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3/31/2008 Lesson 89These are our review ideas for today:
1.(77) I am entitled to miracles
I am entitled to miracles because I am under no laws but God's. His laws release me from all girevances, and replace them with miracles.
And I would accept the miracles in place of the grievances, which are but illusionss that hide the miracles beyond. Now I would accept only what the laws of God entitle me to have, that I may use it on behalf of the function He has given me.
2. You might use these suggestions for specific applications of this idea:
Being this is a miracle to which I am entitled
Let me not hold a grievance against you, [ name], but offer you the miracle that belongs to you instad.Seen truly, this offers me a miracle.
3.(78) Let miracles replace all grievances.
By this idea do I unite my will with the Holy Spirit, and perceive them as one. By ths idea do I accept my release from hell. By this idea do I express my willingness to have all my illusions be replaced with truth, according to God's plan for my salvation. I would make no exceptions and no substitutes. I want all of Heaven and only Heaven, as God wills me to have.
4. Useful specific forms for applying this idea would be:
I would not hold this grievance apart from my salvation
Let our grievances be replaced by miracles,[name]
Beyond this is the miracle by which all my grievances are repalce. Lesson 88Today we will review these ideas:
1.(75) The light has come.
In choosing salvation rather than attack, I merely choose to recognize what is already there. Salvation is a decision made already. Attack and grievances are not there to choose. That is why I always choose between truth and illusion; between what is there and what is not. The light has come. I can but choose the light, for it has no alternative. It has replaced the darkness, and the darkness has gone.
2. These would prove useful forms for specific applications of this idea:
This cannot show me darkness, for the light has come.
The light in you is all that I would see,[name].
I would see in this only what is there.
3.(76). I am under no laws but God's
Here is the perfect statement of my freedom. I am under no laws but God's. I am constantanly tempted to make up other laws and give them power over me. I suffer only because of my belief in them. they have no real effect on me at all. I am perfectly free of the effects of all laws save God's. And His are the laws of freedom.
4. For specific froms in applying this idea, these would be useful:
My perception of this shows me I believe in laws that do not exist.
I see only the laws of God at work in this.
Let me allow God's laws to work in this, and not my own. Lesson 87Our review today will cover these ideas:
1.(73) I will there be light.
I will use the power of my will today. It is not my will to grope about in darkness, fearful of shadows and afriand of things unseen and unreal. Light shall be my guide today. I will follow it where it leads me, and I will look only on what it shows me. This say I will experience the peace of true perception.
2. These forms of this idea would be helpful for specific applications:
This cannot hide the light I will to see.
You stand with me in light, [name].
In the light this will look different.
3.(74) there is no will but God's
I am safe today becaus there is no will but God's. I can become afraid only when I believe there is another will. I try to attack only when I am afraid, and only when I try to attack can I believe that my enernal safely is threatened. Today I will recognize that all this has not occurred. I am safe because there is no will but God's.
4. There are some useful forms of this idea for specific applications:
Let me perceive this in accordance with the Will of God.
It is God's will you are His Son, [name], and mine as well.
This is part of God's Will for me, however I may see it. Chapter 1 Arten and Pursah P.11. At one point in that same Course, J is talking about all the difficult questions people have, and he makes the remarkable statement, "... There is no answer; only an experience. Seek only this, and do not let theology delay you."
That experience comes as a result of allowing your mind to be trained by the Holy Spirit to think and see others as He does. But it takes a good system, like Buddhism or A Couorse in Miracles, to be hastened on the road to accomplishment. Left to its own devices, the mind cannot be healed. As J says in his Course, " An untrained mind can accomplish nothing." That's quite a statement, because it's saying that 99.9 percent of all the people on the earth are accomplishing nothing. Until the mind is trained, you're just spinning your wheels.
GARY: Yeah. I've realized more and more how important the Workbook of the Course is in that regard, and I think I've also realized that no matter what comes up, it's all for the same purpose, which is forgiveness. I'm not saying I always do it right away. I don't. But I always do it eventually. And the sooner I do, the less I suffer. Take speaking in public, for example, which I never thought I'd do. I was really nervous about it, but by letting the Holy Spirit help me, I started to realize that I wasn't nervous for the reason I thought. It's like the Course says: " I am never upset for the reason I think."
