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Opening to Awareness of Love’s Presence

God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.

Perception is not an attribute of God. ²His is the realm of knowledge. ³Yet He has created the Holy Spirit as the Mediator between perception and knowledge. …⁵With this link with God, perception will become so changed and purified that it will lead to knowledge.

In God you cannot see. ²Perception has no function in God, and does not exist. ³Yet in salvation, which is the undoing of what never was, perception has a mighty purpose. ⁴Made by the Son of God for an unholy purpose, it must become the means for the restoration of his holiness to his awareness. ⁵Perception has no meaning. ⁶Yet does the Holy Spirit give it a meaning very close to God’s. ⁷Healed perception becomes the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother, and thus forgives himself.

You cannot see apart from God because you cannot be apart from God. ²Whatever you do you do in Him, because whatever you think, you think with His Mind. ³If vision is real, and it is real to the extent to which it shares the Holy Spirit’s purpose, then you cannot see apart from God. (A Course in Miracles, W-43.1:1-3,5;2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 43 Insights.)

The ego has devised a system for ‘seeing’ that carefully excludes the ability to see the Reality of Love’s oneness. This closed system keeps us imprisoned in a dream of separation and differences where fear and guilt are always present. The Holy Spirit is given us to provide a path that leads us out of this self-made hell.

Today we remind ourselves frequently that the Holy Spirit walks with us to show us the way Home to Love. We let Him reinterpret all our perceptions so that we see only Love and calls for Love. It will be a day filled with the joy of joining in the oneness of Love’s eternal Presence.

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Accepting a Life of Joy and Peace

⁴No one can doubt the ego’s skill in building up false cases. ⁵Nor can anyone doubt your willingness to listen until you choose not to accept anything except truth. ⁶When you lay the ego aside, it will be gone. ⁷The Holy Spirit’s Voice is as loud as your willingness to listen. ⁸It cannot be louder without violating your freedom of choice, which the Holy Spirit seeks to restore, never to undermine.

The Holy Spirit teaches you to use your body only to reach your brothers, so He can teach His message through you. ²This will heal them and therefore heal you. ³Everything used in accordance with its function as the Holy Spirit sees it cannot be sick. ⁴Everything used otherwise is. ⁵Do not allow the body to be a mirror of a split mind. ⁶Do not let it be an image of your own perception of littleness. ⁷Do not let it [the body] reflect your decision to attack. ⁸Health is seen as the natural state of everything when interpretation is left to the Holy Spirit, Who perceives no attack on anything. ⁹Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly. ¹⁰Health is the beginning of the proper perspective on life under the guidance of the one Teacher Who knows what life is, being the Voice for Life Itself. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.VIII.8:4–9:10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

“The Love of God is Life. If we reject His Love in favor of separation, we leave ourselves only a loveless dream of life that does not exist in truth. In this dream we believe we are alone and vulnerable to outside ‘forces’ which can take away the ‘life’ we believe is our own.

We can awaken from this frightening dream by being willing to listen to the Holy Spirit’s Voice. He will teach us to see past the dream images to the Love that joins us with every brother and our Creator. Under His guidance we will learn to use the body to bring messages of God’s Love to everyone we meet or think of. We will learn that we share one Life in the Love of our Creator, which is invulnerable to any dream of differences and loss. It is a life of joy and peace.

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Remembering Our Safety in God’s Love

God is my strength. Vision is His gift.

The idea for today combines two very powerful thoughts, both of major importance. ²It also sets forth a cause and effect relationship that explains why you cannot fail in your efforts to achieve the goal of the course. ³You will see because it is the Will of God. ⁴It is His strength, not your own, that gives you power. ⁵And it is His gift, rather than your own, that offers vision to you.

God is indeed your strength, and what He gives is truly given. ²This means that you can receive it any time and anywhere, wherever you are, and in whatever circumstance you find yourself. ³Your passage through time and space is not at random. ⁴You cannot but be in the right place at the right time. ⁵Such is the strength of God. ⁶Such are His gifts. (A Course in Miracles, W-42.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 42 Insights.)

We are never out of reach of God’s strength and vision. No matter how deeply we dream of conflict, loss, isolation and guilt, His Presence remains with us. We only need to stop denying that we are God’s Son. All that God is He has given His Son. His gifts are always ours to accept; they are never withdrawn.

