Language

A Course in Miracles gives us as Teachers of God, a precise language.
Our language in the fabric of space and time is a symbolic structure and simply has been useless for a very long time to communicate any idea of certainty.

A Course in Miracles language is based on 50 principles which you do not know yet; but as you go on with your acceptance and applications, you will very soon begin to understand them.

With this language it is possible to come nearer to truth, possible to speak with greater precision than we do now, and two people who understand this language will never misunderstand each other in simply all things.

In the holy instant God is remembered, and the language of communication with all your brothers is remembered with Him.

For communication is remembered together, as is truth. There is no exclusion in the holy instant because the past is gone, and with it goes the whole basis for exclusion.

Without its source exclusion vanishes. And this permits your Source, and That of all your brothers, to replace it in your awareness.

Brothers

Believe in your brothers because I believe in you, and you will learn that my belief in you is justified.

Believe in me by believing in them, for the sake of what God gave them. They will answer you if you learn to ask only truth of them.

Do not ask for blessings without blessing them, for only in this way can you learn how blessed you are. By following this way you are seeking the truth in you.

This is not going beyond yourself but toward yourself. Hear only God's Answer in His Sons, and you are answered.

Our common language lets us speak to all our brothers, and to understand with them forgiveness has been given to us all, and thus we can communicate again.

Certainty does not require action

When you say you are acting on the basis of knowledge, you are really confusing knowledge with perception.

Knowledge provides the strength for creative thinking, but not for right doing. Perception, miracles and doing are closely related.

Knowledge is the result of revelation and induces only thought. Even in its most spiritualized form perception involves the body. Knowledge comes from the altar within and is timeless because it is certain.

To perceive the truth is not the same as to know it.

Click my heels

 As in the story of The Wizard of Oz I need simply remember there is no journey to go home  to return to a state of mind called The Kingdom of Heaven.

 The idea of returning in space and time is very attractiveas I will forget that time and space is designed to bring about on that idea of a journey many obstacles.

And so I then think in fighting with the dragons of fear I am achieving some advance towards the idea of awakening. All intellectual activity is preparing material, and then the emotional centre will begin to work with this material. Intellectual centre cannot, by itself, help in awakening.

Only work on the emotional centre can do this, and we can only awake through unpleasant emotions— awakening through pleasant emotions has not been invented yet.

Awakening is not for those who are afraid of unpleasant things, it is only for those who wish to awake and realize what being asleep means and that much help is necessary, a great deal of shaking. This is the real point: how to provide perpetual shaking for oneself and how to agree to it.

Responsibility is an ever widening self-recognition, an inclussion that only brings peace and freedom of those that are willing as the Course in Miracles tells us as Teachers: " The single desire of the Son for the Father."

Let me not seek for idols. I would come, my Father, home to You today. I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son whom You created as my Self.

Listening

Praying is listening. Listening is a reception, an opening, a declaration: "I Am Here" ready to receive and give.

I am a portal through which I am in communion with all that is present in my awareness. How powerfull is that instant of listening and hearing a communication that is timeless.

In stillness we will hear God's Voice today without intrusion of our petty thoughts, without our personal desires, and without all judgment of His holy Word.

We will not judge ourselves today, for what we are can not be judged. We stand apart from all the judgments which the world has laid upon the Son of God. It knows him not.

Today we will not listen to the world, but wait in silence for the Word of God.

Established

Your worth is not established by teaching or learning. Your worth is established by God.

As long as you dispute this everything you do will be fearful, particularly any situation that lends itself to the belief in superiority and inferiority.

Teachers must be patient and repeat their lessons until they are learned. I am willing to do this, because I have no right to set your learning limits for you.

Again, - nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth. This point is not debatable except in delusions.

Your ego is never at stake because God did not create it. Your spirit is never at stake because He did. Any confusion on this point is delusional, and no form of devotion is possible as long as this delusion lasts.

God has lit your mind Himself, and keeps your mind lit by His Light because His Light is what your mind is.

