You have done miracles, but it is quite apparent that you have not done them alone.

Harmony

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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.

offerings

2012-02-09T07:39:00.000+02:00

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.

Speed

2012-02-08T10:28:00.000+02:00

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.

Holiness

2012-02-07T07:36:00.000+02:00

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.

Simultaneous

2012-01-30T07:16:00.001+02:00

There is another Maker of the world, the simultaneous Corrector of the mad belief that anything could be established and maintained without some link that kept it still within the laws of God; not as the law itself upholds the universe as God created it, but in some form adapted to the need the Son of God believes he has. Corrected error is the error's end. And thus has God protected still His Son, even in error.

There is another purpose in the world that error made, because it has another Maker Who can reconcile its goal with His Creator's purpose.

In His perception of the world, nothing is seen but justifies forgiveness and the sight of perfect sinlessness.

Nothing arises but is met with instant and complete forgiveness. Nothing remains an instant, to obscure the sinlessness that shines unchanged, beyond the pitiful attempts of specialness to put it out of mind, where it must be, and light the body up instead of it.

The lamps of Heaven are not for mind to choose to see them where it will. If it elects to see them elsewhere from their home, as if they lit a place where they could never be, then must the Maker of the world correct your error, lest you remain in darkness where the lamps are not.

Potential

2012-01-28T09:24:00.000+02:00

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.

Potential

2012-01-28T08:42:00.000+02:00

Potential ( Joel Goldsmit )

2012-01-28T08:38:00.000+02:00

Everyone on earth has, potentially, the same consciousness as Jesus Christ. —are we willing to put in the hours of devotion; are we willing to make the effort required to train ourselves to be conscious of the presence of God, instead of seeking some form in which God is to appear.

Searching

2012-01-27T12:37:00.000+02:00

Yet searching is inevitable here. For this you came, and you will surely do the thing you came for.

But the world can not dictate the goal for which you search, unless you give it power to do so.

Otherwise, you still are free to choose a goal that lies beyond the world and every worldly thought, and one that comes to you from an idea relinquished yet remembered, old yet new; an echo of a heritage forgot, yet holding everything you really want.

Be glad that search you must. Be glad as well to learn you search for Heaven, and must find the goal you really want.

No one can fail to want this goal and reach it in the end. God's Son can not seek vainly, though he try to force delay, deceive himself and think that it is hell he seeks.

When he is wrong, he finds correction. When he wanders off, he is led back to his appointed task.

Perfection

2012-01-26T09:12:00.000+02:00

We share one life because we have one Source, a Source from Which perfection comes to us, remaining always in the holy minds which He created perfect.

As we were, so are we now and will forever be.

A sleeping mind must waken, as it sees its own perfection mirroring the Lord of Life so perfectly it fades into what is reflected there.

And now it is no more a mere reflection. It becomes the thing reflected, and the light which makes reflection possible.

No vision now is needed. For the wakened mind is one that knows its Source, its Self, its Holiness.

Escape

2012-01-23T08:12:00.000+02:00

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.

Consciously

2012-01-20T10:19:00.000+02:00

This is the question that must be asked: "Where can I go for protection?"

"Seek and ye shall find" does not mean that you should seek blindly and desperately for something you would not recognize.

Meaningful seeking is consciously undertaken, consciously organized and consciously directed.

The goal must be formulated clearly and kept in mind.

Learning and wanting to learn are inseparable.

You learn best when you believe what you are trying to learn is of value to you.

However, not everything you may want to learn has lasting value.

Indeed, many of the things you want to learn may be chosen because their value will not last.

Tricks

2012-01-19T15:05:00.000+02:00

You must look upon your illusions and not keep them hidden, because they do not rest on their own foundation.

In concealment they appear to do so, and thus they seem to be self-sustained.

This is the fundamental illusion on which the others rest.

For beneath them, and concealed as long as they are hidden, is the loving mind that thought it made them in anger.

And the pain in this mind is so apparent, when it is uncovered, that its need of healing cannot be denied. Not all the tricks and games you offer it can heal it, for here is the real crucifixion of God's Son.

Freedom

2012-01-18T16:55:00.000+02:00

Free will must lead to freedom.

Judgment always imprisons because it separates segments of reality by the unstable scales of desire.

Wishes are not facts. To wish is to imply that willing is not sufficient.

Yet no one in his right mind believes that what is wished is as real as what is willed.

Instead of "Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven" say, "Will ye first the Kingdom of Heaven," and you have said, "I know what I am and I accept my own inheritance."

Everything is an idea

2012-01-15T13:02:00.000+02:00

Everything is an idea.

How, then, can giving and losing be associated?

This is the invitation to the Holy Spirit. I have said already that I can reach up and bring the Holy Spirit down to you, but I can bring Him to you only at your own invitation.

The Holy Spirit is in your right mind, as He was in mine.

The Bible says, "May the mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus," and uses this as a blessing.

It is the blessing of miracle-mindedness. It asks that you may think as I thought, joining with me in Christ thinking.

Meaning

2012-01-14T20:52:00.000+02:00

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.

Acceptance

2012-01-13T09:44:00.000+02:00

If you do not know what your reality is, why would you be so sure that it is fearful?

The association of truth and fear, which would be highly artificial at most, is particularly inappropriate in the minds of those who do not know what truth is.

All this could mean is that you are arbitrarily associating something beyond your awareness with something you do not want.

It is evident, then, that you are judging something of which you are totally unaware.

You have set up this strange situation so that it is impossible to escape from it without a Guide Who does know what your reality is.

The purpose of this Guide is merely to remind you of what you want. He is not attempting to force an alien will upon you.

He is merely making every possible effort, within the limits you impose on Him, to re-establish your own will in your awareness.

The Word

2012-01-12T12:50:00.000+02:00

Here is the Word by which the Son became His Father's happiness, His Love and His completion.

