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The Key to Finding Peace of Mind

You are my goal, my Father. Only You.

Where would I go but Heaven? ²What could be a substitute for happiness? ³What gift could I prefer before the peace of God? ⁴What treasure would I seek and find and keep that can compare with my Identity? ⁵And would I rather live with fear than love?

You are my goal, my Father. ²What but You could I desire to have? ³What way but that which leads to You could I desire to walk? ⁴And what except the memory of You could signify to me the end of dreams and futile substitutions for the truth? ⁵You are my only goal. ⁶Your Son would be as You created him. ⁷What way but this could I expect to recognize my Self, and be at one with my Identity? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 287, W-287. See also ACIM Lesson 287 Insights.)

The goal of A Course in Miracles is to teach us how to find peace. Everyone in this world wants peace. Yet part of us is afraid to find it. It’s the part of our mind we call the ego. The ego perceives peace as a threat. Because once we find it, we will disown the ego and its thought system of separation, fear and guilt.

When we put the ego in charge of our mind, we seek peace where it cannot be found. We seek conflict because the ego teaches that if we can overcome an adversary, we will find peace. But the very idea that adversaries exist that needs to be recognized as a mistake. They cannot exist in the oneness of Heaven in which we belong.

We can find peace if we put our direction in the hands of the Holy Spirit. He will help us see that every brother shares our Identity in God. His guidance shows us the Love of our brother so we can see the Love we are. Together with him in Love, we walk the path of return to our Father. We remember Heaven is our Home.

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Miracles Come with Accepting Reality as It Is

³Forgiveness through the Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning, and thus keeping it unreal for you. ⁴Do not let any belief in its realness enter your mind, or you will also believe that you must undo what you have made in order to be forgiven. ⁵What has no effect does not exist, and to the Holy Spirit the effects of error are nonexistent. ⁶By steadily and consistently cancelling out all its effects, everywhere and in all respects, He teaches that the ego does not exist and proves it.

Follow the Holy Spirit’s teaching in forgiveness, then, because forgiveness is His function and He knows how to fulfill it perfectly. …³Miracles are merely the sign of your willingness to follow the Holy Spirit’s plan of salvation, recognizing that you do not understand what it is. ⁴His work is not your function, and unless you accept this you cannot learn what your function is.

Behold, my child, reality is here. ²It belongs to you and me and God, and is perfectly satisfying to all of Us. ³Only this awareness heals, because it is the awareness of truth. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.IV.5:3–6:1,3-4;12:1-3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The first lesson of the Workbook threatens the ego to its core. If nothing we see means anything, then the ego is nothing. The ego responds to this thought with all its defenses. For if we fully accept that everything we see in the world means nothing, the ego would no longer seem to exist.

This idea is the foundation upon which forgiveness rests. if nothing we see through the body’s eyes means anything, then there has been no change in What God created one with Himself. We are not a body; we remain His Son, wholly loving and wholly loved.

We are so ensconced in the ego thought system that this idea is hard to accept. Fortunately, we have powerful Help to learn this important lesson. But we must be willing to accept this help. The more we practice, moment-by-moment, remembering that we do not know what anything means and asking for the Holy Spirit’s vision of the truth, the greater will be our happiness and peace. With this practice we accept the plan of Atonement. We forgive the world for all we thought it was and welcome God’s gift of all of His Love.

Let’s join together in this practice today.

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Awakening to the Love We Are

Love is the way I walk in gratitude.

⁷Your gratitude is due to Him alone Who made all cause of sorrow disappear throughout the world. …Who offers you the certain means whereby all pain is healed, and suffering replaced with laughter and with happiness.

²Love makes no comparisons.

…let your gratitude make room for all who will escape with you; the sick, the weak, the needy and afraid, and those who mourn a seeming loss or feel apparent pain, who suffer cold or hunger, or who walk the way of hatred and the path of death. ³All these go with you. ⁴Let us not compare ourselves with them, for thus we split them off from our awareness of the unity we share with them, as they must share with us.

We thank our Father for one thing alone; that we are separate from no living thing, and therefore one with Him.

⁶When 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. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 195, W-195.1:7;2:2;4:2;5:2–6:1;8:6. See also ACIM Lesson 195 Insights.)

Our true Self is loving because it was created by Love as Love. This Self does not change because it remains united with Its changeless Creator. Our only problem is that we deny our eternal connection with our Creator. The result of that denial is a fantasy world in which separation seems real.

It is time to forgive the denial. It is costing us peace of mind and perfect happiness. We forgive this error in many wonderful easy steps under Holy Spirit’s guidance.

Each time we let the Holy Spirit show us the changeless Love beyond appearances, we take another step on the path of return to Love. It is the path to freedom to be Love and nothing else. We take this happy journey together.

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How to Learn of the Love We Are

⁸To order is to judge, and to arrange by judgment. ⁹Therefore it is not your function, but the Holy Spirit’s.

The only judgment involved is the Holy Spirit’s one division into two categories; one of love, and the other the call for love. ²You cannot safely make this division, for you are much too confused either to recognize love, or to believe that everything else is nothing but a call for love. ³You are too bound to form, and not to content. ⁴What you consider content is not content at all. ⁵It is merely form, and nothing else. ⁶For you do not respond to what a brother really offers you, but only to the particular perception of his offering by which the ego judges it.

⁴Every interpretation you would lay upon a brother is senseless. ⁵Let the Holy Spirit show him to you, and teach you both his love and his call for love. ⁶Neither his mind nor yours holds more than these two orders of thought.

