Is disturbance possible

You are not seriously disturbed by your hostility, and then run away. You keep it hidden because you are more afraid of what it covers. '

But forget not this: When you become disturbed and lose your peace of mind because another is attempting to solve his problems through fantasy, you are refusing to forgive yourself for just this same attempt.

And you are holding both of you away from truth and from salvation.

As you forgive him, you restore to truth what was denied by both of you.

And you will see forgiveness where you have given it.
The seeming cost of accepting today's idea is this: It means that nothing outside yourself can save you; nothing outside yourself can give you peace.

But it also means that nothing outside yourself can hurt you, or disturb your peace or upset you in any way. Today's idea places you in charge of the universe, where you belong because of what you are.

This is not a role that can be partially accepted. And you must surely begin to see that accepting it is salvation.

Joy

This is a year of joy, in which your listening will increase and peace will grow with its increase.

The power of holiness and the weakness of attack are both being brought into your awareness.

And this has been accomplished in a mind firmly convinced that holiness is weakness and attack is power.

Should not this be a sufficient miracle to teach you that your Teacher is not of you?

But remember also that whenever you listened to His interpretation the results have brought you joy.

Would you prefer the results of your interpretation, considering honestly what they have been? God wills you better.

Could you not look with greater charity on whom God loves with perfect love?

A timelessness

.... in which is time made real; a part of God that can attack itself; a separate brother as an enemy; a mind within a body all are forms of circularity whose ending starts at its beginning, ending at its cause.

The world you see depicts exactly what you thought you did. Except that now you think that what you did is being done to you.

The guilt for what you thought is being placed outside yourself, and on a guilty world that dreams your dreams and thinks your thoughts instead of you.

It brings its vengeance, not your own.

It keeps you narrowly confined within a body, which it punishes because of all the sinful things the body does within its dream.

You have no power to make the body stop its evil deeds because you did not make it, and cannot control its actions nor its purpose nor its fate.

With anger gone,

You will indeed perceive that, for Christ's vision and the gift of sight, no sacrifice was asked, and only pain was lifted from a sick and tortured mind.

Is this unwelcome? Is it to be feared? Or is it to be hoped for, met with thanks and joyously accepted?

We are one, and therefore give up nothing. But we have indeed been given everything by God.

Yet do we need forgiveness to perceive that this is so.
 
Without its kindly light we grope in darkness, using reason but to justify our rage and our attack.
 
Our understanding is so limited that what we think we understand is but confusion born of error.
 
We are lost in mists of shifting dreams and fearful thoughts, our eyes shut tight against the light; our minds engaged in worshipping what is not there.

Isolation

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.

Secure

Recently I met a healer here in the mountain area around Benissa.
The one experience that was and is so powerfull for me in that encounter, his certainty of himself as a being in full service to the Universe.

Nothing to question, pure power knowing why he was in that space and extending his Light.

Without foundation nothing is secure.

Would God have left His Son in such a state, where safety has no meaning? No, His Son is safe, resting on Him.

It is your specialness that is attacked by everything that walks and breathes, or creeps or crawls, or even lives at all.

Nothing is safe from its attack, and it is safe from nothing.

It will forevermore be unforgiving, for that is what it is; a secret vow that what God wants for you will never be, and that you will oppose His Will forever.

Nor is it possible the two can ever be the same, while specialness stands like a flaming sword of death between them, and makes them enemies.

Prisoner and Jailer

Therefore, hold no one prisoner. Release instead of bind, for thus are you made free. The way is simple.

Every time you feel a stab of anger, realize you hold a sword above your head. And it will fall or be averted as you choose to be condemned or free.

Thus does each one who seems to tempt you to be angry represent your savior from the prison house of death. And so you owe him thanks instead of pain.
This world is not where you belong. You are a stranger here. But it is given you to find the means whereby the world no longer seems to be a prison house or jail for anyone.


Freedom is given you where you beheld but chains and iron doors.
But you must change your mind about the purpose of the world, if you would find escape.
 
