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Pretending That I Am Alone

Considering how I have spent time the last few years, I looked within and found these thoughts.

So, “I” feel lost, deprived because I cannot move the body with ease and freedom. I have given up the idea/hope that I will once again have freedom to move unimpeded. When I held that idea before it eventually became manifest, but now I am allowing my past experience to dictate the present state. I’m accepting the experience of others (doctors, researchers) as the “proof” that the body’s condition will not change for the better.

What I did not perceive at the beginning with the first occurrence, was that I did not look for the false attack thought underlying the outward appearance. The attack thought(s) were not corrected, so my false witnesses could rise again and show me that what I thought “I knew” was only fallacy. The thought system that has made this dream and it’s manifestation is upheld by a “friend” that is insane.

My only purpose now is to uncover the false thought(s) that can be corrected or undone. To be willing to look at my isolation/separation thinking that has made my dream so real to me. These are not the thoughts I need or want. In the light that Love holds, these thoughts are seen to be meaningless. The “friend” does not want me to recognize the meaningless origin of those sick thoughts. So I must seek the council of my true Friend and accept His help in leading me out of the maze of insane thoughts. Trying to find the way by myself has not worked, nor will it ever succeed.

Thinking that I am alone is the problem; that is the separation thought system. To realize and then accept that I’m never alone is the forgiving of my illusions, the letting go of meaningless thoughts. My Friend, Guide, Council, my holy Self shares the truth with me. This Self lights the way, clears the path, removes every obstacle as I accept His Presence.

Do I choose for Love/God or do I keep pretending that I am alone? Do I deny the wholeness of Love or do I welcome the Self, the part of All That Is? What God created is undivided, Love is not divided, I did not divide myself off from Creation.

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Giving My Willingness

The only reason I am not joyful is because I hold the belief that I am guilty. This is not in daily awareness, but hidden carefully in the dark where once I agreed not to approach, look at or question it. I accepted the ego’s story as true, and have lived in fear and doubt with imagined sacrifices, penance and hatred as my companions. As I studied The Course the ego got on its bandwagon to tell me that I was still doing it all wrong, still a failure at following my heart or following Guidance.

I have not yet surrendered (given up) all my fear thoughts to Holy Spirit. A long entrenched habit seems to be cast in stone, untouchable by truth. Yet seen in the light of Love it is revealed to be valueless, meaningless and easily laid aside. The stories I learned and held from the split egoic mind have been false; the ego has lied to me continuously. Is not that enough reason to stop listening to it? Habits are indeed meaningless when they lead nowhere and retain only guilt, pain and resignation.

This is not what a loving Teacher would have me learn. My Holy Self reminds me again and again to choose once more. Indeed I can choose to see my innocence by seeing the compete innocence of others. I can choose to recognize the calls for help and love behind the appearances of conflict, strife, war and deprivation. In fact, the power of my desire is enough to have every fear thought fall away. A sincere request is enough to receive true perception, or healed mind. Awareness of truth returns to mind, peace and joy permeate every minute. I view daily events from above the battleground of egoic thinking. I recognize the holiness of everything as God created it. There is only oneness, unlimited and complete. I overflow in gratitude with Love Itself.

I am not wholly there yet. But every day and each instant I give my willingness to have correction of my thoughts.
I am willing to let go of the false fear story and receive the story of Love.  And so It Is.

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Let Me Remember

This came to mind this morning:

Let me remember my mind holds only what I think with God.
Let me remember God is my Source, I can not see apart from Him.
Let me remember there is one Life and that I share with Him.
Let me remember God is my life, I breath and move in Him.
Let me remember there is One home and I am with God always.

—- What I think I “know” is nothing. Whatever is based on a lie can have no meaning and is not real. The premise on which the world is based is a lie so nothing true could arise from it.  A thought repeated over and over in delusions does not make it valid nor make the delusion real. Only my belief in it can give it seeming power. My belief in a picture on the screen makes it real to me but not in reality. God is the only Cause and I am His effect.

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Shadows On the Wall

These thoughts came to mind recently:

Do I want to be happy or right?
Trying to follow 2 different thought systems only makes confusion and conflict. (This does not make happy.)
Giving up one thought system will lead to happiness.
When I want only peace then I will have peace.
To have peace I must give it (share it).
Giving is how I recognize I have it and giving is how I keep it.

There are not two wills or many wills. There is only God’s Will. And I am His Will. Being His Will I cannot be in opposition to It, I can only share it. I am here to let go of my illusions of where I am and what I am. These illusions are nothing because only what God created exists. The image of self that I think of is not real, but part of the mind thinks that image is its home.

If I am not happy I am choosing to listen to the wrong voice. Actually it is a fantasy voice trying to replace the Voice of Love. I can always tell which voice I have chosen by how I feel. Every feeling that is not happy comes from fear. Every feeling that brings joy or happiness comes from Love. If I find that I have chosen wrongly, I need only choose again.

In the “end” I simply realize that what I thought I “did” never happened. I have been watching shadows on a wall thinking that they were real.

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Body Senses

Anything the body reports to me is a lie.
The body is a hallucination made by the deceived mind.
The body seems to prove that I am not what I am in truth.
The body would deny the perfect unlimited Thought of God in God’s Mind.
Love created me like Itself. I am not a body, I am formless, an extension of perfect Love.
God is but Love, therefore so am I.

Let my only desire be to remember truth of Love. I give my willingness to Him and He does the rest. I give Him my distorted, alien thoughts and He undoes them so no memory of fear remains.   
I am swept clean, washed in purity, wrapped in perfect joy. I remain as God created me.

Thank you God, I love You God.

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