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The Fast Track to Awakening to Love

²A holy relationship is a means of saving time. ³One instant spent together with your brother restores the universe to both of you.

³Time has been saved for you because you and your brother are together. ⁴This is the special means this course is using to save you time.

To do anything involves the body. ²And if you recognize you need do nothing, you have withdrawn the body’s value from your mind. ³Here is the quick and open door through which you slip past centuries of effort, and escape from time. ⁴This is the way in which sin loses all attraction right now. ⁵For here is time denied, and past and future gone. ⁶Who needs do nothing has no need for time. ⁷To do nothing is to rest, and make a place within you where the activity of the body ceases to demand attention. ⁸Into this place the Holy Spirit comes, and there abides. ⁹He will remain when you forget, and the body’s activities return to occupy your conscious mind.

Yet there will always be this place of rest to which you can return. ²And you will be more aware of this quiet center of the storm than all its raging activity. ³This quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain with you, giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing on which you are sent. ⁴For from this center will you be directed how to use the body sinlessly. ⁵It is this center, from which the body is absent, that will keep [the body sinless] in your awareness of it. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VII.5:2-3;6:3-4;7:1–8:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The most repeated statement in the Workbook is, “I am not a body.” It is repeated so often because it counters the investment we have made in the body as our identity. The change this recognition induces opens us to become consciously aware of our true Self, which dwells eternally in the Mind of Love. As we detach our identification with the body, we let go of the limitations it imposes. The body is the chief illusion the ego uses to make separation seem real.

Bodies were made to be unable to be aware of Love’s oneness. The body’s senses can only sense separation. Our true Self remains unlimited by time, space and the body. Without our identification with the body, we are free to experience our eternal union with every brother and with God in the universe of Love.

There is nothing we need do to be what God created us to be. But while we maintain identification with the body, we do need to practice letting go of its limitations. The holy relationship, which we can experience in the holy instant when the body’s limitations have been set aside restores our awareness of our true Identity.

We set aside limitations through forgiveness. What we perceive in other bodies, what they seem to mean, is a reflection of what we believe about ourselves. Each time we let the Holy Spirit show us that beyond this appearance is Love and nothing else, we loosen our identification with the body.

We dedicate today to frequently pausing to go to the quiet place of rest within and let the Holy Spirit reveal Love’s presence everywhere, in everyone.

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Let Holy Spirit Judge All Things

³You cannot judge. ⁴You merely can believe the ego’s judgments, all of which are false. ⁵It guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are; how helpless and afraid…

Yet you must learn to doubt their evidence will clear the way to recognize yourself, and let the Voice for God alone be Judge of what is worthy of your own belief.

He will select the elements in them which represent the truth, and disregard those aspects which reflect but idle dreams. ²And He will reinterpret all you see, and all occurrences, each circumstance, and every happening that seems to touch on you in any way from His one frame of reference, wholly unified and sure. ³And you will see the love beyond the hate, the constancy in change, the pure in sin, and only Heaven’s blessing on the world.

²As we give thanks, the world unites with us and happily accepts our holy thoughts, which Heaven has corrected and made pure. ³Now has our ministry begun at last, to carry round the world the joyous news that truth has no illusions, and the peace of God, through us, belongs to everyone. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 151, W-1.4:3-5;7:1;11;17:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 151 Insights.)

As long as we believe that we are a separate identity, different from everyone and everything, we believe we need to protect this identity. Loss and harm seem real. Pain seems to be part of our lives. Yet this need not be our experience.

There is a better way to perceive the world. We can learn it from the Teacher provided by our Creator. The Holy Spirit sees every moment as a learning opportunity in which His lessons teach us to look beyond appearances. Under His guidance we learn to see the Love that binds us eternally to our Creator and every brother as God’s one Son.

The practice of choosing the Holy Spirit to judge all things on our behalf awakens us to the Love we are and in which we dwell. In truth we are safe, wholly loving and loved without limit. Love is our Home and our very Being. Love is our Reality.

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The Certainty of God’s Protection

The Certainty of God’s Protection

I walk with God in perfect holiness.

Today’s idea but states the simple truth that makes the thought of sin impossible. ²It promises there is no cause for guilt, and being causeless it does not exist. ³It follows surely from the basic thought so often mentioned in the text; ideas leave not their source. ⁴If this be true, how can you be apart from God? ⁵How could you walk the world alone and separate from your Source?

⁴In lightness and in laughter is sin gone, because its quaint absurdity is seen. ⁵It is a foolish thought, a silly dream, not frightening, ridiculous perhaps, but who would waste an instant in approach to God Himself for such a senseless whim?

Yet you have wasted many, many years on just this foolish thought. ²The past is gone, with all its fantasies. ³They keep you bound no longer. ⁴The approach to God is near. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 156, W-156.1:1-5;6:4–7:4. See also ACIM Lesson 156 Insights.)

Any feeling of uncertainty, unworthiness, anxiety or guilt is a sure sign that we have forgotten Who walks with us. We have forgotten What and Who we are. Neither God nor His creation (our true Self) changes. We remain eternally united with our Source.

Today, if we have any of these feelings, we remind ourselves that God walks with us. He shares His strength and Love and keeps us eternally safe in our home with Him in Heaven. We give thanks for His sure protection.