ARTEN: That's right, hotshot. Everybody's afraid of something in this world, and as difficult as it may be fore people to believe, because it's uncouscious to them, all fears that people have can be directly traced at the leavel of the uncouscious mind to the fear of God that is a result of your seeming separation from Him and the unconscious guilt that resulted from it.
GARY: Hey! Does this mean we're goona do another book? because if we are, there are people might not understand what you just said.
ARTEN: Well, why don't you give us a little review, then? Tell us the teaching in a nutshell so both the uninitiated and the experienced practitioner will have a better idea what we're talking about. You can do it. Things are going pretty good for your speaking, as well as for The Disappearance of the Universe, so far, right?
3/30/2008 P.22.that has been hidden from the ages, this is the key that unlocks the gates of hell and lets us step out into light as a free person.
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Gifts of the kingdom...
Healing as recognition of Truth...
Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, because that is where the laws of God operate truely, and they can operate only truely because they are the laws of truth.
But seek this only, because you can find nothing else.
There is nothing else.
God is All in all in a very literal sense.
All being is in Him Who is all Being.
You are therefore in Him since your being is His.
Healing is a way of forgetting the sense of danger the ego has induced in you, by not recognizing its existence in your brother.
This strengthens the Holy Spirit in both of you, because it is a refusal to acknowledge fear.
Love needs only this invitation.
It comes freely to all the Sonship, being what the Sonship is.
By your awakening to it, you are merely forgetting what you are not.
This enables you to remember what you are.
T. Page 118
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This is the beginning; this is the light we have been looking for in all areas of our lives.
Repeat this idea often, letting this thought sink deep within your mind.
Become assured that you are under no laws but God's law, and God is only the Good.
We have not come this far to turn back, become the person God intended you to be.
Let this be the regeneration of your life now.
For you are " As God Created," you are Whole Perfect, and Complete.
Call on the Healing Presence s of Infinite Wisdom, Divine Right Action and Dvine Right Order.
State the Truth about yourself confidently, remembering at all times who you really are, " As God Created." So in this Holy Instant we affirm these Truths.
" I am under no laws but God's." WBL76
Here is the perfect statement of my freedom. I am under no laws but God's. I am constantly tempted to make yo other laws and give them power over me. I suffer
P.21>You think you must obey the "laws" of medicine, of economies, and of health.
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We are held in fear's grip so tightly that we are unable to see through the smoke and mirrors.
We have been held back by fear.
We have been unable to see through the magic and twisted web of the egoic thought system to even begin to se a solution.
Fear was made by a mind believing in the false idea that a separation from God occurred and that the separation is real.
The ego tries to convice us to believe in failure, and that is just another attempte to validate separation really succeeded.
All of this is an attempt by your egoic thoughts to make you believe you are powerless, weak, and separate.
Thinking you are separate from God and refusing to ask God for help, is one definition of magic.
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There are no laws except the laws of God. This needs repeating, over and over, until you realize it applies to everything that you have made in opposition to God's Will. Your magic has no meaning.
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This practice tells us that these egoic efforts are looking for love where it cannot be found.
The good news is that in spite of our efforts to prove we are separate and powerless, the Truth is they are not real and cannot be made real.
We remain " As God Created" us, one with Him, forever loving and forever loved, we are in Truth;
"Whole, Perfect, and Complete." It is the remembrance of this God Thought or I dea that will open us up tp the Miracle Mindedness we seek.
This Truth practice or theme will restore us back to full acknowledgment of God.
only the Lwas of God and only Love are real. This change in perceptions is so powerful it will free us of our addiction to fear, restoring us to Truth, a place of Spiritual Healing, Power, and restore our Peace of mind. In remembering our inhritabce, we have begun the process of releasing our addicion to fear's control.
We have broken the chains that bind us, we have loosed them and let them go. We have taken the first step and started the journey without distance. This is the secret
P.20.health I will be safe.
