• ACIM: From Existentialism To Self Realization - "Seek not outside yours

    From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 20 14:42:29 2020
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    A Course in Miracles goes beyond existentialism to true self-realization. Rather
    than merely waking up and finding oneself turned into a monstrous insect: "The Metamorphosis" - Kafka; or shooting someone on a beach senselessly: "The Stranger,"- Camus; A Course in Miracles makes quite clear that what lies past existentialism is not disgusting or psychosis, but:

    "You are afraid of me because you looked within and are afraid of what you saw. Yet you could not have seen reality, for the reality of your mind is the loveliest
    of God's creations. Coming only from God, its power and grandeur could only bring
    you peace *if you really looked upon it*. If you are afraid, it is because you saw something that is not there. Yet in that same place you could have looked upon me and all your brothers, in the perfect safety of the Mind which created us.
    For we are there in the peace of the Father, who wills to extend his peace through you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 7

    "Everyone makes an ego or a self for himself, which is subject to enormous variation because of its instability. He also makes an ego for everyone else he
    perceives, which is equally variable. Their interaction is a process that alters
    both, because they were not made by or with the unalterable. It is important to
    realize that this alteration can and does occur as readily when the interaction takes place in the mind as when it involves physical interaction. There could be
    no better example that the ego is only an idea and not a fact."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 2 (3pdf)

    "You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be, you will believe that it is one with you. Your safety lies in truth, and not in
    lies. Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are
    safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, "What is the Body"


    "the purpose of this course is to help you remember what you are"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 9, Section 1


    "The goal of the curriculum, regardless of the teacher you choose, is "Know thyself." There is nothing else to seek. Everyone is looking for himself and for
    the power and glory he thinks he has lost. Whenever you are with anyone, you have
    another opportunity to find them. Your power and glory are in him because they are yours. The ego tries to find them in yourself alone, because it does not know
    where to look. The Holy Spirit teaches you that if you look only at yourself you
    cannot find yourself, because that is not what you are. Whenever you are with a
    brother, you are learning what you are because you are teaching what you are. He
    will respond either with pain or with joy, depending on which teacher you are following. He will be imprisoned or released according to your decision, and so
    will you. Never forget your responsibility to him, because it is your responsibility to yourself. Give him his place in the Kingdom and you will have
    yours.

    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.

    You can encounter only part of yourself because you are part of God, Who is everything. His power and glory are everywhere, and you cannot be excluded from
    them. The ego teaches that your strength is in you alone. The Holy Spirit teaches that all strength is in God and *therefore* in you. God wills no one suffer. He does not will anyone to suffer for a wrong decision, including you. That is why he has given you the means for undoing it. Through his power and glory all your wrong decisions are undone completely, releasing you and your brother from every imprisoning thought any part of the Sonship holds. Wrong decisions have no power, because they are not true. The imprisonment they seem to
    produce is no more true than they are.

    Power and glory belong to God alone. So do you. God gives whatever belongs to him because he gives of himself, and everything belongs to him. Giving of yourself is the function he gave you. Fulfilling it perfectly will let you remember what you *have* of him, and by this you will remember also what you *are*
    in him. You cannot be powerless to do this, because this is your power. Glory is
    God's gift to you, because that is what he is. See this glory everywhere to remember what you are."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 3


    "Seek not outside yourself. For it will fail, and you will weep each time an idol
    falls. Heaven cannot be found where it is not, and there can be no peace excepting there. Each idol that you worship when God calls will never answer in
    His place. There is no other answer you can substitute, and find the happiness His answer brings. Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if
    it is not there? Do you prefer that you be right or happy? Be you glad that you
    are told where happiness abides, and seek no longer elsewhere. You will fail. But
    it is given you to know the truth, and not to seek for it outside yourself.

    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"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 29, Section 7

    "Understand what "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you," really means.... The word
    "within" is unnecessary. The Kingdom of Heaven *is* you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 3 (4pdf)


    "Nothing [you] can do, can compare even in the slightest with the glorious surprise of remembering Who [You are]. Let all [your] learning and all [your] efforts be directed toward this one great final surprise, and [you] will not be content to be delayed by the little ones that may come to [you] on the way."
    - A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 25, "Are "Psychic" Powers Desirable?"


    "Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor
    will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is
    within you.”
    - Jesus Christ, Luke 17:20-21, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV


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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 20 14:44:41 2020
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    "It is only the awareness of the body that makes love seem limited. For the body
    *is* a limit on love. The belief in limited love was its origin, and it was made
    to limit the unlimited. Think not that this is merely allegorical, for it was made to limit *you*. Can you who see yourself within a body know yourself as an
    idea? Everything you recognize you identify with externals, something outside itself. You cannot even think of God without a body, or in some form you think you
    recognize.

    The body cannot know. And while you limit your awareness to its tiny senses, you
    will not see the grandeur that surrounds you. God cannot come into a body, nor can
    you join him there. Limits on love will always seem to shut him out, and keep you
    apart from him. The body is a tiny fence around a little part of a glorious and
    complete idea. It draws a circle, infinitely small, around a very little segment
    of Heaven, splintered from the whole, proclaiming that within it is your kingdom,
    where God can enter not.

    Within this kingdom the ego rules, and cruelly. And to defend this little speck
    of dust it bids you fight against the universe. This fragment of your mind is such a tiny part of it that, could you but appreciate the whole, you would see instantly that it is like the smallest sunbeam to the sun, or like the faintest ripple on the surface of the ocean. In its amazing arrogance, this tiny sunbeam
    has decided it is the sun; this almost imperceptible ripple hails itself as the ocean. Think how alone and frightened is this little thought, this infinitesimal
    illusion, holding itself apart against the universe. The sun becomes the sunbeam's "enemy" that would devour it, and the ocean terrifies the little ripple
    and wants to swallow it.

    Yet neither sun nor ocean is even aware of all this strange and meaningless activity. They merely continue, unaware that they are feared and hated by a tiny
    segment of themselves. Even that segment is not lost to them, for it could not survive apart from them. And what it thinks it is in no way changes its total dependence on them for its being. Its whole existence still remains in them. Without the sun the sunbeam would be gone; the ripple without the ocean is inconceivable.

    Such is the strange position in which those in a world inhabited by bodies seem to
    be. Each body seems to house a separate mind, a disconnected thought, living alone and in no way joined to the Thought by which it was created. Each tiny fragment seems to be self-contained, needing another for some things, but by no means totally dependent on its one Creator for everything; needing the whole to give it any meaning, for by itself it does mean nothing. Nor has it any life apart and by itself.

    Like to the sun and ocean your Self continues, unmindful that this tiny part regards itself as you. It is not missing; it could not exist if it were separate,
    nor would the Whole be whole without it. It is not a separate kingdom, ruled by
    an idea of separation from the rest. Nor does a fence surround it, preventing it
    from joining with the rest, and keeping it apart from its Creator. This little aspect is no different from the whole, being continuous with it and at one with it. It leads no separate life, because its life is the oneness in which its being
    was created.

    Do not accept this little, fenced-off aspect as yourself. The sun and ocean are
    as nothing beside what you are. The sunbeam sparkles only in the sunlight, and the ripple dances as it rests upon the ocean. Yet in neither sun nor ocean is the
    power that rests in you. Would you remain within your tiny kingdom, a sorry king,
    a bitter ruler of all that he surveys, who looks on nothing yet who would still die to defend it? This little self is not your kingdom. Arched high above it and
    surrounding it with love is the glorious whole, which offers all its happiness and
    deep content to every part. The little aspect that you think you set apart is no
    exception.

    Love knows no bodies, and reaches to everything created like itself. Its total lack of limit *is* its meaning. It is completely impartial in its giving, encompassing only to preserve and keep complete what it would give. In your tiny
    kingdom you have so little! Should it not, then, be there that you would call on
    love to enter?"

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 18, Section 8, Scribed February 16, 1967


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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 20 14:46:09 2020
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    "There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts to teach." - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 132


    If miracles exist there is no world. If the world exists, there are no miracles.


    "This world is full of miracles."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 28, Section 2


    "The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it meaning. And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them
    real. Perhaps you think you did not make the world, but came unwillingly to what
    was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it meaning. Yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for when you came.

    There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release.
    Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. Ideas leave not their source. This central theme is often stated in
    the text, and must be borne in mind if you would understand the lesson for today.
    It is not pride which tells you that you made the world you see, and that it changes as you change your mind.

    But it is pride that argues you have come into a world quite separate from yourself, impervious to what you think, and quite apart from what you chance to think it is. There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts
    to teach. Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one must go as far as he
    can let himself be led along the road to truth. He will return and go still farther, or perhaps step back a while and then return again."

    But healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world, and
    can accept the lesson now. Their readiness will bring the lesson to them in some
    form which they can understand and recognize. Some see it suddenly on point of death, and rise to teach it. Others find it in experience that is not of this world, which shows them that the world does not exist because what they behold must be the truth, and yet it clearly contradicts the world.

    And some will find it in this course, and in the exercises that we do today. Today's idea is true because the world does not exist. And if it is indeed your own imagining, then you can loose it from all things you ever thought it was by merely changing all the thoughts that gave it these appearances. The sick are healed as you let go all thoughts of sickness, and the dead arise when you let thoughts of life replace all thoughts you ever held of death. A lesson earlier repeated once must now be stressed again, for it contains the firm foundation for
    today's idea. You are as God created you. There is no place where you can suffer,
    and no time that can bring change to your eternal state. How can a world of time
    and place exist, if you remain as God created you?"
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 132


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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 20 14:48:16 2020
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    "The secret of salvation is but this: that you are doing this unto yourself. No
    matter what the form of the attack, this still is true. Whoever takes the role of
    enemy and of attacker, still is this the truth. Whatever seems to be the cause of
    any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true. For you would not react at
    all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let them be as hateful
    and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to
    recognize it is your dream.

    This single lesson learned will set you free from suffering, whatever form it takes. The Holy Spirit will repeat this one inclusive lesson of deliverance until
    it has been learned, regardless of the form of suffering that brings you pain. Whatever hurt you bring to Him He will make answer with this very simple truth. For this one answer takes away the cause of every form of sorrow and of pain. The
    form affects His answer not at all, for He would teach you but the single cause of
    all of them, no matter what their form. And you will understand that miracles reflect the simple statement, " *I* have done this thing, and it is this I would
    undo. "

    Bring, then, all forms of suffering to Him Who knows that every one is like the rest. He sees no differences where none exists, and He will teach you how each one is caused. None has a different cause from all the rest, and all of them are
    easily undone by but a single lesson truly learned. Salvation is a secret you have kept but from yourself. The universe proclaims it so. Yet to its witnesses
    you pay no heed at all. For they attest the thing you do not want to know. They
    seem to keep it secret from you. Yet you need but learn you chose but not to listen, not to see.

    How differently will you perceive the world when this is recognized! When you forgive the world your guilt, you will be free of it. Its innocence does not demand your guilt, nor does your guiltlessness rest on its sins. This is the obvious; a secret kept from no one but yourself. And it is this that has maintained you separate from the world, and kept your brother separate from you.
    Now need you but to learn that both of you are innocent or guilty. The one thing
    that is impossible is that you be unlike each other; that they both be true. This
    is the only secret yet to learn. And it will be no secret you are healed."

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 27, Section 8


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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 20 14:49:52 2020
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    "The full awareness of the Atonement, then, is the recognition that *the separation never occurred*."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 6, Section 2 (3pdf)


    If the separation had occurred, then that would mean there was a cause besides God, and that all of this was real.

    If there was a "reason" for the "separation," then the separation would be real,
    and there would be a real cause besides "God."

    So, no "reason" could be, or the separation, _would_, have occurred.


    "The ego cannot prevail against this because it is an explicit statement that the
    ego never occurred."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 6, Section 2 (3pdf)


    "The miracle is the act of a Son of God who has laid aside all false gods, and calls on his brothers to do likewise. It is an act of faith, because it is the recognition that his brother can do it. It is a call to the Holy Spirit in his mind, a call that is strengthened by joining. Because the miracle worker has heard God's voice, he strengthens It in a sick brother by weakening his belief in
    sickness, which he does not share. The power of one mind can shine into another,
    because all the lamps of God were lit by the same spark. It is everywhere and it
    is eternal.
    In many only the spark remains, for the Great Rays are obscured. Yet God has kept
    the spark alive so that the Rays can never be completely forgotten. If you but see the little spark you will learn of the greater light, for the Rays are there
    unseen. Perceiving the spark will heal, but knowing the light will create. Yet
    in the returning the little light must be acknowledged first, for the separation
    was a descent from magnitude to littleness. But the spark is still as pure as the
    Great Light, because it is the remaining call of creation. Put all your faith in
    it, and God himself will answer you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 10, Section 4 (5pdf)


    "Healing is the one ability everyone can develop and must develop if he is to be
    healed."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 7, Section 5

    "True learning is constant, and so vital in its power for change that a Son of God
    can recognize his power in one instant and change the world in the next. That is
    because, by changing his mind, he has changed the most powerful device that was ever given him for change. This in no way contradicts the changelessness of mind
    as God created it,"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 7, Section 5


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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 20 14:51:59 2020
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    "In the holy instant, in which you see yourself as bright with freedom, you will
    remember God. For remembering Him is to remember freedom."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 1


    "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."
    - Paul the Apostle, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Holy Bible, New Testament


    "I can teach you, but only you can choose to listen to my teaching. How else can
    it be, if God's Kingdom is freedom? Freedom cannot be learned by tyranny of any
    kind, and the perfect equality of all God's Sons cannot be recognized through the
    dominion of one mind over another. God's Sons are equal in will, all being the Will of their Father. This is the only lesson I came to teach."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 4


    "Freedom is the only gift you can offer to God's Sons, being an acknowledgment of
    what they are and what he is. Freedom is creation, because it is love. Whom you
    seek to imprison you do not love. Therefore, when you seek to imprison anyone, including yourself, you do not love him and you cannot identify with him. When you imprison yourself you are losing sight of your true identification with me and
    with the Father. Your identification is with the Father and with the Son. It cannot be with One and not the Other. If you are part of One you must be part of
    the Other, because They are One. The Holy Trinity is holy because It is One. If
    you exclude yourself from this union, you are perceiving the Holy Trinity as separated. You must be included in It, because It is everything. Unless you take
    your place in It and fulfill your function as part of It, the Holy Trinity is as
    bereft as you are. No part of It can be imprisoned if Its truth is to be known."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 4


    "How long is an instant? As long as it takes to re-establish perfect sanity, perfect peace and perfect love for everyone, for God and for yourself. As long as
    it takes to remember immortality, and your immortal creations who share it with you. As long as it takes to exchange hell for Heaven. Long enough to transcend
    all of the ego's making, and ascend unto your Father."

    "How long is an instant? It is as short for your brother as it is for you. Practice giving this blessed instant of freedom to all who are enslaved by time,
    and thus make time their friend for them."

    "The Holy Spirit gives their blessed instant to you through your giving it. As you give it, He offers it to you. Be not unwilling to give what you would receive
    of Him, for you join with Him in giving. In the crystal cleanness of the release
    you give is your instantaneous escape from guilt. You must be holy if you offer
    holiness."

