Possesion

The body exists in a world that seems to contain two voices fighting for its possession. 

In this perceived constellation the body is seen as capable of shifting its allegiance from one to the other, making the concepts of both
health and sickness meaningful. 

The ego makes a fundamental confusion between means and end as it always does.

Regarding the body as an end, the ego has no real use for it because it is not an end.

You must have noticed an outstanding characteristic of every end that the ego has accepted as its own. 
When you have achieved it, it has not satisfied you.

This is why the ego is forced to shift ceaselessly from one goal to another, so that you will continue to hope it can yet offer you something.

Renew

Only the Holy Spirit knows what you need.

For He will give you all things that do not block the way to light. 

And what else could you need? In time,

He gives you all the things that you need have, and will renew them as long as you have need of them.

He will take nothing from you as long as you have any need of it.

And yet He knows that everything you need is temporary, and will but last until you step aside from all your needs and realize that all of them have been fulfilled.

Therefore He has no investment in the things that He supplies, except to make certain that you will not use them on behalf of lingering in time. 

He knows that you are not at home there, and He wills no delay to wait upon your joyous homecoming.

Blessed

You are being blessed by every beneficent thought of any of your brothers anywhere.

You should want to bless them in return, out of gratitude.

You need not know them individually, or they you.

The light is so strong that it radiates throughout the Sonship and returns thanks to the Father for radiating His joy upon it.

Only God's holy children are worthy channels of His beautiful joy, because only they are beautiful enough to hold it by sharing it.

It is impossible for a child of God to love his neighbor except as himself. That is why the healer's prayer is:

Let me know this brother as I know myself.

Free

You are free to establish your kingdom where you see fit, but the right choice is inevitable if you remember this:

Spirit is in a state of grace forever.

Your reality is only spirit.

Therefore you are in a state of grace forever.

Atonement undoes all errors in this respect, and thus uproots the source of fear.

Whenever you experience God's reassurances as threat, it is always because you are defending misplaced or misdirected loyalty.

When you project this to others you imprison them, but only to the extent to which you reinforce errors they have already made.

Dreams

Dreams are perceptual temper tantrums, in which you literally scream, "I want it thus!"

And thus it seems to be. And yet the dream cannot escape its origin.

Anger and fear pervade it, and in an instant the illusion of satisfaction is invaded by the illusion of terror.

For the dream of your ability to control reality by substituting a world that you prefer is terrifying.

Your attempts to blot out reality are very fearful, but this you are not willing to accept.

And so you substitute the fantasy that reality is fearful, not what you would do to it.

And thus is guilt made real.

Jesus was a man...

"Jesus was a man the same as all men are today. He suffered, was tempted and tried, just as you suffer ecause of temptation and trials.

We know that during His residence on earth in the visible body Jesus spent hours of every day alone with God and we know that, in His early manhood,

He went through just what we have gone through and what you are going through today.

We know that every man must overcome the mortal, the fleshly desires, the doubts and fears, until he comes to the perfect consciousness or recognition of the indwelling Presence, this `Father in me,' to whom Jesus ascribed the credit of all His mighty works.

He had to learn as we had to learn and as you are learning today. He was obliged to try over and over again as you are doing.

He was obliged to hold fast as you are obliged to

hold fast today.

( from masters of the far east)

Energy

You do not recognize the enormous waste of energy you expend in denying truth.

What would you say of someone who persists in attempting the impossible, believing that to achieve it is to succeed?

The belief that you must have the impossible in order to be happy is totally at variance with the principle of creation.

God could not will that happiness depended on what you could never have. 

The fact that God is Love does not require belief, but it does require acceptance. It is indeed possible for you to deny facts, although it is impossible for you to change them.

If you hold your hands over your eyes, you will not see because you are interfering with the laws of seeing.

If you deny love, you will not know it because your cooperation is the law of its being.

You cannot change laws you did not make, and the laws of happiness were created for you, not by you.

Poor in Spirit

Try to understand the mind as it functions in you, then you will be able to understand what Jesus means.

You want to be as free as a poor man because only a poor man can be free – he has no burden, he has nothing to protect, you cannot rob him.

He is unafraid.

You cannot snatch anything from him because he has nothing; with nothing, he is at ease; with nothing as his possession, nothing can be stolen from him.

Nobody is his enemy because he is not a competitor at all, he is not competing with anybody.

One Way

There is one way, and only one, to be released from the imprisonment your plan to prove the false is true has brought to you.

Accept the plan you did not make instead. Judge not your value to it.

If God's Voice assures you that salvation needs your part, and that the whole depends on you, be sure that it is so.

The arrogant must cling to words, afraid to go beyond them to experience which might affront their stance.

Yet are the humble free to hear the Voice Which tells them what they are, and what to do.

Splendid

The Atonement is the only defense that cannot be used destructively because it is not a device you made.

The Atonement principle was in effect long before the Atonement began.

The principle was love and the Atonement was an act of love. Acts were not necessary before the separation, because belief in space and time did not exist.

It was only after the separation that the Atonement and the conditions necessary for its fulfillment were planned.

