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Letting Our Mind Return to Love

The only purpose worthy of your mind this world contains is that you pass it by, without delaying to perceive some hope where there is none. Be you deceived no more. The world you see holds nothing that you want.

Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world, when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. It will be grateful to be free a while. It knows where it belongs. But free its wings, and it will fly in sureness and in joy to join its holy purpose. Let it rest in its Creator, there to be restored to sanity, to freedom and to love.

Give it ten minutes rest three times today. And when your eyes are opened afterwards, you will not value anything you see as much as when you looked at it before. Your whole perspec­tive on the world will shift by just a little, every time you let your mind escape its chains. The world is not where it belongs. And you belong where it would be, and where it goes to rest when you release it from the world. Your Guide is sure. Open your mind to Him. Be still and rest. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 128, W-pI.128.2:3-5;6-7. See also ACIM Lesson 128 Insights.)

A hot air balloon rises to the level where its buoyancy is in balance with the atmosphere. Love is the only atmosphere where the mind of our true Self is in balance with Its surroundings. Love is our only Home. This is the only Source of true happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed. This is everything we want. There is nothing else.

The world we experience as a body offers no lasting peace, only fleeting moments of seeming happiness and special love which denies the oneness of God’s Love. We do not really want this world. Only the mistaken belief that it holds something of value binds us to the world.

Today we pause to open our mind to the presence of God’s Love. In this pause, we experience an inkling of what our real Home offers in place of the ego’s substitute. It touches our heart, calling to us to return to Love. The value we have given the things of the world fades as the attraction of Love grows stronger each time we pause. We return to this world with the Light of Love that brightens our thoughts and feelings. We bring this Light with us into the world.

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Choosing the Path to Return to Love

When you made visible [images of separation] what is not true, what is true [Love’s oneness] became invisible to you. Yet it cannot be invisible in itself, for the Holy Spirit sees it with perfect clarity. It is invisible to you because you are looking at something else. …What can be seen is what the Holy Spirit sees. The definition of reality is God’s, not yours.

Because of your Father’s Love you can never forget Him, for no one can forget what God Himself placed in his memory. You can deny it, but you cannot lose it. A Voice will answer every question you ask, and a vision will correct the perception of everything you see. For what you have made invisible is the only truth, and what you have not heard is the only Answer. God would reunite you with yourself, and did not abandon you in your distress. You are waiting only for Him, and do not know it. Yet His memory shines in your mind and cannot be obliterated. It is no more past than future, being forever always.

…the memory of God cannot shine in a mind that has obliterated it and wants to keep it so. For the memory of God can dawn only in a mind that chooses to remember, and that has relinquished the insane desire to control reality. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.VIII.3:1-3,5-6;4;5:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

It’s good news that no matter how entranced we may be by the dream of separation, we cannot lose the memory of God. We just need to interrupt the trance of belief in separation. On our own, we do not know how to do this. But we have the Answer to this dilemma, ever present in our mind.

God’s promise of His unbreakable connection with His Son guarantees that we have a path for return to remember our unity with Him in His eternal Love. We are not condemned to an existence in a world of suffering, loss, fear and guilt. But we have to be willing to listen to His Answer.

Willingness comes as we recognize that we do not really want the dream world we have made. There is a better way. The Guide to this better way is in our mind. Let’s join together in the practice of pausing in the midst of our discomfort, pain and fear to let His inspiration show us the reality of Love. This inspiration brings the Light of Love to our mind and dispels the false images that denied Love’s presence. With His help, we can choose the path that leads us Home to Love.

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Restoring Love to Our Awareness

The past is over. It can touch me not.

Unless the past is over in my mind, the real world must escape my sight. For I am really looking nowhere; seeing but what is not there. How can I then perceive the world forgiveness offers? This the past was made to hide, for this the world that can be looked on only now. It has no past. For what can be forgiven but the past, and if it is forgiven, it is gone.

Father, let me not look upon a past that is not there. For You have offered me Your Own replacement, in a present world the past has left untouched and free of sin. Here is the end of guilt. And here am I made ready for Your final step. Shall I demand that You wait longer for Your Son to find the loveliness You planned to be the end of all his dreams and all his pain? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 289, W-pII.289. See also ACIM Lesson 289 Insights.)

Judgment is the ego’s mechanism for projecting the past onto the present. This projection hides the only reality that is now—Love. Judgment depends upon perceiving separation and believing it is real. This belief denies the oneness of Love and makes It unknown to us.

To restore Love to our awareness, we need to let go of the past through forgiveness. This is why the Course’s central focus is on forgiveness. It is the means for restoring our mind to the awareness of Love’s oneness. We are so entrenched in the beliefs of the ego thought system that we need to ask for help from the Teacher Who knows that only Love is real.

We cannot use the ego’s logic to forgive because this logic is based upon a false premise and leads to a meaningless result. The false premise is that separation is real. The ego’s version of forgiveness does not forget the past.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit for His help to release the past from our split mind. We want His help to heal the split and unite us with all our brothers in the peace and joy of the Love. As we accept His help, the conflict and fear engendered by the past fade and Love lights our mind.

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There Is Nothing to Fear in Love’s Presence

Appearances deceive, but can be changed. Reality is changeless. It does not deceive at all, and if you fail to see beyond appearances you are deceived. …Reality is changeless. It is this that makes it real, and keeps it separate from all appearances. It must transcend all form to be itself. It cannot change.

What is temptation but a wish to make illusions real? …Temptation, then, is nothing more than this; a prayer the miracle touch not some dreams, but keep their unreality obscure and give to them reality instead.