    "The instant of holiness is shared, and cannot be yours alone....
    Miracles are the instants of release you offer, and will receive. They attest to
    your willingness to be released..."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 1


    "There is a light that this world cannot give. Yet you can give it, as it was given you. And as you give it, it shines forth to call you from the world and follow it. For this light will attract you as nothing in this world can do. And
    you will lay aside the world and find another. This other world is bright with love which you have given it. And here will everything remind you of your Father
    and his holy Son. Light is unlimited, and spreads across this world in quiet joy.
    All those you brought with you will shine on you, and you will shine on them in
    gratitude because they brought you here. Your light will join with theirs in power so compelling, that it will draw the others out of darkness as you look on
    them."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 13, Section 6 (7pdf)

    "Christ's vision is the bridge between the worlds. And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness. Things which seem quite solid here are merely shadows there; transparent, faintly
    seen, at times forgot, and never able to obscure the light that shines beyond them. Holiness has been restored to vision, and the blind can see."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 159


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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 20 14:55:54 2020
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    "There is no escape from fear in the ego's use of time. For time, according to its teaching, is nothing but a teaching device for compounding guilt until it becomes all-encompassing, demanding vengeance forever.

    The Holy Spirit would undo all of this *now*. Fear is not of the present, but only of the past and future, which do not exist. There is no fear in the present
    when each instant stands clear and separated from the past, without its shadow reaching out into the future. Each instant is a clean, untarnished birth, in which the Son of God emerges from the past into the present. And the present extends forever. It is so beautiful and so clean and free of guilt that nothing
    but happiness is there. No darkness is remembered, and immortality and joy are now.

    This lesson takes no time. For what is time without a past and future? It has taken time to misguide you so completely, but it takes no time at all to be what
    you are. Begin to practice the Holy Spirit's use of time as a teaching aid to happiness and peace. Take this very instant, now, and think of it as all there is
    of time. Nothing can reach you here out of the past, and it is here that you are
    completely absolved, completely free and wholly without condemnation. From this
    holy instant wherein holiness was born again you will go forth in time without fear, and with no sense of change with time.

    Time is inconceivable without change, yet holiness does not change. Learn from this instant more than merely that hell does not exist. In this redeeming instant
    lies Heaven. And Heaven will not change, for the birth into the holy present is
    salvation from change. Change is an illusion, taught by those who cannot see themselves as guiltless. There is no change in Heaven because there is no change
    in God. In the holy instant, in which you see yourself as bright with freedom, you will remember God. For remembering Him *is* to remember freedom."

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 1

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 20 14:56:20 2020
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    "As the ego would limit your perception of your brothers to the body, so would the
    Holy Spirit release your vision and let you see the Great Rays shining from them,
    so unlimited that they reach to God. It is this shift to vision that is accomplished in the holy instant. Yet it is needful for you to learn just what this shift entails, so you will become willing to make it permanent. Given this
    willingness it will not leave you, for it is permanent. Once you have accepted it
    as the only perception you want, it is translated into knowledge by the part that
    God Himself plays in the Atonement, for it is the only step in it He understands.
    Therefore, in this there will be no delay when you are ready for it. God is ready
    now, but you are not.

    Our task is but to continue, as fast as possible, the necessary process of looking
    straight at all the interference and seeing it exactly as it is. For it is impossible to recognize as wholly without gratification what you think you want.
    The body is the symbol of the ego, as the ego is the symbol of the separation. And
    both are nothing more than attempts to limit communication, and thereby to make it
    impossible. For communication must be unlimited in order to have meaning, and deprived of meaning, it will not satisfy you completely. Yet it remains the only
    means by which you can establish real relationships, which have no limits, having
    been established by God.

    In the holy instant, where the Great Rays replace the body in awareness, the recognition of relationships without limits is given you. But in order to see this, it is necessary to give up every use the ego has for the body, and to accept
    the fact that the ego has no purpose you would share with it. For the ego would
    limit everyone to a body for its own purposes, and while you think it has a purpose, you will choose to utilize the means by which it tries to turn its purpose into accomplishment. This will never be accomplished. Yet you have surely recognized that the ego, whose goals are altogether unattainable, will strive for them with all its might, and will do so with the strength that you have
    given it.

    It is impossible to divide your strength between Heaven and hell, God and the ego,
    and release your power to creation, which is the only purpose for which it was given you. Love would *always* give increase. Limits are demanded by the ego, and represent its demands to make little and ineffectual. Limit your sight of a
    brother to his body, which you will do as long as you would not release him from
    it, and you have denied his gift to you. His body cannot give it. And seek it not through yours. Yet your minds are already continuous, and their union need only be accepted and the loneliness in Heaven is gone.

    If you would but let the Holy Spirit tell you of the Love of God for you, and the
    need your creations have to be with you forever, you would experience the attraction of the eternal. No one can hear Him speak of this and long remain willing to linger here. For it is your will to be in Heaven, where you are complete and quiet, in such sure and loving relationships that any limit is impossible. Would you not exchange your little relationships for this? For the
    body is little and limited, and only those whom you would see without the limits
    the ego would impose on them can offer you the gift of freedom.

    You have no conception of the limits you have placed on your perception, and no idea of all the loveliness that you could see. But this you must remember; the attraction of guilt opposes the attraction of God. His attraction for you remains
    unlimited, but because your power, being His, is as great as His, you can turn away from love. What you invest in guilt you withdraw from God. And your sight
    grows weak and dim and limited, for you have attempted to separate the Father from
    the Son, and limit their communication. Seek not Atonement in further separation.
    And limit not your vision of God's Son to what interferes with his release, and
    what the Holy Spirit must undo to set him free. For his belief in limits has imprisoned him.

    When the body ceases to attract you, and when you place no value on it as a means
    of getting anything, then there will be no interference in communication and your
    thoughts will be as free as God's. As you let the Holy Spirit teach you how to use the body only for purposes of communication, and renounce its use for separation and attack which the ego sees in it, you will learn you have no need of
    a body at all. In the holy instant there are no bodies, and you experience only
    the attraction of God. Accepting it as undivided you join him wholly, in an instant. The reality of this relationship becomes the only truth that you could
    ever want. All truth is here."

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 9

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    "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves
    punishment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love."
    - St. John the Divine, 1 John 4:18, Holy Bible, New Testament

    "There is no fear in perfect love."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 2


    "God is love."
    - St. John the Divine, 1 John 4:8, 4:16, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV

    "The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite."
    - A Course in Miracles, Introduction


    https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf
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    On 2/20/2020 2:57 PM, Miracles Are Seen In Light wrote:
    "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves
    punishment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love."
    - St. John the Divine, 1 John 4:18, Holy Bible, New Testament

    "There is no fear in perfect love."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 2


    "God is love."
    - St. John the Divine, 1 John 4:8, 4:16, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV

    "The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite."
    - A Course in Miracles, Introduction


    https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf
    https://www.biblegateway.com/



    "Shake off all the fears & servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely
    crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded
    fear."
    - Thomas Jefferson to his nephew Peter Carr, Paris Aug. 10. 1787.


    "The part of mind where reason lies was dedicated, by your will in union with your
    Father's, to the undoing of insanity. Here was the Holy Spirit's purpose accepted
    and accomplished, both at once. Reason is alien to insanity, and those who use it
    have gained a means which cannot be applied to sin. Knowledge is far beyond attainment of any kind. But reason can serve to open doors you closed against it."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 21, Section 5 (6pdf)

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    Do the Holy Spirit's work, for you share in his function. As your function in Heaven is creation, so your function on earth is healing. God shares his function
    with you in Heaven, and the Holy Spirit shares his with you on earth. As long as
    you believe you have other functions, so long will you need correction. For this
    belief is the destruction of peace, a goal in direct opposition to the Holy Spirit's purpose.

    Be happy, for your only function here is happiness.

    To heal is to make happy.


    God's Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is
    causeless. Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself.
    Fear not the Will of God. But turn to it in confidence that it will set you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination. Say:

    God's Will for me is perfect happiness.
    There is no sin; it has no consequence.


    Begin your practice periods today with this acceptance of God's Will for you:
    I share God's Will for happiness for me, and I accept it as my function now. Then seek this function deep within your mind, for it is there, awaiting but your
    choice. You cannot fail to find it when you learn it is your choice, and that you
    share God's Will.



    God, being Love, is also happiness.

    Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well. Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and
    introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite.

    Fear is associated then with love, and its results become the heritage of minds that think what they have made is real. These images, with no reality in truth,
    bear witness to the fear of God, forgetting being Love, He must be joy. This basic error we will try again to bring to truth today, and teach ourselves:

    God, being Love, is also happiness.
    To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.

    Begin your periods of practicing today with this association, which corrects the
    false belief that God is fear. It also emphasizes happiness belongs to you, because of what He is.

    Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes
    what you expect to take the place of pain. God, being Love, it will be given you.
    Bolster this expectation frequently throughout the day, and quiet all your fears
    with this assurance, kind and wholly true:

    God, being Love, is also happiness.
    And it is happiness I seek today.
    I cannot fail, because I seek the truth.

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    "Do the Holy Spirit's work, for you share in his function. As your function in Heaven is creation, so your function on earth is healing. God shares his function
    with you in Heaven, and the Holy Spirit shares his with you on earth. As long as
    you believe you have other functions, so long will you need correction. For this
    belief is the destruction of peace, a goal in direct opposition to the Holy Spirit's purpose."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 7

    "Be happy, for your only function here is happiness."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 102

    "To heal is to make happy."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 1


    "God's Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is
    causeless. Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself.
    Fear not the Will of God. But turn to it in confidence that it will set you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination. Say:

    God's Will for me is perfect happiness.
    There is no sin; it has no consequence."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 101


    "Begin your practice periods today with this acceptance of God's Will for you: I share God's Will for happiness for me, and I accept it as my function now. Then seek this function deep within your mind, for it is there, awaiting but your
    choice. You cannot fail to find it when you learn it is your choice, and that you
    share God's Will."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 102



    "God, being Love, is also happiness.

    Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well. Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and
    introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite.

    Fear is associated then with love, and its results become the heritage of minds that think what they have made is real. These images, with no reality in truth,
    bear witness to the fear of God, forgetting being Love, He must be joy. This basic error we will try again to bring to truth today, and teach ourselves:

    God, being Love, is also happiness.
    To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.

    Begin your periods of practicing today with this association, which corrects the
    false belief that God is fear. It also emphasizes happiness belongs to you, because of what He is.

    Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes
    what you expect to take the place of pain. God, being Love, it will be given you.
    Bolster this expectation frequently throughout the day, and quiet all your fears
    with this assurance, kind and wholly true:

    God, being Love, is also happiness.
    And it is happiness I seek today.
    I cannot fail, because I seek the truth."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 103

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    The Holy Spirit, Is _Your_ Holy Spirit,

    Your Holy Spirit, Is Your Higher Self,

    Your Higher Self, Is Your Holy Self.


    Follow Your Holy Self Into The Light.


    https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf
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    On 2/20/2020 3:02 PM, Miracles Are Seen In Light wrote:
    The Holy Spirit, Is _Your_ Holy Spirit,

    Your Holy Spirit, Is Your Higher Self,

    Your Higher Self, Is Your Holy Self.


    Follow Your Holy Self Into The Light.


    https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf
    https://www.biblegateway.com/


    "The Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy. He is the Call to return with which God blessed the minds of his separated Sons. This is the vocation of the mind. The mind had no calling until the separation, because before that it had only being,
    and would not have understood the Call to right thinking. The Holy Spirit is God's
    Answer to the separation; the means by which the Atonement heals until the whole
    mind returns to creating.

    The principle of Atonement and the separation began at the same time. When the ego was made, God placed in the mind the Call to joy. This Call is so strong that
    the ego always dissolves at Its sound. That is why you must choose to hear one of
    two voices within you. One you made yourself, and that one is not of God. But the
    other is given you by God, Who asks you only to listen to it. The Holy Spirit is
    in you in a very literal sense. His is the voice that calls you back to where you
    were before and will be again. It is possible even in this world to hear only that
    voice and no other. It takes effort and great willingness to learn. It is the final lesson that I learned, and God's Sons are as equal as learners as they are
    as sons.

    You are the Kingdom of Heaven, but you have let the belief in darkness enter your
    mind and so you need a new light. The Holy Spirit is the radiance that you must let banish the idea of darkness. His is the glory before which dissociation falls
    away, and the Kingdom of Heaven breaks through into its own. Before the separation
    you did not need guidance. You knew as you will know again, but as you do not know
    now.

    God does not guide, because he can share only perfect knowledge. Guidance is evaluative, because it implies there is a right way and also a wrong way, one to
    be chosen and the other to be avoided. By choosing one you give up the other. The
    choice for the Holy Spirit is the choice for God. God is not in you in a literal
    sense; you are part of him. When you chose to leave him he gave you a voice to speak for him because he could no longer share his knowledge with you without hindrance. Direct communication was broken because you had made another voice.

    The Holy Spirit calls you both to remember and to forget. You have chosen to be in
    a state of opposition in which opposites are possible. As a result, there are choices you must make. In the holy state the will is free, so that its creative power is unlimited and choice is meaningless. 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.

    The voice of the Holy Spirit does not command, because It is incapable of arrogance. It does not demand, because It does not seek control. It does not overcome, because It does not attack. It merely reminds. It is compelling only because of what It reminds you of. It brings to your mind the other way, remaining
    quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make. The voice for God is always
    quiet, because It speaks of peace. Peace is stronger than war because it heals. War is division, not increase. No one gains from strife. What profiteth it a man
    if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? If you listen to the wrong voice
    you have lost sight of your soul. You cannot lose it, but you can not know it. It
    is therefore "lost" to you until you choose right.

    The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. He is in the part of your mind that always speaks for the right choice, because he speaks for God. He is your remaining communication with God, which you can interrupt but cannot destroy. The
    Holy Spirit is the way in which God's Will is done on earth as it is in heaven. Both heaven and earth are in you, because the call of both is in your mind. The voice for God comes from your own altars to him. These altars are not things; they are devotions. Yet you have other devotions now. Your divided devotion has given you the two voices, and you must choose at which altar you want to serve. The call you answer now is an evaluation because it is a decision. The decision is
    very simple. It is made on the basis of which call is worth more to you.

    My mind will always be like yours, because we were created as equals. It was only
    my decision that gave me all power in heaven and earth. My only gift to you is to
    help you make the same decision. This decision is the choice to share it, because
    the decision itself is the decision to share. It is made by giving, and is therefore the one choice that resembles true creation. I am your model for decision. By deciding for God I showed you that this decision can be made, and that you can make it.

    I have assured you that the Mind that decided for me is also in you, and that you
    can let it change you just as it changed me. This Mind is unequivocal, because it
    hears only one voice and answers in only one way. You are the light of the world
    with me. Rest does not come from sleeping but from waking. The Holy Spirit is the
    Call to awaken and be glad. The world is very tired, because it is the idea of weariness. Our task is the joyous one of waking it to the Call for God. Everyone
    will answer the Call of the Holy Spirit, or the Sonship cannot be as One. What better vocation could there be for any part of the Kingdom than to restore it to
    the perfect integration that can make it whole? Hear only this through the Holy Spirit within you, and teach your brothers to listen as I am teaching you.

