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How to Return to Tranquility

The stillness of the peace of God is mine.

Perhaps we are now ready for a day of undisturbed tranquility. ²If this is not yet feasible, we are content and even more than satisfied to learn how such a day can be achieved. ³If we give way to a disturbance, let us learn how to dismiss it and return to peace. ⁴We need but tell our minds, with certainty, “The stillness of the peace of God is mine,” and nothing can intrude upon the peace that God Himself has given to His Son.

Father, Your peace is mine. ²What need have I to fear that anything can rob me of what You would have me keep? ³I cannot lose Your gifts to me. ⁴And so the peace You gave Your Son is with me still, in quietness and in my own eternal love for You. (A Course in Miracles, W-273. See also ACIM Lesson 273 Insights.)

Whenever our peace is disturbed, the cause is a judgment. Having an opinion on our own is hazardous to our health. It separates us from awareness of the Love we are. Separation is built into judgment because we must first see something as different from what we believe we are in order to pass some kind of judgment.

Our true Self is the same unified Love that surrounds us and is the truth in every brother. There are no differences in Love’s oneness. That is why the peace of God is ours. We remain eternally united with our Father in His Love.

Whenever we notice a disturbance of our peace, it is a reminder to step back from our judgments. We can ask for help to return to peace. In the presence of peace, we receive the Holy Spirit’s vision that shows us the true judgment that only Love is real. It shows us that the forms and differences that have disturbed us are not real. In that recognition, we freely let them go. Our tranquility is restored.

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Learning to See as Love Sees

I see all things as I would have them be.

Perception follows judgment. ²Having judged, we therefore see what we would look upon. ³For sight can merely serve to offer us what we would have. ⁴It is impossible to overlook what we would see, and fail to see what we have chosen to behold. ⁵How surely, therefore, must the real world come to greet the holy sight of anyone who takes the Holy Spirit’s purpose as his goal for seeing. ⁶And he cannot fail to look upon what Christ would have him see, and share Christ’s Love for what he looks upon.

I have no purpose for today except to look upon a liberated world, set free from all the judgments I have made. ²Father, this is Your Will for me today, and therefore it must be my goal as well. A Course in Miracles, (W-312. See also ACIM Lesson 312 Insights.)

When we accept the Holy Spirit’s judgment in place of our own, we are accepting His purpose in place of the ego’s. The ego’s purpose is to divide. The Holy Spirit’s purpose is to unify in the oneness of God’s Love.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to be our Guide to true judgment. With His help, we will dismiss the unreal. We will join in the reality of Love. We will want to see the Love that is our brother, and we will see It. We will remember that we are Love as we see the Love that is our brother. We are united in the one Self we share as God’s Son.

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Learning the Right Use of Judgment

I judge all things as I would have them be.

Judgment was made to be a weapon used against the truth. ²It separates what it is being used against, and sets it off as if it were a thing apart. ³And then it makes of it what you would have it be. ⁴It judges what it cannot understand, because it cannot see totality and therefore judges falsely. ⁵Let us not use it today, but make a gift of it to Him Who has a different use for it. ⁶He will relieve us of the agony of all the judgments we have made against ourselves, and re-establish peace of mind by giving us God’s Judgment of His Son.

Father, we wait with open mind today, to hear Your Judgment of the Son You love. ²We do not know him, and we cannot judge. ³And so we let Your Love decide what he whom You created as Your Son must be.” (A Course in Miracles, W-311. See also ACIM Lesson 311 Insights.)

Judgment makes division. It separates us from the truth. It separates us from what we judge. This is the ego’s purpose for judgment. It closes our mind to the truth. Because of our judgments, we perceive only what we want to be true. It seems unlikely that we would want to see war and destruction. But the ego feeds on this perception because it reinforces the “reality” of separation.

The fact is we have no true basis for any judgment we make. It is time to let judgment go. Today we welcome peace in our mind as we bring all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit. We let Him judge them as true or false, real or unreal. As we open our minds to His judgment on our behalf, we discover there is no cause for fear or guilt. We realize that truth is changeless and our judgments have no effect on it. They only block our mind from recognizing Reality as It is.

With an open mind and heart today, we welcome the Holy Spirit’s loving judgment on our behalf. We trust that He will help us experience the Love of our Father. We will know we are free to be Love.

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The Bridge from Fear to Love

What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs? ²And what can save the world except your Self? ³Belief is powerful indeed. ⁴The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth.

…anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it. ²Now the source of thought has shifted, for to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think. ³You free the past from what you thought before. ⁴You free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find.

The present now remains the only time. ²Here in the present is the world set free. ³For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world.

The world is nothing in itself. ²Your mind must give it meaning. ³And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them real.