If my body functioned better in some way I would be happy.
If there were peace in the world I would feel safe."
The list can go on and on.
All of these conditions are centered on the belief that I am helpless, fearful, unloved, and that God is a punishing angry God.
I believe I am powerless, that God is never going to answer me or help me.
And in essence by living this way I am playing God by usurping God's power.
By refusing to employ God's presence in my life I am the one who loses.
Truly we believe in smoke and mirrors, our faith and turst lies in the "magic" of the egoic mind.
This has been the major block to your experience of Love's Presence.
This has been called " the unhappy dream" in the book A Course in Miracles.
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We have observed before how many senseless things have seemed to you to be salvation.
Each has imprisoned you with laws as senseless as itself You are not bound by them.
Yet to understand that this is so, you must first realize salvation lies not there While you would seek for it in things that have no meaning, you bind yourself to laws that make no sense.
Thus do you seek to prove salvation is where it is not.
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The foundation or addictive thinking is that you are powerless, weak, and God is pubishing angry God.
You think your power comes from a source outside yourself.
The Course would call this fear, sin, or wrong-mindedness.
Changing these limited thought is called the miracle.
As we think, so shall we perceive, it is only a thought and a thought can be changed, or faith comes by hearing, and hearing the words of God.
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P.19.If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him
James1 The Brother of Jesus
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James, the brother of Jesus, goes on further to say that All Good is of God and God is the Good in your life.
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"Do not err, my beloved brethren, Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down fom the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." James.
We have been held back and thought that we are restricted or limited by the laws we have made.
We thought we were driven aimlessly by the winds of fate and caprise.
Let me make this perfectly clear, this is not the Truth about you and this never was the Truth about you.
It is helpful to remember that what we think can be based on fear or mistaken beliefs.
We are addicted to fear, being driven by a thousand forms of fear.
We have the fear of losing what we think we have, the fear of not getting what we want.
We think the laws of finance and the laws of medicine control us.
We think we are weak, helpless, sick, we think we do not deserve any good, we think we are separate from God.
These thoughts are all forms of fear.
On the other hand, there are many ways we think we can find safety and believe we will be made happy.
For instance, we might say," If I had a faster car or a better job I would be happier. If certain people stay in my life, I will be happy.
If certan other people stay out of my life I will be happy.
If I follow certain laws of
P.18God IS:
" I am under no lawa but God's." WBL 76
Practice 1
Becoming aware that our thinking can change our life is our greatest challenge in this world.
Understanding the nature of God in this life and understanding our egoic mind is the first of the many steps in gainning a state of Miracle Mindedness.
This may seem to be shocking and even in a bit frightening when you begin, but the ultimate Truth is this.
God is All there is.
God is All the Good in the Universe and Truth, omnipotence, and omnipresence.
The first lesson is the work book of A Course in Miracles provide us a catalyst for the change in our thinking.
This opening series of lessons number one through nineteen in the workbook section give use the first in a series of opportunities and the vehicles for changing our perceptions.
These first lessons work with this idea by introducing us to our egoic thoughts and processes.
" I do not know what anything is for." ACIM
This thought from A Course in Miracles is the vital step in the changing of our perception.
This theme or practice opens up our eyes to the Truth concerning our perceptions.
Perhaps at one time we thought we knew it all, or perhaps we have thought that were powerless, weak, and separate.
There thoughts are untrue; they are false.
I am glad to say these ideas are erroneous!
W must change our thinking and remember that although the outer appearances are not what we would like, we do have the power and authority to change them.
We must learn t live life from the inside out, as it has been written in many Spiritual teachings, " As within so without." We are truely spiritual beings, having a human experience.
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Matthew 6
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Yet cannot serve God and mammon.
