A New Way to See

Loving Reminders

I recently received loving thoughts from Spirit; the first came on Jan. 31, the astericks mark the thoughts of today. Thanks for reading.

Love is all around.
Love is the without limit being infinite.
Love is the only Cause—-anything that is not like Love, does not exist.
Love protects and sustains you. The Love that would protect is simply Holy
Spirit, Whose purpose is to remove every thought and form you made to hurt yourself. The Love that sustains you, simply has given all to you—It continues to give all to all.

Love is what you Are. Be not afraid of Love. When you feel fearful it is because you heard a voice that is not real and have seen images that are false. You have made yourself fearful by a thought you empowered. Yet this thought has no true strength, it is totally nothing. It never “was” and so it is not now.

Love created not fear—-so it does not exist. It is your choice that replays over and over an insane instant. Why would you choose to keep a meaningless thought? Forgive your self for ever thinking that it was truth at all. Forgive the dream state, and look at your brother with vision. When you forgive, the truth returns to your awareness. It simply waits on welcome.
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There is no love but God’s.
There is no will but God’s.

I have invented the world I see. It is in my mind and not outside.
I try to push the thought of guilt out of my mind, and this becomes the world I see. Yet guilt has not left my mind (thoughts leave not their source). What I “see” in the world only reflects the insane beliefs in my mind. This world has not dreamed me—I am doing this, I have invented the world. What I fear will come from God/Love, only comes from my mind. I fear to look within believing that the truth of my guilt is there and will be there forever.

“My” guilt is there as long as I think that separation is real. Love would never abandon nor condemn me.
Truth does not change. What was true at the “beginning” is true now. There is no end to truth.  An impossible dream does not change Love. An impossible dream is meaningless, it has no effect.

The dream of separation seems to fill my mind and keeps me preoccupied with false thoughts. To escape the dream of guilt, I need but “see” with different eyes—
I need only lay forgiveness on everything I see.
By forgiving the images I have made, I know that I have love to give. By forgiving I remember that Love is not fear, that joy is not pain, dreams are not reality.
By forgiving I remember only Love is real, Love is everywhere, I have not left my Source, the dream is gone.

Father, I thank you for the Love You Are,
I thank you for the Love I Am.
I will be still and listen to the truth.
I accept the truth and let my mind be wholly healed.      Thank you very much.

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Defenses Against Truth

These thoughts came to mind this morning——

Sickness is a defense against the truth. What do I want to be the truth?

If I want individuality—then I do not really want the truth. If I choose again, and want union and Oneness then will I “see” truth beyond the illusions of my dream.

Sickness is a defense against the truth. I cannot be healed while I am afraid of the truth. I do not recognize my wholeness while I hold thoughts of division. What seems fearful to me is really escape from belief in separation. This belief is where the ego idea “lives.” The ego idea wants division, wants duality, wants fear and guilt, so that the belief of separation is maintained. While I listen to the teacher based on fear I will experience insane dreams, nightmares of being alone, attacked, unloved and unsaved. What is based on fear is not real, for it was not created in Love.

Why should I accept the false in place of truth, in place of Love? Why should I sleep in dreams of terror, when I have a Guide Whose way is wholly certain and untainted?  Why not let fear thoughts be undone? While in my dream, I can play god—I can maintain that I MADE myself and pretend there is no loving Father Who has given me everything. Is it really my only desire to remain asleep and ruler in my dream world??
Why not let fear thoughts be undone? Why not accept the gentle truth of what I am, along with every brother? What seems to be fearful and threatening, is what the sick mind perceives. What seems to see and touch and hear with the body is not real. What is real cannot be threatened. What is unreal does not exist. Love cannot be threatened nor destroyed nor altered.

As I continue to take and leave every thought, every whim, every fragment of separate thinking with Holy Spirit, I will be released. My True Self shines bright, waiting in perfect certainty of my “return.” Which, to me, is the clearing of darkness from my mind, the healing of the sick mind. For I remain as Love created me. I am eternal Love and this has never changed.

I was Guided to read ACIM Text. 22. V .
It begins: “How does one overcome illusions?”

Thank You, Holy Spirit!

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Only My Thoughts

These thoughts came to mind this morning.

What can it be that causes me anxiety?
Only my thoughts.
What can it be that causes me fear and guilt?
Only my thoughts.
What can it be that causes the world I seem to see?
Only my thoughts.

My thoughts are powerful, they are either loving or fearful. There is no in-between,
it always one or the other. All the thoughts of which I am aware are fear based thoughts…..How can this be, when I seem to experience “good” events in my life? The ego system is very skilled at manipulating images, so that whatever illusion I’m involved with can appear to be “good” or “happy.”
The Course teaches me there is no hierarchy in illusions.

If I truly want witnesses of Love, I must let Love be in my awareness. I must practice giving my thoughts or mind to Holy Spirit. I am not the “victim” of the ego thought. There are no victims anywhere.

If I continue to “wait” without playing my part, without practicing forgiveness, I won’t waken from my dream. What has been employed before no longer works now. To leave the dream just to move into a different dream, does not awaken the mind. Forgiveness is the one dream that undoes all the rest. Forgiveness let illusions go, in place of cherishing them. With forgiveness I will come to learn that illusions are all the same. Forgiveness removes the blocks in my mind to Loves’s Presence.