The strength of God supports us to accept His vision which shows us the reality of Love in which we live. As we accept His Help, His Love brings Light to our dark dreams of lovelessness and guilt. As we rest in God, we remember our safety in His unending Love. We see our unity with all.

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Accepting Love’s Eternal Presence

If God’s Will for you is complete peace and joy, unless you experience only this you must be refusing to acknowledge His Will. ²His Will does not vacillate, being changeless forever. ³When you are not at peace it can only be because you do not believe you are in Him. ⁴Yet He is All in all. ⁵His peace is complete, and you must be included in it. ⁶His laws govern you because they govern everything. ⁷You cannot exempt yourself from His laws, although you can disobey them. ⁸Yet if you do, and only if you do, you will feel lonely and helpless, because you are denying yourself everything.

I am come as a light into a world that does deny itself everything. ²It does this simply by dissociating itself from everything. ³It is therefore an illusion of isolation, maintained by fear of the same loneliness that is its illusion. ⁴I said that I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. ⁵That is why I am the light of the world. ⁶If I am with you in the loneliness of the world, the loneliness is gone. ⁷You cannot maintain the illusion of loneliness if you are not alone. ⁸My purpose, then, is still to overcome the world. ⁹I do not attack it, but my light must dispel it because of what it is. ¹⁰Light does not attack darkness, but it does shine it away. ¹¹If my light goes with you everywhere, you shine it away with me. ¹²The light becomes ours, and you cannot abide in darkness any more than darkness can abide wherever you go. ¹³The remembrance of me is the remembrance of yourself, and of Him Who sent me to you. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.IV.1–2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We can only experience fear if we deny Love’s eternal Presence. Fear constructs a barrier around us which reflects back to us our projections of isolation, separation and differences. These reflections hide Love’s Presence though It surrounds us, offering us Its gifts without limit.

We have been given a Guide in our mind to help us let go of our mistaken beliefs and dismantle our self-made barrier to Love. We are never alone in truth. Our mighty Companion is ready and willing to help us remember we are loved without limit by the Source of all Love. As we join with Him we become the Light of the world.

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Love — the Only Real Gift We Can Give

You can encounter only part of yourself because you are part of God, Who is everything. ²His power and glory are everywhere, and you cannot be excluded from them. ³The ego teaches that your strength is in you alone. ⁴The Holy Spirit teaches that all strength is in God and therefore in you. ⁵God wills no one suffer. ⁶He does not will anyone to suffer for a wrong decision, including you. ⁷That is why He has given you the means for undoing it. ⁸Through His power and glory all your wrong decisions are undone completely, releasing you and your brother from every imprisoning thought any part of the Sonship holds. ⁹Wrong decisions have no power, because they are not true. ¹⁰The imprisonment they seem to produce is no more true than they are.

Power and glory belong to God alone. ²So do you. ³God gives whatever belongs to Him because He gives of Himself, and everything belongs to Him. ⁴Giving of yourself is the function He gave you. ⁵Fulfilling it perfectly will let you remember what you have of Him, and by this you will remember also what you are in Him. ⁶You cannot be powerless to do this, because this is your power. ⁷Glory is God’s gift to you, because that is what He is. ⁸See this glory everywhere to remember what you are. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.III.7–8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

To give of ourselves is to give only Love, because That is what we are. Love is the only real gift we can give.

The ego does not know what Love is and cannot give It. The ego can only offer forms that seem bring happiness or pleasure, but they have one key feature that demonstrates their unreality—they do not last.

Love is God’s gift to His Son. It is the gift of all of Himself. There is nothing else to give. Today we remind ourselves that we are God’s Son, forever united with all His creation. We have and are all of His Love. We rest in His peace.

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Resting in the Love of God

Take pity on yourself, so long enslaved. ²Rejoice whom God hath joined have come together and need no longer look on sin apart. ³No two can look on sin together, for they could never see it in the same place and time. ⁴Sin is a strictly individual perception, seen in the other yet believed by each to be within himself. ⁵And each one seems to make a different error, and one the other cannot understand.

