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Choosing to Believe in Love’s Reality

⁷You chose to forget your Father but you do not really want to do so, and therefore you can decide otherwise. ⁸As it was my decision, so is it yours.

⁴Christ’s eyes are open, and He will look upon whatever you see with love if you accept His vision as yours. ⁵The Holy Spirit keeps the vision of Christ for every Son of God who sleeps. ⁶In His sight the Son of God is perfect, and He longs to share His vision with you. ⁷He will show you the real world because God gave you Heaven. ⁸Through Him your Father calls His Son to remember. ⁹The awakening of His Son begins with his investment in the real world, and by this he will learn to re-invest in himself. ¹⁰For reality is one with the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit blesses the real world in Their Name.

When you have seen this real world, as you will surely do, you will remember Us. ²Yet you must learn the cost of sleeping, and refuse to pay it. ³Only then will you decide to awaken. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.VI.2:7-8;4:4–5:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We have the power to choose what we want to invest our belief in. Belief has no power unless we invest it. Where we invest our belief determines what we experience. If we invest our belief in images of separation, we experience a world of fear and guilt because it denies the reality of Love’s oneness.

We are always free to change where we invest our belief. We can invest in the Reality of Love and remember we remain forever united with our Creator. This investment brings belief to acceptance of all that is real. It is investing our belief in the Life we live in Love. In this Life we see every brother as one with us, joined with our Creator in the Heaven of His Love.

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Recognizing Peace and Joy Are Ours Now

³The only purpose worthy of your mind this world contains is that you pass it by…

Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world, when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. ²It will be grateful to be free a while. ³It knows where it belongs. ⁴But free its wings, and it will fly in sureness and in joy to join its holy purpose. ⁵Let [your mind] rest in its Creator, there to be restored to sanity, to freedom and to love.

Give it ten minutes rest three times today. ²And when your eyes are opened afterwards, you will not value anything you see as much as when you looked at it before. ³Your whole perspective on the world will shift by just a little, every time you let your mind escape its chains. ⁴The world is not where it belongs. ⁵And you belong where it would be, and where it goes to rest when you release it from the world. ⁶Your Guide is sure. ⁷Open your mind to Him. ⁸Be still and rest.

Protect your mind throughout the day as well. ²And when you think you see some value in an aspect or an image of the world, refuse to lay this chain upon your mind, but tell yourself with quiet certainty:

³This will not tempt me to delay myself.
⁴The world I see holds nothing that I want. (A Course in Miracles, W-128.2:3;6:1–8:4. See also ACIM Lesson 128 Insights.)

The happiness and peace we desire cannot be found in the dream of separation. The images only seem to have value because we have accepted the ego’s goal of being unique and special. Because the oneness of Love is all that is real, the images of the world are illusions and have no real value.

To learn this, we need to recognize that this world holds nothing of value. We already have God’s gift of all of His Love. That is the real value of everyone and everything. We do not need to seek for Love. We need to accept It by joining with Its eternal extension. In this joining, we become co-creators with God.

As we learn to pass by the forms of this world and join in Love’s extension, we will recognize that God’s peace and joy are ours now.

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Learning to See Love’s Reflection in the World

There is another way of looking at the world.

Today’s idea is an attempt to recognize that you can shift your perception of the world in both its outer and inner aspects.

…when any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed. …say:

⁴There is another way of looking at this.

Remember to apply today’s idea the instant you are aware of distress. (A Course in Miracles, W-33.1:1;3:2–4:1. See also ACIM Lesson 33 Insights.)

No matter how stuck we believe we are in the dream, we are always free to change our perception. The perception itself is an illusion, but it can be changed to recognize the reflection of Love’s Reality. This lesson offers a simple but powerful practice that can help us perceive Love’s reflection in the world.

As we let this be a consistent recognition, the doorway to Heaven is seen as open and welcoming. It is a practice that brings us Home to the Heaven of God’s Love.

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The Exchange That Brings Joy and Peace

³Our emphasis is not on giving up the world, but on exchanging it for what is far more satisfying, filled with joy, and capable of offering you peace.

Is it a loss to find a world instead where losing is impossible; where love endures forever, hate cannot exist and vengeance has no meaning? ²Is it loss to find all things you really want, and know they have no ending and they will remain exactly as you want them throughout time?

⁴Value them [the things of this world] not, and they will disappear. ⁵Esteem them, and they will seem real to you.

Such is the choice. ²What loss can be for you in choosing not to value nothingness? ³This world holds nothing that you really want, but what you choose instead you want indeed! ⁴Let it be given you today. ⁵It waits but for your choosing it, to take the place of all the things you seek but do not want.

³Beyond this world there is a world I want. ⁴I choose to see that world instead of this, for here is nothing that I really want. (A Course in Miracles, W-129.1:3;3:1-2;5:4-5;6;7:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 129 Insights.)