This is totally beyond question, and when you question it you are answered. The Answer merely undoes the question by establishing the fact that to question reality is to question meaninglessly.

That is why the Holy Spirit never questions. His sole function is to undo the questionable and thus lead to certainty.

The certain are perfectly calm, because they are not in doubt. They do not raise questions, because nothing questionable enters their minds.

The nothingness of error

All mind-training is to be aware, awake to the nothingness of the idea of error. As a human being I am what error is is, shadows playing on space and time.

To want to undo them is a futile exercise as these shadows are made out of ideas that have no source, and change with every whim into another shadow.

It is a new and holy day today, for we receive what has been given us. Our faith lies in the Giver, not our own acceptance.

We acknowledge our mistakes, but He to Whom all error is unknown is yet the One Who answers our mistakes by giving us the means to lay them down, and rise to Him in gratitude and love.



And He descends to meet us, as we come to Him. For what He has prepared for us He gives and we receive. Such is His Will, because He loves His Son. To Him we pray today, returning but the word He gave to us through His Own Voice, His Word, His Love:


Your grace is given me. I claim it now.


Father, I come to You. And You will come to me who ask.


I am the Son You love.

Presence

O my child, if you knew what God wills for you, your joy would be complete! And what He wills has happened, for it was always true.

When the light comes and you have said, "God's Will is mine," you will see such beauty that you will know it is not of you. Out of your joy you will create beauty in His Name, for your joy could no more be contained than his.

The bleak little world will vanish into nothingness, and your heart will be so filled with joy that it will leap into Heaven, and into the Presence of God. I cannot tell you what this will be like, for your heart is not ready.

Yet I can tell you, and remind you often, that what God wills for Himself He wills for you, and what He wills for you is yours.

There is no penalty for that which no longer exists

The past is over it can touch me not. Amazing idea to be used again and again to remember and be the freedom of the love of God.
Each instant I am aware again how simple is acceptance, an action of mind that brings a refreshing memory back. A memory that is ever present to be used.

All healing is a release from the past.

 No penalty is ever asked of God's Son except by himself and of himself. Every chance given him to heal is another opportunity to replace darkness with light and fear with love.

If he refuses it he binds himself to darkness, because he did not choose to free his brother and enter light with him. By giving power to nothing, he throws away the joyous opportunity to learn that nothing has no power.

And by not dispelling darkness, he became afraid of darkness and of light. The joy of learning that darkness has no power over the Son of God is the happy lesson the Holy Spirit teaches, and would have you teach with Him.

It is His joy to teach it, as it will be yours.

Man

"It is impossible to study a system of the universe without studying man. At the same time it is impossible to study man without studying the universe. Man is an image of the world. He was created by the same laws which created the whole of the world. By knowing and understanding himself he will know and understand the whole world, all the laws that create and govern the world. And at the same time by studying the world and the laws that govern the world he will learn and understand the laws that govern him. In this connection some laws are understood and assimilated more easily by studying the objective world, while man can only understand other laws by studying himself. The study of the world and the study of man must therefore run parallel, one helping the other.

Mental thoughts

My peace of mind does not come by mental might nor physical power, but by the Holy Spirit within the depths of my own being.
None of my thoughts can give me freedom, as they are designed to hold me in bondage.

No matter how I formulate the observation of myself it will only tighten the fabric of vibration in a tighter and tighter frame of futility. I cannot catch myself all thinking is to slow.

Illusions are investments. They will last as long as you value them. Values are relative, but they are powerful because they are mental judgments.

The only way to dispel illusions is to withdraw all investment from them, and they will have no life for you because you will have put them out of your mind. While you include them in it, you are giving life to them. Except there is nothing there to receive your gift.

The gift of life is yours to give, because it was given you. You are unaware of your gift because you do not give it.

Infinity

To be alone is to be separated from infinity, but how can this be if infinity has no end? No one can be beyond the limitless, because what has no limits must be everywhere.

