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How to Bring Peace to the World

The text explains that the Holy Spirit is the Answer to all problems you have made. These problems are not real, but that is meaningless to those who believe in them. And everyone believes in what he made, for it was made by his believing it. Into this strange and paradoxical situation,– one without meaning and devoid of sense, yet out of which no way seems possible,— God has sent His Judgment to answer yours. Gently His Judgment substitutes for yours. And through this substitution is the un-understandable made understandable. How is peace possible in this world? In your judgment it is not possible, and can never be possible. But in the Judgment of God what is reflected here is only peace.

Peace is impossible to those who look on war. Peace is inevitable to those who offer peace. How easily, then, is your judgment of the world escaped! It is not the world that makes peace seem impossible. It is the world you see that is impossible. Yet has God’s Judgment on this distorted world redeemed it and made it fit to welcome peace. And peace descends on it in joyous answer. Peace now belongs here, because a Thought of God has entered. What else but a Thought of God turns hell to Heaven merely by being what it is?

Father, our Name is Yours. In It we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. What we made and call by many different names is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own reality. And we are glad and thankful we were wrong. All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to have. And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. Your Name is our salvation and escape from what we made. Your Name unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. Amen. (A Course in Miracles, M-11.3:1-4:9; W-pI.184.16. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

Peace is not possible in the perception of the ego. The belief in separation makes it appear possible for separate, conflicting forms to be real and capable of harming or being harmed. This is because all things are judged according to the ego’s rules about what is real. But all the ego’s rules deny the reality of oneness. Only in the reality of oneness is peace possible.

We need to turn to the Teacher in our mind Whose judgment is clear about what is real and unreal. On our own our judgment is mistaken. But when we join with the Holy Spirit in our mind and accept His judgment in place of our own, we welcome God’s peace. Our perception of the world becomes less threatening as the ego’s images fade into the shadows.

The Holy Spirit’s judgment shines the Light of Love on all things in the world, showing us the unity that we have hidden behind images of separation. Each time we choose the Holy Spirit’s judgment in place of our own, we bring peace to the world.

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Accepting That We Have All We Need Now

Each thing you value here is but a chain that binds you to the world, and it will serve no other end but this. For everything must serve the purpose you have given it, until you see a different purpose there. The only purpose worthy of your mind this world contains is that you pass it by, without delaying to perceive some hope where there is none. Be you deceived no more. The world you see holds nothing that you want.

Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world, when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. [Your mind] will be grateful to be free a while. It knows where it belongs. But free its wings, and it will fly in sureness and in joy to join its holy purpose. Let [your mind] rest in its Creator, there to be restored to sanity, to freedom and to love. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 128, W-pI.128.2;6. See also ACIM Lesson 128 Insights.)

Everything we think we need or value in the world disrupts our natural state of peace. If we have something we value — a possession, a status, an opinion — we believe we need to protect it to keep it. If we believe we do not have something that we value, then we feel a need to strive to get the thing we lack. This constant need to strive and defend binds us to the thought system of the ego. Yet these things we think are valuable are just ego illusionary images, and therefore nothing.

As we let go of valuing these false images, our need to defend and strive diminishes. Instead of looking to the outer world to supply our needs and wants, we begin to recognize the peace and Love that is already given us. This is all we really want. And we already have it. There is no need to strive nor defend.

Our peace comes from within. As we let ourselves rise above the beliefs of the world and let our true Self shine through us, the shadowy images of the dream are recognized as valueless and fade away. The greatest gift we can give ourselves and the world is to accept the help of our true Self to rise above and reach to the Home our Creator has for us.

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Making Way for Truth to Enter Our Minds

The process of Atonement is an undoing or correction of all the falsity, the illusion, that clouds your holy mind. The Holy Spirit guides this process in time; through your willingness and your surrender, your mind is made empty and free of all that has inspired it for so long. Into this empty and purified mind, the Truth will come and claim Its own.

Your one responsibility is to accept Atonement for yourself. In this one act of acceptance, the acceptance of your one responsibility, is awakening assured; everything necessary for it to occur is included in that single declaration of allegiance. This acceptance, which is all inclusive, is repeated again and again throughout the day, day after day, as you learn to choose Truth over illusion. Your task and your constant focus is to remember this responsibility; the continuous false activity of your mind requires a constant vigilance and a consistent response to be undone. (From the Christ Mind, p. 177-178)

Do we want our inspiration to come from the thought system of limitation, separation, guilt and fear, or do we want our inspiration to come from unlimited Love, recognition of innocence and knowing oneness? We make this choice in every moment; it is the choice between the illusion of separation and the Reality of the Self that Love created us to be. We have identified with the ego thought system for so long that we believe it is ours and that it is true.

We must be willing to relinquish all that we have believed to be true to make way for the inspiration of our true Self to show us the way to forgiveness and Truth. This is why the early lessons of A Course in Miracles teach us that we do not know what anything means. Remembering this opens our mind to our true Self’s lessons in Love. This is our focus today.

