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Returning to the Love We Are

All learning is a help or hindrance to the gate of Heaven. Nothing in between is possible. There are two teachers only, who point in different ways. And you will go along the way your chosen teacher leads. There are but two directions you can take, while time remains and choice is meaningful. For never will another road be made except the way to Heaven. You but choose whether to go toward Heaven, or away to nowhere. There is nothing else to choose.

To you who still believe you live in time and know not it is gone, the Holy Spirit still guides you through the infinitely small and senseless maze you still perceive in time, though it has long since gone. You think you live in what is past.

Forgiveness is the great release from time. It is the key to learning that the past is over.… And who can stand upon a distant shore, and dream himself across an ocean, to a place and time that have long since gone by? How real a hindrance can this dream be to where he really is?

Forgive the past and let it go, for it is gone. You stand no longer on the ground that lies between the worlds. You have gone on, and reached the world that lies at Heaven’s gate. There is no hindrance to the Will of God, nor any need that you repeat again a journey that was over long ago. Look gently on your brother, and behold the world in which perception of your hate has been transformed into a world of love. (A Course in Miracles,T-26.V.1:5-12;4:1-2;6:1-2,6-7;14. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Time is an ego-made mechanism of separation used to hide the changeless now from our awareness. The ego brings memories and beliefs from the past to hide the reality of love in the present. Because only Love is real, the past is nothing more than a dream that could never be true. This dream seems very real because of our belief.

But we have been given the Holy Spirit to help us forgive the past. Guilt, fear, anger and hate are all based on “memories” from the past. As we forgive the past, we open the door to the Light of Heaven that is shining in our mind now. We have let go of the past and the dream is no more. We’ve been there, done that, and learned we never want to do it again. All we really want is to remember we are Love and nothing else.

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The Blessing of Recognizing Love’s Oneness

The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love.… What hatred has released to love becomes the brightest light in Heaven’s radiance. And all the lights in Heaven brighter grow, in gratitude for what has been restored.

Around you angels hover lovingly, to keep away all darkened thoughts of sin, and keep the light where it has entered in. Your footprints lighten up the world, for where you walk forgiveness gladly goes with you.

The world is fair because the Holy Spirit has brought injustice to the light within, and there has all unfairness been resolved and been replaced with justice and with love. If you perceive injustice anywhere, you need but say:

By this do I deny the Presence of the Father and the Son.
And I would rather know of Them than see injustice,
which Their Presence shines away. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.IX.6:1,5-2:2;X.6:4-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

To see justice is to recognize the oneness of Love. What is one cannot be unjust. Injustice can only be perceived when differences are believed as real. This could only occur in illusions of separation.

When we perceive anything as unfair, it is only because we believe we are separate from the “cause” of injustice. It is this perception of separation that must be undone. Without belief in separation, we are aware of Love’s oneness. Nothing else exists. There is nothing to defend against. The recognition of innocence replaces the perception of sin and guilt.

The Holy Spirit was given us to lead us to the acceptance of the fact that only Love is real. This is how we remember that we are God’s Son, united with our Creator.

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Undoing Fear and Guilt

All temptation is nothing more than some form of the basic temptation not to believe the idea for today. Salvation seems to come from anywhere except from you. So, too, does the source of guilt. You see neither guilt nor salvation as in your own mind and nowhere else. When you realize that all guilt is solely an invention of your mind, you also realize that guilt and salvation must be in the same place. In understanding this you are saved.

The seeming cost of accepting today’s idea is this: It means that nothing outside yourself can save you; nothing outside yourself can give you peace. But it also means that nothing outside yourself can hurt you, or disturb your peace or upset you in any way. Today’s idea places you in charge of the universe [the oneness of Love], where you belong because of what you are. This is not a role that can be partially accepted. And you must surely begin to see that accepting it is salvation. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 70, W-pI.70.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 70 Insights.)

Guilt is inherent in the ego thought system because it is the denial of Love’s oneness. The ego is simply a part of our mind in a made up dream of separation. Within the dream everything seems real. We seem to lack Love because it is a dream of lovelessness, it is an acting out of the denial of Love.

The underlying belief that comes with this is that we have attacked and hurt Love. Guilt is the inevitable consequence of this belief. We hide from guilt by projecting it on the world outside. We believe that the outside world is determined to punish us for this guilt. So in the dream we are caught in the cycle of attacking through projection and expecting retaliation. Peace is impossible in this thought system.

Our salvation comes by recognizing all this is only a dream in our mind. Nothing in the dream is true. Nothing that seems to happen in a dream has ever occurred in truth. It is possible to wake up from a dream. We have a loving Companion Who constantly calls us to awaken. He represents our Father, Whose limitless Love for us has never changed. He will help us undo the belief that made the dream. When the belief is undone, the dream is gone. We remember that we are safe and loved in the Heart of Love.

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Accepting the Gift of Peace

You have one test, as sure as God, by which to recognize if what you learned is true. If you are wholly free of fear of any kind, and if all those who meet or even think of you share in your perfect peace, then you can be sure that you have learned God’s lesson, and not your own. Unless all this is true, there are dark lessons in your mind that hurt and hinder you, and everyone around you. The absence of perfect peace means but one thing: You think you do not will for God’s Son what his Father wills for him. Every dark lesson teaches this, in one form or another. And each bright lesson with which the Holy Spirit will replace the dark ones you [no longer want], teaches you that you will with the Father and His Son.

