The Love of God
is everything I am
Posted by Andy on July 28th, 2010
I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
I feel the love of God within me now.
The Love of God is what created me.
The Love of God is everything I am.
The Love of God proclaimed me as His Son.
The Love of God within me sets me free. W-209
Love is not learned because there never was a time
in which you knew it not. T-18.XI
We merely close our eyes, and then forget
all that we thought we knew and understood.
For thus is freedom given us from all
we did not know and failed to understand.|
Tags: Love
Let Go and Trust God
David Hoffmeister
Posted by Andy on July 23rd, 2010
Follow your heart on a journey of discovery. Listen to the Voice within and do what It says, even if it sometimes doesn’t make sense according to what you believe are your “personal” best interests.
Your passion to discover the Truth will guide you on and draw others along with you. The journey is about forgiving the past and remembering the Love that is ever-present.
Innocence is unfettered by the laws and ways and thinking of the world. With faith to just take the next step, Life takes care of Life. Contentment and happiness come from simple nonjudgment, extending love, and letting go of the idea that you really know what anything of this world is for.
The journey is simply a yielding or surrender to What Is. When you give up trying to control the direction of the wind, the feather of Serenity will gently make its way to you. You are the Restful State of Divine Mind. Bask in What You Are Deep inside.
Tags: Trust
Lessons 61 – 80 Condensed
Posted by Andy on July 22nd, 2010
61) I am the light of the world. That is my only function. That is why I am here. How holy am I, who have been given the function of lighting up the world! Let me be still before my holiness. In its calm light let all my conflicts disappear. In its peace let me remember Who I am. Let the light of the world shine through this appearance.
62) Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.
My goal is to find out who I am, having denied my Identity by attacking creation and its Creator. To learn the truth, attack must be replaced by forgiveness. Each time I forgive I call upon the strength of Christ in me. Forgiveness will remove all sense of weakness, strain and fatigue from my mind. It will take away all fear and guilt and pain. It will restore to my awareness the invulnerability and power God gave His Son. I do not yet understand forgiveness. Yet I will trust that, in the light, I will see it as it is.
63) The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness.
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. Through my forgiveness I can see this as it is.
64) Let me not forget my function.
Let me not wander into the temptation of abandoning God and His Son by taking on a physical appearance. It is this the body's eyes look upon. I would not forget my function, because I would remember my Self. Only by fulfilling the function given me by God will I be happy. I would use this as an opportunity to fulfill my function.
65) My only function is the one God gave me.
Forgiveness brings salvation. With one purpose only, I am always certain what to do, what to say and what to think. My perception of this does not change my function.
66) My happiness and my function are one.
Fulfilling my function is my happiness because both come from the same Source. If I would find happiness, I must learn to recognize what makes me happy. This cannot separate my happiness from my function of forgiveness.
67) Love created me like itself.
I am not a body. I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die. I am in the likeness of my Creator. Kindness created me kind. Perfection created me perfect. My Creator did not create this as I see it.
68) Love holds no grievances.
It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are, as it is certain that those who forgive will remember. If I hold grievances I am attacking love, and therefore attacking my Self. Let this not tempt me to attack myself. I would see you as my friend, that I may remember you are part of me and come to know myself.
69) My grievances hide the light of the world in me.
Very quietly now, with my eyes closed, I let go of all the content that generally occupies my consciousness. I remember only how much I want to reach the light in me today—now! I brush the clouds away aside and begin to feel a sense of being lifted up and carried ahead. God Himself will raise me from darkness into light. I am in accord with His Will and cannot fail.
70) My salvation comes from me.
This means that nothing outside myself can save me; nothing outside myself can give me peace. And also that nothing outside myself can hurt me, or disturb my peace or upset me in any way. I am free from all external interference. Today's idea places me in charge of the universe, where I belong because of what I am. Accepting this is salvation.
71) Only God's plan for salvation will work.
