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Is Ego Killing Me?

Hello Every Light, 😊

I am going to back step for this entry, as I found an interesting page in my journal from November of 2006, that seems to have significance for later events. I was not having a good day when I wrote, but I did ask Jesus for help.

(Me) I experience fear when I think I have to step off into the void. I am not even sure what the “void” is. I hold the belief that I am alone, there is no help, no support anywhere. This belief is based on “my past” that I carry and drag around with me—but this need not be. My past does not define me. The past is nothing—- it is fearful dreams and mistaken assumptions. What is not real cannot threaten, hurt or direct me.  (Ahh, but subconsciously it does those things, in my dream.)
I want to wake, not sleep.  I want to love, not fear.

Dear J.,  It appears the ego is killing me—a bit slowly—what’s the point? The pills don’t seem to help, why would I not want to heal? (This is referring to medication to reduce stomach acid.) What have I done that I need such punishment? If I am afraid of Love and Life, what is the point?       
Yes—I feel sorry for myself, I feel like a victim of my ego; it feels like I have no control, no power over the ego. You have taught that the ego idea has no power other than the belief I put into it. How do I stop believing in it?  (Answer:)

“By willingness.”
“By asking for a better way.”
“By following.”

On the following day I received these words from Spirit:  Your true Self has no ”wants”—it has no perceived needs, because It knows It has all.  The little ‘me’ is the entity that “wants” continually and is never satisfied. Do not be tricked by it’s pleas that once “you” have some thing, then it will be happy. How long does that happiness really last? Therein you allow illusion to be substituted for Love. This does nothing in Reality, but maintains your dream of separation and autonomy.

Admit or accept the truth: you did not make your self. You are not now nor ever have been self created. You chose a thought, took it seriously, and mistook it for truth. Layer after layer of guilt thoughts have covered the truth, but it is unchanged. Truth is eternal.

 

You live in Truth. Truth sustains you, nourishes you, protects you. You are part and one in Truth. Yet your belief in the opposite has made your dream seem real. Your belief in your own guilt has put a shroud over your LIght. I am with you to help you lift the curtain that seems so heavy and impenetrable. Your desire to have peace is what makes the shift possible. Your desire to be whole and offer only love, brings all assistance to you. You have all the help you need to look at the illusions of your dreams. Do not fear this. Call me consistently, listen in stillness, refuse the false gifts the little ‘me’ offers you. They may glitter and shine, but they tarnish and turn to dust as you touch them. This world holds nothing that you truly want.

 

And from another entry:  All your attempts to “fit in” or to be special have failed. That is only because the ego mind will never succeed. What has not worked or been achieved by the ego perception never was at all. What has no cause can have no effects.
You can only be an effect of Love. Only Love is real. Accept the simple truth, and fight no more. Defend no more. Be deceived no more. You are and always have been an effect and extension of Love. Thoughts leave not their source—you have not left your Source. You are perfectly safe, complete, eternal.
Do not believe the dream of sin, for it is wholly false, built on thoughts of fear and guilt. You have the truth within, shining bright beyond the clouds of guilt. You have the power to move past the clouds and see the perfection that you are.
Accept the truth and you are free.

(Me) What I am taking from this, I asked for healing in a big way; I asked to wake from the dream of guilt. My journey into the role of a body with an acute attack of dis-ease, is giving me the opportunity to look at all my unforgiven thoughts and forgving them.
TYVM! (Thank you very much)

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I Bless the World

Hello Every Light of Oneness,

I had these insights come to me during Physical Therapy. (Note: TYVM, equals Thank You Very Much).

I have agreed with the ego system, to make up a form in which to hide (body).
I can stop valuing this image, idol. This image has only kept me bound to guilt, trying to make illusion real, trying to make separation real.

WB 207: “I Bless the would because I bless myself.”

“Gods blessing shines upon me from within my heart, where He abides. I need only turn to Him and every sorrow melts away, as I accept His boundless Love for me.”
The unforgiving mind (ego thought) is blind. Fear is its home, fear is all that it perceives. In its perception there is no mercy, no escape from condemnation. It lives in despair unable to see beyond guilt.
The unforgiving mind seeks solutions, but never finding its release from sin. It cannot find peace, joy or innocence while it believes that separation is real. It perceives only its projected thoughts —yet these thoughts are wholly meaningless. The only thoughts with meaning are the ones you share with Love. Loving thoughts are true.

T 9.IV. pg. 168
“Atonement [perfect Love] is for all, because it is the way to undo the belief that anything is for you alone. The Atonement is a lesson in sharing, which is given you because you have forgotten how to do it. HS merely reminds you of the natural use of your abilities.”

(Me) It seems to me that my friend is concerned with the financial issues (bills, taxes, costs of things we use) his little mind (and mine) is upholding the belief that he can be attacked and suffer loss. Perhaps this comes from the beliefs that the world is extravagant, over priced, filled with money grabbers—-those who establish enormous prices for selfish gain. Yet, it seems, he misses that he has made up those rules which govern the world. These demands for payment come from his own laws. There is no out side collection agency, no administration seeking to make him “poorer,” trying to take the little he thinks he has.
Holy Spirit, my perceptions are distorted. Please help me to see this differently—for the healing of my mind, is the healing of my brother’s mind. TYVM.
I send peace to my brother, that he and I accept the truth in place of illusion. Amen.

(10:15 p.m.) I want the peace of God. I accept the peace of God.
When I forgive (my illusions, my idols, my thoughts) then I am aware of God’s peace. That is the stillness within me that no thought can touch, no dark can corner (entrap).
Holy Spirit, help me to continue accepting my answers from Love. Let me not seek outside Love for solutions. Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved. Let me recognize the problem has been solved.  TYVM.

