WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND AND CAN HANDLE YOURSELF INWARDLY, YOU WILL UNDERSTAND AND KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THE OUTER WORLD PERFECTLY.

"You must first understand your inner world if you want to understand the outer world. Say the same thing another way. You will understand and know how to handle the outer world perfectly when you have an acquaintance with and can handle yourself inwardly.

So we have a lot of work here tonight in bringing up to the light what has been in darkness and, therefore, beyond your personal control. Bring these facts that you're going to hear tonight daily to your mind as you encounter the outer world, and one day nothing will be clearer to you than the fact that when you were right, clear, strong, knowledgeable inside your world, that hostile, evil world in front of your eyes has lost all its former charms for you, and lost all its powers to lure you and lost all its powers to hurt you." from a talk given 3/31/1989 by Vernon Howard

The hell YOU made. It is not real. And God has given YOU the means to prove its unreality to YOURSELF. The key is in YOUR hand, and YOU have reached the door beyond which lies the end of dreams.YOU stand before the gate of Heaven, wondering if YOU should enter in and be at home. Let YOURSELF not wait again today. Let YOU forgive all things, and let creation be as God would have it be and as it is. Let YOU remember that You are a Son of God, and opening the door at last, forget illusions in the blazing light of truth, as memory of God returns to YOU. (excerpted from ACIM Lesson 342 )