Exclusion

Can you exclude yourself from the universe, or from God Who is the universe?  

I and my Father are one with you, for you are part of us.  

Do you really believe that part of God can be missing or lost to Him?

Lonely

Everyone seeks for love as you do, but knows it not unless he joins with you in seeking it.


If you undertake the search together, you bring with you a light so powerful that what you see is given meaning.


The lonely journey fails because it has excluded what it would find.

Hell-fire

     The emptiness engendered by fear must be replaced by forgiveness.  

That is what the Bible means by "There is no death," and why I could demonstrate that death does not exist.  

I came to fulfill the law by reinterpreting it.  

The law itself, if properly understood, offers only protection.  

It is those who have not yet changed their minds who brought the "hell-fire" concept into it.  

I assure you that I will witness for anyone who lets me, and to whatever extent he permits it.  

Your witnessing demonstrates your belief, and thus strengthens it.  

Those who witness for me are expressing, through their miracles, that they have abandoned the belief in deprivation in favor of the abundance they have learned belongs to them.

the bridge

Your bridge is builded stronger than you think, and your foot is planted firmly on it.  

Have no fear that the attraction of those who stand on the other side and wait for you will not draw you safely across.  

For you will come where you would be, and where your Self awaits you.

Liberation

 

Your liberation still is only partial; still limited and incomplete, yet born within you.  

Not wholly mad, you have been willing to look on much of your insanity and recognize its madness.  

Your faith is moving inward, past insanity and on to reason.  

And what your reason tells you now the ego would not hear.

Beauty

 It is still up to you to choose to join with truth or with illusion.  

But remember that to choose one is to let the other go.  

Which one you choose you will endow with beauty and reality, because the choice depends on which you value more.  

The spark of beauty or the veil of ugliness, the real world or the world of guilt and fear, truth or illusion, freedom or slavery - it is all the same.  

For You can never choose except between God and the ego. 

Remember

It means that in remembering Jesus you are remembering God.  

The whole relationship of the Son to the Father lies in him.  His part in the Sonship is also yours, and his completed learning guarantees your own success.  

Is he still available for help?  

And can one who is one with God be unlike Him?  

Who transcends the body has transcended limitation.  Would the greatest teacher be unavailable to those who follow him?

Picture

 Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense.  

Attack is gone, and madness has an end.  

What suffering is now conceivable?  

What loss can be sustained?  

The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving.  

It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects.  

And so the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came.

The Son

The Son of God could never sin, but he can wish for what would hurt him.

And he has the power to think he can be hurt.

What could this be except a misperception of himself?

The Son of God could never sin, but he can wish for what would hurt him.

And he has the power to think he can be hurt.

What could this be except a misperception of himself?

 Is this a sin or a mistake, forgivable or not?  Does he need help or condemnation?

Is it your purpose that he be saved or damned?

Relinquishment

  

Spirit need not be taught, but the ego must be.  

Learning is ultimately perceived as frightening because it leads to the relinquishment, not the destruction, of the ego to the light of spirit.  

This is the change the ego must fear, because it does not share my charity.  

My lesson was like yours, and because I learned it I can teach it.

The Art of dreaming Carlos Castanedas

When I finally discussed with don Juan what was happening to me, I had spent months solely viewing the two shapes

 

"You are stuck at a dangerous crossroad," don Juan said. "It isn't right to chase these beings
away, but it isn't right either to let them stay. 

For the time being, their presence is a hindrance to
your dreaming."
"What can I do, don Juan?"
"Face them, right now, in the world of daily life, and tell them to come back later, when you
have more dreaming power."

"How do I face them?"
"It's not simple, but it can be done. It requires only that you have enough guts, which of course
you do."

Looking within

Real vision is not only unlimited by space and distance, but it does not depend on the body's eyes at all.  

The mind is its only source.  

To aid in helping you to become more accustomed to this idea as well, devote several practice periods to applying today's idea with your eyes closed, using whatever subjects come to mind, and looking within rather than without.  

This idea applies equally to both.

   

God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.

Pleasure and pain

Every pleasure, physical or mental, needs an instrument. 

Both the physical and mental instruments are material, they get tired and worn out. 

The pleasure they yield is necessarily limited in intensity and duration. 

Pain is the background of all your pleasures. You want them because you suffer. 

On other hand, the very search for pleasure is the cause of pain. It is a vicious circle. 

(From I Am That)

Smile

"Learn to smile in the sweet way of a child. A smile from the soul is spiritual relaxation. 

A real smile is a thing of true beauty, the artistic work of the `Inner Ruler Immortal.' 

It is well to affirm—‘I think a kind thought for all the world.

May all the world be happy and blest.’ Affirm before taking up the work for the day—‘Within me there is a perfect form—the form Divine. 

I am now all that I desire to be! I visualize daily my beautiful being until I

breathe it into expression! I am a Divine Child, all my needs are being now and forever supplied!'"

( From Masters of the Far East)

Figures

  
Each one peoples his world with figures from his individual past, and it is because of this that private worlds do differ.  

Yet the figures that he sees were never real, for they are made up only of his reactions to his brothers, and do not include their reactions to him.  

Therefore, he does not see he made them, and that they are not whole.  

For these figures have no witnesses, being perceived in one separate mind only.

Shining glory

 There is no gift the Father asks of you but that you see in all creation but the shining glory of His gift to you.  

Behold His Son, His perfect gift, in whom his Father shines forever, and to whom is all creation given as his own.  

Because he has it is it given you, and where it lies in him behold your peace.  

The quiet that surrounds you dwells in him, and from this quiet come the happy dreams in which your hands are joined in innocence.  

These are not hands that grasp in dreams of pain.  They hold no sword, for they have left their hold on every vain illusion of the world.  

And being empty they receive, instead, a brother's hand in which completion lies.

 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.