While we identify with the ego, we experience a world of lack, loss and limitation. We constantly search for something to replace the loss, fill the lack or make us feel less limited.

But we have been given a world in which we have all we truly need eternally and without limit. We only need to choose to accept this gift. It is already ours, now. It is all we really want. We always have the option to exchange the mistaken values of the ego for the only real value of the limitless Love of our true Self.

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Embracing the Love We Are

Awaking unto Christ is following the laws of love of your free will, and out of quiet recognition of the truth in them. ²The attraction of light must draw you willingly, and willingness is signified by giving. …⁴In sleep you are alone, and your awareness is narrowed to yourself. ⁵And that is why the nightmares come. ⁶You dream of isolation because your eyes are closed. ⁷You do not see your brothers, and in the darkness you cannot look upon the light you gave to them.

And yet the laws of love are not suspended because you sleep. ²And you have followed them through all your nightmares, and have been faithful in your giving, for you were not alone. ³Even in sleep has Christ protected you, ensuring the real world for you when you awake. ⁴In your name He [Christ] has given for you, and given you the gifts He gave. ⁵God’s Son is still as loving as his Father. ⁶Continuous with his Father, he has no past apart from Him. ⁷So he has never ceased to be his Father’s witness and his own. ⁸Although he slept, Christ’s vision did not leave him. ⁹And so it is that he can call unto himself the witnesses that teach him that he never slept. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.VI.12:1-2,4-7;13. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The perception of a past is the effect of identifying with the ego. The ego uses the past as the basis for all judgments, which make fear and guilt appear real. This could only be true if had actually succeeded in separating from our Creator.

But the laws of the Love that created us remain unaffected by our dream that we have made a world where we are alone and autonomous. We are eternally free to awaken from the dream by accepting and giving Love.

As we acknowledge the Love that is the reality of every brother, we awaken to the Love that is our Identity. Our true Identity has never changed. We have always been one with the eternal extension of the Love that created us. Today we embrace the Love we are with gratitude and joy.

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Recognizing the Unreality of Our Dreams

The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness.

²My forgiveness is the means by which the light of the world finds expression through me. ³My forgiveness is the means by which I become aware of the light of the world in me. ⁴My forgiveness is the means by which the world is healed, together with myself. ⁵Let me, then, forgive the world, that it may be healed along with me.

Suggestions for specific forms for applying this idea are:

²Let peace extend from my mind to yours, [name].
³I share the light of the world with you, [name].
⁴Through my forgiveness I can see this as it is. (A Course in Miracles, W-82.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 82 Insights.)

When we dream, the situation and figures in the dream seem very real. When we wake up, we realize it was just a dream. We dismiss the experience, knowing nothing in the dream really happened.

The world we experience as a body is a dream made by the ego. We forgive the dream as we realize that nothing that appears to happen actually occurs. We freely dismiss the experience as we awaken to the fact that the dream had no effect on our reality. Forgiveness is a powerful tool that frees us from our dreams of limitation, littleness, and vulnerability.

The Holy Spirit is in our mind with the sole purpose helping us recognize that our dreams are not real. While we believe we are in the dream, it does seem real. We need His help from beyond the dream to overlook its seeming effects and awaken to the fact that we are united with our Creator in the oneness of His Love.

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The Practice That Awakens Us to Love

⁶One is given you to see in him his perfect sinlessness. ⁷And you will ask no sacrifice of him because you could not will he suffer loss. ⁸The miracle of justice you call forth will rest on you as surely as on him.

Think, then, how great your own release will be when you are willing to receive correction for all your problems. ²You will not keep one, for pain in any form you will not want. ³And you will see each little hurt resolved before the Holy Spirit’s gentle sight. ⁴For all of them _are_ little in His sight, and worth no more than just a tiny sigh before they disappear, to be forever undone and unremembered. ⁵What seemed once to be a special problem, a mistake without a remedy, or an affliction without a cure, has been transformed into a universal blessing. ⁶Sacrifice is gone. ⁷And in its place the Love of God can be remembered, and will shine away all memory of sacrifice and loss.

⁴Your special function opens wide the door beyond which is the memory of His Love kept perfectly intact and undefiled. ⁵And all you need to do is but to wish that Heaven be given you instead of hell, and every bolt and barrier that seems to hold the door securely barred and locked will merely fall away and disappear. ⁶For it is not your Father’s Will that you should offer or receive less than He gave, when He created you in perfect love. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.II.6:6-8;7;8:4-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our special function is to see the innocence in every brother. What we see in our brother is a reflection of what we believe about ourselves. Thus when we forgive a brother and see his innocence, we forgive ourselves. As we forgive, we join with our Creator’s Will to be the Love we were created to be. We join in the oneness of Love.

As we practice our special function, we heal our mind of mistaken beliefs that have hidden our true Self from our awareness. This practice leads us Home to Love.

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