Monday, August 31, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 26 - THE TRANSITION.

T-26.VII.7. Sin is not error, for it goes beyond correction to impossibility. 2 Yet the belief that it is real has made some errors seem forever past the hope of healing, and the lasting grounds for hell. 3 If this were so, would Heaven be opposed by its own opposite, as real as it. 4 Then would God's Will be split in two, and all creation be subjected to the laws of two opposing powers, until God becomes impatient, splits the world apart, and relegates attack unto Himself. 5 Thus has He lost His Mind, proclaiming sin has taken His reality from Him and brought His Love at last to vengeance's heels. 6 For such an insane picture an insane defense can be expected, but can not establish that the picture must be true.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

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

T-25.VIII.14. You have the right to all the universe; to perfect peace, complete deliverance from all effects of sin, and to the life eternal, joyous and complete in every way, as God appointed for His holy Son. 2 This is the only justice Heaven knows, and all the Holy Spirit brings to earth. 3 Your special function shows you nothing else but perfect justice can prevail for you. 4 And you are safe from vengeance in all forms. 5 The world deceives, but it cannot replace God's justice with a version of its own. 6 For only love is just, and can perceive what justice must accord the Son of God. 7 Let love decide, and never fear that you, in your unfairness, will deprive yourself of what God's justice has allotted you.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 16 - THE FORGIVENESS OF ILLUSIONS.

T-16.V.15. The core of the separation illusion lies simply in the fantasy of destruction of love's meaning. 2 And unless love's meaning is restored to you, you cannot know yourself who share its meaning. 3 Separation is only the decision not to know yourself. 4 This whole thought system is a carefully contrived learning experience, designed to lead away from truth and into fantasy. 5 Yet for every learning that would hurt you, God offers you correction and complete escape from all its consequences.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 5 - HEALING AND WHOLENESS.

T-5.II.4. You are the Kingdom of Heaven, but you have let the belief in darkness enter your mind and so you need a new light. 2 The Holy Spirit is the radiance that you must let banish the idea of darkness. 3 His is the glory before which dissociation falls away, and the Kingdom of Heaven breaks through into its own. 4 Before the separation you did not need guidance. 5 You knew as you will know again, but as you do not know now.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

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

T-24.in.2. To learn this course requires willingness to question every value that you hold. 2 Not one can be kept hidden and obscure but it will jeopardize your learning. 3 No belief is neutral. 4 Every one has the power to dictate each decision you make. 5 For a decision is a conclusion based on everything that you believe. 6 It is the outcome of belief, and follows it as surely as does suffering follow guilt and freedom sinlessness. 7 There is no substitute for peace. 8 What God creates has no alternative. 9 The truth arises from what He knows. 10 And your decisions come from your beliefs as certainly as all creation rose in His Mind because of what He knows.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 29 - THE AWAKENING.

T-29.IX.9. Whenever you feel fear in any form,--and you are fearful if you do not feel a deep content, a certainty of help, a calm assurance Heaven goes with you,--be sure you made an idol, and believe it will betray you. 2 For beneath your hope that it will save you lie the guilt and pain of self-betrayal and uncertainty, so deep and bitter that the dream cannot conceal completely all your sense of doom. 3 Your self-betrayal must result in fear, for fear is judgment, leading surely to the frantic search for idols and for death.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 5 - HEALING AND WHOLENESS.

T-5.II.11. When you are tempted by the wrong voice, call on me to remind you how to heal by sharing my decision and making it stronger. 2 As we share this goal, we increase its power to attract the whole Sonship, and to bring it back into the oneness in which it was created. 3 Remember that "yoke" means "join together," and "burden" means "message." 4 Let us restate "My yoke is easy and my burden light" in this way; "Let us join together, for my message is light."

Monday, August 24, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 23 - THE WAR AGAINST YOURSELF.

