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Release from the Dream of Specialness

The Holy Spirit offers you release from every problem that you think you have. ²They are the same to Him because each one, regardless of the form it seems to take, is a demand that someone suffer loss and make a sacrifice that you might gain. ³And when the situation is worked out so no one loses is the problem gone, because it was an error in perception that now has been corrected. ⁴One mistake is not more difficult for Him to bring to truth than is another. ⁵For there is but one mistake; the whole idea that loss is possible, and could result in gain for anyone. ⁶If this were true, then God would be unfair; sin would be possible, attack be justified and vengeance fair.

This one mistake, in any form, has one correction. ²There is no loss; to think there is, is a mistake. ³You have no problems, though you think you have. ⁴And yet you could not think so if you saw them vanish one by one, without regard to size, complexity, or place and time, or any attribute which you perceive that makes each one seem different from the rest. ⁵Think not the limits you impose on what you see can limit God in any way.

The miracle of justice can correct all errors. ²Every problem is an error. ³It does injustice to the Son of God, and therefore is not true. ⁴The Holy Spirit does not evaluate injustices as great or small, or more or less. ⁵They have no properties to Him. ⁶They are mistakes from which the Son of God is suffering, but needlessly. ⁷And so He takes the thorns and nails away. ⁸He does not pause to judge whether the hurt be large or little. ⁹He makes but one judgment; that to hurt God’s Son must be unfair and therefore is not so. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.II.2–4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we see a brother as a body, we are doing him an injustice by perceiving him as limited and separate from ourselves. We are imposing that same limitation on our self. This injustice comes from our wish for specialness. By definition specialness is defined by being different. But our true Self is universal Love without limit nor differences of any kind.

True perception comes when we accept Christ’s Vision, which forgives the mistaken belief in differences. His vision sees only Love. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us overlook the forms in the dream to see Love’s presence everywhere. As we accept His help, we free ourselves and our brothers from the wish for specialness. We see Love and disregard any appearance of lack of Love, knowing it is not true.

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The Certainty of Our Completion in Love

The Christ in you is very still. ²He knows where you are going, and He leads you there in gentleness and blessing all the way. ³His Love for God replaces all the fear you thought you saw within yourself.

⁶His perfect lack of specialness He offers you, that you may save all living things from death, receiving from each one the gift of life that your forgiveness offers to your Self. ⁷The sight of Christ is all there is to see. ⁸The song of Christ is all there is to hear. ⁹The hand of Christ is all there is to hold. ¹⁰There is no journey but to walk with Him.

You who would be content with specialness, and seek salvation in a war with love, consider this: The holy Lord of Heaven has Himself come down to you, to offer you your own completion. ²What is His is yours because in your completion is His Own. ³He Who willed not to be without His Son could never will that you be brotherless. ⁴And would He give a brother unto you except he be as perfect as yourself, and just as like to Him in holiness as you must be?

There must be doubt before there can be conflict. ²And every doubt must be about yourself. ³Christ has no doubt, and from His certainty His quiet comes. ⁴He will exchange His certainty for all your doubts, if you agree that He is One with you, and that this Oneness is endless, timeless, and within your grasp because your hands are His. ⁵He is within you, yet He walks beside you and before, leading the way that He must go to find Himself complete. ⁶His quietness becomes your certainty. ⁷And where is doubt when certainty has come? (A Course in Miracles, T-24.V.6:1-3;7:6–9:7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The vision of Christ is the vision of forgiveness. When we accept His vision, our feeling of being incomplete, not having all the Love we need, is dispelled. We see the truth of Love in our brothers. We no longer need to compete with anything or anyone for attention or value. There can be no greater value than to know the Love we are, forever united with every brother and our Creator.

We see our Self everywhere, for It is one. There is no “other.” In this oneness there can be no conflict. We rest in the certainty of our completion in the Love of God. We join in the joy of the eternal giving and receiving of Love. This is our natural state.

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Walking with Our Mighty Companion

Steady our feet, our Father. ²Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. ³We have no words to give to You. ⁴We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. ⁵Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. ⁶Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.

So do we bring our practicing to You. ²And if we stumble, You will raise us up. ³If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. ⁴We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. ⁵Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You.