Here creation is proclaimed, and honored as it is.

There is no dream these words will not dispel; no thought of sin and no illusion which the dream contains that will not fade away before their might.

They are the trumpet of awakening that sounds around the world.

The dead awake in answer to its call. And those who live and hear this sound will never look on death.

What is meaningless is neither good nor bad. Why, then, should a meaningless world upset you?
If you could accept the world as meaningless and let the truth be written upon it for you, it would make you indescribably happy.

But because it is meaningless, you are impelled to write upon it what you would have it be. It is this you see in it. It is this that is meaningless in truth. Beneath your words is written the Word of God. The truth upsets you now, but when your words have been erased, you will see His.

Falsehood

2012-01-11T13:04:00.001+02:00

"By not carrying out a truth to the end , I limit it - and any limitation of a truth provides an expanse for falsehood"

As God created you, you must remain unchangeable, with transitory states by definition false.

And that includes all shifts in feeling, alterations in conditions of the body and the mind; in all awareness and in all response.

This is the all-inclusiveness which sets the truth apart from falsehood, and the false kept separate from the truth, as what it is.

Is it not strange that you believe to think you made the world you see is arrogance? God made it not. Of this you can be sure.

What can He know of the ephemeral, the sinful and the guilty, the afraid, the suffering and lonely, and the mind that lives within a body that must die?

You but accuse Him of insanity, to think He made a world where such things seem to have reality.

He is not mad. Yet only madness makes a world like this.

Thomas Merton Inspires Me

2012-01-10T15:55:00.000+02:00

- Our real journey in life is interior;

It is a matter of growth, deepening,
and of an ever greater surrender
to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts.
Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.

Life is this simple:
We are living in a transparent world,
and God shines through in every moment.
This is not just a fable or a nice story;
it is living truth.

If we remember God, abandon ourselves to God,
and forget ourselves,
we may see this truth:
God manifests everywhere, in everything.
We cannot be without God.
It’s impossible.
It’s simply impossible.

Clouds

2012-01-09T17:53:00.000+02:00

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!

Determine to go past the clouds. Reach out and touch them in your mind.

Brush them aside with your hand; feel them resting on your cheeks and forehead and eyelids as you go through them. Go on; clouds cannot stop you.

Traveller

2012-01-06T19:57:00.000+02:00

Leave, then, your needs to Him. He will supply them with no emphasis at all upon them.

What comes to you of Him comes safely, for He will ensure it never can become a dark spot, hidden in your mind and kept to hurt you.

Under His guidance you will travel light and journey lightly, for His sight is ever on the journey's end, which is His goal. God's Son is not a traveller through outer worlds.

However holy his perception may become, no world outside himself holds his inheritance.

Within himself he has no needs, for light needs nothing but to shine in peace, and from itself to let the rays extend in quiet to infinity.

Whenever you are tempted to undertake a useless journey that would lead away from light, remember what you really want, and say:

The Holy Spirit leads me unto Christ, and where

else would I go? What need have I but to awake in Him?

A prayer from Thomas Merton

2012-01-03T08:55:00.002+02:00

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.

I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you and I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing.

And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road although I may know nothing about it.

Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death, I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

2012-01-01T16:46:00.000+02:00

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.

Accomplished

2011-12-30T22:23:00.000+02:00

When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know that you will last forever.

Perhaps you think this is accomplished through death, but nothing is accomplished through death, because death is nothing.

Everything is accomplished through life, and life is of the mind and in the mind.

The body neither lives nor dies, because it cannot contain you who are life.

If we share the same mind, you can overcome death because I did.

Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at all.

Like any other impossible solution the ego attempts, it will not work.

Right-mindedness

2011-12-28T21:23:00.001+02:00

Right-mindedness is not to be confused with the knowing mind, because it is applicable only to right perception.

You can be right-minded or wrong-minded, and even this is subject to degrees, clearly demonstrating that knowledge is not involved.

The term "right-mindedness" is properly used as the correction for "wrong-mindedness," and applies to the state of mind that induces accurate perception.

It is miracle-minded because it heals misperception, and this is indeed a miracle in view of how you perceive yourself.

Myths and Magic

2011-12-26T19:25:00.001+02:00

Myths and magic are closely associated, since myths are usually related to ego origins, and magic to the powers the ego ascribes to itself.

Mythological systems generally include some account of "the creation," and associate this with its particular form of magic.

The so-called "battle for survival" is only the ego's struggle to preserve itself, and its interpretation of its own beginning.

This beginning is usually associated with physical birth, because it is hard to maintain that the ego existed before that point in time.

The more "religiously" ego-oriented may believe that the soul existed before, and will continue to exist after a temporary lapse into ego life.

Some even believe that the soul will be punished for this lapse. However, salvation does not apply to spirit, which is not in danger and does not need to be salvaged.

Wishing All A Wonderful Christmas CElebration

2011-12-24T17:16:00.000+02:00

The Christ

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Let the Christ in you interpret for you, and do not try to limit what you see by narrow little beliefs that are unworthy of God's Son.

For until Christ comes into His Own, the Son of God will see himself as Fatherless.

He was not given there, nor was received by anything except yourself. For no two brothers can unite except through Christ, Whose vision sees them one.

Think what is given you, my holy brother. '

This child will teach you what you do not understand, and make it plain. For his will be no alien tongue.

He will need no interpreter to you, for it was you who taught him what he knows because you knew it. He could not come to anyone but you, never to "something else." Where Christ has entered no one is alone, for never could He find a home in separate ones.

Yet must He be reborn into His ancient home, so seeming new and yet as old as He, a tiny newcomer, dependent on the holiness of your relationship to let Him live.

One Life

2011-12-22T15:52:00.000+02:00

Dreams

2011-12-19T21:02:00.000+02:00

There is a way of finding certainty right here and now.

Refuse to be a part of fearful dreams whatever form they take, for you will lose identity in them.

