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73. Why anger is never justified

Saturday, May 22, 2021 730 words 3 mins 14 secs

You are the cause of everything you experience. You cannot be victmized against your will. This is the secret of salvation. "You are doing it to yourself." You are responsible for choice because you have free will.

When you DISOWN this...

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72. The illusion of attack

Friday, May 07, 2021 1228 words 5 mins 27 secs

If someone tries to attack you, they have a problem. They are not sane. They are attacking themselves, but they're doing it in such a way that they think they are attacking someone else. Whatever they accuse you of, they...

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71. What is not love is murder

Monday, Mar 29, 2021 587 words 2 mins 36 secs

This can seem extreme, and perhaps guilt inducing. But Jesus is saying that anything short of TOTAL love, is in some way murderous. Even a slight grievance, even a little annoyance, even a vague judgement. Anything short of complete and...

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70. Your defenses don't save you, they attack you

Saturday, Jul 18, 2020 699 words 3 mins 6 secs

"If I defend myself I am attacked."

"My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability."

"Defense do what they would defend."

"In my defenselessness lies my safety."

It's interesting but, when we try to defend ourselves, under the belief that we are making ourselves more...

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69. No one attacks from their right mind

Saturday, Nov 30, 2019 1063 words 4 mins 43 secs

Those who are sane do not attack, are not sick, cannot hurt or be hurt, are immortal and invulnerable, recognize their oneness with others, have no interest in murder, cannot suffer or be unhappy, can only will with God, and...

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68. A call for love - how do you forgive murderous people?

Saturday, Nov 23, 2019 1062 words 4 mins 43 secs

"What is not love is murder.

"If to love oneself is to HEAL oneself, those who are sick do NOT love themselves. Therefore, they are asking for the love that would heal them, but which they are DENYING TO THEMSELVES. If...

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67. Are you a blessing or a curse?

Wednesday, Nov 13, 2019 1563 words 6 mins 56 secs

I'm learning recently that my mind and attitude may well affect other people. I think this is part of being more responsible for what my mind is doing "to itself", and extends to others, in that whatever I am doing...

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66. The world is a fake attack hole

Friday, Nov 08, 2019 682 words 3 mins 1 secs

Nothing real can be threatened. It should not possible to threaten anything, anywhere. Yet here there is seemingly a world, which is filled with things which can seemingly be threatened. Somehow it has been arranged that there are objects which...

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65. Sickness is an attack upon your brother

Thursday, Oct 03, 2019 1303 words 5 mins 47 secs

Now, pause a moment, and watch out for an ego reaction of guilt. My intention is not to make anyone feel guilty. Nor is it Jesus' intention. But he is trying to educate us with deep honesty about what sickness...

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64. Is it really all my stuff? Am I done attacking myself?

Thursday, Apr 18, 2019 1327 words 5 mins 53 secs

"I am not a body. I am free, for I am still as God created me. All that I do, I do unto myself. If I attack, I suffer. But if I forgive, salvation will be given me."

If you get...

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63. My complaints aren't working, damn it!

Tuesday, Apr 02, 2019 809 words 3 mins 35 secs

Complaining is victimhood. And it doesn't work.

Anything that happens, you choose. If you are conscious, you make a conscious choice, with deliberate intent to produce an effect. You cause it, implement it, make it happen and put it in place,...

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62. Overcoming fearful attack thoughts

Thursday, Mar 21, 2019 893 words 3 mins 58 secs

Yesterday was quite a breakthrough. After making a video about immortality and writing a long post about how fear is self attack, Holy Spirit invited me to "practice" the ideas during a visit to a doctor. Usually at these visits...

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61. Fear is an attempt to hurt yourself and deny your immortality

Wednesday, Mar 20, 2019 3076 words 13 mins 40 secs

"All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the FEAR of awakening."

Fear is not "just fear". It's not just "an emotion". It's not just "one thing". It's not just "a reaction". Everything that fear appears to be,...

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60. Overlooking your brother’s attacks is forgiveness

Friday, Feb 01, 2019 705 words 3 mins 7 secs

This world is populated by egos. People who want to broadcast themselves but without listening. This results in a state of competition, conflict and war, where everyone is trying to overpower everyone else. Your brother attacks you by rejecting you....

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59. Spacetime is an attack on God. It does not really exist

Monday, Oct 29, 2018 494 words 2 mins 11 secs

God's nature is omnipresence. This means God is everywhere simultaneously. God's nature is also eternal, which means it always exists and is always the same, without change.

The idea of "space" is the exact opposite of omnipresence. If omnipresence means "exists...

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58. If mind uses the body for attack, it induces ageing

Tuesday, Sep 25, 2018 319 words 1 mins 25 secs

"The body appears to be largely self-motivated and independent, yet it actually responds only to the intentions of the mind. If the mind wants to use it for attack in any form, it becomes prey to sickness, AGE AND DECAY....

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57. What is not love is murder

Wednesday, Jul 11, 2018 510 words 2 mins 15 secs

Love recognizes perfect equality in all children of God. The Golden Rule states that what applies to you applies to all other creations and the entire sonship without exception.

When you believe that something applies to you which does not apply...

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56. Attack means withdrawal

Friday, May 18, 2018 637 words 2 mins 49 secs

Attack actually means withdrawal. The Kingdom of God cannot be attacked. When you try to attack, you withdraw away from what you are attacking.

It's funny how all of the ego's illusions always look like one thing but are actually totally...

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55. Ego wants you to be attacked by external causes, then saved by them

Wednesday, Jan 17, 2018 462 words 2 mins 3 secs

I notice in particular that pretty much anything medical, anything scientific, or anything involving proof in the world, always entails this belief that something external causes something to happen.

It also accompanies the belief that, because the external causes stuff to...

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54. Ego is self attack

Monday, Jan 15, 2018 994 words 4 mins 25 secs

Perhaps one of the key features about the ego which many people do not realize, is that it is constantly attacking itself.

The ego IS the idea of self attack. It is the idea of you, attacking you. It is self...

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