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We Are Love and Nothing Else

Love created me like itself.

²I am in the likeness of my Creator. ³I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die. ⁴I am not a body. ⁵I would recognize my reality today. ⁶I will worship no idols, nor raise my own self-concept to replace my Self. ⁷I am in the likeness of my Creator. ⁸Love created me like itself.

You might find these specific forms helpful in applying the idea:

²Let me not see an illusion of myself in this.
³As I look on this, let me remember my Creator.
⁴My Creator did not create this as I see it. (A Course in Miracles, W-84.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 84 Insights.)

The world we see represents our beliefs. We people it with figures that represent what we believe we are. The fear and anger, guilt and sadness that we experience all come from our beliefs. Yet these beliefs deny the reality that Love created us like Itself.

This is why it is helpful to remind ourselves to not see an illusion of ourself in the world. In truth, we are one Self. We share the same the same united, changeless Love That created us like Itself. If someone seems to do something that bothers us, we are perceiving an illusion. We are not seeing them truly.

As we remember this, we can ask for help to see past the illusion to the reality of Love. This is how we will learn that we are Love and nothing else.

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Remembering We Are Love and Nothing Else

My only function is the one God gave me.

²I have no function but the one God gave me. ³This recognition releases me from all conflict, because it means I cannot have conflicting goals. ⁴With one purpose only, I am always certain what to do, what to say and what to think. ⁵All doubt must disappear as I acknowledge that my only function is the one God gave me.

My happiness and my function are one.

²All things that come from God are one. ³They come from Oneness, and must be received as one. ⁴Fulfilling my function is my happiness because both come from the same Source. ⁵And I must learn to recognize what makes me happy, if I would find happiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-83.1;3. See also ACIM Lesson 83 Insights.)

God is one and His one Gift is Love, with all its attributes. As His extension of Love, our one function is to extend His Love. This is how we will experience Love’s happiness and peace. Thus fulfilling our function will bring us joy.

The things we seem to do in the world may bring temporary happiness. But because the world is an illusion, there is always a sense that what we do will not last. This is why the key to our happiness is only found in extending Love. Love has no form, yet it extends forever. It never diminishes nor is lost.

Today we invest in our wholeness by choosing to be loving. This is how we will remember we are Love and nothing else.

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Answering Love’s Call

The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. ²Since He must bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to knowledge through the grace that God has given Him, to be His gift to everyone who turns to Him for truth. ³Across the bridge that He provides are dreams all carried to the truth, to be dispelled before the light of knowledge. ⁴There are sights and sounds forever laid aside. ⁵And where they were perceived before, forgiveness has made possible perception’s tranquil end.

²The Holy Spirit understands the means you made, by which you would attain what is forever unattainable. ³And if you offer them to Him, He will employ the means you made for exile to restore your mind to where it truly is at home.

From knowledge, where He has been placed by God, the Holy Spirit calls to you, to let forgiveness rest upon your dreams, and be restored to sanity and peace of mind. ²Without forgiveness will your dreams remain to terrify you. ³And the memory of all your Father’s Love will not return to signify the end of dreams has come.

Accept your Father’s gift. ²It is a Call from Love to Love, that It be but Itself. ³The Holy Spirit is His gift, by which the quietness of Heaven is restored to God’s beloved Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.7.1;3:2–5:3. See also ACIM Lesson 281 Insights.)

Are we willing to answer Holy Spirit’s call? Are we willing to be happy and at peace? In every moment, we have the choice to accept these gifts. But in the dream, these gifts seem to be impossible. The chaos in the world covers the call of Love that would give us peace of mind and joy beyond description. Yet it only requires our willingness to answer the call to change the world we experience.

When we choose to offer all our judgments to the Holy Spirit, He will translate them into a means to awaken to the Love we are. This is our heart’s desire. Today we choose to answer the call and let Love guide us Home to the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Remembering We Are Love

Spirit makes use of mind as means to find its Self expression. ²And the mind which serves the spirit is at peace and filled with joy. ³Its power comes from spirit, and it is fulfilling happily its function here. ⁴Yet mind can also see itself divorced from spirit, and perceive itself within a body it confuses with itself. ⁵Without its function then it has no peace, and happiness is alien to its thoughts.

Yet mind apart from spirit cannot think. ²It has denied its Source of strength, and sees itself as helpless, limited and weak. ³Dissociated from its function now, it thinks it is alone and separate, attacked by armies massed against itself and hiding in the body’s frail support. ⁴Now must it reconcile unlike with like, for this is what it thinks that it is for.