T-23.I.4. Brother, the war against yourself is almost over. 2 The journey's end is at the place of peace. 3 Would you not now accept the peace offered you here? 4 This "enemy" you fought as an intruder on your peace is here transformed, before your sight, into the giver of your peace. 5 Your "enemy" was God Himself, to Whom all conflict, triumph and attack of any kind are all unknown. 6 He loves you perfectly, completely and eternally. 7 The Son of God at war with his Creator is a condition as ridiculous as nature roaring at the wind in anger, proclaiming it is part of itself no more. 8 Could nature possibly establish this, and make it true? 9 Nor is it up to you to say what shall be part of you and what is kept apart.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

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

T-31.V.14. The concept of the self has always been the great preoccupation of the world. 2 And everyone believes that he must find the answer to the riddle of himself. 3 Salvation can be seen as nothing more than the escape from concepts. 4 It does not concern itself with content of the mind, but with the simple statement that it thinks. 5 And what can think has choice, and can be shown that different thoughts have different consequence. 6 So it can learn that everything it thinks reflects the deep confusion that it feels about how it was made and what it is. 7 And vaguely does the concept of the self appear to answer what it does not know.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

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

T-24.VII.7. A co-creator with the Father must have a Son. 2 Yet must this Son have been created like Himself. 3 A perfect being, all-encompassing and all-encompassed, nothing to add and nothing taken from; not born of size nor place nor time, nor held to limits or uncertainties of any kind. 4 Here do the means and end unite as one, nor does this one have any end at all. 5 All this is true, and yet it has no meaning to anyone who still retains one unlearned lesson in his memory, one thought with purpose still uncertain, or one wish with a divided aim.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

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

T-10.V.11. Out of your gifts to Him the Kingdom will be restored to His Son. 2 His Son removed himself from His gift by refusing to accept what had been created for him, and what he had created in the Name of his Father. 3 Heaven waits for his return, for it was created as the dwelling place of God's Son. 4 You are not at home anywhere else, or in any other condition. 5 Do not deny yourself the joy that was created for you for the misery you have made for yourself. 6 God has given you the means for undoing what you have made. 7 Listen, and you will learn how to remember what you are.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 29 - THE AWAKENING.

T-29.II.8. Sickness is a demand the body be a thing that it is not. 2 Its nothingness is guarantee that it can not be sick. 3 In your demand that it be more than this lies the idea of sickness. 4 For it asks that God be less than all He really is. 5 What, then, becomes of you, for it is you of whom the sacrifice is asked? 6 For He is told that part of Him belongs to Him no longer. 7 He must sacrifice your self, and in His sacrifice are you made more and He is lessened by the loss of you. 8 And what is gone from Him becomes your god, protecting you from being part of Him.

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.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 22 - SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP.

T-22.III.2. The ego's whole continuance depends on its belief you cannot learn this course. 2 Share this belief, and reason will be unable to see your errors and make way for their correction. 3 For reason sees through errors, telling you what you thought was real is not. 4 Reason can see the difference between sin and mistakes, because it wants correction. 5 Therefore, it tells you what you thought was uncorrectable can be corrected, and thus it must have been an error. 6 The ego's opposition to correction leads to its fixed belief in sin and disregard of errors. 7 It looks on nothing that can be corrected. 8 Thus does the ego damn, and reason save.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

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

T-4.I.6. Egos can clash in any situation, but spirit cannot clash at all. 2 If you perceive a teacher as merely "a larger ego" you will be afraid, because to enlarge an ego would be to increase anxiety about separation. 3 I will teach with you and live with you if you will think with me, but my goal will always be to absolve you finally from the need for a teacher. 4 This is the opposite of the ego-oriented teacher's goal. 5 He is concerned with the effect of his ego on other egos, and therefore interprets their interaction as a means of ego preservation. 6 I would not be able to devote myself to teaching if I believed this, and you will not be a devoted teacher as long as you believe it. 7 I am constantly being perceived as a teacher either to be exalted or rejected, but I do not accept either perception for myself.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

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

T-13.VIII.1. All healing is release from the past. 2 That is why the Holy Spirit is the only Healer. 3 He teaches that the past does not exist, a fact which belongs to the sphere of knowledge, and which therefore no one in the world can know. 4 It would indeed be impossible to be in the world with this knowledge. 5 For the mind that knows this unequivocally knows also it dwells in eternity, and utilizes no perception at all. 6 It therefore does not consider where it is, because the concept "where" does not mean anything to it. 7 It knows that it is everywhere, just as it has everything, and forever.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 28 - THE UNDOING OF FEAR.