Then a defense so splendid was needed that it could not be misused, although it could be refused.

Refusal could not, however, turn it into a weapon of attack, which is the inherent characteristic of other defenses.

The Atonement thus becomes the only defense that is not a two-edged sword. It can only heal.

Gifts

To give reluctantly is not to gain the gift, because you are reluctant to accept it.

It is saved for you until reluctance to receive it disappears, and you are willing it be given you. God's justice warrants gratitude, not fear.

Nothing you give is lost to you or anyone, but cherished and preserved in Heaven, where all of the treasures given to God's Son are kept for him, and offered anyone who but holds out his hand in willingness they be received. Nor is the treasure less as it is given out.

Each gift but adds to the supply.

For God is fair. He does not fight against His Son's reluctance to perceive salvation as a gift from Him.

Yet would His justice not be satisfied until it is received by everyone.

A major Source

A major source of the ego's off-balanced state is its lack of discrimination between the body and the Thoughts of God.

Thoughts of God are unacceptable to the ego, because they clearly point to the nonexistence of the ego itself.

The ego therefore either distorts them or refuses to accept them.

It cannot, however, make them cease to be. It therefore tries to conceal not only "unacceptable" body impulses, but also the Thoughts of God, because both are threatening to it.

Being concerned primarily with its own preservation in the face of threat, the ego perceives them as the same.

By perceiving them as the same, the ego attempts to save itself from being swept away, as it would surely be in the presence of knowledge.

Quickly

Errors are quickly recognized and quickly given to correction, to be healed, not hidden.

You will be healed of sin and all its ravages the instant that you give it no power over your brother.

And you will help him overcome mistakes by joyously releasing him from the belief in sin.

In the holy instant, you will see the smile of Heaven shining on both you and your brother.

And you will shine upon him, in glad acknowledgment of the grace that has been given you.

For sin will not prevail against a union Heaven has smiled upon.

An Instant

Time is inconceivable without change, yet holiness does not change.

Learn from this instant more than merely that hell does not exist. 

In this redeeming instant lies Heaven.

And Heaven will not change, for the birth into the holy present is salvation from change.

Change is an illusion, taught by those who cannot see themselves as guiltless.

There is no change in Heaven because there is no change in God.

In the holy instant, in which you see yourself as bright with freedom, you will remember God.

For remembering Him is to remember freedom.

      

Abundance is the law of the universe

But see the Love of God in you, and you will see it everywhere because it is everywhere.

See His abundance in everyone, and you will know that you are in Him with them.

They are part of you, as you are part of God.

You are as lonely without understanding this as God Himself is lonely when His Sons do not know Him.

The peace of God is understanding this. 

There is only one way out of the world's thinking, just as there was only one way into it. 

Understand totally by understanding totality.

No Man is an Island ( Thomas Merton)

“There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all.

There must be a time of day when the man who has to speak falls very silent.

And his mind forms no more propositions, and he asks himself: Did they have a meaning?

There must be a time when the man of prayer goes to pray as if it were the first time in his life he had ever prayed; when the man of resolutions puts his resolutions aside as if they had all been broken, and he learns a different wisdom: distinguishing the sun from the moon, the stars from the darkness, the sea from the dry land, and the night sky from the shoulder of a hill.”

Potential

Your learning potential, properly understood, is limitless because it will lead you to God.

You can teach the way to Him and learn it, if you follow the Teacher Who knows the way to Him and understands His curriculum for learning it.

The curriculum is totally unambiguous, because the goal is not divided and the means and the end are in complete accord.

You need offer only undivided attention. Everything else will be given you.

For you really want to learn aright, and nothing can oppose the decision of God's Son. 

His learning is as unlimited as he is.

Finding God

One of the oldest Jewish sayings is that you start seeking God only when you have found him.

It looks paradoxical but it is absolutely true, because how will you start seeking him if you have not found him – found him within yourself, realized him within yourself?

Only then does the search start but then there is no need to search really.

The search starts and ends at the same point, the first step is the last step. Only one step exists between you and the divine.

There are not two steps so there is no path. Just
one step: drop all falsities that you have taken upon yourself, drop all borrowed masks-Osho

Direct contact

Before you can make any sense out of the exercises for today, one more thought is necessary.

At the most superficial levels, you do recognize purpose.

Yet purpose cannot be understood at these levels.

For example, you do understand that a telephone is for the purpose of talking to someone who is not physically in your immediate vicinity.

What you do not understand is what you want to reach him for.

And it is this that makes your contact with him meaningful or not.

From Osho "The Mustard Seed"

If you are a stranger to yourself, even the whole world will not fulfill you.

If you have not got into your own being, then all the riches will make you even poorer.

This happens: the more riches you have, the more poverty you feel because now you can compare; with outer riches,

the inside in comparison looks poorer and poorer and poorer.

Hence the paradox of the rich man: the richer he gets, the poorer he feels; the more he has,

the more he feels that he is empty – because the inner

emptiness cannot be filled by outer things.

Outer things cannot enter into your being.

The inner emptiness can be filled only when you achieve yourself, when you attain to your being.

Equality

Equality does not imply equality now.

