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Recognizing Ego’s Projection

Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without. Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world. Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.73.5:1-4)

I am always getting feedback on whether I am joining with the ego or the Holy Spirit. What I see in the outside world is always only mirroring what I believe is within. I am learning to realize that what I see “out there” is there because I put it there. When I see guilt out there, I have joined with the ego. When I see that there is only Love or a call for Love, I am joining with the Holy Spirit.

This feedback is very helpful to me in recognizing when I need to step back and let Holy Spirit lead the way once again. My practice for today is to be vigilant to monitor what I think is happening in this world of separate bodies with separate minds. Right now, am I willing to remember the truth of Love’s oneness? I give thanks that I have this constant feedback reminding me to let go of ego’s thoughts of separation when they come up and, instead, accept Holy Spirit’s healed perception.

Holy Spirit, guide my seeing today. Help me recognize the projections that reflect belief that I am something other than God’s extension of Love. Help me to see that the belief behind the projection is based on a false idea and is therefore nothing. Help me to see its powerlessness, for I would choose Your strength, which is in truth my own.

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Seeing the Light with Holy Spirit

You cannot see the Holy Spirit, but you can see your brothers truly. And the light in them will show you all that you need to see. When the peace in you has been extended to encompass everyone, the Holy Spirit’s function here will be accomplished. (ACIM T-19.IV.3:4-6)

My practice for today is to see the Light in every brother. If I think I see something else, I am seeing ego projections. The way I can be truly helpful in every situation is to be willing to see my brothers truly. With Holy Spirit’s help, this practice is effortless.

As I am willing to accept Holy Spirit’s help, I will see the Light in every brother. I will see past individuality to the one Light that is always there. So I start this practice by focusing on my willingness to see with Holy Spirit.

Judgment is a barrier against the Light. It maintains a sense of separation between me and the loving truth of my brother. Since my brother is part of my one Self, judgment stands between me and the Love that is my Self. This is why forgiveness is the central theme of A Course in Miracles. This is why forgiveness is the key to happiness.

I want to be happy. I want to remember Love. Today I ask for help from the Truth within to recognize the judgments that stand between me and seeing the Light of Love in my brother. I ask for help in letting go of those judgments. This is how I make way for the happiness of Heaven.

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What Is My True Purpose?

Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. Thus are you and the world blessed together. No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through your holy vision. It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone his full due. And he is entitled to everything because it is his birthright as a Son of God.

Your holiness is the salvation of the world. It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you. (ACIM W-pI.37.1:2-6,3:1-2)

My true purpose is to accept the truth from Holy Spirit and be willing to let go of the ego’s lies. This is what A Course in Miracles calls forgiveness. As I am willing to forgive, the Holy Spirit does His part by helping me see truly. My true Identity and my brother’s true Identity are one. Letting this truth return to my mind is my practice for today.

Because Love created me like Itself, there is really only one thing I can do — extend Love. That is my true function. The reflection of that purpose in the dream of separation is forgiveness. That means my purpose is to see past all the images and forms of the world to the Love that is there. That is why an early workbook exercise tells us that God is in everything we see.

As I go through my day, my body’s eyes will show me myriad images. With the Holy Spirit’s help, I will let go of all the meanings I have given those images and see past them to the oneness of Love.

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Ending Doubt and Uncertainty

Doubt and uncertainty are sure signs that I have placed my faith where it is unwarranted. It means I am believing in an image of myself that is alone and on its own. A Course in Miracles assures me that I could never be alone because my true Self remains united with the one Mind of Love. The idea that I could be anything but this Self is just a false idea. Belief in what is false makes me unaware of truth, but does not change it.

Today I ask the truth in me for help to recognize the false and its meaninglessness. I ask for help to see past the images of the world, to set them aside so I can see the certainty of the reality of changeless Love. As I remember this, no situation in the world can disturb my peace. This is my focus for today.

Today my focus is on being willing to receive help when I find myself wrapped up in the images of the dream. The belief I place in these images is just showing me that I still have resistance to waking up. It is only through my willingness to accept Holy Spirit’s help that I am raised up above the conflicts of the world to see the fact that it is but a dream of separation and not real at all. Stepping back and accepting Holy Spirit’s help to return to the truth is all this day is for.

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Seeing with Holy Spirit

All appearances in the world are meaningless because appearances are not real. Beyond all appearances is the reality of Love. If I want to know that I am Love, loved and lovable, I need to learn to look beyond all appearances to the reality of Love. My inner Teacher is ever present, ready to help me see the truth of Love everywhere.

Today my practice is to focus on the Love behind every appearance. If I think of someone, remember, only Love is there. If I pass by someone in a store isle, remember, only Love is there. If I see an image on television, remember, only Love is there. With this practice, I will remember only Love is here.

Today my practice is to pay attention to following Holy Spirit’s lead. Because I know nothing on my own, I need Holy Spirit’s Hand to guide me every step of the way. Today is a day of stepping back and following. I need the constant practice. And the Holy Spirit is always there when I am willing.

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In God We Trust

I am able to place my trust in God only when I give the Holy Spirit the time during the day to transform my thinking. When I become wrapped up in the world’s stories, the tendency is to believe in the stories and get lost in them.

These stories always involve belief in vulnerability, lack and loss. It is only when I am willing to step back from these stories and give time to resting in the Holy Spirit’s peace that I am returned once again to the awareness that we are all safe in God and have never left. In truth nothing has happened to change God’s one Son. We are all safe in God’s Mind as Love and nothing else.

Giving time today to receiving Holy Spirit’s healing gifts of Love and peace is very important. I need to step back again and again and again today to receive Holy Spirit’s gift of the truth. This important practice is what this day is for.

The ego doesn’t trust anybody, especially God. That is why when I identify with the ego, I feel alone and vulnerable. But there is a part of my mind that remembers the unity and changelessness of my Home in God. It is this part in my mind that is always in peace, being certain of its safety and wholeness. It is this part of my mind that reminds me of What I am. This part of my mind that does trust in God because It knows that It remains one with God. This part of my mind always trusts in God. Today is an opportunity to focus my attention on the part of my mind that remembers.

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The Light of God Is All There Is to See

Today it is my opportunity to accept Heaven where Heaven is — everywhere. When I think that something else is true, I am denying the reality of God. I am denying the reality of Heaven. Since only Heaven is real, when I pretend that Love’s opposite (separation) is real, I am sacrificing my awareness of Love’s Presence.

Today I let Holy Spirit bring me the thought reversal that frees me from the false ideas that were never true. The Holy Spirit will remind me that the Light of God is all there is to see. And for this I give thanks.

In many places in A Course in Miracles we are told that we are not a body. Belief that we are a body blocks awareness of Love’s Presence. Yet the dream provides convincing “evidence” that I am a body. I am separate, vulnerable and not one with anyone or anything. From the mindset that I am a body or even in a body, it is impossible to be aware that I remain within the oneness of Love’s Presence.

Fortunately there is a Thought within my mind that does not believe this story I tell myself. It is to this Thought that I must turn for help in reversing my belief in the story. To open my awareness to this Thought, I must allow myself to be in peace. I need to do whatever will help me relax, let go and settle into peace. In peace this Thought fills my mind and I clearly recognize that the images of separation are not real. In peace, this Thought shows me the oneness of Love’s Presence That is everywhere.

Today my practice is to stay in a peaceful state of mind so that the Thought That remembers the truth can help me see the Light of Love That is everywhere — the Light of Love That I am.

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