You find yourself by not accepting them as causing you, and giving you effects.

You stand apart from them, but not apart from him who dreams them.

Thus you separate the dreamer from the dream, and join in one, but let the other go.

The dream is but illusion in the mind. And with the mind you would unite, but never with the dream.

It is the dream you fear, and not the mind. You see them as the same, because you think that you are but a dream.

And what is real and what is but illusion in yourself you do not know and cannot tell apart.

Images

2011-12-17T19:27:00.000+02:00

Today's idea does not describe the way you see yourself now.

It does, however, describe what vision will show you. It is difficult for anyone who thinks he is in this world to believe this of himself.

Yet the reason he thinks he is in this world is because he does not believe it.

You will believe that you are part of where you think you are.

That is because you surround yourself with the environment you want.

And you want it to protect the image of yourself that you have made.

The image is part of this environment. What you see while you believe you are in it is seen through the eyes of the image.

This is not vision. Images cannot see.

Renewed

2011-12-15T20:14:00.000+02:00

I am renewed each time a brother learns there is a way from misery and pain.

I am reborn each time a brother's mind turns to the light in him and looks for me.

I have forgotten no one. Help me now to lead you back to where the journey was begun, to make another choice with me.

Release me as you practice once again the thoughts I brought to you from Him Who sees your bitter need, and knows the answer God has given Him.

Together we review these thoughts. Together we devote our time and effort to them.

And together we will teach them to our brothers. God would not have Heaven incomplete. It waits for you, as I do. I am incomplete without your part in me.

And as I am made whole we go together to our ancient home, prepared for us before time was and kept unchanged by time, immaculate and safe, as it will be at last when time is done.

Jesus speaks

2011-12-10T21:35:00.000+02:00

I said before that of yourself you can do nothing, but you are not of yourself. If you were, what you have made would be true, and you could never escape. It is because you did not make yourself that you need be troubled over nothing. Your gods are nothing, because your Father did not create them.

You cannot make creators who are unlike your Creator, any more than He could have created a Son who was unlike Him. If creation is sharing, it cannot create what is unlike itself. It can share only what it is. Depression is isolation, and so it could not have been create

Immortality (Joel Goldsmith)

2011-12-08T15:41:00.000+02:00

Everyone is interested in the subject of immortality – immortality here and now, in this body, not merely an immortality to be attained after death.

It is in this very body that immortality must be experienced – this very body which we are now using as our instrument.

We shall not lose our body, but we will lose our false sense of body and come into the realization of the true nature of body.

By losing the sense of disease, accident, and old age, and coming into a higher realization of perfect body, there is no loss of body:

There is just the loss of a false sense of body and the realization of the true nature of body.

Supply

2011-12-07T10:47:00.001+02:00

I am that center through which God operates, and, therefore, I understand the nature of supply.

Never will I attempt to demonstrate supply; never will I attempt to get supply.

Since the activity of the Christ, Itself, is supply, then all I need to do is to let it flow.

Since “I and my Father are one,” and I am the Christ, or Son of God, I am that place through which God flows.

Therefore, I can meet every demand that is made upon me in the recognition of have.

sowing

2011-12-03T09:51:00.000+02:00

"As ye sow, so shall ye reap" He interprets to mean what you consider worth cultivating you will cultivate in yourself.

Your judgment of what is worthy makes it worthy for you.

"Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord" is easily reinterpreted if you remember that ideas increase only by being shared.

The statement emphasizes that vengeance cannot be shared.

Give it therefore to the Holy Spirit, Who will undo it in you because it does not belong in your mind, which is part of God.

A Function

2011-11-30T17:49:00.000+02:00

Your function is to show your brother sin can have no cause.

How futile must it be to see yourself a picture of the proof that what your function is can never be!

The Holy Spirit's picture changes not the body into something it is not.

It only takes away from it all signs of accusation and of blamefulness.

Pictured without a purpose, it is seen as neither sick nor well, nor bad nor good. No grounds are offered that it may be judged in any way at all.

It has no life, but neither is it dead. It stands apart from all experience of love or fear.

For now it witnesses to nothing yet, its purpose being open, and the mind made free again to choose what it is for.

Now is it not condemned, but waiting for a purpose to be given, that it may fulfill the function that it will receive.

Appearances (From Joel Goldsmith)

2011-11-29T11:06:00.000+02:00

To remedy this misconception of your relationship to God, the first thing that must be remembered is not to judge by appearances.

Do not judge by the fact that today you may be very ill or very poor, or that you may be entertaining sinful thoughts or even be committing a sin.

Do not judge from any of these things as to whether or not you are one with God.

All such conditions can tell you is that at a particular moment you have a sense of separation from God. It does not prove that you are not one with God.

The reason that you cannot feel any progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual.

There is no such thing as a person’s feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.

You can be honest or you can be moral, but you cannot feel it; you can just be it. There is no feeling about it, nor is there any feeling about being spiritual.

Being spiritual is a state of consciousness, which you are, but you have nothing to compare it with, since the “old man” is gone.

Need

2011-11-20T10:38:00.000+02:00

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.

I place the future in the hands of God

2011-11-19T17:23:00.000+02:00

Accept today's idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by guilt.

Accept today's idea, and you have released the world from all imprisonment by loosening the heavy chains that locked the door to freedom on it.

You are saved, and your salvation thus becomes the gift you give the world, because you have received.

Delay

2011-11-18T10:01:00.000+02:00

Delay is of the ego, because time is its concept.

Both time and delay are meaningless in eternity.

I have said before that the Holy Spirit is God's Answer to the ego.

Everything of which the Holy Spirit reminds you is in direct opposition to the ego's notions, because true and false perceptions are themselves opposed.

The Holy Spirit has the task of undoing what the ego has made.

He undoes it at the same level on which the ego operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change.