The miracle is the recognition that this is true. ²Where there is love, your brother must give it to you because of what [Love] is. ³But where there is a call for love, you must give [Love] because of what you are. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.X.5:8-9;7;11:4–12:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

While we identify with the body, everything we perceive is bound to be misinterpreted. The body can only see form. But form has no meaning of its own. Its content is empty.

Yet Love is always present beyond the form. We are unaware of Love unless we join with the Holy Spirit and accept His judgment of all appearances. If a brother perceives himself as separate, he will feel lack of Love. This sense of lack produces calls for Love in many forms — fear, guilt, depression, anxiety, anger—anything but perfect happiness and peace.

As we let the Holy Spirit judge all things on our behalf, He will teach us to recognize calls for Love and answer with Love. Of ourself alone, we do not know how to answer. The belief that we are alone stands as a barrier against the awareness of Love. As we let the Holy Spirit answer with Love through us, we learn of the Love we are and join with the Love in our brothers.

Today we resign as judge and turn over all judgment to the Holy Spirit, for we want to learn of the Love we are and remember our true Identity.

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Putting Our Mind in the Service of Holy Spirit

I rule my mind, which I alone must rule.

I have a kingdom I must rule. ²At times, it does not seem I am its king at all. ³It seems to triumph over me, and tell me what to think, and what to do and feel. ⁴And yet it has been given me to serve whatever purpose I perceive in it. ⁵My mind can only serve. ⁶Today I give its service to the Holy Spirit to employ as He sees fit. ⁷I thus direct my mind, which I alone can rule. ⁸And thus I set it free to do the Will of God.

Father, my mind is open to Your Thoughts, and closed today to every thought but Yours. ²I rule my mind, and offer it to You. ³Accept my gift, for it is Yours to me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 236. See also ACIM Lesson 236 Insights.)

We are in charge of what thought system rules our mind. We have turned our mind over to the ego which demands our allegiance to belief in separation from God. Its rule has seemed to turn on us. It demands sacrifice of our true Self and offers a powerless substitute image that is vulnerable to harm and death. It sends us to search for Love where it cannot be found. Our seeming life is fraught with danger. Stress is part of daily life interspersed with occasional brief moments of happiness and peace. This is not what God wills for us.

When we put the Holy Spirit in charge of our mind, He offers us everything God Wills for us. He leads us to remember that we are Love and nothing else. Through Christ’s vision, He shows us the Love that is present everywhere and in every brother. He awakens our mind to the oneness it shares with the Mind of God. This is our true Mind.

We choose to awaken today by putting the Holy Spirit in charge of our thoughts, words and actions.

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The Way to a Happy, Peaceful Day

The world you see is an illusion of a world.

The body’s eyes are therefore not the means by which the real world can be seen, for the illusions that they look upon must lead to more illusions of reality. ²And so they do. ³For everything [the body’s eyes] see not only will not last, but lends itself to thoughts of sin and guilt. ⁴While everything that God created is forever without sin and therefore is forever without guilt.

²The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception. ³It will not endure. ⁴But for the time it lasts it comes to heal. ⁵For true perception is a remedy with many names. ⁶Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one.

This is the shift that true perception brings: What was projected out is seen within, and there forgiveness lets it disappear.

O my brothers, if you only knew the peace that will envelop you and hold you safe and pure and lovely in the Mind of God, you could but rush to meet Him where His altar is. ²Hallowed your Name and His, for they are joined here in this holy place. ³Here He leans down to lift you up to Him, out of illusions into holiness; out of the world and to eternity; out of all fear and given back to love. (A Course in Miracles, C-4.1:1;2;3:2-6;6:1;8:1-3)

If we want true perception, we must be willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s gift of Christ’s vision. His is the vision that sees past the veil of illusions to the presence of Love everywhere. This is the healing everyone in the world yearns for in their heart. For the Love we are desires only to be acknowledged.

The world is the expression of the ego’s denial of Love. All its illusions are built upon the one idea that separation from the Love of God is real. Yet this could never be because only Love is real. Nothing else can exist, except in fantasy.

We choose the vision of Christ today by holding our heart and mind open to the Holy Spirit’s guidance. Under His lead we will have a joyful, peaceful day.

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Being a Teacher of God

⁵God’s teachers appear to be many, for that is what is the world’s need.

Why is the illusion of many necessary? ²Only because reality is not understandable to the deluded. ³Only very few can hear God’s Voice at all, and even they cannot communicate His messages directly through the Spirit which gave them. ⁴They need a medium through which communication becomes possible to those who do not realize that they are spirit. ⁵A body they can see. ⁶A voice they understand and listen to, without the fear that truth would encounter in them. ⁷Do not forget that truth can come only where it is welcomed without fear. ⁸So do God’s teachers need a body, for their unity could not be recognized directly.

Yet what makes God’s teachers is their recognition of the proper purpose of the body. ²As they advance in their profession, they become more and more certain that the body’s function is but to let God’s Voice speak through it to human ears. (A Course in Miracles, M-12.2:5;3:1–4:2)

What do we want to teach? What do we want to learn? These questions are the same, for we learn what we teach. And we teach by demonstrating what we are learning. Whenever we are following the Holy Spirit’s guidance, we are serving as a teacher of God.

It does not matter if we falter in our commitment to following the Holy Spirit’s lead. But we do need to prefer the Holy Spirit’s guidance. The more we practice choosing the Holy Spirit, the less willing we are to be duped by the ego in its insistence on making separation real.

The Holy Spirit always brings the blessing of learning that only Love is real. The more we welcome that blessing, the more we are motivated to teach only Love. We are among the teachers of God who bring healing to the world as we accept healing for ourselves.

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