Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

There is another advantage, - and a very important one, - in referring decisions to the Holy Spirit with increasing frequency. Perhaps you have not thought of this aspect, but its centrality is obvious. To follow the Holy Spirit's guidance is to let yourself be absolved of guilt. It is the essence of the Atonement. Do not, then, think that following the Holy Spirit's guidance is necessary merely because of your own inadequacies. It is the way out of hell for you. To say, "Of myself I can do nothing" is to gain all power. The Holy Spirit knows the truth about you. The image you made does not. To ask the Holy Spirit to decide for you is simply to accept your true inheritance. Teachers Manual

Can you imagine what this means?

 

You no longer have any responsibility as a person to see this or experience that! You no longer have to judge anything that you see or hear as Awareness! You have no personal responsibility at all. You have but to be a faithful witness, a faithful Awareness, and not the enslaved Awareness of Bill or John or Mary. In fact, you are this already, without effort, because Awareness is God's activity, God's own knowledge of Itself, Reality's Awareness of being what It is. All there is to Bill or Mary or John is the belief that they are something that can contain, possess, imprison, or make a servant and slave of God's Awareness of being, of God's knowledge of existing. Since the Awareness of Being is God's activity, Awareness cannot be possessed, made a servant, or contained within a body, an object of perception. This eliminates the possibility that something exists that can contain Awareness, even in belief. Does this not put Bill and Mary and John in their proper perspective? They have no power, importance, nor authority of their own at all. GOD, REALITY, TRUTH is being exactly what they are. God's Awareness of being God includes what is called Bill or Mary or John, just as it includes 'beauty' and 'love'—just as gold includes yellow—just as arithmetic includes numbers. 2+2= REALITY By William Samuel First printed 1958, Birmingham, Alabama

Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Gospel of Matthew, verse 26:52
The reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) used the phrase when saying:

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love... Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy, instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.
Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you have made it a habit to ask for help when and where you can, you can be confident that wisdom will be given you when you need it. Prepare for this each morning, remember God when you can throughout the day, ask the Holy Spirit's help when it is feasible to do so, and thank Him for His guidance at night. And your confidence will be well founded indeed. Teachers Manual

Reader, your 'salvation' is simple and easy. It is to come out and be separate from Bill, Mary or whatever you call yourself. It is to cease identifying as an enslaver of God, as a possessor of Infinite Awareness. It is to start right now and identify correctly as Awareness itself. There is no yourself, myself or any other self but God. God is being this Awareness. This is who and what you are. You are not a miserable, suffering mortal, so you can stop acting like one. God, Perfection Itself, is being 'you.' 2+2= REALITY By William Samuel First printed 1958, Birmingham, Alabama

Never forget that the Holy Spirit does not depend on your words. He understands the requests of your heart, and answers them. God has given Him the power to translate your prayers of the heart into His language. Teachers Manual

I am spirit.

I am the Son of God. No body can contain my spirit,
nor impose on me a limitation God created not.

I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.

What can my function be but to accept the Word of God,
Who has created me for what I am and will forever be?

"Q: As a doctor I sometimes slide into conversations with patients about spiritual topics. I observe a strange and sad condition. The more troubled the patient the more he tries to convince me of his happiness.

A: Strange and sad is a good description. Pretending to know the truth when we can really have it is like a hungry man standing in an apple orchard and pretending to eat." VH Pretty much what Quimby would say.