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68. Remember to ask the holy spirit for help!

Sunday, Jan 04, 2026 1416 words 6 mins 17 secs

The separation from God was a pretty big event, placing many sons of God into states of insanity and producing an entire world of separation.

What was the answer to this? God himself gave the most profound miraculous answer,...

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67. An unreal world still seems real to the believer

Saturday, Jan 03, 2026 1188 words 5 mins 16 secs

In the separation from God we made what seems to be a world, opposite to God - space and time and bodies etc. But we're told this world is unreal. What does "unreal" mean? Because while we're told it's...

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66. Simply stop being a victim forever

Tuesday, Dec 23, 2025 436 words 1 mins 56 secs

You could sum everything up as simply .... stop being a victim.

The question is, how far do you have to take this? The answer is, ALL THE WAY. The question then is, is it possible to not be...

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65. Revisiting the secret of salvation

Friday, Dec 19, 2025 1377 words 6 mins 7 secs

The idea is simple. There is only one lesson. This one lesson sets you free from every form of suffering. It's simply this:

Take full responsibility for everything that you are experiencing.

What is this based on? It's based...

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64. It's not enough to not be affected by the world

Friday, Dec 19, 2025 1072 words 4 mins 45 secs

Quite often we are driven by a desire to stop being affected by the world. We all want to get away from suffering and find some peace.

We initially see ourselves as an EFFECT, and we see CAUSE as...

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63. What does it really mean that I need do nothing?

Sunday, Dec 14, 2025 1866 words 8 mins 17 secs

We hear people latching onto this phrase quite often and using it to justify inaction. But Jesus doesn't use it in this way in the course. He speaks of it more as a psychological state and a recognition of...

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62. You already have a perfect self

Saturday, Dec 13, 2025 614 words 2 mins 43 secs

Somewhere seemingly inside you, there is a perfect self. The soul that God created, one in Christ. That's you. That's what you are.

This perfect self has nothing wrong with it at all. It is already absolutely perfect. God...

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61. Your perfect self already exists, find it!

Tuesday, Dec 09, 2025 730 words 3 mins 14 secs

Your job is to look within and simply FIND AND SEE and be aware of what is ALREADY THERE. Your job is not to INVENT what is there, or what you are.

God created you as a perfect being....

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60. You are always the same, stop trying to change

Saturday, Dec 06, 2025 1154 words 5 mins 7 secs1 comments

This is quite an interesting teaching. As God created you, you are always the same. You are immortal, eternal, permanently you.

In your spiritual self there is no sense of change, no disturbance, fluctuation, alteration, changes. No tensions, no...

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59. What is enlightenment

Wednesday, Dec 03, 2025 454 words 2 mins 1 secs

"Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all." UrW188L1

Enlightenment is merely you recognizing "the facts" and recognizing that they are true. And accepting them, because they are so obvious. No more confusion or deception or lies,...

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58. This suffering is not a part of me

Sunday, Nov 30, 2025 1154 words 5 mins 7 secs

As we dive deeply into what it means to be an immortal being, something suddenly becomes clear. If we are indeed invulnerable, inpenetrable, eternal, incapable of even being changed, or affected in any way.... then how is it possible...

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57. Awareness of dreaming is your function here

Sunday, Nov 16, 2025 655 words 2 mins 54 secs

To be aware of dreaming, is to be aware that this entire world, all bodies, this whole seeming universe, space and time, it is all a dream.

But this awareness also includes the important awareness that only the Kingdom...

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56. The origins of your ego

Sunday, Sep 21, 2025 1146 words 5 mins 5 secs

Ego is a narrowing and an excluding of wholeness. We began in wholeness, into which a tiny mad idea of "not whole" was thought. An idea of limitation or something less than whole - as if lacking something.

In...

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55. The real world as a transcendental holographic experience

Thursday, Aug 28, 2025 944 words 4 mins 11 secs

God and his Kingdom are a perfect hologram, in which the whole is in every part, and every part is the whole.

But then there was a separation. The separation was an event where we tried to deny the...

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54. Awakening comes from total honesty

Saturday, Aug 23, 2025 791 words 3 mins 30 secs

Sanity and awakening is merely a matter of extreme honesty.

Honestly is a willingness to admit to what is true, to accept the truth, to not hide anything. It is visibility and exposure to God.

Honesty flies in the...

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53. Your suffering might be helping you wake up

Tuesday, Aug 12, 2025 1413 words 6 mins 16 secs

Sometimes, although we don't want anyone to suffer, and God does not will anyone suffer, ... .sometimes someone going through a "thing", a hardship, a suffering, is actually consentual and beneficial to the person.

There can be a great compulsion...

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52. It's okay to be different at the physical level

Tuesday, Jul 22, 2025 1874 words 8 mins 19 secs

I think this runs somewhat against the expectations of many ACIM students, but at the physical and personality level we are all considerably different. No two bodies are identical. There are many many sub-types of human bodies, brains, nervous...

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51. You're not healing yourself alone, you're healing the entire sonship

Wednesday, Jul 16, 2025 1298 words 5 mins 46 secs

"Atonement is for all, because it is the way to UNDO the belief that ANYTHING is for you ALONE." UrT9C1

"The Atonement is a lesson in sharing, which is given you because YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO DO IT."...

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50. Remove the blocks to the awareness of what God created

Friday, Jul 11, 2025 914 words 4 mins 3 secs1 comments

God created a perfect kingdom, in which we are created as perfect beings. We have perfect minds, we are perfectly innocent, we have perfect relationships, we are perfectly safe and happy, we are perfectly loving and sharing, we are...

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49. You're not waking up a self - you're waking up TO a self

Monday, Jun 30, 2025 1447 words 6 mins 25 secs

In truth, the self that is real and the self that we really are, is our soul, which is part of the sonship in/as heaven. That self is perfect already and is incapable of being imperfect. The soul needs...

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