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We Practice Forgiveness Through the Day

Across this bridge [of forgiveness], as powerful as love which laid its blessing on it, are all dreams of evil and of hatred and attack brought silently to truth. They are not kept to swell and bluster, and to terrify the foolish dreamer who believes in them. He has been gently wakened from his dream by understanding what he thought he saw was never there. And now he cannot feel that all escape has been denied to him.

Let [your brother] be freed from all the thoughts you had of sin in him. And now you are prepared for freedom. If you have been practicing thus far in willingness and honesty, you will begin to sense a lifting up, a lightening of weight across your chest, a deep and certain feeling of relief. The time remaining should be given to experiencing the escape from all the heavy chains you sought to lay upon your brother, but were laid upon yourself.

Forgiveness should be practiced through the day, for there will still be many times when you forget its meaning and attack yourself. When this occurs, allow your mind to see through this illusion as you tell yourself:

Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
Would I accuse myself of doing this?
I will not lay this chain upon myself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 134, W-pI.134.11;16:1-17:5. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

As we remember “ideas leave not their source” and there is no world outside our mind, we are led to go within and ask the Holy Spirit to lighten our minds so we see the truth behind illusions.

Here we see everyone’s innocence… We see that everyone is still as God created them… We see the Love that resides eternally behind any false perceptions of separation we are holding…

We are willing to see the truth of God’s eternal Love… We are willing to see as our true Self sees… We are willing to forgive illusions of separation and accept the truth of Love’s eternal Oneness… We practice this throughout the day…

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We Are One in Spirit

We state again the truth about your Self, the holy Son of God Who rests in you; whose mind has been restored to sanity. You are the spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father’s Love and peace and joy. You are the spirit which completes Himself, and shares His function as Creator. He is with you always, as you are with Him.

You are the spirit in whose mind abides the miracle in which all time stands still; the miracle in which a minute spent in using these ideas becomes a time that has no limit and that has no end. Give, then, these minutes willingly, and count on Him Who promised to lay timelessness beside them. He will offer all His strength to every little effort that you make. Give Him the minutes which He needs today, to help you understand with Him you are the spirit that abides in Him, and that calls through His Voice to every living thing; offers His sight to everyone who asks; replaces error with the simple truth.

Spirit am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe and
healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 97, W-pI.97.2,4,7:2. See also ACIM Lesson 97 Insights.)

We practice this as we go through the day, reminding ourselves of this important message… We are committed to remembering the truth about ourselves… We remember that this is also the truth about every brother we meet or even think of…

In truth we are all the same Spirit, endowed with all our Father’s Love and peace and joy. We are one in Spirit. We practice extending this truth to everyone we meet today. And what we extend comes back to us tenfold. Here is the Source of our peace. Here is the Source of our joy.

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Seeing with the Vision of Christ

Father, today I would but hear Your Voice. In deepest silence I would come to You, to hear Your Voice and to receive Your Word. I have no prayer but this: I come to You to ask You for the truth. And truth is but Your Will, which I would share with You today.

Today we let no ego thoughts direct our words or actions. When such thoughts occur, we quietly step back and look at them, and then we let them go. We do not want what they would bring with them. And so we do not choose to keep them. They are silent now. And in the stillness, hallowed by His Love, God speaks to us and tells us of our will, as we have chosen to remember Him.” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 254, W-pII.254.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 254 Insights.)

While we perceive the world through the body’s eyes, ego thoughts will pass through our minds. Our practice needs to be to disconnect from those thoughts and let them go. We are not the ego, and the thoughts of the ego thought system are not ours. The key to release and forgiveness is to not see value in the ego’s thoughts. As we withdraw the values we have given the world of separation, we are less and less disturbed by appearances. They become more easily recognized as having no substance and being unable to harm us in any way.

Our practice today is to observe the ego’s thoughts, recognize that we do not want to keep them and turn them over to the Holy Spirit. He will shine the Light of Love upon them and they will fade away. In their place the vision of Christ will come forward in our minds and we will see our brothers as one with us in Love.

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Recognition of Equality Is Healing

Be certain any answer to a problem the Holy Spirit solves will always be one in which no one loses. And this must be true, because He asks no sacrifice of anyone.

The sight of innocence makes punishment impossible, and justice sure. The Holy Spirit’s perception leaves no grounds for an attack. Only a loss could justify attack, and loss of any kind He cannot see.

The principle that justice means no one can lose is crucial to this course. For miracles depend on justice. Not as it is seen through this world’s eyes, but as God knows it and as knowledge is reflected in sight the Holy Spirit gives.

Everyone is equally entitled to His gift of healing and deliverance and peace. To give a problem to the Holy Spirit to solve for you means that you want it solved. To keep it for yourself to solve without His help is to decide it should remain unsettled, unresolved, and lasting in its power of injustice and attack.

What is God’s belongs to everyone, and is his due.

