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26. Starting to develop faith in God, because the world is not real

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 1800 words 8 mins 0 secs

When I recently started to recognize that the whole world is fundamentally unreal, I started to experience "faith" in God. It seemed to require an UNBELIEF that this world is "true", in order to shift my allegiance and dependence over...

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25. Here's a simple and effective forgiveness process I did

Monday, May 01, 2017 871 words 3 mins 52 secs

Here is a simple and effective forgiveness process which I did this morning with Holy Spirit.

You start by figuring out where you are on a spectrum from Life to Death. The spectrum has these stages:

Love/Innocence > Separation > Sin >...

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24. You are causing everything

Saturday, Apr 29, 2017 926 words 4 mins 6 secs

All sickness, all death, all upsets, all war, all destruction, all horrors, all terror, all guilt, all fear, all hatred, all deception, all darkness and all insanity, are all stemming from one place.

You.

They are coming out of you, because you...

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23. When someone attacks you and it has no effect

Tuesday, Apr 25, 2017 210 words 0 mins 56 secs

While enjoying the innocence and sinlessness of becoming aware that I did not "really" sin, a person began to verbally attack me.

It had absolutely no effect.

I found it interesting to see the complete distinction between who I was and what...

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22. I only have questions because I have separated myself from the Answer

Friday, Apr 21, 2017 263 words 1 mins 10 secs

The answer is love, which is God.

The act of putting distance between myself and love has introduced unlove into my mind. My mind is now uncertain, doesn't know what the truth is, is confused and afraid. This is what questions...

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21. The side effects of a mistaken perception are understandable

Friday, Apr 14, 2017 400 words 1 mins 46 secs

The side-effects of having a mistaken perception are really quite understandable.

If you choose to attack yourself, and to then deny that you're the one who did that, you will disown it. This disownership is what we call projection. We displace...

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20. Jesus made his body disappear because it was not real!

Wednesday, Apr 12, 2017 806 words 3 mins 34 secs

Perhaps one of the greatest miracles of all performed by Jesus was simply that He made his body permanently disappear. He did not die because He was not his body at all. His body didn't lay in the tomb rotting....

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19. Sickness must go because it is an illusion

Monday, Apr 10, 2017 322 words 1 mins 25 secs

"Sickness is a defense against the truth." - ACIM

Truth is divine perfect health. Truth is love. Truth is God.

When there is an unforgiving attitude, it produces sickness because it is an attack on yourself.

Sickness isn't a "thing". It doesn't have...

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18. The separation between cause and effect

Saturday, Apr 08, 2017 508 words 2 mins 15 secs

In the physical world, the ego has cleverly set things up so that cause and effect seem separate.

It is even a "law" of physics that each action has an equal and opposite reaction. Or that if you put some energy...

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17. You are upset because something in you was already not at peace

Tuesday, Apr 04, 2017 449 words 1 mins 59 secs

If you are upset for some reason, there is something in you already which is not at peace. Some part of your mind is identified with ego, having an emotional reaction, or perhaps something is coming up for release.

If you...

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16. You are causing everything to happen to you

Thursday, Mar 30, 2017 848 words 3 mins 46 secs

The ego thought system, the mind with which you operate most of the time, and the system of perception or 'world view' which governs most of your decision making, is completely the opposite of the truth.

The mind which uses the...

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15. Nothing can happen without your consent

Monday, Jan 23, 2017 510 words 2 mins 15 secs

When Jesus says that nothing can happen without our consent, and that nobody can die without their own consent, what he's saying seems pretty extreme.

We are so used to living in such a way that we constantly believe things happen...

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14. Because anger is never justified

Sunday, Nov 27, 2016 604 words 2 mins 41 secs

Sometimes you may not realize that you are being a victim, particularly if you are angry.

A person becomes angry as a reaction to the perception that something has happened to them that they didn't seem to choose.

The perception of things...

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13. Ego attack is really a withdrawal, because the ego is backwards

Saturday, Nov 26, 2016 259 words 1 mins 9 secs

Everything in the ego's mindset looks like one thing but is actually something completely opposite.

e.g.

What we call attack, is actually retreat.

God cannot be attacked. When you try to attack God, if you were to go punch God in the face,...

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12. Being the cause gives you more power

Monday, Oct 10, 2016 424 words 1 mins 53 secs

As you work on recognizing that causes are not outside of you, but that they are in your mind, please realize that there is a powerful difference between these two perspectives.

It's not just a matter of you taking back projections...

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11. The body being a cause is a belief in sickness

Thursday, Oct 06, 2016 599 words 2 mins 39 secs

"The body cannot create, and the belief that it can, a fundamental error, produces all physical symptoms. Physical illness represents a belief in magic"

Interesting huh. Jesus isn't saying that some illnesses are caused by a belief in the body having...

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10. The prayer that I must have decided wrongly because I'm not at peace

Sunday, Sep 11, 2016 853 words 3 mins 47 secs

Let's review this prayer from ACIM in a new light.

"1. I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.

2. I made the decision myself, but I can also decide otherwise.

3. I want to decide otherwise, because I want...

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9. What if everything is supposed to be happening?

Saturday, Aug 20, 2016 2143 words 9 mins 31 secs

What if everything that's happening in the world is exactly what is supposed to be happening, per everyone's agreement and decision? And there are no accidents or mistakes and nothing is going wrong? And I don't mean, that "bad things"...

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8. Just because you forget the truth, it doesn't go away

Monday, Aug 15, 2016 643 words 2 mins 51 secs

Just because you forget the light from time to time doesn't mean it goes away. It is permanent. It waits for you to return to it. And even after your next round of madness it is still there waiting for...

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7. I don't want to let go of attachments because I will lose control

Wednesday, Jul 27, 2016 1135 words 5 mins 2 secs

I don't want to let go of attachments because I don't trust that everything will be okay unless I am in control.

Holy Spirit is asking us to be set free (!) of the need to have outcomes be controlled, or...

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