Who has need for sin? ²Only the lonely and alone, who see their brothers different from themselves. ³It is this difference, seen but not real, that makes the need for sin, not real but seen, seem justified. ⁴And all this would be real if sin were so. ⁵For an unholy relationship is based on differences, where each one thinks the other has what he has not.

A holy relationship starts from a different premise. ²Each one has looked within and seen no lack. ³Accepting his completion, he would extend it by joining with another, whole as himself. ⁴He sees no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body.

Think what a holy relationship can teach! ²Here is belief in differences undone. ³Here is the faith in differences shifted to sameness. ⁴And here is sight of differences transformed to vision. …⁶It must extend, as you extended when you and he joined. ⁷It must reach out beyond itself, as you reached out beyond the body, to let you and your brother be joined. ⁸And now the sameness that you saw extends and finally removes all sense of differences, so that the sameness that lies beneath them all becomes apparent. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.in.1:1-5;2:1-5;3:1-4;4:1-4,6-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The key to finding peace of mind is accepting the Love that unites us with everyone and every thing. In this unity there are no differences, no forms, no loss, no conquests, no defeats. Love is universally the same throughout. It is complete and whole, with nothing to gain nor lose. It is the Heaven that is our Home.

Today we choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to look past our judgments to see the Love that joins us with every brother. With His help we will dismiss appearances of differences and rest in the Love of God together.

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Welcoming Love to Dispel Dreams of Fear

If you are blessed and do not know it, you need to learn it must be so. ²The knowledge is not taught, but its conditions must be acquired for it is they that have been thrown away. ³You can learn to bless, and cannot give what you have not. ⁴If, then, you offer blessing, it must have come first to yourself. ⁵And you must also have accepted it as yours, for how else could you give it away? ⁶That is why miracles offer you the testimony that you are blessed. ⁷If what you offer is complete forgiveness you must have let guilt go, accepting the Atonement for yourself and learning you are guiltless.

Indirect proof of truth is needed in a world made of denial and without direction. ²You will perceive the need for this if you realize that to deny is the decision not to know. ³The logic of the world must therefore lead to nothing, for its goal is nothing. ⁴If you decide to have and give and be nothing except a dream, you must direct your thoughts unto oblivion. ⁵And if you have and give and are everything [Love], and all this has been denied, your thought system is closed off and wholly separated from the truth. ⁶This is an insane world, and do not underestimate the extent of its insanity. ⁷There is no area of your perception that it has not touched, and your dream is sacred to you. ⁸That is why God placed the Holy Spirit in you, where you placed the dream.

⁶They [dreams] will not be taken from him. ⁷But they can be given up by_ him, for the Source of their undoing is in him. ⁸There is nothing in the world to teach him that the logic of the world is totally insane and leads to nothing. ⁹Yet in him who made this insane logic there is One [Holy Spirit] Who knows it leads to nothing, for He knows everything. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.I.1:1-7;2;3:6-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Perception can only occur when separation is accepted as true. The perceiver believes he is separate and different from what he perceives. Thus perception is central to maintaining the ego’s place in our mind.

True knowledge is an experience of oneness. It is full acceptance of unity with God’s Love. This knowing is beyond the realm of dreams. Yet in our mind the Holy Spirit provides a bridge to lead us out of our dreams of limitation and differences. He is our inner Teacher Whose function is to help us see past the dreams of conflicting perceptions to welcome the gift of God’s Love. As we accept His gift we bring Love’s blessing to the world. We become messengers of Love.

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How to Read References for
Quotes from A Course in Miracles

Below are example references to specific sentences using the notation of the Second & Third Editions of A Course in Miracles published by the Foundation for Inner Peace:

T-26.IV.4:7 = Text, Chapt. 26, Section IV, paragraph 4, sentence 7.

W-169.5:2 = Workbook, Lesson 169, paragraph 5, sentence 2.

W-pII.1.1:1 = Workbook, Part II, Question 1, paragraph 1, sentence 1.

M-13.3:2 = Manual for Teachers, Question 13, paragraph 3, sentence 2.

C-6.4:6 = Clarification of Terms, Term 6, paragraph 4, sentence 6
The above numbering system of the Second & Third Editions published by The Foundation for A Course in Miracles

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