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The Path to Eternal Happiness

All that is ever cherished as a hidden belief, to be defended though unrecognized, is faith in specialness. ²This takes many forms, but always clashes with the reality of God’s creation and with the grandeur that He gave His Son. ³What else could justify attack? ⁴For who could hate someone whose Self is his, and Whom he knows? ⁵Only the special could have enemies, for they are different and not the same. ⁶And difference of any kind imposes orders of reality, and a need to judge that cannot be escaped.

Specialness is the great dictator of the wrong decisions. ²Here is the grand illusion of what you are and what your brother is. ³And here is what must make the body dear and worth preserving.

Your brother is your friend because his Father created him like you. ²There is no difference. ³You have been given to your brother that love might be extended, not cut off from him. ⁴What you keep is lost to you. ⁵God gave you and your brother Himself, and to remember this is now the only purpose that you share. ⁶And so it is the only one you have. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.I.3;5:1-3;7:1-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The reality of Love is uniformly one and the same. There can be no differences within Love. This fact is key to learn to accept our true Self. This Self remains eternally united with our Father, Who holds It dear as His one Son.

The perception of any differences is a sure sign that we are believing in a false, separate identity. It is this mistaken belief that must be forgiven for us to awaken to our Identity as Love. Having bought into a false identity, we need help to let go of our mistaken beliefs.

The Holy Spirit in our mind is given us as our Guide to return to Love as our Identity. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we learn to see past the appearance of differences to the Love that unites us with All. Today we gratefully accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see the truth of Love in every brother. Here is where we find peace and eternal happiness.

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Letting Our Problems Be Resolved

In quietness are all things answered, and is every problem quietly resolved. ²In conflict there can be no answer and no resolution, for its purpose is to make no resolution possible, and to ensure no answer will be plain. ³A problem set in conflict has no answer, for it is seen in different ways. ⁴And what would be an answer from one point of view is not an answer in another light. ⁵You are in conflict. ⁶Thus it must be clear you cannot answer anything at all, for conflict has no limited effects. ⁷Yet if God gave an answer there must be a way in which your problems are resolved, for what He wills already has been done.

Thus it must be that time is not involved and every problem can be answered now. ²Yet it must also be that, in your state of mind, solution is impossible. ³Therefore, God must have given you a way of reaching to another state of mind in which the answer is already there. ⁴Such is the holy instant. ⁵It is here that all your problems should be brought and left. ⁶Here they belong, for here their answer is. ⁷And where its answer is, a problem must be simple and be easily resolved. ⁸It must be pointless to attempt to solve a problem where the answer cannot be. ⁹Yet just as surely it must be resolved, if it is brought to where the answer is.

Attempt to solve no problems but within the holy instant’s surety. ²For there the problem _will_ be answered and resolved. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.IV.1:1–3:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego thrives in conflict. It does not want any problem to be truly resolved, never to return. To protect its domain, the ego keeps our mind cluttered with attempts to resolve problems that will not work.

But we can train our mind to step back from conflict. When we let our mind return to a peaceful state, it is open to seeing from the Holy Spirit’s point of view, which sees only the oneness of Love. His vision shows that where we thought there were differences, the reality of Love’s oneness remains unaffected. In quiet the perception of differences fades and our unity with Creation is seen as our Reality.

With consistent practice, we can learn to easily pause to let our mind return to peace. In that instant we let the Holy Spirit’s inspiration show us that our perceived problem has been resolved.

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Gratitude for the Love of Our Father

⁴If you remain as God created you fear has no meaning, evil is not real, and misery and death do not exist.

Today’s idea is therefore all you need to let complete correction heal your mind, and give you perfect vision that will heal all the mistakes that any mind has made at any time or place. ²It is enough to heal the past and make the future free. ³It is enough to let the present be accepted as it is. ⁴It is enough to let time be the means for all the world to learn escape from time, and every change that time appears to bring in passing by.

²If you are as God created you, then there has been no separation of your mind from His, no split between your mind and other minds, and only unity within your own.

The healing power of today’s idea is limitless. ²It is the birthplace of all miracles, the great restorer of the truth to the awareness of the world. ³Practice today’s idea with gratitude. ⁴This is the truth that comes to set you free. ⁵This is the truth that God has promised you. ⁶This is the Word in which all sorrow ends. (A Course in Miracles, W-110.1:4–2:4;4:2–5:6. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

Our Father created us in the oneness of His Love. This is our Reality. We remain fully protected by His Love. His joy and peace are ours without limit.

Only a dream of specialness has made us unaware of our true Identity. Today we remind ourselves that we remain as God created us. We rest in the certainty of His eternal Love. We let Love guide our thoughts and actions to be messengers of Love in a dream where Love is denied. We see the truth of Love in every brother and overlook appearances that seem to justify attack and defense.

We are grateful that we are safe in the Heart of our Father.

