A New Way to See

My Illusory Struggle

Dear Everyone,

I feel like I’ve been in a struggle with the false mind, mainly because I have been listening to it. I have given my self the illusion of immobility, weakness, and function failure. I have allowed resistance to replace the gentle Voice that speaks for truth. I have invited in the voice for doubt, incrimination, judgment, guilt and shame. It is the voice that thinks it knows, it thinks it has control, but is only illusion.

It is my choice of which voice I will listen to, which teacher I will follow. I see that I need to return to being the observer, to observe the thoughts that range through my mind. To observe the habitual thoughts that pretend to be helpful, the comfort zone thoughts that hide the fear based on the idea of separation.

I was reminded of how I had a different attitude when I was first diagnosed with “my condition.” That attitude was that everything happens for a purpose, that I had a purpose in accepting or making up the illness. That if I allowed, Holy Spirit would use this situation for the healing of minds. I remembered that I was a messenger for Love, no matter what the outer circumstances looked like.
I was willing to listen to the Voice for Love, and accept It’s council and direction. I was willing to accept the peace that comes with His Voice for Love. That is what is missing in this second experience, the attitude of gratitude.

Once more, I am willing to lay down the belief that I know what anything is for, what anything means in my daily experience. I remind my self, that I am not alone, that I have a true Companion Who abides with me, and will show me all that I need to “see” and supply all that I think I need in my dream. I remind my self that it is this judgment alone that I can depend on, and be guided by, and not my own judging.

❦Father, I deepen my resolve to be open and willing to abide with Holy Spirit’s guidance, all through the day and night.
I commit to listening to the Voice that you have given me. And so It Is.
Thank You very much.❦

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WB Lesson 10

Dear Everyone,
I am so grateful for Regina D. Akers following H.S. and writing “H.S. Interpretation of the New Testament.”

In reading Luke in NTI this morning, it was very helpful to learn just why “my thoughts do not mean anything.” My thoughts do not mean anything because I have given my meaning to them based on the “law of separateness.” Separateness or separation is not the truth, so those thoughts I have given meaning to from that idea, are not true, are therefore meaningless.

Before this, I had only theoretically connected the thoughts in my mind to the things I perceive in the outer world. It was helpful to be reminded that the <u>thoughts</u> in my mind,
I have given all meaning to. I then reviewed WB lesson 10, “My thoughts do not mean anything.”

I came up with my thoughts about: lupus, healing, tidiness, cleanliness, organization, laziness, lack of money, worthiness….. do not mean anything.
I am grateful that this idea (my thoughts do not mean anything) will help me let go of what I believe now.
It is my willingness to be healed (mind healing) that returns me to the truth. I Am one with Spirit. Spirit is One.

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Give Up Egoic Thoughts

Dear Everyone,

I am seeing that I still have many fears that need to be given to H. Spirit. I ask J. for help in strengthening my willingness to let go of all
that is not helpful to me, even when I do not know it!   I notice how rigid the ego is in thinking of unworthiness…. the only “action” to take is to                                           remember that the ego (and its thoughts) are not real and do not mean anything. 
I was reminded of Donna Marie Carey’s singing: ”  .....Bits and pieces are falling away ... Love will take away the fears in me…..Now, there’s nothing that I need to do…. But give up what I think is true.”

I had a realization the other night, that whatever the ego says—- it is not true. The egoic thoughts are meaningless, they are based on nothing.  The ego is no thing, it is no where. It is an illusion, a toy that I made up and then mistook for reality. Yes, it can appear very frightening, or strong or loathsome. It can appear as many things, because it does not know what it is. It changes constantly so that it (it thinks) cannot be ‘caught’ or identified. Yet I am learning that it is very simple to let go of what the ego “thinks.”

It is just a matter of my choice. I choose not to adhere to the egoic words that jump about my mind. I choose to see the meaninglessness in such words. When I notice a thought of unworthiness, I stop dragging it around with me all day, I give it up to H. Spirit. When I experience a thought of lack or sacrifice, I give it over to H. Spirit. I can tell when I have been successful in letting it go, for I have a feeling of peace, a sense of freeness of my being. Sometimes I even feel the warmth of Holy Spirit’s Love.
I learn to accept this as true.  And so it is.  T.Y.V.M.

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More Judging the Body

Dear Everyone, The following thoughts came to me the past couple of mornings.

As long as I condemn the body—I am making it real.
Glorifying or condemning it—- are the same (just like pleasure and pain) It is illusion.
It is trying to keep the darkness and adjusting it to the light. This tries to make the darkness real, in place of accepting the light as real and taking the dark to the light.                  I can never ever (ever, ever, ever) make illusions real.
By wanting to make illusions real, I must realize, somewhere in my mind, that my illusions are false and not justifiable in any form. Part of my mind knows that illusions are the childish playing of a thought that made itself god of the universe.

When I judge the body as inferior, (or defective) I’m mistaking my self as a body. My dream image is not what I am. This image is not the only thing that I “know.”                        I have the memory of my true Self in my mind, the Spirit that is whole, innocent, pure in every definition because I remain as Love created me.

“What I resist” has many connotations and gets reflected back to me in the dream.  What I resist I draw to me—- this is what attracts me to certain bodies in the insane attempt to redo my past, to “prove” my value to another body. If I loath some attribute or idea, the truth is I believe I have that quality in me. I hold guilt about that quality because I have mistaken some love-less thought as real and part of me.

