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74. Everything is already done!

Thursday, Sep 10, 2026 1344 words 5 mins 58 secs

I can't stress enough right now that God has ALREADY created you perfect in every way, there is NOTHING you need to do to make yourself "better" or improved or to become anything.

The path of "awakening" is NOT...

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73. When will you stop lying to yourself?

Friday, Sep 04, 2026 1171 words 5 mins 12 secs

The truth about you is simply that you are STILL EXACTLY as you were created by God. Absolutely perfect, immortal, permanent, changeless, eternal, powerful, innocent, holy, happy, loving, joyful, peaceful. There has not been even a slight change in...

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72. We've tried to shut God out, rejecting his love

Wednesday, Aug 12, 2026 1227 words 5 mins 27 secs

In the separation from God, we basically denied God and tried to reject him. We tried to will against his will, reject his fatherhood, block awareness of his love, and hide in the darkness. We did not want God...

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71. Gratitude brings an end to loss and death

Monday, Jul 13, 2026 1789 words 7 mins 57 secs

If you perceive that you have lost something, then your logical response is despair. You are not grateful because you have not received. Something has been taken away instead, and it inspires ingratitude. You also can feel the same...

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70. Let the world be shit

Saturday, Apr 25, 2026 946 words 4 mins 12 secs

sThe world in itself is altogether intolerable. It was designed to be a place of limitations and difficulties and problems.

As Jesus says,"Seek not ESCAPE from problems here. The world was made that problems could not BE escaped."

That means...

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69. This world runs on the yin-yang principle - lies within lies

Wednesday, Apr 22, 2026 938 words 4 mins 10 secs

All of spacetime, and everything within the realm of relativity, is contradictory, impossible, insane, self-defeating, lacking and unwhole.

The reason is that it was made entirely by denying God, denying the absolute, denying wholeness, and trying to bring about...

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68. The world is broken and you can't fix it

Saturday, Apr 18, 2026 840 words 3 mins 44 secs1 comments

"This IS the "natural" condition of the separation. And those who learn that it is NOT natural at all, seem to be the UNnatural ones. For this world IS the opposite of Heaven, having been made to BE its...

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67. 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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66. 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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65. 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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64. 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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63. 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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62. 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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61. Be careful how you deny the world

Tuesday, Feb 17, 2026 928 words 4 mins 7 secs2 comments

Trying to "wake up" from this world can seem like a total denial and bypass.

We're told that the world, neutral in itself, is formed from ideas opposite to God's nature. Ideas of suffering and destruction, of sickness and...

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60. The fear of healing

Friday, Feb 13, 2026 462 words 2 mins 3 secs

"The fear of healing arises in the end from an unwillingness to accept the unequivocal fact that healing is necessary. The fear arises because of the necessary willingness to look at what man has done to himself."

Jesus tells...

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59. We need to stop bypassing the horrible facts of the world

Friday, Feb 13, 2026 1276 words 5 mins 40 secs

You can easily escape into concepts, theories, course quotes as defences, in order to avoid something you don't want to admit to.

Instead of being willing to accept something uncomfortable, you go into denial, and start fighting against the...

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58. The positive uses of denial

Saturday, Feb 07, 2026 766 words 3 mins 24 secs

Denial is not inherently bad, it can be used to defend illusions against the truth, or to defend the truth against illusions. The proper use of denial is a powerful protective device and allows you side with and accept...

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57. The negative uses of denial

Saturday, Feb 07, 2026 791 words 3 mins 30 secs

Denial itself is a defense, but it can be used positively or negatively. In its negative use it is used to deny God, reality, truth. In its positive use, it is used to deny the denial of truth, to...

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56. Denial and acceptance

Friday, Feb 06, 2026 416 words 1 mins 50 secs

"Salvation is the recognition that the truth is true and nothing else is true. "

DENIAL

The truth is true.

You do not want the truth.

You have denied the truth.

You use denial to make the truth seem like...

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55. Your insane mind does not want God

Thursday, Oct 23, 2025 1296 words 5 mins 45 secs

The separation from God, we did a big switcheroo. We swapped everything true for everything false, and vice versa. That makes our mind insane, because it means we no longer recognize what anything actually is.

To our insane mind,...

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