Your Self retains Its Thoughts [of God’s Love], and they remain within your mind and in the Mind of God. ²The Holy Spirit holds salvation in your mind, and offers it the way to peace. ³Salvation is a thought you share with God, because His Voice accepted it for you and answered in your name that it was done.

²Salvation comes from my one Self. ³Its Thoughts are mine to use.

⁴Then seek Its Thoughts, and claim them as your own. ⁵These are your own real thoughts you have denied… (A Course in Miracles, W-96.4:1–5:4;7:1-3;9:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 96 Insights.)

In the dream, the thoughts we are aware of are not real. They lack the extension of Love, which is all of Reality. The body is the ego’s means to offer its own mindless thoughts. Because the ego has denied Love, its thoughts cannot be real, yet our belief in them makes them real to us. It is this belief from which we must be saved.

God has given us the Holy Spirit in our mind to be a bridge between our unreal mindless thoughts and our real Thoughts, which extend only Love. When we accept His help, we find peace because we remember we are Love and nothing else. We learn to overlook the ego’s images and accept only Love’s presence in our mind. As we accept Love, we naturally give It, because that is Love’s function.

Today we choose to accept the Help we have been given and learn that we are Love.

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The Key to a Happy Life

This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. ²To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:

³I will forgive, and this will disappear.

⁴To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. ⁵And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. ⁶God will take this final step Himself. ⁷Do not deny the little steps He asks you take to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.13. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

A happy life is a forgiving life. Unhappiness is always the effect of judgment. Any judgments we make on our own are based upon the false premise that we have a true basis from which to judge.

Only the Holy Spirit judges truly. His judgment is very simple. He sees everything as true or false, real or unreal. What is unreal is completely overlooked and dismissed. The reality that remains is only God’s Love. It brings with it Love’s attributes of peace and happiness.

We turn over all our judgments to Him and let Him show us the truth beyond the dream, the Love beyond the images of the world. We are grateful that we have His help to awaken from the dream that has kept us unaware of the Love we are.

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Learning to Identify with the Thought of Love

I am forever an Effect of God.

Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left its home. ²I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause. ³As You created me I have remained. ⁴Where You established me I still abide. ⁵And all Your attributes abide in me, because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and Its Effect are indistinguishable. ⁶Let me know that I am an Effect of God, and so I have the power to create like You. ⁷And as it is in Heaven, so on earth. ⁸Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God.

Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and then, forgiven, fade entirely into God’s holy Will. (A Course in Miracles, W-326. See also ACIM Lesson 326 Insights.)

The ego’s thoughts are always about some form, something different and distinct in itself. It does not perceive these forms as connected in any way. Some forms may seem to join together while still maintaining their distinct identity. This is all part of the ego’s plan to convince us that we are separate and alone.

God knows all as one and the same — eternal changeless Love. His Thoughts are Thoughts of Love. He extends His Love with His Thought which remains eternally held in His Mind. Though the ego tries to encapsulate our identity in a body, it only succeeds in excluding the only Reality that is God’s Love. As God’s Son, we are His Thought of Love, held safely in His Mind. This cannot change, because God does not change.

As we learn to identify with Love, we forgive the ego’s divisive images and accept God’s gift of all His Love. We accept It by extending the Love as It was extended to us, His Son. Love Is our Being. We live by Love’s extension, eternally receiving and giving.

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How to See the Face of Christ in Our Brothers

The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams, and bids them come to Him, to be translated into truth. ²He will exchange them for the final dream which God appointed as the end of dreams. ³For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things separate, for what remains to see except Christ’s face?

And how long will this holy face be seen, when it is but the symbol that the time for learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement has been reached at last? ²So therefore let us seek to find Christ’s face and look on nothing else. ³As we behold His glory, will we know we have no need of learning or perception or of time, or anything except the holy Self, the Christ Whom God created as His Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.6.4–5)

Christ is God’s Son, the one Self we all share. Christ is the Home of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the bridge between our dream of separation and lack of love, and the eternal, changeless Love of God.

The Holy Spirit is called the Comforter because He leads us out of dreams of fear and guilt. He leads us back to the peace and joy of our true Self. All that stands between our awareness of peace and happiness and the dream is our mistaken belief in a separate identity. When we are willing to receive the Holy Spirit’s loving guidance, we receive help to forgive the wish for specialness.

Today we call to our Comforter, welcoming His help to free ourselves from fear and guilt and remember we are God’s Son, the Christ. With the Holy Spirit’s help we will see the face of Christ in our brothers, and know that we are one.

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