Any thought that is without love, is meaningless—- but in my sick mind I do not recognize the truth. What I resist, I am fearful of and have rejected. I have tried to project what I fear, and it then appears to me as some form in the outside world.  But all the while it remains in my mind, pushed down to the unconscious. The way to get out of the vicious circle, is to invite Holy Spirit in and join with Him. I allow His sight and understanding to replace my projection; I allow the undoing of a love-less idea. Letting go of my ideas—is the letting go of fear, the meaningless thoughts that induce more fear and separation. My attempt to redo what never happened has kept a separation perception going. This misperception has given me guilt.

    Even though I can “see” this intellectually, on some days I find much resistence to asking H.S. in and allowing His healing perception to replace those love-less ideas. It seems that the sick ideas are all I want….. which is of course, the ego mind. No wonder, I need consistent practice with my true Guide, to remember the Truth about Love and my Self.

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Forgiving Fear

Hello Everyone,
These thoughts recently came to me from Spirit. I am reminded that there is always another way to look at                                                                                   my world. Have a joyful day/ week/ month/ year/ forever!

Forgiving the fear (I see) in a brother—- is forgiving my own fear.
Forgiving a projection of hatred is forgiving my self for hatred.
The forms may appear extremely different, but the form does not matter. The content is the same—- fear is fear and remains as an illusion of separation.

Forgiveness is the way (practice) to have peace of mind. And peace is the condition of the Kingdom. Forgiveness is for my self, and my brother always holds the key for forgiving.          He is my savior from a meaningless world, and an insane teacher. When I forgive all that I thought was “done” to me, then I am accepting God’s plan for salvation.

Spirit: As you learn what forgiveness does for you, as you remember to forgive what never happened, so do you remember that you are Love. So do you remember the truth of Oneness. You remember that every feeling that comes not from Love is the lesson to let go (forgive). You remember that every lesson is a lesson to love, allowing Love to replace the thought of fear. You remember every loving thought is true.

As you practice forgiving, you become more certain of what is real and what is unreal. As you practice forgiving, you are freeing each tiny fragment that was made in fear to keep the separation idea going. As you practice forgiving, you see the way, the truth, the Light.
You can only be What Love created you to be. There is no “other” mind outside of the One Mind of God. There is only Love—and Love cannot be threatened;                        only Love is real. What is unreal (fear) does not exist. Therein lies the peace of God. (Which you never left, and so you must abide there.)
As you forgive, you remember the peace of Love. The memory of All returns every time you practice forgiving.

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Judging the Body

Dear Lights of God,
I have been re-reading “Your Eternal Reality” and making notes on what stood out to me. This is what I share with you today, along with what Spirit shared with me.

Forgiveness is the relatively quick way to undo the ego system. ©Gary Renard.  Then from ACIM: 
T. pg 72: “So forgiveness is a choice of what you want to believe yourself to be by choosing what the other person is.”
T. 514: “You who believe it is easier to see your brother’s body than his holiness, be sure you understand what made this judgment.”                                                                                                      T. pg 667: “Choose once again what you would have him be, remembering that every choice you make establishes your own identity as you will see it and believe it is.”

Spirit:  Remember, you cannot judge. You do not see the whole picture, nor the outcome of what your decision makes.                                                                                                                        What does picking on yourself do? It shows the judgment on yourself. You use the body to condemn yourself as you seek the imperfection of the body. You will not let the body be nothing. As just another illusion, it does what you dictate and nothing more. You judge it and condemn it, and then wonder why it does not serve you better.  This only represents the belief that you can attack God, which adds guilt, which you will project.                The body is no more real than the world. You cannot reconcile the illusion with truth. You cannot make illusion real, no matter how often you try. When you pick on the body you are trying to make illusion real.
You could just as easily seek and find the love of One Creator within you, for It is forever within your mind. What Love created may be hidden but never undone.

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Insight On Illness

Dear Everyone,
Even though I may feel like I am not listening to Spirit, there are moments when I allow Love’s Voice to be in my awareness. These are moments when I allow myself to be comforted, when I admit that I do not know what anything is for. Spirit shared the following with me about the seeming illness of the body.

The question is : What is it for? What is it’s purpose?
Does it make illusions real? Or does it take illusions to truth?
In this case of illness, you can have Holy Spirit direct it’s purpose. The ego would use this illness as proof that ”you” are a body; that you can be attacked; that you are limited; that you have no choice; there is no possibility of a happy outcome.
Now be kind to your self and look with H.S. on a different outcome when you give the purpose to Him. If the purpose of every lesson is to forgive, what needs to be overlooked here? Look at everything with insight of H.Spirit. You have the chance to undo much fear. Your gift of forgiving reaches all that need it, far beyond your limited view. Simply accept what H.S. offers you, and return His function to Him.

What is not real can have no effect. In your waking dream there seem to be effects, but they are there because of your choice, your command that illusion take the place of Love. You do not like pain, but you constantly invite it in, to abide with you. You need not make this illusion real, it does not protect you. The truth is in you and cannot be undone or removed. Truth belongs forever with you, as you remain as God created you.
When you experience pain, ask: “what is this for?” Step back, be still, wait in certainty. H.S. will reveal to you the thought /idea /belief that manifests in the dream body. Insane (meaningless) thoughts make an insane dream. There is something else to choose, aside from the ego and it’s beliefs.

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