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Choosing the Path to Sanity and Love

³Learn now, without despair, there is no hope of answer in the world. ⁴But do not judge the lesson that is but begun with this. …⁸For from this lowest point will learning lead to heights of happiness, in which you see the purpose of the lesson shining clear, and perfectly within your learning grasp.

Who would be willing to be turned away from all the roadways of the world, unless he understood their real futility?”

The learning that the world can offer but one choice, no matter what its form may be, is the beginning of acceptance that there is a real alternative instead.

³This course attempts to teach no more than that the power of decision cannot lie in choosing different forms of what is still the same illusion and the same mistake.

Forgive yourself your madness, and forget all senseless journeys and all goal-less aims. ²They have no meaning. ³You can not escape from what you are. ⁴For God is merciful, and did not let His Son abandon Him. ⁵For what He is be thankful, for in that is your escape from madness and from death. ⁶Nowhere but where He is can you be found. ⁷There is no path that does not lead to Him. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.IV.4:3-4,8-5:1;6:1;8:3;11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our only choice is between nothing, which is all the ego offers or everything, which God offers. Love is everything because only Love is real.

We only seem to live in a loveless world because we have chosen specialness and separation which cannot abide in the reality of Love’s oneness. We can choose differently. But we will not choose differently if we believe what the ego offers something we want. So the lessons we must learn to find our way back to Love must teach us that the ego offers nothing we truly want.

At best it offers empty images that glitter and shine to appeal to our mistaken desires for specialness. But God’s Will for His Son is perfect happiness. We need not settle for less. As we learn that the ego’s offerings really give us nothing, we become eager to learn the Holy Spirit’s lessons. Sadness, fear and guilt fade away to be replaced by happiness, peace and eternal Love as we learn the lessons God would have us learn.

Today we happily welcome the Holy Spirit’s reinterpretations of our perceptions, for we would return to sanity and Love.

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Subscribing to the Love We Are

Love created me like itself.

Today’s idea is a complete and accurate statement of what you are. ²This is why you are the light of the world. ³This is why God appointed you as the world’s savior. ⁴This is why the Son of God looks to you for his salvation. ⁵He is saved by what you are.

“…think about your reality and its wholly unchanged and unchangeable nature.…

³Holiness created me holy.
⁴Kindness created me kind.
⁵Helpfulness created me helpful.
⁶Perfection created me perfect.

⁷Any attribute which is in accord with God as He defines Himself is appropriate for use. ⁸We are trying today to undo your definition of God and replace it with His Own. ⁹We are also trying to emphasize that you are part of His definition of Himself.

²You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self-images. ³…remind yourself that love created you like itself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 67, W-67.1:1-5;2:1,3-9;5:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 67 Insights.)

Because Love created us like Itself, we are under no laws but God’s. The attributes of Love are our innate attributes. Because the body is a false image, the attributes and laws of God do not apply to the body. They apply to our true Self, which is formless Love.

We have subscribed to the ego’s malware which substitutes a image of our identity. The Course is gently and lovingly guiding us to unsubscribe. We don’t really want the messages the ego sends us. We want to remember our true Self, which is innately kind, happy, loving and peaceful. This exercise helps us let go of our subscription to a false image.

The only subscription we need was given us in our creation by God. God is our true operating system. It runs on Love and nothing else. It is impervious to the ego’s corrupting thoughts. As we practice reminding ourselves of our true attributes, the ego’s malware is neutralized and dispelled. We return to being the Love we were created to be.

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Remembering We Are Home in God

Today I let Christ’s vision look upon all things for me and judge them not, but give each one a miracle of love instead.

So would I liberate all things I see, and give to them the freedom that I seek. ²For thus do I obey the law of love, and give what I would find and make my own. ³It will be given me, because I have chosen it as the gift I want to give. ⁴Father, Your gifts are mine. ⁵Each one that I accept gives me a miracle to give. ⁶And giving as I would receive, I learn Your healing miracles belong to me.

Our Father knows our needs. ²He gives us grace to meet them all. ³And so we trust in Him to send us miracles to bless the world, and heal our minds as we return to Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 349, W-349. See also ACIM Lesson 349 Insights.)

When we look upon the world with Christ’s vision, we see Love in everyone and in all things. The body’s eyes cannot show us this, for they were made to see only the illusions produced by the ego thought system. The body’s eyes show us nothing that is real. They seem real only because we believe the ego is our identity.

But as we give our attention to Christ’s vision, we see the reality of Love shine through the smokescreen of the ego’s illusions. We increasingly recognize illusions for what they are and welcome the Love that we share with everyone. God has given us the means to awaken from the ego’s dream.

Today we practice stepping back from the images of the world to let Christ’s vision show us the presence of Love in each now moment. With this practice we experience the Love that is ever present in the world. Love guides our thoughts, words and deeds. We feel the strength of Love surrounding us and extending through us to all. Our Home in Love seems increasingly real to us while the world diminishes in its importance. We know we are safe, we are loved, we are at Home in God.

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Reclaiming Our Identity in God

My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.

Today’s idea does not describe the way you see yourself now. ²It does, however, describe what vision will show you. ³It is difficult for anyone who thinks he is in this world to believe this of himself. ⁴Yet the reason he thinks he is in this world is because he does not believe it.

You will believe that you are part of where you think you are. ²That is because you surround yourself with the environment you want. ³And you want it to protect the image of yourself that you have made. ⁴The image is part of this environment. ⁵What you see while you believe you are in it is seen through the eyes of the image. ⁶This is not vision. ⁷Images cannot see.

The idea for today presents a very different view of yourself. ²By establishing your Source it establishes your Identity, and it describes you as you must really be in truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 35, W-35.1:1–3:2. See also ACIM Lesson 35 Insights.)