You will be bound till all the world is seen by you as blessed, and everyone made free of your mistakes and honored as he is. You made him not; no more yourself.
 
And as you free the one, the other is accepted as he is.

Teaching

Teaching is done in many ways, above all by example. To always speak the truth, no matter what.

If one cannot speak the truth in this dream then how can one be truthfull in Heaven? Not possible.

Teaching should be healing, because it is the sharing of ideas and the recognition that to share ideas is to strengthen them.

To be afraid of the discomfort that ideas bring in any situation is meaningless. And a denial that all ideas come from God.

Teaching is a wake-up call to oneself, in every possible form of space/time.

It is a total responsibility.

I cannot forget my need to teach what I have learned, which arose in me because I learned it.

I call upon you to teach what you have learned, because by so doing you can depend on it.

Make it dependable in my name because my name is the Name of God's Son. What I learned I give you freely, and the Mind that was in me rejoices as you choose to hear it.

A state of completion and abundance

The specialness of God's Sons does not stem from exclusion but from inclusion.

All my brothers are special. If they believe they are deprived of anything, their perception becomes distorted.

When this occurs the whole family of God, or the Sonship, is impaired in its relationships.

Ultimately, every member of the family of God must return.

The miracle calls him to return because it blesses and honors him, even though he may be absent in spirit. "God is not mocked" is not a warning but a reassurance. God would be mocked if any of His creations lacked holiness.

The creation is whole, and the mark of wholeness is holiness.

Miracles are affirmations of Sonship, which is a state of completion and abundance.

Lies to jusify discomfort

Discomfort is aroused only to bring the need for correction into awareness.

Every system of thought must have a starting point. It begins with either a making or a creating, a difference we have already discussed.

Their resemblance lies in their power as foundations. Their difference lies in what rests upon them.

Both are cornerstones for systems of belief by which one lives. It is a mistake to believe that a thought system based on lies is weak.

Nothing made by a child of God is without power. It is essential to realize this, because otherwise you will be unable to escape from the prison you have made.

The Presence

“I can of mine own self do nothing.” When that realization comes, you will be performing wonders in your own field of endeavor, but you will know it is not you who are doing it; you will know that It is doing the work.

Every one of us has this It within him. Every one of us has the Spirit of God, or the Christ, at the centre of his being, but most of us have not come fully into the conscious awareness of It, or else that awareness has been felt only once in a great while.
 
We have not yet reached the stage where we can achieve it as a matter of will, or where we live in it all the time.
 
The day comes, however, when this Withiness, this inner Self is functioning all the time, and most of the time we are consciously aware of It, and on the few occasions when we are not, we can restore ourselves to Its awareness by deeper meditation. It is always present, awaiting our recognition.
 
By It, we can do all things.
( Joel Goldsmith)

Sleep is withdrawing; waking is joining.

Dreams are illusions of joining, because they reflect the ego's distorted notions about what joining is.

Yet the Holy Spirit, too, has use for sleep, and can use dreams on behalf of waking if you will let Him.

How you wake is the sign of how you have used sleep. To whom did you give it?
 
Under which teacher did you place it? Whenever you wake dispiritedly, it was not given to the Holy Spirit.
 
Only when you awaken joyously have you utilized sleep according to His purpose.
 
You can indeed be "drugged" by sleep, if you have misused it on behalf of sickness.
 
Sleep is no more a form of death than death is a form of unconsciousness. Complete unconsciousness is impossible.
 
You can rest in peace only because you are awake.

Spaces of my mind

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.

Atonement

Atonement teaches you how to escape forever from everything that you have taught yourself in the past, by showing you only what you are now.

Learning has been accomplished before its effects are manifest.

Learning is therefore in the past, but its influence determines the present by giving it whatever meaning it holds for you.

Your learning gives the present no meaning at all. Nothing you have ever learned can help you understand the present, or teach you how to undo the past.

Your past is what you have taught yourself. Let it all go.

