I feel the Love of God within me now.
The Law of Seeing
Oct 31st, 2009
When I feel the Love of God within me, this is what I see: World of Love
When my beliefs block the Love of God, this is what I see: World of Hatred
Tags: Love
False Beliefs
Identify them and forgive them
Oct 30th, 2009
I want the peace and Love of God. For this I must train my mind, undo the ego by carrying the Holy Spirit's purpose of forgiveness before me. I want to listen to and follow His Guidance more and more. He will help me correct my perception and experience more miraculous glimpses of Oneness. I want to accept the Atonement for myself and to awaken to my true Identity as the Son of God.
Recently I was thinking that it would be beneficial to me, as I practice mind watching and forgiving, to be with my mighty companions, the Messengers of Peace, because they would help me bring my private thoughts and false beliefs to the light more rapidly than I can by myself. I see real value in joining with them in this way for the purpose of forgiveness.
Tags: Awakening Body Ego Forgiveness Guilt
Mind Watching
In It, Above It
Oct 28th, 2009
Only three friends showed for our weekly breakfast, making for a more intimate discussion. Ann mentioned the time she learned from someone else that one of her art students had said about her, “I wish she [Ann] was my mother.” Those present who knew the student and her actual mother immediately replied that they could see why the student would prefer Ann for a mother.
And I thought, “You know, I kinda wish that for myself. Ann is so kind, so practical, honest and fun.” I then thought, “Relationships are definitely complex. And then there are so many hypothetical thought possibilities, each with a different emotional charge… Is it really so complex?”
Tags: Ego Miracle Relationships
My Relationship with my Brother
My pathway to healing
Oct 26th, 2009
As a student of A Course in Miracles, I watch my mind for fearful thoughts so I can recognize them and let them go. And I watch my brother for the same reason.
My brother mirrors my thoughts. My brother’s actions symbolize what I am thinking, in that, if I have a fearful thought, my brother may appear to be fearful or seem to induce fear in me. There is no reality to my brother’s actions, but there is symbolic meaning for me to recognize. I can recognize fear appearing in the dream. My special relationship is my pathway to healing.
Tags: Forgiveness Love Relationships Vision
Freedom is of the Mind
Not the Body
Oct 22nd, 2009
David Hoffmeister begins by reading from the Course:
Do you want freedom of the body or of the mind? For both you cannot have. Which do you value? Which is your goal? For one you see as means; the other, end. And one must serve the other and lead to its predominance, increasing its importance by diminishing its own. Means serve the end, and as the end is reached the value of the means decreases, eclipsed entirely when they are recognized as functionless. No one but yearns for freedom and tries to find it. Yet he will seek for it where he believes it is and can be found. He will believe it possible of mind or body, and he will make the other serve his choice as means to find it. T-22.VI
If the Script is Written
What can I do?
Oct 22nd, 2009
If the script was written in the unholy instant, what is the nature of my free will?
The power of decision is your one remaining freedom as a prisoner of this world. You can decide to see it right. What you made of it is not its reality, for its reality is only what you give it. T-12.VII.9
Tags: Forgiveness Love
Perception
And finding what we really want
Oct 20th, 2009
Perception means interpretation or “reading meaning into.” Every time I’m feeling upset in any way – it could be fear, anger, depression, boredom or whatever – I’m making a decision in that moment to feel that emotion based on my interpretation, or perception, of what’s happening. I see each situation from my own personal perspective. “I have given everything I see all the meaning that it has for me.” W-2 Hence, I don’t see anything the way it truly is.
My decision of what I perceive (the meaning I’m reading in) comes from my thoughts. I may see an event and feel upset. However, “I am never upset for the reason I think.” W-5 “I am upset because I see something that is not there.” W-6 “I see only the past W-7,” a hallucination. I am constantly watching the past and getting upset.
Tags: Ego Relationships
Central Course Ideas
Plus two new links
Oct 18th, 2009
I am not a person in a body in a world of separate people and things. There are no people; there is no world.
I am God’s Son, the One Christ Mind.
Tags: Awakening Forgiveness Miracle
My True Identity
Returning though the mind
Oct 16th, 2009
I am the Son of God, able to create freely like my Father, with one exception. God created His Son. When I desired the impossible: to separate from God, to be different, to be autonomous, the only way I could give myself that seeming experience was to fall asleep and dream up the fantasy of being a person in a physical world.
This turns out to have been a lousy idea. I immediately felt massive guilt and fear. Instead of creating, I could now only project images and perceive them. Also, to be different from my Father’s eternity, my world was based on time and death. I took on the role of a reactive little fragment and turned running the show over to the fear-based ego thought system. What a mess.
Honesty
Working back through the mind for consistency
Oct 14th, 2009
“Conflict is the inevitable result of self-deception, and self-deception is dishonesty.” M-4.II.2
I start out with a deceived mind that believes people and things outside of myself are the cause of my problems and upsets. By working the lessons, I learn that these are false beliefs, and that even though I am not conscious of them, they are running my life. I learn that it is my responsibility to remove my fear, then the Holy Spirit will do the rest.
Tags: Ego Forgiveness
Forgiveness is Always Justified
A condensation of T-30.VI-VIII
Oct 13th, 2009
The real world is achieved when I perceive the basis of forgiveness is quite real and fully justified. Forgiveness merely asks me to respond to what has not occurred by not perceiving it. Sin cannot be real in a dream without effects. I am asked to see forgiveness as the natural reaction to distress that rests on error, and thus calls for help.
Anger is never justified. Forgiveness is always justified. I am the dreamer of the dream. I must forgive all appearances in order to escape from the guilt I am projecting. I must think of my Creator as I look upon God’s Son. And I must forgive my brother entirely for he cannot make an error that could change the perfect Christ in him.
Tags: Forgiveness Guilt Judgment Miracle
Error is not Sin
Perception is a choice
Oct 06th, 2009
Error made the world. I wanted, for an instant, to separate from God. In this fearful, guilty instant my mind fell asleep and dreamed a world in which I took a tiny role.
Deep unconscious guilt runs my life. I want to believe in this world of separation that proves sin and guilt are real, and therefore attack is justified.
Tags: Forgiveness Guilt
Escape from Fear
In two steps
Oct 01st, 2009
Everything is in my mind. Dream figures are symbolic. My interpretations of my brother’s needs and motivations are my interpretation of my own. To interpret error with my ego mind is to give it power and to make the error real. So I don’t try to interpret my brother’s motivation. Nor do I attempt to “help” a brother in my way, for I cannot help myself.
The Holy Spirit’s interpretation of my brother’s motivation is the call for the Help of God. As I learn to recognize that, I learn to recognize my own need for the Father.
Tags: Awakening Forgiveness Love
