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The End of Fear

Be in my mind, my Father, when I wake, and shine on me throughout the day today. Let every minute be a time in which I dwell with You. And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that You have remained with me, and always will be there to hear my call to You and answer me. As evening comes, let all my thoughts be still of You and of Your Love. And let me sleep sure of my safety, certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son.

This is as every day should be. Today, practice the end of fear. Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because you are His Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 232, W-pII.232. See also ACIM Lesson 232 Insights.)

The acceptance of God’s Love is the end of fear. Every apprehension, feeling of sadness or anger, every thought of guilt, comes from a belief in lack of Love. It is a call for Love. God is ever present to hear and answer our call. The practice of bringing all our thoughts of lack of Love and accepting His answer takes us closer to the end of fear. Repeating this prayer throughout the day helps us accept the Love of God that is already ours.

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The Joy of Being Love

The ego is the part of the mind that believes your existence is defined by separation.

Existence [a separate ego identity] as well as being [oneness] rests on communication. Existence [separation], however, is specific in how, what and with whom communication is judged to be worth undertaking. Being is completely without these distinctions. It is a state in which the mind is in communication with everything that is real [Love]. To whatever extent you permit this state [of being Love] to be curtailed you are limiting your sense of your own reality [Love], which becomes total only by recognizing all reality in the glorious context of its real relationship to you. [Love] is your reality. Do not desecrate it or recoil from it. [Love] is your real home, your real temple and your real Self. (A Course in Miracles,T-4.VII.1:5;4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Because only Love is real, nothing exists outside Its all-encompassing oneness. Believing in separation is believing in what could never be real. A defining characteristic of the ego belief in separation is having distinctions between perceived parts. There can be no distinctions in oneness. Believing distinctions are real limits our experience of the Reality of Love. What we deny, we are not aware of. This denial makes a loveless world and leaves us feeling vulnerable because we are denying the power of Love in us.

Our true Self sees Love everywhere and joins with all in that Love. The nature of Love is to extend Itself. When we join with the Love in everyone, we join with the joyous, eternal extension of Love. As we become aware of our limiting thoughts, our perceptions of distinctions, we can release them by letting Holy Spirit in our mind shine the Light of Love on them. In this Light we see beyond the illusion of separation to the one Self we share with all. Our mind is healed.

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Gratitude for the Truth in Our Brother

Your gratitude to your brother is the only gift I want. I will bring it to God for you, knowing that to know your brother is to know God. If you are grateful to your brother, you are grateful to God for what He created. Through your gratitude you come to know your brother, and one moment of real recognition makes everyone your brother [equally] because each of them is of your Father.

As you come closer to a brother you approach me, and as you withdraw from him I become distant to you. Salvation is a collaborative venture. It cannot be undertaken successfully by those who disengage themselves from the Sonship, because they are disengaging themselves from me. God will come to you only as you will give Him [perfect Love] to your brothers. Learn first of [perfect Love in] them and you will be ready to hear God. That is because the function of love is one. (A Course in Miracles,T-4.VI.7:2-5;8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The body, which represents separation, is not what we are nor is it any brother. Being an illusion with no meaning of its own, it is not worthy of gratitude unless it is used in the service of Holy Spirit. To be grateful to our brother is to be grateful for the Truth in him, which is that he is God’s Love and nothing else. That is why gratitude for our brother is gratitude to God.

What we appreciate or value opens our mind to receive more of what we value. If we value illusions of separation, we seek more illusions. What we give value to seems to be real. Yet only God’s Creations are real. The illusions we make with the ego can never be real. This recognition is the key to remembering God. As we let the Holy Spirit teach us to see the Truth in our brother, our gratitude opens our hearts to receive God’s gifts. We remember Who we are in Truth.

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Accepting God’s World as Our Own

Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. Nor can I suffer pain, or feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world. This is my home because I judge it not, and therefore is it only what You will. Let me today behold it uncondemned, through happy eyes forgiveness has released from all distortion. Let me see Your world instead of mine. And all the tears I shed will be forgotten, for their source is gone. Father, I will not judge Your world today.

God’s world is happy. Those who look on it can only add their joy to it, and bless it as a cause of further joy in them. We wept because we did not understand. But we have learned the world we saw was false, and we will look upon God’s world today.

Father, our eyes are opening at last. Your holy world awaits us, as our sight is finally restored and we can see. We thought we suffered. But we had forgot the Son whom You created. Now we see that darkness is our own imagining, and light is there for us to look upon. Christ’s vision changes darkness into light, for fear must disappear when love has come. Let me forgive Your holy world today, that I may look upon its holiness and understand it but reflects my own. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 301,W-pII.301.1-2 302.1. See also ACIM Lesson 301 Insights.)

God’s world cannot be seen with the body’s eyes. It is seen through Christ’s vision, which is the vision of Love. Christ’s vision in our mind sees the innocence of Love’s oneness. Our eyes open to seeing God’s world as we accept Christ’s vision in place of what the body sees.

The ego’s world of separation depends upon judgment in all its perceptions. This is why forgiveness is needed to receive Christ’s vision, which will reveal God’s gifts of joy and peace. By letting Christ’s vision in our mind look past the images of the world, we see the real world, the world forgiveness sees. With this vision, we extend God’s Love in place of the ego’s denial of Love. With Christ’s vision, there is no cause for sadness, guilt or fear. We see only Love’s reflection everywhere.

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Attaining the State of Peace

Forget not that the motivation for this course is the attainment and the keeping of the state of peace. Given this state the mind is quiet, and the condition in which God is remembered is attained. It is not necessary to tell Him what to do. He will not fail. Where He can enter, there He is already. And can it be He cannot enter where He wills to be? Peace will be yours because it is His Will. Can you believe a shadow can hold back the Will that holds the universe secure? God does not wait upon illusions to let Him be Himself. No more His Son. They are. And what illusion that idly seems to drift between Them has the power to defeat what is [the Father’s and Son’s] Will?