    When you are tempted by the wrong voice, call on me to remind you how to heal by
    sharing my decision and making it stronger. As we share this goal, we increase its
    power to attract the whole Sonship, and to bring it back into the oneness in which
    it was created. Remember that "yoke" means "join together," and "burden" means "message. "Let us restate "My yoke is easy and my burden light" in this way; "Let
    us join together, for my message is light. "

    I have enjoined you to behave as I behaved, but we must respond to the same Mind
    to do this. This Mind is the Holy Spirit, Whose Will is for God always. He teaches
    you how to keep me as the model for your thought, and to behave like me as a result. The power of our joint motivation is beyond belief, but not beyond accomplishment. What we can accomplish together has no limits, because the Call for God is the Call to the unlimited. Child of God, my message is for you, to hear
    and give away as you answer the Holy Spirit within you."

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 3

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    "The principle of Atonement and the separation began at the same time.
    When the ego was made, God placed in the mind the Call to joy. This Call is so strong that the ego always dissolves at Its sound. That is why you must choose to
    hear one of two voices within you. One you made yourself, and that one is not of
    God. But the other is given you by God, Who asks you only to listen to it."

    "The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. His is the voice that calls you back to where you were before and will be again. It is possible even in this
    world to hear only that voice and no other. It takes effort and great willingness
    to learn. It is the final lesson that I learned, and God's Sons are as equal as learners as they are as sons."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 6, Section 3

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    Thanksgiving Bible Selections (5-10 minutes)
    New King James Version (NKJV)

    The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

    {p.611} 6:
    2 Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
    4 in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God:

    10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as
    having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
    11 O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open.

    {p.610) 3:
    1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you?
    2 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
    3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with
    ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on
    tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
    4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God.
    5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,
    6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
    7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was
    glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face
    of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing
    away,
    8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?
    9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of
    righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
    10 For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of
    the glory that excels.
    11 For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.
    12 Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech-
    13 unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away.
    14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away
    in Christ.
    15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
    16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
    17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
    18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as
    by the Spirit of the Lord.
    4:1 Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.
    2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in
    craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of
    God.

    13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written,
    "I believed and therefore I spoke," {Psalm 116:10} we also believe and therefore speak,

    15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

    18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things
    which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the
    things which are not seen are eternal.

    {p.611} 5:
    18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
    19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
    20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading
    through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

    {p.613} 9:
    10 Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your
    righteousness,
    11 while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.
    12 For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God,
    15 Thanks be to God ... !

    The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians

    {p.621} 4:
    4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!
    5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
    6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
    7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
    8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are
    lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if
    there is anything praiseworthy-meditate on these things.
    9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in [I Paul]
    (me), these do, and the God of peace will be with you.

    Pslam 136 {p.330}
    Thanksgiving to God for His Enduring Mercy

    1 Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
    For His mercy endures forever.
    2 Oh, give thanks to the God of gods!
    For His mercy endures forever.
    3 Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords!
    For His mercy endures forever:
    4 To Him who alone does great wonders,
    For His mercy endures forever;
    5 To Him who by wisdom made the heavens,
    For His mercy endures forever;
    6 To Him who laid out the earth above the waters,
    For His mercy endures forever;
    7 To Him who made great lights,
    For His mercy endures forever-
    8 The sun to rule by day,
    For His mercy endures forever;
    9 The moon and stars to rule by night,
    For His mercy endures forever.

    Psalm 100 {p.318}
    A Song of Praise for the Lord's Faithfulness to His People
    A Psalm of Thanksgiving.

    1 Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!
    2 Serve the Lord with gladness;
    Come before His presence with singing.
    3 Know that the Lord, He is God;
    It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
    We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

    4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
    And into His courts with praise.
    Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
    5 For the Lord is good;
    His mercy is everlasting,
    And His truth endures to all generations.

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    "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is
    light and in Him there is no darkness at all."
    - St. John the Divine, 1 John 1:5, Holy Bible, New Testament

    "Child of light... the light is in you"

    "Shine on your brothers in remembrance of your creator, for you will remember him
    as you call forth the witnesses to his creation. Those whom you heal bear witness
    to your healing, for in their wholeness you will see your own."

    "Now is the time of salvation, for now is the release from time. Reach out to all
    your brothers, and touch them with the touch of Christ. In timeless union with them is your continuity, unbroken because it is wholly shared. God's guiltless Son is only light. There is no darkness in him anywhere, for he is whole. Call
    all your brothers to witness to his wholeness, as I am calling you to join with me. Each voice has a part in the song of redemption, the hymn of gladness and thanksgiving for the light to the Creator of light. The holy light that shines forth from God's Son is the witness that his light is of his Father."

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 13, Section 6 (7pdf)


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    thanks·giv·ing
    noun
    1. The expression of gratitude, especially to God.
    2. Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving Day.

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    "It is essential that error be not confused with sin, and it is this distinction
    that makes salvation possible."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 2

    "Sin calls for punishment as error for correction, and the belief that punishment
    *is* correction is clearly insane."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 2


    "The Holy Spirit cannot punish sin. Mistakes he recognizes, and would correct them
    all as God entrusted him to do. But sin he knows not, nor can he recognize mistakes that cannot be corrected. For a mistake that cannot be corrected is meaningless to him. Mistakes are *for* correction, and they call for nothing else.
    What calls for punishment must call for nothing. Every mistake *must* be a call
    for love. What, then, is sin? What could it be but a mistake you would keep hidden; a call for help that you would keep unheard and thus unanswered?"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 3

    "When you are tempted to believe that sin is real, remember this: If sin is real,
    both God and you are not. If creation is extension, the Creator must have extended
    himself, and it is impossible that what is part of him is totally unlike the rest.
    If sin is real, God must be at war with himself. He must be split, and torn between good and evil; partly sane and partially insane. For he must have created
    what wills to destroy him, and has the power to do so. Is it not easier to believe that you have been mistaken than to believe in this?"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 3


    "If sin is real, it must forever be beyond the hope of healing. For there would be
    a power beyond God's, capable of making another will that could attack his will and overcome it; and give his Son a will apart from his, and stronger. And each part of God's fragmented creation would have a different will, opposed to his, and
    in eternal opposition to him and to each other."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 3


    "Freedom is the only gift you can offer to God's Sons, being an acknowledgment of
    what they are and what he is. Freedom is creation, because it is love."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 4

    Freedom is riches. Prohibition and oppression are impoverishment.


    "Whenever you become angry with a brother, for whatever reason, you are believing
    that the ego is to be saved, and to be saved by attack. If he attacks, you are agreeing with this belief; and if you attack, you are reinforcing it.
    *Remember that those who attack are poor*. Their poverty asks for gifts, not for
    further impoverishment. You who could help them are surely acting destructively if
    you accept their poverty as yours. If you had not invested as they had, it would
    never occur to you to overlook their need."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 3

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    "Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible.
    Instead, only try to realize the truth...
    there is no spoon.
    Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends,
    it is only yourself."
    - Spoon Boy, The Matrix

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    "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
    - Jesus Christ, John 8:32, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A32&version=NKJV

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    "What Is Salvation?

    Salvation is a promise, made by God,
    that you would find your way to Him at last.
    It cannot but be kept. It guarantees
    that time will have an end, and all the thoughts
    that have been born in time will end as well.
    God's Word is given every mind which thinks
    that it has separate thoughts, and will replace
    these thoughts of conflict with the Thought of peace.

    The Thought of peace was given to God's Son
    the instant that his mind had thought of war.
    There was no need for such a Thought before,
    for peace was given without opposite,
    and merely was. But when the mind is split
    there is a need of healing. So the Thought
    that has the power to heal the split became
    a part of every fragment of the mind
    that still was one, but failed to recognize
    its oneness. Now it did not know itself,
    and thought its own Identity was lost.

    Salvation is undoing in the sense
    that it does nothing, failing to support
    the world of dreams and malice. Thus it lets
    illusions go. By not supporting them,
    it merely lets them quietly go down
    to dust. And what they hid is now revealed;
    an altar to the holy Name of God
    whereon His Word is written, with the gifts
    of your forgiveness laid before it, and
    the memory of God not far behind.

    Let us come daily to this holy place,
    and spend a while together. Here we share
    our final dream. It is a dream in which
    there is no sorrow, for it holds a hint
    of all the glory given us by God.
    The grass is pushing through the soil, the trees
    are budding now, and birds have come to live
    within their branches. Earth is being born
    again in new perspective. Night has gone,
    and we have come together in the light.

    From here we give salvation to the world,
    for it is here salvation was received.
    The song of our rejoicing is the call
    to all the world that freedom is returned,
    that time is almost over, and God's Son
    has but an instant more to wait until
    his Father is remembered, dreams are done,
    eternity has shined away the world,
    and only Heaven now exists at all."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, "What Is Salvation?"


    http://www.jcim.org/Pages/QandA-NovDec2013WhatIsIambicPentameter.html

    https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf
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    "The secret of salvation is but this: that you are doing this unto yourself. No
    matter what the form of the attack, this still is true. Whoever takes the role of
    enemy and of attacker, still is this the truth. Whatever seems to be the cause of
    any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true. For you would not react at
    all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let them be as hateful
    and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to
    recognize it is your dream."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 27, Section 8


    The above can only be concluded to be saying that you are in control of other's thoughts and actions.


    Verily, that's what it's saying. But:

    "Freedom cannot be learned by tyranny of any kind, and the perfect equality of all
    God's Sons cannot be recognized through the dominion of one mind over another. God's Sons are equal in will, all being the Will of their Father. This is the only lesson I came to teach."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 4

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to Miracles Are Seen In Light on Thu Mar 4 03:02:33 2021
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    On 2/20/2020 2:42 PM, Miracles Are Seen In Light wrote:

    ACIM: From Existentialism To Self Realization - "Seek not outside yourself, Nor
    For Something More Than Everything"


    A Course in Miracles goes beyond existentialism to true self-realization. Rather
    than merely waking up and finding oneself turned into a monstrous insect: "The
    Metamorphosis" - Kafka; or shooting someone on a beach senselessly: "The Stranger,"- Camus; A Course in Miracles makes quite clear that what lies past existentialism is not disgusting or psychosis, but:

    "You are afraid of me because you looked within and are afraid of what you saw.
    Yet you could not have seen reality, for the reality of your mind is the loveliest
    of God's creations. Coming only from God, its power and grandeur could only bring
    you peace *if you really looked upon it*. If you are afraid, it is because you
    saw something that is not there. Yet in that same place you could have looked
    upon me and all your brothers, in the perfect safety of the Mind which created us.
    For we are there in the peace of the Father, who wills to extend his peace through you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 7

    "Everyone makes an ego or a self for himself, which is subject to enormous variation because of its instability. He also makes an ego for everyone else he
    perceives, which is equally variable. Their interaction is a process that alters
    both, because they were not made by or with the unalterable. It is important to
    realize that this alteration can and does occur as readily when the interaction
    takes place in the mind as when it involves physical interaction. There could be
    no better example that the ego is only an idea and not a fact."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 2 (3pdf)

    "You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be,
    you will believe that it is one with you. Your safety lies in truth, and not in
    lies. Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are
    safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your
    Self."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, "What is the Body"


    "the purpose of this course is to help you remember what you are"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 9, Section 1


    "The goal of the curriculum, regardless of the teacher you choose, is "Know thyself." There is nothing else to seek. Everyone is looking for himself and for
    the power and glory he thinks he has lost. Whenever you are with anyone, you have
    another opportunity to find them. Your power and glory are in him because they
    are yours. The ego tries to find them in yourself alone, because it does not know
    where to look. The Holy Spirit teaches you that if you look only at yourself you
    cannot find yourself, because that is not what you are. Whenever you are with a
    brother, you are learning what you are because you are teaching what you are. He
    will respond either with pain or with joy, depending on which teacher you are following. He will be imprisoned or released according to your decision, and so
    will you. Never forget your responsibility to him, because it is your responsibility to yourself. Give him his place in the Kingdom and you will have
    yours.

    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.

    You can encounter only part of yourself because you are part of God, Who is everything. His power and glory are everywhere, and you cannot be excluded from
    them. The ego teaches that your strength is in you alone. The Holy Spirit teaches that all strength is in God and *therefore* in you. God wills no one suffer. He does not will anyone to suffer for a wrong decision, including you.
    That is why he has given you the means for undoing it. Through his power and glory all your wrong decisions are undone completely, releasing you and your brother from every imprisoning thought any part of the Sonship holds. Wrong decisions have no power, because they are not true. The imprisonment they seem to
    produce is no more true than they are.

    Power and glory belong to God alone. So do you. God gives whatever belongs to
    him because he gives of himself, and everything belongs to him. Giving of yourself is the function he gave you. Fulfilling it perfectly will let you remember what you *have* of him, and by this you will remember also what you *are*
    in him. You cannot be powerless to do this, because this is your power. Glory is
    God's gift to you, because that is what he is. See this glory everywhere to remember what you are."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 3


    "Seek not outside yourself. For it will fail, and you will weep each time an idol
    falls. Heaven cannot be found where it is not, and there can be no peace excepting there. Each idol that you worship when God calls will never answer in
    His place. There is no other answer you can substitute, and find the happiness
    His answer brings. Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply
    from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if
    it is not there? Do you prefer that you be right or happy? Be you glad that you
    are told where happiness abides, and seek no longer elsewhere. You will fail. But
    it is given you to know the truth, and not to seek for it outside yourself.

    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"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 29, Section 7



    "God has not many Sons, but only One. Who can have more, and who be given less?
    It is for him the Holy Spirit speaks, and tells you idols have no purpose here. For more than Heaven can you never have. If Heaven is within, why would you seek
    for idols that would make of Heaven less, to give you more than God bestowed upon
    your brother and on you, as one with Him? God gave you all there is. And to be
    sure you could not lose it, did He also give the same to every living thing as well. And thus is every living thing a part of you, as of Himself. No idol can
    establish you as more than God. But you will never be content with being less."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 29, Section 8



    "Understand what "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you," really means.... The word
    "within" is unnecessary. The Kingdom of Heaven *is* you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 3 (4pdf)


    "Nothing [you] can do, can compare even in the slightest with the glorious surprise of remembering Who [You are]. Let all [your] learning and all [your]
    efforts be directed toward this one great final surprise, and [you] will not be
    content to be delayed by the little ones that may come to [you] on the way." - A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 25, "Are "Psychic" Powers
    Desirable?"


