March 26, 2018

Day 100 - A Course in Miracles

Day 100 - A Course in Miracles



Chapter Nine: The Correction of Error

III. Atonement as a Lesson in Sharing

9 Atonement is for all, because it is the way to undo the belief that anything is for you alone. To forgive is to overlook. Look, then, beyond error, and do not let your perception rest upon it, for you will believe what your perception holds. Accept as true only what your brother is if you would know yourself. Perceive what he is not, and you cannot know what you are because you see him falsely. Remember always that your identity is shared and that sharing is its reality.

Day 99 - A Course in Miracles

Day 99 - A Course in Miracles


Day 99
Healing and the Changelessness of Mind
[FIP T-7.V.]
The body is nothing more than a framework for developing abilities. It is therefore a means for developing potentials, which is quite apart from what the potential is used FOR. This IS a decision. The effects of the ego’s decision in this matter are so apparent that they need no elaboration here. But the Holy Spirit’s decision to use the body ONLY for communication has such direct connection with healing that it DOES need clarification. The unhealed healer OBVIOUSLY does not understand his own vocation.

Day 98 - A Course in Miracles

Day 98 - A Course in Miracles



Chapter Nine: The Correction of Error

II. Sanity and Perception
4 When you react at all to errors, you are not listening to the Holy Spirit. He has merely disregarded them, and if you attend to them, you are not hearing Him. If you do not hear Him, you are listening to your ego and making as little sense as the brother whose errors you perceive. This cannot be correction. Yet it is more than merely lack of correction for him. It is the giving up of correction in yourself.

Day 97 - A Course in Miracles

Day 97 - A Course in Miracles



Chapter Nine: The Correction of Error

I. Introduction


1 The alertness of the ego to the errors which other egos make is not the kind of vigilance the Holy Spirit would have you maintain. Egos are critical in terms of the kind of "sense" they stand for. They understand this kind of sense because it is sensible to them. To the Holy Spirit, it makes no sense at all. To the ego, it is kind and right and good to point out errors and "correct" them. This makes perfect sense to the ego, which is totally unaware of what errors are and what correction is.

Day 96 - A Course in Miracles

Day 96 - A Course in Miracles



Chapter Eight: The Journey Back

XI. The Answer to Prayer
107 Everyone who has ever tried to use prayer to request something has experienced what appears to be failure. This is not only true in connection with specific things which might be harmful but also in connection with requests which are strictly in line with this course. The latter, in particular, might be incorrectly interpreted as "proof" that the course does not mean what it says. You must remember, however, that the course does state, and repeatedly, that its purpose is the escape from fear.

Day 95 - A Course in Miracles

Day 95 - A Course in Miracles



Chapter Eight: The Journey Back

X. The Acceptance of Reality
90 Fear of the Will of God is one of the strangest beliefs that the human mind has ever made. This could not possibly have occurred unless the mind were already profoundly split, making it possible for the mind to be afraid of what it really is. It is apparent that reality cannot "threaten" anything except illusions, since reality can only uphold truth. The very fact that the Will of God, which is what you are, is perceived as fearful to you demonstrates that you are afraid of what you are. It is not, then, the Will of God of which you are afraid, but yours. Your will is not the ego's, and that is why the ego is against you. What seems to be the fear of God is really only the fear of your own reality.

Day 94 - A Course in Miracles

Day 94 - A Course in Miracles



Chapter Eight: The Journey Back

IX. Healing as Corrected Perception
80 We once said that the Holy Spirit is the Answer. He is the Answer to everything because He knows what the answer to everything is. The ego does not know what a real question is, although it asks an endless number. Yetyou can learn this as you learn to question the value of the ego and thus establish your ability to evaluate its questions. When the ego tempts you to sickness, do not ask the Holy Spirit to heal the body, for this would merely be to accept the ego's belief that the body is the proper aim for healing. Ask rather that the Holy Spirit teach you the right perception of the body, for perception alone can be distorted. Only perception can be sick because only perception can be wrong.