It is difficult for us to accept that our mind is part of God’s and we are very holy because we believe we are an image disconnected from God. This image is neither holy nor unholy because it is an illusion. An illusion is neither bad nor good, it is nothing.

In order to accept the truth of what we are, we have to let go of our belief in a false image of our identity. This is threatening to our seeming existence. If we believe our identity is a body, the loss of the body is the loss of our identity. This is why death is frightening.

In the ego’s dream of separation. It seems that without a body, we do not exist. This is typical of the ego’s distortions. In reality, the body does not exist at all. Our true Identity is held perfectly secure in the Mind of God, changeless and unchangeable. We cannot lose the Identity God created as His Son. This Identity shares God’s holiness.

Today’s lesson is a step toward recognizing the Self that is our true Identity. Our Identity is eternally at peace, joyful and loving as God is. We welcome it now.

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Receiving Love’s Blessings in Quiet

…at times most suitable for silence, give ten minutes set apart from listening to the world, and choose instead a gentle listening to the Word of God. ²He speaks from nearer than your heart to you. ³His Voice is closer than your hand. ⁴His Love is everything you are and that He is; the same as you, and you the same as He.

It is your voice to which you listen as He speaks to you. ²It is your word He speaks. ³It is the Word of freedom and of peace, of unity of will and purpose, with no separation nor division in the single Mind of Father and of Son. ⁴In quiet listen to your Self today, and let Him tell you God has never left His Son, and you have never left your Self.

Only be quiet. ²You will need no rule but this, to let your practicing today lift you above the thinking of the world, and free your vision from the body’s eyes. ³Only be still and listen. ⁴You will hear the Word in which the Will of God the Son joins in His Father’s Will, at one with it, with no illusions interposed between the wholly indivisible and true. ⁵As every hour passes by today, be still a moment and remind yourself you have a special purpose for this day; in quiet to receive the Word of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 125, W-125.7:1–9:5. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.)

The body’s eyes are only capable of seeing ego-made illusions of separation. As long as we give credence to the body’s eyes, we will be unaware of Christ’s vision, which shows us the reality of Love’s unity.

When we pause to step back from our attention on the world to be quiet and welcome Christ’s vision, we free ourselves from the limitations of the body’s eyes. We open to the recognition of our true Mind, forever at one with the Mind of God. It’s a simple step that can bring a profound shift in our experience. The chaos of the world fades and the peace and Love of God come forward. We remember how blessed we are as a Son of God.

It takes consistent practice to step away from the habit of paying attention to the world. But by being still, we awaken and let the Love and peace of God fill the part of our mind we have tried to separate off into a make-believe world. We need only be still and welcome this transformation in our mind.

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Walking in Gratitude

³Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our footsteps sure.”

His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. ²It is His way that everyone must travel in the end, because it is this ending God Himself appointed. ³In the dream of time it seems to be far off. ⁴And yet, in truth, it is already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go. ⁵Let us together follow in the way that truth points out to us. ⁶And let us be the leaders of our many brothers who are seeking for the way, but find it not.

And to this purpose let us dedicate our minds, directing all our thoughts to serve the function of salvation. ²Unto us the aim is given to forgive the world. ³It is the goal that God has given us. ⁴It is His ending to the dream we seek, and not our own. ⁵For all that we forgive we will not fail to recognize as part of God Himself. ⁶And thus His memory is given back, completely and complete. (A Course in Miracles, W-fl.in.1:3;2:1-3:6)

We have been traveling, using a map app to guide us on our way to our destination. As we travel, the final destination does not change. We may take little side trips along the way, but we are always called back to the path leading to our final destination. This is a great metaphor for the Guidance God gives us, leading us back to our Home with Him in the Heaven of His Love. Along the way we distract ourselves with side trips that seem appealing. But His Voice always calls us back to the Path that leads us back to Love.

Each time we forgive, the path gets brighter, more peaceful and clear. The journey changes from being filled with conflict, unhappiness and darkness to increasing joy, a sense of safety and trust that we are being carried along a journey that frees us from fear and guilt. We grow in our certainty that we are protected by the strength of God’s Love. Our happiness increases as we let that Love guide us in all our relationships, activities, words and thoughts. Love becomes the way we walk in gratitude.

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Choosing the Memory of Love

Today the peace of God envelops me, and I forget all things except His Love.

Father, I wake today with miracles correcting my perception of all things. ²And so begins the day I share with You as I will share eternity, for time has stepped aside today. ³I do not seek the things of time, and so I will not look upon them. ⁴What I seek today transcends all laws of time and things perceived in time. ⁵I would forget all things except Your Love. ⁶I would abide in You, and know no laws except Your law of love. ⁷And I would find the peace which You created for Your Son, forgetting all the foolish toys I made as I behold Your glory and my own.

And when the evening comes today, we will remember nothing but the peace of God. ²For we will learn today what peace is ours, when we forget all things except God’s Love. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson, W-346.1:1–2:2. See also ACIM Lesson 346 Insights.)

The ego uses memory as a weapon to defend against God. But it is selective memory. It selects only the illusions it has made to remember and keep them in the past. It draws upon these memories to interpret the illusions it perceives in the present. And it uses these memories to project a future like the past. The one memory that it must not allow is the memory of God’s Love.

We can use selective memory differently. When we use memory to remember God’s Love, memories of the past fade into the nothingness from which they came. The brilliance of God’s Love fills our mind and shines away the darkness of the ego’s denial of Love.

Today we choose to select the memory of Love to awaken from the dark dream of lovelessness. In the brilliant Light of Love we see the presence of Love everywhere, in every brother and in all things. What once blocked awareness of Love’s reality is dispelled and we live in the presence of God’s peace where we dwell with Him eternally.

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