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214. Do not spiritualize the form something takes

Tuesday, Sep 23, 2025 1274 words 5 mins 39 secs

Since all things physical are rooted in separation, it is impossible to do ANYTHING in this world without it being in some way connected to being separate.

Eating, breathing, talking, touching, fighting, whatever, everything physical is not God’s nature.

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213. The making of the world

Sunday, Sep 21, 2025 679 words 3 mins 1 secs

Before the physical world of matter was produced, there was already an insane ego mindset of sin, guilt and fear. This is referred to as the "original error" below. The tiny mad idea took hold and we were now in...

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212. 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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211. Are you humble enough to be a student?

Friday, Sep 12, 2025 1482 words 6 mins 35 secs

To truly be a student, you have to be willing to recognize and admit that you DO NOT KNOW.

If you do not know, then you are in a position of NEEDING TO LEARN.

Because you do not know,...

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210. Respect me or else!!!

Monday, Sep 08, 2025 1059 words 4 mins 42 secs

What do you mean, you're not treating me exactly the way that I expect you to? How dare you! lol

"Respect" is a term that egos love to use. It's supposed to be a sign of treating someone right....

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209. How's it going running your life by yourself? Ask for help?

Friday, Sep 05, 2025 1912 words 8 mins 29 secs

In ACIM there is a theme which says ... we need to surrender control of our lives and hand it over to the Holy Spirit in trust.

We've put ourselves in a position of being greatly disadvantaged, blinded, confused,...

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208. 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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207. The problem of judging on your own

Saturday, Aug 09, 2025 559 words 2 mins 29 secs

To judge or be judgemental, in course terms, is to section off part of the world and put it into a category, likely based on its form or appearance or behaviour. Sometimes it is judged as good sometimes as...

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206. Personalities are filled with pros and cons

Thursday, Aug 07, 2025 767 words 3 mins 24 secs

I'm seeing that a lot of people literally do not know how to be a certain way. We're all sort of hardwired into our personalities and they have a number of limitations. Where one personality trait seems like a...

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205. Even your personality isn't the real you

Sunday, Jul 27, 2025 1944 words 8 mins 38 secs

When considering "what are you?", the body could be said to be responsible for a vast majority of what you think you are, including most of your personality and aspects of your mind.

All bodies are different, even if...

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204. Are you held hostage by the face of innocence?

Wednesday, Jul 23, 2025 1451 words 6 mins 26 secs

If you meet a person who complains a lot, they frame themselves as a victim and then tell you all the many many ways that someone or some group of people are wrong. They go on and on and...

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203. Perception is a mirror and you can become lost in it

Friday, Jul 18, 2025 2206 words 9 mins 48 secs

"Perception is a mirror, not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind reflected outward. I would bless the world by looking on it through the eyes of Christ. And I will look upon the...

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202. 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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201. Stop playing the blame game

Tuesday, Jul 15, 2025 1523 words 6 mins 46 secs

On of the most life-changing things I've learned from ACIM, is simply realising this idea that we "scapegoat" in order to get rid of our own guilt. That we start out first attacking ourselves, making ourselves guilty, and then...

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200. 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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199. You don't have to love the ego, but don't hate it either

Friday, Jun 27, 2025 832 words 3 mins 41 secs

People like to think they don't have an ego, or that if they have one it's tucked away somewhere. Distancing from it is a way to protect it. But having ego means being to ANY degree, even slightly, outside...

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198. Stop trying to be spiritual all the time - live your life!

Thursday, Jun 26, 2025 476 words 2 mins 6 secs

Sometimes you have to throw your ego a bone. It's one thing to be constantly trying to question everything, forgive everything, affirm truth all the time, deny all illusions, and act all super-spiritual constantly, but the fact is that...

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197. Why are you striving for perfection?

Thursday, May 08, 2025 1028 words 4 mins 34 secs

Seeking for perfection in this world is an ego pursuit, but everyone's doing it. It stems from the separation from God.

The idea of separation introduced a mental state of conflict and war, of attack and destruction. It also...

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196. I am under no laws but God's

Tuesday, Apr 22, 2025 1002 words 4 mins 27 secs

The ego aligns with the physical world, and is completely backwards. It operates on the basis of how the physical works.

It says, if I give you something, I must lose it. We can't both have it. We could...

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195. You are living in denial - don't deny it!

Tuesday, Jan 14, 2025 987 words 4 mins 23 secs

You can either accept what is real and true, or you can deny it. Denying it doesn't mean you change it, or make it go away. It just means you are unwilling to accept that it's still true. It...

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