There are no beginnings and no endings in God, Whose universe is Himself. Can you exclude yourself from the universe, or from God Who is the universe? I and my Father are one with you, for you are part of us.

Do you really believe that part of God can be missing or lost to Him?

Peace be to you to whom is healing offered. And you will learn that peace is given you when you accept the healing for yourself. Its total value need not be appraised by you to let you understand that you have benefited from it.

What occurred within the instant that love entered in without attack will stay with you forever. Your healing will be one of its effects, as will your brother's. Everywhere you go, will you behold its multiplied effects.

Yet all the witnesses that you behold will be far less than all there really are. Infinity cannot be understood by merely counting up its separate parts. God thanks you for your healing, for He knows it is a gift of love unto His Son, and therefore is it given unto Him.

The Grace of God

I stand in the Grace of God and remain in that idea so revelation can be given, a quickening, a revelation of an instant of being the Peace of God.

Complete restoration of the Sonship is the only goal of the miracle-minded.

Inclussion, an action of mind. Therefore, inclusion is total and creation is without limit.Today's idea is one step we take in leading us from bondage to the state of perfect freedom. Let us take this step today, that we may quickly go the way salvation shows us, taking every step in its appointed sequence, as the mind relinquishes its burdens one by one.




It is not time we need for this. It is but willingness. For what would seem to need a thousand years can easily be done in just one instant by the grace of God.

Life

The gift of life is yours to give, because it was given you. You are unaware of your gift because you do not give it. You cannot make nothing live, since nothing cannot be enlivened.

Therefore, you are not extending the gift you both have and are, and so you do not know your being.

All confusion comes from not extending life, because that is not the Will of your Creator.

You can do nothing apart from Him, and you do do nothing apart from Him. Keep His way to remember yourself, and teach His way lest you forget yourself. Give only honor to the Sons of the living God, and count yourself among them gladly.

communion

The Ideas of A Course in Miracles are our daily bread. Our communion with the Mind of Christ. We as teachers of God receive a Light that suffices for that day in which a lesson from the workbook appears to be accepted.

Today's lesson 162 " I am as God created me" The ideas need an application in each instant of the fabric of space/time, without application the ideas are merely words.

It is in the application that I am reborn and remember I Am His Son.

Communion, not prayer, is the natural state of those who know. God and His miracle are inseparable. How beautiful indeed are the Thoughts of God who live in His Light!

Your worth is beyond perception because it is beyond doubt. Do not perceive yourself in different lights. Know yourself in the One Light where the miracle that is you is perfectly clear.

Dreamer and dream

In each instant it can be forgotten or rememberd that it is my dream. It is my choice to remember as to forget is to return again and again to the same segment of the dream.

Even the scenery of the dream can take on so many forms that it does take vigilance to come before with the action of mind to accept the atonement for myself, in al aspects, degrees and intervals of this matrix of illusions.

The secret of salvation is but this: That you are doing this unto yourself. No matter what the form of the attack, this still is true.

Whoever takes the role of enemy and of attacker, still is this the truth. Whatever seems to be the cause of any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true.

For you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let them be as hateful and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to recognize it is your dream.

Gathering

In all moments of space and time there is a gathering of forms, an opportunity once again to remember that this is a dream.

The Mind in constant communication with its source as its Father, will remember easely and not get caught in the gossip of the space/time sequence.

It does take vigilance to remember purpose and function as a decission that this world is a dream of my own making and does not exists.

It is these shadow figures that would make the ego holy in your sight, and teach you what you do to keep it safe is really love.

The shadow figures always speak for vengeance, and all relationships into which they enter are totally insane. Without exception, these relationships have as their purpose the exclusion of the truth about the other, and of yourself.

This is why you see in both what is not there, and make of both the slaves of vengeance. And why whatever reminds you of your past grievances attracts you, and seems to go by the name of love, no matter how distorted the associations by which you arrive at the connection may be.

