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Our Real Existence Is Only Love

Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. ²It does not pardon sins and make them real. ³It sees there was no sin. ⁴And in that view are all your sins forgiven. ⁵What is sin, except a false idea about God’s Son? ⁶Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. ⁷What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.

An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. ²The mind is closed, and will not be released.

²In frantic action [an unforgiving thought] pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path. ³Distortion is its purpose…

Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. ²It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. ³It merely looks, and waits, and judges not. …who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is. (W-pII.1.1:1–2:2;3:2-3;4:1-3,5;)

Judgement is the bane of our existence. It is the cause of all our suffering, fear, guilt and sense of loss. Our real existence is Love and union with our Creator. Our true Self sees only Love and knows there is nothing to forgive. Nothing has changed God’s one Son. When we let go of judgment completely — when we have forgiven everything and let our true existence be — we know that we are Love and nothing else. This is why forgiveness is the key to happiness and peace of mind.

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We Are Safe in the Certainty of God

[“I am spirit”] identifies you with your one Self. ²It accepts no split identity, nor tries to weave opposing factors into unity. ³It simply states the truth. ⁴Practice this truth today as often as you can, for it will bring your mind from conflict to the quiet fields of peace.

²You are the spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father’s Love and peace and joy. ³You are the spirit which completes Himself, and shares His function as Creator. ⁴He is with you always, as you are with Him.

³He will offer all His strength to every little effort that you make. ⁴Give Him the minutes which He needs today, to help you understand with Him you are the spirit that abides in Him, and that calls through His Voice to every living thing; offers His sight to everyone who asks; replaces error with the simple truth.

²Spirit am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world.

⁵The Holy Spirit gives you peace today. ⁶Receive His words, and offer them to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-97.1:1-4;2:2-4;4:3-4;7:2;8:5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 97 Insights.)

We are Spirit, dwelling in the Heart of God, our Creator. The Spirit we are is in peace eternally. The Spirit we are has no limits. It does not change nor suffer loss. It sees no need to seek anything, for It is eternally complete and whole. It is joyful in Its eternal extension of the Love It is.

This is the Self, the Son of God, we are called upon today to accept and acknowledge as our Identity. In this acceptance we accept All That Is and entertain no illusions of differences or change. We know we are safe in the certainty of God.

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Our Personal Curriculum for Mind Healing

⁵It is not our part to judge our worth, nor can we know what role is best for us; what we can do within a larger plan we cannot see in its entirety. ⁶Our part is cast in Heaven, not in hell.

Whatever your appointed role may be, it was selected by the Voice for God, Whose function is to speak for you as well. ²Seeing your strengths exactly as they are, and equally aware of where they can be best applied, for what, to whom and when, He chooses and accepts your part for you.

It is through His ability to hear one Voice which is His Own that you become aware at last there is one Voice in you. ²And that one Voice appoints your function, and relays it to you, giving you the strength to understand it, do what it entails, and to succeed in everything you do that is related to it. ³God has joined His Son in this, and thus His Son becomes His messenger of unity with Him.

²It is this Voice which speaks of laws the world does not obey; which promises salvation from all sin, with guilt abolished in the mind that God created sinless. ³Now this mind becomes aware again of Who created it, and of His lasting union with itself. ⁴So is its Self the one reality in which its will and that of God are joined. (A Course in Miracles, W-154.1:5-6;2:1-2;3;4:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 154 Insights.)

We all have a purpose, a role to play in bringing healing to the world. In the world, these roles seem to be different. But the underlying purpose is the same — to recognize that we are all united in the oneness of Love. This is God’s Will for us, for He wills that we remain eternally united in His Love.

To guide us in fulfilling our purpose, we are given the Voice for God. This Voice could be called an intermediary between God and the part of His Son that has forgotten Who he is. The Holy Spirit’s purpose is to teach us to distinguish what is true from what is false. With His help, we learn to let go of our investment in the forms of the world and let the Light of Love in every brother have our full attention.

The way in which we accomplish this awareness is tailored to the needs we believe we have as a separate identity. It is our personal curriculum which leads us to experiences that help us learn the truth that we are Love and nothing else. Every experience is a lesson God would have us learn.

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The Choice for Joy

Everything the ego tells you that you need will hurt you. ²For although the ego urges you again and again to get, it leaves you nothing, for what you get it will demand of you. …⁵Therefore ask not of yourself what you need, for you do not know, and your advice to yourself will hurt you. ⁶For what you think you need will merely serve to tighten up your world against the light [Love], and render you unwilling to question the value that this world can really hold for you.

Only the Holy Spirit knows what you need. ²For He will give you all things that do not block the way to light.

Leave, then, your needs to Him.

…remember what you really want, and say:

²The Holy Spirit leads me unto Christ, and where else would I go? ³What need have I but to awake in Him?

Then follow Him in joy, with faith that He will lead you safely through all dangers to your peace of mind this world may set before you. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.VII.11:1-2,5-6;12:1-2;13:1;14:1-15:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

What could be more valuable than joy without limit and peace of mind that cannot be disturbed? This is what the Holy Spirit offers if we let Him be our Guide in all things.

