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Removing the Barriers to Love’s Oneness

It is your forgiveness that will bring the world of darkness to the light. ²It is your forgiveness that lets you recognize the light in which you see. ³Forgiveness is the demonstration that you are the light of the world. ⁴Through your forgiveness does the truth about yourself return to your memory. ⁵Therefore, in your forgiveness lies your salvation.

Illusions about yourself and the world are one. ²That is why all forgiveness is a gift to yourself. ³Your goal is to find out who you are, having denied your Identity by attacking creation and its Creator. ⁴Now you are learning how to remember the truth. ⁵For this attack must be replaced by forgiveness, so that thoughts of life may replace thoughts of death.

Remember that in every attack you call upon your own weakness, while each time you forgive you call upon the strength of Christ in you. ²Do you not then begin to understand what forgiveness will do for you? ³It will remove all sense of weakness, strain and fatigue from your mind. ⁴It will take away all fear and guilt and pain. ⁵It will restore the invulnerability and power God gave His Son to your awareness.

²Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.
³I would fulfill my function that I may be happy. (A Course in Miracles, W-62.1:1–3:5;5:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 62 Insights.)

The basis for all forgiveness is the recognition that nothing in the world is real. Only Love is real; It has no form. Thus all our perceptions of forms are illusions stemming from the wish for specialness — being different in some way.

Perceiving forms depends upon perceiving differences which stand as a barrier against the recognition of Love’s oneness. This is why forgiveness is our function as the Light of the world. When we forgive our wish for differences, which are an attack on the oneness of Love, the Light of Love shines forth.

Today we choose to accept Holy Spirit’s help to let go of our wish for specialness, for separation from Love’s oneness. We want to remember the Love we are. We want to be happy. Forgiveness is the key to everything we truly want.

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When Forgiveness Is Natural

…pardon is not asked for what is true. ²It must be limited to what is false. ³[Forgiveness] is irrelevant to everything except illusions. ⁴Truth is God’s creation, and to pardon that is meaningless. ⁵All truth belongs to Him, reflects His laws and radiates His Love. ⁶Does this need pardon? ⁷How can you forgive the sinless and eternally benign?

The major difficulty that you find in genuine forgiveness on your part is that you still believe you must forgive the truth, and not illusions.

It is sin’s unreality that makes forgiveness natural and wholly sane, a deep relief to those who offer it; a quiet blessing where it is received. ²It does not countenance illusions, but collects them lightly, with a little laugh, and gently lays them at the feet of truth. ³And there they disappear entirely.

Forgiveness is the only thing that stands for truth in the illusions of the world. ²It sees their nothingness, and looks straight through the thousand forms in which they may appear. ³It looks on lies, but it is not deceived.

The strength of pardon is its honesty, which is so uncorrupted that it sees illusions as illusions, not as truth. ²It is because of this that it becomes the undeceiver in the face of lies; the great restorer of the simple truth. ³By its ability to overlook what is not there, it opens up the way to truth, which has been blocked by dreams of guilt. (A Course in Miracles, W-134.2:1–3:1;6:1–7:3;8:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

The ego is not going to give up its territory without a fight. It accurately perceives itself as powerless, but puffs itself up with bluster to hide its weakness. It actually fights itself with images it believes are separate and different. It is a meaningless battle that does nothing except to occupy a mind that mistakenly believes illusions are true. This is its only defense to maintain illusions.

The antidote to the ego’s chaos is learning to recognize illusions for what they are — nothing and nowhere. The ego will never reveal this fact. But the Holy Spirit in our mind is ever-ready to help us learn to distinguish illusions from truth.

When we learn the Holy Spirit’s lessons in truth, forgiveness is natural. It simply dismisses what has been recognized as nothing and meaningless. Now the Light of Love that surrounds us and keeps us united with our Creator shines brightly. Forgiveness is natural to those who see the truth as it is.

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Forgiveness Is the Better Way

What could you want forgiveness cannot give? ²Do you want peace? ³Forgiveness offers it. ⁴Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? ⁵Do you want care and safety, and the warmth of sure protection always? ⁶Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset?

