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We Are One Self

You are one Self, in perfect harmony with all there is, and all that there will be. You are one Self, the holy Son of God, united with your brothers in that Self; united with your Father in His Will. Feel this one Self in you, and let It shine away all your illusions and your doubts. This is your Self, the Son of God Himself, sinless as Its Creator, with His strength within you and His Love forever yours. You are one Self, and it is given you to feel this Self within you, and to cast all your illusions out of the one Mind that is this Self, the holy truth in you. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.95.13)

My opportunity today is to go to the sacred place in my mind where I can feel this one Self That I am and everyone is. The feeling of this one Self is infinite peace, Love and happiness. It is my opportunity today to allow myself to connect with the eternal truth and extend It to the world.

The eternal truth is very simple: Only Love is real. The nature of Love is to extend Itself eternally. To be my Self, I only need to extend Love without limit or exception. In this world, this unlimited extension seems difficult and even unjustified. But it only seems that way if I identify with a false image of myself that is separate from the whole.

So any time I do not experience the natural flow of Love through me, there is a need for me to forgive, to let go of a false image. I need to turn this over to the Voice for Truth in my mind to receive the help I need to recognize the false image for what it is. When falsity is recognized, it is freely let go.

Today I ask the Holy Spirit’s help to recognize what is false for what it is so that I may make room for the joy of Love. This is how I will have a happy day.

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Seeing the Face of Christ Beyond the Masks

The teachers of God appear to share the illusion of separation, but because of what they use the body for, they do not believe in the illusion despite appearances.… Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God’s teachers. They watch the dream figures come and go, shift and change, suffer and die. Yet they are not deceived by what they see. They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful. Unity alone is not a thing of dreams. And it is this God’s teachers acknowledge as behind the dream, beyond all seeming and yet surely theirs. (A Course in Miracles M-12.4:6,6:6-11)

The images the body’s eyes show us seem very real. Yet they are all simply masks that hide the unity of the face of Christ. These masks seem to interact and have effects on each other. Yet the changelessness of Christ behind the mask remains unaffected. It is when we believe that these masks (images) have real effects that we feel vulnerable and guilty. It is this belief that must be undone.

Our job now is to learn that the masks are really nothing and can have no effect. To learn this freeing lesson, we need to be willing to be taught by the Teacher That does not believe in these masks. Our practice today is to hold our minds and hearts open to our inner Teacher’s lessons that will help us see the face of Christ beyond the meaningless masks.

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Relax into Happiness

As I learn to relax and let go of the past with all its judgments, I return to the joy that is my natural state as Love’s creation. Whenever I am judging, am not relaxed. This is because I am trying to hang onto a false image of what I am and force it to take the place of Truth. This effort does not change Truth but it does make me unaware of It.

The practice of stepping back and relaxing helps me soften my grip on the past so that I can open my mind and heart to the joy of now. This is my practice today.

When I am willing to relax into happiness, I am letting go of the reins. I am letting go of control. I am letting myself be carried by the peace and Love of God. My mantra today is relax and follow… Relax and follow… This is how I allow myself to have a happy day.

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Easy Does It

When I think of myself as a body that lives in a world of constant change, I am tempted to think that I am not safe. I am tempted to believe in ideas that involve planning for the future to make myself safe. I am recognizing that this whole scenario is simply buying in to the ego’s thought system once again.

The way out of this is to practice frequently stepping back and opening my mind to the ease and peace that comes from my true Self, the Holy Spirit. I am reminded to relax and open to the truth that I am Spirit. I am not a body, and I still remain as the unlimited Love of my Creator. As I return to the truth, I am reminded once again that everyone is the same unlimited Love that I am.

I am reminded that safety surrounds us all and no real harm can come to anyone in truth. We all are the eternal Spirit of Love and nothing else. Accepting the truth puts my mind at ease. Gentleness and kindness replace thoughts of fear and scarcity. Today my practice is to allow the truth of Love’s oneness to return to my mind.

My only function is to forgive, or let go of believing that I could possibly be separate from Love’s Oneness. Holy Spirit, help me to recognize the barriers I hold up against Love’s Presence. With Your help I can lay down these barriers and welcome the unlimited Love that is my true Self. With Your help I will see everyone and everything as that same unlimited Love. Form can seem to hide the truth but cannot change it. With Holy Spirit’s help I will see past forms today to the truth of Love.

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I Am Not a Body. I Am Free.

All sense of lack, vulnerability, unhappiness and dissatisfaction comes from believing I am a body. I don’t have to believe in this false image of what I am. A false image cannot be real, nor can it change what is real.

This is good news, because it means that I can let go of the false image and what is real will automatically take its place in my awareness. I will remember that the strength and Love of God are in me. I will remember that I have everything I need and I am perfectly safe. I will experience God’s joy as mine.

Today I ask the Holy Spirit to help me recognize the false image and let it go.

Freedom comes from remembering that all separate images are false. When I am lost in dreams of separation from Love’s oneness, it appears that there is great reason to be apprehensive and afraid. But the good news is that I can join with my inner Teacher Who shows me that all forms of separation are equally unreal. I don’t have to buy into fearful dreams.

I have a Friend in my mind That helps me see past illusions to the truth of Love’s oneness. I have a Friend That can bring me the awareness of the holy instant, if I am willing. I have a Friend That shows me that in truth there is nothing to fear, no matter what the dream may look like. We are all still as God created us. We are all still safe in the eternal Love of God and nothing has really happened to change God’s one Son.

Today my practice is to let this eternal truth return to my mind. Here is where true freedom lies.

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Willingness to Accept Christ’s Vision

My focus for today is on being open to receive Holy Spirit’s gift of Christ’s vision. To receive His gift today, I must be willing to hand over all my images and perceptions to Him. I must be willing to give time to let my mind be quiet and open to the Light of truth. I must be willing to allow the gentle healing rains of truth to cleanse away all my false perceptions. This is how I put the “welcome mat” out to receive Christ’s vision, and through Christ’s vision I receive all that I need to know.

The ego thinks it has a vision of the future. But its vision is only a projection of the past and therefore is based on fantasy. Christ’s vision is now and forever. Christ’s vision is recognized when the past is let go with no attempt to overlay the past on the future. This is why forgiveness is the key to welcoming Christ’s vision.

The more I remember that of myself alone I do not know what anything means so that I do not attempt to use the past to interpret the present, the more I am open to Christ’s vision, which is always now. This is my practice for today.

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Give Every Fear to God

When anything seems to you to be a source of fear, when any situation strikes you with terror and makes your body tremble and the cold sweat of fear comes over it, remember it is always for one reason; the ego has perceived it as a symbol of fear, a sign of sin and death. Remember, then, that neither sign nor symbol should be confused with source, for they must stand for something other than themselves. …Confronted with such seeming uncertainty of meaning, judge it not. Remember the holy Presence of the One given to you to be the Source of judgment. Give it to Him to judge for you, and say:

Take this from me and look upon it, judging it for me. Let me not see it as a sign of sin and death, nor use it for destruction. Teach me how not to make of it an obstacle to peace, but let You use it for me, to facilitate its coming. (A Course in Miracles T-19.IV.C.i.11:1-2,5-10)

Today if something doesn’t go the way we think it should, our practice is to give it to God instead of deciding what anything means on our own. In Holy Spirit’s Hands, we will be led to peace instead of conflict, to love instead of fear. It is worth the practice. It is worth the vigilance.

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