A Word

The result of genuine devotion is inspiration, a word which properly understood is the opposite of fatigue.

To be fatigued is to be dis-spirited, but to be inspired is to be in the spirit.

To be egocentric is to be dis-spirited, but to be Self-centered in the right sense is to be inspired or in spirit.

The truly inspired are enlightened and cannot abide in darkness.

You can speak from the spirit or from the ego, as you choose. If you speak from spirit you have chosen to
 
"Be still and know that I am God." These words are inspired because they reflect knowledge.

Change

The ability to learn has no value when change is no longer necessary.

The eternally creative have nothing to learn.

You can learn to improve your perceptions, and can become a better and better learner.

This will bring you into closer and closer accord with the Sonship; but the Sonship itself is a perfect Creation and perfection is not a matter of degree.

Only while there is a belief in differences is learning meaningful.

Mind

Only the mind is capable of error.

The body can act wrongly only when it is responding to misthought.

The body cannot create, and the belief that it can, a fundamental error, produces all physical symptoms.

Physical illness represents a belief in magic.

The whole distortion that made magic rests on the belief that there is a creative ability in matter which the mind cannot control.

This error can take two forms; it can be believed that the mind can miscreate in the body, or that the body can miscreate in the mind.

When it is understood that the mind, the only level of creation, cannot create beyond itself, neither type of confusion need occur.

A Message

"This is a new message to you, the same as it seemed to be a new message two thousand years ago.

It is the same today as it was then; it is but the resurrection of the age-old message.

This message was told thousands of centuries ago in language so simple that babes could read.

The message is that man of his own free will shall leave the man-made kingdom and evolve to the God Kingdom.

The son of man is to realize his divinity, reveal this divinity in his body and affairs, and become the Christ of God in the Kingdom of God. `Know ye not that ye are gods?'

"Within you, know that this Kingdom of God is the most natural thing in the world. You have but overlooked the fact( From the Masters of the Far East)




that if man be in Christ he is a new creature. `It is the Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom, and every man passeth into it.'

The question is asked, `When?' The answer always is, `When the without is as the within.'

Observation

“Observation, like a flame of attention, it wipes away hate. Observation is like a flame which is attention, and with that capacity of observation, the wound, the feeling of hurt, the hate, all that, is burnt away, gone.” ( Krishnamurti)

Before a holy relationship there is no sin. The form of error is no longer seen, and reason, joined with love, looks quietly on all confusion, observing merely,

"This was a mistake." And then the same Atonement you accepted in your relationship corrects the error, and lays a part of Heaven in its place.

How blessed are you who let this gift be given! Each part of Heaven that you bring is given you.

And every empty place in Heaven that you fill again with the Eternal Light you bring, shines now on you.

The means of sinlessness can know no fear because they carry only love with them.

This World

You maker of a world that is not so, take rest and comfort in another world where peace abides.

This world you bring with you to all the weary eyes and tired hearts that look on sin and beat its sad refrain. From you can come their rest.

From you can rise a world they will rejoice to look upon, and where their hearts are glad.

In you there is a vision that extends to all of them, and covers them in gentleness and light.

And in this widening world of light the darkness that they thought was there is pushed away, until it is but distant shadows, far away, not long to be remembered as the sun shines them to nothingness.

And all their "evil" thoughts and "sinful" hopes, their dreams of guilt and merciless revenge, and every wish to hurt and kill and die, will disappear before the sun you bring.

Presence

But be holy in the Presence of God, or you will not know that you are there.

For what is unlike God cannot enter His Mind, because it was not His Thought and therefore does not belong to Him.

And your mind must be as pure as His, if you would know what belongs to you. Guard carefully His temple, for He Himself dwells there and abides in peace.

You cannot enter God's Presence with the dark companions beside you, but you also cannot enter alone.

All your brothers must enter with you, for until you have accepted them you cannot enter.

For you cannot understand Wholeness unless you are whole, and no part of the Son can be excluded if he would know the Wholeness of his Father.