Day 26 - A Course in Miracles

Day 26 - A Course in Miracles

Day 26

God and the Souls He created ARE symbiotically related. They are COMPLETELY dependent on each other. The creation of the Soul itself has already been perfectly accomplished, but the creation BY Souls has not. God created Souls so He could depend on them BECAUSE He created them perfectly. He gave them His peace so they would not be shaken, and would be unable to be deceived. 

Day 25 - A Course in Miracles

Day 25 - A Course in Miracles

Day 25

Both 1), 2), and 4) {possession associated with body, things, and knowledge} are more likely to produce neurotic rather than psychotic states, though this is by no means guaranteed. However, 3) {distortions relating to spirit possession} is inherently more vulnerable to the psychotic correction, again because of the more fundamental level confusion which is involved.

Day 24 - A Course in Miracles

Day 24 - A Course in Miracles

ACIM Workbook Lesson 24 Insights

“I do not perceive my own best interests.”

When I was growing up, I was often asked the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up? What do you want to do with your life?” I was given the impression that I needed to decide and that it was my job to decide my likes or dislikes, where I lived or who I lived with, or what I did with my time. I have thought that this individual life I appear to be leading was up to me and that I could find happiness by deciding on my own. Now I am finding that the opposite is true.

Day 23 - A Course in Miracles

Day 23 - A Course in Miracles

Chapter Two: The Illusion of Separation

V. The Correction for Lack of Love

⁸² The first corrective step is know first that this is an expression of fear. Then say to yourself that you must somehow have willed not to love, or the fear which arises from behavior-will conflict could not have arisen.Then the whole process is nothing more than a series of pragmatic steps in the larger process of accepting the Atonement as the remedy. These steps can be summarized as follows:

⁸³ 1. Know first that this is fear.

⁸⁴ 2. Fear arises from lack of love.

⁸⁵ 3. The only remedy for lack of love is perfect love.

⁸⁶ 4. Perfect love is the Atonement.

Day 22 - A Course in Miracles

Day 22 - A Course in Miracles

Chapter Two: The Illusion of Separation

IV.  Fear as Lack of Love

⁷² You believe that "being afraid" is involuntary, something beyond your control. Yet I have told you several times that only constructive acts should be involuntary. We have said that Christ-control can take over everything that does not matter, while Christ-guidance can direct everything that does if you so choose. Fear cannot be Christ-controlled, but it can be self-controlled. It prevents me from controlling it.

Day 21 - A Course in Miracles

Day 21 - A Course in Miracles

Day 21

The lack of love (or faulty need-orientation) which led to your particular person (not OBJECT) choices CAN BE corrected within the existing framework, and would HAVE to be in the larger interest of overall progress. The situation is questionable largely because of its inherent vulnerability to fantasy-gratification. Doing the best you can WITHIN this limitation is probably the best corrective measure at present. Any relationship you have undertaken for whatever reasons becomes a responsibility.

Day 20 - A Course in Miracles

Day 20 - A Course in Miracles

Chapter Two: The Illusion of Separation

IV.  Fear as Lack of Love

⁷² You believe that "being afraid" is involuntary, something beyond your control. Yet I have told you several times that only constructive acts should be involuntary. We have said that Christ-control can take over everything that does not matter, while Christ-guidance can direct everything that does if you so choose. Fear cannot be Christ-controlled, but it can be self-controlled. It prevents me from controlling it. The correction is therefore a matter of your will because its presence shows that you have raised the unimportant to a higher level than it warrants. You have thus brought it under your will, where it does not belong. This means that you feel responsible for it. The level confusion here is obvious.

Day 19 - A Course in Miracles

Day 19 - A Course in Miracles

ACIM Workbook Lesson 19 Insights

“I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.”

There are no private thoughts because there are no private minds. I am realizing that the idea of anything being ‘private’ is all just a fabrication, an illusion. In truth, we are all joined in one mind. As I am willing to let go of thoughts of separation, I help my brother let go of thoughts of separation. As each of us refuses to join with illusions, it gradually falls apart because even in the ego thought system, it takes two to agree in the illusion for it to hold together.

Day 18 - A Course in Miracles

Day 18 - A Course in Miracles

Chapter Two: The Illusion of Separation

III.  Healing as Release from Fear

⁵² The emphasis will now be on healing. The miracle is the means, the Atonement is the principle, and healing is the result. Those who speak of "a miracle of healing" are combining two orders of reality inappropriately. Healing is not a miracle. The Atonement or the final miracle is a remedy, while any type of healing is a result. The kind of error to which Atonement is applied is irrelevant. Essentially, all healing is the release from fear. To undertake this, you cannot be fearful yourself. You do not understand healing because of your own fear.