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25. Heaven is a place, and a state of mind. Heaven is for real

Saturday, Aug 18, 2018 989 words 4 mins 23 secs

Some people say heaven is not a place. It’s usually based around the quote "heaven is an awareness of perfect oneness." This is one of those things where you have to look at what other quotes say to build a...

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24. Recognizing reality for what it is

Wednesday, Feb 14, 2018 1388 words 6 mins 10 secs

The problem we have mainly is we do not correctly recognize what anything is. Even if we're looking right at it.

In the separation, we stopped recognizing that God is God, that we are immortal, that separation is impossible, and that...

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23. Not seeing the world as real

Friday, Jan 19, 2018 631 words 2 mins 48 secs

It seems like a tall order to not believe this world is real. I've been immersed in believing it's real for so long.

A result of believing it's real, and trying to become more spiritual, is that I sometimes judge the...

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22. I am not weak but strong, I am not an illusion but a reality, I am not doubtful but certain etc...

Thursday, Jan 18, 2018 593 words 2 mins 38 secs

"I am not weak, but strong.

I am not helpless, but all powerful.

I am not limited, but unlimited.

I am not doubtful, but certain.

I am not an illusion, but a reality.

I cannot see in darkness, but in...

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21. Don't be a sheep, a shared subjectivity is not objective reality

Thursday, Jan 11, 2018 841 words 3 mins 44 secs

It is possible to be completely unaware that you are participating in something abnormal, if everyone around you is also participating in it and believing it is normal.

It is possible to have a "shared" experience where multiple individuals are having...

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20. The real world is not real, it is still a dream

Monday, Nov 20, 2017 2396 words 10 mins 38 secs

"The real world still is but a dream." - section 7 of Chapter 29, section 4 of ACIM.

The real world is what it means to still be IN the world, perceiving with Holy Spirit, recognizing the presence of the *reflection*...

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19. The real world is just a recognition the world is an illusion, not reality

Sunday, Oct 01, 2017 785 words 3 mins 29 secs

The tiny mad idea, a thought of separation, produced a "dream".

The dream is comprised of illusions. Thoughts of separation must always be illusory because reality is not separate. A thought of separation is also a thought of death (opposite to...

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18. Stop believing in sickness, there is no such thing as real sickness, all sickness is an illusion of separation

Monday, Jul 31, 2017 1182 words 5 mins 15 secs

If something seems to have gone wrong with your body, the temptation is to believe it is has reality and truth to it.

ACIM: "Temptation has one lesson it would teach in all its forms wherever it occurs. It would persuade...

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17. Heaven is for real, it is a place in the mind more real than the physical world

Sunday, Jul 09, 2017 519 words 2 mins 18 secs

Beyond the physical world, there are other universes. There is a spiritual universe, a higher universe, the christ universe (which is the "real world"), and Heaven.

If you are primarily located in the physical world, seeing God in it and saying...

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16. Starting to develop faith in God, because the world is not real

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 1800 words 8 mins 0 secs

When I recently started to recognize that the whole world is fundamentally unreal, I started to experience "faith" in God. It seemed to require an UNBELIEF that this world is "true", in order to shift my allegiance and dependence over...

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15. Some believe the world is real, but it is an illusion

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 793 words 3 mins 31 secs

Those course students who believe they are only supposed to correct their own perceptions - perceptions of the physical world, as though the physical world is reality and you simply need to see it without judgement in order to keep...

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14. You are in an illusory world but you believe it is real

Friday, Apr 28, 2017 349 words 1 mins 33 secs

You are in an illusory world.

But you believe this world is real.

THAT is your problem. THAT is the distortion of perception that's happening in your mind that you need to correct.

You're not correcting your view of a real world, you're...

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13. If sickness is real then God must be sick

Sunday, Apr 16, 2017 658 words 2 mins 55 secs

If sickness is real, and given that God is the author of Reality, it would have to mean that God created the sickness. And since God is Reality, this would mean that God Himself IS the sickness.

The belief that sickness...

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12. The world is a fake illusion, it is not real

Sunday, Apr 16, 2017 680 words 3 mins 1 secs

"Salvation lies in the simple fact that illusions are not fearful because they are not true. They but seem to be fearful to the extent to which you fail to recognize them for what they are; and you will fail...

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11. ACIM doesn't make sense unless the world is not real

Thursday, Apr 13, 2017 593 words 2 mins 38 secs1 comments

The only way that A Course in Miracles can really make any sense whatsoever, is if there is a CLEAR distinction between what is real and what is illusion.

Every way in which you are confused about which is which, is...

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10. Jesus made his body disappear because it was not real!

Wednesday, Apr 12, 2017 806 words 3 mins 34 secs

Perhaps one of the greatest miracles of all performed by Jesus was simply that He made his body permanently disappear. He did not die because He was not his body at all. His body didn't lay in the tomb rotting....

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9. Believing the world is real will bring you confusion

Wednesday, Apr 12, 2017 625 words 2 mins 46 secs

If you are not really clear that there is NO TRUTH in the world, because the entire world is an illusion, you will become quite confused.

You'll mistakenly keep searching for answers in forms, situations, explanations, authorities, rational deductions, conclusions, diagnosis,...

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8. Faith is only possible if the world is not real

Wednesday, Apr 12, 2017 1516 words 6 mins 44 secs

In A Course in Miracles, forgiveness is a movement away from believing that illusions are true and real, towards recognizing that they are in fact not true or real. This becomes clear when your awareness increases sufficiently to reveal a...

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7. Ego perception puts you into a private reality

Tuesday, Apr 04, 2017 1453 words 6 mins 27 secs

In ACIM Jesus says the ego made the body as a way to focus away from the mind and to make the mind seem to be 'private'. The body is like a wall around the mind which creates the illusion...

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6. There is no world, it cannot be real

Friday, Mar 24, 2017 324 words 1 mins 26 secs

What God creates must be permanent because He is permanence and can only create like Himself.

Therefore, if something is not permanent, if it changes at all in any way, if it is born or dies, or if it comes and...

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