Day 93 - A Course in Miracles

Day 93 - A Course in Miracles



Chapter Eight: The Journey Back

VIII. The Body As Means or End
69 Attitudes toward the body are attitudes toward attack. The ego's definitions of everything are childish and always based on what it believes a thing is for. This is because it is incapable of true generalizations and equates what it sees with the function it ascribes to it. It does not equate it with what it is. To the ego, the body is to attackwith. Equating you with the body, it teaches that you are to attack with, because this is what it believes. The body, then, is not the source of its own health. The body's condition lies solely in your interpretation of its function.

Day 92 - A Course in Miracles

Day 92 - A Course in Miracles


Day 92
You are NOT asked to make insane decisions, although you are free to THINK you are. But it MUST be insane to believe IT IS UP TO YOU to decide what God’s Creations ARE. The Holy Spirit perceives the conflict EXACTLY AS IT IS. Therefore, His second lesson is: To HAVE peace, TEACH peace to all and to LEARN it.

Day 91 - A Course in Miracles

Day 91 - A Course in Miracles


DAY 91
“To Have Peace, Teach Peace to Learn It”
[FIP T-6.V.B.]
All the separated ones have a basic fear of retaliation and abandonment. This is because they BELIEVE in retaliation attack and rejection, so this is what they perceive and teach and LEARN. These insane concepts are clearly the result of their own dissociation and projection. What you teach you are, but it is quite apparent that you can teach wrongly, and therefore believe TEACH YOURSELVES that you are what you are not WRONGLY. Many thought that I was attacking them, even though it is perfectly quite apparent that I was NOT. An insane learner learns strange lessons.

March 25, 2018

Day 90 - A Course in Miracles

Day 90 - A Course in Miracles



Chapter Eight: The Journey Back

VII. Communication and the Ego-Body Equation
53 Attack is always physical. When attack in any form enters your mind, you are equating yourself with a body. This is the ego's interpretation of the body. You do not have to attack physically to accept this interpretation. You are accepting it simply by the belief that attack can get you something you want. If you did not believe this, the idea of attack would have no appeal for you. When you equate yourself with a body, you will always experience depression. When a Child of God thinks of himself in this way, he is belittling himself and seeing his brothers as similarly belittled. Since he can find himself only in them, he has cut himself off from salvation.

Day 89 - A Course in Miracles

Day 89 - A Course in Miracles



Chapter Eight: The Journey Back

VI. The Power of Joint Decision
42 We are the joint will of the Sonship, whose wholeness is for all. We begin the journey back by setting out together and gather in our brothers as we continue together. Every gain in our strength is offered for all, so they too can lay aside their weakness and add their strength to us. God's welcome waits for us all, and He will welcome us as I am welcoming you. Forget not the Kingdom of God for anything the world has to offer. The world can add nothing to the power and the glory of God and His holy Sons, but it can blind the Sons to the Father if they behold it. You cannot behold the world and know God. Only one is true.

Day 88 - A Course in Miracles

Day 88 - A Course in Miracles




Chapter Eight: The Journey Back
V. The Light of the World


25 If God's Will for you is complete peace and joy, unless you experience only this you must be refusing to acknowledge His Will. His Will does not vacillate, being changeless forever. When you are not at peace, it can only be because you do not believe you are in Him. Yet He is all in all. His peace is complete, and you must be included in it. His laws govern you, because they govern everything. You cannot exempt yourself from His laws, although you can disobey them. Yet if you do, and only if you do, you will feel lonely and helpless, because you are denying yourself everything.

Day 87 - A Course in Miracles

Day 87 - A Course in Miracles

Chapter Eight: The Journey Back
IV. The Holy Encounter

16 Glory be to God in the highest and to you because He has so willed it. Ask and it shall be given you because it has already been given. Ask for light and learn that you are light. If you want understanding and enlightenment, you will learn it because your will to learn it is your decision to listen to the Teacher who knows of light and can therefore teach it to you. There is no limit on your learning because there is no limit on your minds. There is no limit on His will to teach because He was created to teach. Knowing His function perfectly, He wills to fulfill it perfectly because that is His joy and yours.