There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. ²Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. ³Ideas leave not their source. (A Course in Miracles, W-132.1:1-4;2:1–3:3;4:1-3;5:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

We perceive this world because we wish it be there to make separation seem real. Only the belief in separation keeps us from claiming the glory of God as our own. Our true Self remains safe in the Heart of God. It shares all His attributes — His joy, His peace and His Love.

We can claim this reality by forgiving our wish for specialness. Specialness demands separation. Separation is impossible in the oneness of God’s Love. When we forgive the world for all we thought it was, it is replaced by Love’s oneness. Forgiveness is the bridge from fear to Love.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our fear-based thoughts, for we would return to Love.

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Remembering We Are Love and Nothing Else

Now let a new perception come to me.

Father, there is a vision which beholds all things as sinless, so that fear has gone, and where it was is love invited in. ²And love will come wherever it is asked. ³This vision is Your gift. ⁴The eyes of Christ look on a world forgiven. ⁵In His sight are all its sins forgiven, for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon. ⁶Now let His true perception come to me, that I may waken from the dream of sin and look within upon my sinlessness, which You have kept completely undefiled upon the altar to Your holy Son, the Self with which I would identify.

Let us today behold each other in the sight of Christ. ²How beautiful we are! ³How holy and how loving! ⁴Brother, come and join with me today. ⁵We save the world when we have joined. ⁶For in our vision it becomes as holy as the light in us. (A Course in Miracles, W-313. See also ACIM Lesson 313 Insights.)

The new perception we can receive is really simply a recognition of what has always been true. We seem to live in a world of self-deception. We have convinced ourselves that we are a body, a unique individual. This identity seems to be under constant threat. Loss and harm are possible and guilt is justified for what we take and even receive when we believe we don’t deserve it.

Compared to the real world, this is a world of misery. It need not be. In any moment we can call upon Christ’s vision to receive His true perception. It shows us the reality of Love and overlooks the deceiving images.

We ask for help to see with Christ’s vision today. For we would see the beautiful Light of Love in every brother. We would see this Light everywhere. We want to know that we are Love and nothing else.

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Accepting Love’s Gifts

All gifts my brothers give belong to me.

Each day a thousand treasures come to me with every passing moment. ²I am blessed with gifts throughout the day, in value far beyond all things of which I can conceive. ³A brother smiles upon another, and my heart is gladdened. ⁴Someone speaks a word of gratitude or mercy, and my mind receives this gift and takes it as its own. ⁵And everyone who finds the way to God becomes my savior, pointing out the way to me, and giving me his certainty that what he learned is surely mine as well.

I thank You, Father, for the many gifts that come to me today and every day from every Son of God. ²My brothers are unlimited in all their gifts to me. ³Now may I offer them my thankfulness, that gratitude to them may lead me on to my Creator and His memory. (A Course in Miracles, W-315. See also ACIM Lesson 315 Insights.)

We do not realize the grand scope of all the Love that comes our way in every moment because we have tuned It out. Our investment in individuality and separation cannot accept the oneness that brings us limitless Love. Now us the time to accept the gifts that are ours.

Acceptance comes as we forgive our beliefs that seem to set us apart. We are not separate. We are whole and united in Love’s oneness. As we let Love in through forgiveness, we see the Love where once we saw fear; peace where once there was the appearance conflict; completion where there seemed to be loss.

Today we remind ourselves that we were created worthy of all of God’s Love. We will know it is ours by accepting the Love that surrounds us and is What we are.

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The Journey Without Distance

I follow in the way appointed me.

I have a special place to fill; a role for me alone. ²Salvation waits until I take this part as what I choose to do. ³Until I make this choice, I am the slave of time and human destiny. ⁴But when I willingly and gladly go the way my Father’s plan appointed me to go, then will I recognize salvation is already here, already given all my brothers and already mine as well.

“Father, Your way is what I choose today. ²Where it would lead me do I choose to go; what it would have me do I choose to do. ³Your way is certain, and the end secure. ⁴The memory of You awaits me there. ⁵And all my sorrows end in Your embrace, which You have promised to Your Son, who thought mistakenly that he had wandered from the sure protection of Your loving Arms. (A Course in Miracles, W-317. See also ACIM Lesson 317 Insights.)

God’s plan for us in this world is a journey of forgiveness. Through forgiveness we let go of our judgments, which are always based on some form that we believe can or has harmed us. Yet these forms are just made up images, made by the ego to make separation seem real. The images themselves are not real, nor has there ever been any separation from our Father and all His Love.

The plan we must follow seems like a journey only because we need to be convinced that there is nothing of meaningful value in this world. Each time we forgive, we let go of value we have mistakenly given an image. With this letting go, the image fades and the Light of Love takes its place.

We have been given a Guide for this journey. His sole purpose is to show us the images we perceive have no substance and can do nothing to our true Identity. As we follow His lead, we let go of our mistaken perceptions and awaken to the Love that is our true Home.

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