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Remembering Who We Are

Today we offer thanks that Christ has come to search the world for what belongs to Him. His vision sees no strangers, but beholds His Own and joyously unites with them. They see Him as a stranger, for they do not recognize themselves. Yet as they give Him welcome, they remember. And He leads them gently home again, where they belong.

Not one does Christ forget. Not one He fails to give you to remember, that your home may be complete and perfect as it was established. He has not forgotten you. But you will not remember Him until you look on all as He does. Who denies his brother is denying Him, and thus refusing to accept the gift of sight by which his Self is clearly recognized, his home remembered and salvation come. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 160, W-pI.160.9-10. See also ACIM Lesson 160 Insights.)

I Remember Who I Am

I accept that I am Love.

I release all judgments of others and know that they are doing the best they can.

I keep my life simple and follow my highest path.

I stay in tune with the Highest Source within me and let It guide my way.

I am gentle and kind with myself and others.

I pace myself with one step at a time.

I know the perfect circumstances present themselves for my perfect continued growth.

I am Love.
I am Joy.
I am Peace. ©1993, Pathways of Light.

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Choose Peace First

Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward. It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world arises. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 34, W-pI.34.1:2-4A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 34, )

No matter what chaos appears to be happening in the world we see, the most important thing we can do is maintain a peaceful state of mind. Our state of mind is always our choice. We are in complete control.

If we are anxious, it is only because we have chosen to believe that false images are real. We have another choice. It does not seem to be a logical choice, but this is only because we have given reality in our minds to what is illogical. We cannot find peace in the thought system of chaos. But we can find peace in our right mind, our true Self. Our true Self is always accessible to us. We need only be willing to accept Its vision in place of our imagined perceptions.

The practice of stepping back from our perceptions and opening to our right Mind will bring us to the peace that will guide us through the seeming chaos of the world. Our true Self will inspire us with right action that quiets fear, heals our mind and blesses our world. We can offer no greater gift to the world than to choose peace first, moment by moment.

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Claiming the Strength of God in Us

It is God’s strength in you that is the light in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think. His strength denies your weakness. It is your weakness that sees through the body’s eyes, peering about in darkness to behold the likeness of itself; the small, the weak, the sickly and the dying, those in need, the helpless and afraid, the sad, the poor, the starving and the joyless. These are seen through eyes that cannot see and cannot bless.

Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances. It keeps its steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them. It unites with light, of which it is a part. It sees itself. It brings the light in which your Self appears. In darkness you perceive a self that is not there. Strength is the truth about you; weakness is an idol falsely worshipped and adored that strength may be dispelled, and darkness rule where God appointed that there should be light.

Strength comes from truth, and shines with light its Source has given it; weakness reflects the darkness of its maker. It is sick and looks on sickness, which is like itself. Truth is a savior and can only will for happiness and peace for everyone. It gives its strength to everyone who asks, in limitless supply. It sees that lack in anyone would be a lack in all. And so it gives its light that all may see and benefit as one. Its strength is shared, that it may bring to all the miracle in which they will unite in purpose and forgiveness and in love.

The light of strength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, because it cannot give but to itself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 92, W-pI.92.3-5;8:1. See also ACIM Lesson 92 Insights.)

Today we choose the strength of God in us. His strength overlooks the appearances of devastation and death. God’s strength is Love, which knows no fear, seeing only Itself everywhere. Nothing but God’s Love is real. The invulnerability of God’s strength is ours, for we were created by Love like Itself.

By choosing the strength of God in us today, we accept His promise that we remain the one Self God created, safe and healed and whole. In God’s strength we walk in certainty and peace. We claim it now.

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We Are Love as Love Created Us

We are trying today to undo your definition of God and replace it with His Own. We are also trying to emphasize that you are part of His definition of Himself.

…try to reach past all your images and preconceptions about yourself to the truth in you. If love created you like itself, this Self must be in you. And somewhere in your mind It is there for you to find.

You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self-images. Four or five times an hour, and perhaps even more, it would be most beneficial to remind yourself that love created you like itself. Hear the truth about yourself in this.

Try to realize in the shorter practice periods that this is not your tiny, solitary voice that tells you this. This is the Voice for God, reminding you of your Father and of your Self. This is the Voice of truth, replacing everything that the ego tells you about yourself with the simple truth about the Son of God. You were created by love like itself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 67, W-pI.67.2:8-9;3:1-3;5:2-6:4. See also ACIM Lesson 67 Insights.)

In the dream of separation, we are preoccupied with the body — feeding it, protecting it and giving it status. This preoccupation hides the reality that beyond appearances is the Self that Love created like Itself. We are all united in one Love, despite appearances in the world of separate bodies in time and space.

From the perspective of being a body, it is impossible to conceive of our oneness in Love. But God’s Voice is telling us that Love created us like Itself. Repeating this thought again and again and again helps loosen our mistaken obsession with being a separate body. It opens a crack in our hardened shell of defense to maintain the body as our identity.

As we open our minds to the thought of being Love and nothing else, we can be taught to recognize that we are still as Love created us. All that seemed to happen with bodies was no more than a dream and had no effect on our true Self. We are still Love as Love created us.

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