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Remember Love. There Is Nothing Else.

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten. Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection. For the shadow figures you would make immortal are “enemies” of reality. Be willing to forgive the Son of God for what he did not do. The shadow figures are the witnesses you bring with you to demonstrate he did what he did not. Because you bring them, you will hear them. And you who keep them by your own selection do not understand how they came into your mind, and what their purpose is. [These shadow figures] represent the evil that you think was done to you. You bring them with you only that you may return evil for evil, hoping that their witness will enable you to think guiltily of another and not harm yourself. They speak so clearly for the separation that no one not obsessed with keeping separation could hear them. They offer you the “reasons” why you should enter into unholy alliances to support the ego’s goals, and make your relationships the witness to its power. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.III.1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Holy Spirit has a long memory. He remembers only one thing: Eternal Love. There is nothing else to remember. When we let the Holy Spirit select for us What to remember, we will remember only Love. When we think of a brother, we will think of the Love he as expressed, his kindness, appreciation, gentleness, strength and empathy. We will remember how grateful we are for his companionship on our journey of awakening to our unity in Love.

As we remember the Love that our brother embodies, the shadows of the past fade away. We remember that all our brother ever did was be one with us in eternal Love. When all the shadows have been forgotten, we remember Heaven. We remember our Father’s Love for us and share His blessing with every brother. We are at peace and filled with joy, for we have realized that we remain Love as we were created.

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How to Experience the Love We Are

To give is to receive. Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see.

So we begin the practice periods with the instruction for today, and say:

To give and to receive are one in truth.
I will receive what I am giving now.

Then close your eyes, and for five minutes think of what you would hold out to everyone, to have it yours. You might, for instance, say:

To everyone I offer quietness.
To everyone I offer peace of mind.
To everyone I offer gentleness.

Say each one slowly and then pause a while, expecting to receive the gift you gave. And it will come to you in the amount in which you gave it. You will find you have exact return, for that is what you asked. It might be helpful, too, to think of one to whom to give your gifts. He represents the others, and through him you give to all.” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 108, W-pI.108.7:3-9:5. See also ACIM Lesson 108 Insights.)

The Light of Love is in our mind because our true Self dwells in the Mind of Love. The body’s eyes cannot see this Light. But the vision of our true Self sees with this Light, seeing only Love. Love is everywhere to be seen because only Love is real.

Today’s practice begins with going to the peace of our true Self within. It is from this peace that the Light of Love shines. This Light is a beacon that reveals the Love in our brothers. Love automatically joins with Love, because that is what It does. In this joining, we naturally give the gift of Love. We offer kindness, helpfulness, compassion, appreciation, peace and happiness. This is our natural way of being.

As we give this to our brothers, we are reminded of What we are. Our gift is returned to us in the measure of what we accept in our Self. The Love we experience is limited only by our beliefs in limited love. Today’s practice will help us let go of those limitations and experience the Love we are.

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Bringing Justice to the World

Justice is the divine correction for injustice. Injustice [separation] is the basis for all the judgments of the world. Justice corrects the interpretations to which injustice gives rise, and cancels them out.

Justice, like its opposite, is an interpretation. It is, however, the one interpretation that leads to truth [oneness].

Pray for God’s justice, and do not confuse His mercy with your own insanity. Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires to see. Remember this. In this lies either Heaven or hell, as you elect. God’s justice points to Heaven just because it is entirely impartial. It accepts all evidence that is brought before it, omitting nothing and assessing nothing as separate and apart from all the rest. From this one standpoint does it judge, and this alone. Here all attack and condemnation becomes meaningless and indefensible. Perception rests, the mind is still, and light returns again. Vision is now restored. What had been lost has now been found. The peace of God descends on all the world, and we can see. And we can see! (A Course in Miracles, M-19.1:1-3;2:1-2;5)

It is helpful to remember that what is divine is of God and is therefore in the oneness of Love. Oneness is entirely impartial because all it sees is one and the same. Justice therefore sees only the reality of Love’s oneness.

Happiness and peace of mind come with letting go of all judgment, which comes from believing there are differences, which could only seem to be true if we believe separation is real. Injustice is the inevitable result of choosing the ego’s belief in separation as our guide. This belief hides the reality of our brothers and our Self from our awareness.

When we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide, He will teach us to recognize the forms of the world we see have no value. To perceive a brother as a body is to be unjust to him. It is seeing him as limited to form instead of seeing the limitless Love that is the truth in him. The Holy Spirit will show us the truth in our brother when we are willing to set disregard the ego’s images and welcome the vision that reveals the eternal presence of Love. This vision is just, for it has judged against the belief in separation and welcomed the truth.

Today we dedicate to choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide that we may bring His justice to the world, for we would see the truth.

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Learning True Forgiveness

There is a very simple way to find the door to true forgiveness, and perceive it open wide in welcome. When you feel that you are tempted to accuse someone of sin in any form, do not allow your mind to dwell on what you think he did, for that is self-deception. Ask instead, “Would I accuse myself of doing this?”

Thus will you see alternatives for choice in terms that render choosing meaningful, and keep your mind as free of guilt and pain as God Himself intended it to be, and as it is in truth. It is but lies that would condemn. In truth is innocence the only thing there is. Forgiveness stands between illusions and the truth; be­tween the world you see and that which lies beyond; between the hell of guilt and Heaven’s gate.

Across this bridge [of true forgiveness], as powerful as love which laid its blessing on it, are all dreams of evil and of hatred and attack brought silently to truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 134, W-pI.134.9:1-11:1. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

When we are tempted to judge another, we need to answer the question, “Would I accuse myself of doing this?” with complete honesty. This means we must ask the Holy Spirit for help with this answer, for the ego offers only self deception. “The ego is nothing more than a part of your belief about yourself.” (T-4.VI.1:6) Its answers are always based on a false belief.

