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Passing from the Ego’s Darkness to God’s Light

God is the light in which I see.

In order to see, you must recognize that light is within, not without. You do not see outside yourself, nor is the equipment for seeing outside you. An essential part of this equipment is the light that makes seeing possible. It is with you always, making vision possible in every circumstance.

…leave behind everything that you now believe, and all the thoughts that you have made up. Properly speaking, this is the release from hell.

If you can stand aside from the ego by ever so little, you will have no difficulty in recognizing that its opposition and its fears are meaningless.

…what is needful is a sense of the importance of what you are doing; its inestimable value to you, and an awareness that you are attempting something very holy. Salvation is your hap­piest accomplishment. It is also the only one that has any mean­ing, because it is the only one that has any real use to you at all.

And do not forget that [the thoughts of this world] cannot hold you to the world unless you give them the power to do so. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 44, W-pI.44.2;5:4-5;6:1;8;10:3. See also ACIM Lesson 44 Insights.)

The Course tells us that our experience as a body in the world is a dream that is not real. It only seems real within the dream because we believe the ego thought system that teaches separation is real. The Course is teaching us to withdraw our belief that the ego’s lies are true.

Believing a lie is true does not make it real, although it seems real because of our belief. This lesson teaches us to go deeply within our mind by passing by our mistaken beliefs. They can have no effect on our true Self, Which remains united with God. The practice of passing by mistaken beliefs and opening to the Light of Love within our mind is the most meaningful use of time in the world. It is a practice that saves us from the ego’s limitation to accept the limitless Love we were created to be as God’s Son.

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Finding the Love We Are

Whom God created limitless is free. I can invent imprisonment for him, but only in illusions, not in truth. No Thought of God has left its Father’s Mind. No Thought of God is limited at all. No Thought of God but is forever pure. Can I lay limits on the Son of God, whose Father willed that he be limitless, and like Himself in freedom and in love?

Today let me give honor to Your Son, for thus alone I find the way to You. Father, I lay no limits on the Son You love and You created limitless. The honor that I give to him is Yours, and what is Yours belongs to me as well. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 280, W-pII.280. See also ACIM Lesson 280 Insights.)

While we are identifying with the ego, we are constantly searching for Love in myriad forms such as acceptance, appreciation, status, money and sex. This is because the ego is the idea of limited Love. Because of this, the ego does not know what Love is. Searching within the ego thought system will never bring us the Love we seek.

Yet we were created by Love as Love. We do not need to seek for what we already have. But we do need to seek for the barriers we hold in our mind that deny Love’s presence. A Course in Miracles offers us help to recognize these barriers and let them go. It is a course designed to help us accept God’s gift of all His Love without limit. This is our inheritance.

At the center of the Course’s lessons is the assurance that God has given us His Teacher in our minds to guide us to awaken to the reality of the Love we have and are. Today we practice frequently checking in with the Holy Spirit in our mind to receive His true perception in the situations and relationships we encounter throughout the day.

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True Perception Sees Only Truth

The holy instant is the shining example, the clear and unequivocal demonstration of the meaning of every relationship and every situation, seen as a whole. …It is a situation of perfect peace, simply because you have let it be what it is.

This simple courtesy is all the Holy Spirit asks of you. Let truth be what it is. Do not intrude upon it, do not attack it, do not interrupt its coming. Let it encompass every situation and bring you peace. Not even faith is asked of you, for truth asks nothing. Let [truth] enter, and it will call forth and secure for you the faith you need for peace. But rise you not against it, for against your opposition it cannot come. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.VIII.1:4,6;2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Perception is selective. Perception is an ego device used to filter out what it does not want and allow awareness only of what confirms belief in separation. Thus everything we perceive in the world is not seen as a whole because it denies the truth that only the oneness of Love is real. The ego’s special relationships single out situations as different, denying the universality of Love.

The holy instant is a moment of acceptance of truth. In that instant, Love is accepted as what It is, with no differences and no limits. We accept the Holy Spirit’s call to truth. Because Love is true and nothing else is true, accepting truth brings peace with it. Love is one so there can be no conflict in It.

Today we choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s true perception in place of the ego’s perceptions that deny truth. We choose the Holy Spirit’s vision because we want to experience the peace of God. We want to accept the our true Self that God created as His Son.

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The Investment with Infinite Return

This is a year of joy, in which your listening will increase and peace will grow with its increase. The power of holiness and the weakness of attack are both being brought into your awareness.

Today, let us resolve together to accept the joyful tidings that disaster is not real and that reality is not disaster. Reality is safe and sure, and wholly kind to everyone and everything. There is no greater love than to accept this and be glad. For love asks only that you be happy, and will give you everything that makes for happiness.

