Daily Inspiration for Living A Course in Miracles

Tweet

Subscribe

View all articles • Article index

In Peace I Receive Inspiration

A Course in Miracles says that the body is a temptation to perceive ourselves as separate from God. The body’s eyes show us a world of separation. The body seems to be our identity, holding a separate mind that has private thoughts, different from other minds.

As I go through each day, the sense of being in a body and seeing through the body’s eyes reinforces the perception that the world of separation is real. This perception stimulates a sense of vulnerability and a need to plan for the future. Since the future is the ego’s domain, this planning for the future falls right in line with its hidden goal of seek and do not find. The body is its principal tool of temptation to keep my attention diverted from the only goal that will bring me true happiness.

True happiness comes only through identification with the Self I was created to be. In truth I have one purpose and that is to extend the Love I am. This is where I find happiness and nowhere else. To let go of the temptation to see myself as a body and to perceive myself as separate, I need to be vigilant for peace. In peace I meet the condition for the experience of the Holy Spirit’s presence in my mind. In peace I can share the Holy Spirit’s vision, which disregards the images of the world as meaningless and sees the Love that is everywhere.

Today my practice is to make no decisions on my own by staying in peace and holding my mind open to the Holy Spirit’s inspiration.

Today it is important that I remember that the Holy Spirit is right there in my mind, waiting to give me the inspiration I need in that present moment. All that is needed is my vigilance to stay open to the Holy Spirit’s constant flow of inspiration all through the day. This is my practice for today.

© 2011, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

Making Room for Holy Spirit

We were guided to this reading this morning:

These thoughts do not mean anything. The thoughts of which I am aware do not mean anything because I am trying to think without God. What I call “my” thoughts are not my real thoughts. My real thoughts are the thoughts I think with God. I am not aware of them because I have made my thoughts to take their place. I am willing to recognize that my thoughts do not mean anything, and to let them go. I choose to have them be replaced by what they were intended to replace. My thoughts are meaningless, but all creation lies in the thoughts I think with God. (ACIM W-pI.51.4)

This paragraph reflects the core message of A Course in Miracles. I really need to recognize that the thoughts of which I am aware are taking the place of vision. I must come to the place of realizing this to become willing to step back and let them go so that true vision can return to my awareness.

Very early this morning, I received inspiration from Spirit to remember to laugh today. As I am willing to make it a strong habit to see that my meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world, I am able to recognize that what I see is a projection of my own errors of thought and remember to laugh.

A key part of my mind training for today is to observe the thoughts that pass through my mind with my inner Teacher. My inner Teacher will help me see that these thoughts do not mean anything so I can laugh and let them go. I am being trained ever so gently not to take this world so seriously.

Into this empty space, the Holy Spirit can bring the awareness of the thoughts I think with God. It is only in this clean and open place that my mind is healed. I only extend healing when I allow my mind to be healed by the Light within. This is what is important for my practice for today — I must make room for the Holy Spirit. That is what today is for. And I give thanks.

Despite the seeming complexity of ACIM, its message is very simple: Let go of what we have made up to take the place of Love and we will remember the Love we are. This is what letting go of our meaningless thoughts does. This is what forgiveness does. The entire content of the Course is there to help us do just this. I am filled with gratitude for the help that A Course in Miracles provides.

© 2011, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

Exchanging Trash for Treasure

If my hands are full of trash (what is valueless) and someone offers me a treasure chest full of everything I could ever need, I have to put down the trash to receive the treasure. A Course in Miracles is helping me recognize the valueless that I mistakenly treasured so I can lay it down and accept the gift of all that is valuable that is eternally offered me.

Forgiveness, letting go of judgment, is the way I lay down the valueless. Accepting Holy Spirit’s judgment in place of mine is the way I accept the treasure chest. Today is another happy day of practice in turning over all my judgments to the Holy Spirit to make way for the treasure that is mine to accept.

Today my practice is to open my mind to Holy Spirit’s peace and guidance all through the day. This means stepping back from deciding anything on my own. This means paying attention to the thoughts that come up and looking at them with Holy Spirit. When I practice this, what is trash the Holy Spirit shines away. Keeping my mind open to the Holy Spirit’s perspective is what helps me stay in a place of peace and quiet inner joy. It is worth the practice.

© 2011, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

Finding Our One Self

In my mind there is a Source of Love that returns my awareness to the oneness of all Reality. My opportunity today is to step back from separation a while and open to accepting the reality of oneness. Giving time to the Holy Spirit for this purpose is my salvation. It is how I return to the awareness of the one Self we all share. It is how I see the face of Christ in every brother. It is how I wake up from the dream of separation. It is how my mind is healed.