    "Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He
    answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor
    will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is
    within you.”
    - Jesus Christ, Luke 17:20-21, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV


    https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf
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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to Miracles Are Seen In Light on Thu Mar 4 03:14:45 2021
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    On 2/20/2020 2:42 PM, Miracles Are Seen In Light wrote:
    A Course in Miracles goes beyond existentialism to true self-realization. Rather
    than merely waking up and finding oneself turned into a monstrous insect: "The
    Metamorphosis" - Kafka; or shooting someone on a beach senselessly: "The Stranger,"- Camus; A Course in Miracles makes quite clear that what lies past existentialism is not disgusting or psychosis, but:

    "You are afraid of me because you looked within and are afraid of what you saw.
    Yet you could not have seen reality, for the reality of your mind is the loveliest
    of God's creations. Coming only from God, its power and grandeur could only bring
    you peace *if you really looked upon it*. If you are afraid, it is because you
    saw something that is not there. Yet in that same place you could have looked
    upon me and all your brothers, in the perfect safety of the Mind which created us.
    For we are there in the peace of the Father, who wills to extend his peace through you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 7



    "The Holy Spirit is the light in which Christ stands revealed. And all who would
    behold him can see him, for they have asked for light. Nor will they see him alone, for he is no more alone than they are. Because they saw the Son, they have
    risen in him to the Father. And all this will they understand, because they looked within and saw beyond the darkness the Christ in them, and recognized him.
    In the sanity of his vision they looked upon themselves with love, seeing themselves as the Holy Spirit sees them. And with this vision of the truth in them came all the beauty of the world to shine upon them."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 13, Section 5 (6 pdf)


    "You are the Kingdom of Heaven, but you have let the belief in darkness enter your
    mind and so you need a new light. The Holy Spirit is the radiance that you must
    let banish the idea of darkness. His is the glory before which dissociation falls
    away, and the Kingdom of Heaven breaks through into its own. Before the separation you did not need guidance. You knew as you will know again, but as you
    do not know now."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 2 (3 pdf)


    "The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. His is the voice that calls
    you back to where you were before and will be again. It is possible even in this
    world to hear only that voice and no other. It takes effort and great willingness
    to learn. It is the final lesson that I learned, and God's Sons are as equal as
    learners as they are as sons."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 2 (3 pdf)


    "The voice of the Holy Spirit does not command, because It is incapable of arrogance. It does not demand, because It does not seek control. It does not overcome, because It does not attack. It merely reminds. It is compelling only
    because of what It reminds you of. It brings to your mind the other way, remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make. The voice for God
    is always quiet, because It speaks of peace. Peace is stronger than war because
    it heals. War is division, not increase. No one gains from strife. What profiteth it a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? If you listen to the wrong voice you have lost sight of your soul. You cannot lose it,
    but you can not know it. It is therefore "lost" to you until you choose right."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 2 (3 pdf)

    "The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. He is in the part of your mind that
    always speaks for the right choice, because he speaks for God. He is your remaining communication with God, which you can interrupt but cannot destroy." - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 2 (3 pdf)

    "My mind will always be like yours, because we were created as equals. It was only my decision that gave me all power in heaven and earth. My only gift to you
    is to help you make the same decision. This decision is the choice to share it,
    because the decision itself is the decision to share. It is made by giving, and
    is therefore the one choice that resembles true creation. I am your model for decision. By deciding for God I showed you that this decision can be made, and that you can make it.
    I have assured you that the Mind that decided for me is also in you, and that you
    can let it change you just as it changed me. This Mind is unequivocal, because it
    hears only one voice and answers in only one way. You are the light of the world
    with me."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 2 (3 pdf)

    “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
    Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that
    they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."
    - Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:14-16, New Testament, Holy Bible, NKJV

    "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but
    have the light of life.”
    - Jesus Christ, John 8:12, New Testament, Holy Bible, NKJV



    "Everyone makes an ego or a self for himself, which is subject to enormous variation because of its instability. He also makes an ego for everyone else he
    perceives, which is equally variable. Their interaction is a process that alters
    both, because they were not made by or with the unalterable. It is important to
    realize that this alteration can and does occur as readily when the interaction
    takes place in the mind as when it involves physical interaction. There could be
    no better example that the ego is only an idea and not a fact."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 2 (3pdf)

    "You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be,
    you will believe that it is one with you. Your safety lies in truth, and not in
    lies. Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are
    safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your
    Self."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, "What is the Body"


    "the purpose of this course is to help you remember what you are"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 9, Section 1


    "The goal of the curriculum, regardless of the teacher you choose, is "Know thyself." There is nothing else to seek. Everyone is looking for himself and for
    the power and glory he thinks he has lost. Whenever you are with anyone, you have
    another opportunity to find them. Your power and glory are in him because they
    are yours. The ego tries to find them in yourself alone, because it does not know
    where to look. The Holy Spirit teaches you that if you look only at yourself you
    cannot find yourself, because that is not what you are. Whenever you are with a
    brother, you are learning what you are because you are teaching what you are. He
    will respond either with pain or with joy, depending on which teacher you are following. He will be imprisoned or released according to your decision, and so
    will you. Never forget your responsibility to him, because it is your responsibility to yourself. Give him his place in the Kingdom and you will have
    yours.

    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.

    You can encounter only part of yourself because you are part of God, Who is everything. His power and glory are everywhere, and you cannot be excluded from
    them. The ego teaches that your strength is in you alone. The Holy Spirit teaches that all strength is in God and *therefore* in you. God wills no one suffer. He does not will anyone to suffer for a wrong decision, including you.
    That is why he has given you the means for undoing it. Through his power and glory all your wrong decisions are undone completely, releasing you and your brother from every imprisoning thought any part of the Sonship holds. Wrong decisions have no power, because they are not true. The imprisonment they seem to
    produce is no more true than they are.

    Power and glory belong to God alone. So do you. God gives whatever belongs to
    him because he gives of himself, and everything belongs to him. Giving of yourself is the function he gave you. Fulfilling it perfectly will let you remember what you *have* of him, and by this you will remember also what you *are*
    in him. You cannot be powerless to do this, because this is your power. Glory is
    God's gift to you, because that is what he is. See this glory everywhere to remember what you are."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 3


    "Seek not outside yourself. For it will fail, and you will weep each time an idol
    falls. Heaven cannot be found where it is not, and there can be no peace excepting there. Each idol that you worship when God calls will never answer in
    His place. There is no other answer you can substitute, and find the happiness
    His answer brings. Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply
    from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if
    it is not there? Do you prefer that you be right or happy? Be you glad that you
    are told where happiness abides, and seek no longer elsewhere. You will fail. But
    it is given you to know the truth, and not to seek for it outside yourself.

    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"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 29, Section 7

    "Understand what "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you," really means.... The word
    "within" is unnecessary. The Kingdom of Heaven *is* you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 3 (4pdf)


    "Nothing [you] can do, can compare even in the slightest with the glorious surprise of remembering Who [You are]. Let all [your] learning and all [your]
    efforts be directed toward this one great final surprise, and [you] will not be
    content to be delayed by the little ones that may come to [you] on the way." - A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 25, "Are "Psychic" Powers
    Desirable?"


    "Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He
    answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor
    will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is
    within you.”
    - Jesus Christ, Luke 17:20-21, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV


    https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf
    https://www.biblegateway.com/

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    The Responsibility for Sight

    We have repeated how little is asked of you to learn this course. It is the same
    small willingness you need to have your whole relationship transformed to joy; the
    little gift you offer to the Holy Spirit for which he gives you everything; the very little on which salvation rests; the tiny change of mind by which the crucifixion is changed to resurrection. And being true, it is so simple that it
    cannot fail to be completely understood. Rejected yes, but not ambiguous. And if
    you choose against it now it will not be because it is obscure, but rather that this little cost seemed, in your judgment, to be too much to pay for peace.

    This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain
    and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it
    with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:


    _I am responsible for what I see_.

    _I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve_.

    _And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for and receive as I have asked_.


    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. His power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which he seems to find himself by
    chance or accident. No accident nor chance is possible within the universe as God
    created it, outside of which is nothing. Suffer, and you decided sin was your goal. Be happy, and you gave the power of decision to him who must decide for God
    for you. This is the little gift you offer to the Holy Spirit, and even this he
    gives to you to give yourself. For by this gift is given you the power to release
    your savior, that he may give salvation unto you.

    Begrudge not then this little offering. Withhold it, and you keep the world as now you see it. Give it away, and everything you see goes with it. Never was so
    much given for so little. In the holy instant is this exchange effected and maintained. Here is the world you do not want brought to the one you do. And here the one you do is given you because you want it. Yet for this, the power of
    your wanting must first be recognized. You must accept its strength, and not its
    weakness. You must perceive that what is strong enough to make a world can let it
    go, and can accept correction if it is willing to see that it was wrong.

    The world you see is but the idle witness that you were right. This witness is insane. You trained it in its testimony, and as it gave it back to you, you listened and convinced yourself that what it saw was true. You did this to yourself. See only this, and you will also see how circular the reasoning on which your "seeing" rests. This was not given you. This was your gift to you and
    to your brother. Be willing, then, to have it taken from him and be replaced with
    truth. And as you look upon the change in him, it will be given you to see it in
    yourself.

    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 should 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 everything
    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.

    The Holy Spirit can give you faith in holiness and vision to see it easily enough.
    But you have not left open and unoccupied the altar where the gifts belong. Where they should be, you have set up your idols to something else. This other "will," which seems to tell you what must happen, you give reality. And what would show you otherwise must therefore seem unreal. All that is asked of you is
    to make room for truth. You are not asked to make or do what lies beyond your understanding. All you are asked to do is *let it in* ; only to stop your interference with what will happen of itself; simply to recognize again the presence of what you thought you gave away.

    Be willing, for an instant, to leave your altars free of what you placed upon them, and what is really there you cannot fail to see. The holy instant is not an
    instant of creation, but of recognition. For recognition comes of vision and suspended judgment. Then only it is possible to look within and see what must be
    there, plainly in sight, and wholly independent of inference and judgment. Undoing
    is not your task, but it is up to you to welcome it or not. Faith and desire go
    hand in hand, for everyone believes in what he wants.

    We have already said that wishful thinking is how the ego deals with what it wants, to make it so. There is no better demonstration of the power of wanting,
    and therefore of faith, to make its goals seem real and possible. Faith in the unreal leads to adjustments of reality to make it fit the goal of madness. The goal of sin induces the perception of a fearful world to justify its purpose. What
    you desire, you will see. And if its reality is false, you will uphold it by not
    realizing all the adjustments you have introduced to make it so.

    When vision is denied, confusion of cause and effect becomes inevitable. The purpose now becomes to keep obscure the cause of the effect, and make effect appear to be a cause. This seeming independence of effect enables it to be regarded as standing by itself, and capable of serving as a cause of the events and feelings its maker thinks it causes. Earlier, we spoke of your desire to create your own creator, and be father and not son to him. This is the same desire. The Son is the Effect, whose Cause he would deny. And so he seems to *be* the cause, producing real effects. Nothing can have effects without a cause,
    and to confuse the two is merely to fail to understand them both.

    It is as needful that you recognize you made the world you see, as that you recognize that you did not create yourself. *They are the same mistake* . Nothing
    created not by your Creator has any influence over you. And if you think what you
    have made can tell you what you see and feel, and place your faith in its ability
    to do so, you are denying your Creator and believing that you made yourself. For
    if you think the world you made has power to make you what it wills, you are confusing Son and Father; effect and Source.

    The Son's creations are like his Father's. Yet in creating them the Son does not
    delude himself that he is independent of his Source. His union with It is the source of his creating. Apart from this he has no power to create, and what he makes is meaningless. It changes nothing in creation, depends entirely upon the
    madness of its maker, and cannot serve to justify the madness. Your brother thinks he made the world with you. Thus he denies creation. With you, he thinks
    the world he made, made him. Thus he denies he made it.

    Yet the truth is you were both created by a loving Father, who created you together and as one. See what "proves" otherwise, and you deny your whole reality. But grant that everything that seems to stand between you, keeping you
    from each other and separate from your Father, you made in secret, and the instant
    of release has come to you. All its effects are gone, because its source has been
    uncovered. It is its seeming independence of its source that keeps you prisoner.
    This is the same mistake as thinking you are independent of the Source by which you were created, and have never left.

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 21, Section 2 (3pdf) https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf

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    The Responsibility for Sight

    We have repeated how little is asked of you to learn this course. It is the same
    small willingness you need to have your whole relationship transformed to joy; the
    little gift you offer to the Holy Spirit for which he gives you everything; the very little on which salvation rests; the tiny change of mind by which the crucifixion is changed to resurrection. And being true, it is so simple that it
    cannot fail to be completely understood. Rejected yes, but not ambiguous. And if
    you choose against it now it will not be because it is obscure, but rather that this little cost seemed, in your judgment, to be too much to pay for peace.

    This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain
    and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it
    with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:


    _I am responsible for what I see_.

    _I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve_.

    _And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for and receive as I have asked_.


    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. His power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which he seems to find himself by
    chance or accident. No accident nor chance is possible within the universe as God
    created it, outside of which is nothing. Suffer, and you decided sin was your goal. Be happy, and you gave the power of decision to him who must decide for God
    for you. This is the little gift you offer to the Holy Spirit, and even this he
    gives to you to give yourself. For by this gift is given you the power to release
    your savior, that he may give salvation unto you.

    Begrudge not then this little offering. Withhold it, and you keep the world as now you see it. Give it away, and everything you see goes with it. Never was so
    much given for so little. In the holy instant is this exchange effected and maintained. Here is the world you do not want brought to the one you do. And here the one you do is given you because you want it. Yet for this, the power of
    your wanting must first be recognized. You must accept its strength, and not its
    weakness. You must perceive that what is strong enough to make a world can let it
    go, and can accept correction if it is willing to see that it was wrong.

    The world you see is but the idle witness that you were right. This witness is insane. You trained it in its testimony, and as it gave it back to you, you listened and convinced yourself that what it saw was true. You did this to yourself. See only this, and you will also see how circular the reasoning on which your "seeing" rests. This was not given you. This was your gift to you and
    to your brother. Be willing, then, to have it taken from him and be replaced with
    truth. And as you look upon the change in him, it will be given you to see it in
    yourself.

    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 should 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 everything
    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.

    The Holy Spirit can give you faith in holiness and vision to see it easily enough.
    But you have not left open and unoccupied the altar where the gifts belong. Where they should be, you have set up your idols to something else. This other "will," which seems to tell you what must happen, you give reality. And what would show you otherwise must therefore seem unreal. All that is asked of you is
    to make room for truth. You are not asked to make or do what lies beyond your understanding. All you are asked to do is *let it in* ; only to stop your interference with what will happen of itself; simply to recognize again the presence of what you thought you gave away.

    Be willing, for an instant, to leave your altars free of what you placed upon them, and what is really there you cannot fail to see. The holy instant is not an
    instant of creation, but of recognition. For recognition comes of vision and suspended judgment. Then only it is possible to look within and see what must be
    there, plainly in sight, and wholly independent of inference and judgment. Undoing
    is not your task, but it is up to you to welcome it or not. Faith and desire go
    hand in hand, for everyone believes in what he wants.

    We have already said that wishful thinking is how the ego deals with what it wants, to make it so. There is no better demonstration of the power of wanting,
    and therefore of faith, to make its goals seem real and possible. Faith in the unreal leads to adjustments of reality to make it fit the goal of madness. The goal of sin induces the perception of a fearful world to justify its purpose. What
    you desire, you will see. And if its reality is false, you will uphold it by not
    realizing all the adjustments you have introduced to make it so.