When everyone recognizes that he has everything, individual contributions to the Sonship will no longer be necessary.

When the Atonement has been completed, all talents will be shared by all the Sons of God.

God is not partial. All His children have His total Love, and all His gifts are freely given to everyone alike. 

"Except ye become as little children" means that unless you fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you cannot know the real power of the Son in his true relationship with the Father.

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.

There is a light in you which cannot die; whose presence is so holy that the world is sanctified because of you.

All things that live bring gifts to you, and offer them in gratitude and gladness at your feet.

The scent of flowers is their gift to you.

The waves bow down before you, and the trees extend their arms to shield you from the heat, and lay their leaves before you on the ground that you may walk in softness, while the wind sinks to a whisper round your holy head.

The light in you is what the universe longs to behold. All living things are still before you, for they recognize

 Who walks with you. The light you carry is their own.

And thus they see in you their holiness, saluting you as savior and as God. Accept their reverence, for it is due to Holiness Itself,

Which walks with you, transforming in Its gentle Light all things unto Its likeness and Its purity.

Glorious

This little self is not your kingdom.

Arched high above it and surrounding it with love is the glorious whole, which offers all its happiness and deep content to every part.

The little aspect that you think you set apart is no exception.

Love knows no bodies, and reaches to everything created like itself. Its total lack of limit is its meaning.

It is completely impartial in its giving, encompassing only to preserve and keep complete what it would give.

In your tiny kingdom you have so little! Should it not, then, be there that you would call on love to enter?

Look at the desert - dry and unproductive, scorched and joyless - that makes up your little kingdom.

And realize the life and joy that love would bring to it from where it comes, and where it would return with you.

A Journey

You came this far because the journey was your choice.

And no one undertakes to do what he believes is meaningless.

What you had faith in still is faithful, and watches over you in faith so gentle yet so strong that it would lift you far beyond the veil, and place the Son of God safely within the sure protection of his Father.

Here is the only purpose that gives this world, and the long journey through this world, whatever meaning lies in them.

Beyond this, they are meaningless. You and your brother stand together, still without conviction they have a purpose.

Yet it is given you to see this purpose in your holy Friend, and recognize it as your own.

Enjoying

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.

The door is open, that all those may come who would no longer starve, and would enjoy the feast of plenty set before them there.

And they will meet with your invited Guests the miracle has asked to come to you.

Value

The value of the Atonement does not lie in the manner in which it is expressed.

In fact, if it is used truly, it will inevitably be expressed in whatever way is most helpful to the receiver.

This means that a miracle, to attain its full efficacy, must be expressed in a language that the recipient can understand without fear.

This does not necessarily mean that this is the highest level of communication of which he is capable.

It does mean, however, that it is the highest level of communication of which he is capable now.

The whole aim of the miracle is to raise the level of communication, not to lower it by increasing fear.

Strenght

If you offer miracles, you will be equally strong in your belief in them.

The strength of your conviction will then sustain the belief of the miracle receiver.

Fantasies become totally unnecessary as the wholly satisfying nature of reality becomes apparent to both giver and receiver.

Reality is "lost" through usurpation, which produces tyranny.

As long as a single "slave" remains to walk the earth, your release is not complete.

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

Sanity

Sanity is wholeness, and the sanity of your brothers is yours.

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.

The home of madness

The home of madness cannot be the home of reason.

Yet it is easy to leave the home of madness if you see reason.

You do not leave insanity by going somewhere else.

You leave it simply by accepting reason where madness was.

Madness and reason see the same things, but it is certain that they look upon them differently.

Madness is an attack on reason that drives it out of mind, and takes its place.

Reason does not attack, but takes the place of madness quietly, replacing madness if it be the choice of the insane to listen to it.

But the insane know not their will, for they believe they see the body, and let their madness tell them it is real.

Reason would be incapable of this. And if you would defend the body against your reason, you will not understand the body or yourself.

Abilities

The abilities you now possess are only shadows of your real strength.

All of your present functions are divided and open to question and doubt.

This is because you are not certain how you will use them, and are therefore incapable of knowledge.

You are also incapable of knowledge because you can still perceive lovelessly.

Perception did not exist until the separation introduced degrees, aspects and intervals.

Spirit has no levels, and all conflict arises from the concept of levels. Only the Levels of the Trinity are capable of Unity.

The levels created by the separation cannot but conflict.

This is because they are meaningless to each other.

Creative

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.

Alone

The ego believes it is completely on its own, which is merely another way of describing how it thinks it originated.

This is such a fearful state that it can only turn to other egos and try to unite with them in a feeble attempt at identification, or attack them in an equally feeble show of strength.

It is not free, however, to open the premise to question, because the premise is its foundation. The ego is the mind's belief that it is completely on its own.

The ego's ceaseless attempts to gain the spirit's acknowledgment and thus establish its own existence are useless. 

Spirit in its knowledge is unaware of the ego.

 It does not attack it; it merely cannot conceive of it at all. While the ego is equally unaware of spirit, it does perceive itself as being rejected by something greater than itself.

This is why self-esteem in ego terms must be delusional. 

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.