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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?
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.
No one who comes here but must still have hope, some lingering illusion, or some dream that there is something outside of himself that will bring happiness and peace to him.
If everything is in him this cannot be so.
And therefore by his coming, he denies the truth about himself, and seeks for something more than everything, as if a part of it were separated off and found where all the rest of it is not.
This is the purpose he bestows upon the body; that it seek for what he lacks, and give him what would make himself complete.
And thus he wanders aimlessly about, in search of something that he cannot find, believing that he is what he is not.
The Kingdom cannot be found alone, and you who are the Kingdom cannot find yourself alone.
To achieve the goal of the curriculum, then, you cannot listen to the ego, whose purpose is to defeat its own goal.
The ego does not know this, because it does not know anything. But you can know it, and you will know it if you are willing to look at what the ego would make of you.
This is your responsibility, because once you have really looked at it you will accept the Atonement for yourself.
What other choice could you make? Having made this choice you will understand why you once believed that, when you met someone else, you thought he was someone else.
And every holy encounter in which you enter fully will teach you this is not so.
Dreams show you that you have the power to make a world as you would have it be, and that because you want it you see it.
And while you see it you do not doubt that it is real. Yet here is a world, clearly within your mind, that seems to be outside.
You do not respond to it as though you made it, nor do you realize that the emotions the dream produces must come from you. It is the figures in the dream and what they do that seem to make the dream.
You do not realize that you are making them act out for you, for if you did the guilt would not be theirs, and the illusion of satisfaction would be gone.
In dreams these features are not obscure. You seem to waken, and the dream is gone.
Yet what you fail to recognize is that what caused the dream has not gone with it.
Your wish to make another world that is not real remains with you. And what you seem to waken to is but another form of this same world you see in dreams.
All your time is spent in dreaming. Your sleeping and your waking dreams have different forms, and that is all.
Their content is the same.
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 were else would I go?
What need have I but to awake in Him
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.
