Seriousness is a killjoy.

Forgiveness is the only means whereby Christ's vision comes to me. Let me accept what His sight shows me as the simple truth, and I am healed completely. Lesson 247

In most self-help, personal development, manifestation, even spiritual development systems, you’re told to start by getting crystal clear on what you want — to get crystal clear on what your goals and intentions are.

You then think, analyze, consider, meditate, in an attempt to get crystal clear.

Then you add change, fix and improve “wishes” to your list of wants , desires, goals and intentions.

Finally, you then use some sort of technique to manifest or attract what’s on your list.

Seldom, if ever, do you question where your list of wants, desires, intentions and goals came from.

Seldom, if ever, do you question whether your list of wants, desires, intentions and goals is “valid” and “truthful.”

Seldom, if ever, do you question whether your list represents what you REALLY want, meaning, asking yourself if getting those things would REALLY make you feel happy, fulfilled and satisfied, and create a true and permanent improvement to your quality of life.

Robert Scheinfeld [… more …]

Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense. Attack is gone, and madness has an end. What suffering is now conceivable? What loss can be sustained? The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving. It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects. And so the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came. Lesson 249

Whenever you are in doubt what you should do, think of his presence in you, and tell yourself this, and only this:

He leads me and knows the way, which I know not.

Yet he will never keep from me what he would have me learn.

And so I trust him to communicate to me all that he knows for me.

Then let him teach you quietly how to perceive your guiltlessness, which is already there.

ACIM Ch.14.IV.19

The presence of PeaceAssuranceGratitudeLove is a criterion by which we can know, in advance, whether or not we are heading in the right direction when making choices and decisions.

Our thoughts, values and beliefs determine the quality of our life experiences. PeaceAssuranceGratitudeLove

Gratitude is the door to joy; seriousness is a killjoy. PeaceAssuranceGratitudeLove

“Gratitude, as it is generally understood, of course, is an outpouring in appreciation for that which we have received. It seems to express our appreciation of benefits received but, actually, such is not the truth about gratitude. The truth about gratitude is this: You cannot be grateful, and you cannot be ungrateful. It does not lie within the power of any individual to be grateful or to express gratitude, nor does it lie within the power of any individual to withhold gratitude.” Margaret Johnson

Margaret Johnson was a student of Joel Goldsmith. See books by Margaret Johnson »

The “mask” or personality has already done everything it could to make it a success. Only after the recognition of the Permanent Identity (you), are you able to cause so-called miracles or the impossible to take place. —Walter Lanyon from "I Came"

When you seem to be cast down then you are about to spring highest. Bear this axiom in mind: “The Lord shall guide thee continually.” Emma Curtis Hopkins