Each day

2011-11-17T09:12:00.000+02:00

Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to look upon, the sounds I want to hear, the witnesses to what I want to be the truth for me.

Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to listen to God's Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God's creation.

In Christ's sight, the world and God's creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears.

His kindly sight redeems the world from death, for nothing that He looks on but must live, remembering the Father and the Son; Creator and creation unified.

Father, Christ's vision is the way to You. What He beholds invites Your memory to be restored to me. And this I choose to be what I would look upon today.

Reality

2011-11-16T09:31:00.000+02:00

Reality needs no cooperation from you to be itself.

But your awareness of it needs your help, because it is your choice.

Listen to what the ego says, and see what it directs you see, and it is sure that you will see yourself as tiny, vulnerable and afraid.

You will experience depression, a sense of worthlessness, and feelings of impermanence and unreality.

You will believe that you are helpless prey to forces far beyond your own control, and far more powerful than you.

And you will think the world you made directs your destiny. For this will be your faith.

But never believe because it is your faith it makes reality.

This Day

2011-11-10T09:10:00.000+02:00

It needs but two who would have happiness this day to promise it to all the world.

It needs but two to understand that they cannot decide alone, to guarantee the joy they asked for will be wholly shared.

For they have understood the basic law that makes decision powerful, and gives it all effects that it will ever have.

It needs but two. These two are joined before there can be a decision.

Let this be the one reminder that you keep in mind, and you will have the day you want, and give it to the world by having it yourself.

Your judgment has been lifted from the world by your decision for a happy day.

And as you have received, so must you give.

Love and Guilt

2011-11-09T20:37:00.000+02:00

Earlier, I said that the Holy Spirit shares the goal of all good teachers, whose ultimate aim is to make themselves unnecessary by teaching their pupils all they know.

The Holy Spirit wants only this, for sharing the Father's Love for His Son, He seeks to remove all guilt from his mind that he may remember his Father in peace.

Peace and guilt are antithetical, and the Father can be remembered only in peace.

Love and guilt cannot coexist, and to accept one is to deny the other. Guilt hides Christ from your sight, for it is the denial of the blamelessness of God's Son.

Realization ( From Joel Goldsmith

2011-11-09T07:36:00.000+02:00

Your home is a composite of your consciousness of home. You are the doorkeeper of your household and you should stand guard at the door to see that nothing gets past that door which does not have the right to be there.

This door, however, is not a material door. The only door there is, is the door of consciousness, and the only door for which you are responsible is that door. What do you allow to get past your door, your consciousness?

Do you accept contagion and infection as power in your home? Are you a party to discord and bickering? You should make it a matter of daily realization that nothing can enter the doorway of consciousness except the truth of being, and that no suggestion of human power, whether physical, material or mental, is law.

Any belief that enters your home must first enter through your consciousness, and the truth of being in your consciousness will act as a law of annihilation to any false belief that would intrude.

Everything that comes within range of your consciousness will take on the nature and character of that consciousness. Your own life is not only affected by what gets past the door of your consciousness, but the life of everyone who has brought himself to your consciousness is affected, and that includes the members of your family and your community.

All these look to you for bread; they look to you for the truth of being, but oftentimes your mind is so occupied with concern over your own discords and inharmonies that they are turned away without the divine substance which they sought from you.

Deep within every person is a hunger for the bread of life. Friends, relatives, and even acquaintances who find their way to your home ostensibly seeking companionship, supply, or any form of material good, even though from their point of view that may be their purpose, are in reality longing and craving for the true substance of life, the meat that perisheth not.

If you give them money and give them that alone, if you give them your physical, human companionship, and give them that alone, you are giving them a stone: You are not giving them the bread of life; you are not lifting their state of consciousness.

This you can do only in the degree that you are specifically entertaining the consciousness of truth within your being as they come to you:

"God is the substance and the activity of my home; God is the consciousness of every individual who enters my home, whether it is family or friends. Nothing enters my home to contaminate or violate its sanctity, because God is my only home.

As long as my home appears on earth as a material structure, it will express the harmony of God." …

The Christ

2011-11-08T21:00:00.000+02:00

The Christ in you remembers God with all the certainty with which He knows His Love.

But only if His Son is innocent can He be Love.

For God were fear indeed if he whom He created innocent could be a slave to guilt. God's perfect Son remembers his creation.

But in guilt he has forgotten what he really is.

The fear of God results as surely from the lesson that His Son is guilty as God's Love must be remembered when he learns his innocence.

Mankind

2011-11-07T20:54:00.000+02:00

There is no challenge to a teacher of God.

Challenge implies doubt, and the trust on which God's teachers rest secure makes doubt impossible.

Therefore they can only succeed. In this, as in all things, they are honest.

They can only succeed, because they never do their will alone.

They choose for all mankind; for all the world and all things in it; for the unchanging and unchangeable beyond appearances; and for the Son of God and his Creator.

How could they not succeed?

They choose in perfect honesty, sure of their choice as of themselves.

Our eyes

2011-10-29T09:30:00.000+02:00

Let not your eyes behold a dream; your ears bear witness to illusion.

They were made to look upon a world that is not there; to hear the voices that can make no sound.

Yet are there other sounds and other sights that can be seen and heard and understood.

For eyes and ears are senses without sense, and what they see and hear they but report.

It is not they that hear and see, but you, who put together every jagged piece, each senseless scrap and shred of evidence, and make a witness to the world you want.

Let not the body's ears and eyes perceive these countless fragments seen within the gap that you imagined, and let them persuade their maker his imaginings are real.

Praise be to You

2011-10-28T08:40:00.000+02:00

Praise be to you who make the Father one with His Own Son.

Alone we are all lowly, but together we shine with brightness so intense that none of us alone can even think of it.

Before the glorious radiance of the Kingdom guilt melts away, and transformed into kindness will never more be what it was.

Every reaction you experience will be so purified that it is fitting as a hymn of praise unto your Father.