Do not attempt to understand any event or anything or anyone in its "light," for the darkness in which you try to see can only obscure.

Put no confidence at all in darkness to illuminate your understanding, for if you do you contradict the light, and thereby think you see the darkness.

Yet darkness cannot be seen, for it is nothing more than a condition in which seeing becomes impossible.

Atonement

The end of guilt will never come as long as you believe there is a reason for it.

For you must learn that guilt is always totally insane, and has no reason. The Holy Spirit seeks not to dispel reality. If guilt were real, Atonement would not be.

The purpose of Atonement is to dispel illusions, not to establish them as real and then forgive them.

The Holy Spirit does not keep illusions in your mind to frighten you, and show them to you fearfully to demonstrate what He has saved you from.
 
What He has saved you from is gone. Give no reality to guilt, and see no reason for it.
The Holy Spirit does what God would have Him do, and has always done so.
 
He has seen separation, but knows of union. He teaches healing, but He also knows of creation. He would have you see and teach as He does, and through Him.
 
Yet what He knows you do not know, though it is yours.

Illusons

Truth is without illusions and therefore within the Kingdom. Everything outside the Kingdom is illusion.

When you threw truth away you saw yourself as if you were without it.

By making another kingdom that you valued, you did not keep only the Kingdom of God in your mind, and thus placed part of your mind outside it.

What you made has imprisoned your will, and given you a sick mind that must be healed.

Your vigilance against this sickness is the way to heal it. Once your mind is healed it radiates health, and thereby teaches healing.

This establishes you as a teacher who teaches like me. Vigilance was required of me as much as of you, and those who choose to teach the same thing must be in agreement about what they believe.

Where it beginds it ends

A timelessness in which is time made real; a part of God that can attack itself; a separate brother as an enemy; a mind within a body all are forms of circularity whose ending starts at its beginning, ending at its cause.

The world you see depicts exactly what you thought you did. Except that now you think that what you did is being done to you.

The guilt for what you thought is being placed outside yourself, and on a guilty world that dreams your dreams and thinks your thoughts instead of you. It brings its vengeance, not your own.

It keeps you narrowly confined within a body, which it punishes because of all the sinful things the body does within its dream. '

You have no power to make the body stop its evil deeds because you did not make it, and cannot control its actions nor its purpose nor its fate.

Teachers

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.

A Meeting Place

The holy meeting place of the unseparated Father and His Son lies in the Holy Spirit and in you.

All interference in the communication that God Himself wills with His Son is quite impossible here.

Unbroken and uninterrupted love flows constantly between the Father and the Son, as Both would have it be. And so it is.

Let your mind wander not through darkened corridors, away from light's center.

You and your brother may choose to lead yourselves astray, but you can be brought together only by the Guide appointed for you.

He will surely lead you to where God and His Son await your recognition.

They are joined in giving you the gift of oneness, before which all separation vanishes. Unite with what you are.

World ( Ouspensky)

"Let us take some other word, for example, the term 'world.'

Each man understands it in his own way, and each man in an entirely different way.

Everyone when he hears or pronounces the word 'world' has associations entirely foreign and incomprehensible to another.

Every 'conception of the world,' every habitual form of thinking, carries with it its own associations, its own ideas.

This uniting of two ideas of an entirely different order, scale, and significance gave rise to many further misunderstandings and completely distorted the whole system for those who thought in this manner.

This World

What is the world except a little gap perceived to tear eternity apart, and break it into days and months and years?

And what are you who live within the world except a picture of the Son of God in broken pieces, each concealed within a separate and uncertain bit of clay?

Be not afraid, my child, but let your world be gently lit by miracles.
 
And where the little gap was seen to stand between you and your brother, join him there. And so sickness will now be seen without a cause.
 
The dream of healing in forgiveness lies, and gently shows you that you never sinned.
 
The miracle would leave no proof of guilt to bring you witness to what never was.
 
And in your storehouse it will make a place of welcome for your Father and your Self.