Thank you, Holy Spirit!

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Daily Lesson

After today’s lesson, “My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world,” I received these words:

Q: how can I apply this to my daily life?

A: Without exception I can apply this idea to every thought and every image I make. The thoughts that seem to analyze and compare, to make judgments of right and wrong, are just the type of thoughts that I need reminding that they are meaningless.

Insight from Spirit:
You need nothing in this world—for what can be valued in a dream?
You have need of nothing—truly—because you remain as Creator created you. Thoughts leave not their source—so you have not left your Source, but dream of separation, vengeance and death. Sara, you can lay all this down; you need not carry it with you an instant longer. What you want to be “real”—will you see in your dream. Dreams are undone the instant you no longer value sin—or separation.
What you value you make real to you.

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His Love Prevails

These thoughts came to me after I read this morning’s lesson.

There is no world. There is no sin. There is no body. I was mistaken. The Voice of Love is all I choose to hear and to follow.
The thought of separation was instantly given the Thought of another Voice. I was given the way to truth the instant I dreamed of sin.

I have not left the Father that I love and that loves me. I am His Son and
all He has is mine. There is only one Will, only one life and that we share.

I cannot question the perfection of God"s Creation. Love is whole, complete; without differences in any way. There is nothing outside of God"s Will, nothing outside of Love. I will be still and listen to the truth.
God"s Creation is forever One. His Creation is eternal, being in His Mind. There is no other mind apart from His. There is only God"s Love. Only His Creation. Only His perfect Word—-written on my heart.
His Truth, His Love, His Life are the same. They prevail in all dreams, in all ways.
His Love prevails because there is nothing else!
There is no body. There is no world. There is no sin.   

(And I am soooo thankful that this is so!)

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Remember the Truth

I recently viewed Tom and Linda Carpenter’s workshop that was recorded at the 2005 ACIM Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. I am truly grateful to those presenters and the “crew” that recorded workshops at that event. After reading WB Lesson 353, these thoughts came to me.

Everything in my dream is there by my choice, my election. In my dream, I have sought for love and acceptance, thinking they were denied to me. I made the dream as I chose, making up illusions to replace Heaven, choosing the idea of separation as the truth. Yet the idea of separation is insane and has no meaning. In my insane dream, it appears as real. I need only to choose again and it will be gone. As I choose Holy Spirit to decide for me, the truth will fill my mind.

The truth of What I am and Who created me has NEVER changed. There is no opposite to truth. There is no will that opposes Love. I am waking from my dream of betrayal and fear. There is a sure way out of dreams—-that is to apply forgiveness to everything I “see.” There is no distance between truth and love. Through forgiveness I return to knowing that nothing ever happened, that there really is nothing “out there” to forgive. There are no differences, no contrasts, no conflicts. Through forgiving I accept the Oneness of Love that I never left.

Father, I know You are with me because I abide in You. Let me then hear only Your Voice, see only innocence, and remember the truth. Father, I thank You for Your gifts to me.  And So It Is.

Trusting that your Inner Guidance shines the truth for you at this season and
all through the new year.  Miracles, Peace and Joy!

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The Price of Being Right

We recently went to Menard’s and picked out a carpet remnant for the office.
My partner was tired and ready to leave, asking if there was anything else we needed to look at. I made a comment about kitchen flooring—which he again dismissed. He surmises that “I” want everything “new” in the house. So the ego mind flipped out.
I abruptly walked away. My behavior made it plain that I was angry—-but also there was “hurt”—-is that about my request being denied? Or that my judgment is solely wrong?

As I waited by the exit, I wondered what this was reflecting back to me? A belief that I never “get” what I want? Or the belief that I have to struggle or fight to get anything? The pain “I” experience is only from my thoughts. “I am never upset for the reason I think. I am upset because I think I am in competition with God.” (My brother is God; I am in competition with my brother.)

The Course is teaching me that when I attack a brother, I am really attacking myself. (There is no “other” out there.) When I attack myself, I’m really attacking God.  Yet, I am part of God. God does not attack Himself—-so my belief is insane. I hold my insane thoughts so I can “be right” and stay in the world as I know it. And I continue to inflict more pain on myself. Don’t I know how to ask for help? Of course I do—-but will I ask the correct One for help and healing?  Am I willing to surrender my insanity?

“My meaningless thoughts show me a meaningless world.”
I did not stop, ask for help and accept truth. That’s the real reason for my anger/upset. I wrote the script; I put those words into the actors mouth. And instead of forgiving the idea that I am lacking anything, I made the mistake of thinking this was real. Wanting to be right took precedent
over being happy. I wrote that scene so I could have the opportunity to release the idea that I don’t have it all. The truth is I have been given everything; I am part of everything, everywhere, every instant. I am whole, complete, eternal.
Do I really want to continue the belief that I have nothing and am nothing? Do I really want to continue playing the innocent victim?

The Course tells me over and over, that the insanity will not last.
I will finally decide that I no longer want or need the pain. I will decide to wake from the silly dream, I will decide that I want truth above all else. My inner peace will be the witness that I have surrendered the insane ideas/thoughts. The inner peace will shine away the mistakes, bringing Light into every mind.
And I am grateful that this is so.

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