See only praise of Him in what He has created, for He will never cease His praise of you.

United in this praise we stand before the gates of Heaven where we will surely enter in our sinlessness. God loves you.

Could I, then, lack faith in you and love Him perfectly?

A Gap

2011-10-27T08:35:00.000+02:00

The gap between you and your brother is not one of space between two separate bodies.

And this but seems to be dividing off your separate minds.

It is the symbol of a promise made to meet when you prefer, and separate till you and he elect to meet again.

And then your bodies seem to get in touch, and thereby signify a meeting place to join.

But always is it possible for you and him to go your separate ways.

Conditional upon the "right" to separate will you and he agree to meet from time to time, and keep apart in intervals of separation, which do protect you from the "sacrifice" of love.

The body saves you, for it gets away from total sacrifice and gives to you the time in which to build again your separate self, which you truly believe diminishes as you and your brother meet.

Holiness

2011-10-26T09:44:00.000+02:00

Holiness can never be really hidden in darkness, but you can deceive yourself about it.

This deception makes you fearful because you realize in your heart it is a deception, and you exert enormous efforts to establish its reality.

The miracle sets reality where it belongs.

Reality belongs only to spirit, and the miracle acknowledges only truth.

It thus dispels illusions about yourself, and puts you in communion with yourself and God.

The miracle joins in the Atonement by placing the mind in the service of the Holy Spirit.

Witness

2011-10-24T09:34:00.000+02:00

You need not fear the Higher Court will condemn you.

It will merely dismiss the case against you.

There can be no case against a child of God, and every witness to guilt in God's creations is bearing false witness to God Himself.

Appeal everything you believe gladly to God's Own Higher Court, because it speaks for Him and therefore speaks truly.

It will dismiss the case against you, however carefully you have built it up.

The case may be fool-proof, but it is not God-proof. The Holy Spirit will not hear it, because He can only witness truly.

His verdict will always be "thine is the Kingdom," because He was given to you to remind you of what you are.

An Example from Joel Goldsmith

2011-10-22T08:24:00.000+02:00

When we appear to be good, it is the activity of God operating through us. When we appear to be evil, it is the activity of material sense which is only a sense of separation from God.

For example, if you saw a thief whom you wanted to help, you would not accept into your consciousness a person needing to be healed of dishonesty: you would separate the dishonesty from the person and you would recognize this as a universal belief in a selfhood apart from God, a universal belief in lack and limitation, or a universal belief in the possibility that someone can get good from another, all of which beliefs are without power.

In other words, whatever form the error assumes, it is not an error belonging to any person:

It is simply a universal belief. Never forget that error is nothing but a universal belief.

Counterpart

2011-10-19T09:52:00.000+02:00

The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world; a sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains.

The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace.

Nothing but rest is there.

There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there remains outside forgiveness.

And the sights are gentle. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.

Timelessness

2011-10-15T21:19:00.000+02:00

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.

Happy Learner

2011-10-13T21:30:00.000+02:00

The Holy Spirit needs a happy learner, in whom His mission can be happily accomplished.

You who are steadfastly devoted to misery must first recognize that you are miserable and not happy.

The Holy Spirit cannot teach without this contrast, for you believe that misery is happiness.

This has so confused you that you have undertaken to learn to do what you can never do, believing that unless you learn it you will not be happy.

You do not realize that the foundation on which this most peculiar learning goal depends means absolutely nothing.

Reason

2011-10-12T09:40:00.001+02:00

Let reason take another step.

If you attack whom God would heal and hate the one He loves, then you and your Creator have a different will.

Yet if you are His Will, what you must then believe is that you are not yourself. You can indeed believe this, and you do.

And you have faith in this and see much evidence on its behalf.

And where, you wonder, does your strange uneasiness, your sense of being disconnected, and your haunting fear of lack of meaning in yourself arise?

It is as though you wandered in without a plan of any kind except to wander off, for only that seems certain.

God's Relationship

2011-10-11T08:30:00.000+02:00

God established His relationship with you to make you happy, and nothing you do that does not share His purpose can be real.

The purpose God ascribed to anything is its only function.

Because of His reason for creating His relationship with you, the function of relationships became forever "to make happy."

And nothing else. To fulfill this function you relate to your creations as God to His.

For nothing God created is apart from happiness, and nothing God created but would extend happiness as its Creator did.

Whatever does not fulfill this function cannot be real.

Pleasure

2011-10-10T07:45:00.000+02:00

All real pleasure comes from doing God's Will.

This is because not doing it is a denial of Self.
Denial of Self results in illusions, while correction of the error brings release from it.

Do not deceive yourself into believing that you can relate in peace to God or to your brothers with anything external.

Child of God, you were created to create the good, the beautiful and the holy. Do not forget this.

The Love of God, for a little while, must still be expressed through one body to another, because vision is still so dim.

You can use your body best to help you enlarge your perception so you can achieve real vision, of which the physical eye is incapable.

Learning to do this is the body's only true usefulness.

Through Life

2011-10-08T08:39:00.000+02:00

When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know that you will last forever.

Perhaps you think this is accomplished through death, but nothing is accomplished through death, because death is nothing.

Everything is accomplished through life, and life is of the mind and in the mind.

The body neither lives nor dies, because it cannot contain you who are life.

If we share the same mind, you can overcome death because I did.

Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at all. Like any other impossible solution the ego attempts, it will not work.

Transported

2011-10-07T08:35:00.000+02:00

Everyone has experienced what he would call a sense of being transported beyond himself.

This feeling of liberation far exceeds the dream of freedom sometimes hoped for in special relationships.

It is a sense of actual escape from limitations.

If you will consider what this "transportation" really entails, you will realize that it is a sudden unawareness of the body, and a joining of yourself and something else in which your mind enlarges to encompass it. It becomes part of you, as you unite with it.

