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35. You are already with God, you are just learning how to be what you already are

Wednesday, Nov 15, 2017 460 words 2 mins 2 secs

There is part of you which is already in heaven with God. It never left.

That means your spirit-self is already awake and one with God.

Jesus says that like you, He has everything that God gave Him. The only difference between...

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34. Learn to let unloving people be unloving, you don't really need their love anyway

Wednesday, Nov 15, 2017 1284 words 5 mins 42 secs

If someone is not loving you, and you are trying hard to figure out why they won’t, and you are desperate for them to love you, you’re not going to be happy.

If you have a need for the person to...

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33. Learning to pray with God rather than to God

Sunday, Nov 05, 2017 1020 words 4 mins 31 secs

If you are going to pray for someone, you’ll need to first discern what the problem really is.

The problem is NOT what is happening to the person, what they perceive as happening to them, or what your own ego says...

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32. Still learning about miracles - miracles lift you up to a higher level of truth

Sunday, Nov 05, 2017 1196 words 5 mins 18 secs

I love learning about miracles.

There are kind of two levels or layers of mind. The higher level is filled with love. It is a mind at-one with others and filled with God’s Will. It has no ego, has let go...

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31. There is only one lesson to learn and forgiveness is the way to learn it

Friday, Sep 22, 2017 637 words 2 mins 49 secs

It is to clearly recognize when something is an illusion and when it is reality.

It is only because we have become convinced that illusions are real, that they have truth to them, and give them credit, that we are experiencing...

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30. Prayer is the medium of miracles - learning to invite God to work through you

Thursday, Sep 07, 2017 423 words 1 mins 52 secs

You get what you ask for and nothing else.

How you "ask", is a state of prayer.

"Prayer is the medium of miracles."

Another way to describe asking, is INVITATION.

If you INVITE GOD, by showing up in a role of miracle-worker, trusting God...

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29. Learning to trust God's support and getting over an unwillingness to even try

Thursday, Sep 07, 2017 842 words 3 mins 44 secs

In many areas of life at the moment, Holy Spirit's guidance to me is to "try".

I have seen in many ways how I stop myself or don't do something, on the basis of the ego's justifications, which basically goes like...

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28. Teaching to learn - developing trust in guidance

Thursday, Sep 07, 2017 2306 words 10 mins 14 secs

To the ego, it will not attempt to teach anything that it does not already know. It relies entirely on its own learning or what it already believes is true.

In this sense, everything within the ego thought system has already...

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27. Concepts and theories are helpful in learning about the ego so you can undo it

Monday, Aug 07, 2017 480 words 2 mins 7 secs

Sometimes people say that concepts have to be let go. The course even says that concepts have to be let go. The course even says to let go of the course and come to God with empty hands.

Yes. However, the...

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26. Welcome your lessons, they're trying to help you

Thursday, May 25, 2017 227 words 1 mins 0 secs

When shitty stuff happens, you want it to stop.

But it's a lesson. It's trying to teach you something. Its motive of teaching is very much for you and supportive of you and helping you. It is not a motive...

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25. Learning to let go of the ego's hand

Tuesday, May 02, 2017 1262 words 5 mins 36 secs

There is a pivotal moment when you let go of the ego's hand and decide to take the hand of Christ.

This can and will happen in many scenarios and many times over. And it's going to happen in your "real...

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24. Learning to be the prayer

Thursday, Apr 27, 2017 352 words 1 mins 33 secs

At the beginning, prayer seems to be like asking for something you do not have.

But this is the opposite of prayer. It does not produce anything DIRECTLY, it only affirms what you already have, because it emphasizes that it is...

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23. Faith is learning to trust God

Thursday, Apr 20, 2017 465 words 2 mins 4 secs

Faith (trust in God) reaches outside of the illusory world and connects to a Source of miracles you may as yet not see or fully understand. But your willingness and openness to even conceive of it, coupled with even a...

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22. Learning to forgive differently over time

Monday, Apr 17, 2017 795 words 3 mins 31 secs

When I first began with the Course's forgiveness, it was much more focused on taking back my projections. The particular projections to be taken back revolved around other people and what they seemed to be doing to me. If things...

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21. We've learned about the world, based on an illusion

Monday, Apr 10, 2017 504 words 2 mins 14 secs

We have allowed ourselves to LEARN what we think the truth is, based on how the physical world seems to function.

We think that there are causes out there which have effects on other things.

We think that the world is able...

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20. You might not be at peace but you have some lessons to learn

Thursday, Jan 12, 2017 568 words 2 mins 31 secs

Another ego trap with forgiveness is believing that you need to be at peace regardless of what's going on in life. While this might ultimately be the goal, meanwhile the things that happen in life are there because they are...

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19. Being too proud of what you've taught yourself

Saturday, Dec 17, 2016 420 words 1 mins 52 secs

We've become proud of what we've learned, we've become proud of our education, proud of what we've accomplished on our own, proud of how we've overcome problems by ourselves, proud of our problem-solving abilities, proud of the development of various...

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18. Learning to invite Holy Spirit in to really heal you

Saturday, Nov 26, 2016 2069 words 9 mins 11 secs1 comments

For a while now I've been experiencing the Holy Spirit working in me quite actively to clear and heal my mind, emotions and body. And I've been unsure how this correlates with A Course in Miracles because I don't hear...

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17. Why do lessons show up in your life as negative?

Sunday, Nov 13, 2016 1712 words 7 mins 36 secs

Why do 'lessons' show up in your life as negative, unwanted, like things are going wrong, or something bad is happening?

Whatever your current beliefs are, your idea of truth is what you think of as 100% true. If there is...

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16. Learning to receive God's love

Sunday, Nov 06, 2016 768 words 3 mins 24 secs

Once again, last evening, I asked God what he wanted me to 'do', thinking that there were actions or things to 'do', and His reply to me was:

"Receive."

I realize that my ego mind is SO used to 'seeking', which is...

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