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Letting the Body Serve Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit’s curriculum is never depressing, because it is a curriculum of joy.

Learning must lead beyond the body to the re-establishment of the power of the mind in it. This can be accomplished only if the mind extends to other minds, and does not arrest [limit] itself in its extension.

You are not limited by the body, and thought cannot be made flesh.

When you see a brother as a body, you are condemning him because you have condemned yourself. Yet if all condemnation is unreal, and it must be unreal since it is a form of attack, then it can have no results [effects].

Freedom from illusions lies only in not believing them. There is no attack, but there is unlimited communication and therefore unlimited power and wholeness. The power of wholeness is extension. Do not [limit] your thought in this world, and you will open your mind to creation in God. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.VII.8:5;12:6-7;14:1;15:7-8;16:5-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we see anyone, a public figure, friend or ourself, as a body, we are condemning ourselves by limiting the mind to the illusion of a body. Since illusions appear real only because of our belief in them, withdrawing our belief in them frees us to be the unlimited mind we share with God.

The Holy Spirit’s lessons teach us to recognize illusions for what they are. Each time we learn His lesson we free ourselves from our belief in limitation. With practice, we let go of using the body to make separation seem real. We recognize the body has no value of its own and we no longer see it as our identity, nor do we see it as our brother’s identity.

Now it can be used solely as a device in the service of the Holy Spirit. It is used to communicate in the world the Holy Spirit’s lessons which teach us to see the unity of Love that joins everyone including ourselves with our Creator.

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Listening to the Voice of Love

When truth has come it harbors in its wings the gift of perfect constancy, and love which does not falter in the face of pain, but looks beyond it, steadily and sure. Here is the gift of healing, for the truth needs no defense, and therefore no attack is possible. Illusions can be brought to truth to be corrected. But the truth stands far beyond illusions, and [truth] can not be brought to [illusions] to turn them into truth.

Truth does not come and go nor shift nor change…. Give truth its due, and it will give you yours. You were not meant to suffer and to die. Your Father wills these dreams be gone. Let truth correct them all.

Give truth its due, and it will give you yours. You were not meant to suffer and to die. Your Father wills these dreams be gone. Let truth correct them all. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 107, W-pI.107.5;6:1,6-9;8:1. See also ACIM Lesson 107 Insights.)

It seems incredible that the body we identify with and the world we experience is nothing but illusion. Illusions are images that are made up and therefore not real. What we think of as our life is nothing more than illusions seemingly strung together over time in a dream.

Sometimes these dreams are happy yet transient at best. Even in our happy times we commonly “wait for the other shoe to drop.” We don’t believe that joy can last forever. And we believe that death is the only certainty we can count on. It does not seem that none of this is real.

Yet hidden by the dream remains the changeless truth that we remain Love as Love created us. Love’s joy and peace are ours now. This is our inheritance, given us in our Creation, never to be changed nor lost. The Truth in us is constantly calling to us to awaken from the dream of separation and death. It tells us that we are Love and nothing else.

We dedicate this day to listening to this call with willingness to see the truth beyond the dream. We are willing to awaken to Love because we want to awaken from the dream of denying Love.

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The Joy of Extending Love

Let all things be exactly as they are.

Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms. Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let [creation] be as You created it. For thus will I be able, too, to recognize my Self as You created me. In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever. What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?

Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues. Only reality is free of pain. Only reality is free of loss. Only reality is wholly safe. And it is only this we seek today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 268, W-pII.268A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 268, )

When we believe that our brothers are bodies, we are judging against our Creator. We are attempting to limit God’s Love by substituting the image of a body for God’s extension of His limitless Love. The ego-made world is the effect of judging against God by wanting specialness instead of the unity of His Love. We are accepting the lies of the ego in place of the truth that only Love is real and this Love created us like Itself.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see all things exactly as they are — Love and nothing else. As we accept this, there can be no pain, no sorrow, no fear, only the joy of extending Love.

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Recognizing the Innocence in Every Brother

God is my life. I have no life but His.

I was mistaken when I thought I lived apart from God, a sepa­rate entity that moved in isolation, unattached, and housed within a body. Now I know my life is God’s, I have no other home, and I do not exist apart from Him. He has no Thoughts that are not part of me, and I have none but those which are of Him.

Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes. For we who are Your holy Son are sinless. We would look upon our sinless­ness, for guilt proclaims that we are not Your Son. And we would not forget You longer. We are lonely here, and long for Heaven, where we are at home. Today we would return. Our Name is Yours, and we acknowledge that we are Your Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 223, W-pII.223. See also ACIM Lesson 223 Insights.)

The world we experience with the body is not our Home because we are not a body, we are Spirit. There are no limits to Spirit. In Spirit we remain united with our Creator, wholly loved and loving.