All this forgiveness offers you, and more. ²It sparkles on your eyes as you awake, and gives you joy with which to meet the day. ³It soothes your forehead while you sleep, and rests upon your eyelids so you see no dreams of fear and evil, malice and attack. ⁴And when you wake again, it offers you another day of happiness and peace. ⁵All this forgiveness offers you, and more.”

Forgiveness offers everything you want. ²Today all things you want are given you. ³Let not your gifts recede throughout the day, as you return again to meet a world of shifting change and bleak appearances. ⁴Retain your gifts in clear awareness as you see the changeless in the heart of change; the light of truth behind appearances. (A Course in Miracles, W-122.1–2;13. See also ACIM Lesson 122 Insights.)

Everyone truly wants what forgiveness offers. But if we have identified with the ego, the wish for specialness, we have directed our quest where it cannot be found. There comes a time for everyone when they have had enough of fruitless searches and fleeting moments of happiness. We realize there must be a better way.

Forgiveness is the better way. It clears away the empty substitutes that keep us searching where we cannot find a lasting answer to what we seek. It reveals the Light of truth that has always been with us, hidden only by illusions of separation and specialness.

Today we can choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see past illusions to the Light of Love in which we live. Let us join together in the practice of forgiveness and find the Love we never lost in truth.

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Choosing a Life of Love and Happiness

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

Here is the answer to your search for peace. ²Here is the key to meaning in a world that seems to make no sense. ³Here is the way to safety in apparent dangers that appear to threaten you at every turn, and bring uncertainty to all your hopes of ever finding quietness and peace. ⁴Here are all questions answered; here the end of all uncertainty ensured at last.

The unforgiving mind is full of fear, and offers love no room to be itself; no place where it can spread its wings in peace and soar above the turmoil of the world. ²The unforgiving mind is sad, without the hope of respite and release from pain. ³It suffers and abides in misery, peering about in darkness, seeing not, yet certain of the danger lurking there.

Forgiveness is acquired. ²It is not inherent in the mind, which cannot sin. ³As sin is an idea you taught yourself, forgiveness must be learned by you as well, but from a Teacher other than yourself, Who represents the other Self in you. ⁴Through Him you learn how to forgive the self you think you made, and let it disappear. ⁵Thus you return your mind as one to Him Who is your Self, and Who can never sin.

Each unforgiving mind presents you with an opportunity to teach your own how to forgive itself. ²Each one awaits release from hell through you, and turns to you imploringly for Heaven here and now. ³It has no hope, but you become its hope. ⁴And as its hope, do you become your own. ⁵The unforgiving mind must learn through your forgiveness that it has been saved from hell. ⁶And as you teach salvation, you will learn. ⁷Yet all your teaching and your learning will be not of you, but of the Teacher Who was given you to show the way to you. (A Course in Miracles, W-121.1–2;6-7. See also ACIM Lesson 121 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit represents our true Self. To be happy, we must have a consistent practice of letting Him be our guide in everything we think, say or do. This practice will free our mind from fear and guilt, returning it to its natural beingness of Love.

The Holy Spirit’s vision shows us the presence of Love eveerywhere. He will teach us that what we see with the body’s eyes is not real and has no effect on the Self God created one with Him. Reason under the ego’s guidance cannot teach us illusions are not real. The seeming existence of the ego depends on maintaining the belief that illusions are real.

But as we let the Holy Spirit guide our perception, we see the world in a different Light, the Light of Love. This Light dispels the shadows of mistaken beliefs in what could never be true. This Light is in us. We need only choose the Light of Love in our mind to see a forgiven world, free of the ego’s denial of Love. By choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide, we choose life instead of death. Love instead of fear, innocence instead of guilt. We are returned to happiness.

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Choosing to Listen and Learn

As long as you believe that guilt is justified in any way, in anyone, whatever he may do, you will not look within, where you would always find Atonement. ²The end of guilt will never come as long as you believe there is a reason for it. ³For you must learn that guilt is always totally insane, and has no reason. ⁴The Holy Spirit seeks not to dispel reality. ⁵If guilt were real, Atonement would not be. ⁶The purpose of Atonement is to dispel illusions, not to establish them as real and then forgive them.

