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Replacing the Ego’s Projections with True Perception

Let me remember what my purpose is.

If I forget my goal I can be but confused, unsure of what I am, and thus conflicted in my actions. ²No one can serve contradicting goals and serve them well. ³Nor can he function without deep distress and great depression. ⁴Let us therefore be determined to remember what we want today, that we may unify our thoughts and actions meaningfully, and achieve only what God would have us do this day.

Father, forgiveness is Your chosen means for our salvation. ²Let us not forget today that we can have no will but Yours. ³And thus our purpose must be Yours as well, if we would reach the peace You will for us. (A Course in Miracles, W-257. See also ACIM Lesson 257 Insights.)

If our will is the same as God’s Will, our purpose must be to extend His gift of peace, joy and Love. As we accept our true Will, the certainty of our changeless, true Self dispels the conflict and certainty in the world.

Our practice today is to give our true Will priority. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the Presence of Love beyond appearances in the world. We ask His help to let go of the mistaken beliefs which cloud our vision. We accept His help by bringing all our perceptions to Him with willingness to accept His true perception in their place.

As we do this, we learn to disregard the ego’s projections and join with our brothers in the joyous giving and receiving of God’s gifts. This is our path to peace and happiness in the certainty of God’s Love.

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The Practice That Leads to Heaven

⁷Never forget the Love of God, Who has remembered you. ⁸For it is quite impossible that He could ever let His Son drop from the loving Mind wherein he was created, and where his abode was fixed in perfect peace forever.

Say to the Holy Spirit only, “Decide for me,” and it is done. ²For His decisions are reflections of what God knows about you, and in this light, error of any kind becomes impossible. ³Why would you struggle so frantically to anticipate all you cannot know, when all knowledge lies behind every decision the Holy Spirit makes for you? ⁴Learn of His wisdom and His Love, and teach His answer to everyone who struggles in the dark. ⁵For you decide for them and for yourself.

Whenever you are in doubt what you should do, think of His Presence in you, and tell yourself this, and only this:

²He leadeth me and knows the way, which I know not.
³Yet He will never keep from me what He would have me learn.
⁴And so I trust Him to communicate to me all that He knows for me.

⁵Then let Him teach you quietly how to perceive your guiltlessness, which is already there. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.III.15:7–16:5;19:1-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Nothing is worthy of our trust in the world because nothing we perceive is real. This is why experiencing the peace of God in the world is impossible as long as we believe separation and specialness are real.

Yet it is possible to learn what can be truly trusted if we accept the Holy Spirit’s help in everything we think, say and do. We have trained ourselves to trust in what is untrustworthy. Now we need to unlearn this mistaken trust.

We need to reinforce a new habit of welcoming the Holy Spirit’s help every day, all day. This new habit requires reinforcement again and again daily. It is a practice that leads us to the peace of God. It leads to the experience of God’s Love that far exceeds anything we can experience in this world. It leads to forgiving the world for all we thought it was and awakening to our Home in Heaven. Let’s join in this practice today.

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Accepting Perfect Happiness

…sin [separation] is not real, and all that you believe must come from sin will never happen, for it has no cause. ³Accept Atonement with an open mind, which cherishes no lingering belief that you have made a devil of God’s Son. ⁴There is no sin. ⁵We practice with this thought as often as we can today, because it is the basis for today’s idea.

God’s Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is causeless. ²Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself. ³Fear not the Will of God. ⁴But turn to It in confidence that [God’s Will] will set you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination. ⁵Say:

⁶God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
⁷There is no sin; it has no consequence.

³You are set on freedom’s road, and now today’s idea brings wings to speed you on, and hope to go still faster to the waiting goal of peace. ⁴There is no sin. ⁵Remember this today, and tell yourself as often as you can:

⁶God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
⁷This is the truth, because there is no sin. (A Course in Miracles, W-101.5:2–6:7;7:3-7. See also ACIM Lesson 101 Insights.)

The cause of all our fear and guilt is the mistaken belief that we have changed what God created as His Son. We have accepted a false identity in a dream that could never be real. All the pain and lovelessness that we experience in the world is not God’s Will for His Son, our true Self.

God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. The fact that we do not experience His joy does not mean He has changed His Will. It only means that we are refusing to accept His Will because we believe separation and specialness is more to our liking. To avoid acknowledging the price we pay for this preference, the ego directs us to project our belief on an outside world. This is the ego’s sleight of hand to hide the fact that it is only our mistaken belief that denies the Love and joy that is God’s Will for us.

We need to remember that joy and peace are God’s Will for us. The acceptance of this fact is our release from the hell of the ego’s denial.

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Bringing Joy to the World

Projection makes perception. ²The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. ³But though it is no more than that, it is not less. ⁴Therefore, to you it is important. ⁵It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. ⁶As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. ⁷Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. ⁸Perception is a result and not a cause. ⁹And that is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. ¹⁰Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. ¹¹Nothing perceived without it means anything. ¹²And where there is no meaning, there is chaos.

⁷The world you see but shows you how much joy you have allowed yourself to see in you, and to accept as yours. ⁸And, if this is its meaning, then the power to give [the world] joy must lie within you. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.in.1;2:7-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The world we perceive gives us constant immediate feedback about what we believe about ourselves. This is why all things are lessons God would have us learn. To learn His lessons, we must be willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s guidance and vision. If we are willing, He will teach us to see the unchanging presence of Love beyond appearances of chaos, lack and loss.