And finally, why all such relationships become attempts at union through the body, for only bodies can be seen as means for vengeance. That bodies are central to all unholy relationships is evident.

Your own experience has taught you this. But what you may not realize are all the reasons that go to make the relationship unholy. For unholiness seeks to reinforce itself, as holiness does, by gathering to itself what it perceives as like itself.

Messengers

To be a messenger of God's love is a full time position. There is no day off as an messenger begin to see more and more that all time is over.

That each day is a rebirth and an awareness that this is the last day I am in this frame of dreaming a dream that I Am no longer.

For peace will send its messengers from you to all the world, and barriers will fall away before their coming as easily as those that you interpose will be surmounted.

To overcome the world is no more difficult than to surmount your little wall. For in the miracle of your holy relationship, without this barrier, is every miracle contained.
 
There is no order of difficulty in miracles, for they are all the same. Each is a gentle winning over from the appeal of guilt to the appeal of love.
 
How can this fail to be accomplished, wherever it is undertaken? Guilt can raise no real barriers against it. And all that seems to stand between you and your brother must fall away because of the appeal you answered.
 
From you who answered, He Who answered you would call. His home is in your holy relationship. Do not attempt to stand between Him and His holy purpose, for it is yours.
 
But let Him quietly extend the miracle of your relationship to everyone contained in it as it was given.

Messages

Agh, the joy of the messages of A Course in Miracles. These ideas that ever renew me, in any given instant I remember, to be present and aware in the fabric of space/time.

A link of love and light.

Of all the messages you have received and failed to understand, this course alone is open to your understanding and can be understood.

This is your language. You do not understand it yet only because your whole communication is like a baby's. The sounds a baby makes and what he hears are highly unreliable, meaning different things to him at different times.

Neither the sounds he hears nor sights he sees are stable yet. But what he hears and does not understand will be his native tongue, through which he will communicate with those around him, and they with him.

And the strange, shifting ones he sees about him will become to him his comforters, and he will recognize his home and see them there with him.

What is it for?

What, then, should happen? When God said, "Let there be light," there was light. Can you find light by analyzing darkness, as the psychotherapist does, or like the theologian, by acknowledging darkness in yourself and looking for a distant light to remove it, while emphasizing the distance?

Healing is not mysterious. Nothing will change unless it is understood, since light is understanding. A "miserable sinner" cannot be healed without magic, nor can an "unimportant mind" esteem itself without magic.

Both forms of the ego's approach, then, must arrive at an impasse; the characteristic "impossible situation" to which the ego always leads.
 
It may help someone to point out where he is heading, but the point is lost unless he is also helped to change his direction. The unhealed healer cannot do this for him, since he cannot do it for himself.
 
The only meaningful contribution the healer can make is to present an example of one whose direction has been changed for him, and who no longer believes in nightmares of any kind.
 
The light in his mind will therefore answer the questioner, who must decide with God that there is light because he sees it. And by his acknowledgment the healer knows it is there.
 
That is how perception ultimately is translated into knowledge. The miracle worker begins by perceiving light, and translates his perception into sureness by continually extending it and accepting its acknowledgment. Its effects assure him it is there.

A Story

 A Course in MIracles is for me a story of ever widening self-recognition . No matter the moment the stoy renews in me the joy of an instant of freedom.

The Course Is Life. Its ideas are timeless and personal ever more exposing a new world.

How grateful I Am for its presence telling me the story of a who I am.

We pause but for a moment more, to play our final, happy game upon this earth. And then we go to take our rightful place where truth abides and games are meaningless.

So is the story ended. Let this day bring the last chapter closer to the world, that everyone may learn the tale he reads of terrifying destiny, defeat of all his hopes, his pitiful defense against a vengeance he can not escape, is but his own deluded fantasy.

God's ministers have come to waken him from the dark dreams this story has evoked in his confused, bewildered memory of this distorted tale. God's Son can smile at last, on learning that it is not true.