Us

It is through us that peace will come. Join me in the idea of peace, for in ideas minds can communicate.

If you would give yourself as your Father gives His Self, you will learn to understand Selfhood. And therein is love's meaning understood.

But remember that understanding is of the mind, and only of the mind. Knowledge is therefore of the mind, and its conditions are in the mind with it.

If you were not an idea, and nothing but an idea, you could not be in full communication with all that ever was.

Yet as long as you prefer to be something else, or would attempt to be nothing else and something else together, you will not remember the language of communication, which you know perfectly.

Amazing

The body cannot know. And while you limit your awareness to its tiny senses, you will not see the grandeur that surrounds you.

God cannot come into a body, nor can you join Him there. Limits on love will always seem to shut Him out, and keep you apart from Him.

The body is a tiny fence around a little part of a glorious and complete idea.

It draws a circle, infinitely small, around a very little segment of Heaven, splintered from the whole, proclaiming that within it is your kingdom, where God can enter not.

And to defend this little speck of dust it bids you fight against the universe.

This fragment of your mind is such a tiny part of it that, could you but appreciate the whole, you would see instantly that it is like the smallest sunbeam to the sun, or like the faintest ripple on the surface of the ocean.

In its amazing arrogance, this tiny sunbeam has decided it is the sun; this almost imperceptible ripple hails itself as the ocean.

Think how alone and frightened is this little thought, this infinitesimal illusion, holding itself apart against the universe. The sun becomes the sunbeam's "enemy" that would devour it, and the ocean terrifies the little ripple and wants to swallow it.Within this kingdom the ego rules, and cruelly.

Stranger

Seek not to make the Son of God adjust to his insanity.

There is a stranger in him, who wandered carelessly into the home of truth and who will wander off.
 He came without a purpose, but he will not remain before the shining light the Holy Spirit offered, and you accepted.

For there the stranger is made homeless and you are welcome. Ask not this transient stranger, "What am I?" He is the only thing in all the universe that does not know.

Yet it is he you ask, and it is to his answer that you would adjust. This one wild thought, fierce in its arrogance, and yet so tiny and so meaningless it slips unnoticed through the universe of truth, becomes your guide.

To it you turn to ask the meaning of the universe. And of the one blind thing in all the seeing universe of truth you ask, "How shall I look upon the Son of God?"

Awaking

Awaking unto Christ is following the laws of love of your free will, and out of quiet recognition of the truth in them.

The attraction of light must draw you willingly, and willingness is signified by giving.

Those who accept love of you become your willing witnesses to the love you gave them, and it is they who hold it out to you. In sleep you are alone, and your awareness is narrowed to yourself.

And that is why the nightmares come. You dream of isolation because your eyes are closed.
You do not see your brothers, and in the darkness you cannot look upon the light you gave to them.


And yet the laws of love are not suspended because you sleep. And you have followed them through all your nightmares, and have been faithful in your giving, for you were not alone.

Even in sleep has Christ protected you, ensuring the real world for you when you awake. In your name He has given for you, and given you the gifts He gave. God's Son is still as loving as his Father.

Continuous with his Father, he has no past apart from Him. So he has never ceased to be his Father's witness and his own. Although he slept, Christ's vision did not leave him.

And so it is that he can call unto himself the witnesses that teach him that he never slept.

Comfort

The children of God are entitled to the perfect comfort that comes from perfect trust.

Until they achieve this, they waste themselves and their true creative powers on useless attempts to make themselves more comfortable by inappropriate means.

But the real means are already provided, and do not involve any effort at all on their part.
The Atonement is the only gift that is worthy of being offered at the altar of God, because of the value of the altar itself.

It was created perfect and is entirely worthy of receiving perfection. God and His creations are completely dependent on each other.

He depends on them because He created them perfect. He gave them His peace so they could not be shaken and could not be deceived. Whenever you are afraid you are deceived, and your mind cannot serve the Holy Spirit.

This starves you by denying you your daily bread. God is lonely without His Sons, and they are lonely without Him.
They must learn to look upon the world as a means of healing the separation. The Atonement is the guarantee that they will ultimately succeed.

Are thoughts dangerous

What is the sense in seeking to be safe in what was made for danger and for fear?


Why burden it with further locks and chains and heavy anchors, when its weakness lies, not in itself, but in the frailty of the little gap of nothingness whereon it stands?

What can be safe that rests upon a shadow? Would you build your home upon what will collapse beneath a feather's weight?


The Holy Spirit is as vigilant as the ego to the call of danger, opposing it with His strength just as the ego welcomes it.

The Holy Spirit counters this welcome by welcoming peace. Eternity and peace are as closely related as are time and war.

Wonder

As you look upon yourself and judge what you do honestly, you may be tempted to wonder how you can be guiltless.

Yet consider this: You are not guiltless in time, but in eternity.

