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The Holy Spirit’s Loving Lessons

Illusions will not last. ²Their death is sure and this alone is certain in their world. ³It is the ego’s world because of this. ⁴What is the ego? ⁵But a dream of what you really are. ⁶A thought you are apart from your Creator and a wish to be what He created not.

What is the ego? ²Nothingness, but in a form that seems like something.

The ego’s opposite in every way,—in origin, effect and consequence—we call a miracle.

What is a miracle? ²A dream as well. ³But look at all the aspects of this dream and you will never question any more. ⁴Look at the kindly world you see extend before you as you walk in gentleness. ⁵Look at the helpers all along the way you travel, happy in the certainty of Heaven and the surety of peace. ⁶And look an instant, too, on what you left behind at last and finally passed by.

This was the ego—all the cruel hate, the need for vengeance and the cries of pain, the fear of dying and the urge to kill, the brotherless illusion and the self that seemed alone in all the universe. ²This terrible mistake about yourself the miracle corrects as gently as a loving mother sings her child to rest.

The miracle forgives; the ego damns. (A Course in Miracles, C-2.1:1-6;2:1-2;5:1;7:1–8:2;10:1)

When we act and perceive according to the ego’s dictates, we are participating in a dream that does nothing. It has no effect on what we are as God’s Son. But it does keep us engaged in the dream which makes us unaware of the Love we are. The dream denies Love so it is filled with fear, conflict and condemnation.

We make what we treasure appear real. Because the ego is only a dream, we can dismiss it by recognizing it is not real. Illusions recognized as unreal disappear, for they are no longer valued. We need to learn that nothingness has no value. It is an investment that yields nothing in return.

We can learn to recognize illusions for what they are and forgive them — let them go. This is the Holy Spirit’s sole purpose for the dream. Forgiveness clears away the barriers to the awareness of Love’s presence.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s kind and loving lessons in forgiveness. We hold the Holy Spirit’s Hand as we journey to the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Accepting True Perception

⁵To be one is to be of one mind or will. ⁶When the Will of the Sonship and the Father are One, their perfect accord is Heaven.

Nothing can prevail against a Son of God who commends his spirit into the Hands of his Father. ²By doing this the mind awakens from its sleep and remembers its Creator. ³All sense of separation disappears.

The way to correct distortions is to withdraw your faith in them and invest it only in what is true. ²You cannot make untruth true. ³If you are willing to accept what is true in everything you perceive, you let it be true for you. ⁴Truth overcomes all error, and those who live in error and emptiness can never find lasting solace. ⁵If you perceive truly you are cancelling out misperceptions in yourself and in others simultaneously. ⁶Because you see them as they are, you offer them your acceptance of their truth so they can accept it for themselves. ⁷This is the healing that the miracle induces. (A Course in Miracles, T-3.II.4:5–5:3;6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we invest our faith in the ego, we perceive a world where separate bodies, separate interests and separate wills appear to be true. In this perception, conflict and loss is inevitable. But this is false perception based on our investment in the ego’s wish for specialness.

Our perceptions can be healed if we accept the Holy Spirit’s purpose for the body. He uses the body to teach true perception, which looks upon the presence of Love everywhere. In this perception we naturally join in Love’s oneness. We accept God’s Will as our own. When we no longer hold any wish to be separate, we awaken to Heaven. We awaken to Love.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s gift of true perception. We want to remember we are Love.

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The Choice to Be a Bringer of Peace

Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.

Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. ²I am Your Son, forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays remain forever still and undisturbed within me. ³I would reach to them in silence and in certainty, for nowhere else can certainty be found. ⁴Peace be to me, and peace to all the world. ⁵In holiness were we created, and in holiness do we remain. ⁶Your Son is like to You in perfect sinlessness. ⁷And with this thought we gladly say “Amen.” (A Course in Miracles, W-360. See also ACIM Lesson 360 Insights.)