Day 86 - A Course in Miracles

Day 86 - A Course in Miracles


  CH 8 "THE JOURNEY BACK"
III. THE RATIONALE FOR CHOICE  

8 There is a rationale for choice. Only one Teacher knows what your reality is. If learning that is the purpose of the curriculum, you must learn it of Him. The ego does not know what it is trying to teach. It is trying to teach you what you are without knowing it. The ego is expert only in confusion. It does not understand anything else. As a teacher, then, it is totally confused and totally confusing. Even if you could disregard the Holy Spirit entirely, which is quite impossible, you could learn nothing from the ego because the ego knows nothing.

Day 85 - A Course in Miracles

Day 85 - A Course in Miracles


Day 85
The Crucifixion was a complex of behaviors arising out of clearly opposed thought systems. As such, it is the perfect symbol of conflict between the ego and the Son of God. It was as much intrapersonal as interpersonal then, just as it is now, and it is still just as real. But BECAUSE it is just as real now, its lesson, too, has equal reality WHEN IT IS LEARNED. I do not need gratitude any more than I needed protection. But YOU need to develop your weakened ability to BE grateful, or you cannot appreciate God. HE does not need your appreciation, but you DO.

Day 84 - A Course in Miracles

Day 84 - A Course in Miracles


Day 84
I elected, both for your sake AND mine, to demonstrate that the most outrageous assault, as judged by the ego, did not matter. As the world judges these things, but NOT as God knows them, I was betrayed, abandoned, beaten, torn, and finally killed. It was perfectly clear that this was only because of the projection of others onto me, because I had not harmed anyone and had healed many. We are still equal as learners, even though we need not have equal experiences. The Holy Spirit is glad when you can learn enough from MINE to be re-awakened by them. That was their only purpose, and that is the only respect way in which I can be perceived as the Way, the Truth, and the Light.

March 23, 2018

Day 83 - A Course in Miracles

Day 83 - A Course in Miracles




  CH 7 "THE CONSISTENCY OF THE KINGDOM"
XII. THE STATE OF GRACE 
 
   107 The Holy Spirit will always guide you truly because your joy is His. This is His Will for everyone because He speaks for the Kingdom of God which is joy. Following Him is therefore the easiest thing in the world and the only thing that is easy, because it is not of the world and is therefore natural. The world goes against your nature, being out of accord with God's laws. The world perceives orders of difficulty in everything. This is because the ego perceives nothing as wholly desirable. By demonstrating to yourselves that there is no order of difficulty in miracles, you will convince yourselves that in your natural state there is no difficulty because it is a state of grace.

Day 82 - A Course in Miracles

Day 82 - A Course in Miracles



CHAPTER 7
The Consistency of the Kingdom

VIII. The Total Commitment

70 Whenever you deny a blessing to a brother, you will feel deprived. This is because denial is as total as love. It is as impossible to deny part of the Sonship as it is to love it in part. Nor is it possible to love it totally at times . You cannot be totally committed sometimes . Remember a very early lesson—"Never underestimate the power of denial." It has no power in itself, but you can give it the power of your mind, whose power is without limit of any kind. If you use it to deny reality, reality is gone for you. Reality cannot be partly appreciated . That is why denying any part of it means you have lost awareness of all of it.

Day 81 - A Course in Miracles

Day 81 - A Course in Miracles


CHAPTER 7
The Consistency of the Kingdom

VII. From Vigilance to Peace

54 Although you can love the Sonship only as one, you can perceive it as fragmented. It is impossible, however, for you to see something in part of it that you will not attribute to all of it. That is why attack is never discrete and why attack must be relinquished entirely . If it is not relinquished entirely, it is not relinquished at all. Fear and love are equally reciprocal. They make or create, depending on whether the ego or the Holy Spirit begets or inspires them, but they will return to the mind of the thinker, and they will affect his total perception. That includes his perception of God, of His creations, and of his own. He will not appreciate any of them if he regards them fearfully. He will appreciate all of them if he regards them with love.

