Games

Judgment is but a toy, a whim, the senseless means to play the idle game of death in your imagination.

But vision sets all things right, bringing them gently within the kindly sway of Heaven's laws.

What if you recognized this world is an hallucination? What if you really understood you made it up?

What if you realized that those who seem to walk about in it, to sin and die, attack and murder and destroy themselves, are wholly unreal? Could you have faith in what you see, if you accepted this?

And would you see it?

Hallucinations disappear when they are recognized for what they are.
 
This is the healing and the remedy. Believe them not and they are gone. And all you need to do is recognize that you did this.

Accomplished

 The Son of God has both Father and Son, because he is both Father and Son.

To unite having and being is to unite your will with His, for He wills you Himself.

And you will yourself to Him because, in your perfect understanding of Him, you know there is but one Will.

Yet when you attack any part of God and His Kingdom your understanding is not perfect, and what you really want is therefore lost to you.

Healing thus becomes a lesson in understanding, and the more you practice it the better teacher and learner you become.
 
If you have denied truth, what better witnesses to its reality could you have than those who have been healed by it?
 
But be sure to count yourself among them, for in your willingness to join them is your healing accomplished.

Father and Son

The Son of God has both Father and Son, because he is both Father and Son. To unite having and being is to unite your will with His, for He wills you Himself.

And you will yourself to Him because, in your perfect understanding of Him, you know there is but one Will.

Yet when you attack any part of God and His Kingdom your understanding is not perfect, and what you really want is therefore lost to you.


Healing thus becomes a lesson in understanding, and the more you practice it the better teacher and learner you become.
 
If you have denied truth, what better witnesses to its reality could you have than those who have been healed by it? But be sure to count yourself among them, for in your willingness to join them is your healing accomplished.
 
Every miracle that you accomplish speaks to you of the Fatherhood of God.
 
Every healing thought that you accept, either from your brother or in your own mind, teaches you that you are God's Son.
 
In every hurtful thought you hold, wherever you perceive it, lies the denial of God's Fatherhood and of your Sonship.

Battle of myself

The war against yourself is but the battle of two illusions, struggling to make them different from each other, in the belief the one that conquers will be true.

There is no conflict between them and the truth. Nor are they different from each other. Both are not true.

And so it matters not what form they take.
What made them is insane, and they remain part of what made them.

Madness holds out no menace to reality, and has no influence upon it. Illusions cannot triumph over truth, nor can they threaten it in any way.

And the reality that they deny is not a part of them.

Heaven waits

Heaven waits silently, and your creations are holding out their hands to help you cross and welcome them.

For it is they you seek. You seek but for your own completion, and it is they who render you complete.

The special love relationship is but a shabby substitute for what makes you whole in truth, not in illusion.

Your relationship with them is without guilt, and this enables you to look on all your brothers with gratitude, because your creations were created in union with them.

Acceptance of your creations is the acceptance of the oneness of creation, without which you could never be complete.

No specialness can offer you what God has given, and what you are joined with Him in giving.

The truth can set us free.

In the world of scarcity, love has no meaning and peace is impossible. For gain and loss are both accepted, and so no one is aware that perfect love is in him.

In the holy instant you recognize the idea of love in you, and unite this idea with the Mind that thought it, and could not relinquish it.
By holding it within itself, there is no loss.

The holy instant thus becomes a lesson in how to hold all of your brothers in your mind, experiencing not loss but completion. From this it follows you can only give.

And this is love, for this alone is natural under the laws of God. In the holy instant the laws of God prevail, and only they have meaning. The laws of this world cease to hold any meaning at all.

When the Son of God accepts the laws of God as what he gladly wills, it is impossible that he be bound, or limited in any way. In that instant he is as free as God would have him be.

For the instant he refuses to be bound, he is not bound.

Learning

The happy learner cannot feel guilty about learning.

This is so essential to learning that it should never be forgotten.

The guiltless learner learns easily because his thoughts are free.

Yet this entails the recognition that guilt is interference, not salvation, and serves no useful function at all.

Perhaps you are accustomed to using guiltlessness merely to offset the pain of guilt, and do not look upon it as having value in itself.
 
You believe that guilt and guiltlessness are both of value, each representing an escape from what the other does not offer you.
 
You do not want either alone, for without both you do not see yourself as whole and therefore happy. Yet you are whole only in your guiltlessness, and only in your guiltlessness can you be happy.
 
There is no conflict here. To wish for guilt in any way, in any form, will lose appreciation of the value of your guiltlessness, and push it from your sight.

Glorious

If your brothers are part of you, will you accept them? Only they can teach you what you are, for your learning is the result of what you taught them.

What you call upon in them you call upon in yourself.
And as you call upon it in them it becomes real to you. God has but one Son, knowing them all as one.

Only God Himself is more than they but they are not less than He is.