    When vision is denied, confusion of cause and effect becomes inevitable. The purpose now becomes to keep obscure the cause of the effect, and make effect appear to be a cause. This seeming independence of effect enables it to be regarded as standing by itself, and capable of serving as a cause of the events and feelings its maker thinks it causes. Earlier, we spoke of your desire to create your own creator, and be father and not son to him. This is the same desire. The Son is the Effect, whose Cause he would deny. And so he seems to *be* the cause, producing real effects. Nothing can have effects without a cause,
    and to confuse the two is merely to fail to understand them both.

    It is as needful that you recognize you made the world you see, as that you recognize that you did not create yourself. *They are the same mistake* . Nothing
    created not by your Creator has any influence over you. And if you think what you
    have made can tell you what you see and feel, and place your faith in its ability
    to do so, you are denying your Creator and believing that you made yourself. For
    if you think the world you made has power to make you what it wills, you are confusing Son and Father; effect and Source.

    The Son's creations are like his Father's. Yet in creating them the Son does not
    delude himself that he is independent of his Source. His union with It is the source of his creating. Apart from this he has no power to create, and what he makes is meaningless. It changes nothing in creation, depends entirely upon the
    madness of its maker, and cannot serve to justify the madness. Your brother thinks he made the world with you. Thus he denies creation. With you, he thinks
    the world he made, made him. Thus he denies he made it.

    Yet the truth is you were both created by a loving Father, who created you together and as one. See what "proves" otherwise, and you deny your whole reality. But grant that everything that seems to stand between you, keeping you
    from each other and separate from your Father, you made in secret, and the instant
    of release has come to you. All its effects are gone, because its source has been
    uncovered. It is its seeming independence of its source that keeps you prisoner.
    This is the same mistake as thinking you are independent of the Source by which you were created, and have never left.

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 21, Section 2 (3pdf) https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 11 11:49:31 2021
    The Final Lesson Is Hear Only The Voice Of The Holy Spirit

    I think it is important to get a grip and a handle on what the whole point of the
    book, A Course in Miracles, is. Apparently, it is to find the light in your mind,
    to find yourself, to find peace, to transform special relationships into holy relationships, to repeatedly experience the holy instant, to hear the voice of the
    Holy Spirit, and to realize you are a creation of light.


    "The principle of Atonement and the separation began at the same time.
    When the ego was made, God placed in the mind the Call to joy. This Call is so strong that the ego always dissolves at Its sound. That is why you must choose to
    hear one of two voices within you. One you made yourself, and that one is not of
    God. But the other is given you by God, Who asks you only to listen to it."

    "The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. His is the voice that calls
    you back to where you were before and will be again. It is possible even in this
    world to hear only that voice and no other. It takes effort and great willingness
    to learn. It is the final lesson that I learned, and God's Sons are as equal as
    learners as they are as sons."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 6, Section 3

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 17:50:25 2021
    In Neither Sun Nor Ocean Is The Power That Rests In You

    "It is only the awareness of the body that makes love seem limited. For the body
    *is* a limit on love. The belief in limited love was its origin, and it was made
    to limit the unlimited. Think not that this is merely allegorical, for it was made to limit *you*. Can you who see yourself within a body know yourself as an
    idea? Everything you recognize you identify with externals, something outside itself. You cannot even think of God without a body, or in some form you think you
    recognize.

    The body cannot know. And while you limit your awareness to its tiny senses, you
    will not see the grandeur that surrounds you. God cannot come into a body, nor can
    you join him there. Limits on love will always seem to shut him out, and keep you
    apart from him. The body is a tiny fence around a little part of a glorious and
    complete idea. It draws a circle, infinitely small, around a very little segment
    of Heaven, splintered from the whole, proclaiming that within it is your kingdom,
    where God can enter not.

    Within this kingdom the ego rules, and cruelly. And to defend this little speck
    of dust it bids you fight against the universe. This fragment of your mind is such a tiny part of it that, could you but appreciate the whole, you would see instantly that it is like the smallest sunbeam to the sun, or like the faintest ripple on the surface of the ocean. In its amazing arrogance, this tiny sunbeam
    has decided it is the sun; this almost imperceptible ripple hails itself as the ocean. Think how alone and frightened is this little thought, this infinitesimal
    illusion, holding itself apart against the universe. The sun becomes the sunbeam's "enemy" that would devour it, and the ocean terrifies the little ripple
    and wants to swallow it.

    Yet neither sun nor ocean is even aware of all this strange and meaningless activity. They merely continue, unaware that they are feared and hated by a tiny
    segment of themselves. Even that segment is not lost to them, for it could not survive apart from them. And what it thinks it is in no way changes its total dependence on them for its being. Its whole existence still remains in them. Without the sun the sunbeam would be gone; the ripple without the ocean is inconceivable.

    Such is the strange position in which those in a world inhabited by bodies seem to
    be. Each body seems to house a separate mind, a disconnected thought, living alone and in no way joined to the Thought by which it was created. Each tiny fragment seems to be self-contained, needing another for some things, but by no means totally dependent on its one Creator for everything; needing the whole to give it any meaning, for by itself it does mean nothing. Nor has it any life apart and by itself.

    Like to the sun and ocean your Self continues, unmindful that this tiny part regards itself as you. It is not missing; it could not exist if it were separate,
    nor would the Whole be whole without it. It is not a separate kingdom, ruled by
    an idea of separation from the rest. Nor does a fence surround it, preventing it
    from joining with the rest, and keeping it apart from its Creator. This little aspect is no different from the whole, being continuous with it and at one with it. It leads no separate life, because its life is the oneness in which its being
    was created.

    Do not accept this little, fenced-off aspect as yourself. The sun and ocean are
    as nothing beside what you are. The sunbeam sparkles only in the sunlight, and the ripple dances as it rests upon the ocean. Yet in neither sun nor ocean is the
    power that rests in you. Would you remain within your tiny kingdom, a sorry king,
    a bitter ruler of all that he surveys, who looks on nothing yet who would still die to defend it? This little self is not your kingdom. Arched high above it and
    surrounding it with love is the glorious whole, which offers all its happiness and
    deep content to every part. The little aspect that you think you set apart is no
    exception.

    Love knows no bodies, and reaches to everything created like itself. Its total lack of limit *is* its meaning. It is completely impartial in its giving, encompassing only to preserve and keep complete what it would give. In your tiny
    kingdom you have so little! Should it not, then, be there that you would call on
    love to enter?"

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 18, Section 8, Scribed February 16, 1967


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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 17:51:39 2021
    If Miracles Exist There Is No World! - Perhaps You Think You Did Not Make The World

    "There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts to teach." - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 132


    If miracles exist there is no world. If the world exists, there are no miracles.


    "This world is full of miracles."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 28, Section 2


    "The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it meaning. And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them
    real. Perhaps you think you did not make the world, but came unwillingly to what
    was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it meaning. Yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for when you came.

    There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release.
    Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. Ideas leave not their source. This central theme is often stated in
    the text, and must be borne in mind if you would understand the lesson for today.
    It is not pride which tells you that you made the world you see, and that it changes as you change your mind.

    But it is pride that argues you have come into a world quite separate from yourself, impervious to what you think, and quite apart from what you chance to think it is. There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts
    to teach. Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one must go as far as he
    can let himself be led along the road to truth. He will return and go still farther, or perhaps step back a while and then return again."

    But healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world, and
    can accept the lesson now. Their readiness will bring the lesson to them in some
    form which they can understand and recognize. Some see it suddenly on point of death, and rise to teach it. Others find it in experience that is not of this world, which shows them that the world does not exist because what they behold must be the truth, and yet it clearly contradicts the world.

    And some will find it in this course, and in the exercises that we do today. Today's idea is true because the world does not exist. And if it is indeed your own imagining, then you can loose it from all things you ever thought it was by merely changing all the thoughts that gave it these appearances. The sick are healed as you let go all thoughts of sickness, and the dead arise when you let thoughts of life replace all thoughts you ever held of death. A lesson earlier repeated once must now be stressed again, for it contains the firm foundation for
    today's idea. You are as God created you. There is no place where you can suffer,
    and no time that can bring change to your eternal state. How can a world of time
    and place exist, if you remain as God created you?"
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 132


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    A Course in Miracles goes beyond existentialism to true self-realization. Rather
    than merely waking up and finding oneself turned into a monstrous insect: "The Metamorphosis" - Kafka; or shooting someone on a beach senselessly: "The Stranger,"- Camus; A Course in Miracles makes quite clear that what lies past existentialism is not disgusting or psychosis, but:

    "You are afraid of me because you looked within and are afraid of what you saw. Yet you could not have seen reality, for the reality of your mind is the loveliest
    of God's creations. Coming only from God, its power and grandeur could only bring
    you peace *if you really looked upon it*. If you are afraid, it is because you saw something that is not there. Yet in that same place you could have looked upon me and all your brothers, in the perfect safety of the Mind which created us.
    For we are there in the peace of the Father, who wills to extend his peace through you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 7

    "Everyone makes an ego or a self for himself, which is subject to enormous variation because of its instability. He also makes an ego for everyone else he
    perceives, which is equally variable. Their interaction is a process that alters
    both, because they were not made by or with the unalterable. It is important to
    realize that this alteration can and does occur as readily when the interaction takes place in the mind as when it involves physical interaction. There could be
    no better example that the ego is only an idea and not a fact."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 2 (3pdf)

    "You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be, you will believe that it is one with you. Your safety lies in truth, and not in
    lies. Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are
    safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, "What is the Body"


    "the purpose of this course is to help you remember what you are"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 9, Section 1


    "The goal of the curriculum, regardless of the teacher you choose, is "Know thyself." There is nothing else to seek. Everyone is looking for himself and for
    the power and glory he thinks he has lost. Whenever you are with anyone, you have
    another opportunity to find them. Your power and glory are in him because they are yours. The ego tries to find them in yourself alone, because it does not know
    where to look. The Holy Spirit teaches you that if you look only at yourself you
    cannot find yourself, because that is not what you are. Whenever you are with a
    brother, you are learning what you are because you are teaching what you are. He
    will respond either with pain or with joy, depending on which teacher you are following. He will be imprisoned or released according to your decision, and so
    will you. Never forget your responsibility to him, because it is your responsibility to yourself. Give him his place in the Kingdom and you will have
    yours.

    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.

    You can encounter only part of yourself because you are part of God, Who is everything. His power and glory are everywhere, and you cannot be excluded from
    them. The ego teaches that your strength is in you alone. The Holy Spirit teaches that all strength is in God and *therefore* in you. God wills no one suffer. He does not will anyone to suffer for a wrong decision, including you. That is why he has given you the means for undoing it. Through his power and glory all your wrong decisions are undone completely, releasing you and your brother from every imprisoning thought any part of the Sonship holds. Wrong decisions have no power, because they are not true. The imprisonment they seem to
    produce is no more true than they are.

    Power and glory belong to God alone. So do you. God gives whatever belongs to him because he gives of himself, and everything belongs to him. Giving of yourself is the function he gave you. Fulfilling it perfectly will let you remember what you *have* of him, and by this you will remember also what you *are*
    in him. You cannot be powerless to do this, because this is your power. Glory is
    God's gift to you, because that is what he is. See this glory everywhere to remember what you are."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 3


    "Seek not outside yourself. For it will fail, and you will weep each time an idol
    falls. Heaven cannot be found where it is not, and there can be no peace excepting there. Each idol that you worship when God calls will never answer in
    His place. There is no other answer you can substitute, and find the happiness His answer brings. Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if
    it is not there? Do you prefer that you be right or happy? Be you glad that you
    are told where happiness abides, and seek no longer elsewhere. You will fail. But
    it is given you to know the truth, and not to seek for it outside yourself.

    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"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 29, Section 7

    "Understand what "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you," really means.... The word
    "within" is unnecessary. The Kingdom of Heaven *is* you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 3 (4pdf)


    "Nothing [you] can do, can compare even in the slightest with the glorious surprise of remembering Who [You are]. Let all [your] learning and all [your] efforts be directed toward this one great final surprise, and [you] will not be content to be delayed by the little ones that may come to [you] on the way."
    - A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 25, "Are "Psychic" Powers Desirable?"


    "Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor
    will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is
    within you.”
    - Jesus Christ, Luke 17:20-21, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV


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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 17:53:35 2021
    The Secret Of Salvation

    "The secret of salvation is but this: that you are doing this unto yourself. No
    matter what the form of the attack, this still is true. Whoever takes the role of
    enemy and of attacker, still is this the truth. Whatever seems to be the cause of
    any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true. For you would not react at
    all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let them be as hateful
    and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to
    recognize it is your dream.

    This single lesson learned will set you free from suffering, whatever form it takes. The Holy Spirit will repeat this one inclusive lesson of deliverance until
    it has been learned, regardless of the form of suffering that brings you pain. Whatever hurt you bring to Him He will make answer with this very simple truth. For this one answer takes away the cause of every form of sorrow and of pain. The
    form affects His answer not at all, for He would teach you but the single cause of
    all of them, no matter what their form. And you will understand that miracles reflect the simple statement, " *I* have done this thing, and it is this I would
    undo. "

    Bring, then, all forms of suffering to Him Who knows that every one is like the rest. He sees no differences where none exists, and He will teach you how each one is caused. None has a different cause from all the rest, and all of them are
    easily undone by but a single lesson truly learned. Salvation is a secret you have kept but from yourself. The universe proclaims it so. Yet to its witnesses
    you pay no heed at all. For they attest the thing you do not want to know. They
    seem to keep it secret from you. Yet you need but learn you chose but not to listen, not to see.

    How differently will you perceive the world when this is recognized! When you forgive the world your guilt, you will be free of it. Its innocence does not demand your guilt, nor does your guiltlessness rest on its sins. This is the obvious; a secret kept from no one but yourself. And it is this that has maintained you separate from the world, and kept your brother separate from you.
    Now need you but to learn that both of you are innocent or guilty. The one thing
    that is impossible is that you be unlike each other; that they both be true. This
    is the only secret yet to learn. And it will be no secret you are healed."

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 27, Section 8


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    The Responsibility for Sight

    We have repeated how little is asked of you to learn this course. It is the same
    small willingness you need to have your whole relationship transformed to joy; the
    little gift you offer to the Holy Spirit for which he gives you everything; the very little on which salvation rests; the tiny change of mind by which the crucifixion is changed to resurrection. And being true, it is so simple that it
    cannot fail to be completely understood. Rejected yes, but not ambiguous. And if
    you choose against it now it will not be because it is obscure, but rather that this little cost seemed, in your judgment, to be too much to pay for peace.

    This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain
    and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it
    with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:


    _I am responsible for what I see_.

    _I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve_.

    _And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for and receive as I have asked_.


    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. His power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which he seems to find himself by
    chance or accident. No accident nor chance is possible within the universe as God
    created it, outside of which is nothing. Suffer, and you decided sin was your goal. Be happy, and you gave the power of decision to him who must decide for God
    for you. This is the little gift you offer to the Holy Spirit, and even this he
    gives to you to give yourself. For by this gift is given you the power to release
    your savior, that he may give salvation unto you.