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Giving Ourselves the Gift of Truth

There is a very simple way to find the door to true forgiveness, and perceive it open wide in welcome. ²When 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. ³Ask 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. ²It is but lies that would condemn. ³In truth is innocence the only thing there is. ⁴Forgiveness 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, as powerful as love which laid its blessing on it, are all dreams of evil and of hatred and attack brought silently to truth. ²They are not kept to swell and bluster, and to terrify the foolish dreamer who believes in them. ³He has been gently wakened from his dream by understanding what he thought he saw was never there. ⁴And now he cannot feel that all escape has been denied to him. (A Course in Miracles, W-134.9:1–11:4. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

Belief in sin comes with the belief that separation is real. Only in separation does harm seem to be possible. Yet, only Love is real, and Love is one. In oneness, there is no other, no differences that could seem to conflict. In Love, sin cannot exist.

Every judgment we make stems from a false belief that we are separate and alone. True forgiveness brings release from judgment. It sees past the false images of differences to the eternal oneness of Love. As we learn to forgive, we see that what we thought occurred to threaten us never happened.

Now we see with the eyes of Christ. This vision shows us Love’s reality and easily passes by throughs of separation. Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves.

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Being Truly Helpful

A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. ²His qualifications consist solely in this; somehow, somewhere he has made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else’s. ³Once he has done that, his road is established and his direction is sure. ⁴A light has entered the darkness. ⁵It may be a single light, but that is enough. ⁶He has entered an agreement with God even if he does not yet believe in Him. ⁷He has become a bringer of salvation. ⁸He has become a teacher of God.

⁹Everyone will answer in the end, but the end can be a long, long way off. ¹⁰It is because of this that the plan of the teachers was established. ¹¹Their function is to save time. ¹²Each one begins as a single light, but with the Call at its center it is a light that cannot be limited. ¹³And each one saves a thousand years of time as the world judges it.

There is a course for every teacher of God. ²The form of the course varies greatly. ³So do the particular teaching aids involved. ⁴But the content of the course never changes. ⁵Its central theme is always, “God’s Son is guiltless, and in his innocence is his salvation.” ⁶It can be taught by actions or thoughts; in words or soundlessly; in any language or in no language; in any place or time or manner. ⁷It does not matter who the teacher was before he heard the Call. ⁸He has become a savior by his answering. ⁹He has seen someone else as himself. ¹⁰He has therefore found his own salvation and the salvation of the world. ¹¹In his rebirth is the world reborn. (A Course in Miracles, M-1.1;2:9-13;3)

Everyone in this world is seeking for Love. We will not find It as long as we let the ego direct our search. It is afraid of Love and will only direct us to search where It cannot be found.

But Love always calls to us to awaken to the fact that we already are the thing we seek. The Love we are sees Itself in everyone, everywhere. It recognizes we each have the same need to love and be Love. This is the shared interest that unites us. As we join in Love, we respond to every brother with kindness, compassion and helpfulness. As we let Love guide our ways, we are naturally truly helpful.

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Resting in the Certainty of Love

I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.

Fear is a stranger to the ways of love. ²Identify with fear, and you will be a stranger to yourself. ³And thus you are unknown to you. ⁴What is your Self remains an alien to the part of you which thinks that it is real, but different from yourself. ⁵Who could be sane in such a circumstance? ⁶Who but a madman could believe he is what he is not, and judge against himself?

Today we offer thanks that Christ has come to search the world for what belongs to Him. ²His vision sees no strangers, but beholds His Own and joyously unites with them. ³They see Him as a stranger, for they do not recognize themselves. ⁴Yet as they give Him welcome, they remember. ⁵And He leads them gently home again, where they belong. (A Course in Miracles, W-160.1;9. See also ACIM Lesson 160 Insights.)

When we welcome Christ, we welcome our true Self. They are one and the same as God’s one Son. This Self is Love and nothing else.

Fear is a sure sign that we have identified with a false idea that denies the reality of Love. To the ego, fear is used as signal to raise our defenses to protect our frail identity. But the Holy Spirit can use it as a reminder to pause and return to the stillness within our hearts.

In stillness, Christ’s vision shows us the reality of Love. It looks past the illusions that seem to divide us from Love. It sees the Light of Love as the only reality. We rest in the certainty that we remain Love as our Father created us.

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Moving Past Fear to Love

God is my Father, and His Son loves Him.

Father, I must return Your Love for me, for giving and receiving are the same, and You have given all Your Love to me. ²I must return [Your Love], for I want it mine in full awareness, blazing in my mind and keeping it within [Love’s] kindly light, inviolate, beloved, with fear behind and only peace ahead. ³How still the way Your loving Son is led along to You!

Brother, we find that stillness now. ²The way is open. ³Now we follow it in peace together. ⁴You have reached your hand to me, and I will never leave you. ⁵We are one, and it is but this oneness that we seek, as we accomplish these few final steps which end a journey that was not begun. (A Course in Miracles, W-225. See also ACIM Lesson 225 Insights.)

When we identify with the ego, we deny God’s gift of all of His Love. The ego is afraid of Love, because when its oneness is accept, the ego would cease to seem to exist. This is where the idea that we should fear God comes from.

Today we are reminded that to receive our Father’s Love we must give Him Love, because giving and receiving are the same. Giving Love acknowledges that we have Love; we engage with the eternal flow of Love giving to Itself. In this flow we feel Love’s joy and peace.

The Holy Spirit is always with us, ready to lead us on a journey back to Love’s oneness, which we only dreamed we lost. Today we happily follow His lead as we take His Hand with confidence that He will always be with us, leading us to peace in God’s Love.

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