Daily Inspiration for Living A Course in Miracles

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Choose to Receive the Truth

Holy Spirit to Mary:
This world is a dream. What is real and of God is eternal. The world you live in is in a state of constant change — a world of danger and conflict. This world does not reflect your true Nature, your true Self. To find your true Self, learn to take frequent intervals when you hand over your stories of conflict and lack of Love and choose instead to receive the truth. You are then in a place of opening to receive the peace of your true Self.

Your true Self is constant and does not change. The false ideas fall away as the presence of your true Nature comes forward. Here there is quietness. Here there is peace. From here you extend peace, Love and joy to the whole Sonship. You are able to see past this world and feel the beingness of what is eternally true.

Give time today to rest in the truth. Give time today to listen and receive the awareness of what is true forever. It is worth giving it the time.

Robert:
Holding grievances blocks my awareness of Love’s Presence, because Love holds no grievances. Having an opinion or judgment about anything is a grievance. It is a statement that if a circumstance or situation where someone’s words or behavior were somehow different and more to my liking, I would be happy (a.k.a. saved). This is really saying that my happiness is out of my control. It depends on other people or outside circumstances. This is discouraging because it is clear that I have no control over these things “outside.”

Thankfully, A Course in Miracles tells me that the world I see is simply a projection of my beliefs and I can change my beliefs. I change my beliefs by offering all my perceptions to the Holy Spirit with an open mind, willing to receive His loving correction. This is how I clear away the blocks to the joyful awareness of Love’s eternal presence. This is my practice for today.

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Accepting Inspiration

Holy Spirit to Robert:
You experience a sense of efforting because you believe there is something that is resisting you. This is the effect of believing that you are separate. In oneness there is no “other” that can offer resistance. So a sense of efforting is a sure sign that you are engaged in the ego thought system of separation.

Become aware of when you are efforting and use it as a reminder to step back, allow yourself to return to peace, and open your mind to the Holy Spirit’s vision. As you do this, you will be inspired not only to recognize that there is no “other,” but also to see new actions or words within the world that will release the sense of effort. This morning you experienced this.

You had been looking for an instruction manual. You diligently looked in the likely places where it might be and then the unlikely places but did not find it. This morning you thought you had an idea of a place you hadn’t looked. But as you started to take steps to go to that place, your eyes fell upon the manual under a stack of papers within arms reach. It was there during all the time you were searching elsewhere.

The difference between all your efforts to find it before and today was that this time you were relaxed and your mind was open to be inspired to look where it could be found. Before, you were following the ego’s maxim of seek and do not find. Today, in that moment, you let go of what you thought the past taught you and accepted inspiration in the present moment. It was a lesson in learning the value of letting go of the past.

This can be your moment-by-moment experience every day. Just keep practicing letting go of effort, letting go of the past and opening to inspiration now.

Mary:
This morning as I go into a place of quiet, the words come to mind: “God goes with me wherever I go.” This means that the Holy Spirit’s inspiration is always with me every moment. I am reminded to go to that place of inner inspiration all through the day as I go through my daily activities. I am reminded not to reserve inspiration for just certain circumstances, certain situations. I am encouraged not to ignore inspiration in situations where I think I know what to do.

Today it is my opportunity to broaden my willingness to accept inspiration in every situation. I am encouraged to step back and listen more and more. This is my practice for today.

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Choose Peace

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Let peace lead the way today. Monitor your level of peace and, as soon as you recognize a sense of disturbance, step back and allow yourself to settle into peace again. As you stay in peace, you keep the door open to the inspiration of your true Self. This will always lead you to release from self-imposed limitation and increased acceptance of your limitlessness.

Love created you limitless, being Itself limitless. The full acceptance of this is your return to Heaven. Your practice of letting peace lead the way will take you great strides toward the freedom of Heaven. Have a peace-filled day.

Mary:
If there ever was a powerful tool that is truly helpful in every situation, it is the consistent practice of choosing peace. Remembering, “I could choose peace instead of this,” brings me back to connecting with my true Source of strength — the Holy Spirit in my mind. Just like an airplane makes constant corrections as it flies to its destination, I need constant correction as I go through my day.

The Holy Spirit’s use of time is to remove the barriers to Love’s Presence. Choosing peace and allowing peace to fill my mind brings a beautiful correction in how I perceive each circumstance as I go through the day.

The Holy Spirit knows how to lead me Home; I don’t. So I need the constant application of peace, the healing antidote to every form of tension or conflict. This is why my practice for today is to consistently step back and choose peace again and again, all through the day. This is how I allow the Holy Spirit to lead me Home. And I give thanks.

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Letting the Holy Spirit Be My Interpreter

Robert:
The A Course in Miracles tells us to ask of everything, “What is this for?” The ego’s purpose for everything that I perceive is to make separation appear real and to reinforce guilt. The Holy Spirit’s purpose for everything is to help us awaken to the truth that we remain Love as Love created us. In every moment we do ask this question. The key is whether are we paying attention to the ego’s answer or the Holy Spirit’s.

The way I keep my attention on aligning with the Holy Spirit’s purpose is to stay in peace. In peace I am receptive to Holy Spirit’s interpretation in the present moment.

