"It should especially be noted that God has only one son, yet ALL HIS CREATIONS ARE HIS SONS, every one must be an integral part of the whole Sonship. The Sonship in its oneness transcends the sum of its parts...
"I could not atone for MYSELF ALONE. Listening to one Voice implies the decision to share It in order to hear It yourself. The Mind that was in me is still irresistibly drawn to EVERY MIND CREATED BY GOD, because...
Every person is an equal member of the Sonship, meaning that everyone is your brother or sister. Everyone exists on an equal playing field, and the one "parent" is God.
This means that whether you are a parent or a child,...
If you are not forgivable, neither is your brother.
You can't have it be that you are reluctant to forgive your brother, believing that you're able to forgive yourself but not him. If you don't forgive him, you do not forgive...
If you are upset or having issues with a person, try doing a forgiveness which includes them. A forgiveness which applies to both of you at the same time. Forgive them, for them.
At each step of your forgiveness, as you...
Sometimes the Course talks about what you can do for yourself, in terms of receiving your own healing and having your mind corrected so that sickness can be healed.
For example:
"Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. For the mind...
In every conflict, it is not one side or another who is right or wins.
They are BOTH losers.
The only one winning is the ego.
If you knew that the ego has a secret agenda to pit you against others and...
Independence can seem like a good thing. It seems to in some way be better than dependency on others, or codependency. It seems to represent being responsible for ones own life, and having the freedom to choose anything.
The ego has...
"You but accuse your brother of your own sins." - ACIM
Every single occurrence of you being angry at someone, blaming them, being afraid of them, believing they are doing something to you, being hurt by them, getting revenge, or whatever......
Correct perception entails recognizing that a person is Christ.
That means they are immortal.
As you are listening to someone go on and on about their problems or what happened to them etc, just imagine or perceive that they are *completely* immortal,...
As we heal others we heal ourselves, and as we heal ourselves we heal others.
"I will heal as I let Him teach me to heal" - ACIM
Just as teaching and learning are the same thing, so does healing apply both...
If a child were playing make-believe and pretending that things were happening, would you believe it? If you knew better, if you knew that the toy car is just a toy, not a real car, but the child was whizzing...
The ego was His idea of exploring what it might be like to be separate from God - to end Life.
The ego has since done a pretty good job of ending life, or at least, pretending to.
The ego is thus...
The Son of God is causal and creative.
The Son of God paints brand new pictures on a blank canvas.
The Son of God does not paint pictures on top of old pictures.
The Son of God does not ask old pictures to...
Originally, God created us and flowed all of His love to us. We were completely open to receive it and we flowed it onward, completely naturally, extending the Kingdom.
When the 'separation' happened, we put various forms of distance between ourselves...
The world is full of advice. Some of it seems useful, most of it is bullshit.
The son of God does not need any advice. This is because He does not need to 'get' anything from anyone because He is not...
Jesus asks us to be willing to demonstrate that what our brother attempted to do to us has had NO EFFECTS.
This means that if someone is against you or argues or attacks you, if you are experiencing effects, two things...