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Recognizing Opportunities to Heal Our Mind

Miracles are merely the translation of denial into truth. ²If to love oneself is to heal oneself, those who are sick do not love themselves. ³Therefore, they are asking for the love that would heal them, but which they are denying to themselves. ⁴If they knew the truth about themselves they could not be sick. ⁵The task of the miracle worker thus becomes to deny the denial of truth. ⁶The sick must heal themselves, for the truth is in them. ⁷Yet having obscured it, the light in another mind must shine into theirs because that light is theirs.

The light in them shines as brightly regardless of the density of the fog that obscures it. …your remembering is his, for God cannot be remembered alone. ⁸This is what you have forgotten. ⁹To perceive the healing of your brother as the healing of yourself is thus the way to remember God.

Perceive in sickness but another call for love, and offer your brother what he believes he cannot offer himself. ²Whatever the sickness, there is but one remedy. ³You will be made whole as you make whole, for to perceive in sickness the appeal for health is to recognize in hatred the call for love. ⁴And to give a brother what he really wants is to offer it unto yourself, for your Father wills you to know your brother as yourself. ⁵Answer his call for love, and yours is answered. ⁶Healing is the Love of Christ for His Father and for Himself. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.II.1:1–2:1,7-9;3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Why is it important to answer a brother’s call for Love? Because the Love we offer to our brother is offered to our self. We are one and the same Self.

In the dream of separation, we see ourselves as different. As we forgive our perceptions of differences, we welcome the unity of Love. We experience the blessing of trusting the truth that we dwell together in Love’s Light. This Light guides us on a shared path of return to Love. Every perception becomes an opportunity to heal our mind.

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Accepting Love’s Gift of Itself

Today belongs to Love. Let me not fear.

Father, today I would let all things be as You created them, and give Your Son the honor due his sinlessness; the love of brother to his brother and his Friend. ²Through this I am redeemed. ³Through this as well the truth will enter where illusions were, light will replace all darkness, and Your Son will know he is as You created him.

A special blessing comes to us today, from Him Who is our Father. ²Give this day to Him, and there will be no fear today, because the day is given unto Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-274. See also ACIM Lesson 274 Insights.)

Love is our Source, our Father, Creator. Love is all that is real. As Love’s creation, our true Identity is Love. Only Love creates and only like Itself. Our true Self remains eternally united with Love. Nothing else exists.

Fear can be experienced only in a dream that denies Love. Forgiveness opens our minds to accept Love’s gifts of peace and happiness. It lets the Light within shine away the shadows of denial to reveal the safety and comfort of being joined with all Creation in one Love. This is the gift we give ourselves when we give the day to Love.

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Gratitude for Forgiving Dreams

You are the dreamer of the world of dreams. ²No other cause it has, nor ever will. ³Nothing more fearful than an idle dream has terrified God’s Son, and made him think that he has lost his innocence, denied his Father, and made war upon himself. ⁴So fearful is the dream, so seeming real, he could not waken to reality without the sweat of terror and a scream of mortal fear, unless a gentler dream preceded his awaking, and allowed his calmer mind to welcome, not to fear, the Voice that calls with love to waken him; a gentler dream, in which his suffering was healed and where his brother was his friend. ⁵God willed he waken gently and with joy, and gave him means to waken without fear.

Accept the dream He gave instead of yours. ²It is not difficult to change a dream when once the dreamer has been recognized. ³Rest in the Holy Spirit, and allow His gentle dreams to take the place of those you dreamed in terror and in fear of death. ⁴He brings forgiving dreams, in which the choice is not who is the murderer and who shall be the victim. ⁵In the dreams He brings there is no murder and there is no death. ⁶The dream of guilt is fading from your sight, although your eyes are closed. ⁷A smile has come to lighten up your sleeping face. ⁸The sleep is peaceful now, for these are happy dreams. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.VII.13–14. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We have a place of refuge from dreams of fear and guilt. We can rest in the Holy Spirit in our mind in any moment. We can call upon Him to help us forgive the images that seem to be cause for fear and guilt.

The Holy Spirit is the bridge between the ego’s dreams that frighten us, and the happy dreams in which we see a forgiven world. Here there is no death. We see Love surrounding us in its peace and happiness. Today we accept the forgiving dreams the Holy Spirit brings with gratitude, and we rest in His peace.

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Learning to Recognize Love’s Eternal Presence

Dream softly of your sinless brother, who unites with you in holy innocence. ²And from this dream the Lord of Heaven will Himself awaken His beloved Son. ³Dream of your brother’s kindnesses instead of dwelling in your dreams on his mistakes. ⁴Select his thoughtfulness to dream about instead of counting up the hurts he gave. ⁵Forgive him his illusions, and give thanks to him for all the helpfulness he gave. ⁶And do not brush aside his many gifts because he is not perfect in your dreams. ⁷He represents his Father, Whom you see as offering both life and death to you.