And both become whole, as neither is perceived as separate.

Spiritual vision

2011-10-06T08:25:00.000+02:00

Spiritual vision literally cannot see error, and merely looks for Atonement.

All solutions the physical eye seeks dissolve.

Spiritual vision looks within and recognizes immediately that the altar has been defiled and needs to be repaired and protected.

Perfectly aware of the right defense it passes over all others, looking past error to truth.

Because of the strength of its vision, it brings the mind into its service.

This re-establishes the power of the mind and makes it increasingly unable to tolerate delay, realizing that it only adds unnecessary pain.

As a result, the mind becomes increasingly sensitive to what it would once have regarded as very minor intrusions of discomfort.

Experience ( Joel Goldsmith)

2011-10-05T08:17:00.000+02:00

Our entire experience of frustration and mistakes comes from our reluctance to wait long enough for the Christ to take over.

Most of us are unwilling to wait until the moment in which a decision is necessary, but insist on knowing the answer in advance.

Spiritual illumination comes to us in a measure with our first investigation of truth. We believe that we are seeking good, or truth; whereas the light has begun to shine in our consciousness compelling us to take the steps we have since taken.

Every increase of our spiritual understanding has more light appearing and dispelling the darkness of sense. This inflow of illumination will continue until we come to the full realization of our true identity as “the light of the world.”

Without illumination, we struggle with the forces of the world; we labor for a living; we struggle to maintain our place and position; we compete for riches and honors.

Often we war with our own friends and even find ourselves at war with ourselves. There is no security in personal possessions even after the battle to acquire them has been won.

The law of creation

2011-10-04T11:19:00.000+02:00

The law of creation is that you love your creations as yourself, because they are part of you.

Everything that was created is therefore perfectly safe, because the laws of God protect it by His Love.

Any part of your mind that does not know this has banished itself from knowledge, because it has not met its conditions.

Who could have done this but you?

Recognize this gladly, for in this recognition lies the realization that your banishment is not of God, and therefore does not exist.

God's Word

2011-10-03T09:58:00.000+02:00

Perhaps God's Word is truer than your own. Perhaps His gifts to you are real.

Perhaps He has not wholly been outwitted by your plan to keep His Son in deep oblivion, and go the way you chose without your Self.

God's Will does not oppose. It merely is. It is not God you have imprisoned in your plan to lose your Self.

He does not know about a plan so alien to His Will.

There was a need He did not understand, to which He gave an Answer.

That is all. And you who have this Answer given you have need no more of anything but This.

Holy Trinity

2011-10-02T08:43:00.000+02:00

The Son of God is part of the Holy Trinity, but the Trinity Itself is one.

There is no confusion within Its Levels, because They are of one Mind and one Will.

This single purpose creates perfect integration and establishes the peace of God.

Yet this vision can be perceived only by the truly innocent.

Because their hearts are pure, the innocent defend true perception instead of defending themselves against it.

Understanding the lesson of the Atonement they are without the wish to attack, and therefore they see truly.

This is what the Bible means when it says, "When He shall appear (or be perceived) we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is."

Motivation

2011-10-01T09:37:00.000+02:00

All good teachers realize that only fundamental change will last, but they do not begin at that level.

Strengthening motivation for change is their first and foremost goal.

It is also their last and final one. Increasing motivation for change in the learner is all that a teacher need do to guarantee change.

Change in motivation is a change of mind, and this will inevitably produce fundamental change because the mind is fundamental.

Rest

2011-09-29T08:21:00.000+02:00

Rest with Him frequently today.

For He was willing to become a little Child that you might learn of Him how strong is he who comes without defenses, offering only love's messages to those who think he is their enemy.

He holds the might of Heaven in His hand and calls them friend, and gives His strength to them, that they may see He would be Friend to them.

He asks that they protect Him, for His home is far away, and He will not return to it alone.

The Will of God

2011-09-26T15:26:00.000+02:00

To fulfill the Will of God perfectly is the only joy and peace that can be fully known, because it is the only function that can be fully experienced.

When this is accomplished, then, there is no other experience.

Yet the wish for other experience will block its accomplishment, because God's Will cannot be forced upon you, being an experience of total willingness.

The Holy Spirit understands how to teach this, but you do not.

That is why you need Him, and why God gave Him to you.

Only His teaching will release your will to God's, uniting it with His power and glory and establishing them as yours.

You share them as God shares them, because this is the natural outcome of their being.

Joy

2011-09-24T09:10:00.000+02:00

The constancy of joy is a condition quite alien to your understanding.

Yet if you could even imagine what it must be, you would desire it although you understand it not.

The constancy of happiness has no exceptions; no change of any kind. It is unshakable as is the Love of God for His creation.

Sure in its vision as its Creator is in what He knows, happiness looks on everything and sees it is the same.

It sees not the ephemeral, for it desires everything be like itself, and sees it so.

Nothing has power to confound its constancy, because its own desire cannot be shaken.

It comes as surely unto those who see the final question is necessary to the rest, as peace must come to those who choose to heal and not to judge.

Truth (from Joel Goldsmith)

2011-09-23T12:45:00.000+02:00

My mind imbued with Truth becomes the law of harmony unto my body, my business, my family.

If my mind is imbued or has received this truth that “I and my Father are One” and that spiritual reality is the only reality, then that mind imbued with Truth becomes the law unto my health, my supply, my body and my being.

The mind of the person not imbued with truth, the unillumined human mind, the mind that has never studied metaphysical truth, that mind can’t heal anything.

That mind can’t bless. That mind can’t bring about health, supply or harmony in your experience.

BUT, that same mind imbued with Truth becomes a Law of health and healing, not only to yourself, but to those that reach out to you!

Strength

2011-09-23T10:05:00.000+02:00

It is possible to reach a state in which you bring your mind under my guidance without conscious effort, but this implies a willingness that you have not developed as yet.

