Friday, July 31, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 30 - THE NEW BEGINNING.

T-30.I.15. Your day is not at random. 2 It is set by what you choose to live it with, and how the friend whose counsel you have sought perceives your happiness. 3 You always ask advice before you can decide on anything. 4 Let this be understood, and you can see there cannot be coercion here, nor grounds for opposition that you may be free. 5 There is no freedom from what must occur. 6 And if you think there is, you must be wrong.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 4 - THE ILLUSIONS OF THE EGO.

T-4.II.1. It is reasonable to ask how the mind could ever have made the ego. 2 In fact, it is the best question you could ask. 3 There is, however, no point in giving an answer in terms of the past because the past does not matter, and history would not exist if the same errors were not being repeated in the present. 4 Abstract thought applies to knowledge because knowledge is completely impersonal, and examples are irrelevant to its understanding. 5 Perception, however, is always specific, and therefore quite concrete.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 6 - THE LESSONS OF LOVE.

T-6.V.B.8. This is still a preliminary step, since having and being are still not equated. 2 It is, however, more advanced than the first step, which is really only the beginning of the thought reversal. 3 The second step is a positive affirmation of what you want. 4 This, then, is a step in the direction out of conflict, since it means that alternatives have been considered, and one has been chosen as more desirable. 5 Nevertheless, the term "more desirable" still implies that the desirable has degrees. 6 Therefore, although this step is essential for the ultimate decision, it is clearly not the final one. 7 Lack of order of difficulty in miracles has not yet been accepted, because nothing is difficult that is wholly desired. 8 To desire wholly is to create, and creating cannot be difficult if God Himself created you as a creator.

Monday, July 27, 2009

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

T-1.I.29. Miracles praise God through you. 2 They praise Him by honoring His creations, affirming their perfection. 3 They heal because they deny body-identification and affirm spirit-identification.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 13 - THE GUILTLESS WORLD.

T-13.IX.7. Guilt makes you blind, for while you see one spot of guilt within you, you will not see the light. 2 And by projecting it the world seems dark, and shrouded in your guilt. 3 You throw a dark veil over it, and cannot see it because you cannot look within. 4 You are afraid of what you would see there, but it is not there. 5 The thing you fear is gone. 6 If you would look within you would see only the Atonement, shining in quiet and in peace upon the altar to your Father.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 19 - THE ATTAINMENT OF PEACE.

T-19.I.12. Faith is as easily exchanged for knowledge as is the real world. 2 For faith arises from the Holy Spirit's perception, and is the sign you share it with Him. 3 Faith is a gift you offer to the Son of God through Him, and wholly acceptable to his Father as to Him. 4 And therefore offered you. 5 Your holy relationship, with its new purpose, offers you faith to give unto your brother. 6 Your faithlessness has driven you and him apart, and so you do not recognize salvation in him. 7 Yet faith unites you in the holiness you see, not through the body's eyes, but in the sight of Him Who joined you, and in Whom you are united.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 31 - THE FINAL VISION.

T-31.IV.7. Think not that happiness is ever found by following a road away from it. 2 This makes no sense, and cannot be the way. 3 To you who seem to find this course to be too difficult to learn, let me repeat that to achieve a goal you must proceed in its direction, not away from it. 4 And every road that leads the other way will not advance the purpose to be found. 5 If this be difficult to understand, then is this course impossible to learn. 6 But only then. 7 For otherwise, it is a simple teaching in the obvious.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 17 - FORGIVENESS AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP.

T-17.II.8. How much do you want salvation? 2 It will give you the real world, trembling with readiness to be given you. 3 The eagerness of the Holy Spirit to give you this is so intense He would not wait, although He waits in patience. 4 Meet His patience with your impatience at delay in meeting Him. 5 Go out in gladness to meet with your Redeemer, and walk with Him in trust out of this world, and into the real world of beauty and forgiveness.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 31 - THE FINAL VISION.

T-31.II.7. Because he is your equal in God's Love, you will be saved from all appearances and answer to the Christ Who calls to you. 2 Be still and listen. 3 Think not ancient thoughts. 4 Forget the dismal lessons that you learned about this Son of God who calls to you. 5 Christ calls to all with equal tenderness, seeing no leaders and no followers, and hearing but one answer to them all. 6 Because He hears one Voice, He cannot hear a different answer from the one He gave when God appointed Him His only Son.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 14 - TEACHING FOR TRUTH.

T-14.IX.3. Merely by being what it is, does truth release you from everything that it is not. 2 The Atonement is so gentle you need but whisper to it, and all its power will rush to your assistance and support. 3 You are not frail with God beside you. 4 Yet without Him you are nothing. 5 The Atonement offers you God. 6 The gift that you refused is held by Him in you. 7 The Holy Spirit holds it there for you. 8 God has not left His altar, though His worshippers placed other gods upon it. 9 The temple still is holy, for the Presence that dwells within it is Holiness.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 7 - THE GIFTS OF THE KINGDOM.

T-7.XI.1. The Holy Spirit will always guide you truly, because your joy is His. 2 This is His Will for everyone because He speaks for the Kingdom of God, which is joy. 3 Following Him is therefore the easiest thing in the world, and the only thing that is easy, because it is not of the world. 4 It is therefore natural. 5 The world goes against your nature, being out of accord with God's laws. 6 The world perceives orders of difficulty in everything. 7 This is because the ego perceives nothing as wholly desirable. 8 By demonstrating to yourself there is no order of difficulty in miracles, you will convince yourself that, in your natural state, there is no difficulty at all because it is a state of grace.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 3 - THE INNOCENT PERCEPTION.

