Universal Inspiration

“THE CHANGES which take place in your life as a result of your changed concept of yourself always appear to the unenlightened to be the result, not of a change of your consciousness, but of chance, outer cause, or coincidence.  However,

the only fate governing your life is the fate determined by your own concepts, your own assumptions; for an assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact.  The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you are already that ideal.  There is no escape for you except by a radical psychological transformation of yourself, except by your assumption of the feeling of your wish fulfilled.  Therefore, make results or accomplishments, the crucial test of your ability to use your imagination.  Everything depends on attitude towards yourself. That which you do not affirm as true of yourself can never be realized by you, for that attitude alone is the necessary condition by which you realize your goal.” (Neville Goddard)

 

The Wise One once said: “This rising from one level of consciousness to another is the only ascension you will ever experience.  No man can lift you to the level you desire.  The power to ascend is within yourself; it is your consciousness.  You appropriate the consciousness of the level you desire to express by claiming that you are now expressing such level. ‘Still your mind and pay close attention to events while viewing them through patient eyes and a clement heart.’ This is the ascension.” 

(Neville Goddard and Red Moon)

As a man and also one of God’s creations, my right thinking, which came from the Holy Spirit or the Universal Inspiration, taught me first and foremost that this Inspiration is for all. I could not have It myself without knowing this. The word “know” is proper in this context, because the Holy Spirit is so close to knowledge that He calls it forth; or better, allows it to come. (ACIM, T-5.I.4:6-9)

Truth can only be recognized and need only be recognized. Inspiration is of the Holy Spirit, and certainty is of God according to His laws. Both, therefore, come from the same Source, since inspiration comes from the Voice for God and certainty comes from the laws of God.  (ACIM, T-7.IV.1:1-4)

The Holy Spirit, the shared Inspiration of all the Sonship, induces a kind of perception in which many elements are like those in the Kingdom of Heaven itself:
First, its universality is perfectly clear, and no one who attains it could believe for one instant that sharing it involves anything but gain.
Second, it is incapable of attack and is therefore truly open. This means that although it does not engender knowledge, it does not obstruct it in any way.
Finally, it points the way beyond the healing that it brings, and leads the mind beyond its own integration toward the paths of creation. It is at this point that sufficient quantitative change occurs to produce a real qualitative shift. (ACIM, T-5.I.7:1-6)