You have "sinned" in the past, but there is no past. Always has no direction.

Time seems to go in one direction, but when you reach its end it will roll up like a long carpet spread along the past behind you, and will disappear.

As long as you believe the Son of God is guilty you will walk along this carpet, believing that it leads to death. And the journey will seem long and cruel and senseless, for so it is.


The journey the Son of God has set himself is useless indeed, but the journey on which his Father sets him is one of release and joy. The Father is not cruel, and His Son cannot hurt himself.

Resistance

Decisions are continuous.
You do not always know when you are making them.

But with a little practice with the ones you recognize, a set begins to form which sees you through the rest.

It is not wise to let yourself become preoccupied with every step you take.
The proper set, adopted consciously each time you wake, will put you well ahead. And if you find resistance strong and dedication weak, you are not ready.

Do not fight yourself. But think about the kind of day you want, and tell yourself there is a way in which this very day can happen just like that.
Then try again to have the day you want.

God Is

Oneness is simply the idea God is. And in His Being, He encompasses all things. No mind holds anything but Him.

We say "God is," and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless.

There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself.
It has united with its Source. And like its Source Itself, it merely is.

We cannot speak nor write nor even think of this at all. It comes to every mind when total recognition that its will is God's has been completely given and received completely.
 
It returns the mind into the endless present, where the past and future cannot be conceived. It lies beyond salvation; past all thought of time, forgiveness and the holy face of Christ.
 
The Son of God has merely disappeared into his Father, as his Father has in him. The world has never been at all. Eternity remains a constant state.

Together

Praise be to you who make the Father one with His Own Son.


Alone we are all lowly, but together we shine with brightness so intense that none of us alone can even think of it.

Before the glorious radiance of the Kingdom guilt melts away, and transformed into kindness will never more be what it was.

Every reaction you experience will be so purified that it is fitting as a hymn of praise unto your Father.

See only praise of Him in what He has created, for He will never cease His praiUnited in this praise we stand before the gates of Heaven where we will surely enter in our sinlessness.

God loves you. Could I, then, lack faith in you and love Him perfectly?

Abundance

Only those who have a real and lasting sense of abundance can be truly charitable.
This is obvious when you consider what is involved.

To the ego, to give anything implies that you will have to do without it.

When you associate giving with sacrifice, you give only because you believe that you are somehow getting something better, and can therefore do without the thing you give.

"Giving to get" is an inescapable law of the ego, which always evaluates itself in relation to other egos.

It is therefore continually preoccupied with the belief in scarcity that gave rise to it. Its whole perception of other egos as real is only an attempt to convince itself that it is real. "Self-esteem" in ego terms means nothing more than that the ego has deluded itself into accepting its reality, and is therefore temporarily less predatory.

This "self-esteem" is always vulnerable to stress, a term which refers to any perceived threat to the ego's existence.

justice

The miracle of justice you call forth will rest on you as surely as on him. Nor will the Holy Spirit be content until it is received by everyone.

For what you give to Him is everyone's, and by your giving it can He ensure that everyone receives it equally.
Think, then, how great your own release will be when you are willing to receive correction for all your problems.
You will not keep one, for pain in any form you will not want.

And you will see each little hurt resolved before the Holy Spirit's gentle sight. For all of them are little in His sight, and worth no more than just a tiny sigh before they disappear, to be forever undone and unremembered.

What seemed once to be a special problem, a mistake without a remedy, or an affliction without a cure, has been transformed into a universal blessing. Sacrifice is gone.

And in its place the Love of God can be remembered, and will shine away all memory of sacrifice and loss.

Majesty

When a mind has only light, it knows only light. Its own radiance shines all around it, and extends out into the darkness of other minds, transforming them into majesty.

The Majesty of God is there, for you to recognize and appreciate and know. Recognizing the Majesty of God as your brother is to accept your own inheritance.

God gives only equally. If you recognize His gift in anyone, you have acknowledged what He has given you. Nothing is so easy to recognize as truth. T

his is the recognition that is immediate, clear and natural.

You have trained yourself not to recognize it, and this has been very difficult for you.

Simplicity

Agh the mind will make up stories. It is this.  It is that!
The heart knows immediatly who it is, where and when. 
Time is not involved.
Now let the peace that your acceptance brings be given you. Close your eyes, and receive your reward.

Recognize that your problems have been solved. Recognize that you are out of conflict; free and at peace.

Above all, remember that you have one problem, and that the problem has one solution.

It is in this that the simplicity of salvation lies. It is because of this that it is guaranteed to work.


Assure yourself often today that your problems have been solved.

Repeat the idea with deep conviction, as frequently as possible. And be particularly sure to apply the idea for today to any specific problem that may arise. Say quickly:


Let me recognize this problem has been solved.