³We walk together. ⁴I must understand uncertainty and pain, although I know they have no meaning. ⁵Yet a savior must remain with those he teaches, seeing what they see, but still retaining in his mind the way that led him out, and now will lead you out with him. (A Course in Miracles, W-rV.in.2:1–3:5;6:3-5)

Everyone has a Mighty Companion. The practice of paying attention to this Companion Who knows the way of Love will lead us to our full awakening to our True Self at Home in God. We thought we left our Companion when we thought we left Home.

Yet He came with us, unbeknownst to us, while we wished for an experience of specialness. We have learned that specialness cannot give us the Love we seek. But our constant Companion offers us the means to remember we are God’s Son, His Love, united with Him eternally.

But we have taught ourselves to disregard our Companion’s presence. It is time to unlearn this lesson, which has made us unaware of the Love we are. Today we turn to our Companion and ask for His help to walk with us and guide us on the way to Love.

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The Only Purpose That Sets Us Free

⁵The body is itself a sacrifice; a giving up of power in the name of saving just a little for yourself. ⁶To see a brother in another body, separate from yours, is the expression of a wish to see a little part of him and sacrifice the rest. ⁷Look at the world, and you will see nothing attached to anything beyond itself. ⁸All seeming entities can come a little nearer, or go a little farther off, but cannot join.

The world you see is based on “sacrifice” of oneness. ²It is a picture of complete disunity and total lack of joining.

…to accept the limits of a body is to impose these limits on each brother whom you see. ⁸For you must see him as you see yourself.

The body is a loss, and can be made to sacrifice. ²And while you see your brother as a body, apart from you and separate in his cell, you are demanding sacrifice of him and you. ³What greater sacrifice could be demanded than that God’s Son perceive himself without his Father? ⁴And his Father be without His Son? ⁵Yet every sacrifice demands that They be separate and without the Other. ⁶The memory of God must be denied if any sacrifice is asked of anyone.

Those who would see the witnesses to truth instead of to illusion merely ask that they might see a purpose in the world that gives it sense and makes it meaningful. ²Without your special function [to forgive] has this world no meaning for you. ³Yet it can become a treasure house as rich and limitless as Heaven itself. ⁴No instant passes here in which your brother’s holiness cannot be seen, to add a limitless supply to every meager scrap and tiny crumb of happiness that you allot yourself. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.I.1:5–2:2;3:7–4:6;5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we believe we are a body and see our brothers as limited to a body, we sacrifice the oneness of Love that is our true Identity. This is why we feel an innate hunger for Love. We substitute identification with bodies in place of awareness of God. But in every instant we can forgive or let go of our self-imposed limitations.

We can choose the inner vision of Christ to see the unity we share in the Love that we are with every brother. Love is our true Home. We no longer choose to sacrifice our Home. We choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide for seeing and learn to accept our Self as God’s one Son, united with every brother. This is why we all go Home together.

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Welcoming the Thought of Love

Salvation is a promise, made by God, that you would find your way to Him at last. ²It cannot but be kept. ³It guarantees that time will have an end, and all the thoughts that have been born in time will end as well. ⁴God’s Word is given every mind which thinks that it has separate thoughts, and will replace these thoughts of conflict with the Thought of peace.

The Thought of peace was given to God’s Son the instant that his mind had thought of war. ²There was no need for such a Thought before, for peace was given without opposite, and merely was. ³But when the mind is split there is a need of healing. ⁴So the Thought that has the power to heal the split became a part of every fragment of the mind that still was one, but failed to recognize its oneness. ⁵Now it did not know itself, and thought its own Identity was lost.

Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice. ²Thus it lets illusions go. ³By not supporting them, it merely lets them quietly go down to dust. ⁴And what they hid is now revealed; an altar to the holy Name of God whereon His Word is written, with the gifts of your forgiveness laid before it, and the memory of God not far behind.

Let us come daily to this holy place, and spend a while together. ²Here we share our final dream. ³It is a dream in which there is no sorrow, for it holds a hint of all the glory given us by God. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.2.1:1–4:3. See also ACIM Lesson 231 Insights.)

Conflict can only occur when the appearance of differences is believed to be real. This belief is the cause of the world we experience.

But Love is one, eternally the same. There is no conflict in this oneness, so it is in a constant state of peace. This is our natural state as well, for we, along with every brother, were created by Love and remain one with It.