Today we remind ourselves that we want to learn the Holy Spirit’s lessons. We want the joy and peace we will perceive when we let His vision replace our perceptions of limitation and lack of love. We are willing to accept the truth of our true Self and lay aside the false image we have accepted from the ego. Joy and peace and Love are ours now and we would bring them to the world.

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Opportunities to Choose Christ’s Vision

³You always choose between your weakness and the strength of Christ in you. ⁴And what you choose is what you think is real. ⁵Simply by never using weakness to direct your actions, you have given it no power. ⁶And the light of Christ in you is given charge of everything you do. ⁷For you have brought your weakness unto Him, and He has given you His strength instead.

Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you. ²In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, “My brother, choose again.” ³He would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth. ⁴He would remove all misery from you whom God created altar unto joy. ⁵He would not leave you comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release your mind from everything that hides His face from you. ⁶His Holiness is yours because He is the only power that is real in you. ⁷His strength is yours because He is the Self that God created as His only Son.

The images you make cannot prevail against what God Himself would have you be. ²Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it as it is; another chance to choose again, and let Christ’s strength prevail in every circumstance and every place you raised an image of yourself before. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VIII.2:3–4:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

It doesn’t seem that we choose everything that we experience in this world. No one in their right mind would choose pain and suffering, fear and guilt. It is not our right mind that makes this choice. The insane believe what they perceive is real and true and will not raise it to question. They defend, even unto death, the “reality” of their perceptions.

Beneath these perceptions the Mind of Christ remains in us. It lovingly calls to us to choose a different way of seeing. It offers us the vision of Christ which sees beyond the false perceptions to the changeless, eternal presence of the Self God created one with Him in Love. We answer the call by reminding ourselves that we are God’s Son. We remain as He created us.

All God’s peace and strength are ours now. We free ourselves from our insane beliefs by bringing our perceptions to the Christ within with willingness to choose Christ’s vision to see them differently. With this practice, we bring healing to the world. We become messengers of God with the message that His peace is now and forever. We are His Love and His joy. We remain as God created us.

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Claiming Our Real Life in God’s Love

Why would you not be overjoyed to be assured that all the evil that you think you did was never done, that all your sins are nothing, that you are as pure and holy as you were created, and that light and joy and peace abide in you? ²Your image of yourself cannot withstand the Will of God. ³You think that [the Will of God] is death, but it is life. ⁴You think you are destroyed, but you are saved.

The self you made is not the Son of God. ²Therefore, this self does not exist at all. ³And anything it seems to do and think means nothing. ⁴It is neither bad nor good. ⁵It is unreal, and nothing more than that.

Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. ²Over and over this must be repeated, until it is accepted. ³It is true. ⁴Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. ⁵Nothing can touch it, or change what God created as eternal. ⁶The self you made, evil and full of sin, is meaningless. ⁷Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God, and light and joy and peace abide in you.

If a situation arises that seems to be disturbing, quickly dispel the illusion of fear by repeating these thoughts again. ²Should you be tempted to become angry with someone, tell him silently:

³Light and joy and peace abide in you.
⁴Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. (A Course in Miracles, W-93.4:1–5:5;6;11:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 93 Insights.)

Our real Life is the Life we live in the Love of God. Because only God’s Love is real, we have no other life.

While we identify with the ego, we believe that we have another life. But this life could never be real because the ego denies the Source of Life. We need to change our mind, our belief, about what we are. This lesson is offering us a message we can tell ourselves to remind us that we live eternally in the Light, Love, joy and peace of God.

When our peace is disturbed, when we feel threatened, angry or guilty, we need to remind ourselves about the truth that is in us and that everyone is. This practice helps us let go of our mistaken identification with the ego and its false ideas about reality. The ego is nothing but false beliefs. It cannot threaten the truth in us because it is not real. Its images of limitation and loss only seem real while we believe in the false identity the ego offers. The more we remind ourselves and accept the Truth that lives in us, the less the ego influences our experience.

When we accept that Light and joy and peace abide in us, we remember Who we are. We know we are safe. We know we are complete and one with All in God’s Love. We accept the Life that God wills for us.

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Turning Control Over to God

⁵You are but asked to let the future go, and place it in God’s Hands. ⁶And you will see by your experience that you have laid the past and present in His Hands as well, because the past will punish you no more, and future dread will now be meaningless.

²As [today’s idea] becomes a thought that rules your mind, a habit in your problem-solving repertoire, a way of quick reaction to temptation, you extend your learning to the world. ³And as you learn to see salvation in all things, so will the world perceive that it is saved.

What worry can beset the one who gives his future to the loving Hands of God? ²What can he suffer? ³What can cause him pain, or bring experience of loss to him? ⁴What can he fear? ⁵And what can he regard except with love? ⁶For he who has escaped all fear of future pain has found his way to present peace, and certainty of care the world can never threaten. ⁷He is sure that his perception may be faulty, but will never lack correction. ⁸He is free to choose again when he has been deceived; to change his mind when he has made mistakes.

Place, then, your future in the Hands of God. ²For thus you call the memory of Him to come again, replacing all your thoughts of sin and evil with the truth of love.

²For in God’s Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-194.4:5-6;6:2-8-2;9:2. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)

The ego is a control freak. If we identify with it, our lives are filled with worry that something might happen we cannot control. Or we are stressed with trying to control circumstances and fix other people to comply with what we think is right and good. Occasionally some things do go right, yet we worry that it will not last. And it won’t because illusions are inherently transitory.

It is time to turn control over to our Source Whose sole Will is that we share His peace, joy and Love. What He gives is real and eternal. When we accept His Will for us we have no worries, no efforting, no fear nor guilt. We rest in God’s peace, our eternal Home.

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