You have never given any problem to the Holy Spirit He has not solved for you, nor will you ever do so. You have never tried to solve anything yourself and been successful. …This year invest in truth, and let it work in peace. Have faith in Him Who has faith in you. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.II.7:1-2;8:5-8;9:1-2,7-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We invest in truth by welcoming peace because peace is the condition of truth. Whenever we are agitated in any way to even the slightest degree, we are believing in the lies of the ego.

Let us join together today in the practice of pausing frequently throughout the day to welcome peace into our minds. This is how we invest in truth. The more we welcome peace, the greater our joy, for in peace we withdraw our investment in the ego, which offers no return. By withdrawing our misdirected investment, we welcome God’s investment in giving His holy Son all His joy and Love. This investment returns everything to us at the “cost” of giving up what never existed in truth.

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Forgetting the Past Reveals Present Love

Let me forget my brother’s past today.

This is the thought that leads the way to You, and brings me to my goal. I cannot come to You without my brother. And to know my Source, I first must recognize what You created one with me. My brother’s is the hand that leads me on the way to You. His sins are in the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone. Let me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to You. My brother is my savior. Let me not attack the savior You have given me. But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so remember that It is my own.

Forgive me, then, today. And you will know you have for­given me if you behold your brother in the light of holiness. He cannot be less holy than can I, and you can not be holier than he. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 288, W-pII.288. See also ACIM Lesson 288 Insights.)

The past is an ego construct. It is a repository where we store all our regrets and memories of loss, pain and harm. Without using the past as the basis for interpreting the present, there would be no fear or guilt.

This is why we need to forget the past, whether we perceive it as a brother’s past or our own. They are the one and the same — illusions. By forgetting the past, we make way for the reality of Love in the present to dawn upon our minds. Without the past, we recognize our brothers as one with our one Self, the Son of God. When the past has been let go, forgiveness is complete and we awaken to the loving Home God created for His Son, forever united in Love.

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The Need for Willingness

Prepare yourself for miracles today. Today allow your Father’s ancient pledge to you and all your brothers to be kept.

Hear Him today, and listen to the Word which lifts the veil that lies upon the earth, and wakes all those who sleep and cannot see. God calls to them through you. He needs your voice to speak to them, for who could reach God’s Son except his Father, calling through your Self? Hear Him today, and offer Him your voice to speak to all the multitude who wait to hear the Word that He will speak today.”

I will be still and listen to the truth.
What does it mean to give and to receive?

Ask and expect an answer. Your request is one whose answer has been waiting long to be received by you. It will begin the ministry for which you came, and which will free the world from thinking giving is a way to lose. And so the world becomes ready to understand and to receive. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 106, W-pI.106.4:8-5:4;7:5-8:4. See also ACIM Lesson 106 Insights.)

The key to all healing is willingness to stop and receive. We need to be willing to let go of our perceptions. We need to be willing to forgive and let Love guide all our doing, all our thoughts. We need to ask for the Holy Spirit’s help because asking is an expression of willingness. When we open the way in our mind to receive His guidance, we will receive it, guaranteed by God. We are asking for what is already given, awaiting our willingness to receive it.

Today we practice asking for His vision, for we are willing to give as we receive.

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Breaking Down Our Barriers to Love

Little children recognize that they do not understand what they perceive, and so they ask what it means. Do not make the mistake of believing that you understand what you perceive, for its meaning is lost to you. Yet the Holy Spirit has saved its meaning for you, and if you will let Him interpret it, He will restore to you what you have thrown away. Yet while you think you know its meaning, you will see no need to ask it of Him.

You do not know the meaning of anything you perceive. Not one thought you hold is wholly true. The recognition of this is your firm beginning. You are not misguided; you have accepted no guide at all. Instruction in perception is your great need, for you understand nothing. Recognize this but do not accept it, for understanding is your inheritance. Perceptions are learned, and you are not without a Teacher. Yet your willingness to learn of Him depends on your willingness to question everything you learned of yourself, for you who learned amiss should not be your own teacher. (A Course in Miracles, T-11.VIII.2:2-5;3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Everyone has had the experience of learning that a perception they thought was true was proven to be incorrect. All our perceptions as a separate individual are based on incomplete facts. This is because the belief in being an individual denies the fact that only the oneness of Love is real. There is nothing in the world of individuals that can teach us this fact.

But we have an inner Teacher Who speaks for our true Self Who is ready and willing to teach us what is false and what is true. But to receive these transformative lessons we must question everything we believe is true now. When we are ready to consider that our perceptions and beliefs may be incorrect, we are open to learn the truth. This questioning is essential if we want to awaken and remember that we are at Home in the peace and joy of God’s changeless Love.

Today we practice taking all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His loving correction. This is how we break down the walls we have built up against the truth. This is how we return Home to Love.

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