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Choosing True Happiness

Only God’s plan for salvation will work.

All things are possible to God. Salvation must be yours because of His plan, which cannot fail.

Ask Him very specifically:

What would You have me do?
Where would You have me go?
What would You have me say, and to whom?

Give Him full charge of the rest of [your life], and let Him tell you what needs to be done by you in His plan for your salvation. He will answer in proportion to your willingness to hear His Voice. Refuse not to hear. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 71, W-pI.71.6:4;7:3-4;9:2-8. See also ACIM Lesson 71 Insights.)

We think what will make us happy is our salvation. The ego has a plan to make us happy if we believe specialness and separation is what we want. It has myriad schemes to make us happy. But none of them satisfy because the best it can offer are illusions of specialness that cannot last. The ego’s plans are always guided by the its goal of seek and do not find.

God’s Will for us is perfect happiness because He shares all His joy with His Sons. His plan for our salvation is thus the plan that will bring us eternal happiness. In every moment we choose between the ego’s plan that will never satisfy and God’s plan that brings us eternal happiness.

Our best choice for happiness is obvious were it not for our wish for specialness. This wish denies God’s gift because God does not give to some and not others. God’s gifts are given equally to all. The practice of forgiving the wish for specialness welcomes God’s plan for our happiness.

Today we choose to walk hand in hand with the Holy Spirit, letting Him guide all our perceptions. He will purify our misperceptions so that we can see the Reality of Love everywhere and experience the joy of joining with Love.

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The Foundation of Forgiveness

Love makes no comparisons. And gratitude can only be sincere if it be joined to love. We offer thanks to God our Father that in us all things will find their freedom.

Walk, then, in gratitude the way of love. …When your forgiveness is complete you will have total gratitude, for you will see that everything has earned the right to love by being loving, even as your Self.

Gratitude goes hand in hand with love, and where one is the other must be found. For gratitude is but an aspect of the Love which is the Source of all creation. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 195, W-pI.195.4:2-4;8:1,6;10:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 195 Insights.)

Only Love is real. Thus everything that is real is loving. If we perceive anything that is not loving, we are perceiving the unreal, which does not exist in truth. This is the foundation for all forgiveness.

We have taught ourselves to believe that illusions are real. To forgive, we need to learn to recognize illusions as unreal and therefore nonexistent. The Holy Spirit is in our mind as our Teacher to learn His lessons. His teaching corrects our misperceptions.

When we accept the lesson that what we thought was real and called for defense is not real, the perceived disturbance disappears. What we recognize as unreal is automatically dismissed. We forgive because we realize nothing really happened. It was only a dream. We let go of a barrier to Love and Love flows in to take its place, bringing gratitude with it. Each time we learn this important correction of our perception, we take a step closer to wholly accepting that only Love is real.

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The World Christ’s Vision Sees

My holy vision sees all things as pure.

Father, Your Mind created all that is, Your Spirit entered into it, Your Love gave life to it. And would I look upon what You created as if it could be made sinful [separate]? I would not perceive such dark and fearful images. A madman’s dream is hardly fit to be my choice, instead of all the loveli­ness with which You blessed creation; all its purity, its joy, and its eternal, quiet home in You.

And while we still remain outside the gate of Heaven, let us look on all we see through holy vision and the eyes of Christ. Let all appearances seem pure to us, that we may pass them by in innocence, and walk together to our Father’s house as brothers and the holy Sons of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 263, W-pII.263. See also ACIM Lesson 263 Insights.)

Holy vision sees only the oneness of God’s Love. It sees past appearances made by the ego to portray separation as real. In every instant we choose between perceiving the ego’s projected images of separation and Christ’s vision, which shows us our unity in Love with every brother and our Father.

Today let’s join together to practice seeing with the eyes of Love. Love created us loving. Love created us helpful. Love created us happy. Love created us one. This is the world Christ would have us see.

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Lifting the Veil of Separation

The world is false perception. It is born of error, and it has not left its source. It will remain no longer than the thought that gave it birth is cherished. When the thought of separation has been changed to one of true forgiveness, will the world be seen in quite another light; and one which leads to truth, where all the world must disappear and all its errors vanish. Now its source has gone, and its effects are gone as well.

The world was made as an attack on God. It symbolizes fear. And what is fear except love’s absence? Thus the world was meant to be a place where God could enter not, and where His Son could be apart from Him.

Follow His light, and see the world as He beholds it. Hear His Voice alone in all that speaks to you. And let Him give you peace and certainty… (A Course in Miracles Workbook: What Is the World?, W-pII.8.1:1-2:4;4:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 241 Insights.)

This teaching is one of the most challenging for Course students to accept. The world is all we remember experiencing. The ego has cleverly made the source of its illusions unconscious, making the world seem to happen to us. It doesn’t seem possible that the world we perceive is projected from our own mind. This is the sleight of hand that makes the dream seem real. It’s helpful to realize that there is only one collective ego, based on the belief that separation is real. Separation makes the ego appear as many, housed in billions of bodies and trillions of separate, unique forms.