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Accepting the Gift Every Moment Brings

How can you tell when you are seeing wrong, or someone else is failing to perceive the lesson he should learn? ²Does pain seem real in the perception? ³If it does, be sure the lesson is not learned. ⁴And there remains an unforgiveness hiding in the mind that sees the pain through eyes the mind directs.

God would not have you suffer thus. ²He would help you forgive yourself.

This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. ²To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:

³I will forgive, and this will disappear.

⁴To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. ⁵And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 193, W-193.7:1–8:2;13:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

There is only one lesson God would have us learn, but it takes many forms in the world we seem to live in. The ego’s images overlay the formlessness of God’s all encompassing, changeless Love. Forgiveness undoes the images the ego makes which represent its grievance against God’s Love.

There is a clear symptom that helps us recognize the need for forgiveness. Does our perception include pain or any disturbance of our peace? These disturbances can be a gift from God if we recognize they opportunity they offer to forgive. Each time we recognize that our perception is not peaceful and loving becomes a gift when we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see with His vision. His vision sees past the illusion to the Reality of Love’s presence everywhere, always.

Let us accept His gifts today by responding to every disturbance of our peace with the thought, “I will forgive and this will disappear.”

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Resting in the Certainty of Love

I have already chosen what You will.

Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its laws, and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours. ²Yet what I am in truth is but Your Will, extended and extending. ³This am I, and this will never change. ⁴As You are One, so am I one with You. ⁵And this I chose in my creation, where my will became forever one with Yours. ⁶That choice was made for all eternity. ⁷It cannot change, and be in opposition to itself. ⁸Father, my will is Yours. ⁹And I am safe, untroubled and serene, in endless joy, because it is Your Will that it be so.

Today we will accept our union with each other and our Source. ²We have no will apart from His, and all of us are one because His Will is shared by all of us. ³Through it we recognize that we are one. ⁴Through it we find our way at last to God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 329, W-329. See also ACIM Lesson 329 Insights.)

In truth, we are Love, extended and extending. Nothing else. No form can limit the Love we are, neither in space nor time. Love is eternal. It does not change over time. There is no place where Love is not. This Self that is Love is everywhere, always. Love always joins with Love. Thus are we united with the Love that is every brother and our Creator.

Today we rest in the certainty of the changeless Love that is our being, limitless and forever.

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The Truth That Sets Us Free

God does not suffer conflict. ²Nor is His creation split in two. ³How could it be His Son could be in hell, when God Himself established him in Heaven? ⁴Could he lose what the Eternal Will has given him to be his home forever? ⁵Let us not try longer to impose an alien will upon God’s single purpose. ⁶He is here because He wills to be, and what He wills is present now, beyond the reach of time.

²No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth, and it is truth we seek to reach today. ³…we will ask to see the rising of the real world to replace the foolish images that we hold dear, with true ideas arising in the place of thoughts that have no meaning, no effect, and neither source nor substance in the truth.

Remember often that today should be a time of special gladness, and refrain from dismal thoughts and meaningless laments. ²Salvation’s time has come. ³Today is set by Heaven itself to be a time of grace for you and for the world. ⁴If you forget this happy fact, remind yourself with this:

⁵Today I seek and find all that I want.
⁶My single purpose offers it to me.
⁷No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. (W-131.8;10:2-3;15)

Feelings of depression, emptiness, inadequacy, superiority, uncertainty, resentment, guilt, anger and fear are all the effect of believing the ego’s lie that separation from God’s Love is real. This mistaken idea leads us to search for the truth. The truth sets us free because it shows us that separation is not real. We remain complete as God created us. We remain whole in the oneness of Love, sharing Love with All That Is.

The key to awakening to the truth is letting the Holy Spirit be our Guide instead of the ego. We can count on His strength to support us in our search for truth. He knows the way. He knows how to teach us to see the truth behind the ego’s false images. He shines a Light that dispels the veils of illusion the ego uses to hide the truth of What we are.

Today we seek the truth by choosing the Holy Spirit to be our Interpreter of all that we perceive in the world.

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Awakening to the Value of Love

All things are valuable or valueless, worthy or not of being sought at all, entirely desirable or not worth the slightest effort to obtain. ²Choosing is easy just because of this. ³Complexity is nothing but a screen of smoke, which hides the very simple fact that no decision can be difficult. ⁴What is the gain to you in learning this? ⁵It is far more than merely letting you make choices easily and without pain.

Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. ²We will attempt to reach this state today, with self-deception laid aside, and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real. ³…begin with this:

I will not value what is valueless, and only what has value do I seek, for only that do I desire to find.

And then receive what waits for everyone who reaches, unencumbered, to the gate of Heaven, which swings open as he comes. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 133, W-133.12:1–14:1. See also ACIM Lesson 133 Insights.)

While we believe we are a body in a world of separation, we do not know how to distinguish what is valuable from what is valueless. The Course tells us to ask of everything, “What is this for?” This means ask the Holy Spirit, not the ego. It values only the valueless—illusions that depend upon separation for their seeming existence. The ego treasures illusions which are inherently valueless. Only the meaning the ego gives illusions seem to give them value.

The Holy Spirit’s assignment is to guide us to the truly valuable. Because only Love is real, only Love is truly valuable. Only Love brings us happiness, for that is an attribute of Love. The Love that is our true Self seeks only to join with Love to be complete. When we let the Holy Spirit guide all our choices, we will be led lovingly and gently to awaken to the Love we are.

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