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My Belief

⁷Your mind is one with God’s. ⁸Denying this and thinking otherwise has held your ego together, but has literally split your mind. ⁹As a loving brother I am deeply concerned with your mind, and urge you to follow my example as you look at yourself and at your brother, and see in both the glorious creations of a glorious Father. (ACIM, T-4.IV.2:7-9)

Denying that my mind is one with/same as God’s/Love’s, causes all my unrest, my fears, my illusions. As I learn that this denial is the cause of every unhappy or unloving idea, I learn that there is another way- a different way to “think”, by letting go of the irrational, insane thoughts of a mind made insane by meaningless thoughts.
This idea threatens the separated mind to its “core”.

The separated mind is an oxymoron, as that which was Created, comes from Mind, has not made itself into something “else” as the tiny delusional piece of idea would have me believe.

“What is real cannot be threatened “- the Real is the complete Whole Thought / Beingness of Love. It is comforting to me now to read these words. How glad I feel to “see” that my tiny, vague, meaningless thoughts have not ever changed the beauty of the Changeless idea of Perfect Love.

Yet I still (seem) to have “work” to do, a journey to complete, before I reap the benefits of accepting my place in Love’s Mind/Thought. This still is only the split/separated belief making up its story, dream. Beyond the dream of separateness, lies the Truth.

That is, neither myself or any other Child of God, has ever been lost, abandoned, blamed, punished or crucified for the mistaken belief, a belief in what never happened. How simple is the Truth, how easily the mistake can be released, vanished in the blink of an eye. And yet is the simple truth made into another terrifying idea, a device to torture the little mind whose only purpose is to protect the belief in separation protect it from the least grain of doubt, smallest iota of distrust or uncertainty.

As this section title (chapter 4, IV.) states As this section title (chapter 4, IV.) states- <strong> all the efforts of this tiny delusional idea really are nothing. It is still my mistaken belief in its ideas that keeps it going, gives it energy. As I learn to release my focus, my attention on this bit of fluff, this tiniest residue of a dream, I will experience less and lass of its presence as I train my mind not to give attention to its feeble cry and empty tantrums. There is no need to punish myself for the little trip-ups or detours I may take. My goal is certain, my destination complete.

I rest in the certainty of Loves Presence. For I am never alone, never berefit of my True Source. I am grateful that this is so.

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The Sick Mind

The ego has my attention again. Feelings of sadness, remorse, guilt -over things not done? Things not accomplished, not finished? Things out of my reach, my realm? All these “things” are things or desires that are only of the dreamworld- the ways that the individual, autonomous “being” or persona makes itself “known” or special. So the ego tells me that I have failed-there is no reason for me to feel happy.

Holy Spirit, let me not listen to the foolish notions of the separated mind. Help me remember there is no separation. What never happened can have no effects. Please remove all sick ideas from my mind. I want only what belongs to me in truth.

Loss is not loss when properly perceived. Perception makes the world I see. Love gives All to all. Loss is impossible-totally meaningless.
~Are these sad feelings, another attempt to keep me from uncovering the truth in me?
Loss is not loss when properly perceived. I want only what belongs to me in truth. What Love gives is always given, and never taken back. My mind holds only what I think with God/Love. My mind is part of Gods or Loves-this has never changed.
Yet while I dream a dream of separation, I will not be happy. I cannot have peace in a mind made insane with guilt.
Am I willing to give up the dream of specialness? Seeking specialness (which is a separated mind’s only goal) will never be accomplished. In Complete Love there is nothing missing, nothing lost. Complete Love is All There Is- there is nothing else “out there.” Complete Love is my home, my Self, the All.

Thank you, Holy Spirit for bringing me/my mind back to sanity.

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Once Upon a Dream

Once upon a time- I had a thought: “what if I was separate from All That Is?”  It was an impossible idea yet I could not lay it down. I became obsessed with it and in so doing I retreated, or withdrew my mind from Oneness of Love, thinking that singularity was real or true. My one Reality became unreal to me, seeming only a dream, until I “saw” only fantasy in Its place.

