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Accepting the Fact That Only Love Is Real

Nothing the world believes is true. It is a place whose purpose is to be a home where those who claim they do not know themselves can come to question what it is they are. And they will come again until the time Atonement is accepted, and they learn it is impossible to doubt yourself, and not to be aware of what you are.

Only acceptance can be asked of you, for what you are is certain.

We have a mission here. We did not come to reinforce the madness that we once believed in. Let us not forget the goal that we accepted. It is more than just our happiness alone we came to gain. What we accept as what we are proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. Fail not your brothers, or you fail yourself. Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are part of you, and you of them. (W-pI.139.7;8:1;9)

Everyone in the world has the same underlying mission for their life. We are here to awaken from a belief in being an individual to the fact that we remain one in the Love of God. It appears that everyone’s “life” is different. But bodies are just figures in the dream which seem real only within the dream.

The only meaningful purpose for everything we experience in the world is to let it be Holy Spirit’s lesson, which He will always use to teach us what is real and what is unreal. Each time we choose to accept the His lesson the seeming reality of the dream diminishes. The Light of God’s Love shines brighter in the dream. And with it comes increasing happiness and peace. 

As we practice offering all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit and asking for His interpretation instead of our own, we learn that our true Self is united with every brother in God’s Love. We reclaim Love as our one Reality. We accept Atonement for ourselves and awaken from the dream of separation.

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Accepting a Life of Joy and Peace

Forgiveness through the Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning, and thus keeping it unreal for you. Do not let any belief in its realness enter your mind, or you will also believe that you must undo what you have made in order to be forgiven. What has no effect does not exist, and to the Holy Spirit the effects of error are nonexistent. By steadily and consistently cancelling out all [error’s] effects, everywhere and in all respects, He teaches that the ego does not exist and proves it.

Follow the Holy Spirit’s teaching in forgiveness, then, because forgiveness is His function and He knows how to fulfill it perfectly. …Miracles are merely the sign of your willingness to follow the Holy Spirit’s plan of salvation, recognizing that you do not understand what it is. His work is not your function, and unless you accept this you cannot learn what your function is. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.IV.5:3-6;6:1,3-4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Nothing that appears to happen in the dream of separation is real because separation is not real. But within the dream, forgiveness is impossible because it is a dream in which separation appears real. This is why we need the help of the Holy Spirit to lead us to true forgiveness.

We need to be willing to admit that we do not know what anything means. With this willingness, we must bring all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to accept His correction. The Holy Spirit will teach us to overlook appearances in the dream by showing us they have no effect on the eternal Love that is our true Self.

To the ego, this lesson is impossible. To the Holy Spirit, it has already been accomplished. As we accept the lesson, we learn that only Love is real. We recognize this Love in more and more situations and we are less and less willing to accept the ego’s denial of Love. To accept the Love we are is to accept a life of joy and peace.

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Passing from the Ego’s Darkness to God’s Light

God is the light in which I see.

In order to see, you must recognize that light is within, not without. You do not see outside yourself, nor is the equipment for seeing outside you. An essential part of this equipment is the light that makes seeing possible. It is with you always, making vision possible in every circumstance.

…leave behind everything that you now believe, and all the thoughts that you have made up. Properly speaking, this is the release from hell.

If you can stand aside from the ego by ever so little, you will have no difficulty in recognizing that its opposition and its fears are meaningless.

…what is needful is a sense of the importance of what you are doing; its inestimable value to you, and an awareness that you are attempting something very holy. Salvation is your hap­piest accomplishment. It is also the only one that has any mean­ing, because it is the only one that has any real use to you at all.

And do not forget that [the thoughts of this world] cannot hold you to the world unless you give them the power to do so. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 44, W-pI.44.2;5:4-5;6:1;8;10:3. See also ACIM Lesson 44 Insights.)

The Course tells us that our experience as a body in the world is a dream that is not real. It only seems real within the dream because we believe the ego thought system that teaches separation is real. The Course is teaching us to withdraw our belief that the ego’s lies are true.

Believing a lie is true does not make it real, although it seems real because of our belief. This lesson teaches us to go deeply within our mind by passing by our mistaken beliefs. They can have no effect on our true Self, Which remains united with God. The practice of passing by mistaken beliefs and opening to the Light of Love within our mind is the most meaningful use of time in the world. It is a practice that saves us from the ego’s limitation to accept the limitless Love we were created to be as God’s Son.

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Finding the Love We Are

Whom God created limitless is free. I can invent imprisonment for him, but only in illusions, not in truth. No Thought of God has left its Father’s Mind. No Thought of God is limited at all. No Thought of God but is forever pure. Can I lay limits on the Son of God, whose Father willed that he be limitless, and like Himself in freedom and in love?

