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The Practice That Frees Us to Be Love

Three times today, at times most suitable for silence, give ten minutes set apart from listening to the world, and choose instead a gentle listening to the Word of God. He speaks from nearer than your heart to you. His Voice is closer than your hand. His Love is everything you are and that He is; the same as you, and you the same as He.

It is your [true] voice to which you listen as He speaks to you. It is your word He speaks. It is the Word of freedom and of peace, of unity of will and purpose, with no separation nor division in the single Mind of Father and of Son. In quiet listen to your Self to­day, and let Him tell you God has never left His Son, and you have never left your Self.

Only be quiet. You will need no rule but this, to let your practicing today lift you above the thinking of the world, and free your vision from the body’s eyes. Only be still and listen. You will hear the Word in which the Will of God the Son joins in His Father’s Will, at one with it, with no illusions interposed be­tween the wholly indivisible and true. As every hour passes by today, be still a moment and remind yourself you have a special purpose for this day; in quiet to receive the Word of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 125, W-pI.125.7-9. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.)

What the body’s eyes and ears see and hear are illusions that interfere with what our true Self is communicating in every instant. This Self remains united with Its Source, eternally Love and Loving. Today’s practice will help free us from the ego’s interference which would keep us believing we are limited and alone. It will help us break free from believing we are a body so we can experience the fact that we are Love as Love created us — and nothing else.

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Accepting Our True Self as Love

[“I am spirit”] identifies you with your one Self. It accepts no split identity, nor tries to weave opposing factors into unity. It simply states the truth. Practice this truth today as often as you can, for it will bring your mind from conflict to the quiet fields of peace. No chill of fear can enter, for your mind has been ab­solved from madness, letting go illusions of a split identity.

We state again the truth about your Self, the holy Son of God Who rests in you, whose mind has been restored to sanity. You are the spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father’s Love and peace and joy. You are the spirit which completes Himself, and shares His function as Creator. He is with you always, as you are with Him.

…He will speak to you, reminding you that you are spirit, one with Him and God, your brothers and your Self. …The Holy Spirit gives you peace today. Receive His words, and offer them to Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 97, W-pI.97.1-2;8:2,5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 9 Insights.)

It is impossible for there to be differences within unity. If we try to introduce differences, we lose awareness of oneness and our eternal connection with the Love of God. Our connection remains unaltered by our unwillingness to know it is there. But in every instant we have the opportunity to awaken to the unity of Love. Each time we remind ourselves, “I am spirit,” we open the door a little more to welcome the eternal Love that is our inheritance.

We have taught ourselves with great vigilance to believe that differences are real. We perceive ourselves as separate from the world and think this separateness establishes our identity. But all it does is make a pseudo identity that stands as a veil to shield our awareness from the truth that we are eternal Love, and nothing else. The ego is all about convincing us that something else is real. The Holy Spirit’s purpose is to remind us that only Love is real.

Today let us join in the Holy Spirit’s purpose by reminding ourselves often that we are Spirit that we may accept the Self God created us to be.

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The Choice for Happiness

Each day, each hour and minute, even each second, you are deciding between the crucifixion and the resurrection; between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The ego is the choice for guilt; the Holy Spirit the choice for guiltlessness. The power of decision is all that is yours. What you can decide between is fixed, because there are no alternatives except truth and illusion. And there is no overlap between them, because they are opposites which cannot be reconciled and cannot both be true. You are guilty or guiltless, bound or free, unhappy or happy.

The miracle [true perception] teaches you that you have chosen guiltlessness, freedom and joy. It is not a cause, but an effect. It is the natural result of choosing right, attesting to your happiness that comes from choosing to be free of guilt. Everyone you offer healing to returns it. Everyone you attack keeps it and cherishes it by holding it against you. Whether he does this or does it not will make no difference; you will think he does. It is impossible to offer what you do not want without this penalty. The cost of giving is receiving. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.III.4:1-5:8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God sees His Son as innocent because He sees his Son as one with Himself. Whenever we perceive guilt in another or our self, we are perceiving wrongly. We are believing we are a false image of what God created us to be. This does not affect God’s knowing of His Son as guiltless. But it does make us unaware of our eternal unity with our Creator.

The choice to accept the ego belief in separation is the crucifixion of God’s Son by denying our true Life in God. The Holy Spirit teaches us to choose the oneness of Love, to choose the Life we live in God. This is the choice for happiness because joy is an attribute of Love.

Today we practice letting Love be our Guide in all that we do, say and think because we want to be happy.

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Accepting the Holy Spirit’s Lessons in Love

All things are lessons God would have me learn.

A lesson is a miracle which God offers to me, in place of thoughts I made that hurt me. What I learn of Him be­comes the way I am set free. And so I choose to learn His lessons and forget my own.

I place the future in the Hands of God.

The past is gone; the future is not yet. Now am I freed from both. For what God gives can only be for good. And I accept but what He gives as what belongs to me.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 213, W-pI.213:1-4;214:1-8. See also ACIM Lesson 213 Insights.)

