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Gift of Un-Limitation

My little mind has been going around and round with the question of returning to the state where I previously lived. I noticed that other day, how the ego must have some “dilemma” going on to keep it busy…. otherwise it makes up some other problem to keep my attention fixed on the outer world. Any deversion to keep my mind away from peace!

This morning I had a dream where I received unexpected gifts. To me, that symbolizes the abundance that is mine, though I may not be aware of it. These words then arrived from Jesus.
(Note: Jesus calls me ‘Sara’)  I invite you to read the words as though the Holy Spirit or Jesus were speaking to you.

“Don’t believe that you are limited, Sara. You are unlimited. You can do anything—for you were created without limits. If you feel limited, it shows you have listened to the ego voice, this need not be.

“You have no need to rush through the traffic lights—you can choose peace when you wait at the stop lights. You are always in the right place at the right time. If you choose to return to WI., it is because you are without limits; if you choose to stay, it will be without limits. There is no “wrong” choice—for the only true choice is between illusion and truth. In the dream you have duality and the seeming parade of decisions. In the dream you choose one place or another, one face or another, one body or another. These are choices between illusions, which have no meaning. Choosing to forgive or let go of an illusion makes room for truth to return. “This is “why” the ego would refuse your choice to forgive, for it would keep the illusion of choices, to keep itself alive. It loves comparison and analysis. It will judge every action you make, for it wants only to condemn you and keep guilt active and growing in your dream.

“Whatever you choose, you are unlimited. You will be in the right place at the right time. The only place you really are is in the Mind that created you. Thoughts leave not their Source, therefore you are still in the Mind that Thought of you. Being a Thought of Love, you have no limitation because God’s Love is limitless. His Love is real and without end, without restriction, without exclusion. His Love holds all, completely inclusive and without boundary, shape or size. You had mistakenly tried to forget the eternal Oneness of Love, but you cannot completely forget. You can choose to dream in place of Love’s reality, but dreams are nothing. Dreams can never replace Love. And so, you can choose to wake rather than dream.

“You dreamed you would be “safe” in a dream of separation, yet you are learning that the dream of such a world is not what you truly want. It is not independence with special love that you want. It is not a special home or person that want. Your true home awaits you—as you turn within you find His home. You discover you have never left, with every practice of forgiving the images you pretend to see. When you practice forgiving, you remember that you are loved the same as your brother. When you practice, you will feel the Love that is real, pour over you and through you, for you have never really left Love. With all the power and gifts of Love within you, there is nothing you cannot do.
Sara, you have no limits.”

© 2004, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Snob Appeal

I recently became aware of an attitude in my mind, which was coming from the ego system of thought. It was the idea that “others” that do not study ACIM are “different” from me, or that “I” have the better way and they do not. Big time comparisons coming from the fragmented mind. 

I wrote out the thoughts that were coming to my mind:
I have to stop thinking (with ego) that I am “above it all.” That’s the attempt to keep guilt and separation real by making me “better than” someone who doesn’t read or interpret the Course like I do.  (Wouldn’t that encompass everybody??) That is lie, to maintain differences.

The ego looks only at the outer image and does not look to the Inner Light that is part of All That Is. If I keep looking at others as different, then I’m keeping the belief that I’m alone, for no other is like me. The belief that I’m alone, upholds the core belief of separation, and that is a lie. So, do I want the false or do I want the truth? Real or unreal?

With either choice of the ego system, that I’m “less than or better than,” will bring feelings of aloneness. It makes “alone” seem real. Do I want to keep the witnesses to fear? Is that what I really want? Any choice I make with the ego system, is only a choice for fear. I have been fooling myself, trying to find happiness in a system that does not recognize happiness.

I have unlimited opportunities, then, to choose again. To make choices that use a system based on Love. Any time I feel anger, pain, or fear, I can choose again. I ask to give up my mistaken, hurtful thoughts for thoughts that purify my mind. I ask for hurtful thinking to be washed out of my mind and allow in the light and love of True Thoughts from Love.
As I release the fear thoughts, I release my brothers and myself.

I give the fear thoughts to H. Spirit Whose purpose and goal is sure. He never fails me. When I am willing to be taught, His Voice always gives me peace. In fact, His peace is with me all the time, I need only let go of the blocks that prevent my awareness of the peace. He is always happy to take my broken thoughts, replacing them with the loving thoughts of my Source.
I am willing to choose again. I am willing to have the truth replace the false images in my mind.
I am willing to give up the fear thoughts that hurt me and only me. I accept the Help that is
within me, and accept the truth of What I am. 

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Games in Fear

I have felt so scattered the past week…. and lonely. I know these feelings come from the ego system, but the thought behind the feelings, is still trying to hide. The ego wants me to believe that I am powerless, that I have no options to choose in healing. It wants me to believe that I am powerless…. that way it can keep playing its game, keep its “control” over the dream.