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~Jesus the Christ~
~~~ 3/29/2008 P.16.Fear is the part of our mind that condemns the world. Fear is based in Egoic. Judgment of situations that occure in our lives. In truth we are raised to fear. We are taught as a small chold that we must protect ourselves. we are tuaght to be wary ,watching out for number one. fear tells us we must always be afraid, insecure, and fear tells us that our mistakes must be published. A fair world calls for the publishment of wrongoers and so we hide our mistakes, we hide our seeming defects. Perhaps we try drowning ourselves in drama or creating other diversions such as being a "workaholic," or acting the "class clown," or even the total opposite, being an out control " bully," or even simply a "lazy slacker" who feels the world owes them a living.
The end result of this is a miserable life filled with fears, guilt, shame, remorse and scikness. What this book is attemping to do is wake you up to your Truth. your Divinity within. To awaken your Mind to its Percetion. To let you know there is a solution to all of these problems. There is a solution; it is as close to you as your breathing, its life is within you. That answer is you! you have a choice. You are the one who can choose again and live the life of magnitude releasing the littleness that would hold you hostage depriving you of the very Creatness you we're intended to live.
These lessons or themes in this book although seemingly simple are the key to freedom. You still will be given knowlege and wisdom to engage the power of the entire Universe to spport you. You are entitled to Miracles; this is the Truth about you. It is your right to be Whole. Perfect and Complete. So choose love again and again. Join us in "Silent Miracles." We have been waiting for you.
"Egoic" definition, thoughts driven by self-will, selfishness, self-center-ness or the usurping of God's power of playing God
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"I am as God created me."
Let us declare this truth as often as we can. This is the Word of God that set you free. This is the key that opens up the gate of Heaven, and that lets you enter in the peace of God and His eternity. WBL 110
~~~ Lesson 861.(71) Only God's plan for salvation will work.
It is senseless for me to search wildly about for salvation. I have seen it in many people and in many things, but when I reached for it, it was not there. I was mistaken about where it is. I was mistaken about what it is. I will undertake no more idle seeking. Only God's plan for salvation will work. And I will rejoice because His plan can never fail.
2. There are some suggested forms for applying this idea specifically:
God's plan for salvation will save me from my perception of this.
This is no exception in God's plan for my salvation.
Let me perceive this only in the light of God's plan for salvation.
3.(72) Holding grievances is an attack in God's plan for salvation.
Holding grievances is an attempt to prove that God's plan for salvation will not work. Yet only His plan will work. By holding grievances, I am therefore excluding my only hope of salvation from my awareness. I would no longer defeat my own best interests in this insane way. I would accept God's plan for salvation, and be happy.
4. Specific applications for this idea might be in these forms:
I am choosing between misperception and salvation as I look on this.
If I see grounds for grievances in this, I will not see the grounds for my salvation.
This calls for salvation, not attack. Lesson 85Today's review will cover these ideas:
1.(69) My Grievances hide the light of the world in me.
My grievances show me what is not here, and hide from me what I would see. Recognizing this, what do I want my grievances for? They keep me in darkness and hide the light. Grievances and light cannot go together, but light and vision must be joined for me to see, I must lay grievances aside. I want to see, and this will be the maens by which I will succeed.
2. Specific application for this idea might be made in these forms:
Let me not use this as a block to sight.
The light of the world will shine all this away.
I have no need for this. I want to see.
3.(70) My salvation comes from me
Today I will recognize where my salvation is. It is in me because its Source is there. It has not left its Source, and so it cannot have left my mind. I will not look for it outside myself. It is not found outside and then brought in. But from within me it will reach beyond, and everything I see will but reflect the light that shines in me and in itself.
4. These forms of the idea are suitable for more specific applications:
Let this not tempt me to look away from me for my salvation.
I will not let this interfere with my awareness of the Source of my salvation
This has no power to remove salvation from me.
3/27/2008 Lesson 84These are the ideas for today's review:
1.(67) Love created me like itself.
I am in the likeness of my Creator. I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die. I am not a body. I would recognize my reality today. I will workship no idols, nor raise my own self-concept to replace my Self. I am in the likeness of my Creator. Love created me like itself.
2. You might find these specific forms helpful in applying the idea:
Let me not see an illusion of myself in this.
As I look on this, Let me remember my Creator.
My Creator did not creat this as I see it.
3.(68) Love holds no grievances.