Everyone wants to be happy. In fact, this world of separation was made out of the mistaken belief about what would make us happy. Occasionally we are able to arrange circumstances or relationships that seem to make us happy. Yet because these situations and relationships are based on made up images, they are inherently unstable and will not last. If we want to experience lasting happiness, we need to stop looking for it where it cannot be found.

We need help from outside the mistaken belief in separation to find the happiness that we seek. Happiness is found in the truth of What we are. Happiness is found in the Love that is our Source. Fortunately, A Course in Miracles is helping us learn to turn to the Holy Spirit as our Guide out of the dream of separation. It is to This that we need to turn for guidance as we seek to find happiness. This search is really the search to remember What we are and Where we are in truth. It is the search for the changeless Love that is our Self.

Today my practice is to hold my mind open to the Holy Spirit’s vision that sees past mistaken images of separation to the Light of Love. As I accept His vision, I find my Self and I see this Self everywhere. This is where happiness is eternal. This is all I really want.

© 2011, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

How to Have a Happy Day

Go through your day one minute at a time, remembering that the Light of truth shines in your mind all through the day. Practice today allowing that Light through. Practice accepting the Light you are and extending the Light you are.

Notice what a happy and delightful experience it is to do this. This will motivate you to expand this practice consistently to every part of your day. Feel the peace and joy that comes with this practice. Have a happy day!

Only being your Self will bring you happiness. Your Self sees only the Light of Love, the face of Christ, everywhere. Forgiveness, letting go of belief in separation, removes the barriers to the Light of Love. With this Light comes supreme happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed. If you are not experiencing this, forgiveness will restore it to your awareness. Let your Self help you release these barriers today and you will have a joy filled day.

© 2011, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

Remembering What I Am in Truth

When I have opinions about what anything in the world should look like, I am setting myself up for disappointment and disillusionment. I am depending on an appearance that is itself an illusion to make me happy or secure or “complete.” Thus, when the appearance does not meet my liking, I become disillusioned.

Judgment is not the path to happiness. It is a barrier to happiness. All my judgments and opinions are based on what I think I am. I could only judge if I believed that I am a separate identity, different from what I am judging. This can only be a self-deception. There is no “other,” for I remain Love as God created me and Love is one.

A sense of disappointment is a sure sign that I am deceiving myself about what I am. It is this that I need to take to the Holy Spirit and ask for His help to recognize the Self I am in truth. This is the answer to every perceived problem. No problem could be perceived unless I believe am not my Self.

My prayer today is to ask for help to see my Self truly, to see past the images of the world to the one Love That is all there is.

To help me remember the truth today, it is helpful that I ask Holy Spirit, “What am I and where am I in truth?” This can help jar my thinking and remind me to open up to the Source of Light and Love That is always waiting for my willingness to accept. Once invited in, the Holy Spirit reminds me again that I am still as God created me. I am Love’s Extension and my one function is to extend the Love That I am.

I am reminded of the quote at the beginning of the Text of A Course in Miracles: “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” As I am willing to remember the truth, peace returns to my troubled mind. Once again, my most important function is to let the truth return to my awareness. Love is. God is. Nothing else is real. And I give thanks.

© 2011, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

Accepting Holy Spirit’s Miracles

This stood out in A Course in Miracles Lesson 159:

Christ has dreamed the dream of a forgiven world. It is His gift, whereby a sweet transition can be made from death to life; from hopelessness to hope. Let us an instant dream with Him. His dream awakens us to truth. His vision gives the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God. (W-pI.159.10:4-8)

The Holy Spirit sees everyone in the world as innocent. My job today is to see as the Holy Spirit sees the world. That is how I awaken from the dream. That is how I accept the happiness and joy that is innately mine. My practice for today is to step back in my mind and ask the Holy Spirit — my true Self — to show me what It sees. This is how I live in the world but not of it. This is how I let ego thoughts pass by and resist the pull to make them real. This is how I easily let go of fear thoughts instead of hooking into them. This is how I receive the miracles the Holy Spirit always lays out for me. This is how I have a happy day. And I give thanks accepting the miracles I have already received.

Judgment of any kind is a barrier that blocks awareness of Love’s presence, awareness of Christ’s vision. Judgment keeps me in the hell of believing separation is real. I am willing to let it go.

Today my focus is on staying in peace and holding my mind open to my true Self’s loving vision. This is how I will receive God’s gift of perfect happiness. This is how I will experience the joy of seeing my brother one with me. Oh happy day!

© 2011, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

Page 711 of 847 pages ‹ First  < 709 710 711 712 713 >  Last ›

<< Back to main page of Daily Inspiration.

Has this page been helpful to you?
Your contribution to support this site is greatly appreciated. To make a tax deductible contribution with a credit/debit card, click here.
Click here to donate from your PayPal account.
Or send a check to Pathways of Light, 12530 Lions Chase Court, Huntley, IL 60142.