The Holy Spirit cannot ask more than you are willing to do.
The strength to do comes from your undivided decision.

There is no strain in doing God's Will as soon as you recognize that it is also your own.

The lesson here is quite simple, but particularly apt to be overlooked.
I will therefore repeat it, urging you to listen.

Only your mind can produce fear. It does so whenever it is conflicted in what it wants, producing inevitable strain because wanting and doing are discordant.

This can be corrected only by accepting a unified goal.

Health

2011-09-22T07:58:00.000+02:00

We don’t create anyone’s health with our mind, but we can sit down in a listening attitude and become aware of the health that is omnipresent.

Health is seen as the natural state of everything when interpretation is left to the Holy Spirit,

Who perceives no attack on anything. Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly.

Health is the beginning of the proper perspective on life under the guidance of the one Teacher Who knows what life is, being the Voice for Life Itself.

Peace

2011-09-16T08:40:00.000+02:00

Do you not think the world needs peace as much as you do?

Do you not want to give it to the world as much as you want to receive it?

For unless you do, you will not receive it. If you want to have it of me, you must give it. Healing does not come from anyone else.

You must accept guidance from within.

The guidance must be what you want, or it will be meaningless to you.

That is why healing is a collaborative venture.
I can tell you what to do, but you must collaborate by believing that I know what you should do.

Only then will your mind choose to follow me.

Without this choice you could not be healed because you would have decided against healing, and this rejection of my decision for you makes healing impossible.

You

2011-09-14T08:54:00.000+02:00

You and your brother ....every brother....will yet come together in my name, and your sanity will be restored.

I raised the dead by knowing that life is an eternal attribute of everything that the living God created.

Why do you believe it is harder for me to inspire the dis-spirited or to stabilize the unstable?

I do not believe that there is an order of difficulty in miracles; you do.

I have called and you will answer. I understand that miracles are natural, because they are expressions of love.

My calling you is as natural as your answer, and as inevitable.

Borderland

2011-09-12T09:14:00.000+02:00

There is a borderland of thought that stands between this world and Heaven.

It is not a place, and when you reach it is apart from time.

Here is the meeting place where thoughts are brought together; where conflicting values meet and all illusions are laid down beside the truth, where they are judged to be untrue.

This borderland is just beyond the gate of Heaven.

Here is every thought made pure and wholly simple.

Here is sin denied, and everything that is received instead.

Value

2011-09-11T08:12:00.000+02:00

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.

Advice

2011-09-10T09:44:00.000+02:00

It is surely good advice to tell you not to judge what you do not understand.

No one with a personal investment is a reliable witness, for truth to him has become what he wants it to be.

If you are unwilling to perceive an appeal for help as what it is, it is because you are unwilling to give help and to receive it.

To fail to recognize a call for help is to refuse help.

Would you maintain that you do not need it?

Yet this is what you are maintaining when you refuse to recognize a brother's appeal, for only by answering his appeal can you be helped.

Deny him your help and you will not recognize God's Answer to you.

The Holy Spirit does not need your help in interpreting motivation, but you do need His.

Guide

2011-09-09T08:27:00.000+02:00

You cannot be your guide to miracles, for it is you who made them necessary.

And because you did, the means on which you can depend for miracles has been provided for you.

God's Son can make no needs His Father will not meet, if he but turn to Him ever so little.

Yet He cannot compel His Son to turn to Him and remain Himself.
It is impossible that God lose His Identity, for if He did, you would lose yours.

And being yours He cannot change Himself, for your Identity is changeless.

The miracle acknowledges His changelessness by seeing His Son as he always was, and not as he would make himself.

A Link

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTNGF_6kY5A

Forever

2011-09-07T15:56:00.000+02:00

The unforgiven is a voice that calls from out a past forevermore gone by.

And everything that points to it as real is but a wish that what is gone could be made real again and seen as here and now, in place of what is really now and here.

Is this a hindrance to the truth the past is gone, and cannot be returned to you?

And do you want that fearful instant kept, when Heaven seemed to disappear and God was feared and made a symbol of your hate?

Lessons

2011-09-06T16:37:00.000+02:00

Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you.

In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, "My brother, choose again."

He would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth.

He would remove all misery from you whom God created altar unto joy.

He would not leave you comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release your mind from everything that hides His face from you.

His holiness is yours because He is the only Power that is real in you.

His strength is yours because He is the Self That God created as His only Son.

Ask not the sparrow

2011-09-05T08:44:00.000+02:00

Those who choose freedom will experience only its results.

Their power is of God, and they will give it only to what God has given, to share with them.

Nothing but this can touch them, for they see only this, sharing their power according to the Will of God.

And thus their freedom is established and maintained. It is upheld through all temptation to imprison and to be imprisoned.

It is of them who learned of freedom that you should ask what freedom is.

Ask not the sparrow how the eagle soars, for those with little wings have not accepted for themselves the power to share with you.

Beginning

2011-09-04T08:16:00.000+02:00

As you approach the Beginning, you feel the fear of the destruction of your thought system upon you as if it were the fear of death.

There is no death, but there is a belief in death.

The branch that bears no fruit will be cut off and will wither away.

Be glad! The light will shine from the true Foundation of life, and your own thought system will stand corrected.

It cannot stand otherwise. You who fear salvation are choosing death. Life and death, light and darkness, knowledge and perception, are irreconcilable.

To believe that they can be reconciled is to believe that God and His Son can not. Only the oneness of knowledge is free of conflict.

Unique

2011-09-03T07:52:00.000+02:00

In Heaven reality is shared and not reflected.

By sharing its reflection here, its truth becomes the only perception the Son of God accepts.

And thus, remembrance of his Father dawns on him, and he can no longer be satisfied with anything but his own reality.

You on earth have no conception of limitlessness, for the world you seem to live in is a world of limits.

In this world, it is not true that anything without order of difficulty can occur.