There is no miracle you cannot have when you desire healing. But there is no miracle that can be given you unless you want it. Choose what you would heal, and He Who gives all miracles has not been given freedom to bestow His gifts upon God’s Son.

Because reality is changeless is a miracle already there to heal all things that change, and offer them to you to see in happy form, devoid of fear.

Be not made guilty and afraid when you are tempted by a dream of what [your brother] is. But do not give it power to replace the changeless in him in your sight of him. There is no false appearance but will fade, if you request a miracle instead. There is no pain from which he is not free, if you would have him be but what he is. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.VIII.1:1-3,6-9;3:1,4;4:5-7;5:1;6:3-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Reality is Love because only Love is real. Love has no form and therefore cannot be perceived when we believe appearances are real. When we believe a brother is a body and we are a body, we are blind to the presence of changeless Love. Without awareness of Love, fear is inevitable.

We perceive based on what we believe we are. Appearances fade from view as we accept the Holy Spirit’s lessons which teach us that we are Love and nothing else — our changeless Reality. We welcome the miracle of a changed of mind when we welcome the Holy Spirit’s lesson that shows us the presence of Love beyond the appearances of the world.

There is nothing to fear in Love’s presence. Only the joy that comes as we welcome our unity with our brothers at Home together in God. This is our eternal Reality. As the images of the world no longer deceive us, we see past them. We experience Love’s blessing as we bring Love to the world.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love, for we would remember we are God’s Son in Whom He is well pleased.

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Freedom Through Forgiveness

Your Son is free, my Father. Let me not imagine I have bound him with the laws I made to rule the body. He is not subject to any laws I made by which I try to make the body more secure. He is not changed by what is changeable. He is not slave to any laws of time. He is as You created him, because he knows no law except the law of love.

“=Let us not worship idols, nor believe in any law idolatry would make to hide the freedom of the Son of God. He is not bound except by his beliefs. Yet what he is, is far beyond his faith in slavery or freedom. He is free because he is his Father’s Son. And he cannot be bound unless God’s truth can lie, and God can will that He deceive Himself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 277, W-pII.277. See also ACIM Lesson 277 Insights.)

The body is an idol made by the ego as a substitute for God’s Son. When we believe we are a body, bound by its limits, are are worshipping an idol. Our belief in this idol makes it seem that we are bound by the ego’s laws for what the body is — a separate identity, limited in space by its reach and in time to change until it ultimately dies.

But our true Self is the Son of God. It lives forever in the changeless Love of God. This is our Reality. All we need do is stop believing we are a limited being, separate from our Source. Forgiveness is the means to release our self-imposed limitations is to let the Holy Spirit help us let go of our mistaken beliefs. As we turn to Him to receive His vision in place of our perceptions, we awaken to the peace and joy of our home in Love. Holy Spirit, help me see with Your vision.

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Claiming the Comfort of God’s Love

You always choose between your weakness and the strength of Christ in you. And what you choose is what you think is real. Simply by never using weakness to direct your actions, you have given it no power. And the light of Christ in you is given charge of everything you do. For you have brought your weakness unto Him, and He has given you His strength instead.

Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you. In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, “My brother, choose again.” He would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth. He would remove all misery from you whom God created altar unto joy. He would not leave you comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release your mind from everything that hides His face from you. His Holiness is yours because He is the only power that is real in you. His strength is yours because He is the Self that God created as His only Son.

Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it as it is; another chance to choose again, and let Christ’s strength prevail in every circumstance and every place you raised an image of yourself before. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VIII.2:3-3:7;4:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we choose the ego as our guide, we choose weakness. The ego denies the Love of God, which is the only Power. The only power the ego seems to have is what we give it by choosing it as our leader. We can choose differently.

Despite our allegiance to the ego’s denial of God, the Holy Spirit remains ever present in our mind. We withdraw power from the ego, which has none of its own, when we choose to follow the Holy Spirit. This choice to let the Holy Spirit guide is available to us in every moment.

If we are tempted to perceive threat, loss, sickness or death as real, we can call upon the Holy Spirit for help. He is ever present in our mind to bring us the comfort of God’s Love. His Light dispels the ego’s denials. His vision shows us our invulnerability, the Love we are and the joy that is inherent in the Life we live in God. The Holy Spirit has infinite patience because He knows that we are God’s Son eternally. He knows we cannot fail to find our way Home and remember the Love we are.

Today, for every apprehension, sadness or perception of harm, we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide to help us remember we are eternally safe in the Love of God.

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We Are Loved Without Limit

Father, I must return Your Love for me, for giving and receiving are the same, and You have given all Your Love to me. I must return [Your Love], for I want it mine in full awareness, blazing in my mind and keeping it within its kindly light, inviolate, beloved, with fear behind and only peace ahead. How still the way Your loving Son is led along to You!

Brother, we find that stillness now. The way is open. Now we follow it in peace together. You have reached your hand to me, and I will never leave you. We are one, and it is but this oneness that we seek, as we accomplish these few final steps which end a journey that was not begun. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 225, W-pII.225. See also ACIM Lesson 225 Insights.)

If we want to feel and know God’s Love for us, we have to relinquish all our judgments. Love and judgment cannot coexist. Judgment is only conceivable where separation is believed real. But this belief denies Love’s oneness.

We welcome God’s Love in our mind by letting go of judgment. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to decide all things on our behalf. His judgments are based on the simple fact that only Love is real. Anything other than Love is not real and therefore is nothing. Any perception of separation is a denial of Love.

When we let the Holy Spirit judge on our behalf, our perceptions are purified and the Light of Love is welcome. We join with Jesus on this journey, recognizing He is one with us in God’s Love. We are safe, innocent and loved without limit.

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