Those who remember always that they know nothing, and who have become willing to learn everything, will learn it. But whenever they trust themselves [alone], they will not learn. They have destroyed their motivation for learning by thinking they already know. Think not you understand anything until you pass the test of perfect peace, for peace and understanding go together and never can be found alone. Each brings the other with it, for it is the law of God they be not separate. [Peace and understanding] are cause and effect, each to the other, so where one is absent the other cannot be. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.XI.5;12. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Try to imagine what it would be like to be totally free of fear, feeling perfectly safe, with no need to make plans for protection. Imagine feeling indescribably joyful and overflowing with Love. Imagine seeing everyone joined with you in this joyful experience of the eternal flow of Love. This is God’s Will for us. It is the Home He created for us and gave to us, the extension of His Love, eternally.

As we let ourselves be taught the truth by the Holy Spirit in our minds, this will be our experience in every present moment. We don’t experience it now only because our belief in separation has hidden it from our awareness. Peace is our natural state. We are learning now that if this is not our experience, we need to undo the mistaken belief that makes the truth unknown to us.

We dedicate this day to offer all our thoughts to the Holy Spirit with open hands, willing to receive His Thoughts of Love in their place. Thus will He guide us to the peace of God that is ours now.

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Bringing Healing to the World

I give the miracles I have received. …To give is how to recognize you have received. It is the proof that what you have is yours.

You understand that you are healed [released from fear] when you give healing. You accept forgiveness as accomplished in yourself when you forgive. You recognize your brother as yourself, and thus do you perceive that you are whole. There is no miracle [extension of Love] you cannot give, for all are given you. Receive them now by opening the storehouse of your mind where they are laid, and giving them away.

Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds. And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness. Things which seem quite solid here are merely shadows there; transparent, faintly seen, at times forgot, and never able to obscure the light that shines beyond them. Holiness has been restored to vision, and the blind can see.

This is the Holy Spirit’s single gift; the treasure house to which you can appeal with perfect certainty for all the things that can contribute to your happiness. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 159, W-pI.159.1:7-2:5;5:1-6:1. See also ACIM Lesson 159 Insights.)

We know we have Love by extending Love. Love is one so we cannot extend Love to what we perceive as separate from us. By forgiving — letting go of the perception of separation — we make way for Love’s natural joining with the one Love that is everywhere, beyond forms of separation. As we let go of judgment (separation) and welcome Christ’s vision, our perception shifts to seeing Love’s innocence in place of the ego’s projections of guilt.

Today we open our minds to Christ’s healing vision by bringing all fear thoughts, anything that disturbs our peace, to the Holy Spirit. We welcome the Light He brings which reveals Christ’s vision. With this vision we see a healed world, where Love is recognized as all that is real. As we accept Christ’s vision, we are healed of fear and bring that healing to our brothers.

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Learning What Forgiveness Means

How holy am I, who have been given the function of lighting up the world! Let me be still before my holiness. In its calm light let all my conflicts disappear. In its peace let me remember Who I am.

Some specific forms for applying this idea when special difficulties seem to arise might be:

Let me not obscure the light of the world in me.
Let the light of the world shine through this appearance.
This shadow will vanish before the light.

Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world. It is through accepting my function that I will see the light in me. And in this light will my function stand clear and perfectly unambiguous before my sight. My acceptance does not depend on my recognizing what my function is, for I do not yet understand forgiveness. Yet I will trust that, in the light, I will see it as it is.

Specific forms for using this idea might include:

Let this help me learn what forgiveness means. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 81, W-pI.81.1:2-4:2. See also ACIM Lesson 81 Insights.)

Every moment is an opportunity to learn what forgiveness means. Our inner Teacher is always ready to show us the truth beyond appearances. We just have to be willing to offer our perceptions to Him and receive His loving correction. His Light will shine away the dark shadows of the ego thought system that keep the Light of Love from our awareness.

We can strengthen our willingness by reminding ourselves frequently that we want help to see past appearances. We want to understand what true forgiveness means. We want to see the innocence of Love instead of the guilt and fear the ego projects. As we learn the Holy Spirit’s lessons in forgiveness, we join with Him in being a messenger of Light and Love.

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Our Unbreakable Link with God

God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him. I can see what God wants me to see. [In Truth] I cannot see anything else. Beyond His Will lie only illusions. It is these [illusions] I choose when I think I can see apart from Him. It is these I choose when I try to see through the body’s eyes. Yet the vision of Christ has been given me to replace [illusions]. It is through this vision [of Christ] that I choose to see.

God is the light in which I see. I cannot see in darkness. God is the only light. Therefore, if I am to see, it must be through Him. I have tried to define what seeing is, and I have been wrong. Now it is given me to understand that God is the light in which I see. Let me welcome [Christ’s] vision and the happy world it will show me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 59, W-pI.59.3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 59 Insights.)

It is helpful to remember that what we seem to see with the body’s eyes is illusion. The body’s eyes cannot see reality because the body and all its parts are illusions. When the Course talks about vision, it is always referring to Christ’s vision, which is in our right mind. It is our right mind that thinks with God. It is our right mind that remains united with our Source. It is our right mind that thinks thoughts of Love and nothing else. As we open our minds to Christ’s vision in our right mind, we see with the Light of God.

The ego (wrong mind) denies the Light of God and so it seems to exist only in darkness, in the absence of God’s Light. The ego’s substitute for vision is illusions with which it populates its darkness. It is only our choice to believe in the ego mind of separation that causes it to dominate our awareness and hide the Light of God.

By the grace of God we are not left without a means to let go of the belief in darkness. The Holy Spirit was given us as an unbreakable link to God’s Light the moment we chose to believe in darkness. As we let the Holy Spirit guide our seeing moment by moment, we learn to recognize the ego’s illusions and let them go. We find our way Home to our Source.

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