To learn this course requires willingness to question every value that you hold. Not one [value] can be kept hidden and obscure but it will jeopardize your learning. No belief is neutral. Every [belief] has the power to dictate each decision you make. For a decision is a conclusion based on everything that you believe. [A decision] is the outcome of belief, and follows it as surely as does suffering follow guilt and freedom sinlessness. There is no substitute for peace. What God creates has no alternative. The truth arises from what He knows. And your decisions come from your beliefs as certainly as all creation rose in His Mind because of what He knows. (A Course in Miracles,T-24.in.1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

All our guilt, fear, any lack of peace, comes from our belief that there is an alternative to God’s peace. The core of this belief is the wish to usurp our Creator and make our own universe, separate and distinct from the universe of Love’s oneness.

Only Love is real. Thus only in illusion does it seem to be possible to make a separate universe. This separate universe seems real only because of our belief in it. Beliefs can change. The reality of oneness cannot. The value we give everything in the dream of separation comes from our belief. This is why we must learn to question the value of everything we perceive in the world.

The Course provides a curriculum to teach us what is valuable and what is valueless. Illusions are valueless, but we must learn to recognize illusions for what they are. The curriculum is a guide for this learning. The benefit of learning this is peace. It is learning that we are perfectly safe, always. We remember that we are loved and loving. There is nothing else.

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Trusting the Truth in Our Brother

We seek for innocence and nothing else. We seek for it with no concern but now.

We do not look to past beliefs, and what we will believe will not intrude upon us now.

if a brother’s sins occur to us, our narrowed focus will restrict our sight, and turn our eyes upon our own mistakes, which we will magnify and call our “sins.” So, for a little while, without regard to past or future, should such blocks arise we will transcend them with instructions to our minds to change their focus, as we say:

It is not this that I would look upon.
I trust my brothers, who are one with me.

As our focus goes beyond mistakes, we will behold a wholly sinless world. When seeing this is all we want to see, when this is all we seek for in the name of true perception, are the eyes of Christ inevitably ours. And the Love He feels for us becomes our own as well. This will become the only thing we see reflected in the world and in ourselves. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 181,W-pI.181.3:5-6;5:6;6:2-5;8:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 181 Insights.)

The appearance of a body that we have given a name is not our brother. It is an ego-made image of separation made to hide the truth in our brother. This illusion cannot be trusted because its function is to justify fear and guilt. Yet illusions can never justify sin because an illusion is nothing and can have no effect.

When we say, “I trust my brother who is one with me,” we are focusing our attention on the one Self that we share with every brother. This Self is Love and nothing else. We are being asked to trust that only Love is real and only the Love in our brother and ourselves can be trusted.

Eternal, changeless Love deserves absolute trust. There is nothing else to trust. This is a complete reversal of what the world teaches because the world teaches the ego’s thought system that denies the reality of Love. It uses the illusion of a past to overlook the present and make up scenarios for the future that repeat the past. This is how the ego maintains its appearance of reality. But Reality cannot be based on illusions.

The practice of focusing on and trusting in the truth of our brother is a powerful tool for reversing our mistaken beliefs and returning to the acceptance that we are Love and nothing else.

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How to Find Peace and Happiness

In quietness are all things answered, and is every problem quietly resolved. In conflict [separation] there can be no answer and no resolution, for its purpose is to make no resolution possible, and to ensure no answer will be plain. A problem set in conflict has no answer, for it is seen in different ways. And what would be an answer from one point of view is not an answer in another light. You are in conflict. Thus it must be clear you cannot answer anything at all, for conflict has no limited effects. Yet if God gave an answer there must be a way in which your problems are resolved, for what He wills already has been done.

Thus it must be that time is not involved and every problem can be answered now. Yet it must also be that, in your state of mind [believing in separation], solution is impossible. Therefore, God must have given you a way of reaching to another state of mind in which the answer is already there. Such is the holy instant. It is here that all your problems should be brought and left. Here they belong, for here their answer is. And where its answer is, a problem must be simple and be easily resolved. It must be pointless to attempt to solve a problem where the answer cannot be. Yet just as surely it must be resolved, if it is brought to where the answer is.

Attempt to solve no problems but within the holy instant’s surety. For there the problem will be answered and resolved. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.IV.1:1-3:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

If we want to find peace and happiness, we must give up thinking we can find answers on our own. Believing we are separate and on our own is the core of every problem. We cannot ask the source of a problem for the answer to the problem and receive resolution. We must look beyond the problem, the state of mind that harbors problems.

In this world conflict seems very real. We need to practice stepping back and going to the quiet place in our mind. This quiet place is ever present because it is the Mind of our true Self. But we must redirect our focus from the mind of conflict to the quiet mind, where true resolution can be found.

When a problem looms large and seems threatening, it takes vigilance to step back from the conflict and let peace return to our mind. It may take extra effort to reach that quiet place as conflicting thoughts stream through our mind. We need to set those thoughts aside and focus again on the peace within. As we let that peace grow strong in our awareness, the helpful answer that brings resolution is welcomed.

The more this process is practiced, the easier it becomes to let our problems be resolved. Sometimes a simple mental process of pausing and asking for inspiration is all we need to see the path to resolution. Other issues may seem more difficult but only need more vigilance to return to the peace in our minds. In that place of peace the resolution comes just as easily for every conflict or issue. Let us join together in willingness to go to the quiet place within to let all problems be resolved.

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