T-28.I.15. What has been lost, to see the causeless not? 2 And where is sacrifice, when memory of God has come to take the place of loss? 3 What better way to close the little gap between illusions and reality than to allow the memory of God to flow across it, making it a bridge an instant will suffice to reach beyond? 4 For God has closed it with Himself. 5 His memory has not gone by, and left a stranded Son forever on a shore where he can glimpse another shore that he can never reach. 6 His Father wills that he be lifted up and gently carried over. 7 He has built the bridge, and it is He Who will transport His Son across it. 8 Have no fear that He will fail in what He wills. 9 Nor that you be excluded from the Will that is for you.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 18 - THE PASSING OF THE DREAM.

T-18.III.2. As the light comes nearer you will rush to darkness, shrinking from the truth, sometimes retreating to the lesser forms of fear, and sometimes to stark terror. 2 But you will advance, because your goal is the advance from fear to truth. 3 The goal you accepted is the goal of knowledge, for which you signified your willingness. 4 Fear seems to live in darkness, and when you are afraid you have stepped back. 5 Let us then join quickly in an instant of light, and it will be enough to remind you that your goal is light.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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

T-2.I.3. The Garden of Eden, or the pre-separation condition, was a state of mind in which nothing was needed. 2 When Adam listened to the "lies of the serpent,"all he heard was untruth. 3 You do not have to continue to believe what is not true unless you choose to do so. 4 All that can literally disappear in the twinkling of an eye because it is merely a misperception. 5 What is seen in dreams seems to be very real. 6 Yet the Bible says that a deep sleep fell upon Adam, and nowhere is there reference to his waking up. 7 The world has not yet experienced any comprehensive reawakening or rebirth. 8 Such a rebirth is impossible as long as you continue to project or miscreate. 9 It still remains within you, however, to extend as God extended His Spirit to you. 10 In reality this is your only choice, because your free will was given you for your joy in creating the perfect.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 5 - HEALING AND WHOLENESS.

T-5.I.3. This is the invitation to the Holy Spirit. 2 I have said already that I can reach up and bring the Holy Spirit down to you, but I can bring Him to you only at your own invitation. 3 The Holy Spirit is in your right mind, as He was in mine. 4 The Bible says, "May the mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus," and uses this as a blessing. 5 It is the blessing of miracle-mindedness. 6 It asks that you may think as I thought, joining with me in Christ thinking.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

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

T-10.III.8. I do not bring God's message with deception, and you will learn this as you learn that you always receive as much as you accept. 2 You could accept peace now for everyone, and offer them perfect freedom from all illusions because you heard His Voice. 3 But have no other gods before Him or you will not hear. 4 God is not jealous of the gods you make, but you are. 5 You would save them and serve them, because you believe that they made you. 6 You think they are your father, because you are projecting onto them the fearful fact that you made them to replace God. 7 Yet when they seem to speak to you, remember that nothing can replace God, and whatever replacements you have attempted are nothing.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 12 - THE HOLY SPIRIT'S CURRICULUM.

T-12.VII.3. The Holy Spirit is invisible, but you can see the results of His Presence, and through them you will learn that He is there. 2 What He enables you to do is clearly not of this world, for miracles violate every law of reality as this world judges it. 3 Every law of time and space, of magnitude and mass is transcended, for what the Holy Spirit enables you to do is clearly beyond all of them. 4 Perceiving His results, you will understand where He must be, and finally know what He is.