Beauty

Be glad you have escaped the mockery of salvation the ego offered you, and look not back with longing on the travesty it made of your relationships.

Now no one need suffer, for you have come too far to yield to the illusion of the beauty and holiness of guilt. Only the wholly insane could look on death and suffering, sickness and despair, and see it thus.

What guilt has wrought is ugly, fearful and very dangerous. See no illusion of truth and beauty there.

And be you thankful that there is a place where truth and beauty wait for you. Go on to meet them gladly, and learn how much awaits you for the simple willingness to give up nothing because it is nothing.

Accomplished

Everything is accomplished through life, and life is of the mind and in the mind.

The body neither lives nor dies, because it cannot contain you who are life.

If we share the same mind, you can overcome death because I did. Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at all.

Like any other impossible solution the ego attempts, it will not work.



God did not make the body, because it is destructible, and therefore not of the Kingdom.
 
The body is the symbol of what you think you are. It is clearly a separation device, and therefore does not exist.

Achievement

The power to work miracles belongs to you. I will provide the opportunities to do them, but you must be ready and willing.
 
Doing them will bring conviction in the ability, because conviction comes through accomplishment.
 
The ability is the potential, the achievement is its expression, and the Atonement, which is the natural profession of the children of God, is the purpose.


"Heaven and earth shall pass away" means that they will not continue to exist as separate states.
 
My word, which is the resurrection and the life, shall not pass away because life is eternal.
 
You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a man must think of himself in his heart, because this is what he is.

A pleasure

All real pleasure comes from doing God's Will.

This is because not doing it is a denial of Self.
Denial of Self results in illusions, while correction of the error brings release from it.

Do not deceive yourself into believing that you can relate in peace to God or to your brothers with anything external.

Child of God, you were created to create the good, the beautiful and the holy. Do not forget this.
 
The Love of God, for a little while, must still be expressed through one body to another, because vision is still so dim.
 
You can use your body best to help you enlarge your perception so you can achieve real vision, of which the physical eye is incapable. Learning to do this is the body's only true usefulness.

Thoughts

Are thoughts, then, dangerous? To bodies, yes!

The thoughts that seem to kill are those that teach the thinker that he can be killed. And so he "dies" because of what he learned. He goes from life to death, the final proof he valued the inconstant more than constancy.

Surely he thought he wanted happiness. Yet he did not desire it because it was the truth, and therefore must be constant.

Reason will tell you that you cannot ask for happiness inconstantly. For if what you desire you receive, and happiness is constant, then you need ask for it but once to have it always.

And if you do not have it always, being what it is, you did not ask for it.

What is the holy instant but God's appeal to you to recognize what He has given you?


Here is the great appeal to reason; the awareness of what is always there to see, the happiness that could be always yours. Here is the constant peace you could experience forever.

Here is what denial has denied revealed to you.

A New Space in which To Remember

I am in a new space to remember. In South Africa  I find a delight of seeing myself in another dream.

This dream is a pain and pleasure and no matter what it is a recognition again of all that was hidden in the protection of myself in a space I thought I knew

And as the first 13 lessons so far are revealing is that space is only a belief. But I am given each instant a space to remember

Ultimately, space is as meaningless as time. Both are merely beliefs.



The real purpose of this world is to use it to correct your unbelief. You can never control the effects of fear yourself, because you made fear, and you believe in what you made. In attitude, then, though not in content, you resemble your Creator, Who has perfect faith in His creations because He created them. Belief produces the acceptance of existence. That is why you can believe what no one else thinks is true. It is true for you because it was made by you.


All aspects of fear are untrue because they do not exist at the creative level, and therefore do not exist at all. To whatever extent you are willing to submit your beliefs to this test, to that extent are your perceptions corrected. In sorting out the false from the true, the miracle proceeds along these lines:


Perfect love casts out fear.


If fear exists,


Then there is not perfect love.


But:


Only perfect love exists.


If there is fear,


It produces a state that does not exist.


Believe this and you will be free. Only God can establish this solution, and this faith is His gift.

Protection

Therefore, the mind asks, "Where can I go for protection?" to which the ego replies, "Turn to me."
 
The mind, and not without cause, reminds the ego that it has itself insisted that it is identified with the body, so there is no point in turning to it for protection.
 
The ego has no real answer to this because there is none, but it does have a typical solution. It obliterates the question from the mind's awareness.
 
Once out of awareness the question can and does produce uneasiness, but it cannot be answered because it cannot be asked.

This is the question that must be asked: "Where can I go for protection?" "Seek and ye shall find" does not mean that you should seek blindly and desperately for something you would not recognize.
 
Meaningful seeking is consciously undertaken, consciously organized and consciously directed. The goal must be formulated clearly and kept in mind. Learning and wanting to learn are inseparable.
 
