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What Is Not From Love

These thoughts were given to me recently.
You mistook a mad idea as being real, as if it had really occurred.
God knows not of your tiny mad idea, He sees only that His Son sleeps. You, who sleep, cannot be aware of the truth which surrounds and in dwells you is reality. You have mistaken that the dream is reality.

“Loss is not loss when properly perceived.”  When you choose to give up the illusions of the dream, then you will perceive truly. How can loss of illusion
be regarded as anything other than freedom? When you understand that you cannot lose anything that is part of Love, you will no longer fear loss.
Anything that is not part of Love has no meaning, no value.
It is always a mistaken thought or idea, and one the Holy Spirit will correct for you, freeing you from continuing “mistakes.”

I also found this helpful, from
David Hoffmeister.
  “It is important to
  remember that the
  giving up of illusion
  has no cost or sacrifice.”

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This World Is Meaningless

These thoughts came to me recently.

The insanity of the world will stop when I stop the insane thinking in my mind.
The ego denies that my thoughts can actually ‘do’ anything. But thoughts I have had made the world I “see.” This world is meaningless because the thoughts that I had, made this world based on fear and there is no fear in reality.

All fear is based on a false idea. It makes no difference how many minds believe in the idea for that belief will never make it Reality. It is only real to the mind that is dreaming it.

As long as I believe, or value something, then it exists for me. I must be valuing the separation idea, thinking it gives me something I want. Do I see “power” in autonomy? Strength in unloving thoughts? Do I want to wash my hands of the world, then I can be “free” to do what I like? These kind of beliefs give energy to the tiny separated sliver of mind that thinks it is separate. Yet this thought of separation will never be real, for what never happened can have no meaning or effects.

My meaningless ideas show me a meaningless world.
Is this what I really want?

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To Forgive God - What does that mean?

This inspiration came from a Saturday morning discussion group. We were reading section II from Chap. 30.

T.30.II., 4.7
“7 But you will not forgive the world until you have forgiven Him Who gave your will to you.”
When this sentence came up in our reading [to forgive God], I thought, ‘what does this mean?’  After a few shares from the group, Spirit inspired my mind with this.

‘When the Course talks about forgiving Jesus, or God, it is not referring to the Reality of Love or God that I’m asked to forgive. It is the story about god that I made, that I’m letting go of the projection that I made.’

T-16.VII.9.                                                                                              “2 All that must be forgiven are the illusions you have held against your brothers. 3 Their reality has no past, and only illusions can be forgiven. 4 God holds nothing against anyone, for He is incapable of illusions of any kind.”

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Knowing Your Worth

Praise does not bring happiness. Only the recognition of true unity does happiness waken you from sleep.
Knowing your true worth will free you from the mind of doubt and seeking.

Your Father/Mother knows your value is immutable, that not even for a tiny tick of time have you parted from the holiness that encircles you.

T.22.IV. 6   To all who share the Love of God the grace is given to be the givers of what they have received. And so they learn that is theirs forever.

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Protecting the Mythical Me

9/29/22
Only in dreams can you experience loss, deceit, pain or guilt. Only dreams need healing or to be awakened from. In and of themselves dreams are meaningless. (I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me.)
When you give dreams to Holy Spirit for His interpretation, they then have the purpose of waking the Son to the truth of Love and nothing can halt the perfect outcome of what has joined for a single purpose.

If Love is Reality, how can anything else exist? If only God’s Love (and let me assure you there is only God’s Love) anything other then perfect love is an illusion.
When I allow any projected thought take precedence over the reality of Love, I am only, yet always, mistaken. When I truly want the thought or projection corrected, it will be done instantly, though I may not recognize it is.
I must accept that anything I perceive in my dream world, only arrives from my own thoughts. This is the key to true freedom or release.  (I am doing this and it is this I would undo.  T.27.VIII. 11,6)

I am projecting this world, projecting every scene, every story to uphold the belief in the personal/mythical “me”.  Every character “I” have put there to “prove” that my version of life is true. I have made it, so it is “true” to me. All the characters were made to support the (my) story that never happened.  I have given the power/energy to the ego system and I can take back the energy just the same. I am the chooser — — the decision maker.

What “I” fear, I have pushed down & down (in my mind). Hurling it away in projections, it has never really left my mind.

Holy Spirit, help me look at this insane thinking. You know the way, which I have forgotten. I seek Your Help in everything, in all my “doing” and every thought that I see.

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