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Learning That Only Love Is Real

⁶What the body’s eyes behold is only conflict. ⁷Look not to them for peace and understanding.

Illusions are always illusions of differences.

⁷When he realizes they are all illusions they will disappear.

“The body’s eyes will continue to see differences. ²But the mind that has let itself be healed will no longer acknowledge them. ³There will be those who seem to be “sicker” than others, and the body’s eyes will report their changed appearances as before. ⁴But the healed mind will put them all in one category; they are unreal. ⁵This is the gift of its Teacher; the understanding that only two categories are meaningful in sorting out the messages the mind receives from what appears to be the outside world. ⁶And of these two, but one is real. ⁷Just as reality is wholly real, apart from size and shape and time and place—for differences cannot exist within [reality]—so too are illusions without distinctions. ⁸The one answer to sickness of any kind is healing. ⁹The one answer to all illusions is truth. (A Course in Miracles, M-8.1:6–2:1;5:7;6)

We have taught ourselves that differences are real. We depend on the appearances of differences to function in a dream of differences. This self-taught lesson keeps us embedded in the dream. To wake up from this dream, we need a Teacher from outside this dream.

To awaken from this fearful and guilty dream, we need to welcome our inner Teacher’s lessons in Love. The practice of asking for the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of our perceptions to replace our own brings Light into our darkened mind.

As we welcome His lessons, the appearances that seem to affect us diminish. We learn to look past appearances to the presence of Love in everyone and everything. We learn that the appearances are unreal and dismiss them. Our dreams become more loving and Light filled. Peace replaces conflict. Joy replaces sadness and a sense of loss. And the differences we perceive fade into the oneness of Love.

We can make this year all the same as we let our mind be taught that only Love is real.

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Remembering We Are Love and Nothing Else

²It is God’s Will your mind be one with His. ³It is God’s Will that He has but one Son. ⁴It is God’s Will that His one Son is you. ⁵Think of these things in practicing today, and start the lesson that we learn today with this instruction in the way of truth:

⁶Salvation is my only function here.
⁷Salvation and forgiveness are the same.

⁸Then turn to Him Who shares your function here, and let Him teach you what you need to learn to lay all fear aside, and know your Self as Love which has no opposite in you.

Forgive all thoughts which would oppose the truth of your completion, unity and peace. ²You cannot lose the gifts your Father gave. ³You do not want to be another self. ⁴You have no function that is not of God. ⁵Forgive yourself the one you think you made. ⁶Forgiveness and salvation are the same. ⁷Forgive what you have made and you are saved.

⁴Salvation is my only function here.

⁵Thus do you lay forgiveness on your mind and let all fear be gently laid aside, that love may find its rightful place in you and show you that you are the Son of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-99.9:2–10:7;12:4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 99 Insights.)

Again and again, in many ways, the Course reminds us Who we are. We are God’s one Son, united in His oneness. We are not a body. We are Love and nothing else.

We have made up a false self image. The price we have paid for identifying with this image is a sense of lack of Love. This lack is not true because this false image is simply a veil that hides the Love we are from our awareness.

All the stories we believe about our existence in the world are not true. We are still Love and nothing else. To remember this, we need to forgive the stories—let them go. Forgiveness saves us from the sense of loss of Love that has left us feeling empty, alone, fearful and guilty.

Forgiveness is our only function here. This is how we will remember we are God’s Son—Love and nothing else.

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The Choice to See the Light of Love

The light has come.

²In choosing salvation rather than attack, I merely choose to recognize what is already there. ³Salvation is a decision made already. ⁴Attack and grievances [separation] are not there to choose. ⁵That is why I always choose between truth and illusion; between what is there and what is not. ⁶The light has come. ⁷I can but choose the light, for it has no alternative. ⁸It has replaced the darkness, and the darkness has gone.

These would prove useful forms for specific applications of this idea:

²This cannot show me darkness, for the light has come.
³The light in you is all that I would see, [name].
⁴I would see in this only what is there. (A Course in Miracles, W-88.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 88 Insights.)

We have chosen to be in a dream of separation. It is a dream of attack and grievances because it is a choice to deny Love. But we can choose differently. As we forgive our choice against Love, the Light of Love returns to our darkened mind. It brings with It joy and peace, for there is no conflict within Love’s Light.

As we let ourselves see the Love in every brother, Its Light shines back on us; we remember the Love in us. Fear is dispelled. The dream of this world becomes increasingly happy and loving. We choose to see the Light of Love today.

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Letting Our Love-Light Shine

I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.

Father, Your Son is perfect. ²When I think that I am hurt in any way, it is because I have forgotten who I am, and that I am as You created me. ³Your Thoughts can only bring me happiness. ⁴If ever I am sad or hurt or ill, I have forgotten what You think, and put my little meaningless ideas in place of where Your Thoughts belong, and where they are. ⁵I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. ⁶The Thoughts I think with You can only bless. ⁷The Thoughts I think with You alone are true.

I will not hurt myself today. ²For I am far beyond all pain. ³My Father placed me safe in Heaven, watching over me. ⁴And I would not attack the Son He loves, for what He loves is also mine to love. (A Course in Miracles, W-281. See also ACIM Lesson 281 Insights.)