Today let me give honor to Your Son, for thus alone I find the way to You. Father, I lay no limits on the Son You love and You created limitless. The honor that I give to him is Yours, and what is Yours belongs to me as well. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 280, W-pII.280. See also ACIM Lesson 280 Insights.)

While we are identifying with the ego, we are constantly searching for Love in myriad forms such as acceptance, appreciation, status, money and sex. This is because the ego is the idea of limited Love. Because of this, the ego does not know what Love is. Searching within the ego thought system will never bring us the Love we seek.

Yet we were created by Love as Love. We do not need to seek for what we already have. But we do need to seek for the barriers we hold in our mind that deny Love’s presence. A Course in Miracles offers us help to recognize these barriers and let them go. It is a course designed to help us accept God’s gift of all His Love without limit. This is our inheritance.

At the center of the Course’s lessons is the assurance that God has given us His Teacher in our minds to guide us to awaken to the reality of the Love we have and are. Today we practice frequently checking in with the Holy Spirit in our mind to receive His true perception in the situations and relationships we encounter throughout the day.

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True Perception Sees Only Truth

The holy instant is the shining example, the clear and unequivocal demonstration of the meaning of every relationship and every situation, seen as a whole. …It is a situation of perfect peace, simply because you have let it be what it is.

This simple courtesy is all the Holy Spirit asks of you. Let truth be what it is. Do not intrude upon it, do not attack it, do not interrupt its coming. Let it encompass every situation and bring you peace. Not even faith is asked of you, for truth asks nothing. Let [truth] enter, and it will call forth and secure for you the faith you need for peace. But rise you not against it, for against your opposition it cannot come. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.VIII.1:4,6;2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Perception is selective. Perception is an ego device used to filter out what it does not want and allow awareness only of what confirms belief in separation. Thus everything we perceive in the world is not seen as a whole because it denies the truth that only the oneness of Love is real. The ego’s special relationships single out situations as different, denying the universality of Love.

The holy instant is a moment of acceptance of truth. In that instant, Love is accepted as what It is, with no differences and no limits. We accept the Holy Spirit’s call to truth. Because Love is true and nothing else is true, accepting truth brings peace with it. Love is one so there can be no conflict in It.

Today we choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s true perception in place of the ego’s perceptions that deny truth. We choose the Holy Spirit’s vision because we want to experience the peace of God. We want to accept the our true Self that God created as His Son.

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The Investment with Infinite Return

This is a year of joy, in which your listening will increase and peace will grow with its increase. The power of holiness and the weakness of attack are both being brought into your awareness.

Today, let us resolve together to accept the joyful tidings that disaster is not real and that reality is not disaster. Reality is safe and sure, and wholly kind to everyone and everything. There is no greater love than to accept this and be glad. For love asks only that you be happy, and will give you everything that makes for happiness.

You have never given any problem to the Holy Spirit He has not solved for you, nor will you ever do so. You have never tried to solve anything yourself and been successful. …This year invest in truth, and let it work in peace. Have faith in Him Who has faith in you. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.II.7:1-2;8:5-8;9:1-2,7-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We invest in truth by welcoming peace because peace is the condition of truth. Whenever we are agitated in any way to even the slightest degree, we are believing in the lies of the ego.

Let us join together today in the practice of pausing frequently throughout the day to welcome peace into our minds. This is how we invest in truth. The more we welcome peace, the greater our joy, for in peace we withdraw our investment in the ego, which offers no return. By withdrawing our misdirected investment, we welcome God’s investment in giving His holy Son all His joy and Love. This investment returns everything to us at the “cost” of giving up what never existed in truth.

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Forgetting the Past Reveals Present Love

Let me forget my brother’s past today.

This is the thought that leads the way to You, and brings me to my goal. I cannot come to You without my brother. And to know my Source, I first must recognize what You created one with me. My brother’s is the hand that leads me on the way to You. His sins are in the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone. Let me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to You. My brother is my savior. Let me not attack the savior You have given me. But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so remember that It is my own.

Forgive me, then, today. And you will know you have for­given me if you behold your brother in the light of holiness. He cannot be less holy than can I, and you can not be holier than he. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 288, W-pII.288. See also ACIM Lesson 288 Insights.)

The past is an ego construct. It is a repository where we store all our regrets and memories of loss, pain and harm. Without using the past as the basis for interpreting the present, there would be no fear or guilt.

This is why we need to forget the past, whether we perceive it as a brother’s past or our own. They are the one and the same — illusions. By forgetting the past, we make way for the reality of Love in the present to dawn upon our minds. Without the past, we recognize our brothers as one with our one Self, the Son of God. When the past has been let go, forgiveness is complete and we awaken to the loving Home God created for His Son, forever united in Love.

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