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The Path to Quietness and Peace

Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.

Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God’s Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 155, W-pI.155.10:3-6;13. See also ACIM Lesson 155 Insights.)

God knows that we remain innocent, whole, and wholly loving, as He created us. He has trust in what we are because He knows that we remain one with Him. He has not changed His mind about His Creation.

We can trust that God has not forgotten us. We seem to have forgotten What we are, but He has placed in our minds a Reminder Whose function is to remind us of the Truth. We need only be willing to step back and accept the reminders that lead us on the path Home. As we do this, we remember our brothers are one with us. We join with them and bring them along in happy celebration of the Truth. The path that seemed stormy and dangerous becomes quiet and peaceful as we step back and let Him lead the way.

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Learning to Welcome Our One Self

The world obeys the laws that sickness serves, but healing operates apart from them. It is impossible that anyone be healed alone. In sickness must he be apart and separate. But healing is his own decision to be one again, and to accept his Self with all Its parts intact and unassailed. In sickness does his Self appear to be dismembered, and without the unity that gives It life. But healing is accomplished as he sees the body has no power to attack the universal Oneness of God’s Son.

Healing, forgiveness, and the glad exchange of all the world of sorrow for a world where sadness cannot enter, are the means by which the Holy Spirit urges you to follow Him. His gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours; how little practice you need undertake to let His laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death. His life becomes your own, as you extend the little help He asks in freeing you from everything that ever caused you pain. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 137, W-pI.137.3,9. See also ACIM Lesson 137 Insights.)

The images of the world seem to be strong evidence that we are separate individuals, limited to bodies and vulnerable to all kinds of outside influences. When the Course tells us that this world is unreal and we are not bodies, it seems hard to believe. A magician uses slight of hand to make an illusion seem real. We are doing the same thing to ourselves when we believe the world is real.

Fortunately we have the Holy Spirit in our minds, ready to show us the truth that lies beyond the slight of hand that has us convinced we are not the Self that Love created. We each must reach a turning point that brings us to the willingness to ask for help to see past the sad, painful, fearful and vulnerable world that we seem to be in. When we are willing, the Holy Spirit will give us His gentle lessons that teach us we remain whole, at one with our brothers in our one Self.

Today we will remind ourselves often that we are not a body. We are one Self in the one Mind of Love. We are willing to receive the vision that shows us this is true. We are willing to learn another way of seeing that welcomes the truth.

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Dedicating the Day to Forgiveness

The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world; a sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains. The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. Nothing but rest is there. There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there remains outside forgiveness. And the sights are gentle. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.

The world it sees arises from a mind at peace within itself. No danger lurks in anything it sees, for it is kind, and only kindness does it look upon. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 291, W-pII.8.2;3:4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)

It is helpful to remember that any experience of fear, guilt, shame or pain is a symptom of unforgiveness. It is reflecting back to us our belief that we are separate from the Self God created one with Him. It always represents a need for forgiveness.

If we want to experience the real world of happiness and peace, the practice of forgiveness is essential. We must be willing to let our perceptions be corrected by the Holy Spirit in our minds. Vigilance to recognize our mistaken perceptions and willingness to receive Holy Spirit’s correction will bring us to the real world, the forgiven world.

We dedicate today to this practice.

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We Have Help to See the World of Forgiveness

Fear has made everything you think you see. All separation, all distinctions, and the multitude of differences you believe make up the world. They are not there. Love’s enemy has made them up. Yet love can have no enemy, and so they have no cause, no being and no consequence. They can be valued, but remain unreal. They can be sought, but they can not be found.

It is impossible to see two worlds. Let me accept the
strength God offers me and see no value in this world,
that I may find my freedom and deliverance.

God will be there. For you have called upon the great unfailing power which will take this giant step with you in gratitude. Nor will you fail to see His thanks expressed in tangible perception and in truth. You will not doubt what you will look upon, for though it is perception, it is not the kind of seeing that your eyes alone have ever seen before. And you will know God’s strength upheld you as you made this choice. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 130, W-pI.130.4:1-7;8:5-9:5. See also ACIM Lesson 130 Insights.)

The world we perceive is the effect of believing we have separated from God’s Love. It is a veil that blinds us to the reality of our oneness with our Creator. Because God’s strength is hidden from us, we feel vulnerable and alone.