T-3.VI.2. The choice to judge rather than to know is the cause of the loss of peace. 2 Judgment is the process on which perception but not knowledge rests. 3 I have discussed this before in terms of the selectivity of perception, pointing out that evaluation is its obvious prerequisite. 4 Judgment always involves rejection. 5 It never emphasizes only the positive aspects of what is judged, whether in you or in others. 6 What has been perceived and rejected, or judged and found wanting, remains in your mind because it has been perceived. 7 One of the illusions from which you suffer is the belief that what you judged against has no effect. 8 This cannot be true unless you also believe that what you judged against does not exist. 9 You evidently do not believe this, or you would not have judged against it. 10 In the end it does not matter whether your judgment is right or wrong. 11 Either way you are placing your belief in the unreal. 12 This cannot be avoided in any type of judgment, because it implies the belief that reality is yours to select from .

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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

T-24.II.8. Think of the loveliness that you will see within yourself, when you have looked on him as on a friend. 2 He is the enemy of specialness, but only friend to what is real in you. 3 Not one attack you thought you made on him has taken from him the gift that God would have him give to you. 4 His need to give it is as great as yours to have it. 5 Let him forgive you all your specialness, and make you whole in mind and one with him. 6 He waits for your forgiveness only that he may return it unto you. 7 It is not God Who has condemned His Son, but you, to save his specialness and kill his Self.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 3 - THE INNOCENT PERCEPTION.

T-3.VI.3. You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep peace that comes from meeting yourself and your brothers totally without judgment. 2 When you recognize what you are and what your brothers are, you will realize that judging them in any way is without meaning. 3 In fact, their meaning is lost to you precisely because you are judging them. 4 All uncertainty comes from the belief that you are under the coercion of judgment. 5 You do not need judgment to organize your life, and you certainly do not need it to organize yourself. 6 In the presence of knowledge all judgment is automatically suspended, and this is the process that enables recognition to replace perception.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 21 - REASON AND PERCEPTION.

T-21.III.11. Think you the Holy Spirit is concerned with this? 2 He gives not what it is His purpose to lead you from. 3 You think He would deprive you for your good. 4 But "good" and "deprivation" are opposites, and cannot meaningfully join in any way. 5 It is like saying that the moon and sun are one because they come with night and day, and so they must be joined. 6 Yet sight of one is but the sign the other has disappeared from sight. 7 Nor is it possible that what gives light be one with what depends on darkness to be seen. 8 Neither demands the sacrifice of the other. 9 Yet on the absence of the other does each depend.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 13 - THE GUILTLESS WORLD.

T-13.IV.3. Under the circumstances, would it not be more desirable to have been wrong, even apart from the fact that you were wrong? 2 While it could perhaps be argued that death suggests there was life, no one would claim that it proves there is life. 3 Even the past life that death might indicate, could only have been futile if it must come to this, and needs this to prove that it was at all. 4 You question Heaven, but you do not question this. 5 Yet you could heal and be healed if you did question it. 6 And even though you know not Heaven, might it not be more desirable than death? 7 You have been as selective in your questioning as in your perception. 8 An open mind is more honest than this.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 20 - THE VISION OF HOLINESS.

T-20.II.3. Each gift is an evaluation of the receiver and the giver. 2 No one but sees his chosen home as an altar to himself. 3 No one but seeks to draw to it the worshippers of what he placed upon it, making it worthy of their devotion. 4 And each has set a light upon his altar, that they may see what he has placed upon it and take it for their own. 5 Here is the value that you lay upon your brother and on yourself. 6 Here is your gift to both; your judgment on the Son of God for what he is. 7 Forget not that it is your savior to whom the gift is offered. 8 Offer him thorns and you are crucified. 9 Offer him lilies and it is yourself you free.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 25 - THE JUSTICE OF GOD.

T-25.VIII.13. Without impartiality there is no justice. 2 How can specialness be just? 3 Judge not because you cannot, not because you are a miserable sinner too. 4 How can the special really understand that justice is the same for everyone? 5 To take from one to give another must be an injustice to them both, since they are equal in the Holy Spirit's sight. 6 Their Father gave the same inheritance to both. 7 Who would have more or less is not aware that he has everything. 8 He is no judge of what must be another's due, because he thinks he is deprived. 9 And so must he be envious, and try to take away from whom he judges. 10 He is not impartial, and cannot fairly see another's rights because his own have been obscured to him.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 30 - THE NEW BEGINNING.

T-30.I.12. (7) This final step is but acknowledgment of lack of opposition to be helped. 2 It is a statement of an open mind, not certain yet, but willing to be shown:
3 Perhaps there is another way to look at this.
4 What can I lose by asking?
5 Thus you now can ask a question that makes sense, and so the answer will make sense as well. 6 Nor will you fight against it, for you see that it is you who will be helped by it.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 21 - REASON AND PERCEPTION.

T-21.II.13. Yet the truth is you and your brother were both created by a loving Father, Who created you together and as one. 2 See what "proves" otherwise, and you deny your whole reality. 3 But grant that everything that seems to stand between you and your brother, keeping you from each other and separate from your Father, you made in secret, and the instant of release has come to you. 4 All its effects are gone, because its source has been uncovered. 5 It is its seeming independence of its source that keeps you prisoner. 6 This is the same mistake as thinking you are independent of the Source by which you were created, and have never left.


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