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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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53. What is the ego? Who is attacking who?

Monday, Jan 15, 2018 1032 words 4 mins 35 secs

The ego is simply a state of self-attack, taking place within a mind which has become divided against itself.

In this state, part of the mind has disassociated from the other part. There now appear to be two identities.

One identity is...

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52. The ego can only attack itself, if you are not part of the ego thought system you are safe

Wednesday, Nov 15, 2017 439 words 1 mins 57 secs

Only ego can only attack itself. It cannot attack what is not inside of itself.

If you are outside of the ego, you cannot be attacked. You are immortal and invulnerable.

If you identify with ego, labeling your sense of self as...

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51. What is not love is murder - how we try to get away with it using denial

Sunday, Nov 05, 2017 1247 words 5 mins 32 secs

"WHAT IS NOT LOVE IS MURDER" - ACIM

Here's how this works.

A mind which is fully awake and aware, recognizes that it actually shares a mind with everyone. It is at one with them. It sees its own identity within others,...

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50. You cannot be attacked unless you identify with the ego

Sunday, Nov 05, 2017 777 words 3 mins 27 secs

You as love cannot be attacked by the ego. The ego in others or in the world is utterly incapable of doing ANYTHING to love. Love is completely outside of the entire realm of the ego’s dream. All ego identities...

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49. Murder, death, suicide, the death wish, and the belief in real sin which must be healed

Monday, Oct 09, 2017 1105 words 4 mins 54 secs

Murder, death and suicide are not particularly pleasant topics. But they are an important part of the teachings of ACIM.

The ego's thought system of separation claims that you can do something to another without experiencing any effects. This is due...

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