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136. Sin is closed-mindedness, forgiveness is open-mindedness

Monday, Nov 10, 2025 1181 words 5 mins 14 secs

Say you have some illusions. Something that isn't true. It could be a physical thing, or some belief or whatever.

If your mind is open, it is open to the possibility of being mistaken, the possibility of not knowing,...

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135. What is sin

Friday, Nov 07, 2025 896 words 3 mins 58 secs

WHAT IS SIN?

Every aspect of an insane egoic mind is JUST A MISTAKE, which calls for correction. The mind "accidentally" considers something to be possible which isn't, and so is making an error. Like an error on a math...

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134. Peace requires your total surrender

Friday, Oct 24, 2025 1159 words 5 mins 9 secs

The kingdom of God is ultimate reality. This side of the gate of heaven/separation, we're in the perceptual realm of spacetime.

At the height of this perceptual state, perception can become very "accurate" and line up with reality so...

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133. 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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132. Recognizing the ego's insanity

Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025 530 words 2 mins 21 secs

The ego... what we call ego, is just insanity in our minds. The only reason we keep identifying with/as it and listening to it and trying to be it, is because we do not RECOGNIZE that it is insane....

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131. Wishing things were different

Saturday, Oct 11, 2025 577 words 2 mins 33 secs

Wishful thinking. ... really a form of denial, wanting things to be other than how they are right now. Isn't that the same thing as attacking and judging?

Saying ... hey, I don't like how you are right now,...

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130. The world isn't sinful or innocent, it is nothing!

Friday, Oct 10, 2025 758 words 3 mins 22 secs

The world is nothing. Therefore anything that it seems to be is neutral, or meaningless.

This means you cannot assign ANY attributes to it. It cannot be said to be sinful and guilty. But it also cannot be said...

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129. Ego is a confusion and loss of identity

Thursday, Oct 09, 2025 565 words 2 mins 30 secs

The separation from God is otherwise described as dissociation, or as I like to spell it - dis-association.

We were associated with our soul, as God created it, in heaven's reality. We believed it was our self, our identity.

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128. The neutral world and what you make of it

Thursday, Oct 09, 2025 1290 words 5 mins 43 secs

I used to be of the mindset, like most humans, that certain physical things were bad things, and others were good. I would use whatever form the thing took, to tell me what it meant.

Someone falling over and...

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127. 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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126. 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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125. Nothing so blinding as perception of form

Friday, Aug 29, 2025 2154 words 9 mins 34 secs

You may not realize this, but physical matter was designed to completely obscure God and make it seem like he does not exist.

You won't realize this unless you also realize what God's nature is, because then the sheer...

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124. 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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123. Science doesn't work

Monday, Aug 18, 2025 509 words 2 mins 15 secs

Nothing in the physical world is exactly identical. The snowflakes, the grains of sand, the bricks in a wall, the tiny atoms, the subatomic particles. Everything is at least in some way ever so slightly different to the rest....

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122. The world and the body are nothing

Thursday, Jul 31, 2025 1638 words 7 mins 16 secs

"The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it meaning." UrW132L4

Some people regard this world as something negative, some as something positive. But the course regards it as NOT SOMETHING AT ALL. It acknowledges that the world...

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121. 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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120. All bodies are lies

Saturday, Jul 26, 2025 982 words 4 mins 21 secs

Bodies always express limitation. All bodies are limited. The very fact that a body has a perimeter or surface where it stops, it a limitation. The fact that it has a certain size and shape and color and style,...

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119. Do not be deceived that body states are true

Saturday, Jul 26, 2025 569 words 2 mins 31 secs

What seems to happen to the body, does not happen to the soul. The son of God is utterly unchanged and unaffected, even by physical death.

If we look to the body and see what the mind has mistakenly...

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118. 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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117. Transcending the world toward one mindedness

Saturday, Apr 05, 2025 1430 words 6 mins 21 secs

In the beginning of the ACIM Workbook, we're instructed to look around the room and tell ourselves, indiscriminately, that this thing we're looking at doesn't mean anything. And we're asked not to be selective in what we apply it...

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