The ego's plan for salvation centers on grievances, maintaining that, if someone else spoke or acted differently, or if some external circumstance were changed, I would be saved; the source of salvation is perceived as outside myself. Instead I ask God to reveal His plan to me: What would You have me do? Where would You have me go? What would You have me say, and to whom?
72) Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation.
The ego’s wish to replace God seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone. When I try to hold people to what they do as bodies, forgetting who they are, I am attacking God and his plan for salvation. I must replace attack with acceptance.
73) I will there be light.
The ego needs grievances to maintain itself. I will use the power of my will today. Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts my will, and lets me look upon a world of light. In the light this will look different. This cannot hide the light I will to see.
74) There is no will but God's.
I am at peace because my will and God’s are the same. I can become afraid and try to attack only when I believe there is another will. Today I will recognize that that has not occurred. This is part of God's Will for me, however I may see it.
75) The light has come.
I have forgiven the world today. I keep a completely open mind, washed of all past ideas and concepts. I do not know yet what it looks like. The Holy Spirit never fails to give the gift of sight to the forgiving. I merely wait to have it shown to me.
76) I am under no laws but God's.
Laws of economics, health and reciprocity are insane and have no real effect on me. I dismiss all magical beliefs today. God’s laws forever give and never take. Let me allow God's laws to work in this, and not my own.
77) I am entitled to miracles.
My claim to miracles is inherent in the truth of what I am. It was ensured in my creation, and guaranteed by the laws of God. Seen truly, this offers me a miracle.
78) Let miracles replace all grievances.
Let me behold my savior in this one You have appointed as the one for me to ask to lead me to the holy light in which he stands, that I may join with him. By this idea do I unite my will with the Holy Spirit's, and perceive them as one. I would make no exceptions.
79) Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.
The problem is always some form of separation that I would cherish. The solution is always a miracle with which I replace it. I invite the solution to come to me through my forgiveness of the grievance/separation, and my welcome of the miracle that takes its place.
80) Let me recognize my problems have been solved.
The problem and the answer are simultaneous in their occurrence, because God has placed the answer together with the problem, so that they cannot be separated by time. The Holy Spirit will teach me this, if I will let Him. And I will understand it is impossible that I could have a problem which has not been solved already.
Tags: Forgiveness
Ego-Mind has a Perception Problem
Two charts
Posted by Andy on July 19th, 2010
I am Christ Mind, mistakenly believing I am ego-mind.
Ego-mind is a dream thought system
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In a mad instant I desired to be special, fell asleep and chose for the ego in a dream.
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The ego is the belief in separation from God and that He is angry. This belief carries massive ontological guilt.
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The ego-mind, a false cause, feared God’s attack and projected a world of form to hide in, all of which is false effect. |
The ego-mind wanted to see attack as external to an innocent self, so it projected people images, and I identify with one. An old script is playing and I think life is happening. |
My body is nothing. The thoughts I think I am thinking are nothing. The only way home is to follow the Holy Spirit’s guidance in undoing the ego thought system.
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Secret Dream |
Dreaming of the World |
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To undo the ego thought system, the Holy Spirit has to start with me where I think I am, which is believing I’m a person perceiving people and events:
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The ego is the belief, with which I identify, that I separated from God and that He is angry with me. From this belief the ego-mind made many specific beliefs. |
I order my thoughts; I judge, Cause (false) |
and feel fear of God. Wanting to see the attack as external, I and forget I did it. (Gap) |
Effect (false) Separate people, and events on screen of world
imagined cause (World reflects my state of mind.) |
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Red = 5 Levels of Mind |
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I interpret what I see, perceive someone <-- attacking, feel fear, and defend myself. |
Tags: Ego
Lessons 16 – 50 Condensed
ACIM Workbook
Posted by Andy on July 18th, 2010
16) I have no neutral thoughts.
All thoughts have powerful effects. My thoughts are either true or false. The world of war I see arises from my thinking errors, from my fear thoughts.
