A New Way to See

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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