A Word

The result of genuine devotion is inspiration, a word which properly understood is the opposite of fatigue.

To be fatigued is to be dis-spirited, but to be inspired is to be in the spirit.

To be egocentric is to be dis-spirited, but to be Self-centered in the right sense is to be inspired or in spirit.

The truly inspired are enlightened and cannot abide in darkness.

You can speak from the spirit or from the ego, as you choose. If you speak from spirit you have chosen to
 
"Be still and know that I am God." These words are inspired because they reflect knowledge.

Change

The ability to learn has no value when change is no longer necessary.

The eternally creative have nothing to learn.

You can learn to improve your perceptions, and can become a better and better learner.

This will bring you into closer and closer accord with the Sonship; but the Sonship itself is a perfect Creation and perfection is not a matter of degree.

Only while there is a belief in differences is learning meaningful.

Mind

Only the mind is capable of error.

The body can act wrongly only when it is responding to misthought.

The body cannot create, and the belief that it can, a fundamental error, produces all physical symptoms.

Physical illness represents a belief in magic.

The whole distortion that made magic rests on the belief that there is a creative ability in matter which the mind cannot control.

This error can take two forms; it can be believed that the mind can miscreate in the body, or that the body can miscreate in the mind.

When it is understood that the mind, the only level of creation, cannot create beyond itself, neither type of confusion need occur.

A Message

"This is a new message to you, the same as it seemed to be a new message two thousand years ago.

It is the same today as it was then; it is but the resurrection of the age-old message.

This message was told thousands of centuries ago in language so simple that babes could read.

The message is that man of his own free will shall leave the man-made kingdom and evolve to the God Kingdom.

The son of man is to realize his divinity, reveal this divinity in his body and affairs, and become the Christ of God in the Kingdom of God. `Know ye not that ye are gods?'

"Within you, know that this Kingdom of God is the most natural thing in the world. You have but overlooked the fact( From the Masters of the Far East)




that if man be in Christ he is a new creature. `It is the Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom, and every man passeth into it.'

The question is asked, `When?' The answer always is, `When the without is as the within.'

Observation

“Observation, like a flame of attention, it wipes away hate. Observation is like a flame which is attention, and with that capacity of observation, the wound, the feeling of hurt, the hate, all that, is burnt away, gone.” ( Krishnamurti)

Before a holy relationship there is no sin. The form of error is no longer seen, and reason, joined with love, looks quietly on all confusion, observing merely,

"This was a mistake." And then the same Atonement you accepted in your relationship corrects the error, and lays a part of Heaven in its place.

How blessed are you who let this gift be given! Each part of Heaven that you bring is given you.

And every empty place in Heaven that you fill again with the Eternal Light you bring, shines now on you.

The means of sinlessness can know no fear because they carry only love with them.

This World

You maker of a world that is not so, take rest and comfort in another world where peace abides.

This world you bring with you to all the weary eyes and tired hearts that look on sin and beat its sad refrain. From you can come their rest.

From you can rise a world they will rejoice to look upon, and where their hearts are glad.

In you there is a vision that extends to all of them, and covers them in gentleness and light.

And in this widening world of light the darkness that they thought was there is pushed away, until it is but distant shadows, far away, not long to be remembered as the sun shines them to nothingness.

And all their "evil" thoughts and "sinful" hopes, their dreams of guilt and merciless revenge, and every wish to hurt and kill and die, will disappear before the sun you bring.

Presence

But be holy in the Presence of God, or you will not know that you are there.

For what is unlike God cannot enter His Mind, because it was not His Thought and therefore does not belong to Him.

And your mind must be as pure as His, if you would know what belongs to you. Guard carefully His temple, for He Himself dwells there and abides in peace.

You cannot enter God's Presence with the dark companions beside you, but you also cannot enter alone.

All your brothers must enter with you, for until you have accepted them you cannot enter.

For you cannot understand Wholeness unless you are whole, and no part of the Son can be excluded if he would know the Wholeness of his Father.