    Begrudge not then this little offering. Withhold it, and you keep the world as now you see it. Give it away, and everything you see goes with it. Never was so
    much given for so little. In the holy instant is this exchange effected and maintained. Here is the world you do not want brought to the one you do. And here the one you do is given you because you want it. Yet for this, the power of
    your wanting must first be recognized. You must accept its strength, and not its
    weakness. You must perceive that what is strong enough to make a world can let it
    go, and can accept correction if it is willing to see that it was wrong.

    The world you see is but the idle witness that you were right. This witness is insane. You trained it in its testimony, and as it gave it back to you, you listened and convinced yourself that what it saw was true. You did this to yourself. See only this, and you will also see how circular the reasoning on which your "seeing" rests. This was not given you. This was your gift to you and
    to your brother. Be willing, then, to have it taken from him and be replaced with
    truth. And as you look upon the change in him, it will be given you to see it in
    yourself.

    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 should 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 everything
    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.

    The Holy Spirit can give you faith in holiness and vision to see it easily enough.
    But you have not left open and unoccupied the altar where the gifts belong. Where they should be, you have set up your idols to something else. This other "will," which seems to tell you what must happen, you give reality. And what would show you otherwise must therefore seem unreal. All that is asked of you is
    to make room for truth. You are not asked to make or do what lies beyond your understanding. All you are asked to do is *let it in* ; only to stop your interference with what will happen of itself; simply to recognize again the presence of what you thought you gave away.

    Be willing, for an instant, to leave your altars free of what you placed upon them, and what is really there you cannot fail to see. The holy instant is not an
    instant of creation, but of recognition. For recognition comes of vision and suspended judgment. Then only it is possible to look within and see what must be
    there, plainly in sight, and wholly independent of inference and judgment. Undoing
    is not your task, but it is up to you to welcome it or not. Faith and desire go
    hand in hand, for everyone believes in what he wants.

    We have already said that wishful thinking is how the ego deals with what it wants, to make it so. There is no better demonstration of the power of wanting,
    and therefore of faith, to make its goals seem real and possible. Faith in the unreal leads to adjustments of reality to make it fit the goal of madness. The goal of sin induces the perception of a fearful world to justify its purpose. What
    you desire, you will see. And if its reality is false, you will uphold it by not
    realizing all the adjustments you have introduced to make it so.

    When vision is denied, confusion of cause and effect becomes inevitable. The purpose now becomes to keep obscure the cause of the effect, and make effect appear to be a cause. This seeming independence of effect enables it to be regarded as standing by itself, and capable of serving as a cause of the events and feelings its maker thinks it causes. Earlier, we spoke of your desire to create your own creator, and be father and not son to him. This is the same desire. The Son is the Effect, whose Cause he would deny. And so he seems to *be* the cause, producing real effects. Nothing can have effects without a cause,
    and to confuse the two is merely to fail to understand them both.

    It is as needful that you recognize you made the world you see, as that you recognize that you did not create yourself. *They are the same mistake* . Nothing
    created not by your Creator has any influence over you. And if you think what you
    have made can tell you what you see and feel, and place your faith in its ability
    to do so, you are denying your Creator and believing that you made yourself. For
    if you think the world you made has power to make you what it wills, you are confusing Son and Father; effect and Source.

    The Son's creations are like his Father's. Yet in creating them the Son does not
    delude himself that he is independent of his Source. His union with It is the source of his creating. Apart from this he has no power to create, and what he makes is meaningless. It changes nothing in creation, depends entirely upon the
    madness of its maker, and cannot serve to justify the madness. Your brother thinks he made the world with you. Thus he denies creation. With you, he thinks
    the world he made, made him. Thus he denies he made it.

    Yet the truth is you were both created by a loving Father, who created you together and as one. See what "proves" otherwise, and you deny your whole reality. But grant that everything that seems to stand between you, keeping you
    from each other and separate from your Father, you made in secret, and the instant
    of release has come to you. All its effects are gone, because its source has been
    uncovered. It is its seeming independence of its source that keeps you prisoner.
    This is the same mistake as thinking you are independent of the Source by which you were created, and have never left.

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 21, Section 2 (3pdf) https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 17:55:30 2021
    The Separation Never Occurred

    "The full awareness of the Atonement, then, is the recognition that *the separation never occurred*."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 6, Section 2 (3pdf)


    If the separation had occurred, then that would mean there was a cause besides God, and that all of this was real.

    If there was a "reason" for the "separation," then the separation would be real,
    and there would be a real cause besides "God."

    So, no "reason" could be, or the separation, _would_, have occurred.


    "The ego cannot prevail against this because it is an explicit statement that the
    ego never occurred."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 6, Section 2 (3pdf)


    "The miracle is the act of a Son of God who has laid aside all false gods, and calls on his brothers to do likewise. It is an act of faith, because it is the recognition that his brother can do it. It is a call to the Holy Spirit in his mind, a call that is strengthened by joining. Because the miracle worker has heard God's voice, he strengthens It in a sick brother by weakening his belief in
    sickness, which he does not share. The power of one mind can shine into another,
    because all the lamps of God were lit by the same spark. It is everywhere and it
    is eternal.
    In many only the spark remains, for the Great Rays are obscured. Yet God has kept
    the spark alive so that the Rays can never be completely forgotten. If you but see the little spark you will learn of the greater light, for the Rays are there
    unseen. Perceiving the spark will heal, but knowing the light will create. Yet
    in the returning the little light must be acknowledged first, for the separation
    was a descent from magnitude to littleness. But the spark is still as pure as the
    Great Light, because it is the remaining call of creation. Put all your faith in
    it, and God himself will answer you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 10, Section 4 (5pdf)


    "Healing is the one ability everyone can develop and must develop if he is to be
    healed."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 7, Section 5

    "True learning is constant, and so vital in its power for change that a Son of God
    can recognize his power in one instant and change the world in the next. That is
    because, by changing his mind, he has changed the most powerful device that was ever given him for change. This in no way contradicts the changelessness of mind
    as God created it,"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 7, Section 5


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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 17:56:13 2021
    To Remember God Is To Remember Freedom

    "In the holy instant, in which you see yourself as bright with freedom, you will
    remember God. For remembering Him is to remember freedom."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 1


    "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."
    - Paul the Apostle, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Holy Bible, New Testament


    "I can teach you, but only you can choose to listen to my teaching. How else can
    it be, if God's Kingdom is freedom? Freedom cannot be learned by tyranny of any
    kind, and the perfect equality of all God's Sons cannot be recognized through the
    dominion of one mind over another. God's Sons are equal in will, all being the Will of their Father. This is the only lesson I came to teach."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 4


    "Freedom is the only gift you can offer to God's Sons, being an acknowledgment of
    what they are and what he is. Freedom is creation, because it is love. Whom you
    seek to imprison you do not love. Therefore, when you seek to imprison anyone, including yourself, you do not love him and you cannot identify with him. When you imprison yourself you are losing sight of your true identification with me and
    with the Father. Your identification is with the Father and with the Son. It cannot be with One and not the Other. If you are part of One you must be part of
    the Other, because They are One. The Holy Trinity is holy because It is One. If
    you exclude yourself from this union, you are perceiving the Holy Trinity as separated. You must be included in It, because It is everything. Unless you take
    your place in It and fulfill your function as part of It, the Holy Trinity is as
    bereft as you are. No part of It can be imprisoned if Its truth is to be known."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 4


    "How long is an instant? As long as it takes to re-establish perfect sanity, perfect peace and perfect love for everyone, for God and for yourself. As long as
    it takes to remember immortality, and your immortal creations who share it with you. As long as it takes to exchange hell for Heaven. Long enough to transcend
    all of the ego's making, and ascend unto your Father."

    "How long is an instant? It is as short for your brother as it is for you. Practice giving this blessed instant of freedom to all who are enslaved by time,
    and thus make time their friend for them."

    "The Holy Spirit gives their blessed instant to you through your giving it. As you give it, He offers it to you. Be not unwilling to give what you would receive
    of Him, for you join with Him in giving. In the crystal cleanness of the release
    you give is your instantaneous escape from guilt. You must be holy if you offer
    holiness."

    "The instant of holiness is shared, and cannot be yours alone....
    Miracles are the instants of release you offer, and will receive. They attest to
    your willingness to be released..."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 1


    "There is a light that this world cannot give. Yet you can give it, as it was given you. And as you give it, it shines forth to call you from the world and follow it. For this light will attract you as nothing in this world can do. And
    you will lay aside the world and find another. This other world is bright with love which you have given it. And here will everything remind you of your Father
    and his holy Son. Light is unlimited, and spreads across this world in quiet joy.
    All those you brought with you will shine on you, and you will shine on them in
    gratitude because they brought you here. Your light will join with theirs in power so compelling, that it will draw the others out of darkness as you look on
    them."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 13, Section 6 (7pdf)

    "Christ's vision is the bridge between the worlds. And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness. Things which seem quite solid here are merely shadows there; transparent, faintly
    seen, at times forgot, and never able to obscure the light that shines beyond them. Holiness has been restored to vision, and the blind can see."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 159


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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 17:57:40 2021
    Re: To Remember God Is To Remember Freedom - Begin To Practice The Holy Instant

    "There is no escape from fear in the ego's use of time. For time, according to its teaching, is nothing but a teaching device for compounding guilt until it becomes all-encompassing, demanding vengeance forever.

    The Holy Spirit would undo all of this *now*. Fear is not of the present, but only of the past and future, which do not exist. There is no fear in the present
    when each instant stands clear and separated from the past, without its shadow reaching out into the future. Each instant is a clean, untarnished birth, in which the Son of God emerges from the past into the present. And the present extends forever. It is so beautiful and so clean and free of guilt that nothing
    but happiness is there. No darkness is remembered, and immortality and joy are now.

    This lesson takes no time. For what is time without a past and future? It has taken time to misguide you so completely, but it takes no time at all to be what
    you are. Begin to practice the Holy Spirit's use of time as a teaching aid to happiness and peace. Take this very instant, now, and think of it as all there is
    of time. Nothing can reach you here out of the past, and it is here that you are
    completely absolved, completely free and wholly without condemnation. From this
    holy instant wherein holiness was born again you will go forth in time without fear, and with no sense of change with time.

    Time is inconceivable without change, yet holiness does not change. Learn from this instant more than merely that hell does not exist. In this redeeming instant
    lies Heaven. And Heaven will not change, for the birth into the holy present is
    salvation from change. Change is an illusion, taught by those who cannot see themselves as guiltless. There is no change in Heaven because there is no change
    in God. In the holy instant, in which you see yourself as bright with freedom, you will remember God. For remembering Him *is* to remember freedom."

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 1

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 17:58:23 2021
    Love Would Always Give Increase - The Holy Instant

    "As the ego would limit your perception of your brothers to the body, so would the
    Holy Spirit release your vision and let you see the Great Rays shining from them,
    so unlimited that they reach to God. It is this shift to vision that is accomplished in the holy instant. Yet it is needful for you to learn just what this shift entails, so you will become willing to make it permanent. Given this
    willingness it will not leave you, for it is permanent. Once you have accepted it
    as the only perception you want, it is translated into knowledge by the part that
    God Himself plays in the Atonement, for it is the only step in it He understands.
    Therefore, in this there will be no delay when you are ready for it. God is ready
    now, but you are not.

    Our task is but to continue, as fast as possible, the necessary process of looking
    straight at all the interference and seeing it exactly as it is. For it is impossible to recognize as wholly without gratification what you think you want.
    The body is the symbol of the ego, as the ego is the symbol of the separation. And
    both are nothing more than attempts to limit communication, and thereby to make it
    impossible. For communication must be unlimited in order to have meaning, and deprived of meaning, it will not satisfy you completely. Yet it remains the only
    means by which you can establish real relationships, which have no limits, having
    been established by God.

    In the holy instant, where the Great Rays replace the body in awareness, the recognition of relationships without limits is given you. But in order to see this, it is necessary to give up every use the ego has for the body, and to accept
    the fact that the ego has no purpose you would share with it. For the ego would
    limit everyone to a body for its own purposes, and while you think it has a purpose, you will choose to utilize the means by which it tries to turn its purpose into accomplishment. This will never be accomplished. Yet you have surely recognized that the ego, whose goals are altogether unattainable, will strive for them with all its might, and will do so with the strength that you have
    given it.

    It is impossible to divide your strength between Heaven and hell, God and the ego,
    and release your power to creation, which is the only purpose for which it was given you. Love would *always* give increase. Limits are demanded by the ego, and represent its demands to make little and ineffectual. Limit your sight of a
    brother to his body, which you will do as long as you would not release him from
    it, and you have denied his gift to you. His body cannot give it. And seek it not through yours. Yet your minds are already continuous, and their union need only be accepted and the loneliness in Heaven is gone.

    If you would but let the Holy Spirit tell you of the Love of God for you, and the
    need your creations have to be with you forever, you would experience the attraction of the eternal. No one can hear Him speak of this and long remain willing to linger here. For it is your will to be in Heaven, where you are complete and quiet, in such sure and loving relationships that any limit is impossible. Would you not exchange your little relationships for this? For the
    body is little and limited, and only those whom you would see without the limits
    the ego would impose on them can offer you the gift of freedom.

    You have no conception of the limits you have placed on your perception, and no idea of all the loveliness that you could see. But this you must remember; the attraction of guilt opposes the attraction of God. His attraction for you remains
    unlimited, but because your power, being His, is as great as His, you can turn away from love. What you invest in guilt you withdraw from God. And your sight
    grows weak and dim and limited, for you have attempted to separate the Father from
    the Son, and limit their communication. Seek not Atonement in further separation.
    And limit not your vision of God's Son to what interferes with his release, and
    what the Holy Spirit must undo to set him free. For his belief in limits has imprisoned him.

    When the body ceases to attract you, and when you place no value on it as a means
    of getting anything, then there will be no interference in communication and your
    thoughts will be as free as God's. As you let the Holy Spirit teach you how to use the body only for purposes of communication, and renounce its use for separation and attack which the ego sees in it, you will learn you have no need of
    a body at all. In the holy instant there are no bodies, and you experience only
    the attraction of God. Accepting it as undivided you join him wholly, in an instant. The reality of this relationship becomes the only truth that you could
    ever want. All truth is here."

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 9

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 17:59:18 2021
    There Is No Fear In God

    "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves
    punishment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love."
    - St. John the Divine, 1 John 4:18, Holy Bible, New Testament

    "There is no fear in perfect love."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 2


    "God is love."
    - St. John the Divine, 1 John 4:8, 4:16, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV

    "The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite."
    - A Course in Miracles, Introduction


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    Re: There Is No Fear In God

    On 6/30/2021 5:59 PM, Miracles Are Seen In Light wrote:
    There Is No Fear In God

    "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves
    punishment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love."
    - St. John the Divine, 1 John 4:18, Holy Bible, New Testament

    "There is no fear in perfect love."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 2


    "God is love."
    - St. John the Divine, 1 John 4:8, 4:16, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV

    "The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite."
    - A Course in Miracles, Introduction


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    https://www.biblegateway.com/



    "Shake off all the fears & servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely
    crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded
    fear."
    - Thomas Jefferson to his nephew Peter Carr, Paris Aug. 10. 1787.