Would we bring peace or conflict to the world? We answer that question by the guide we choose. The ego thrives on conflict using judgment as its primary tool to foster division and battles over who is right. On the other hand, the Holy Spirit sees only the oneness of Love. Love does not condemn; It cannot divide and be Itself.

By choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide, we become bringers of peace. Where the ego sees “others,” the Holy Spirit sees only Itself in everyone, for the Holy Spirit sees only Reality. The ego perceives only illusions. Will we be bringers of peace today? The choice is ours. We have the means to remember we dwell in the peace of God.

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The Choice for Love and Peace

The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. ²It cannot come where there is conflict, for a mind at war against itself remembers not eternal gentleness. ³The means of war are not the means of peace, and what the warlike would remember is not love. ⁴War is impossible unless belief in victory is cherished. ⁵Conflict within you must imply that you believe the ego has the power to be victorious.

Conflict must be between two forces. ²It cannot exist between one power and nothingness. ³There is nothing you could attack that is not part of you. ⁴And by attacking it you make two illusions of yourself, in conflict with each other. ⁵And this occurs whenever you look on anything that God created with anything but love.… ⁹Let all this madness be undone for you, and turn in peace to the rememberance of God, still shining in your quiet mind.

Illusion meets illusion; truth, itself. ²The meeting of illusions leads to war. ³Peace, looking on itself, extends itself. ⁴War is the condition in which fear is born, and grows and seeks to dominate. ⁵Peace is the state where love abides, and seeks to share itself. ⁶Conflict and peace are opposites. ⁷Where one abides the other cannot be; where either goes the other disappears. ⁸So is the memory of God obscured in minds that have become illusions’ battleground. ⁹Yet far beyond this senseless war it (memory of God) shines, ready to be remembered when you side with peace. (A Course in Miracles, T-23.I.1:1-5;8:1-5,9;12. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The dream of a world was made to be a place where God, Love, is forgotten. Being one and the same always and everywhere, there is no conflict in Love. In every moment we choose between the ego and its dream of conflict and our true Self and the changelessness of Love.

Fear is inevitable in dreams of conflict. Likewise only the reality of Love is in the memory of God. In His remembrance, fear is impossible; peace is a constant, invulnerable state. In truth, the memory of God is all we really want. Nothing else will satisfy, for it is the awakening to our true Self.

Today we pause frequently to welcome peace in our mind, for we would remember the Love of God.

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The Means to Awaken to Love

Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. ²It lets you recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your mind.

Why would you seek an answer other than the answer that will answer everything? ²Here is the perfect answer, given to imperfect questions, meaningless requests, halfhearted willingness to hear, and less than halfway diligence and partial trust. ³Here is the answer! ⁴Seek for it no more. ⁵You will not find another one instead.

³Forgive and be forgiven. ⁴As you give you will receive. ⁵There is no plan but this for the salvation of the Son of God. ⁶Let us today rejoice that this is so, for here we have an answer, clear and plain, beyond deceit in its simplicity. ⁷All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth [Forgiveness offers everything I want.] (A Course in Miracles, W-122.3:1-2;4;6:3-7. See also ACIM Lesson 122 Insights.)

Everyone is searching for peace and happiness. The only thing that interferes with having this experience is seeking for it where it cannot be found. If we choose the ego as our guide, it will direct us on quests to find some form in the world that will make us happy or feel safe. But there is nothing in the world that can truly offer this. It is just a dream of empty images that have no meaning of their own.

True and lasting peace and happiness are gifts from God, the only Source of Reality. We accept His gifts when we forgive our ego-based beliefs that deny God’s gifts.

Today we remind ourselves that we do not know on our own where to find peace and happiness. The idea of being alone is a barrier to the awareness of Love’s presence. We ask the Holy Spirit, God’s Messenger of Love, to help us see past our mistaken perceptions to the Love that never changes. We want to return to the Home God created for us where Love is all there Is. Here God shares all His joy and peace without limit nor end. We are grateful that we have the means to awaken to the Love we are.