Day 80 - A Course in Miracles

Day 80 - A Course in Miracles


CHAPTER 7
The Consistency of the Kingdom

VI. Healing and the Changelessness of Mind

39 The body is nothing more than a framework for developing abilities. It is therefore a means for developing potentials , which is quite apart from what the potential is used for That is a decision . The effects of the ego's decision in this matter are so apparent that they need no elaboration here, but the Holy Spirit's decision to use the body only for communication has such a direct connection with healing that it does need clarification. The unhealed healer obviously does not understand his own vocation.

Day 79 - A Course in Miracles

Day 79 - A Course in Miracles


CHAPTER 7
The Consistency of the Kingdom

V. The Recognition of Truth

26 God's meaning waits in the Kingdom because that is where He placed it. It does not wait in time. It merely rests in the Kingdom because it belongs there, as you do. How can you, who are God's meaning, perceive yourselves as absent from it? You can see yourselves as separated from your meaning only by experiencing yourself as unreal . This is why the ego is insane; it teaches that you are not what you are.This is so contradictory that it is clearly impossible. It is therefore a lesson which you cannot really learn , and therefore cannot really teach . Yet you are always teaching. You must therefore be teaching something else as well, even though the ego does not know what it is .

Day 78 - A Course in Miracles

Day 78 - A Course in Miracles


CHAPTER 7
The Consistency of the Kingdom

IV. The Unified Curriculum

19 To heal is to liberate totally. We once said there is no order of difficulty in miracles because they are all maximal expressions of love. This has no range at all. The non-maximal only appears to have a range. This is because it seems to be meaningful to measure it from the maximum and identify its position by how much it is not there. Actually, this does not mean anything. It is like negative numbers in that the concept can be used theoretically, but it has no application practically. It is true that if you put three apples on the table and then take them away, the three apples are not there. But it is not true that the table is now minus three apples. If there is nothing on the table, it does not matter what was there in terms of amount. The "nothing" is neither greater nor less because of what is absent.

March 20, 2018

Day 77 - A Course in Miracles

Day 77 - A Course in Miracles

Day 77
Teaching is done in many ways, by formal means, by guidance, and above all BY EXAMPLE. If you will to learn, you MUST will to teach. Teaching is therapy because it means the sharing of ideas, and the awareness that to share them is to strengthen them. The union of the Sonship IS its protection. The ego cannot prevail against the Kingdom BECAUSE it is united, and the ego fades away and is undone in the presence of the attraction of the parts of the Sonship which hear the call of the Holy Spirit to be as One.

Day 76 - A Course in Miracles

Day 76 - A Course in Miracles


Day 76

[FIP T-5.IV. Teaching and Healing]


This does NOT mean that it [your understanding and helpfulness to another, although misdirected away from yourself] is lost to you, but it DOES mean that you are not aware of it. I have saved all of your kindnesses and every loving thought you have had, and I assure you, you have had many. I have purified them of errors which hid their light, and have kept them for you in their own perfect radiance. They are beyond destruction and beyond guilt. They came from the Holy Spirit within YOU, and we know that what God creates is eternal.

Day 75 - A Course in Miracles

Day 75 - A Course in Miracles


CHAPTER 7
The Consistency of the Kingdom

III. The Laws of Mind

10 To heal, then, is to correct perception in your brother and yourself by sharing the Holy Spirit with him. This places you both within the Kingdom and restores its wholeness in your minds. This parallels creation because it unifies by increasingand integrates by extending . What you project you believe. This is an immutable law of the mind in this world as well as in the Kingdom. However, the content is different in this world because the thoughts it governs are very different from the thoughts in the Kingdom. Laws must be adapted to circumstances if they are to maintain order.

