My grievances show me what is not there and hide from me what I would see. Recognising this, what do I want my grievances for? They keep me in darkness and hide the light. Grievances and light cannot go together, but light and vision must be joined for me to see.
Continue reading →I am the likeness of my creator. I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss, and I cannot die. I am not a body. I would recognise my reality today. I will worship no idols nor raise my own self-concepts to replace my Self. I am in the likeness of my Creator. Love created me like Itself.
Continue reading →I have no function but the one God gave me. This recognition releases me from all conflict because it means I cannot have conflicting goals. With one purpose only, I am always certain what to do, what to say, and what to think. All doubt must disappear as I acknowledge that my only function is the one God gave me.
Continue reading →My forgiveness is the means by which the light of the world finds expression through me. My forgiveness is the means by which I become aware of the light of the world in me. My forgiveness is the means by which the world is healed, together with myself.
Continue reading →How holy am I, who have been given the function of lighting up the world! Let me be still before my holiness. In its calm light, let all my conflicts disappear. In its peace, let me remember who I am.
Continue reading →We are now ready for another review. We will begin where our last review left off and cover two ideas each day. The earlier part of each day will be devoted to one of these ideas, and the latter part of the day to the other. We will have one longer exercise period and frequent shorter ones in which we practice each of them.
Continue reading →If you are willing to recognise your problems, you will recognise that you have no problems. Your one central problem has been answered, and you have no other. Therefore you must be at peace. Salvation does depend on recognising this one problem and understanding that it has been solved. One problem – one solution. Salvation is accomplished.
Continue reading →A problem cannot be solved if you do not know what it is. Even if it is really solved already, you will still have the problem because you cannot recognise that it has been solved. This is the situation of the world. The problem of separation, which is really the only problem, has already been solved.
Continue reading →Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle. Each grievance stands like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal. And as you raise it up before your eyes, you will not see the miracle beyond.
Continue reading →You are entitled to miracles because of what you are. You will receive miracles because of what God is. And you will offer miracles because you are one with God. Again, how simple is salvation! It is merely a statement of your true Identity. It is this that we will celebrate today.
Continue reading →We have observed before how many senseless things have seemed to you to be salvation. Each has imprisoned you with laws as senseless as itself. You are not bound by them. Yet to understand that this is so, you must first realise salvation lies not there.
Continue reading →The light has come. You are healed and you can heal. The light has come. You are saved, and you can save. You are at peace, and you bring peace with you wherever you go. Darkness and turmoil and death have disappeared. The light has come.
Continue reading →The idea for today can be regarded as a central thought towards which all our exercises are directed. God’s is the only will. When you have recognised this, you have recognised that your will is His. The belief that conflict is possible has gone.
Continue reading →Today we are considering the will you share with God. This is not the same as the ego’s idle wishes, out of which darkness and nothingness arise. The will you share with God has all the power of creation in it. The ego’s idle wishes are un-shared and therefore have no power at all.
Continue reading →While we have recognised that the ego’s plan for salvation is the opposite of God’s, we have not yet emphasised that it is an active attack on His plan and a deliberate attempt to destroy it. In the attack, God is assigned the attributes which are actually associated with the ego, while the ego appears to take on the attributes of God. The ego’s fundamental wish is to replace God. In fact the ego is the physical
Continue reading →You may not realise that the ego has set up a plan for salvation in opposition to God’s. It is this plan in which you believe. Since it is the opposite of God’s, you also believe that to accept God’s plan in place of the ego’s is to be dammed. This sounds preposterous, of course. Yet after we have considered just what the ego’s plan is, perhaps you will realise that, however preposterous it may be, you do believe it.
Continue reading →All temptation is nothing more than some form of the basic temptation not to believe the idea for today. Salvation seems to come from anywhere except from you. So, too, does the source of guilt. You see neither guilt nor salvation as in your own mind and nowhere else. When you realise that all guilt is solely an invention of your mind, you must also realise that guilt and salvation must be in the same place.
Continue reading →No one can look upon what your grievances conceal. Because your grievances are hiding the light of the world in you, everyone stands in darkness, and you beside him. But as the veil of your grievances is lifted, you are released with him who stood beside you when you were in hell. He is your brother in the light of the world which saves you both. Today let us make another attempt to reach the light in you.
Continue reading →You who were created by Love like Itself can hold no grievances and know your Self. To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. It is the decision to let the ego rule your mind and to condemn the body to death. Perhaps you do not yet fully realise just what holding grievances does to your awareness. It seems to split you off from your Source
Continue reading →Today’s idea is a complete and accurate statement of what you are. This is why you are the light of the world. This is why God appointed you as the world’s savior. This is why the Son of God looks to you for his salvation. He is saved by who you are. We will make every effort today to reach this truth about you and to realise fully, if only for a moment, that it is the truth. In the longer practice period,
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