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42. Learning to love unconditionally

Tuesday, Jul 10, 2018 1525 words 6 mins 46 secs

This is a big lesson for me and everyone: How to love all the time. It's natural, but our divine nature to always love and express love has been blocked by fear, attack thoughts, grievances, hatred etc.

When other people seem...

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41. There is nothing to learn

Wednesday, Apr 18, 2018 218 words 0 mins 58 secs

In recognition that we are already perfect and were created perfect, it iapparent that we only need to remember and accept that perfection is ALREADY TRUE OF US, in order to awaken.

And so I asked Jesus, what about this entire...

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40. Being a subservient little course-learner

Wednesday, Apr 11, 2018 558 words 2 mins 28 secs

For a while I'd thought that by asking Holy Spirit to decide for or asking Jesus to decide, it meant sort of a 'giving up' of deciding.

Lately especially in light of free will I've been seeing it a bit differently,...

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39. Learning to be free

Monday, Apr 02, 2018 704 words 3 mins 7 secs

Gradually over time Jesus has been trying to teach me about freedom.

He would say, "you are free". I would be trying to decide whether to do something or not, whether I'm allowed to, whether it's the right thing, etc. I...

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38. Jesus tells the truth - learning to trust him

Wednesday, Mar 28, 2018 583 words 2 mins 35 secs

Jesus is truth-full. He is honest. He is awake. He is aware of everything. He does not lie. He has no reason to hide anything.

Since Jesus IS the Atonement, in order to "accept" the Atonement we are going to have...

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37. What is there to learn?

Thursday, Feb 22, 2018 259 words 1 mins 9 secs

Contemplating the seemingly huge gap between where I am at and where God is at, I asked myself, what will it take to learn the whole truth?

It seemed then that the "whole" of the truth I was trying to learn...

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36. Learning not to depend on other people's love (or lack of it)

Monday, Nov 20, 2017 1282 words 5 mins 41 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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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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