We have been given the Thought of Love to help us remember our innate peace. We call on this Thought today to guide us in all our doing. We would see past the appearance of conflicting images. We welcome Love’s Light and happily join with It in every brother. In that Light we bring our brothers with us as we awaken to our Home in Love.

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Accepting the Holy Spirit’s Judgment Sets Us Free

The body is the central figure in the dreaming of the world. ²There is no dream without it, nor does it exist without the dream in which it acts as if it were a person to be seen and be believed. …⁵[The body’s] safety is its main concern. ⁶Its comfort is its guiding rule. ⁷It tries to look for pleasure, and avoid the things that would be hurtful. ⁸Above all, it tries to teach itself its pains and joys are different and can be told apart.

How willing are you to escape effects of all the dreams the world has ever had? ²Is it your wish to let no dream appear to be the cause of what it is you do? …⁴No one asleep and dreaming in the world remembers his attack [wish for specialness] upon himself. ⁵No one believes there really was a time when he knew nothing of a body, and could never have conceived this world as real. ⁶He would have seen at once that these ideas are one illusion, too ridiculous for anything but to be laughed away. ⁷How serious they now appear to be! ⁸And no one can remember when they would have met with laughter and with disbelief. ⁹We can remember this, if we but look directly at their cause. ¹⁰And we will see the grounds for laughter, not a cause for fear.

In gentle laughter does the Holy Spirit perceive the cause, and looks not to effects. …³He bids you bring each terrible effect to Him that you may look together on its foolish cause and laugh with Him a while. ⁴You judge effects, but He has judged their cause. ⁵And by His judgment are effects removed. ⁶Perhaps you come in tears. ⁷But hear Him say, “My brother, holy Son of God, behold your idle dream, in which this could occur.” ⁸And you will leave the holy instant with your laughter and your brother’s joined with His. A Course in Miracles, T-27.VIII.1:1-2,5-8;5:1-2,4-10;9:1,3-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

While we believe the dreams of the world are real, we need Help from outside the dream to recognize we are believing in a false idea. We need to let the Holy Spirit be our Interpreter for everything we experience in the dream. We have taught ourselves to interpret the effects we perceive. This habit shields us from looking at the cause of our experience.

But release from the dream will only come when we choose to no longer want to be separate from our brothers in the world. When we accept the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of our perceptions, we will learn that the effects we perceive are based on a belief that could never be true.

In truth we could never be separate from the Love that is the true Self of our brother and ourselves. We are one Self, the holy Son of God. As we accept this unity as our reality, we awaken from the dream.

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The Only Meaningful Journey

I am affected only by my thoughts.

It needs but this to let salvation come to all the world. ²For in this single thought is everyone released at last from fear. ³Now has he learned that no one frightens him, and nothing can endanger him. ⁴He has no enemies, and he is safe from all external things. ⁵His thoughts can frighten him, but since these thoughts belong to him alone, he has the power to change them and exchange each fear thought for a happy thought of love. ⁶He crucified himself. ⁷Yet God has planned that His beloved Son will be redeemed.

Your plan is sure, my Father,—only Yours. ²All other plans will fail. ³And I will have thoughts that will frighten me, until I learn that You have given me the only Thought that leads me to salvation. ⁴Mine alone will fail, and lead me nowhere. ⁵But the Thought You gave me promises to lead me home, because it holds Your promise to Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-338. See also ACIM Lesson 338 Insights.)

The ego feeds us a constant stream of thoughts based on past memories. These thoughts affect us only when we engage with them, believing they have some meaning. The Course is teaching us that the past is gone and thoughts about the past are thoughts about nothing in truth.

It seems we wander through these thoughts following a meaningless journey leading nowhere. These journeys carry a sense of vulnerability and a need to defend against potential harm. These journeys carry a sense of worthlessness leading us on quests to find worth in some special form that never lasts.

But we can choose a journey that leads to awakening to our true value as part of God’s singular Thought of Love. By the grace of His Love, we have been given a Guide to help us learn to sort out the meaningless from the meaningful, the loveless from the loving.

When we discipline our mind to engage with only loving thoughts, we leave the past behind us. Thoughts of the past lose their appeal. The radiant Light of Love draws us to It. As we consistently give attention to Thoughts of Love, anxiety and fear fade away to be replaced by peace and joy. We remember we are Love and nothing else. We remember we are at Home in the Love of God.

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