Perception is consistent. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. Your values are determiners of this, for what you value you must want to see, believing what you see is really there. No one can see a world his mind has not accorded value. And no one can fail to look upon what he believes he wants
Continue reading →This is the thought which follows from the one we practiced yesterday. You cannot stop with the idea the world is worthless, for unless you see that there is something else to hope for, you will only be depressed. Our emphasis is not on giving up the world but on exchanging it for what is far more satisfying, filled with joy, and capable of offering you peace.
Continue reading →The world you see has nothing that you need to offer you, nothing that you can use in any way, nor anything at all that serves to give you joy. Believe this thought, and you are saved from years of misery, from countless disappointments, and from hopes that turn to bitter ashes and despair. No one but must accept this thought as true, if he would leave this world behind
Continue reading →Perhaps you think that different kinds of love are possible. Perhaps you think there is a kind of love for this, a kind of love for that; a way of loving one, another way of loving still another. Love is one. It has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergences and no distinctions. It is like itself, unchanged throughout. It never alters with a person
Continue reading →Today’s idea, completely alien to the ego and the thinking of the world, is crucial to the thought reversal which this course will bring about. If you believed this statement, there would be no problem in complete forgiveness, certainty of goal, and sure direction. You would understand the means by which salvation comes to you and would not hesitate to use it now.
Continue reading →Let this day be a day of stillness and of quiet listening. Your father wills you hear His Word today. He calls to you from deep within your mind where He abides. Hear Him today. No peace is possible until His Word is heard around the world; until your mind, in quiet listening, accepts the message which the world must hear to usher in the quiet time of peace.
Continue reading →Today we will again give thanks for our Identity in God. Our home is safe, protection guaranteed in all we do, power and strength available to us in all our undertakings. We can fail in nothing. Everything we touch takes on a shining light which blesses and which heals. At one with God and with the universe, we go our way rejoicing, with the thought that God Himself goes everywhere with us.
Continue reading →Today let us be thankful. We have come to gentler pathways and to smoother roads. There is no thought of turning back and no implacable resistance to the truth. A bit of wavering remains, some small objections, and a little hesitance, but we can well be grateful for our gains, which are far greater than we realise.
Continue reading →What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want care and safety and the warmth of sure protection always? Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt,
Continue reading →Here is the answer to your search for peace. Here is the key to meaning in a world which seems to make no sense. Here is the way to safety in apparent dangers which appear to threaten you at every turn and bring uncertainty to all your hopes of ever finding quietness and peace. Here are all questions answered; here the end of all uncertainty ensured at last.
Continue reading →(Lesson 109) I rest in God. I rest in God today and let Him work in me and through me, while I rest in Him in quiet and in perfect certainty. (Lesson 110) I am as God created me. I am God’s Son. Today I lay aside all sick illusions of myself and let my Father tell me Who I really am. On the hour: I rest in God. On the half hour: I am as God created me.
Continue reading →(Lesson 107) Truth will correct all errors in my mind. I am mistaken when I think I can be hurt in any way. I am God’s Son whose Self rests safely in the Mind of God. (Lesson 108) To give and to receive are one truth. I will forgive all things today, that I may learn how to accept the truth in me, and come to recognise my sinlessness. On the hour: Truth will correct
Continue reading →(Lesson 105) God’s peace and joy are mine. Today I will accept God’s peace and joy in glad exchange for all the substitutes which I have made for happiness and peace. (Lesson 106) Let me be still and listen to the truth. Let mine own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice of truth itself assure me that I am God’s perfect Son. On the hour:
Continue reading →(Lesson 103) God, being Love, is also happiness. Let me remember love is happiness and nothing else brings joy. And so I choose to entertain no substitutes for love. (Lesson 104) I seek but what belongs to me in truth. Love is my heritage and with it joy. These are the gifts my Father gave to me. I would accept all that is mine in truth. On the hour:
Continue reading →(Lesson 101) God’s will for me is perfect happiness. God’s Will is perfect happiness for me. And I can suffer but from the belief there is another will apart from His. (Lesson 102) I share God’s Will for happiness for me. I share My Father’s Will for me, His Son. What He has given me is all I want. What He has given me is all there is. On the hour: God’s Will for me is perfect happiness. On the half hour: I share God’s Will for happiness for me.
Continue reading →(Lesson 99) Salvation is my only function here. My function here is to forgive the world for all the errors I have made. For thus am I released from them with all the world. (Lesson 100) My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation. I am essential to the plan of God for the salvation of the world. For He gave me His plan that I might save the world. On the hour:
Continue reading →(Lesson 97) I am spirit. I am the Son of God. No body can contain my spirit nor impose on me a limitation God created not. (Lesson 98) I will accept my part in God’s plan for creation. What can my function be but to accept The Word of God, Who has created me, for what I am and forever will be? On the hour: I am spirit. On the half hour: I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.
Continue reading →(Lesson 95) I am One Self, united with my Creator. Serenity and perfect peace are mine. Because I am One Self, completely whole, at one with all creation and with God. (Lesson 96) Salvation comes from my One self. From my One Self, Whose knowledge still remains within my mind, I see God’s perfect plan for my salvation perfectly fulfilled. On the hour:
Continue reading →(Lesson 93) Light and joy and peace abide within me. I am the home of light and joy and peace. I welcome them into the home I share, with God because I am a part of Him. (Lesson 94) I am as God created me. I will remain forever as I was, created by the Changeless like Himself. And I am one with Him, and He with me. On the hour: Light and joy and peace abide within me. On the half hour: I am as God created me.
Continue reading →(Lesson 91) Miracles are seen in light. I cannot see in darkness. Let the light of holiness and truth light up my mind, and let me see the innocence within. (Lesson 92) Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one. I see through strength, the gift of God to me. My weakness is the dark His gift dispels by giving me His strength to take its place. On the hour:
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