Day 74 - A Course in Miracles

Day 74 - A Course in Miracles


CHAPTER 7
The Consistency of the Kingdom

I. Introduction

1 The creative power of both God and His creations is limitless, but they are not in reciprocal relationship. You do communicate fully with God, as He does with you. This is an ongoing process in which you share, and because you share it, you are inspired to create like God. Yet in creation you are not in reciprocal relation to God since He created you, but you did not create Him. We have already said that only in this respect your creative power differs from His. Even in this world there is a parallel. Parents give birth to children, but children do not give birth to parents. They do, however, give birth to their children and thus give birth as their parents do.

Day 73 - A Course in Miracles

Day 73 - A Course in Miracles


CHAPTER 6
Attack and Fear

V.c. Be Vigilant Only for God and His Kingdom

82 For your own salvation you must be critical since your salvation is critical to the whole Sonship. We said before that the Holy Spirit is evaluative and must be. Yet His evaluation does not extend beyond you, or you would share it. In your mind, and your mind only, He sorts out the true from the false and teaches you to judge every thought that you allow to enter your mind in the light of what God put there. Whatever is in accord with this light, He retains to strengthen the Kingdom in you. What is partly in accord with truth, He accepts and purifies. But what is out of accord entirely, He rejects by judging against. This is how He keeps the Kingdom perfectly consistent and perfectly unified.

Day 72 - A Course in Miracles

Day 72 - A Course in Miracles


CHAPTER 6
Attack and Fear

V.b. To Have Peace, Teach Peace to Learn It

70 All the separated ones have a basic fear of retaliation and abandonment. This is because they believe in attack and rejection, so this is what they perceive and teach and learn . These insane concepts are clearly the result of their own dissociation and projection. What you teach you are, but it is quite apparent that you can teach wrongly and therefore teach yourselves wrong . Many thought that I was attacking them, even though it was quite apparent that I was not. An insane learner learns strange lessons.

Day 71 - A Course in Miracles

Day 71 - A Course in Miracles


CHAPTER 6
Attack and Fear

V.a. To Have, Give All to All

57 Like any good teacher, the Holy Spirit does know more than you do now , but He teaches only to make you equal with Him. This is because you had already taught wrongly, having believed what was not true. You did not believe in your own perfection. Could God teach you that you had made a split mind, when He knows your mind only as whole? What God does know is that His communication channels are not open to Him so that He cannot impart His joy and know that His Children are wholly joyous. This is an ongoing process, not in time, but in eternity. God's extending outward, though not His completeness, is blocked when the Sonship does not communicate with Him as one. So He thought, "My Children sleep and must be awakened."

March 19, 2018

A Course In Miracles -Table of Contents

A Course In Miracles -Table of Contents

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March 18, 2018

Day 70 - A Course in Miracles

Day 70 - A Course in Miracles


A Course in Miracles
WORKBOOK

Lesson 70
My salvation comes from me.

1 All temptation is nothing more than some form of the basic temptation not to believe the idea for today. Salvation seems to come from anywhere except from you. So, too, does the source of guilt. You see neither guilt nor salvation as in your own mind and nowhere else. When you realize that all guilt is solely an invention of your mind, you must also realize that guilt and salvation must be in the same place. Understanding this, you are saved.

Day 69 - A Course in Miracles

Day 69 - A Course in Miracles



A Course in Miracles
WORKBOOK

Lesson 69
My grievances hide the light of the world in me.

1 No one can look upon what your grievances conceal. Because your grievances are hiding the light of the world in you, everyone stands in darkness, and you beside him. But as the veil of your grievances is lifted, you are released with him. Share your salvation now with him who stood beside you when you were in hell. He is your brother in the light of the world which saves you both.

Day 68 - A Course in Miracles

Day 68 - A Course in Miracles


CHAPTER 6
Attack and Fear

V. The Only Answer

45 Remember that the Holy Spirit is the Answer, not the question. The ego always speaks first because it is capricious and does not mean its maker well. That is because it believes, and correctly, that its maker may withdraw his support from it at any moment. If it meant you well, it would be glad, as the Holy Spirit will be glad when He has brought you home, and you no longer need His guidance. The ego does not regard itself as part of you. Herein lies its primary perceptual error, the foundation of its whole thought system.