(A Course in Miracles, T-25.IX.3:1-2;4:1-3;5:4-6;7:4-6;10:10. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The cause of all pain, guilt and fear is the belief that loss is possible. If loss were possible, then some would have more and others less. Those who believe they have less will seek to take from those they believe have more. Those who believe they have more believe they must defend what they have and live in fear. This is the opposite of the way of Love.

Love gives equally to all, for Love sees all as one with Itself. Where Love is recognized as equal, there is no fear of loss, no concept of trying to gain. Those who know they have everything have no needs. They joyfully share all they have with all. As we learn to recognize and accept that we have all of God’s Love, fear and guilt are healed. All problems are resolved and we experience the joy of Heaven.

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Lifting the Veil to See the Love

You are the means for God; not separate, nor with a life apart from His. His Life is manifest in you who are His Son. Each aspect of Himself is framed in holiness and perfect purity, in love celestial and so complete it wishes only that it may release all that it looks upon unto itself. Its radiance shines through each body that it looks upon, and brushes all its darkness into light merely by looking past it to the light. The veil is lifted through its gentleness, and nothing hides the face of Christ from its beholders. And both of you stand there, before Him now, to let Him draw aside the veil that seems to keep you separate and apart. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.I.4. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The body’s eyes cannot see holiness because they were made to show only separation. Thus the images the body’s eyes show us are a veil that hides the Love that is the truth in everyone from our awareness.

Yet there is the means for true vision in our minds with which we can see past form to the limitless Love that is everywhere. It is this vision that we must give top priority in order for us to see the truth in our brother and ourselves. This vision’s only purpose is to see the unity we share with God and every brother. This is our true Will.

As we give our true Will our top priority, the images the body presents become insignificant, for the magnificence of the Light we see beyond the images captures our full attention. By the grace of God, the Holy Spirit was given us to teach us our true purpose and to learn to use the means of seeing with the purpose of joining in Love. With this practice we lift the veil to see the Love that is everywhere.

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Letting Go of Belief in Guilt

The perception of sin and guilt in the world, in the figures that come and go in the dream, is always a projection of the guilt that lives in your mind. It cannot be otherwise. That is why you must forgive the world and everyone and everything in it, for only thus do you forgive yourself. Only by healing all guilt and sin, wherever you perceive it, is the sense of sinfulness and guilt in your mind healed. This naturally follows from what was stated earlier. The Sonship is One, you are a whole part of that Oneness; therefore, to heal and free your mind, you must offer healing to the Whole as It appears in little bits and pieces in the condition of separation. All these apparently separate bits and pieces are actually part of you, and you will be healed in entirety or you will not be healed at all.

Do not let guilt cloud your mind any longer. It brings you nothing but suffering and death. Guilt drives Love from your awareness and leaves you alone and friendless in an alien land. The belief in guilt has robbed you of all that is good and valuable, yet you remain a willing victim to this loss as long as you cling to guilt. It exerts a strong attraction on you; through the projection of guilt, you maintain your identity in separation and justify your attacks on your brothers. Because you are consciously unaware that you are always the first victim of your attacks, you continue to judge and condemn your brothers, thinking that attack on another brings you something of value. Attack brings you nothing! This cannot be overemphasized. If you were aware of the total loss you suffer with every attack on your brother, attack would lose its attraction for you. (From the Christ Mind Book II, p. 252-253)

When we believe in guilt and sin anywhere in the world, we are making the error real. Belief in separation is belief in illusions, because only Love is real. The rest is illusions projected from our unhealed mind. We are now at the stage of learning to distrust what our body’s eyes show us and turn instead to welcome Holy Spirit’s vision of the oneness of God’s Son. As we trust Holy Spirit’s judgment instead of our own, our minds are healed of guilt. We practice opening to Holy Spirit’s vision today to free ourselves from all suffering and pain.

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Finding Lasting Happiness

[God] has not left His Thoughts. He could no more depart from them than they could keep Him out. In unity with Him do they abide, and in their oneness Both are kept complete. There is no road that leads away from Him. A journey from yourself does not exist.…

Forgive yourself your madness, and forget all senseless journeys and all goal-less aims. They have no meaning. You can not escape from what you are. For God is merciful, and did not let His Son abandon Him. For what He is be thankful, for in that is your escape from madness and from death. Nowhere but where He is can you be found. There is no path that does not lead to Him.” (A Course in Miracles, T-31.IV.10:1-5;11:1-7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We all must learn that the world offers us nothing we really want. Eventually we reach a point of recognition that it is futile to search for what we want where it cannot be found. At this point we say in some way, “There must be another way.”

This is our turning point, for at this point, our mind is open to another way we have not tried before. Into this opening the Holy Spirit comes to bring us His vision that shows us where our real happiness can be found. As we become willing to let Him direct our way, we begin to see past the empty forms of the world. We begin to recognize that beyond them is one thing and one thing only — God’s Love.

With this recognition we realize that God’s Love is always ours, for we have not left His Thoughts and He has not left us. Here we can be in peace, for we have found the happiness we always had within.

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