The miracle, therefore, has a unique function, and is motivated by a unique Teacher Who brings the laws of another world to this one.

The miracle is the one thing you can do that transcends order, being based not on differences but on equality.

Dedication

2011-09-02T08:52:00.000+02:00

Let, then, your dedication be to the eternal, and learn how not to interfere with it and make it slave to time.

For what you think you do to the eternal you do to you.

Whom God created as His Son is slave to nothing, being lord of all, along with his Creator.

You can enslave a body, but an idea is free, incapable of being kept in prison or limited in any way except by the mind that thought it.

For it remains joined to its source, which is its jailer or its liberator, according to which it chooses as its purpose for itself.

Competition

2011-08-30T09:08:00.000+02:00

A meaningless world engenders fear because

I think I am in competition with God.

You may find it difficult to avoid resistance, in one form or another, to this concluding statement.

Whatever form such resistance may take, remind yourself that you are really afraid of such a thought because of the "vengeance" of the "enemy."

You are not expected to believe the statement at this point, and will probably dismiss it as preposterous.

Note carefully, however, any signs of overt or covert fear which it may arouse.

Decisions

2011-08-26T10:22:00.000+02:00

You are not asked to make insane decisions, although you can think you are.

It must, however, be insane to believe that it is up to you to decide what God's creations are.

The Holy Spirit perceives the conflict exactly as it is.

Therefore, His second lesson is:

To have peace, teach peace to learn it.

Softly

2011-08-25T12:45:00.000+02:00

Dream softly of your sinless brother, who unites with you in holy innocence.

And from this dream the Lord of Heaven will Himself awaken His beloved Son.

Dream of your brother's kindnesses instead of dwelling in your dreams on his mistakes.

Select his thoughtfulness to dream about instead of counting up the hurts he gave.

Forgive him his illusions, and give thanks to him for all the helpfulness he gave.

And do not brush aside his many gifts because he is not perfect in your dreams.

He represents his Father, Whom you see as offering both life and death to you.

What is the Peace of God?

2011-08-24T11:52:00.000+02:00

No more than this; the simple understanding that His Will is wholly without opposite.

There is no thought that contradicts His Will, yet can be true.

The contrast between His Will and yours but seemed to be reality.

In truth there was no conflict, for His Will is yours.

Now is the mighty Will of God Himself His gift to you.

He does not seek to keep it for Himself.

Why would you seek to keep your tiny frail imaginings apart from Him?

The Will of God is one and all there is. This is your heritage.

The universe beyond the sun and stars, and all the thoughts of which you can conceive, belong to you. God's peace is the condition for His Will.

Attain His peace, and you remember Him.

A tiny island

2011-08-22T19:44:00.000+02:00

The body is the ego's idol; the belief in sin made flesh and then projected outward.

This produces what seems to be a wall of flesh around the mind, keeping it prisoner in a tiny spot of space and time, beholden unto death, and given but an instant in which to sigh and grieve and die in honor of its master.

And this unholy instant seems to be life; an instant of despair, a tiny island of dry sand, bereft of water and set uncertainly upon oblivion.

Here does the Son of God stop briefly by, to offer his devotion to death's idols and then pass on. And here he is more dead than living.

Yet it is also here he makes his choice again between idolatry and love.

Thomas Merton, 'No Man Is an Island'

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The least of learning is done in the classrooms.: Thomas Merton
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.: Thomas Merton
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Easy

2011-08-20T21:54:00.000+02:00

When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing.

There is no effort, and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.

Only your own volition seems to make deciding hard.

The Holy Spirit will not delay in answering your every question what to do. He knows.

And He will tell you, and then do it for you.

You who are tired will find this is more restful than sleep. For you can bring your guilt into sleeping, but not into this.

2011-08-18T23:11:00.000+02:00

As you perceive the holy companions who travel with you, you will realize that there is no journey, but only an awakening.

The Son of God, who sleepeth not, has kept faith with his Father for you.

There is no road to travel on, and no time to travel through.

For God waits not for His Son in time, being forever unwilling to be without him.

And so it has always been.

Let the holiness of God's Son shine away the cloud of guilt that darkens your mind, and by accepting his purity as yours, learn of him that it is yours.

Gifts

2011-08-17T00:50:00.000+02:00

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.

Delay in Time

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Both time and delay are meaningless in eternity.

I have said before that the Holy Spirit is God's Answer to the ego.

Everything of which the Holy Spirit reminds you is in direct opposition to the ego's notions, because true and false perceptions are themselves opposed.

The Holy Spirit has the task of undoing what the ego has made.

He undoes it at the same level on which the ego operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change.

Salvation

2011-08-15T00:42:00.000+02:00

Salvation cannot seek to help God's Son be more unfair than he has sought to be.

If miracles, the Holy Spirit's gift, were given specially to an elect and special group, and kept apart from others as less deserving, then is He ally to specialness.

What He cannot perceive He bears no witness to.

And everyone is equally entitled to His gift of healing and deliverance and peace.

To give a problem to the Holy Spirit to solve for you means that you want it solved.

To keep it for yourself to solve without His help is to decide it should remain unsettled, unresolved, and lasting in its power of injustice and attack.

No one can be unjust to you, unless you have decided first to be unjust.

And then must problems rise to block your way, and peace be scattered by the winds of hate.

The New Beginning

2011-08-13T15:28:00.000+02:00

Now becomes the focus of the curriculum.

The goal is clear, but now you need specific methods for attaining it.

The speed by which it can be reached depends on this one thing alone; your willingness to practice every step.

Each one will help a little, every time it is attempted.

And together will these steps lead you from dreams of judgment to forgiving dreams and out of pain and fear.

They are not new to you, but they are more ideas than rules of thought to you as yet.

So now we need to practice them awhile, until they are the rules by which you live.

We seek to make them habits now, so you will have them ready for whatever need.