Thoughts of separation, only cause fear in me and in the Sonship or all of Love‘s children. Separation thoughts caused the pain and illusion of being incomplete, alone, defenseless and at the mercy of outside forces, events, and circumstance. “What did I ever do to deserve this?” asks the separated mind. For it still believes that what occurred in dreaming is still its reality. Because the mind has all the energy of creation in it, this energy maintains the dream and its world appears solid, with the physical being the one thing that can be certain and depended on.

The separated mind believes its story is the only story and is ever diligent of keeping out any thoughts and ideas that may say otherwise. For if “I” would stop all the running and doing that seems to occupy my life, I would enter the calm center of my Authentic mind, my Holy Self, that never ceased being in the Oneness, never left its Source- All That Is.

What do I do to wake from dream of separation? I need to practice (more and more times, till practice becomes habit) asking for Help to see differently, hear differently, think differently. As the links are undone with Holy Self’s interpretation, all things will shine in the mind connected with Love.

Love is eternal, therefore, loving thoughts must be eternal. What is given to Love is never lost. It is part of the perfection of Oneness, All That Is.
What is forever true is never lost. It can be hidden, or dropped, or forgotten, but it remains forever and without limit of any kind in the Whole Mind of Love.
All That Is extends endlessly without omission, in complete tranquility, or peace. In Its whole mind, all thoughts are as One, Its extension is whole, complete and without end.
Your Holy Self knows all this and so it holds no fear, no unloving thoughts of separation. It holds the knowledge of Truth for you, till you are available to receive it.

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Fear of Waking

Dearest child,
Yes, you are afraid of waking, but do not punish yourself for this “failure.” Only when you are ready, will you step towards the dark, seeming solid wall of doubt and guilt, and with Love beside you, you will see the Light and the dawning of Truth will free you of all fear thoughts.
When you let or allow the smallest sliver of light into your mind, you are making   room for the shift in perception and the healing of some ancient thought that has no place in your holy mind.

Remember always, that Holy Spirit never engenders fear. If you feel any thing other than peace or happiness, you have chosen the wrong voice to listen to. Simply choose again, as many times as it may take to silence the inane chatter or desperate shriek of the wrong mind. Truly, you have control of which voice you choose to hear or feel or intuit. Tell the insane voice that you are not interested in its tale.

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Carefully Constructed Dream

What if my carefully constructed ideas came tumbling- -no crashing down? Little mind would be overwhelmed and fraught with fear for it deeply believes in what it has built, and yet is equally fearful that it will be discovered as the Huxter,the fraud, the manipulator of the dream.
Yes!! I am the dreamer of the dream. I have chosen what I see, hear, feel. I have played the innocent bystander unaware of what I make. I have made others appear as untrustworthy, takers, and users. I made up my story so I could wear the face of innocence and not look within to see the hidden insane thoughts I made to keep me “safe” from truth.
Oh indeed! “Oh, what a triangle web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”* What started as a tiny mad idea soon became the all encompassing game of the little mind; to keep itself, cloaked in innocence and to keep me believing that “it” was me. This story has run since its shadow first crossed the garden of the mind.
I find that I am playing in the little mind’s dream. I feel fear from becoming a Teacher of God. And fear waking from the dream. Yet, at least I am now aware of the unkind, unloving thoughts that pop into my mind. If I choose in that moment to be more awake and less asleep, I seek the Holy Spirit’s aid in releasing the guilt laid thought and welcome or accept the loving thought instead.  I am reminded “That thought is not you.” When I can step back, see with Love’s eyes, I free myself and my neighbor, friend, or brother. When I free him or her from my projection, my sick thought, I am freed as well.
My thoughts can be healed. When I truly relinquish my hold or belief in them, they disappear. They disappear because the power of the thought is all encompassing. The power or energy of my thoughts have made what my sick mind wanted to perceive. When I no longer value what I made in error, my mind can shift, returning it to what lays beyond perceptions or dreams.

*quote from Sir Walter Scott, 1808.
Poem: Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field

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