"WHAT IS NOT LOVE IS MURDER" - ACIM
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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,...
Denial is an attempt to get rid of something, make it go away, place it anywhere other than here, push it outside of conscious awareness, and to disassociate from it. It’s an attempt to pretend it does not exist. This...
Denial can be used two ways.
1) Deny God's truth and replace it with lies.
2) Deny lies and replace it with God's truth.
One defends the ego and makes God unreal. The other defends God and makes the ego unreal.
Denial of God...
Denial denies that the truth is true.
Denial attempts to make something else be true, which is false.
Denial is a lie.
Denial is essentially the only ego device. It is another word for separation - the attempt to make the truth go...
On the surface, it seems that fighting against something is a noble attempt to bring about change.
But what's really happening is that the ego has split the mind in two, one part is now opposed to the other part, and...
Most people feel some sense of unworthiness. Some people feel it very strongly. Unworthiness means you do not believe you deserve to be loved. You're not good enough or smart enough or perfect enough or something enough. There is something...
You might be angry with someone, you might be upset and annoyed about what they're doing or how they're treating you or others, but here's the secret.
There is no such thing as genuine anger.
Anger always has a secret motive of...
Before the physical universe came into being, there was only the Son of God and no "other".
The mind of the Son of God contained a state of guilt, which arose from the belief in the separation happening (sin).
The Son...
You may not realize what you gave up when you preferred a dream of death over a reality of Eternal Life.
You may have forgotten the utter magnitude of the love of God for you, and which you share with Him.
You...
The ego is your attempt not to accept being with God. It is an attempt to deny God's presence. But the ego can't make God go away, or get rid of Him.
So its only real tool is to pretend. Denial...
Death is the complete and total disowning of yourself and all responsibility for who you are. It is an attempt to say "I am not eternal life", "I am not as God created me", "I am not even who I...
You can be completely sure, or at least convinced that you are, that something is true or 'the case', and still be mistaken.
You can be totally adamant that you're right about this, and still not be right about it.
You can...
When you are in denial, the denial itself paints a picture that whatever it is you're denying is WORTH denying, because it's not good, even though WHAT you are denying is outside of your awareness. Like, as though there really...
Denial is a funny thing. It makes it SEEM like the thing has totally gone away, yet all that's happened is its been covered up.
We think that death is an actual end, that someone's life actually has been stopped. But...
To accomplish this you need to portray yourself as different from God - not loving and not lovable.
You proceed to arrange for a whole bunch of people to come along and attack you. They are to do it out of...