Grievances are completely alien to love. Grievances attack love and keep its light obscure. If I hold grievances I am attacking love, and therefore attacking my Self. My Self thus becomes alien to me. I am determined not to attack my Self today, so that I can remember Who I am.
4. These specific forms for applying this idea would be helpful:
This is no justification for denying my Self.
I will not use this to attack love.
Let this not tempt me to attack myself. Lesson 83Today let us review these ideas:
1.(65) My only function is the one God gave me.
I have no function but the one God gave me. This recognition releases me from all conflict, because it means I cannot have conflicting goals. With one purpose only, I am always certain what to do, what to say and what to think. all doubt must disappear as I acknowledge that my only function is the one God gave me.
2. More specific applications of this idea might take these forms:
My perception of this does not change my fuction
This does not give me a function other than the one God gave me
Let me not use this to justify a function God did not give me.
3.(66) My happiness and my fuction are one.
All things that come from God are one. They come from Oneness, and must be received as one. Fulfilling my function is my happiness because both come from the same Source. And I must learn to recognize what makes me happy, if I would find happiness.
4. Some useful forms for specific applications of this idea are:
This cannot separate my happiness from my function
The oneness of my happiness and my function remains wholly unaffected by this
Nothing, including this, can justify the illusion of happiness apart from my function.
Lesson 82we will review these ideas today:
1.(63) The light of the world brings peace to every mind trough my forgiveness.
My forgiveness is the means by which the light of the world find expression through me. My forgiveness is the means by which I become aware of the light of the world in me. My forgiveness is the means by which the world is healed, together with myself. Let me, forgive the world, that it maybe healed along with me.
suggestions for specific forms for applying this idea are:
Let peace extend from my mind to yours,[name]
I share this light of the world with you, [name]
Through my forgiveness I can see this as it is.
3.(64) Let me not forget my funtion
I would not forget my function, because I would remember my Self. I cannot fulfill my function if I forget it. And unless I fulfill my fuction, I will not experience the joy that God intends for me. Suitable specific forms of this idea include:
Let me not use this to hide my function from me.
I would use this as an opportunity to fulfill my function.
This may treaten my ego, but cannot change my function in any way.
P.15.The Two Emotions
I have said you have but two emotions love and fear.
One is changless but continually exchanged,
Being offered BY the eternal to the eternal
The other has many forms, for the content of
individual illusons differs greatly ~ACIM
Defining Emotions
These questions have plagued the greatest thinkers and the finest minds in both the religious and scientific worlds since the dawn of time. We may think we know what love means, but do we really? What is love?
Love is the power that holds this universe together. Love can bring together hated enemies and create an atmosphere of peace. When a loving presence is availabe attitude change, people heal, and life is experienced in a greater and mor abundant way. Love can be called many things, so when we think oflove and unconditional healing we think of God's Presence. Therefore, love is God's presence equally present everywhere.
Fear and Recognition of It.
There are many kinds of fear, and fear will lead you on many roads. Let us look at fear and define it. Fear is created in the thought process. Therefore, the fear we are speaking of is found in the mind, in your everyday thoughts. Fear can sometimes be thought of as a self-protection process, one that keeps us safe and secure. " It;s us against them," "the did it to me," ir " I've got to get mine before it's all gone." These types of thoughts are one idea concerning fear. It seems that whenever we sense that we will lose something , or that something will be taken from us, or we will belessened in anyway, fear is a motivating factor. P.13.Silent Miracles
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Before the universe was born
there was something in the chas of the heavens.
It stands alone and empty,
solitary and unchanging.
It is ever present and secure.
It may be regarded as the Mother of the universe.
Because I do not know its name, I can it the Tao.
If forced to give it a name, I would call it Great.
Because it is Great means it is everywhere.
Being everywhre means it is eternal.
Being eternal mans everything returns to it.
Tao is Great
Heaven is rgeat
Earth is great
Humanity is great
Within the universe, these are the four great things.
Humanity follows the earth
Earth follows Heaven.
Heaven follows the Tao
The Tao follows only itself.
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~Lao Tzu~
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