“I want to ____, so that____”.

You are inventive. You can make original designs. If you become very spiritually minded your externalization of your ideals will be wonderful. These words are sent for your daily food: "Thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee." Emma Curtis Hopkins

As a very young man, eighteen or twenty, I just sensed that there was something wrong with two things. First with me, and second with society as a whole. You know kids can be very perceptive. Young people can look around and they see how older people lie — how they say one thing and do another and you get the sense, there’s a connection between their inner division and their unhappiness and their compulsive behavior.

Reframe Your Story

"A healed mind does not plan.
 It carries out the plans that it receives
 through listening to wisdom that is not its own...
 It does not depend upon itself for anything except
 its adequacy to fulfill the plans assigned to it."

ACIM Lesson 135.11.1-2, 4

You use yourself rightly by not using yourself wrongly. Vernon Linwood Howard

“I praise the Lord.”

"It is our task together to restore the
awareness of magnitude to the host (you)
 whom God appointed for Himself."

ACIM Ch.15.III.7.2

You must hold firm rein over your temper. Stop often in the midst of your tasks to say:

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

 John of the Cross (1542 –1591), born Juan de Yepes Álvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest. He was also a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered, along with Saint Teresa of Ávila, as a founder of the Discalced (barefoot) Carmelites.

Silence is your greatest weapon of defense.

"Steady our feet...
Let our doubts be quiet and our
holy minds be still, and speak to us.
We have no words to give to You.
 We would but listen to Your Word,
and make it ours."

ACIM WB Review V.2 Excerpts

How About this….

Fine abilities came into being with your being. Your true judgments are unbiased ones. Use your own intuitions. Let nothing tempt you to be either unjust or sensual: “I am upright in heart.” Emma Curtis Hopkins

You who have sought and found littleness, remember this:

You are a child of God,

a priceless part of His Kingdom, which He created as part of Him.

You can and should deny any belief that error can hurt you. This kind of denial is not a concealment but a correction. Your right mind depends on it. Ch2.II.2.2-4

It is obvious, then, that when you are afraid, you have placed yourself in a position where you need Atonement. Ch2.VI.8.3

When you are afraid of anything, you are acknowledging its power to hurt you. Remember that where your heart is, there is your treasure also. You believe in what you value. If you are afraid you will inevitably value wrongly, and by endowing all thoughts with equal power will inevitably destroy peace. Ch2.II.1.4-8