The Holy Spirit does not keep illusions in your mind to frighten you, and show them to you fearfully to demonstrate what He has saved you from. ²What He has saved you from is gone. ³Give no reality to guilt, and see no reason for it. ⁴The Holy Spirit does what God would have Him do, and has always done so. ⁵He has seen separation, but knows of union. ⁶He teaches healing, but He also knows of creation. ⁷He would have you see and teach as He does, and through Him. ⁸Yet what He knows you do not know, though it is yours. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.X.6–7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.

It is valuable to remember that everything we perceive in the outer world is a projection of what we believe about our self. This means that our perceptions can be an effective teaching tool for the Holy Spirit. If we are willing to accept His teaching, we will learn to distinguish between illusions based on mistaken beliefs and the underlying presence of Love, the only Reality.

Every moment we are in the Holy Spirit’s classroom. Are we willing to listen to the Teacher Whose only purpose is to bring us Home to the awareness that we are united in God’s Love? Today we choose to listen and learn, for we want to be happy. We want to remember the Truth of our eternal unity with our Creator. We want to awaken from the dream of separation and know we are eternally at Home in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Love Is Our Natural State

God in His mercy wills that I be saved.

I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, “God wills that I be saved from this,” and merely watch them disappear. ²I need but keep in mind my Father’s Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has come to me. ³And I need but remember that God’s Love surrounds His Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am saved and safe forever in His Arms. ⁴I am the Son He loves. ⁵And I am saved because God in His mercy wills it so.

Father, Your Holiness is mine. ²Your Love created me, and made my sinlessness forever part of You. ³I have no guilt nor sin in me, for there is none in You. (A Course in Miracles, W-235. See also ACIM Lesson 235 Insights.)

The key to happiness is to remember that Love created us like Itself — forever happy and sinless. Love is our natural state. We have convinced ourselves that we are a separate identity, confined to a body and only exist in a dangerous world where we must constantly be defensive.

But belief does not make true. It only makes illusions seem to be true. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can let go of our mistaken beliefs. We welcome His healing vision each time we ask, “Holy Spirit, please heal my fear-based beliefs.” With this request, we open our mind to Christ’s vision, which shows us the presence of Love everywhere. We learn to see our brothers as Love and join with It. In Love’s oneness we find the happiness we seemed to have lost because of our mistaken beliefs. We remember that we are Love and nothing else.

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Accepting the Happy Dream

The Holy Spirit, ever practical in His wisdom, accepts your dreams and uses them as means for waking. ²You would have used them to remain asleep. ³I said before that the first change, before dreams disappear, is that your dreams of fear are changed to happy dreams. ⁴That is what the Holy Spirit does in the special relationship. ⁵He does not destroy it, nor snatch it away from you. ⁶But He does use it differently, as a help to make His purpose real to you. ⁷The special relationship will remain, not as a source of pain and guilt, but as a source of joy and freedom. ⁸It will not be for you alone, for therein lay its misery. ⁹As its unholiness kept it a thing apart, its holiness will become an offering to everyone.

Your special relationship will be a means for undoing guilt in everyone blessed through your holy relationship. ²It will be a happy dream, and one which you will share with all who come within your sight.

⁴In your relationship the Holy Spirit has gently laid the real world; the world of happy dreams, from which awaking is so easy and so natural. ⁵For as your sleeping and your waking dreams represent the same wishes in your mind, so do the real world and the truth of Heaven join in the Will of God. ⁶The dream of waking is easily transferred to [Heaven’s] reality. ⁷For this dream reflects your will joined with the Will of God. ⁸And what this Will would have accomplished has never not been done. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.II.6:1–7:2;9:4-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God’s Will is that His Son share His happiness. If we are not happy, we are rejecting God’s Will for us. A separate identity, different from all others, could never be God’s Will. The unity of Love cannot comprehend anything but Its oneness.

God gave us the Holy Spirit to help us heal our mistaken wish for specialness. He sees what we are dreaming and offers us a replacement happy dream. In His dream there is no conflict, no competition nor uncertainty. As we let the Holy Spirit replace our dream with His, our relationships become happy.

No longer do we have conflicting goals where one seems to lose for another to gain. The consistent certainty of Love replaces the instability of the dream of specialness. We see our brothers sharing our unity in Love. As the awareness of Love increases, we feel Its joy grow. We awaken to our unity in Love and extend Its blessing freely and happily. In gratitude we heal.

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