Would you know what this means? If what you do to my brother you do to me, and if you do everything for yourself because we are part of you, everything we do belongs to you as well.

Everyone God created is part of you and shares His Glory with you. His Glory belongs to Him, but it is equally yours. You cannot, then, be less glorious than He is.

Trusting

All other traits of God's teachers rest on trust.

Once that has been achieved, the others cannot fail to follow.

Only the trusting can afford honesty, for only they can see its value.

Honesty does not apply only to what you say. The term actually means consistency.

There is nothing you say that contradicts what you think or do; no thought opposes any other thought; no act belies your word; and no word lacks agreement with another. Such are the truly honest.

At no level are they in conflict with themselves. Therefore it is impossible for them to be in conflict with anyone or anything.

An invitation

You undertook, together, to invite the Holy Spirit into your relationship.

He could not have entered otherwise. Although you may have made many mistakes since then, you have also made enormous efforts to help Him do His work.

And He has not been lacking in appreciation for all you have done for Him. Nor does He see the mistakes at all. Have you been similarly grateful to your brother?

Have you consistently appreciated the good efforts, and overlooked mistakes? Or has your appreciation flickered and grown dim in what seemed to be the light of the mistakes?

Perhaps you are now entering upon a campaign to blame him for the discomfort of the situation in which you find yourself.

And by this lack of thanks and gratitude you make yourself unable to express the holy instant, and thus lose sight of it.

Blessings

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.

A Hymn

We cannot sing redemption's hymn alone. My task is not completed until I have lifted every voice with mine.

And yet it is not mine, for as it is my gift to you, so was it the Father's gift to me, given me through His Spirit.

The sound of it will banish sorrow from the mind of God's most holy Son, where it cannot abide.

Healing in time is needed, for joy cannot establish its eternal reign where sorrow dwells.

You dwell not here, but in eternity. You travel but in dreams, while safe at home. Give thanks to every part of you that you have taught how to remember you.

Thus does the Son of God give thanks unto his Father for his purity.

Joining

Joining with Him in seeing is the way in which you learn to share with Him the interpretation of perception that leads to knowledge.

You cannot see alone. Sharing perception with Him Whom God has given you teaches you how to recognize what you see.

It is the recognition that nothing you see means anything alone.

Seeing with Him will show you that all meaning, including yours, comes not from double vision, but from the gentle fusing of everything into one meaning, one emotion and one purpose.

God has one Purpose which He shares with you. The single vision which the Holy Spirit offers you will bring this oneness to your mind with clarity and brightness so intense you could not wish, for all the world, not to accept what God would have you have.

Behold your will, accepting it as His, with all His Love as yours. All honor to you through Him, and through Him unto God.

Glory

You are the Kingdom of Heaven, but you have let the belief in darkness enter your mind and so you need a new light.

The Holy Spirit is the radiance that you must let banish the idea of darkness. His is the glory before which dissociation falls away, and the Kingdom of Heaven breaks through into its own.

Before the separation you did not need guidance. You knew as you will know again, but as you do not know now.


God does not guide, because He can share only perfect knowledge. Guidance is evaluative, because it implies there is a right way and also a wrong way, one to be chosen and the other to be avoided.

By choosing one you give up the other. The choice for the Holy Spirit is the choice for God. God is not in you in a literal sense; you are part of Him.

When you chose to leave Him He gave you a Voice to speak for Him because He could no longer share His knowledge with you without hindrance.

Direct communication was broken because you had made another voice.

Blessings

And though we use a different name for each awareness of an aspect of God's Son, we understand that they have but one Name, Which He has given them. It is this Name we use in practicing.

And through Its use, all foolish separations disappear which kept us blind. And we are given strength to see beyond them. Now our sight is blessed with blessings we can give as we receive.

Father, our Name is Yours.
In It we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. What we made and call by many different names is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own Reality.

And we are glad and thankful we were wrong. All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to have.

And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. Your Name is our salvation and escape from what we made. Your Name unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. Amen.

Remember

What you remember is a part of you. For you must be as God created you.

Truth does not fight against illusions, nor do illusions fight against the truth. Illusions battle only with themselves.

Being fragmented, they fragment. But truth is indivisible, and far beyond their little reach. You will remember what you know when you have learned you cannot be in conflict.

One illusion about yourself can battle with another, yet the war of two illusions is a state where nothing happens. There is no victor and there is no victory.

And truth stands radiant, apart from conflict, untouched and quiet in the peace of God.

Powerful Ideas

There is no fear in perfect love. We will but be making perfect to you what is already perfect in you.

You do not fear the unknown but the known. You will not fail in your mission because I did not fail in mine.

Give me but a little trust in the name of the complete trust I have in you, and we will easily accomplish the goal of perfection together.

For perfection is, and cannot be denied. To deny the denial of perfection is not so difficult as to deny truth, and what we can accomplish together will be believed when you see it as accomplished.