Thinking we are a body is a meaningless thought because it is identifying with an illusion. Though it is a meaningless thought, it is not without effect. This thought denies our true Identity, God’s Creation as an extension of His Love. The thought of misidentification with the body is the basis for all fear, sadness, pain and suffering. This need not be.

We can accept our true Identity as God’s Son. We do this by letting go of our mistaken thoughts. We have the Holy Spirit in our mind to help us learn to recognize our mistaken thoughts for what they are. With His help, we learn they are not true and let them go.

As we lay aside the beliefs that we are separate and alone, we become increasingly aware of the Love we are. We recognize that we are eternally safe in God’s Love. We see that our brothers are also safe in His Love. Fear subsides and the Light of Love shines forth. We experience increasing peace of mind as we let go of fear-based thoughts. We accept our Reality as one with God in His Love.

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Letting Go of Our Fictional Identity

I gladly make the “sacrifice” of fear.

Here is the only “sacrifice” You ask of Your beloved Son; You ask him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his awareness, healing him of pain, and giving him Your Own eternal joy. ²Such is the “sacrifice” You ask of me, and one I gladly make; the only “cost” of restoration of Your memory to me, for the salvation of the world.

And as we pay the debt we owe to truth,—a debt that merely is the letting go of self-deceptions and of images we worshipped falsely—truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. ²We are deceived no longer. ³Love has now returned to our awareness. ⁴And we are at peace again, for fear has gone and only love remains. (A Course in Miracles, W-323. See also ACIM Lesson 323 Insights.)

We have become so identified with a body and a personality that it does seem that we are being asked to sacrifice our identity. Yet this identity we believe in is not real. It is a made up fiction, a story we tell ourselves is meaningful. Yet illusions have no meaning. When we believe in them, we sacrifice awareness of Reality.

Our fictional identity stands as a veil that makes us unaware of the joy and peace of our true Self. We are willing to let this identity go.  and we bring blessing to the world. Fear is gone and we experience the happy union with our Father, which has never ended.

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Being Vigilant for Love

²Everything you see is the result of your thoughts. ³There is no exception to this fact. ⁴Thoughts are not big or little; powerful or weak. ⁵They are merely true or false. ⁶Those that are true create their own likeness. ⁷Those that are false make theirs.

There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of “idle thoughts.” ²What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. ³Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion; either it extends the truth or it multiplies illusions. ⁴You can indeed multiply nothing, but you will not extend it by doing so.

Besides your recognizing that thoughts are never idle, salvation requires that you also recognize that every thought you have brings either peace or war; either love or fear. ²A neutral result is impossible because a neutral thought is impossible. ³There is such a temptation to dismiss fear thoughts as unimportant, trivial and not worth bothering about that it is essential you recognize them all as equally destructive, but equally unreal. ⁴We will practice this idea in many forms before you really understand it. (A Course in Miracles, W-16.1:2–3:4. See also ACIM Lesson 16 Insights.)

All thoughts have an effect. What we want directs our thoughts. We perceive what we want to perceive. If we want specialness, we will see forms that separate and make distinctions. There are no distinctions in the oneness of Love. When we identify with Love, our thoughts extend Love. The extension of Love is our real Life.

Because of the effects our thoughts have, it is important that we be mindful of them. Our true Self has one need, and that is to extend Love. This extension is what brings us happiness and peace.

Any thoughts that seek specialness and differences reflect a wish to be unique or different. These thoughts do nothing more than make illusions. But these illusions foster fear and hide the joyous presence of Love in which we live. The practice of being vigilant for Love dispels the fear that comes with wishing to be different or special.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us release our fear-based thoughts of separation and awaken to Love.

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Remembering Our Unity with God

I walk with God in perfect holiness.

Today’s idea but states the simple truth that makes the thought of sin impossible. ²It promises there is no cause for guilt, and being causeless it does not exist. ³It follows surely from the basic thought so often mentioned in the text; ideas leave not their source. ⁴If this be true, how can you be apart from God? ⁵How could you walk the world alone and separate from your Source?

⁴You cannot walk the world apart from God, because you could not be without Him. ⁵He is what your life is. ⁶Where you are He is. ⁷There is one life. ⁸That life you share with Him. ⁹Nothing can be apart from Him and live.

⁴In lightness and in laughter is sin gone, because its quaint absurdity is seen. ⁵It is a foolish thought, a silly dream, not frightening, ridiculous perhaps, but who would waste an instant in approach to God Himself for such a senseless whim?

Yet you have wasted many, many years on just this foolish thought. ²The past is gone, with all its fantasies. ³They keep you bound no longer. ⁴The approach to God is near. (A Course in Miracles, W-156.1;2:4-9;6:4–7:4. See also ACIM Lesson 156 Insights.)

Happiness is an attribute of Love. Because we were created one with God’s Love as Its extension, we are innately happy. Unhappiness comes when we believe we are separate from the Love that created us. In truth we are one Self, united in Love with our Creator.

The world we experience with a body is a dream based on the belief that we are separate. Lasting happiness is impossible in this dream. Occasionally substitutes for Love — forms of specialness — seem to satisfy. But they do not last, for illusions cannot be maintained for long.

Today we remember that we are Love. We accept the help of our inner Teacher to see the Love that is the reality of our brothers. With this vision, we see the Love we are. In this recognition, we find lasting happiness. We remember our unity with God.

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