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2406. Resisting change and death produces suffering

Tuesday, Mar 17, 2026 1725 words 7 mins 40 secs

Although God's kingdom is a state of changelessness and permanence, THIS world isn't. This world is a world of shifts and changes, transformations, beginnings and endings. Nothing here remains the same whatsoever.

In and of itself this wouldn't be...

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2405. How is your ego secretly benefiting from this?

Sunday, Mar 15, 2026 1957 words 8 mins 41 secs

Your ego is the denial of the Self that God created. Its foundation is the belief that you do not have a Self - that you are not the whole. It represents your attack upon your SELF, in an...

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2404. You are a god-like powerful being

Saturday, Mar 14, 2026 1003 words 4 mins 27 secs

God created you by using his infinite power, and you therefore inherited his infinite power. And that means you are infinitely powerful. You have the power of God in you, and there is nothing the power of God cannot...

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2403. Special love causes great suffering

Friday, Mar 13, 2026 2217 words 9 mins 51 secs

I've been having a lot of deep insight lately about cause and effect and taking back my power, so I want to share some more on this. This may be a little lengthy so bear with me.

When we...

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2402. The world has no power over you

Thursday, Mar 12, 2026 498 words 2 mins 12 secs

The truth is that this world is merely an EFFECT, coming from the mind, and mind is the only cause.

Since the world is only an effect, we are deluded when we believe that it has some kind of...

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2401. Fear is powerlessness and power is strength

Thursday, Mar 12, 2026 687 words 3 mins 3 secs

The opposite of love is fear. Love is power.

The opposite of power is powerlessness. Therefore, fear is powerlessness.

I think you'll agree when you are afraid you are in a victim mode, you feel helpless, powerless, things are...

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2400. How you make your own symptoms of suffering

Tuesday, Mar 10, 2026 1634 words 7 mins 15 secs

Freedom of Choice > Responsibility > Power > Causation > Effects.

To simplify, think of cause and effect. You are either the cause, or the effect. If you see yourself as the cause, you cannot be an effect. Your...

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2399. Why you are averse to taking responsibility for your power

Monday, Mar 09, 2026 810 words 3 mins 36 secs

"You're doing this undo yourself."? No way!!!

The ego objects to the secret of salvation. "I CAN'T be doing this to myself! There's no way I'm causing or choosing this! I don't want this, I didn't ask for this,...

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2398. Ego is the reversal of cause and effect

Monday, Mar 09, 2026 1340 words 5 mins 57 secs

In terms of cause and effect, God who is cause created us as his effect, yet shared his causal ability with us, making us also able to cause. We are an effect of God, but we are also a...

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2397. A lesson in applying the secret of salvation

Sunday, Mar 08, 2026 1357 words 6 mins 1 secs

In the past, my wife became disabled and was unable to fend for herself. She became dependent upon me. I had to take over responsibility for her life, her wellbeing, her decisions, her food and cleanliness, her health. I...

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2396. It's time to wake up and take your power back

Sunday, Mar 08, 2026 1950 words 8 mins 39 secs

Taking TOTAL responsibility for EVERYTHING you experience is the ONLY way to find salvation! It is the meaning of forgiveness.

Throughout ACIM there is a simple theme. You are doing this to yourself. You are responsible for everything you...

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2395. More on dealing with loss

Friday, Mar 06, 2026 1011 words 4 mins 29 secs

If you're going through a loss, it can be hard to deal with the feelings.

At first I felt that the feelings were just overpowering and I was a victim of them, unable to control or stop them, albeit that...

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2394. Why you need to ask for help

Saturday, Feb 28, 2026 562 words 2 mins 29 secs

We don't want to ask for help. Because in our ego we think we don't need help. Because we think we're so amazing and masterful all on our own, that we can do everything on our own, and don't...

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2393. Loss is not loss?

Saturday, Feb 28, 2026 575 words 2 mins 33 secs

"Loss is not loss when properly perceived. Pain is impossible. There is no grief with any cause at all and suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream."

I had to think a bit on this one.

It...

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2392. Forms of forgiveness that are an ego bypass

Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026 1617 words 7 mins 11 secs

The ego's problem solving solution is to separate. It will tell you that the way to forgive something and free yourself from suffering at its expense, is to separate from it and/or attack it.

The way you'll separate from...

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2391. Can you forgive a racial slur from a person with tourettes?

Monday, Feb 23, 2026 685 words 3 mins 2 secs

At the BAFTA awards this year, the actor in the very good film "I swear", about a man with tourettes, won an award. It's definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it.

Later, there was an award being...

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2390. More on bypassing and the proper use of denial

Monday, Feb 23, 2026 790 words 3 mins 30 secs

"The ego equates:

Not agreeing with me = denial.

But correction is not denial.

It’s reinterpretation."

(ChatGPT)

"True denial is a very powerful protective device. You can and should deny any belief that error can hurt you. This kind...

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2389. Isn't forgiveness just a spiritual bypass?

Monday, Feb 23, 2026 1502 words 6 mins 40 secs

I've been looking at this closely because I want to find out how this course is supposed to be applied, without a bypass and without denial.

At first I recognised that there was a whole lot of spiritual bypassing...

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2388. Listen to the Holy Spirit and let him heal you!

Saturday, Feb 21, 2026 1187 words 5 mins 16 secs

Here are some very interesting passages from the section about "The Mind of the Atonement" plus a few others. It's talking about God creating the Holy Spirit and what the Holy Spirit is FOR.

Do not underestimate or disregard...

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2387. Fundamental ACIM teaching - projection and the face of innocence

Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 2183 words 9 mins 42 secs

If you see yourself as being victimised in any way, mistreated, not respected, attacked, hurt, threatened, judged, abused, terrorised, not recognised, hated, left out, invalidated, accused, misrepresented, subject to racism or sexism or homophobia, in any other way somehow...

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