If we ask the Holy Spirit’s help with this answer, He will show us how our projection on another is a reflection of our belief about what we are. The Holy Spirit is not deceived by the form of the error perceived in a brother. The ego deceives with form that has no real content. The Holy Spirit looks beyond the form to show us our mistaken beliefs and the truth beyond them.

As He shows us our mistaken belief, His vision reveals the truth of our changelessness in God’s Love. He knows that we are Love and nothing else, united with our Creator. By joining with the Holy Spirit to see beyond the form, we learn that nothing has happened to harm or change God’s Son, our true Self. Now forgiveness comes easy, for we recognize there is truly nothing to forgive.

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Investing in the Reality of Love

The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand. Whatever form the lesson takes is planned for him in such a way that he can not mistake it, if his asking is sincere. But if he asks without sincerity, there is no form in which the lesson will meet with acceptance and be truly learned.

We want the peace of God. This is no idle wish. These words do not request another dream be given us. They do not ask for compromise, nor try to make another bargain in the hope that there may yet be one that can succeed where all the rest have failed. To mean these words acknowl­edges illusions are in vain, requesting the eternal in the place of shifting dreams which seem to change in what they offer, but are one in nothingness. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 185, W-pI.185.6;7:2-6. See also ACIM Lesson 185 Insights.)

Any time we are not at peace, we are receiving a signal that we have chosen against the peace of God. If we let that irritation, resentment, guilt or judgment of any kind continue, we are choosing illusions in place of the peace of God. We are choosing against our true Self by continuing to follow the ego’s dictates.

But we can choose differently. When we recognize something is disturbing our peace, we can choose the Holy Spirit’s perception in place of the ego’s. The Holy Spirit will show us, in a way that we can grasp and accept, how to see that no harm really happened. There is no true justification for lack of peace. It is only the effect of choosing the ego’s beliefs instead of the truth offered by the Holy Spirit: Only Love is real.

We are so invested in our identification with the ego that the things we see and experience in the world seem real. Without this investment, illusions are recognized as meaningless and without effect. Each time we take a disturbance to the Holy Spirit for His loving correction, we withdraw investment in the ego and take another step toward fully experiencing God’s peace. This is our practice for today.

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The Forgiving Dream Leads Us Home

Whenever you feel fear in any form,—and you are fearful if you do not feel a deep content, a certainty of help, a calm assurance Heaven goes with you,—be sure you made an idol, and believe it will betray you. For beneath your hope that it will save you lie the guilt and pain of self-betrayal and uncertainty, so deep and bitter that the dream cannot conceal completely all your sense of doom. Your self-betrayal must result in fear, for fear is judgment, leading surely to the frantic search for idols and for death.

Forgiving dreams remind you that you live in safety and have not attacked yourself. So do your childish terrors melt away, and [real world] dreams become a sign that you have made a new beginning, not another try to worship idols and to keep attack. Forgiving dreams are kind to everyone who figures in the dream. And so they bring the dreamer full release from dreams of fear. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.IX.9:1-10:4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Dreams of separation are Self attack for they are attempts to break our eternal unity in Love. Because only Love is real, it is impossible that this connection could really be broken. So we dream up a childish game in which we make believe we live in a separate world which we control. But the fear that comes with the betrayal of our Self in these dreams makes us search for idols to “protect” us from anticipated retribution for this betrayal. These idols are believed to be external and out of our control. But this is only because we have chosen to forget that we made them up.

The Holy Spirit offers us a different dream in which forgiveness replaces the judgments which we have projected on the external idols. As we forgive the judgments, the presence of Love is seen and our enemies are transformed into our loving brothers. This real world is focused entirely on the presence of Love instead of the forms that were used to hide Love’s presence. The purpose of the dream has been changed from maintaining judgment to forgiving our judgments and opening our minds to see the Love that has always been there.

Today we choose, with the Holy Spirit, to dream of the real world where kindness, happiness and peace have replaced fear, guilt and conflict. This dream will bring us Home to God’s Love.

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Returning to Our Life in God

Think who your brother is, before you would condemn him. And offer thanks to God that he is holy, and has been given the gift of holiness for you. Join him in gladness, and remove all trace of guilt from his disturbed and tortured mind. Help him to lift the heavy burden of sin you laid upon him and he accepted as his own, and toss it lightly and with happy laughter away from him.

Together we will disappear into the Presence beyond the veil, not to be lost but found; not to be seen but known. And knowing, nothing in the plan God has established for salvation will be left undone. This is the journey’s purpose, without which is the journey meaningless. Here is the peace of God, given to you eternally by Him. Here is the rest and quiet that you seek, the reason for the journey from its beginning. Heaven is the gift you owe your brother, the debt of gratitude you offer to the Son of God in thanks for what he is, and what his Father created him to be. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV.D.16:2-5;19. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our brother is the Son of God, as are we all. If we see our brother as a body, we are not recognizing the Son of God he is because we do not see ourselves as the Son of God. Perception is projection. We see in others what we believe about ourselves.

If we let the Holy Spirit show us the innocence of Love in our brother, we see the Love we are reflected back to us. This is why forgiveness is the key to happiness, peace and freedom from the limitations of the ego. The forgiveness we give to a brother is a gift to ourselves. It is a gift that leads us to the acceptance of the one Self, the Son of God, as What we are.

Today let us join together in accepting Christ’s vision to see the truth in our brother as nothing but Love, and know the truth about our Self. This practice is the escape from the dead thoughts of the ego and the return to the Life we live in God.

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