The ego is the belief that forms in this world can offer happiness. But forms have no reality. They are only the ego’s substitute illusions that leave us empty handed. Illusions deny the oneness of Love, thus they deny Reality.

When we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide, we choose the path to the reality of eternal Love. He leads us to everything while the ego leads only to nothing. The choice to follow the Holy Spirit is the choice for joy and peace of mind. It is the choice for God’s Love.

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Seeing with the Eyes of Christ

The Holy Spirit looks through me today.

Christ asks that He may use my eyes today, and thus redeem the world. ²He asks this gift that He may offer peace of mind to me, and take away all terror and all pain. ³And as they are removed from me, the dreams that seemed to settle on the world are gone. ⁴Redemption must be one. ⁵As I am saved, the world is saved with me. ⁶For all of us must be redeemed together. ⁷Fear appears in many different forms, but love is one.

My Father, Christ has asked a gift of me, and one I give that it be given me. ²Help me to use the eyes of Christ today, and thus allow the Holy Spirit’s Love to bless all things which I may look upon, that His forgiving Love may rest on me. (A Course in Miracles, W-295. See also ACIM Lesson 295 Insights.)

Any of us can redeem the world because the world we see is a projection from our mind. If we choose to see the world through Christ’s eyes, we are seeing with forgiving eyes. Christ sees only Love or calls for Love. When Love is recognized, the Love of Christ, our true Self, joins with It in Love’s oneness.

When calls for Love are recognized, the Love we are answers with Love. Seeing with Christ’s vision leads us to the awareness that we are Love and nothing else. Today we call upon Christ’s vision, for we would awaken to our Home in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Finding the Source of Limitless Joy

We waken hearing Him, and let Him speak to us five minutes as the day begins, and end the day by listening again five minutes more before we go to sleep. ²Our only preparation is to let our interfering thoughts be laid aside, not separately, but all of them as one. ³They are the same. ⁴We have no need to make them different, and thus delay the time when we can hear our Father speak to us. ⁵We hear Him now. ⁶We come to Him today.

With nothing in our hands to which we cling, with lifted hearts and listening minds we pray:

²Only salvation can be said to cure.
³Speak to us, Father, that we may be healed.

⁴And we will feel salvation cover us with soft protection, and with peace so deep that no illusion can disturb our minds, nor offer proof to us that it is real. ⁵This will we learn today. ⁶And we will say our prayer for healing hourly, and take a minute as the hour strikes, to hear the answer to our prayer be given us as we attend in silence and in joy. ⁷This is the day when healing comes to us. ⁸This is the day when separation ends, and we remember Who we really are. (A Course in Miracles, W-140.11–12. See also ACIM Lesson 140 Insights.)

The ego equates happiness with salvation. It looks for special relationships or circumstances that it believes will make it happy. A common thought is, “I will be happy when… or if…”. The last place the ego looks for peace and happiness is within the mind. It has denied the one Source where salvation is found.

Our true Self is eternally united with the Source of peace, joy and Love. To become aware of this Source, it is helpful to pause to set aside the ego’s thoughts. As we let our mind settle into the quiet peace within, we find the Love we thought was missing.

Joy abounds as we join in the eternal giving and receiving of Love. This is our salvation, our happiness. Today will be a happy day with this practice.

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We Choose to Listen to the Holy Spirit

³Spirit is the Thought of God which He created like Himself. ⁴The unified spirit is God’s one Son, or Christ.

In this world, because the mind is split, the Sons of God appear to be separate. ²Nor do their minds seem to be joined. ³In this illusory state, the concept of an “individual mind” seems to be meaningful. ⁴It is therefore described in the course as if it has two parts; spirit and ego.

Spirit is the part that is still in contact with God through the Holy Spirit, Who abides in this part but sees the other part as well.

The other part of the mind is entirely illusory and makes only illusions.

The mind can be right or wrong, depending on the voice to which it listens. ²Right-mindedness listens to the Holy Spirit, forgives the world, and through Christ’s vision sees the real world in its place.”

“Wrong-mindedness listens to the ego and makes illusions; perceiving sin and justifying anger, and seeing guilt, disease and death as real. (A Course in Miracles, C-1.1:3–3:1;4:1;5:1-2;6:1)

We experience a world of conflict because we choose to listen to the ego. The ego always perceives differences. There is always some degree of conflict if there are differences. Our dedication to listening to the ego makes us unaware of the freedom our Spirit knows in its reality of the oneness of Love. Spirit is universally the same. There can be no conflict in Spirit.

In the dream of this world, we choose in every moment between the illusions of the ego and the oneness of Spirit, between conflict and peace, between fear and Love.  We have been given the Holy Spirit as our Guide to lead us out of the ego’s conflict to the peace that is our Home in the Love of God.

Today we remind ourselves frequently to pause and ask for the Holy Spirit’s help to see truly.

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