17) I see no neutral things.
Life is thought. The thought comes first, then the perception. The world I see is the representation of my own state of mind and I can change my state of mind.
18) I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.
My private thoughts are false. They show me a private world that cannot be shared. I can also call upon my real thoughts, which share everything with everyone. As my thoughts of separation call to the separation thoughts of others, so my real thoughts awaken the real thoughts in them.
19) I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.
All minds are joined. I am alone in nothing. Everything I think or say or do teaches all the universe. It is therefore in my power to change every mind along with mine, for mine is the power of God.
20) I am determined to see.
Cause and effect are simultaneous; so thinking and its effects are simultaneous. What I desire, I will see. I would look upon the witnesses that show me that love has replaced fear, laughter has replaced tears, and abundance has replaced loss. I would look upon the real world, and let it teach me that my will and the Will of God are one.
21) I am determined to see things differently.
What I see tells me that I do not know who I am. I am determined to see the witnesses to the truth in me.
22) What I see is a form of vengeance.
I project my anger onto the world. It is a picture of attack on everything by everything. It is anything but a reflection of the Love of God and the Love of His Son. It is my own attack thoughts that give rise to this picture. What I see is not real. It is a hallucination.
23) I can escape from this world by giving up attack thoughts.
There is no point in trying to change the world. It is merely the effect of my thoughts. But there is indeed a point in changing my thoughts about the world, which are its cause. I identify my attack thoughts and then let them go. As forgiveness allows love to return to my awareness, I will see a world of peace and safety and joy.
24) I do not perceive my own best interests.
My perception of the situation is false. I do not even know who I am. What I think are my best interests would merely bind me closer to the world of illusions. I am willing to follow the Guide God has given me to find out what my own best interests are.
25) I do not know what anything is for.
Purpose is meaning. To me, the purpose of everything is to prove that my illusions about myself are real. It is for this purpose that I attempt to use everyone and everything. I do not recognize the real purpose of the world. It is crucial to my learning to be willing to give up the goals I have established for everything.
26) My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
I believe attack is possible and hence that vulnerability is possible. I project my attack thoughts onto the world and see pain, illness, loss, age and death threatening me. I appear to be at the mercy of a world I cannot control. Yet perfect security and complete fulfillment are my inheritance. My own real thoughts will teach it to me.
27) Above all else I want to see.
Recognizing that what I see reflects what I think I am, I realize that vision is my greatest need. The world I see attests to the fearful nature of the self-image I have made. If I would remember who I am, it is essential that I let this image of myself go. As it is replaced by truth, vision will be given me. And with this vision, I will look upon the world and on myself with charity and love.
28) Above all else I want to see differently.
I see things as separate, and this seeing holds my fearful self-image in place. I would look on all things with love, appreciation and open-mindedness, so that I may look on a world that reflects the Love of God.
29) God is in everything I see.
Beyond all my insane wishes is my will, united with the Will of my Father. God is everything that is real. And we who are part of Him will yet look past all appearances, and recognize the truth beyond them all.
30) God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.
My mind is the source of real vision. I would join with what I see, for all is one forever and I am one with God.
31) I am not the victim of the world I see.
The inner is the cause of the outer. I calmly watch the stream of my thoughts go by. I have forgotten my wish to stay a prisoner in this world. I would give up my insane wishes and walk into the sunlight at last.
32) I have invented the world I see.
I made up the prison in which I see myself. All I need do is recognize this and I am free. I have deluded myself into believing it is possible to imprison the Son of God. I was bitterly mistaken in this belief, which I no longer want. The Son of God is as God created him.
33) There is another way of looking at the world.
The world is really a place where the Son of God can be set free. I would look upon the world as reflecting the laws of God, and as a place where the Son of God finds his freedom.
34) I could see peace instead of this.
