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You use attack to do so because you believe that attack was successful in weakening you.
That is why the recognition of your own invulnerability is so important to the restoration of your sanity.
For if you accept your invulnerability, you are recognizing that attack has no effect.
Although you have attacked yourself, you will be demonstrating that nothing really happened.
Therefore, by attacking you have not done anything.
Once you realize this you will no longer see any sense in attack, for it manifestly does not work and cannot protect you.
Yet the recognition of your invulnerability has more than negative value.
If your attacks on yourself have failed to weaken you, you are still strong.
You therefore have no need to "equalize" the situation to establish your strength.
What pleasures could there be that will endure?
Are not the frail entitled to believe that every stolen scrap of pleasure is their righteous payment for their little lives?
Their death will pay the price for all of them, if they enjoy their benefits or not.
The end of life must come, whatever way that life be spent. And so take pleasure in the quickly passing and ephemeral.
These are not sins, but witnesses unto the strange belief that sin and death are real, and innocence and sin will end alike within the termination of the grave.
If this were true, there would be reason to remain content to seek for passing joys and cherish little pleasures where you can.
Yet in this picture is the body not perceived as neutral and without a goal inherent in itself.
For it becomes the symbol of reproach, the sign of guilt whose consequences still are there to see, so that the cause can never be denied.
Grace is the natural state of every Son of God.
When he is not in a state of grace, he is out of his natural environment and does not function well.
Everything he does becomes a strain, because he was not created for the environment that he has made.
He therefore cannot adapt to it, nor can he adapt it to him.
There is no point in trying. A Son of God is happy only when he knows he is with God.
That is the only environment in which he will not experience strain, because that is where he belongs.
It is also the only environment that is worthy of him, because his own worth is beyond anything he can make.
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.
If special relationships of any kind would hinder God's completion, can they have any value to you?
What would interfere with God must interfere with you.
Only in time does interference in God's completion seem to be possible.
The bridge that He would carry you across lifts you from time into eternity.
Waken from time, and answer fearlessly the call of Him Who gave eternity to you in your creation.
On this side of the bridge to timelessness you understand nothing.
But as you step lightly across it, upheld by timelessness, you are directed straight to the Heart of God.
At its center, and only there, you are safe forever, because you are complete forever.
There is no veil the Love of God in us together cannot lift. The way to truth is open. Follow it with me.
Knowledge is timeless, because certainty is not questionable.
You know when you have ceased to ask questions.
The questioning mind perceives itself in time, and therefore looks for future answers.
The closed mind believes the future and the present will be the same.
This establishes a seemingly stable state that is usually an attempt to counteract an underlying fear that the future will be worse than the present.
This fear inhibits the tendency to question at all.
Healing always produces harmony, because it proceeds from integration.
It is predictable because it can be counted on.
Everything that is of God can be counted on, because everything of God is wholly real.
Healing can be counted on because it is inspired by His Voice, and is in accord with His laws.
Yet if healing is consistent it cannot be inconsistently understood.
Understanding means consistency because God means consistency.
Since that is His meaning, it is also yours. Your meaning cannot be out of accord with His, because your whole meaning and your only meaning comes from His and is like His.
God cannot be out of accord with Himself, and you cannot be out of accord with Him.
You cannot separate your Self from your Creator, Who created you by sharing His Being with you.
Perhaps you do not see the need for you to give this little offering.
Look closer, then, at what it is. And, very simply, see in it the whole exchange of separation for salvation.
All that the ego is, is an idea that it is possible that things could happen to the Son of God without his will; and thus without the Will of his Creator, Whose Will cannot be separate from his own.
This is the Son of God's replacement for his will, a mad revolt against what must forever be.
This is the statement that he has the power to make God powerless and so to take it for himself, and leave himself without what God has willed for him.
This is the mad idea you have enshrined upon your altars, and which you worship.
And anything that threatens this seems to attack your faith, for here is it invested.
Think not that you are faithless, for your belief and trust in this is strong indeed.
Save time, my brother; learn what time is for.
And speed the end of idols in a world made sad and sick by seeing idols there.
Your holy mind is altar unto God, and where He is no idols can abide.
The fear of God is but the fear of loss of idols. It is not the fear of loss of your reality.
But you have made of your reality an idol, which you must protect against the light of truth.
And all the world becomes the means by which this idol can be saved. Salvation thus appears to threaten life and offer death.
It is not so. Salvation seeks to prove there is no death, and only life exists.
The sacrifice of death is nothing lost. An idol cannot take the place of God.
Let Him remind you of His Love for you, and do not seek to drown His Voice in chants of deep despair to idols of yourself.
Seek not outside your Father for your hope. For hope of happiness is not despair.
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.
