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The Choice to Accept Inner Peace

Your little part is but to give the Holy Spirit the whole idea of sacrifice. And to accept the peace He gives instead, without the limits that would hold [the extension of peace] back, and so would limit your awareness of [peace]. For what He gives must be extended if you would have its limitless power, and use [peace] for the Son of God’s release.

Faith in the eternal is always justified, for the eternal is forever kind, infinite in its patience and wholly loving. [The eternal] will accept you wholly, and give you peace. Yet it can unite only with what already is at peace in you, immortal as itself. The body can bring you neither peace nor turmoil; neither joy nor pain. It is a means, and not an end. [The body] has no purpose of itself, but only what is given to it. The body will seem to be whatever is the means for reaching the goal that you assign to it. Only the mind can set a purpose, and only the mind can see the means for its accomplishment, and justify its use. Peace and guilt are both conditions of the mind, to be attained. And these conditions are the home of the emotion [Love or fear] that calls them forth, and therefore is compatible with them. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV.B.9:1-3;10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We always have freedom of choice. We choose between accepting the truth of What we are as created by God or believing that we are a separate identity made by the ego idea of separation. This is the full range of options we are free to choose between. It is the choice between the Reality and illusion. Which choice we make results in the experience of eternal peace and changeless Love or the perception of being alone and vulnerable to attack and pain.

Either choice is mutually exclusive. When we believe we are a unique and separate identity, housed in a body, fear and pain are inevitable. The experience of eternal peace and the innocence of Love is inconceivable when we believe we are separate. But when we choose to accept God’s gift of eternal peace and extend that peace without limit, the perception of loss and pain is inconceivable. We accept God’s gift by sharing It without limit because that is what God’s gift is — eternal sharing of Himself. The Holy Spirit is our Guide to teach us how to share the limitless and let go of our belief in limitation and separation.

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Letting Go of Conflict

Love is extension. To withhold the smallest gift is not to know love’s purpose. Love offers everything forever. Hold back but one belief, one offering, and love is gone, because you asked a substitute to take its place. And now must war, the substitute for peace, come with the one alternative [specialness] that you can choose for love. Your choosing it has given it all the reality it seems to have.

Beliefs will never openly attack each other because conflicting outcomes are impossible. But an unrecognized belief is a decision to war in secret, where the results of conflict are kept unknown and never brought to reason, to be considered sensible or not. And many senseless outcomes have been reached, and meaningless decisions have been made and kept hidden, to become beliefs now given power to direct all subsequent decisions. Mistake you not the power of these hidden warriors to disrupt your peace.

All that is ever cherished as a hidden belief, to be defended though unrecognized, is faith in specialness.

Specialness is the great dictator of the wrong decisions. Here is the grand illusion of what you are and what your brother is. And here is what must make the body dear and worth preserving. Specialness must be defended. Illusions can attack it, and they do. For what your brother must become to keep your specialness is an illusion. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.I.1:1-2:4;3:1;5:1-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Because only Love is real, the extension of Love is the extension of everything. Nothing else is real. But belief in specialness offers an illusion of something else of value other than Love. The illusion of specialness is defended by believing in differences that make all things seem to be different and therefore special. It is this belief in differences that is at the core of every disagreement, conflict, battle and war.

Peace will return to our minds when we are willing to give up our belief in specialness. Without specialness, there is nothing to defend. Without specialness, Love extends freely, without interruption or limit.

Let us practice questioning our beliefs when any form of conflict seems to appear. Let us open our minds to the Light of the Holy Spirit to show us the mistaken beliefs behind the conflict and let them go.

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The Keystone to Remembering Heaven

I have invented the world I see. I made up the prison in which I see myself. All I need do is recognize this and I am free. I have deluded myself into believing it is possible to imprison the Son of God. I was bitterly mistaken in this belief, which I no longer want. The Son of God must be forever free. He is as God created him, and not what I would make of him. He is where God would have him be, and not where I thought to hold him prisoner.

There is another way of looking at the world. Since the purpose of the world is not the one I ascribed to it, there must be another way of looking at it. I see everything upside down, and my thoughts are the opposite of truth. I see the world as a prison for God’s Son. It must be, then, that the world is really a place where he can be set free. I would look upon the world as it is, and see it as a place where the Son of God finds his freedom.

The world I look upon has taken on the light of my forgiveness, and shines forgiveness back at me. In this light I begin to see what my illusions about myself kept hidden. I begin to understand the holiness of all living things, including myself, and their oneness with me.” (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 57,W-pI.57.2-3;5:4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 57 Insights.)

Forgiveness is the means to see the world as the Holy Spirit sees it. The Holy Spirit’s purpose for the world is to use it as a means to teach us how to recognize illusions and let them go. Forgiveness is how we let go of the meaning we have given the images of the world made by the ego.

The ego’s images are empty substitutes for God’s gifts. Belief in them makes us unaware of the truth that we remain as God created us, one with every brother in His Love. This is why accepting Holy Spirit’s help to forgive — let go of — our mistaken beliefs is the keystone that sets us free to remember we are eternally at Home in Love.

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Following the Lead of Truth

The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.

This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher [Holy Spirit] Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.

Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.

I will step back and let Him lead the way,
For I would walk along the road to Him.
(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 155, W-pI.155.2-3;10:3-6;14:3. See also ACIM Lesson 155 Insights.)

The key to living in a joyful, peaceful state of being is letting Truth be our guide in all things. To do this we need to monitor our thoughts and step back from the meaning we are giving the world. Of ourselves, we do not know what anything means. But when we step back and allow ourselves to remember the peace of God in us, we open our minds to our inner Teacher, Who is ever present to teach us the truth.