Yet God’s strength remains in us. We can call up on His strength to support us in our willingness to reclaim our reality in the oneness of Love. His strength will help us let go of our mistaken values which have hidden the truth from our awareness. It is His strength in us that will part the veil and bring us to Heaven’s release from the hell of separation. With His help, we will see the real world of forgiveness which sees the radiant innocence in our brothers and ourselves. And we will be comforted by the certainty that we stand at the door of our Home where we are eternally welcome.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Lessons

Beyond all idols is the Thought God holds of you. Completely unaffected by the turmoil and the terror of the world, the dreams of birth and death that here are dreamed, the myriad of forms that fear can take; quite undisturbed, the Thought God holds of you remains exactly as It always was. Surrounded by a stillness so complete no sound of battle comes remotely near, It rests in certainty and perfect peace. Here is your one reality kept safe, completely unaware of all the world that worships idols, and that knows not God. In perfect sureness of Its changelessness and of Its rest in Its eternal home, the Thought God holds of you has never left the Mind of its Creator, Whom it knows as Its Creator knows that It is there.

An idol or the Thought God holds of you is your reality. Forget not, then, that idols must keep hidden what you are, not from the Mind of God, but from your own. The star shines still; the sky has never changed. But you, the holy Son of God Himself, are unaware of your reality.” (A Course in Miracles, T-30.III.10;11:7-10. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The world we see through the body’s eyes seem so real. Yet the Course is telling us that what we see, along with the body, is just made up images that hide our true Reality from our awareness. This is good news, because the world we see is constantly changing, unreliable and offers us no certain safety.

Though we are unaware of it, God holds us as His Thought eternally in His Mind, safe, changeless and whole. As we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s lessons, we will learn to see past the false images of the world, recognizing their meaninglessness. What has no meaning nor substance cannot prevent us from becoming aware of the certainty of our safety in God. The Holy Spirit’s lessons are lessons in Love, peace and perfect happiness. We would accept His lessons today.

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Vigilance for God’s Will Brings Healing

There is no substitute for the Will of God. In simple statement, it is to this fact that the teacher of God devotes his day. Each substitute he may accept as real can but deceive him. But he is safe from all deception if he so decides. Perhaps he needs to remember, “God is with me. I cannot be deceived.” Perhaps he prefers other words, or only one, or none at all. Yet each temptation to accept magic as true must be abandoned through his recognition, not that it is fearful, not that it is sinful, not that it is dangerous, but merely that it is meaningless. Rooted in sacrifice and separation, two aspects of one error and no more, he merely chooses to give up all that he never had. And for this “sacrifice” is Heaven restored to his awareness.

“There is no will but God’s.” His teachers know that this is so, and have learned that everything but this is magic. All belief in magic is maintained by just one simple-minded illusion; — that it works. All through his training, every day and every hour, and even every minute and second, must God’s teachers learn to recognize the forms of magic and perceive their meaninglessness. Fear is withdrawn from them, and so they go. And thus the gate of Heaven is reopened, and its light can shine again on an untroubled mind. (A Course in Miracles, M-16.10;11:6-11)

The fact that there is no will but God’s is why only Love is real. Joy and peace are attributes of Love. Thus God’s will for us is perfect happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed.

If we are not experiencing God’s Love and peace and joy, then we have accepted a will that is different from God’s Will. It is a false will that can have no real effect, but our acceptance of it makes it seem that it has an effect. Acceptance of this false will as a substitute for God’s Will is why we experience fear, guilt, pain and loss.

Yet these are only the effect of magic thoughts which come from belief in a will separate from God’s. If we want to be healed and to heal, we must be willing to recognize that the idea of a will separate from God’s is meaningless. Being meaningless, it can have no effect.

We free ourselves to return to the Heaven of God’s Love by being vigilant for these magic thoughts and giving them to the Holy Spirit to be corrected. This is how we learn to see past the false to the eternal truth that only Love is real.

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Replacing Our Perception with Holy Spirit’s Vision

Only if it were possible the Son of God could leave his Father’s Mind, make himself different, and oppose His Will, would it be possible that the self he made, and all it made, should be his master.

Behold the great projection, but look on it with the decision that it must be healed, and not with fear. Nothing you made has any power over you unless you still would be apart from your Creator, and with a will opposed to His. For only if you would believe His Son could be His enemy does it seem possible that what you made is yours. You would condemn His joy to misery, and make Him different. And all the misery you made has been your own. Are you not glad to learn it is not true? Is it not welcome news to hear not one of the illusions that you made replaced the truth? (A Course in Miracles, T-22.II.9:6-10:7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

It does seem difficult to believe that everything we perceive in the world is an illusion, a projection of our own mind. We cannot dismiss it by proclaiming, “It’s just an illusion.” If anything we perceive in the world interferes with our joy or disturbs our peace, we are believing the world is real, not an illusion.

If we are willing, the Holy Spirit will use these disruptive and disturbing perceptions to bring our attention to the need to heal our minds. We can bring these perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His vision in their place. This is how we heal our mind. This is how we loose the world from all we thought it was.

Through this process, we learn to see the illusions of the world for what they are — not through proclamation but through accepting a new vision received of the Holy Spirit. This is how we learn to distinguish illusion from truth. This is how we learn to recognize our brother as our savior, at one with us.

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