We only identify with the body when we believe separation is real. This belief blocks our awareness of our oneness with all in Spirit. It blocks our awareness of our true Self and imprisons us in a world of separation. But this world is only a dream that could never be true. It is a dream of loneliness, isolation and powerlessness, for it denies our eternal unity with the strength of God and the Love that surrounds us eternally.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit’s help to see the innocent face of Christ in every brother. As we accept this vision, we learn that we are Spirit, at Home in Heaven.

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Remembering the Quiet Place Within

Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.

Father, I come to You today to seek the peace that You alone can give. I come in silence. In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of my mind, I wait and listen for Your Voice. My Father, speak to me today. I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and love, sure You will hear my call and answer me.

Now do we wait in quiet. God is here, because we wait together. I am sure that He will speak to you, and you will hear. Accept my confidence, for it is yours. Our minds are joined. We wait with one intent; to hear our Father’s answer to our call, to let our thoughts be still and find His peace, to hear Him speak to us of what we are, and to reveal Himself unto His Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 221, W-pII.221. See also ACIM Lesson 221 Insights.)

The Course emphasizes the importance of going to the quiet place within. The chaos of the ego’s world interferes with the Voice of God, which is constantly calling us Home to Love.

In the Manual for Teachers it tells us to start the day with God. God is not found in the chaos of the world, but in the quiet of our mind, where the busyness of the day is set aside and the peace of God’s Love fills our mind. Here His Voice speaks to us of God’s Love. It teaches us that we are united with Him in this Love and reminds us that every brother is joined with us in Love’s oneness. From this place of safety, happiness and peace, we return to the world refreshed, strengthened and with clearer vision to see the truth beyond the forms of the world.

We keep in touch with this peaceful place throughout the day by pausing frequently to step back for a moment and reconnect with the peace within. We open our mind to inspiration. This practice makes every day a happier day, a more peaceful day, and leads us forward on our journey of awakening. Let us join in this practice today.

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God’s Plan to Release Us from All Guilt

…ask the Holy Spirit everything, and leave all decisions to His gentle counsel.

The One Who knows the plan of God that God would have you follow can teach you what it is. Only His wisdom is capable of guiding you to follow it. …The Holy Spirit knows that all salvation is escape from guilt.

Let Him, therefore, be the only Guide that you would follow to salvation. He knows the way, and leads you gladly on it.

Never forget the Love of God, Who has remembered you.

Whenever you are in doubt what you should do, think of His Presence in you, and tell yourself this, and only this:

He leadeth me and knows the way, which I know not.
Yet He will never keep from me what He would have me learn.
And so I trust Him to communicate to me all that He knows for me.

Then let Him teach you quietly how to perceive your guiltlessness, which is already there.” (A Course in Miracles, T-14.III.12:6;13:1-2,4;14:1-2;15:7;19. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God never stops giving His Love to us. But we have to accept His Love and share It to know we have It.

When we accept the ego’s denial of God’s Love, we no longer are aware that we have it. Denying what we know is really true makes us feel guilty. The ego’s plan to deal with this guilt is to project it or to hide it in our unconscious mind. This keeps the guilt in our mind rather than releasing us from guilt. God’s plan frees us from all guilt by showing us that it is impossible to harm Him or His Son.

Today we practice giving all decisions about what to do to the Holy Spirit to decide on our behalf. He will teach us of the innocence we share in the oneness of God’s Love.

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Learning to Teach Only Love

…to teach is to learn, so that teacher and learner are the same. [The Course] also emphasizes that teaching is a constant process; it goes on every moment of the day, and continues into sleeping thoughts as well.

To teach is to demonstrate. There are only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you believe one or the other is true all the time. From your demonstration others learn, and so do you.

Teaching but reinforces what you believe about yourself. Its fundamental purpose is to diminish self-doubt. This does not mean that the self you are trying to protect is real. But it does mean that the self you think is real is what you teach. (A Course in Miracles, M-in.1:5-2:3;3:7-9)

When we react to a brother as though he is a body, we teach and learn that bodies and separation are real. This keeps us bound to the guilt and fear of the ego’s world of separation.

If we want to experience the Love, peace and happiness God has already given us, we need to change what we teach and learn. To do this we need to diligently and consistently choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide in all that we think and do. He will always guide us to act and think with Love. His vision shows us the loving Self that perception of the body hides. His Thoughts always reflect God’s Thought of Love.

The Holy Spirit recognizes our thoughts of defense and attack as calls for Love and answers these calls with forgiveness and Love. True forgiveness welcomes the vision of the Love we are. As we let the Holy Spirit be our Guide, we teach Love and learn that we are Love and nothing else.

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