    "The part of mind where reason lies was dedicated, by your will in union with your
    Father's, to the undoing of insanity. Here was the Holy Spirit's purpose accepted
    and accomplished, both at once. Reason is alien to insanity, and those who use it
    have gained a means which cannot be applied to sin. Knowledge is far beyond attainment of any kind. But reason can serve to open doors you closed against it."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 21, Section 5 (6pdf)

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 18:01:27 2021
    God's Will For Me And You Is Perfect Happiness

    Do the Holy Spirit's work, for you share in his function. As your function in Heaven is creation, so your function on earth is healing. God shares his function
    with you in Heaven, and the Holy Spirit shares his with you on earth. As long as
    you believe you have other functions, so long will you need correction. For this
    belief is the destruction of peace, a goal in direct opposition to the Holy Spirit's purpose.

    Be happy, for your only function here is happiness.

    To heal is to make happy.


    God's Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is
    causeless. Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself.
    Fear not the Will of God. But turn to it in confidence that it will set you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination. Say:

    God's Will for me is perfect happiness.
    There is no sin; it has no consequence.


    Begin your practice periods today with this acceptance of God's Will for you:
    I share God's Will for happiness for me, and I accept it as my function now. Then seek this function deep within your mind, for it is there, awaiting but your
    choice. You cannot fail to find it when you learn it is your choice, and that you
    share God's Will.



    God, being Love, is also happiness.

    Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well. Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and
    introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite.

    Fear is associated then with love, and its results become the heritage of minds that think what they have made is real. These images, with no reality in truth,
    bear witness to the fear of God, forgetting being Love, He must be joy. This basic error we will try again to bring to truth today, and teach ourselves:

    God, being Love, is also happiness.
    To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.

    Begin your periods of practicing today with this association, which corrects the
    false belief that God is fear. It also emphasizes happiness belongs to you, because of what He is.

    Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes
    what you expect to take the place of pain. God, being Love, it will be given you.
    Bolster this expectation frequently throughout the day, and quiet all your fears
    with this assurance, kind and wholly true:

    God, being Love, is also happiness.
    And it is happiness I seek today.
    I cannot fail, because I seek the truth.

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 18:02:20 2021
    Re: God's Will For Me And You Is Perfect Happiness

    "Do the Holy Spirit's work, for you share in his function. As your function in Heaven is creation, so your function on earth is healing. God shares his function
    with you in Heaven, and the Holy Spirit shares his with you on earth. As long as
    you believe you have other functions, so long will you need correction. For this
    belief is the destruction of peace, a goal in direct opposition to the Holy Spirit's purpose."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 7

    "Be happy, for your only function here is happiness."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 102

    "To heal is to make happy."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 1


    "God's Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is
    causeless. Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself.
    Fear not the Will of God. But turn to it in confidence that it will set you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination. Say:

    God's Will for me is perfect happiness.
    There is no sin; it has no consequence."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 101


    "Begin your practice periods today with this acceptance of God's Will for you: I share God's Will for happiness for me, and I accept it as my function now. Then seek this function deep within your mind, for it is there, awaiting but your
    choice. You cannot fail to find it when you learn it is your choice, and that you
    share God's Will."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 102



    "God, being Love, is also happiness.

    Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well. Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and
    introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite.

    Fear is associated then with love, and its results become the heritage of minds that think what they have made is real. These images, with no reality in truth,
    bear witness to the fear of God, forgetting being Love, He must be joy. This basic error we will try again to bring to truth today, and teach ourselves:

    God, being Love, is also happiness.
    To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.

    Begin your periods of practicing today with this association, which corrects the
    false belief that God is fear. It also emphasizes happiness belongs to you, because of what He is.

    Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes
    what you expect to take the place of pain. God, being Love, it will be given you.
    Bolster this expectation frequently throughout the day, and quiet all your fears
    with this assurance, kind and wholly true:

    God, being Love, is also happiness.
    And it is happiness I seek today.
    I cannot fail, because I seek the truth."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 103

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 18:03:07 2021
    The Holy Spirit Is Your Holy Spirit, Your Holy Spirit Is Your Higher Self, Your Higher Self Is Your Holy Self.

    The Holy Spirit, Is _Your_ Holy Spirit,

    Your Holy Spirit, Is Your Higher Self,

    Your Higher Self, Is Your Holy Self.


    Follow Your Holy Self Into The Light.


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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 18:04:43 2021
    The Final Lesson Is Hear Only The Voice Of The Holy Spirit

    "The principle of Atonement and the separation began at the same time.
    When the ego was made, God placed in the mind the Call to joy. This Call is so strong that the ego always dissolves at Its sound. That is why you must choose to
    hear one of two voices within you. One you made yourself, and that one is not of
    God. But the other is given you by God, Who asks you only to listen to it."

    "The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. His is the voice that calls you back to where you were before and will be again. It is possible even in this
    world to hear only that voice and no other. It takes effort and great willingness
    to learn. It is the final lesson that I learned, and God's Sons are as equal as learners as they are as sons."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 6, Section 3

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to Miracles Are Seen In Light on Wed Jun 30 18:03:59 2021
    *The Holy Spirit Is The Spirit Of Joy*

    On 6/30/2021 6:03 PM, Miracles Are Seen In Light wrote:
    The Holy Spirit Is Your Holy Spirit, Your Holy Spirit Is Your Higher Self, Your
    Higher Self Is Your Holy Self.

    The Holy Spirit, Is _Your_ Holy Spirit,

    Your Holy Spirit, Is Your Higher Self,

    Your Higher Self, Is Your Holy Self.


    Follow Your Holy Self Into The Light.


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    "The Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy. He is the Call to return with which God blessed the minds of his separated Sons. This is the vocation of the mind. The mind had no calling until the separation, because before that it had only being,
    and would not have understood the Call to right thinking. The Holy Spirit is God's
    Answer to the separation; the means by which the Atonement heals until the whole
    mind returns to creating.

    The principle of Atonement and the separation began at the same time. When the ego was made, God placed in the mind the Call to joy. This Call is so strong that
    the ego always dissolves at Its sound. That is why you must choose to hear one of
    two voices within you. One you made yourself, and that one is not of God. But the
    other is given you by God, Who asks you only to listen to it. The Holy Spirit is
    in you in a very literal sense. His is the voice that calls you back to where you
    were before and will be again. It is possible even in this world to hear only that
    voice and no other. It takes effort and great willingness to learn. It is the final lesson that I learned, and God's Sons are as equal as learners as they are
    as sons.

    You are the Kingdom of Heaven, but you have let the belief in darkness enter your
    mind and so you need a new light. The Holy Spirit is the radiance that you must let banish the idea of darkness. His is the glory before which dissociation falls
    away, and the Kingdom of Heaven breaks through into its own. Before the separation
    you did not need guidance. You knew as you will know again, but as you do not know
    now.

    God does not guide, because he can share only perfect knowledge. Guidance is evaluative, because it implies there is a right way and also a wrong way, one to
    be chosen and the other to be avoided. By choosing one you give up the other. The
    choice for the Holy Spirit is the choice for God. God is not in you in a literal
    sense; you are part of him. When you chose to leave him he gave you a voice to speak for him because he could no longer share his knowledge with you without hindrance. Direct communication was broken because you had made another voice.

    The Holy Spirit calls you both to remember and to forget. You have chosen to be in
    a state of opposition in which opposites are possible. As a result, there are choices you must make. In the holy state the will is free, so that its creative power is unlimited and choice is meaningless. 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.

    The voice of the Holy Spirit does not command, because It is incapable of arrogance. It does not demand, because It does not seek control. It does not overcome, because It does not attack. It merely reminds. It is compelling only because of what It reminds you of. It brings to your mind the other way, remaining
    quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make. The voice for God is always
    quiet, because It speaks of peace. Peace is stronger than war because it heals. War is division, not increase. No one gains from strife. What profiteth it a man
    if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? If you listen to the wrong voice
    you have lost sight of your soul. You cannot lose it, but you can not know it. It
    is therefore "lost" to you until you choose right.

    The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. He is in the part of your mind that always speaks for the right choice, because he speaks for God. He is your remaining communication with God, which you can interrupt but cannot destroy. The
    Holy Spirit is the way in which God's Will is done on earth as it is in heaven. Both heaven and earth are in you, because the call of both is in your mind. The voice for God comes from your own altars to him. These altars are not things; they are devotions. Yet you have other devotions now. Your divided devotion has given you the two voices, and you must choose at which altar you want to serve. The call you answer now is an evaluation because it is a decision. The decision is
    very simple. It is made on the basis of which call is worth more to you.

    My mind will always be like yours, because we were created as equals. It was only
    my decision that gave me all power in heaven and earth. My only gift to you is to
    help you make the same decision. This decision is the choice to share it, because
    the decision itself is the decision to share. It is made by giving, and is therefore the one choice that resembles true creation. I am your model for decision. By deciding for God I showed you that this decision can be made, and that you can make it.

    I have assured you that the Mind that decided for me is also in you, and that you
    can let it change you just as it changed me. This Mind is unequivocal, because it
    hears only one voice and answers in only one way. You are the light of the world
    with me. Rest does not come from sleeping but from waking. The Holy Spirit is the
    Call to awaken and be glad. The world is very tired, because it is the idea of weariness. Our task is the joyous one of waking it to the Call for God. Everyone
    will answer the Call of the Holy Spirit, or the Sonship cannot be as One. What better vocation could there be for any part of the Kingdom than to restore it to
    the perfect integration that can make it whole? Hear only this through the Holy Spirit within you, and teach your brothers to listen as I am teaching you.

    When you are tempted by the wrong voice, call on me to remind you how to heal by
    sharing my decision and making it stronger. As we share this goal, we increase its
    power to attract the whole Sonship, and to bring it back into the oneness in which
    it was created. Remember that "yoke" means "join together," and "burden" means "message. "Let us restate "My yoke is easy and my burden light" in this way; "Let
    us join together, for my message is light. "

    I have enjoined you to behave as I behaved, but we must respond to the same Mind
    to do this. This Mind is the Holy Spirit, Whose Will is for God always. He teaches
    you how to keep me as the model for your thought, and to behave like me as a result. The power of our joint motivation is beyond belief, but not beyond accomplishment. What we can accomplish together has no limits, because the Call for God is the Call to the unlimited. Child of God, my message is for you, to hear
    and give away as you answer the Holy Spirit within you."

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 3

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 18:05:37 2021
    Thanksgiving Bible Selections

    Thanksgiving Bible Selections (5-10 minutes)
    New King James Version (NKJV)

    The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

    {p.611} 6:
    2 Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
    4 in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God:

    10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as
    having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
    11 O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open.

    {p.610) 3:
    1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you?
    2 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
    3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with
    ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on
    tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
    4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God.
    5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,
    6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
    7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was
    glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face
    of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing
    away,
    8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?
    9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of
    righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
    10 For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of
    the glory that excels.
    11 For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.
    12 Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech-
    13 unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away.
    14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away
    in Christ.
    15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
    16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
    17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
    18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as
    by the Spirit of the Lord.
    4:1 Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.
    2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in
    craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of
    God.

    13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written,
    "I believed and therefore I spoke," {Psalm 116:10} we also believe and therefore speak,

    15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

    18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things
    which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the
    things which are not seen are eternal.

    {p.611} 5:
    18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
    19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
    20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading
    through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

    {p.613} 9:
    10 Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your
    righteousness,
    11 while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.
    12 For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God,
    15 Thanks be to God ... !

    The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians

    {p.621} 4:
    4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!
    5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
    6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
    7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
    8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are
    lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if
    there is anything praiseworthy-meditate on these things.
    9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in [I Paul]
    (me), these do, and the God of peace will be with you.

    Pslam 136 {p.330}
    Thanksgiving to God for His Enduring Mercy

    1 Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
    For His mercy endures forever.
    2 Oh, give thanks to the God of gods!
    For His mercy endures forever.
    3 Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords!
    For His mercy endures forever:
    4 To Him who alone does great wonders,
    For His mercy endures forever;
    5 To Him who by wisdom made the heavens,
    For His mercy endures forever;
    6 To Him who laid out the earth above the waters,
    For His mercy endures forever;
    7 To Him who made great lights,
    For His mercy endures forever-
    8 The sun to rule by day,
    For His mercy endures forever;
    9 The moon and stars to rule by night,
    For His mercy endures forever.

    Psalm 100 {p.318}
    A Song of Praise for the Lord's Faithfulness to His People
    A Psalm of Thanksgiving.

    1 Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!
    2 Serve the Lord with gladness;
    Come before His presence with singing.
    3 Know that the Lord, He is God;
    It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
    We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

    4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
    And into His courts with praise.
    Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
    5 For the Lord is good;
    His mercy is everlasting,
    And His truth endures to all generations.

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 18:06:27 2021
    God Is Light, And God Is The Creator Of Light - Thanksgiving To Light

    "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is
    light and in Him there is no darkness at all."
    - St. John the Divine, 1 John 1:5, Holy Bible, New Testament

    "Child of light... the light is in you"

    "Shine on your brothers in remembrance of your creator, for you will remember him
    as you call forth the witnesses to his creation. Those whom you heal bear witness
    to your healing, for in their wholeness you will see your own."

    "Now is the time of salvation, for now is the release from time. Reach out to all
    your brothers, and touch them with the touch of Christ. In timeless union with them is your continuity, unbroken because it is wholly shared. God's guiltless Son is only light. There is no darkness in him anywhere, for he is whole. Call
    all your brothers to witness to his wholeness, as I am calling you to join with me. Each voice has a part in the song of redemption, the hymn of gladness and thanksgiving for the light to the Creator of light. The holy light that shines forth from God's Son is the witness that his light is of his Father."

    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 13, Section 6 (7pdf)


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    noun
    1. The expression of gratitude, especially to God.
    2. Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving Day.

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 18:07:18 2021
    Sin vs. Error

    "It is essential that error be not confused with sin, and it is this distinction
    that makes salvation possible."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 2

    "Sin calls for punishment as error for correction, and the belief that punishment
    *is* correction is clearly insane."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 2


    "The Holy Spirit cannot punish sin. Mistakes he recognizes, and would correct them
    all as God entrusted him to do. But sin he knows not, nor can he recognize mistakes that cannot be corrected. For a mistake that cannot be corrected is meaningless to him. Mistakes are *for* correction, and they call for nothing else.
    What calls for punishment must call for nothing. Every mistake *must* be a call
    for love. What, then, is sin? What could it be but a mistake you would keep hidden; a call for help that you would keep unheard and thus unanswered?"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 3

    "When you are tempted to believe that sin is real, remember this: If sin is real,
    both God and you are not. If creation is extension, the Creator must have extended
    himself, and it is impossible that what is part of him is totally unlike the rest.
    If sin is real, God must be at war with himself. He must be split, and torn between good and evil; partly sane and partially insane. For he must have created
    what wills to destroy him, and has the power to do so. Is it not easier to believe that you have been mistaken than to believe in this?"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 3


    "If sin is real, it must forever be beyond the hope of healing. For there would be
    a power beyond God's, capable of making another will that could attack his will and overcome it; and give his Son a will apart from his, and stronger. And each part of God's fragmented creation would have a different will, opposed to his, and
    in eternal opposition to him and to each other."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 3


    "Freedom is the only gift you can offer to God's Sons, being an acknowledgment of
    what they are and what he is. Freedom is creation, because it is love."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 4

    Freedom is riches. Prohibition and oppression are impoverishment.