Peace of mind is an internal matter that begins with my own thoughts. I watch my mind for fearful thoughts and tell myself I could see peace instead of this. I note fear thoughts that cause me adverse emotions and tell myself I can replace these feelings with peace.
I then perceive that peace abides in the hearts of all who share this place with me.
35) My mind is part of God's. I am very holy.
Establishing my Source establishes my Identity. As I share peace with my brothers, I understand that this peace comes from deep within myself. I begin to understand the holiness of all living things, including myself, and their oneness with me.
36) My holiness envelops everything I see.
Having forgiven, I no longer see myself as guilty. I can accept the innocence that is the truth about me. My sight is holy. Seen through understanding eyes, the holiness of the world is all I see, for I can picture only the thoughts I hold about myself.
37) My holiness blesses the world.
My holiness is the salvation of the world. It lets me teach the world that it is one with me, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by my quiet recognition that in my holiness are all things blessed along with me.
38) There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
By asserting the truth about me, my holiness reverses all the laws of the world and undoes all illusions. Through my holiness the power of God is made available and there is nothing the power of God cannot do. My holiness can remove all pain, sorrow and problems in connection with myself and with anyone else.
39) My holiness is my salvation.
My holiness is the end of guilt. Once I have accepted my holiness, nothing can make me afraid. It is only my unloving thoughts about specific, situations, events or personalities that keep me in hell. My holiness is my salvation.
40) I am blessed as a Son of God.
All good things are mine, because God intended them for me. I cannot suffer any loss or deprivation or pain because of Who I am. My Father supports me, protects me, and directs me in all things. His care for me is infinite, and I am eternally blessed as His Son.
41) God goes with me wherever I go.
Depression, anxiety and helplessness are inevitable consequences of separation. But the problem of separation is not real. And I can never be deprived of my perfect holiness because its Source goes with me wherever I go. Today I turn inward and reach God.
42) God is my strength. Vision is His gift.
Let me be willing to exchange my illusion of seeing for Christ's vision. He has given it to me. Let me call upon this gift today, so that this day may help me to understand eternity. I cannot but be in the right place at the right time.
43) God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.
Healed perception is the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother, and thus forgives himself. I can see what God wants me to see. Beyond His Will lie only illusions. It is through the vision of Christ vision that I choose to see.
44) God is the light in which I see.
God is the only light and His light is in me. Let me sink into my mind, relax, and sense that I am approaching, if not entering, the light. And let me welcome vision and the happy world it will show me.
45) God is the Mind with which I think.
I am part of God’s Mind and have no mind apart from His. As part of His Mind, my thoughts are His and His Thoughts are mine. My real thoughts are in my mind.
46) God is the Love in which I forgive.
Forgiveness is the means by which I will recognize my innocence. It is the reflection of God's Love on earth. It will bring me near enough to Heaven that the Love of God can reach down to me and raise me up to Him.
47) God is the strength in which I trust.
It is not my own strength through which I forgive. It is through the strength of God in me, which I am remembering as I forgive. As I begin to see, I recognize His reflection on earth. I forgive all things because I feel the stirring of His strength in me. And I begin to remember the Love I chose to forget, but which has not forgotten me.
48) There is nothing to fear.
Fear is a sign that I am trusting in my own strength. The instant I remember God, His strength will replace my weakness. How safe the world will look to me when I can see it! Everyone and everything I see will lean toward me to bless me. I will recognize in everyone my dearest Friend. What could there be to fear in a world that I have forgiven, and that has forgiven me?
49) God's Voice speaks to me all through the day.
In the still, peaceful part of my mind, God's Voice calls on my forgiveness to save me. His Voice directs my thoughts, guides my actions and leads my feet as I walk steadily on toward truth. There is nowhere else I can go.
50) I am sustained by the Love of God.
Only the Love of God will protect me in all circumstances. As I listen to God's Voice, I am sustained by His Love. As I forgive, His Love reminds me that His Son is sinless and that I am His Son.
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