the Holy Spirit’s help, the perception of guilt will be transformed into the vision of Love’s innocence.

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Our Guide to Forgiveness and Healing

You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a man must think of himself in his heart, because this is what he is.

The forgiven are the means of the Atonement. Being filled with spirit, they forgive in return. Those who are released must join in releasing their brothers, for this is the plan of the Atonement. Miracles are the way in which minds that serve the Holy Spirit unite with me for the salvation or release of all of God’s creations. (A Course in Miracles, T-1.III.2:3-3:4. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Forgiveness clears away denial of Love so we can perceive ourselves and all our brothers as “wholly lovable and wholly loving.” This perception overlooks the world of form to see the formless, eternal Love that we were created to be. Together, we are the Sonship, created by Love as Love.

When forgiveness is complete, all mistaken beliefs in separation from Love have been undone and the Atonement is accomplished. Forgiveness is no longer needed, for there is nothing left to forgive. We have returned to the experience of being Love and extending Love for we know That is what we are. We dwell in perfect peace and joy because these are attributes of Love.

The Holy Spirit is our Guide to forgiveness. As we consistently follow His direction and accept His vision, we release the world from our misperceptions and join with our brothers in the oneness of Love.

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Peace Comes with Letting Go of Judgment

Judgment is symbolic because beyond perception there is no judgment. When the Bible says “Judge not that ye be not judged,” it means that if you judge the reality of others you will be unable to avoid judging your own.

You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep peace that comes from meeting yourself and your brothers totally without judgment. When you recognize what you are and what your brothers are, you will realize that judging them in any way is without meaning. In fact, their meaning is lost to you precisely because you are judging them. All uncertainty comes from the belief that you are under the coercion of judgment. You do not need judgment to organize your life, and you certainly do not need it to organize yourself. In the presence of knowledge [of oneness] all judgment is automatically suspended, and this is the process that enables recognition [of oneness] to replace perception [of differences]. (A Course in Miracles, T-3.VI.1:3-4;3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

In the world it seems that judgment is necessary to survive. But what is it that needs to survive? What we protect with judgment is a false image of a separate self, which makes us unaware of our oneness with God and all that is Real. The practice of judgment is a defense against God, making our oneness with Him unknown to us.

True forgiveness is the end of judgment. True forgiveness accepts the Self that God created one with Him. True forgiveness sees every brother as equally one with our Creator. The ego is incapable of true forgiveness because it is the belief in being separate. It cannot conceive of oneness. In fact, it sees the idea of oneness as a threat to its existence, which is true. When we accept, without reservation, our oneness with our Source, the ego will no longer seem to exist.

God has given us His Teacher of true judgment to guide us out of the ego’s judgment to the one judgment that ends all judgment. The Holy Spirit will teach us what is real and what is unreal. When we know Reality by our complete acceptance of oneness, there is nothing left to judge. We know all our meaning lies in our unity with Love.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Helping Hand

My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world. Since the thoughts of which I am aware do not mean anything, the world that pictures them can have no meaning. What is producing this world is insane, and so is what it produces. Reality is not insane, and I have real thoughts as well as insane ones. I can therefore see a real world, if I look to my real thoughts as my guide for seeing.

My thoughts are images that I have made. Whatever I see reflects my thoughts. It is my thoughts that tell me where I am and what I am. The fact that I see a world in which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. Yet God’s way is sure. The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not my will that they do so. My will is His, and I will place no other gods before Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 53, W-pI.53.1;5. See also ACIM Lesson 53 Insights.)

Our real thoughts are the thoughts we share with God/Love. Our perceptions of loss and harm come from the insane images of the ego belief in separation. This is an important signal that lets us know our thinking is insane — based on illusions, not reality. The Holy Spirit in our mind is always offering us His Helping Hand from the firm ground of Love’s Reality to lift us out of the ego’s quicksand of illusions. We are not left to sink into the ego’s oblivion of separation from God.

It is time to accept the Helping Hand. The moment we recognize the signal of insane thinking we need to step back and turn our attention to the Holy Spirit in our mind. With the strength of God’s Reality, we are lifted out of insanity into our Home in changeless Love.

The Holy Spirit’s vision in our mind will show us the rock-solid certainty of Love beyond the chaotic, unreliable\ images of the ego world. As we let His vision transform our perception, we step onto the solid ground of changeless Love. Today we choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s Helping Hand.

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The Way to Love’s Wholeness

The bridge that leads to union in yourself must lead to knowledge, for it was built with God beside you, and will lead you straight to Him where your completion rests, wholly compatible with His. Every illusion you accept into your mind by judging it to be attainable removes your own sense of completion, and thus denies the Wholeness of your Father. Every fantasy, be it of love or hate, deprives you of knowledge for fantasies are the veil behind which truth is hidden. To lift the veil that seems so dark and heavy, it is only needful to value truth beyond all fantasy, and to be entirely unwilling to settle for illusion in place of truth.

Waken from time, and answer fearlessly the Call of Him Who gave eternity to you in your creation. On this side of the bridge to timelessness you understand nothing. But as you step lightly across it, upheld by timelessness, you are directed straight to the Heart of God. At its center, and only there, you are safe forever, because you are complete forever. There is no veil the Love of God in us together cannot lift. The way to truth is open. Follow it with me. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.IV.10;13:5-11. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The wish to be special, to have a unique identity separate from God, is the veil that hides the truth of our wholeness from our awareness. The way to awareness of the truth in us is to forgive or let go of the wish for specialness.

The ego and all of its manifestations in the world are the effect of the wish for specialness. As we forgive this insane wish, the ego is undone. The veil that hides our wholeness in God’s Love is lifted. The way to the truth of what we are is to choose the Guide Who’s sole purpose is to show us the reality of Love and the unreality of fantasies of separation.

We dedicate today to choosing Holy Spirit as our Guide, as our Interpreter of everything we perceive. We accept His direction in all things today, moment by moment. This is how we reach the bridge that Holy Spirit will carry us across to know our oneness in the Love of God.

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