    "Whenever you become angry with a brother, for whatever reason, you are believing
    that the ego is to be saved, and to be saved by attack. If he attacks, you are agreeing with this belief; and if you attack, you are reinforcing it.
    *Remember that those who attack are poor*. Their poverty asks for gifts, not for
    further impoverishment. You who could help them are surely acting destructively if
    you accept their poverty as yours. If you had not invested as they had, it would
    never occur to you to overlook their need."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 3

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 17:57:05 2021
    Re: To Remember God Is To Remember Freedom

    "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
    - Jesus Christ, John 8:32, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV

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    Spoon Boy, The Matrix

    "Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible.
    Instead, only try to realize the truth...
    there is no spoon.
    Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends,
    it is only yourself."
    - Spoon Boy, The Matrix

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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 30 18:34:33 2021
    Iambic Pentameter in A Course in Miracles

    "What Is Salvation?

    Salvation is a promise, made by God,
    that you would find your way to Him at last.
    It cannot but be kept. It guarantees
    that time will have an end, and all the thoughts
    that have been born in time will end as well.
    God's Word is given every mind which thinks
    that it has separate thoughts, and will replace
    these thoughts of conflict with the Thought of peace.

    The Thought of peace was given to God's Son
    the instant that his mind had thought of war.
    There was no need for such a Thought before,
    for peace was given without opposite,
    and merely was. But when the mind is split
    there is a need of healing. So the Thought
    that has the power to heal the split became
    a part of every fragment of the mind
    that still was one, but failed to recognize
    its oneness. Now it did not know itself,
    and thought its own Identity was lost.

    Salvation is undoing in the sense
    that it does nothing, failing to support
    the world of dreams and malice. Thus it lets
    illusions go. By not supporting them,
    it merely lets them quietly go down
    to dust. And what they hid is now revealed;
    an altar to the holy Name of God
    whereon His Word is written, with the gifts
    of your forgiveness laid before it, and
    the memory of God not far behind.

    Let us come daily to this holy place,
    and spend a while together. Here we share
    our final dream. It is a dream in which
    there is no sorrow, for it holds a hint
    of all the glory given us by God.
    The grass is pushing through the soil, the trees
    are budding now, and birds have come to live
    within their branches. Earth is being born
    again in new perspective. Night has gone,
    and we have come together in the light.

    From here we give salvation to the world,
    for it is here salvation was received.
    The song of our rejoicing is the call
    to all the world that freedom is returned,
    that time is almost over, and God's Son
    has but an instant more to wait until
    his Father is remembered, dreams are done,
    eternity has shined away the world,
    and only Heaven now exists at all."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, "What Is Salvation?"


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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to Miracles Are Seen In Light on Wed Jun 30 18:38:19 2021
    God has not many Sons, but only One.

    On 6/30/2021 5:49 PM, Miracles Are Seen In Light wrote:
    A Course in Miracles goes beyond existentialism to true self-realization. Rather
    than merely waking up and finding oneself turned into a monstrous insect: "The
    Metamorphosis" - Kafka; or shooting someone on a beach senselessly: "The Stranger,"- Camus; A Course in Miracles makes quite clear that what lies past existentialism is not disgusting or psychosis, but:

    "You are afraid of me because you looked within and are afraid of what you saw.
    Yet you could not have seen reality, for the reality of your mind is the loveliest
    of God's creations. Coming only from God, its power and grandeur could only bring
    you peace *if you really looked upon it*. If you are afraid, it is because you
    saw something that is not there. Yet in that same place you could have looked
    upon me and all your brothers, in the perfect safety of the Mind which created us.
    For we are there in the peace of the Father, who wills to extend his peace through you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 7

    "Everyone makes an ego or a self for himself, which is subject to enormous variation because of its instability. He also makes an ego for everyone else he
    perceives, which is equally variable. Their interaction is a process that alters
    both, because they were not made by or with the unalterable. It is important to
    realize that this alteration can and does occur as readily when the interaction
    takes place in the mind as when it involves physical interaction. There could be
    no better example that the ego is only an idea and not a fact."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 2 (3pdf)

    "You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be,
    you will believe that it is one with you. Your safety lies in truth, and not in
    lies. Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are
    safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your
    Self."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, "What is the Body"


    "the purpose of this course is to help you remember what you are"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 9, Section 1


    "The goal of the curriculum, regardless of the teacher you choose, is "Know thyself." There is nothing else to seek. Everyone is looking for himself and for
    the power and glory he thinks he has lost. Whenever you are with anyone, you have
    another opportunity to find them. Your power and glory are in him because they
    are yours. The ego tries to find them in yourself alone, because it does not know
    where to look. The Holy Spirit teaches you that if you look only at yourself you
    cannot find yourself, because that is not what you are. Whenever you are with a
    brother, you are learning what you are because you are teaching what you are. He
    will respond either with pain or with joy, depending on which teacher you are following. He will be imprisoned or released according to your decision, and so
    will you. Never forget your responsibility to him, because it is your responsibility to yourself. Give him his place in the Kingdom and you will have
    yours.

    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.

    You can encounter only part of yourself because you are part of God, Who is everything. His power and glory are everywhere, and you cannot be excluded from
    them. The ego teaches that your strength is in you alone. The Holy Spirit teaches that all strength is in God and *therefore* in you. God wills no one suffer. He does not will anyone to suffer for a wrong decision, including you.
    That is why he has given you the means for undoing it. Through his power and glory all your wrong decisions are undone completely, releasing you and your brother from every imprisoning thought any part of the Sonship holds. Wrong decisions have no power, because they are not true. The imprisonment they seem to
    produce is no more true than they are.

    Power and glory belong to God alone. So do you. God gives whatever belongs to
    him because he gives of himself, and everything belongs to him. Giving of yourself is the function he gave you. Fulfilling it perfectly will let you remember what you *have* of him, and by this you will remember also what you *are*
    in him. You cannot be powerless to do this, because this is your power. Glory is
    God's gift to you, because that is what he is. See this glory everywhere to remember what you are."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 3


    "Seek not outside yourself. For it will fail, and you will weep each time an idol
    falls. Heaven cannot be found where it is not, and there can be no peace excepting there. Each idol that you worship when God calls will never answer in
    His place. There is no other answer you can substitute, and find the happiness
    His answer brings. Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply
    from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if
    it is not there? Do you prefer that you be right or happy? Be you glad that you
    are told where happiness abides, and seek no longer elsewhere. You will fail. But
    it is given you to know the truth, and not to seek for it outside yourself.

    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"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 29, Section 7



    "God has not many Sons, but only One. Who can have more, and who be given less?
    It is for him the Holy Spirit speaks, and tells you idols have no purpose here. For more than Heaven can you never have. If Heaven is within, why would you seek
    for idols that would make of Heaven less, to give you more than God bestowed upon
    your brother and on you, as one with Him? God gave you all there is. And to be
    sure you could not lose it, did He also give the same to every living thing as well. And thus is every living thing a part of you, as of Himself. No idol can
    establish you as more than God. But you will never be content with being less."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 29, Section 8




    "Understand what "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you," really means.... The word
    "within" is unnecessary. The Kingdom of Heaven *is* you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 3 (4pdf)


    "Nothing [you] can do, can compare even in the slightest with the glorious surprise of remembering Who [You are]. Let all [your] learning and all [your]
    efforts be directed toward this one great final surprise, and [you] will not be
    content to be delayed by the little ones that may come to [you] on the way." - A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 25, "Are "Psychic" Powers
    Desirable?"


    "Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He
    answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor
    will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is
    within you.”
    - Jesus Christ, Luke 17:20-21, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV


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  • From Miracles Are Seen In Light@21:1/5 to Miracles Are Seen In Light on Wed Jun 30 18:40:58 2021
    Re: ACIM: From Existentialism To Self Realization - "Seek not outside yourself, Nor For Something More Than Everything"

    On 6/30/2021 5:49 PM, Miracles Are Seen In Light wrote:
    A Course in Miracles goes beyond existentialism to true self-realization. Rather
    than merely waking up and finding oneself turned into a monstrous insect: "The
    Metamorphosis" - Kafka; or shooting someone on a beach senselessly: "The Stranger,"- Camus; A Course in Miracles makes quite clear that what lies past existentialism is not disgusting or psychosis, but:

    "You are afraid of me because you looked within and are afraid of what you saw.
    Yet you could not have seen reality, for the reality of your mind is the loveliest
    of God's creations. Coming only from God, its power and grandeur could only bring
    you peace *if you really looked upon it*. If you are afraid, it is because you
    saw something that is not there. Yet in that same place you could have looked
    upon me and all your brothers, in the perfect safety of the Mind which created us.
    For we are there in the peace of the Father, who wills to extend his peace through you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 7



    "The Holy Spirit is the light in which Christ stands revealed. And all who would
    behold him can see him, for they have asked for light. Nor will they see him alone, for he is no more alone than they are. Because they saw the Son, they have
    risen in him to the Father. And all this will they understand, because they looked within and saw beyond the darkness the Christ in them, and recognized him.
    In the sanity of his vision they looked upon themselves with love, seeing themselves as the Holy Spirit sees them. And with this vision of the truth in them came all the beauty of the world to shine upon them."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 13, Section 5 (6 pdf)


    "You are the Kingdom of Heaven, but you have let the belief in darkness enter your
    mind and so you need a new light. The Holy Spirit is the radiance that you must
    let banish the idea of darkness. His is the glory before which dissociation falls
    away, and the Kingdom of Heaven breaks through into its own. Before the separation you did not need guidance. You knew as you will know again, but as you
    do not know now."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 2 (3 pdf)


    "The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. His is the voice that calls
    you back to where you were before and will be again. It is possible even in this
    world to hear only that voice and no other. It takes effort and great willingness
    to learn. It is the final lesson that I learned, and God's Sons are as equal as
    learners as they are as sons."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 2 (3 pdf)


    "The voice of the Holy Spirit does not command, because It is incapable of arrogance. It does not demand, because It does not seek control. It does not overcome, because It does not attack. It merely reminds. It is compelling only
    because of what It reminds you of. It brings to your mind the other way, remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make. The voice for God
    is always quiet, because It speaks of peace. Peace is stronger than war because
    it heals. War is division, not increase. No one gains from strife. What profiteth it a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? If you listen to the wrong voice you have lost sight of your soul. You cannot lose it,
    but you can not know it. It is therefore "lost" to you until you choose right."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 2 (3 pdf)

    "The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. He is in the part of your mind that
    always speaks for the right choice, because he speaks for God. He is your remaining communication with God, which you can interrupt but cannot destroy." - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 2 (3 pdf)

    "My mind will always be like yours, because we were created as equals. It was only my decision that gave me all power in heaven and earth. My only gift to you
    is to help you make the same decision. This decision is the choice to share it,
    because the decision itself is the decision to share. It is made by giving, and
    is therefore the one choice that resembles true creation. I am your model for decision. By deciding for God I showed you that this decision can be made, and that you can make it.
    I have assured you that the Mind that decided for me is also in you, and that you
    can let it change you just as it changed me. This Mind is unequivocal, because it
    hears only one voice and answers in only one way. You are the light of the world
    with me."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 2 (3 pdf)

    “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
    Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that
    they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."
    - Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:14-16, New Testament, Holy Bible, NKJV

    "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but
    have the light of life.”
    - Jesus Christ, John 8:12, New Testament, Holy Bible, NKJV



    "Everyone makes an ego or a self for himself, which is subject to enormous variation because of its instability. He also makes an ego for everyone else he
    perceives, which is equally variable. Their interaction is a process that alters
    both, because they were not made by or with the unalterable. It is important to
    realize that this alteration can and does occur as readily when the interaction
    takes place in the mind as when it involves physical interaction. There could be
    no better example that the ego is only an idea and not a fact."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 2 (3pdf)

    "You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be,
    you will believe that it is one with you. Your safety lies in truth, and not in
    lies. Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are
    safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your
    Self."
    - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, "What is the Body"


    "the purpose of this course is to help you remember what you are"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 9, Section 1


    "The goal of the curriculum, regardless of the teacher you choose, is "Know thyself." There is nothing else to seek. Everyone is looking for himself and for
    the power and glory he thinks he has lost. Whenever you are with anyone, you have
    another opportunity to find them. Your power and glory are in him because they
    are yours. The ego tries to find them in yourself alone, because it does not know
    where to look. The Holy Spirit teaches you that if you look only at yourself you
    cannot find yourself, because that is not what you are. Whenever you are with a
    brother, you are learning what you are because you are teaching what you are. He
    will respond either with pain or with joy, depending on which teacher you are following. He will be imprisoned or released according to your decision, and so
    will you. Never forget your responsibility to him, because it is your responsibility to yourself. Give him his place in the Kingdom and you will have
    yours.

    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.

    You can encounter only part of yourself because you are part of God, Who is everything. His power and glory are everywhere, and you cannot be excluded from
    them. The ego teaches that your strength is in you alone. The Holy Spirit teaches that all strength is in God and *therefore* in you. God wills no one suffer. He does not will anyone to suffer for a wrong decision, including you.
    That is why he has given you the means for undoing it. Through his power and glory all your wrong decisions are undone completely, releasing you and your brother from every imprisoning thought any part of the Sonship holds. Wrong decisions have no power, because they are not true. The imprisonment they seem to
    produce is no more true than they are.

    Power and glory belong to God alone. So do you. God gives whatever belongs to
    him because he gives of himself, and everything belongs to him. Giving of yourself is the function he gave you. Fulfilling it perfectly will let you remember what you *have* of him, and by this you will remember also what you *are*
    in him. You cannot be powerless to do this, because this is your power. Glory is
    God's gift to you, because that is what he is. See this glory everywhere to remember what you are."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 3


    "Seek not outside yourself. For it will fail, and you will weep each time an idol
    falls. Heaven cannot be found where it is not, and there can be no peace excepting there. Each idol that you worship when God calls will never answer in
    His place. There is no other answer you can substitute, and find the happiness
    His answer brings. Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply
    from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if
    it is not there? Do you prefer that you be right or happy? Be you glad that you
    are told where happiness abides, and seek no longer elsewhere. You will fail. But
    it is given you to know the truth, and not to seek for it outside yourself.

    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"
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 29, Section 7

    "Understand what "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you," really means.... The word
    "within" is unnecessary. The Kingdom of Heaven *is* you."
    - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 3 (4pdf)


    "Nothing [you] can do, can compare even in the slightest with the glorious surprise of remembering Who [You are]. Let all [your] learning and all [your]
    efforts be directed toward this one great final surprise, and [you] will not be
    content to be delayed by the little ones that may come to [you] on the way." - A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 25, "Are "Psychic" Powers
    Desirable?"


    "Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He
    answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor
    will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is
    within you.”
    - Jesus Christ, Luke 17:20-21, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV


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