Wednesday, February 18, 2015

I said before …



  • ·         that the first change, before dreams disappear, is that your dreams of fear are changed to happy dreams. That is what the Holy Spirit does in the special relationship. He does not destroy it, nor snatch it away from you. The special relationship will remain, not as a source of pain and guilt, but as a source of joy and freedom. ACiM - Text Chapter Eighteen - The Passing of the Dream - Section 2 - The Basis of the Dream

  • ·    , "Be not content with nothing," for you have believed that nothing could content you. It is not so. ACiM Text - Chapter Fourteen - Teaching for Truth - The Happy Learner

  • ·         that God so loved the world that he gave it to his only begotten Son. God does love the real world, and those who perceive its reality cannot see the world of death. For death is not of the real world, in which everything reflects the eternal. God gave you the real world in exchange for the one you made out of your split mind, and which is the symbol of death. For if you could really separate yourself from the Mind of God you would die. ACiM Text - Chapter Twelve - The Holy Spirit's Curriculum - Section 1

  • ·         that what you project or extend is up to you, but you must do one or the other, for that is a law of mind, and you must look in before you look out. As you look in, you choose the guide for seeing. And then you look out and behold his witnesses. This is why you find what you seek. What you want in yourself you will make manifest, and you will accept it from the world because you put it there by wanting it. When you think you are projecting what you do not want, it is still because you do want it. This leads directly to dissociation, for it represents the acceptance of two goals, each perceived in a different place; separated from each other because you made them different. The mind then sees a divided world outside itself, but not within. This gives it an illusion of integrity, and enables it to believe that it is pursuing one goal. Yet as long as you perceive the world as split, you are not healed. For to be healed is to pursue one goal, because you have accepted only one and want but one. ACiM Text - Chapter Twelve - The Holy Spirit's Curriculum - Section

  • ·         that to will contrary to God is wishful thinking and not real willing. His will is one because the extension of his will cannot be unlike itself. The real conflict you experience, then, is between the ego's idle wishes and the Will of God, which you share. ACiM Text - Chapter Eleven - GOD OR THE EGO

  • ·         that of yourself you can do nothing, but you are not of yourself. If you were, what you have made would be true, and you could never escape. It is because you did not make yourself that you need be troubled over nothing. Your gods are nothing, because your Father did not create them. You cannot make creators who are unlike your Creator, any more than he could have created a Son who was unlike him. If creation is sharing, it cannot create what is unlike itself. It can share only what it is. Depression is isolation, and so it could not have been created. ACiM Text - Chapter Ten - THE IDOLS OF SICKNESS

  • ·         that the Holy Spirit is the Answer. He is the Answer to everything, because He knows what the answer to everything is. ACiM Text - Chapter Eight - The Journey Back - Healing as Corrected Perception
  • ·         that he (Holy Spirit) teaches remembering and forgetting, but the forgetting is only to make the remembering consistent. You forget in order to remember better. You will not understand his translations while you listen to two ways of interpreting them. Therefore you must forget or relinquish one to understand the other. This is the only way you can learn consistency, so that you can finally be consistent. ACiM Text - Chapter Seven - The Gifts of the Kingdom - The Law of the Kingdom

  • ·         that the ego's friend is not part of you, because the ego perceives itself at war and therefore in need of allies. ACiM Text - Chapter Seven - The Gifts of the Kingdom - The Reality of the Kingdom

  • ·         that forgetting is merely a way of remembering better. It is therefore not the opposite of remembering when it is properly perceived. Perceived improperly, it induces a perception of conflict with something else, as all incorrect perception does. Properly perceived, it can be used as a way out of conflict, as all proper perception can. ACiM Text - Chapter Seven - The Gifts of the Kingdom - Healing as the Recognition of Truth

I have said before that the Holy Spirit perceives the conflict exactly as it is, and it is meaningless. The Holy Spirit does not want you to understand conflict; he wants you to realize that, because conflict is meaningless, it is not understandable. As I have already said, understanding brings appreciation and appreciation brings love. Nothing else can be understood, because nothing else is real and therefore nothing else has meaning. ACiM Text - Chapter Seven - The Gifts of the Kingdom - From Vigilance to Peace

  • ·         that you are the will of God. his will is not an idle wish, and your identification with his will is not optional, since it is what you are. Sharing his will with me is not really open to choice, though it may seem to be. The whole separation lies in this error. The only way out of the error is to decide that you do not have to decide anything. Everything has been given you by God's decision. That is his will, and you cannot undo it. ACiM Text - Chapter Seven - The Gifts of the Kingdom - The Confusion of Pain and Joy

  • ·         that the message of the crucifixion was, "Teach only love, for that is what you are.” ACiM Text - Chapter Six - The Lessons of Love - The Relinquishment of Attack

  • ·         that you must learn to think with God. To think with him is to think like him. ACiM Text - Chapter Five - Healing and Wholeness - The Ego's Use of Guilt

  • ·         that illness is a form of magic. It might be better to say that it is a form of magical solution. ACiM Text - Chapter Five - Healing and Wholeness - The Ego's Use of Guilt

  • ·         that the Holy Spirit cannot see error, and is capable only of looking beyond it to the defense of Atonement. ACiM - Text Chapter Two - The Separation and the Atonement - Section 5 - The Function of the Miracle Worker

  • ·         that only revelation transcends time. The miracle, as an expression of charity, can only shorten it. ACiM - Text Chapter Two - The Separation and the Atonement - Section 5 - The Function of the Miracle Worker

As I have said before, "As you teach so shall you learn." ACiM Text - Chapter Six - The Lessons of Love - The Message of the Crucifixion
I have said before that the Holy Spirit is God's Answer to the ego. ACiM Text - Chapter Five - Healing and Wholeness - The Guide to Salvation
I have said before that I am in charge of the Atonement. ACiM Text - Chapter Four - The Illusions of the Ego - The Rewards of God
And, as I said before, when you finally perceive correctly you can only be glad that you cannot. ACiM Text - Chapter Three - The Innocent Perception - Creating versus the Self-Image

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