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Another Chapter in the Story

Hello Every Light!

There has been a “gap” in my journal, as I began another chapter in my story of “Mary” playing on planet earth.
I have had many lessons, and opening to mind healing, which I am certain is just the beginning for me.

I seem to have begun this experience of Lupus and transverse myelitis, on July 16th, 2007. On Monday morning I couldn’t stand, I could not crawl. There was a constant tingling or buzzing from my feet up to my abdomen. Later it seemed to have crept up to just under the breasts. As I looked at my body’s “history” and at the symptoms of Lupus, I saw that I’d have had many of the signs over the years, but so sporadically, over a long span, that they could not be tied together.

I was not afraid that morning, I thought, “this is interesting.”
To me, I finely had reached the point of having had enough unhappiness (pain), so I chose this dream experience as a way to keep the ego occupied and allow space or time for me to stop all the “doing” and simply listen.
I had been asking for my mind to be healed, not sure how long or often I had asked for healing.

These are the words that Spirit gave me from date of 7/23/07: “You might call this a wake-up call. It is the accumulation of thoughts from guilt and fear of retribution. The mistaken perception that you could abandon Love and then Love would abandon you.”

“When you choose to let go of the fearful thoughts manufactured by an insane belief, then HS removes them. You have tried to unload guilt in whatever way the sick mind has offered you. You are understanding the senselessness of this. You can also understand that there is no guilt. You can and will let of the past learning (that the world deems “necessary”). You will let go of the past learning of your “own ” dream.
Your goal for the moment is to “see” the innocence and harmlessness of everything.

7/26/07: “I said before that you could call this experience a “wake-up call.”  It is a call for you to accept the Self that you are.
It is your willingness to change that has brought you here, for without this period of non-doing, you would not take the day to “study” the Course, to listen to the Voice of Love and to go within your mind.
This is a call to heal—- it is healing your mind that can save the world and your self.

“You did indeed choose this experience so that ego would be “disabled” in the physical form. You were willing to do this because you want your mind healed and are unwilling to delay your full acceptance of truth.
You have all that you “need” within your mind. Yet you have tried thousands of solutions, teachers and roads to fill your only need. Forgiveness in this world is the love that all minds in dreams seek. “Being Love” is forgiveness in this world. This is your desire to let go of the idols you made and let truth replace the dark.
(@ 3:00) I want you to accept that you are able to “hear” the Voice of Love without limit. You can hear this Voice regardless of what the body seems to do. This Voice speaks to you all the time waiting only your invitation. You have capacity to “hear” your Inner Voice, it has never dissolved. It is only your choice to listen that makes the Voice seem unreliable. Your attention is focused on the body for the moment. You can attend to the dream form, and still listen to the Voice of Love. ♥You will learn to be in the dream, but not of the dream.”

I have been reading Course Text, and Workbook, with Guidance. Then paraphrasing what stands out to me. This brings more and more clarity, more Love into my awareness.  On July 22, I woke with Course words flowing through my mind, and I came to realize that I was happy. “I am perfectly happy,” because I have no cause not to be; I am as God created me, and that must be perfect happiness.  I felt like laughing out loud! Laughing at the silliness of my little dream.

I have been told that my “job” for now, is to maintain my physical exercises each day, which is helpful in the dream world. I also know that my “job” is to be a messenger for Love, and to me, this means to communicate what I am learning or unlearning in my dream. New entries are on their way to this page!  Blessings to All. 😊

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“God Is But Love” Review

Hello Everyone, after reading the daily lesson these thoughts came to me recently:

“God is but Love, and therefore so am I.”                                                                                          “There is one life and that I share with God…......Your grace is given me. I claim it now.”

What I gleem from in the “God is but Love, and therefore so am I” review, is that Jesus is trying to get us (me) to let go of the idea that God is vengeful and sure to give pain and death. God is not insane and cannot create unlike Himself. God is Love. Eternal, uncompromising, unalterable. There is no love but God’s. There is one Love and that I share with Him.

Insane ideas leave not their source.
My insane thoughts are in my mind, their reflection is everywhere I “look.” What I “see” are images I have made. Insane images are not real, I can play with them as long as I want. If my toys (images) were taken from me, I would not be free.

Spirit: Love has always been and will forever Be. You remain as Love created you. This will never change. Your “purpose” is to remember this—accept that you are Love as God created you—then you can share that idea because you know it cannot be lost or taken. That is your “job”—to show your brother that he is innocent. When you do not do this, you are depressed. You have forgotten What you Are and what your purpose is.

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Somewhere In My Mind

Hello Everyone, I recently received these sentences from Spirit:

Somewhere in your mind there is the peace of God; there is the memory of Love and of Heaven.                                Yet you fear to look on the memory of truth. As long as you hold onto your false identity, you do not want that memory to return; you do not desire truth above all else. Even though you appear to be tired of the game of pretend, you still prefer it to the truth. As long as you believe that you merit punishment, that will be “real” to you. As long as you hold onto the false identity, you try to make guilt real.

Why would you want to change God’s Will? Do you really think that you can know better then the eternal Mind?…………. What you really think and keep hidden, is the belief that you departed from Love to be “on your own,” that you made an identity on your own. This is the story that you made and wish to be real. Yet this story tells you that you will not escape punishment, that only death is sure to come.  Why do you want this more than the Laws of Love?

Where there is fear there is not Love.                                                                                          Where there is Love there is not fear.

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