These projections are the ego’s cover to shield us from the truth that only the oneness of Love is real. We need help to forgive or let go of our belief in the illusions so we can see past this veil. We have been given the Teacher in our minds to help us bridge from the ego-made world to acceptance of the real world, which has let the veil of separation go. When our forgiveness of our belief in separation is complete, we see only Love’s oneness. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to purify our perceptions to help us awaken to our Home in the Heart of God’s Love.

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Making the Choice for Love

You need to be reminded that you think a thousand choices are confronting you, when there is really only one to make. And even this but seems to be a choice. Do not confuse yourself with all the doubts that myriad decisions would induce. You make but one. …There is no contradiction to the truth.

And the truth cannot be learned, but only recognized. In recognition [truth’s] acceptance lies, and as it is accepted it is known. …Ours are teaching goals, to be attained through learning how to reach them, what they are, and what they offer you. Decisions are the outcome of your learning, for they rest on what you have accepted as the truth of what you are, and what your needs must be. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 138, W-pI.138.4:1-4,8;5:2-3,5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 138 Insights.)

The goal of the Course is to teach us to distinguish to what is real from what is unreal. In the Introduction it states, “The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite” and “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.” Only Love is real. This is the lesson we must learn.

To learn this lesson we must learn that this world, made by the ego, is not real. The Course’s curriculum helps us learn that this world offers nothing that we really want. It cannot bring us undisturbable peace or eternal joy. It also teaches that we have an inner Teacher in our mind to Whom we an turn in every instant to help us see the reality of Love behind the ego’s illusions.

With our inner Teacher’s help, we learn that we are Love and nothing else. As we accept these lessons, the appeal of the ego’s unreal substitutes for love weakens. We choose the reality of Love instead, which brings with it the experience Love’s attributes — eternal peace and happiness. We choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide today, to help us choose Love in all our doing.

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Accepting the Light We Are

I will there be light. I will use the power of my will today. It is not my will to grope about in darkness, fearful of shadows and afraid of things unseen and unreal. Light shall be my guide today. I will follow it where it leads me, and I will look only on what it shows me. This day I will experience the peace of true perception.

There is no will but God’s. I am safe today because there is no will but God’s. I can become afraid only when I believe there is another will. I try to attack only when I am afraid, and only when I try to attack can I believe that my eternal safety is threatened. Today I will recognize that all this has not occurred. I am safe because there is no will but God’s. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 87, W-pI.87.1;3. See also ACIM Lesson 87 Insights.)

The ego is the idea of a will in opposition to God’s. Because there is no will but God’s, the ego’s “will” can only seem to be true in a dream. Dreams are not real. But when we are dreaming, we perceive the dream as real. That is why we need help from beyond the dream to awaken to the Will we share with God.

We will there be Light when we accept God’s Will as ours. As we accept the Will God shared with us, we automatically join in His Will to extend His Light. In this joining we accept His Love and Light as our own, which automatically leads to extending Love and Light. That is our function as God’s Son. When we remind ourselves that we will there be Light and that our Will is the same as God’s, we accept the true Self that God created us to be. We awaken from the dream.

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The Only Thoughts We Share with God

Your Self retains Its Thoughts, and they remain within your mind and in the Mind of God. The Holy Spirit holds salvation in your mind, and offers it the way to peace. Salvation is a thought you share with God…

Salvation comes from [your] one Self through Him [Holy Spirit] Who is the Bridge between your mind and It. Wait patiently, and let Him speak to you about your Self, and what your mind can do, restored to It and free to serve Its Will.

Begin with saying this:

Salvation comes from my one Self. Its Thoughts are mine to use.

Then seek Its Thoughts, and claim them as your own. These are your own real thoughts you have denied, and let your mind go wandering in a world of dreams, to find illusions in their place. Here are your thoughts, the only ones you have. Salvation is among them; find it there. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 96, W-pI.96.7:1-3;8:3-9:7. See also ACIM Lesson 96 Insights.)

Our only real Thoughts are Thoughts we share with God. They are Thoughts that extend Love just as we are God’s Thought of extending Himself. Only Thoughts of Love are real. They are the only Thoughts we share with God.

In the ego’s dream of separation, we seem to have private thoughts, separate and distinct from everyone else. But these are just dream images and the dream is not real. It is this dream of separation from which we need to be saved. The Holy Spirit in our mind is the Bridge to help us return to the loving Thoughts of unity that our one Self shares with God.

Today we practice holding our mind open to the Holy Spirit’s help to recognize the Thoughts of Love already in our mind, which have been hidden behind the veil of the dream. If we let Him, His Light will dispel the veil and awaken us to the loving Thoughts we share with God.

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