We are constantly offered lessons. What we learn from these lessons depends on which teacher we choose. If we choose the ego, we are taught that separation and fear are real, and judgment is necessary for our “survival.” These lessons insure the continuance of the ego as our accepted identity. As long as we accept the ego as our teacher, what we believe we are is limited to the ego’s closed thought system.

But we have another Teacher we can choose Who shares God’s limitlessness. He sees what we believe but does not join us in accepting it as true. His lessons teaches us that we are not a body, we remain as God created us. In His curriculum, we are taught that we are Love and nothing else, unlimited and free to extend Love without limit.

The Holy Spirit’s curriculum offers lessons in joy, peace and the certainty of changeless Love. As we learn these lessons, we realize that God’s Love is our only future. There is no past. There is only the eternal Love in which we live and have our being.

Today we practice choosing to accept the miracles of the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

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Claiming the Reality of Our True Self

What you think you are is a belief to be undone. But what you really are must be revealed to you. The belief you are a body calls for correction, being a mistake. The truth of what you are calls on the strength in you to bring to your awareness what the mistake conceals.

You need to be aware of what the Holy Spirit uses to replace the image of a body in your mind. You need to feel something to put your faith in, as you lift [your faith] from the body. You need a real experience of something else, something more solid and more sure; more worthy of your faith, and really there.

…allow your mistaken thoughts about your attributes to be corrected, and their opposites to take their place. Say, for example:

I am not weak, but strong.
I am not helpless, but all powerful.
I am not limited, but unlimited.

Remember that all sense of weakness is associated with the belief you are a body, a belief that is mistaken and deserves no faith. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 91, W-pI.91.6:7-10;7:2-4;8:2-6;9:3. See also ACIM Lesson 91 Insights.)

The undoing of the mistaken belief that we are a body is one of the central messages of A Course in Miracles. Twenty of the Workbook lessons tell us to repeat many times a day, “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.” This is because the image of a body blocks our awareness from experiencing the Love we are.

Images can only be “seen” in the realm of illusions of separation. But the Love we are is one, united with God and all His Creations. Love cannot be perceived, but It can be felt or experienced. We can feel the attributes of Love such as strength, power and limitlessness.

The daily practice of taking time to quiet our minds to reach the center of peace within opens us to the experience of the Love we are. We experience the power of Love, which is God’s power. We experience His limitlessness as ours. We experience His strength as our invincibility. The truth of What we are dwells in God and cannot be altered by images made to hide the Truth in us.

Each time we pause to feel this from the center of peace within, our faith in What we are grows stronger. We are freed from a mistaken belief and welcome our Reality as Love.

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Resolving to Give Gentleness to the World

Creation’s gentleness is all I see.

I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins (belief in separation) on it and saw them looking back at me. How fierce they seemed! And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of in my mind alone. Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness with which creation shines. There is no fear in it. Let no appearance of my sins obscure the light of Heaven shining on the world. What is reflected there is in God’s Mind. The images I see reflect my thoughts. Yet is my mind at one with God’s. And so I can perceive creation’s gentleness.

In quiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your Thoughts, and mine as well. Let me remember that they are the same, and I will see creation’s gentleness. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 265, W-pII.265. See also ACIM Lesson 265 Insights.)

Everything in the world is a reflection. If we believe we are separate, we perceive separation reflected back to us. But when we accept Christ’s vision, Creation’s gentleness is all we see. We are seeing the reflection what is in God’s Mind.

Let us dedicate this year to the practice of going to the center of peace in our mind throughout the day so that we perceive Creation’s gentleness. It is a gift we give to ourselves and the world.

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Changing Our Mind to Accept the Truth

[“My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.”] does not describe the way you see yourself now. It does, however, describe what vision will show you. It is difficult for anyone who thinks he is in this world to believe this of himself. Yet the reason he thinks he is in this world is because he does not believe it.

You will believe that you are part of where you think you are. That is because you surround yourself with the environment you want. And you want it to protect the image of yourself that you have made. The image is part of this environment. What you see while you believe you are in it is seen through the eyes of the image. This is not vision. Images cannot see.

The idea for today presents a very different view of yourself. By establishing your Source it establishes your Identity, and it describes you as you must really be in truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 35, W-pI.35.1:1-3:2. See also ACIM Lesson 35 Insights.)

It seems that we are capable of being irritated, angry, fearful, sad and lonely. Yet all these emotions cannot be experienced by what is holy. Holiness comes from being in the oneness of God’s holiness. The fact that our mind is part of Gods means that all these unloving emotions must not be in our holy mind. They do not belong to us because they come from the ego — the belief in a mind that is from God.

Whenever we experience unloving emotions, we are believing we are not what God created us to be. We are believing in a false image of what we are. Today’s affirmation offers us a practice that will help us change our mind from believing in a lie to accepting the truth that our true Self remains one with our Creator. Our true Self is Love and nothing else, just as our Creator is.

Whenever we experience an emotion that is not loving, we need to remind ourselves that this is a thought we do not want. And tell ourselves “My Mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.”

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