Brother, He gives but life. ²Yet what you see as gifts your brother offers represent the gifts you dream your Father gives to you. ³Let all your brother’s gifts be seen in light of charity and kindness offered you. ⁴And let no pain disturb your dream of deep appreciation for his gifts to you. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.VII.15–16. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Contrary to what our dreams of separation portray, our Father gives us only eternal life. God could no more take away the life He extends to His Son than could He cease to exist. His Love is eternal and changeless.

Together, we are God’s one Son. In the dream of differences, we can learn to see the kindness and blessings every brother offers us, no matter what appearances we may perceive. With the Holy Spirit’s help we can learn to see the Love that unites us with every brother. He will help us see beyond all appearances of form to the Love that continuously flows between our Father and the Son, whom He loves without limit. We are grateful for His Love.

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Seeing Love’s Reflection in Our World

I will be still an instant and go home.

This world you seem to live in is not home to you. ²And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true.

We speak today for everyone who walks this world, for he is not at home. ²He goes uncertainly about in endless search, seeking in darkness what he cannot find; not recognizing what it is he seeks. ³A thousand homes he makes, yet none contents his restless mind. ⁴He does not understand he builds in vain. ⁵The home he seeks can not be made by him. ⁶There is no substitute for Heaven. ⁷All he ever made was hell.

…there is a Child in you Who seeks His Father’s house, and knows that He is alien here. ⁴This childhood is eternal, with an innocence that will endure forever. ⁵Where this Child shall go is holy ground. ⁶It is His Holiness that lights up Heaven, and that brings to earth the pure reflection of the light above, wherein are earth and Heaven joined as one.

It is this Child in you your Father knows as His Own Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-182.1:1-2;3;4:3–5:1. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)

The world we see represents our wish for specialness. It seems to give us what our Father cannot give because He can only give all of His Himself equally to all. There are no differences in the universe of His Love.

This universe of Love is our true Home. We were created as an extension of Love without limit. Our true function is to participate in this eternal giving and receiving of God’s Love. As we forgive the wish for specialness, we open our hearts to let Love be reflected in the world we see. We see the Love that is our brother, reflecting back to us the vision of the Love we are. We walk together in peace and gratitude.

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Accepting Our True Identity as Love

⁵God would not have Heaven incomplete. ⁶It waits for you, as I do. ⁷I am incomplete without your part in me. ⁸And as I am made whole we go together to our ancient home, prepared for us before time was and kept unchanged by time, immaculate and safe, as it will be at last when time is done.

²For this alone I need; that you will hear the words I speak, and give them to the world. ³You are my voice, my eyes, my feet, my hands through which I save the world. ⁴The Self from which I call to you is but your own. ⁵To Him we go together. ⁶Take your brother’s hand, for this is not a way we walk alone. ⁷In him I walk with you, and you with me. ⁸Our Father wills His Son be one with Him. ⁹What lives but must not then be one with you?

⁵You are His Son, completing His extension in your own. ⁶We practice but an ancient truth we knew before illusion seemed to claim the world. ⁷And we remind the world that it is free of all illusions every time we say:

⁸God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (W-rV.in.8:5-8;9:2-9;10:5-8)

The Course is teaching us about our true Identity. It is time to stop our games of make believe in which we claim a false identity and act as if it were real. It is time to remember that we are Love and nothing else. That means we must also see everyone as Love, for Love excludes no one.

Our function now is let go of our games of differences which compete for attention and blind us to the Light of Love that unites us with our Father. As we accept our Identity as Love, we take our brother’s hand to bring him with us into the Heaven of our Father’s Love.

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Resting in the Certainty of Love

…watch your mind and see… the senseless world you think is real. ⁶Review the thoughts as well which are compatible with such a world, and which you think are true. ⁷Then let them go, and sink below them to the holy place where they can enter not. ⁸There is a door beneath them in your mind, which you could not completely lock to hide what lies beyond.

Put out your hand, and see how easily the door swings open with your one intent to go beyond it. ²Angels light the way, so that all darkness vanishes, and you are standing in a light so bright and clear that you can understand all things you see. …the world you see before you in the light reflects the truth you knew, and did not quite forget in wandering away in dreams.

You cannot fail today. ²There walks with you the Spirit Heaven sent you, that you might approach this door some day, and through His aid slip effortlessly past it, to the light. ³Today that day has come. (A Course in Miracles, W-131.11:5-8;13:1-3;14:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 131 Insights.)

In every instant we decide what we want to be the truth. If we want separation and specialness, we see a world of differences and conflict. Because we want it, we believe what we see is true.

But if we want only the truth of Love’s oneness, Its Light will shine brightly in our mind, it will show us Love’s reflection everywhere. We will feel its comfort and know our safety in Love’s changelessness. Our hearts will overflow with joy and gratitude as we join in the eternal flow of Love to Itself. We will rest in the certainty 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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