What is God's belongs to
everyone, and is his due. ACiM
- Text Chapter Twenty-five - The Justice of God - Section 10 - The Justice of
Heaven
Whenever any
form of special relationship tempts you to seek for love in ritual, remember
love is
content, and not form of any kind. The special relationship
is a ritual of form, aimed at raising the form to take the place of God at the
expense of content. There is no meaning in the form, and there will never be. ACiM Text -
Chapter Sixteen - The Forgiveness of Illusions - Section 5 - The Choice for
Completion
- The integration
of form and content is an extremely important theme in A Course in Miracles. It focuses on
the necessity of applying what we learn through living the Course's principles.
One of my favorite passages is Jesus saying to us: "Teach not that I died
in vain. Teach rather that I did not die by demonstrating that I live in
you" (T-11.VI.7:3-4). The way we demonstrate that his love lives in us, which
is the content, is by reflecting that love in our everyday life. That is the
integration of form and content. Integrating Form and Content
- form refers to
behavior or materiality, anything to do with the body or the physical world;
whereas content has to do with
the mind.
Anything in this world that
you believe is good and valuable and worth striving for can hurt you, and will do
so. Not because it has the power to hurt, but just because you have denied it
is but an illusion, and made it real. And it is real to you. It is not nothing. ACiM - Text
Chapter Twenty-six - The Transition - Section 6 - The Appointed Friend
In quietness are all things
answered, and is every problem quietly resolved. ACiM - Text
Chapter Twenty-seven - The Healing of the Dream - Section 4 - The Quiet Answer
The only way
to heal is to be healed. The miracle extends without your help, but you are
needed that it can begin. Accept the miracle of healing, and it will go forth
because of what it is. ACiM
- Text Chapter Twenty-seven - The Healing of the Dream - Section 5 - The
Healing Example
Leave, then, the transfer of your learning to the One Who really
understands its laws, and Who will guarantee that they remain unviolated and
unlimited. Your part is merely to apply what He has taught you to yourself, and
He will do the rest. And it is thus the power of your learning will be proved
to you by all the many different witnesses it finds. Your brother first among them
will be seen, but thousands stand behind him, and beyond each one of them there
are a thousand more. Each one may seem to have a problem that is different from
the rest. Yet they are solved together. ACiM - Text Chapter Twenty-seven - The Healing of the
Dream - Section 5 - The Healing Example
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