Friday, August 7, 2009

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

T-25.in.3. The body needs no healing. 2 But the mind that thinks it is a body is sick indeed! 3 And it is here that Christ sets forth the remedy. 4 His purpose folds the body in His light, and fills it with the Holiness that shines from Him. 5 And nothing that the body says or does but makes Him manifest. 6 To those who know Him not it carries Him in gentleness and love, to heal their minds. 7 Such is the mission that your brother has for you. 8 And such it must be that your mission is for him.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 29 - THE AWAKENING.

T-29.VI.4. Change is the greatest gift God gave to all that you would make eternal, to ensure that only Heaven would not pass away. 2 You were not born to die. 3 You cannot change, because your function has been fixed by God. 4 All other goals are set in time and change that time might be preserved, excepting one. 5 Forgiveness does not aim at keeping time, but at its ending, when it has no use. 6 Its purpose ended, it is gone. 7 And where it once held seeming sway is now restored the function God established for His Son in full awareness. 8 Time can set no end to its fulfillment nor its changelessness. 9 There is no death because the living share the function their Creator gave to them. 10 Life's function cannot be to die. 11 It must be life's extension, that it be as one forever and forever, without end.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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

T-7.III.4. To be in the Kingdom is merely to focus your full attention on it. 2 As long as you believe you can attend to what is not true, you are accepting conflict as your choice. 3 Is it really a choice? 4 It seems to be, but seeming and reality are hardly the same. 5 You who are the Kingdom are not concerned with seeming. 6 Reality is yours because you are reality. 7 This is how having and being are ultimately reconciled, not in the Kingdom, but in your mind. 8 The altar there is the only reality. 9 The altar is perfectly clear in thought, because it is a reflection of perfect Thought. 10 Your right mind sees only brothers, because it sees only in its own light.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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

T-21.VII.13. Elusive happiness, or happiness in changing form that shifts with time and place, is an illusion that has no meaning. 2 Happiness must be constant, because it is attained by giving up the wish for the inconstant. 3 Joy cannot be perceived except through constant vision. 4 And constant vision can be given only those who wish for constancy. 5 The power of the Son of God's desire remains the proof that he is wrong who sees himself as helpless. 6 Desire what you want, and you will look on it and think it real. 7 No thought but has the power to release or kill. 8 And none can leave the thinker's mind, or leave him unaffected.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

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

T-31.VIII.1. Temptation has one lesson it would teach, in all its forms, wherever it occurs. 2 It would persuade the holy Son of God he is a body, born in what must die, unable to escape its frailty, and bound by what it orders him to feel. 3 It sets the limits on what he can do; its power is the only strength he has; his grasp cannot exceed its tiny reach. 4 Would you be this, if Christ appeared to you in all His glory, asking you but this:
5 Choose once again if you would take your place among the saviors of the world, or would remain in hell, and hold your brothers there.
6 For He has come, and He is asking this.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

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

T-30.VII.1. Would God have left the meaning of the world to your interpretation? 2 If He had, it has no meaning. 3 For it cannot be that meaning changes constantly, and yet is true. 4 The Holy Spirit looks upon the world as with one purpose, changelessly established. 5 And no situation can affect its aim, but must be in accord with it. 6 For only if its aim could change with every situation could each one be open to interpretation which is different every time you think of it. 7 You add an element into the script you write for every minute in the day, and all that happens now means something else. 8 You take away another element, and every meaning shifts accordingly.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 16 - THE FORGIVENESS OF ILLUSIONS.

T-16.II.8. Do not interpret against God's Love, for you have many witnesses that speak of it so clearly that only the blind and deaf could fail to see and hear them. 2 This year determine not to deny what has been given you by God. 3 Awake and share it, for that is the only reason He has called to you. 4 His Voice has spoken clearly, and yet you have so little faith in what you heard, because you have preferred to place still greater faith in the disaster you have made. 5 Today, let us resolve together to accept the joyful tidings that disaster is not real and that reality is not disaster. 6 Reality is safe and sure, and wholly kind to everyone and everything. 7 There is no greater love than to accept this and be glad. 8 For love asks only that you be happy, and will give you everything that makes for happiness.