Today my practice is to be mindful of my level of peace. And if I observe any disturbance, to step back into peace. As I do this and open my mind to Holy Spirit’s inspiration, my doing will be in the service of Holy Spirit’s purpose. And my experience of peace and happiness will be magnified.

Mary:
Today it is my opportunity to remember that I rest in God. And because I am one with every brother, everyone rests in God with me.

Everyone is still as God created them, no matter what it looks like in the ego’s world of separate bodies. Everyone is joined in the one Christ Mind, where they reside eternally. There is on life and that is the life we live in God.

My opportunity today is to have an open mind to receive Holy Spirit’s interpretation of everything I see in this world. Today is another opportunity to allow my mind to be healed of all the false ideas that clutter up my mind. If I see anything that disturbs me, it is another opportunity to hand it over to the Holy Spirit to receive a correction in my perception. This is how I wake up from the dream. This is how the awareness of What I am and Where I am returns. And I give thanks for another day of practice in forgiving the world for all I thought it was.

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Remembering Our One Self

Robert:
We are all one Self, united in the Love of God. I cannot see anyone as separate or different from me and see them truly. The practice of joining with the Holy Spirit to see the Christ in everyone helps me recognize that we are one Self. Everything is the same in this one Self. Since only Love is real, this one Self we are is Love.

If I am not experiencing the happiness and peace of this one, loving Self, I am believing that I am not part of this Self. I am believing in a false image that sets me apart, different and vulnerable to other different parts. It is this mistaken belief that must be let go for me to remember What I am. In moments of clarity I feel the certainty and safety, the peace and happiness of changeless Love. There is a joyous, inclusive joining with All That is that leaves nothing out, and there is nothing outside that I need to defend against. This is a taste of Heaven.

My practice today is to remind myself frequently that whoever I think of or talk with or see is united with me in the one Self that is God’s Son. We are joined in Love. There is nothing else.

Mary:
As I allow my mind to quiet and open to God’s peace, I am given this insight:

“Because you and everyone are still in the Mind of Love, let yourself become aware that you are always immersed in God’s sea of Love… You are always immersed in God’s sea of peace… Let yourself feel this sea of Love, this sea of peace…

“Let yourself accept the truth about Where you truly are and What you truly are… You are one Self, united with your Creator, at one with all of your Creator’s Love and joy and peace. This can never change. You are always completely safe in the Mind of your Creator, no matter what false ideas you may entertain in the false mind. And what is true about you is true about everyone.

“The Christ Mind is one. There is only one Mind that we all share in truth. Today it is your opportunity to let the veil be lifted to see the face of Christ. There is only one face of Christ and It is everywhere. As you let your mind be healed of all false ideas of differences, your healing is shared with the whole Sonship. This is your opportunity today. Let yourself become aware that God’s Will is done. Anything else is just a mistaken thought to be forgiven.”

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Seeing the Light of Love in Everyone

Mary:
As I go into a place of quiet to receive the truth, I am reminded again that only Love is real… I am encouraged to see past the clouds of uniqueness and differences to the one light of Love that is true about everyone and everything…

I am reminded that the world of separate bodies is just a dream and not real. It is just the result of joining with a mistaken thought system. I am quietly encouraged to look past individuality to the eternal Love that is always present. I’m invited to forgive or let go of the false belief system based on separation. I see that the purpose for today is to forgive the world for what I thought it was. I am encouraged to be as a little child and remember that all I learned from the past within a world of separation means nothing and is nowhere. I see that I have all the help I need as I am willing to step back and be shown the Christ Mind where I once saw separate individuals. I see that this willingness brings peace and happiness. This is my purpose for today. And I give thanks.

Robert:
Peace and happiness come from within. They are attributes of the Love that is the truth of What I am. If I do not experience peace and happiness, it is because I am denying What I am. I open the door to the recognition of What I am as I am willing to see the Christ in all my brothers. This seeing comes through inner vision, not the body’s perceptions. Having denied this inner vision, I need the Holy Spirit’s help to bring it back to my awareness.

Today I ask the Holy Spirit’s help to see the Christ in everyone. This is how I will have a day of peace and happiness.

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Resting in the Truth

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Let go… Let go… Let go… Let go of your belief in a world of differences, of unique bodies and different times and places…

Breathe deeply… and let go of it all… Let the Light of truth replace these images of differences… Let all images fall away… 

Let your inner Comforter bring you to a state of deep peace… to an awareness beyond words… Give time to resting in this quiet awareness…

In this place of quietness you receive inspiration in a way that is most helpful to you now… be open and receive…

Holy Spirit to Robert:
The Christ is in you. It is the truth in you. It is the one Self you share with everyone. When you identify with It as What you are, you rest in stillness, certain of your safety and overflowing with the joy of extending the Love you are.

When you do not feel the quiet stillness of peace, it is because you are not accepting your Self. Let your Self show you the Christ that is your brother and you will learn that It is you. Your Self is ever present, offering you the vision of truth, offering you the gift of peace. Accept It. Accept your Self, and you will remember your place in Heaven. You will remember you are Home.

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