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Seeing Our Brothers as One with Our Self

Never forget that the Sonship is your salvation, for the Sonship is your Self. ²As God’s creation It is yours, and belonging to you It is His. ³Your Self does not need salvation, but your mind needs to learn what salvation is. ⁴You are not saved from anything, but you are saved for glory. ⁵Glory is your inheritance, given you by your Creator that you might extend it. ⁶Yet if you hate part of your Self all your understanding is lost, because you are looking on what God created as yourself without love. ⁷And since what He created is part of Him, you are denying Him His place in His Own altar.

Could you try to make God homeless and know that you are at home? ²Can the Son deny the Father without believing that the Father has denied him? ³God’s laws hold only for your protection, and they never hold in vain. ⁴What you experience when you deny your Father is still for your protection, for the power of your will cannot be lessened without the intervention of God against it, and any limitation on your power is not the Will of God. ⁵Therefore, look only to the power that God gave to save you, remembering that it is yours because it is His, and join with your brothers in His peace.

Your peace lies in its limitlessness. ²Limit the peace you share, and your Self must be unknown to you. (A Course in Miracles, T-11.IV.1:1–3:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we believe that the body is our or our brother’s identity, we are denying God’s Love. The body identity is the target of all the ego’s judgments. Judgment is used as justification for limiting the peace we share. We cannot believe anything is separate from us and share God’s peace without limit.

The path of return to peace is lit by forgiveness of the forms of separation we believe are real. This is why forgiveness is the means for our return to Love and the limitless peace that comes with it. Today we practice reminding ourselves as we think about our brother that beyond the appearance of a body lies the unity of God’s Love we share with all. As we see our brothers, we see ourselves.

Let us join together today in asking the Holy Spirit to help us see past the body to the presence of Love.

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Finding Our Real Thoughts of Love

³There is no relationship between what is real and what you think is real. ⁴Nothing that you think are your real thoughts resemble your real thoughts in any respect. ⁵Nothing that you think you see bears any resemblance to what vision will show you.

You think with the Mind of God. ²Therefore you share your thoughts with Him, as He shares His with you. ³They are the same thoughts, because they are thought by the same Mind. ⁴To share is to make alike, or to make one. ⁵Nor do the thoughts you think with the Mind of God leave your mind, because thoughts do not leave their source. ⁶Therefore, your thoughts are in the Mind of God, as you are. ⁷They are in your mind as well, where He is. ⁸As you are part of His Mind, so are your thoughts part of His Mind.

⁴We will not let the thoughts of the world hold us back. ⁵We will not let the beliefs of the world tell us that what God would have us do is impossible. ⁶Instead, we will try to recognize that only what God would have us do is possible.

…tell yourself gently:

⁴My real thoughts are in my mind. ⁵I would like to find them.

⁶Then try to go past all the unreal thoughts that cover the truth in your mind, and reach to the eternal.

…this is no idle game, but an exercise in holiness and an attempt to reach the Kingdom of Heaven. (A Course in Miracles, W-45.1:3–2:8;4:4-6;6:3-6;8:7. See also ACIM Lesson 45 Insights.)

We have so thoroughly indoctrinated ourselves into believing the ego’s make-believe world is real that it is hard to fathom that the thoughts we are aware of are not our real thoughts. Yet this fact is the basis upon which our release from the ego’s limitations rests.

We can dispel the veil of the ego’s thoughts which hide our real thoughts if we are willing to reach for the eternal changeless Love of God. God’s Thoughts extend His Love. Our real thoughts we share with Him join in the limitless extension of Love. They dwell in Heaven, the Home of our Creator and our true Self.

God wills that we remain one with Him. It must be possible to awaken to what has always been real. Today we welcome the thoughts of Love we share with our Source.

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