The ego mind keeps looking at the past to see what I had and what I left behind. It keeps looking for happiness wherever it thinks happiness is, but denying that happiness is here now. It wants to make time real.
It looks at the past and tells me what I’ve “lost.” It is programed to find loss, lack, scarcity, just the forms of fear. It is not programed to find happiness, truth or peace. It does not want to find those things at all, it merely wants to keep me preoccupied with the search so I will not stop to question where and why I am looking.
For if I question the where and the why, it means that I will change my mind about what is valuable to me and I will accept the perception and help from the place in my mind where peace and truth abide. I am learning to question the values of the ego mind, it’s pursuit of happiness is meaningless.

The truth is that the peace of God is shining in me now, I have the peace within me. This fact the ego would not let me know. As long as I keep choosing again, asking for correction from H.S. I will be released from the false thoughts. It is a daily, minute to minute process…
and the ego would like to have me think that it is too hard, that I’ll never succeed. It uses illusory time to keep the illusion of failure or future success in my mind. In each instant I need to turn to H.S. for help, to see past the illusion. I need help because I cannot get outside of the “box” by using the same system that made the box. I need the thought system that I did not dream up, I need guidance from the system that comes only from Love, and I need to follow that Voice, to use the information that comes from Love.

As I learn to let go of the thoughts and definitions that I wanted to have my meaning on them,
I learn that the Peace and Love that I thought I threw away, are still within me. I learn that
I have not abandoned Love, nor has Love left me. I learn that God’s Will is perfect happiness for me, and that I share that Will. I learn there is one Life, and that I share with God. I am surrounded by the Love of God. I can “see” again, with the eyes of Love, not the eyes of fear.
I choose again, and again, and again. I am willing to learn that I remain as Love created me.
Thank You God, I love You God!

 

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A Love Letter

Last week I found I was following the ego path once again. If I am really honest with myself, I am usually sleep walking along the dream path, and that part of the mind (imaginary as it is) does its best to ignore and deny the Spiritual part of me, that is real.

I had uncovered some deeply rooted beliefs, and as I sat at work, I asked Jesus to take these errant thoughts, that were not new to my awareness. As I finally allowed my willingness to come forward, this is what I received:

“My dear Child,
It is always your choice, and there is no valid reason to listen to the many voices of the ego mind. You know that it misleads you, but you mistakenly hope yet, that somehow it will give you some help or some bit of value. You need only continue to practice on listening to the
“new kid”. Practice on tuning into the quiet place and let the true Voice speak to you of what you are. You need never be afraid of what the true Voice tells you. You need never remain hostage to the clatter and insane images of the ego system. It is really only another thought, but one that you have mistakenly believed as real.

“Listen and trust that what I tell you is far more real than any image in your world. Trust that I will never hurt you, nor abandon you. My words will heal all sense of loss, all sense of homelessness, and all sense of guilt. It will be done as your will is truly the same as Love. Let this come to your mind and let it be healed with the memory of Love. I cannot leave you, that is impossible. What is real is forever true and nothing can change your true Self, the holy Child of God. The uncorrupted Thought that belongs forever with Him. You are Love and nothing else.
Dear Child, take my words to heart—-I am here.”

I had written these words down, and reread them throughout the day. It is so healing to receive a “love letter” from the Self or Source that knows the truth about you. I hope that it may find a place in your heart as well, to nourish the healing and waking that we aspire to.

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A Mission “Busted”

Recently it became apparent that something needed to be healed in my mind. I was experiencing problems with the body again. It is interesting to me, that on some days, I will sit with mental discomfort for long periods and not seek relief, but when it comes to body discomfort, then I take ‘action’. It would be much simpler to go to Holy Spirit with the mental problem, rather then waiting till it appears in form in the dream body.

I participated in the Inner Widsom counseling process, and what follows is what I can remember about the counseling.

Some of the thought cluster beliefs: I came “here” on a mission, like I was to conqueror something. I accepted the idea and burden of being a conqueror, a “winner”, a peace maker, an artist, a worker or employee. I felt alone, overwhelmed, and hopeless in the scope of not being able to accomplish my “mission”.

In the meditation of going up the steps, I joined with Jesus, in which he showed me, that it was not bodies joining, but our light joining. We sent light to the thought cluster, and it shrunk till it disappeared.

Message: I am a Being of Light. I am Light, my Source is Light. I am never apart from Light, I am never alone.

I can take everything to the Light, take each illusion to the Light; my only purpose here is to remember the Light. I need only let go of fear, let go of dream images, take them to the Light and lay them down. The idea of being here to “fix” things is a false premise and I can let it go. There is nothing here to “fix”. The false mind made up the idea so that I would “fail” (adding more guilt to the dream picture.) Being a “success” is not necessary. I need only remember that I am Light. Everything I touch is filled with and becomes Light. My wholeness and holiness is Light.
I am forever Light and nothing else.
I lay down the false burden of being a conqueror, a “winner” a peace maker, an artist, a worker or employee.
I lay down the expectations of the way “things should be”. I lay down the expectations of what would make me happy or what I “should” be doing.

I am only Light and nothing else. When I remember I am Light, then all else falls into place. Obstacles disappear. (I was given a picture of seeing my neck bones in perfect alignment. And that I am perfectly aligned in and with the Light.)
There is only Light and I am forever and forever one in the One Light.

I join with you all in remembering that we are Light and only Light. May your day be filled with the Light that you are. May we extend the Light in every doing and in our thoughts.
Thank you!

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