Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
Here is the answer to your search for peace. ²Here is the key to meaning in a world that seems to make no sense. ³Here is the way to safety in apparent dangers that appear to threaten you at every turn, and bring uncertainty to all your hopes of ever finding quietness and peace. ⁴Here are all questions answered; here the end of all uncertainty ensured at last.
The unforgiving mind is full of fear, and offers love no room to be itself; no place where it can spread its wings in peace and soar above the turmoil of the world. ²The unforgiving mind is sad,…
Forgiveness is acquired. ²It is not inherent in the mind, which cannot sin. ³As sin is an idea you taught yourself, forgiveness must be learned by you as well, but from a Teacher other than yourself, Who represents the other Self in you. ⁴Through Him you learn how to forgive the self you think you made, and let it disappear. ⁵Thus you return your mind as one to Him Who is your Self, and Who can never sin.
Each unforgiving mind presents you with an opportunity to teach your own how to forgive itself. ²Each one awaits release from hell through you, and turns to you imploringly for Heaven here and now. ³It has no hope, but you become its hope. ⁴And as its hope, do you become your own. ⁵The unforgiving mind must learn through your forgiveness that it has been saved from hell. ⁶And as you teach salvation, you will learn. ⁷Yet all your teaching and your learning will be not of you, but of the Teacher Who was given you to show the way to you. (A Course in Miracles, W-121.1:1–2:2;6-7. See also ACIM Lesson 121 Insights.)
We have taught ourselves that we are separate, disconnected from our Creator. The dream we experience as real is the effect of our belief that separation is real. The world we see is a reflection of our beliefs. Thus the world we see offers us opportunities to recognize the beliefs that need to be forgiven.
We have an inner Teacher outside of this belief system Who can teach us how to forgive the beliefs that make this dream seem real. The lessons this Teacher brings free us from fear and guilt so that we can experience the peace and happiness that is our natural state of mind.
Today we practice being mindful of our perceptions in the world. We ask our inner Teacher to help us release our misperceptions and welcome the Love our Creator gives us eternally.
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