Miracles

Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a dry and dusty world, where starved and thirsty creatures come to die. 

Now they have water. 

Now the world is green. 

And everywhere the signs of life spring up, to show that what is born can never

die, for what has life has immortality.

Brother, take not one step in the descent to hell. 

For having taken one, you will not recognize the rest for what they are. 

And they will follow. 

Attack in any form has placed your foot upon the twisted stairway that leads from Heaven. 

Yet any instant it is possible to have all this undone. 

How can you know whether you chose the stairs to Heaven or the way to hell? 

Quite easily. How do you feel? Is peace in your awareness?


Are you certain which way you go? And are you sure the goal of Heaven can be
reached? 

If not, you walk alone. 

Ask, then, your Friend to join with you, and give you certainty of where you go.

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.

Today's idea applies equally to both.

Dreams

Forgiveness sweeps all other dreams away, and though it is itself a dream, it breeds no others. 

All illusions save this one must multiply a thousandfold.
 

 But this is where illusions end. 

Forgiveness is the end of dreams, because it is a dream of waking. 

It is not itself the truth. 

Yet does it point to where the truth must be, and gives direction with the certainty of God Himself. 

It is a dream in which the Son of God awakens to his Self and to his Father, knowing They are One..

In God's Hands

Now are we saved indeed. 

For in God's Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us. 

If we forget, we will be gently reassured. 

If we accept an unforgiving thought, it will be soon replaced by love's reflection.

Hearts

The quiet of today will bless our hearts, and through them peace will come to everyone. 

Christ is our eyes today. 

And through His sight we offer healing to the world through Him, the holy Son whom God created whole; the holy Son whom God created One.

Glorious Father

Your mind is one with God's. 

Denying this and thinking otherwise has held your ego together, but has literally split your mind. 

As a loving brother I am deeply concerned with your mind, and urge you to follow my example as you look at yourself and at your brother, and see in both the glorious creations of a glorious Father.

Created

You have not only been fully created, but have also been created perfect. 

There is no emptiness in you. 

Because of your likeness to your Creator you are creative. 

No child of God can lose this ability because it is inherent in what he is, but he can use it inappropriately by projecting. 

The inappropriate use of extension, or projection, occurs
when you believe that some emptiness or lack exists in you, and that you can fill it with your own ideas instead of truth.

deception

Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. 

Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of

your mistakes will disappear.

It is impossible the Son of God be merely driven by events outside of him.

It is impossible that happenings that come to him were not his choice.

The alternative

A Course in Miracles is a complete alternative. 

It has nothing to do with this world I made. 

This Cousrse will not help in Time and Space as it is not an alternative to my dream. 

It does not know my dream. It presents a total alternative not in any connection with my role as I define it.

I am not doing a Course in Miracles.

Creative Power

In the holy state the will is free, so that its creative power is unlimited and choice is meaningless. 

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Freedom to choose is the same power as freedom to create, but its application is different.
 

 Choosing depends on a split mind. The Holy Spirit is one way of choosing.
 

 God did not leave his children comfortless, even though they chose to leave
him. 

The voice they put in their minds was not the voice for his will, for
which the Holy Spirit speaks.

What do you want?

What do you want? 

Light or darkness, knowledge or ignorance are yours, but not both. 

Opposites must be brought together, not kept apart. 


For their separation is only in your mind, and they are reconciled by union, as you are. 

In union, everything that is not real must disappear, for truth is union.

The Maker

 The Maker of the world of gentleness has perfect power to offset the world of violence and hate that seems to stand between you and His gentleness.  

It is not there in His forgiving eyes.  

And therefore it need not be there in yours.  

Sin is the fixed belief perception cannot change.  

What has been damned is damned and damned forever, being forever unforgivable.  

If, then, it is forgiven, sin's perception must have been wrong.  And thus is change made possible. 

Miracle-minded

 The basic decision of the miracle-minded is not to wait on time any longer than is necessary.  

Time can waste as well as be wasted.  

The miracle worker, therefore, accepts the time-control factor gladly.  

He recognizes that every collapse of time brings everyone closer to the ultimate release from time, in which the Son and the Father are one.  

Clouds

From where you stand, you can see no reason to believe there is a brilliant light hidden by the clouds.  

The clouds seem to be the only reality.  

They seem to be all there is to see.  

Therefore, you do not attempt to go through them and past them, which is the only way in which you would be really convinced of their lack of substance.  

We will make this attempt today.
      

  After you have thought about the importance of what you are trying to do for yourself and the world, try to settle down in perfect stillness, remembering only how much you want to reach the light in you today, - now! 

A message

Enemy

Who usurps the place of God and takes it for himself now has a deadly "enemy."  

And he must stand alone in his protection, and make himself a shield to keep him safe from fury that can never be abated, and vengeance that can never be satisfied.

An Instant

In no one instant is depression felt, or pain experienced or loss perceived.  

In no one instant sorrow can be set upon a throne, and worshipped faithfully.  

In no one instant can one even die.  

And so each instant given unto God in passing, with the next one given Him already, is a time of your release from sadness, pain and even death itself.

From In Search of the Miraculous (Ouspensky)

"It is the greatest mistake," he said, "to think that man is always one and the same.

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

We think that if a man is called Ivan he is always Ivan.
Nothing of the kind.

Now he is Ivan, in another minute he is Peter, and a minute later he is Nicholas, Sergi, Matthew, Simon.

And all of you think he is Ivan. You know that Ivan cannot do a certain thing. He cannot tell a lie for instance. Then you find he has told a lie and you are surprised he could have done so.

And, indeed, Ivan cannot lie; it is Nicholas who lied. And when the opportunity presents itself Nicholas cannot help lying.

You will be astonished when you realize what a multitude of these Ivans and Nicholases live in one man.

Circles

Each one you see you place within the holy circle of Atonement or leave outside, judging him fit for crucifixion or for redemption.  

If you bring him into the circle of purity, you will rest there with him.  

If you leave him without, you join him there.  

Judge not except in quietness which is not of you.

Brilliance

       My Self is holy beyond all the thoughts of holiness of which I now conceive.  

Its shimmering and perfect purity is far more brilliant than is any light that I have ever looked upon.  

Its love is limitless, with an intensity that holds all things within it, in the calm of quiet certainty.  

Its strength comes not from burning impulses which move the world, but from the boundless Love of God Himself.  

How far beyond this world my Self must be, and yet how near to me and close to God!