You learn best when you believe what you are trying to learn is of value to you. However, not everything you may want to learn has lasting value. Indeed, many of the things you want to learn may be chosen because their value will not last.

From Joel Goldsmith

There is no use saying, "Please forgive me," because as long as there is a "me" to ask forgiveness, there is no forgiveness, but when there is a longing heart leaning toward forgiveness, this is that right motive that is the purification process.

We honor God and we honor our spiritual integrity when, instead of asking for forgiveness or favors, we approach God with the finger on the lips and on the mind, going to God without thoughts, without desires, going to this center within ourselves in silence that we may hear the still small voice even when it is at its stillest and smallest.

Winnie the Pooh

"Rabbit's clever said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes said Piglet, "Rabbits clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes said Piglet, Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
" I suppose, " said Pooh , "Thats why
he never understands anything."

Jesus

Why should you listen to the endless insane calls you think are made upon you, when you can know the Voice for God is in you?

God commended His Spirit to you, and asks that you commend yours to Him. He wills to keep it in perfect peace, because you are of one mind and spirit with Him.

Excluding yourself from the Atonement is the ego's last-ditch defense of its own existence. It reflects both the ego's need to separate, and your willingness to side with its separateness.
This willingness means that you do not want to be healed.

But the time is now. You have not been asked to work out the plan of salvation yourself because, as I told you before, the remedy could not be of your making.

God Himself gave you the perfect Correction for everything you made that is not in accord with His holy Will.

I am making His plan perfectly explicit to you, and will also tell you of your part in it, and how urgent it is to fulfill it. God weeps at the "sacrifice" of His children who believe they are lost to Him.

"Does Evil Exist"

A University professor at a well-known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?"
A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor asked.

"Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied.


The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created evil. And, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil."


The student became quiet and did not answer the professor's hypothetical definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student, Albert, raised his hand and said, "May I ask you a question, professor?"


"Of course", replied the professor.


The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"


"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The other students snickered at the young man's question.


The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."


The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"


The professor responded, "Of course it does."


The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"


Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.


To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no light."


The professor sat down.

Satori

This is the word used in Zen teaching to designate the promise or payoff of Self-realization, of finding the answer to the question "Who am I?"

Synonyms include self-definition, awakening to our Inner Self, sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi, and becoming the Truth.

It's often confused, though, with the lesser amazement of the "aha!" experience, when after great tension and bewilderment something becomes perfectly clear to us.

Every one of us lives in the expectation of eventually finding perfect happiness (the truth of which took me some time to accept), and we believe that some modification either of the outside world or within ourselves is the key that will unlock the door to this lost paradise.

The truth, according to Benoit and to Zen, is that this paradise is not something past or future but has always been our state and is our eternal being.

But something keeps us from becoming aware of it. Becoming conscious of that state is not something that will be available to us in the future but is offered to us from this moment, at every moment.

From ( H Benoit. (The Supreme Doctrine)

Knowing who you are

You are in an impossible situation only because you think it is possible to be in one.

You would be in an impossible situation if God showed you your perfection, and proved to you that you were wrong.

This would demonstrate that the perfect are inadequate to bring themselves to the awareness of their perfection, and thus side with the belief that those who have everything need help and are therefore helpless.

This is the kind of "reasoning" in which the ego engages. God, Who knows that His creations are perfect, does not affront them. This would be as impossible as the ego's notion that it has affronted Him.

Freedom

The ego cannot teach you anything as long as your will is free, because you will not listen to it.

It is not your will to be imprisoned because your will is free.

That is why the ego is the denial of free will.

It is never God Who coerces you, because He shares His Will with you. His Voice teaches only in accordance with His Will, but that is not the Holy Spirit's lesson because that is what you are.

The lesson is that your will and God's cannot be out of accord because they are one. This is the undoing of everything the ego tries to teach.

It is not, then, only the direction of the curriculum that must be unconflicted, but also the content.

The ego tries to teach that you want to oppose God's Will. This unnatural lesson cannot be learned, and the attempt to learn it is a violation of your own freedom, making you afraid of your will because it is free.

 

The Holy Spirit opposes any imprisoning of the will of a Son of God, knowing that the will of the Son is the Father's.

 

The Holy Spirit leads you steadily along the path of freedom, teaching you how to disregard or look beyond everything that would hold you back.

A New Day

Be confident that on this day there is a new beginning.

Without the darkness of the past upon your eyes, you cannot fail to see today.

And what you see will be so welcome that you will gladly extend today forever.

The light has come. I have forgiven the world.
Should you be tempted, say to anyone who seems to pull you back into darkness:

The light has come. I have forgiven you.
We dedicate this day to the serenity in which God would have you be.

Keep it in your awareness of yourself and see it everywhere today, as we celebrate the beginning of your vision and the sight of the real world, which has come to replace the unforgiven world you thought was real.