It helps to start the day with a dedication to following the lead of Truth, our inner Teacher, the Voice for God. During the day, whenever we think of it, we pause and step back for a moment from our doing and our thinking, to remember peace and welcome the lead of Truth. And at the day’s end, we give thanks for the Truth that has led us through the day. The more we practice this, the more consistent we will become at taking the hand of our inner Teacher and letting It guide us to the Truth. Our days will be increasingly peaceful and happy.

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How to Accept God’s Eternal Love

Love does not limit, and what it creates is not limited. To give without limit is God’s Will for you, because only this can bring you the joy that is His and that He wills to share with you. Your love is as boundless as His because it is His.

Could any part of God be without His Love, and could any part of His Love be contained? God is your heritage, because His one gift is Himself. How can you give except like Him if you would know His gift to you? Give, then, without limit and without end, to learn how much He has given you. Your ability to accept Him depends on your willingness to give as He gives. Your fatherhood and your Father are One. God wills to create [extend Love], and your will is His. It follows, then, that you will to create [extend Love], since your will follows from His. And being an extension of His Will, yours must be the same.

…healing is the beginning of the recognition that your will is His. (A Course in Miracles, T-11.I.6:6-7:9;11:9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We can only give without limit what we have been given and accepted without limit. God created His Son by extending His Love without limit. For His Love to remain limitless, His Son must also create by extending His Love without limit. This is how the unity of God’s limitless Love is maintained eternally.

This unified creation, extending all Love to all, cannot be understood in the dream of separation, which is a dream in which everything is defined by its limits. It is impossible to give without limit what is defined as limited and not suffer loss. This is why “giving” in the world is really a negotiation to get something of equal “value” in return for what we give.

If we believe we are not getting acceptable value for what we give, we believe we are being asked to sacrifice. And because we believe our will opposes God’s Will, we believe His Will demands sacrifice of what we treasure. Yet it is we who are “sacrificing” the joy and peace of His Love by attempting to limit Love’s creation. We learn to accept God’s gift of all His Love by forgiving the judgments that deny our brothers’ innocence. This releases the barriers to recognizing Love’s eternal Presence in our mind.

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We Are Wholly Loving and Lovable

At one with God and with the universe we go our way rejoicing, with the thought that God Himself goes everywhere with us.

Our shining footprints point the way to truth, for God is our Companion as we walk the world a little while. And those who come to follow us will recognize the way because the light we carry stays behind, yet still remains with us as we walk on.

Today we will not doubt His Love for us, nor question His protection and His care. No meaningless anxieties can come between our faith and our awareness of His Presence. We are one with Him today in recognition and remembrance. We feel Him in our hearts. Our minds contain His Thoughts; our eyes behold His loveliness in all we look upon. Today we see only the loving and the lovable.

No miracle can ever be denied to those who know that they are one with God.

Peace be to you today. Secure your peace by practicing awareness you are one with your Creator, as He is with you. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 124, W-pI.124.1:5;2:4-5;4;6:1;8:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 124 Insights.)

God goes with us because we are one with God, our Creator. While we identify with a body and believe what its senses report to us is real, we are unaware of God’s Presence. We are unaware that we are one with Him, for the ego uses the body as a defense against our unity in Love. Yet the ego’s defenses cannot change Reality. We still walk with God, in God. Behind the ego’s stream of thoughts of fear and guilt, God’s Thoughts of Love remain unaltered in our mind.

Today we practice giving our attention to the Thought of Love that is our Source, our Reality. As we remember and accept the Love of God given us eternally without limit, we see the Love reflected back to us everywhere. The separate images of the world fade into the background and the radiant Light of Love shines through every brother, reflecting back to us the truth of What we are. This practice will lead us out of the dream of separation and remind us that we are at Home in Love — wholly loving and wholly lovable.

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Being a Teacher of God

A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. His qualifications consist solely in this; somehow, somewhere he has made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else’s.

They come from all over the world. They come from all religions and from no religion. They are the ones who have answered. The Call is universal. It goes on all the time everywhere. It calls for teachers to speak for It and redeem the world. Many hear It, but few will answer. …Their function is to save time. Each one begins as a single light, but with the Call at its center it is a light that cannot be limited. And each one saves a thousand years of time as the world judges it.

There is a course for every teacher of God. The form of the course varies greatly. So do the particular teaching aids involved. But the content of the course never changes. Its central theme is always, “God’s Son is guiltless, and in his innocence is his salvation.” It can be taught by actions or thoughts; in words or soundlessly; in any language or in no language; in any place or time or manner. It does not matter who the teacher was before he heard the Call. He has become a savior by his answering. He has seen someone else as himself. He has therefore found his own salvation and the salvation of the world. In his rebirth is the world reborn. (A Course in Miracles, M-1.1:1-2;2:1-2,11-13;3)

Are we ready to be a teacher of God? Are we willing? Are we willing to let go of our judgments and see the innocence in our brothers and ourselves? It is our willingness to let go of our judgments, our insistence on bringing the past with us and overlaying it on our perception of the present, that makes us ready to be a teacher of God. This is how we answer the Call.

Whenever we see a brother as having the same interests as our own, we teach the lesson of innocence. We have set aside a judgment that would see a brother guilty. This is a holy instant in which we see the one Self that unites us with all our brothers. In that moment we are a teacher of God, learning and teaching the lesson of guiltlessness. We may fall back into old patterns of judgment, but the gift of that instant remains with us. We have taken a step forward toward freeing the world from fear and guilt.

Today let us be willing to let the Holy Spirit show us the Light of Truth in our brother and shine away the dark belief that we are separate and alone.

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