Thursday, May 7, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 24 - THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS.

T-24.II.5. You can defend your specialness, but never will you hear the Voice for God beside it. 2 They speak a different language and they fall on different ears. 3 To every special one a different message, and one with different meaning, is the truth. 4 Yet how can truth be different to each one? 5 The special messages the special hear convince them they are different and apart; each in his special sins and "safe" from love, which does not see his specialness at all. 6 Christ's vision is their "enemy," for it sees not what they would look upon, and it would show them that the specialness they think they see is an illusion.


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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 10 - THE IDOLS OF SICKNESS.

T-10.IV.4. God's laws will keep your mind at peace because peace is His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. 2 His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. 3 Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws cannot be understood together. 4 The laws of God work only for your good, and there are no other laws beside His. 5 Everything else is merely lawless and therefore chaotic. 6 Yet God Himself has protected everything He created by His laws. 7 Everything that is not under them does not exist. 8 "Laws of chaos" is a meaningless term. 9 Creation is perfectly lawful, and the chaotic is without meaning because it is without God. 10 You have "given" your peace to the gods you made, but they are not there to take it from you, and you cannot give it to them.


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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 1 - THE MEANING OF MIRACLES.

T-1.I.45. A miracle is never lost. 2 It may touch many people you have not even met, and produce undreamed of changes in situations of which you are not even aware.


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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 10 - THE IDOLS OF SICKNESS.

T-10.IV.5. You are not free to give up freedom, but only to deny it. 2 You cannot do what God did not intend, because what He did not intend does not happen. 3 Your gods do not bring chaos; you are endowing them with chaos, and accepting it of them. 4 All this has never been. 5 Nothing but the laws of God has ever been, and nothing but His Will will ever be. 6 You were created through His laws and by His Will, and the manner of your creation established you a creator. 7 What you have made is so unworthy of you that you could hardly want it, if you were willing to see it as it is. 8 You will see nothing at all. 9 And your vision will automatically look beyond it, to what is in you and all around you. 10 Reality cannot break through the obstructions you interpose, but it will envelop you completely when you let them go.


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Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 2 - THE SEPARATION AND THE ATONEMENT.

T-2.V.A.12. (2) A clear distinction between what is created and what is made is essential. 2 All forms of healing rest on this fundamental correction in level perception.


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Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 1 - THE MEANING OF MIRACLES.

T-1.III.5. Error cannot really threaten truth, which can always withstand it. 2 Only the error is actually vulnerable. 3 You are free to establish your kingdom where you see fit, but the right choice is inevitable if you remember this:
4 Spirit is in a state of grace forever.
5 Your reality is only spirit.
6 Therefore you are in a state of grace forever.
7 Atonement undoes all errors in this respect, and thus uproots the source of fear. 8 Whenever you experience God's reassurances as threat, it is always because you are defending misplaced or misdirected loyalty. 9 When you project this to others you imprison them, but only to the extent to which you reinforce errors they have already made. 10 This makes them vulnerable to the distortions of others, since their own perception of themselves is distorted. 11 The miracle worker can only bless them, and this undoes their distortions and frees them from prison.


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Saturday, May 2, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 10 - THE IDOLS OF SICKNESS.

T-10.V.12. If God knows His children as wholly sinless, it is blasphemous to perceive them as guilty. 2 If God knows His children as wholly without pain, it is blasphemous to perceive suffering anywhere. 3 If God knows His children to be wholly joyous, it is blasphemous to feel depressed. 4 All of these illusions, and the many other forms that blasphemy may take, are refusals to accept creation as it is. 5 If God created His Son perfect, that is how you must learn to see him to learn of his reality. 6 And as part of the Sonship, that is how you must see yourself to learn of yours.


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Friday, May 1, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 6, Section 5 - The Only Answer.

When God created you He made you part of Him. That is why attack within the Kingdom is impossible. You made the ego without love, and so it does not love you. You could not remain within the Kingdom without love, and since the Kingdom is love, you believe that you are without it. This enables the ego to regard itself as separate and outside its maker, thus speaking for the part of your mind that believes you are separate and outside the Mind of God. The ego, then, raised the first question that was ever asked, but one it can never answer. That question, "What are you? " was the beginning of doubt. The ego has never answered any questions since, although it has raised a great many. The most inventive activities of the ego have never done more than obscure the question, because you have the answer and the ego is afraid of you.


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Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 1, Section 3 - Revelation, Time and Miracles.

The miracle minimizes the need for time. In the longitudinal or horizontal plane the recognition of the equality of the members of the Sonship appears to involve almost endless time. However, the miracle entails a sudden shift from horizontal to vertical perception. This introduces an interval from which the giver and receiver both emerge farther along in time than they would otherwise have been. The miracle thus has the unique property of abolishing time to the extent that it renders the interval of time it spans unnecessary. There is no relationship between the time a miracle takes and the time it covers. The miracle substitutes for learning that might have taken thousands of years. It does so by the underlying recognition of perfect equality of giver and receiver on which the miracle rests. The miracle shortens time by collapsing it, thus eliminating certain intervals within it. It does this, however, within the larger temporal sequence.
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