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23. If God made the world, God made death and suffering

Sunday, Jun 30, 2019 1791 words 7 mins 57 secs

And if God created bodies, death would indeed be real. But God would not be loving."

Let's just be clear about something here. God creates or extends reality. Everything real is within God's being. Everything real comes from His Will. Ok....

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22. My complaints aren't working, damn it!

Tuesday, Apr 02, 2019 809 words 3 mins 35 secs

Complaining is victimhood. And it doesn't work.

Anything that happens, you choose. If you are conscious, you make a conscious choice, with deliberate intent to produce an effect. You cause it, implement it, make it happen and put it in place,...

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21. The cause of sickness, pain and suffering

Tuesday, May 08, 2018 3011 words 13 mins 22 secs

"A major step in the Atonement plan is to undo error at ALL levels. Illness, which is really "not Right Mindedness", is the result of level confusion in the sense that it always entails the misbelief that what is amiss...

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20. Why tolerate suffering?

Friday, Apr 27, 2018 623 words 2 mins 46 secs

When I used to be sick or suffering, the only options at my disposal was to take a medication, or "wait it out" or "let it run its course" or go through the suffering until I had "fully suffered". Like...

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19. The guitless mind cannot suffer, because it heals the body

Tuesday, Mar 20, 2018 135 words 0 mins 36 secs

"The guiltless mind cannot suffer. Being sane, the mind HEALS THE BODY (making sickness and death IMPOSSIBLE) because it has been healed. The sane mind cannot conceive of illness because it cannot conceive of attacking anyone or anything."

This quote is...

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18. Fear of judgement is self-inflicted suffering

Saturday, Feb 10, 2018 1620 words 7 mins 12 secs

I used to attack myself pretty severely through the fear of being judged by others. I was painfully shy and perceived a need to withdraw in an effort to protect myself, but all this did was hurt myself deeply.

My shyness...

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17. The power to reverse sickness and death and suffering

Wednesday, Dec 06, 2017 2191 words 9 mins 44 secs

There is a simple law about health that you need to know about, as described here:

"The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you. Use if for sin or for attack,...

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16. Fed up with suffering? Tolerating the consequences of sin? Stop!

Tuesday, Nov 28, 2017 2226 words 9 mins 53 secs

FED-UP WITH SUFFERING? PUTTING UP WITH WHAT HAS HAPPENED? TOLERATING PAIN? WANT SOME RELIEF?!!

The ego’s thought system is specifically geared to make you suffer for as long as possible.

Every time something "happens" in this world, it is symbolic of sin....

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15. Those who are offended are offensive

Wednesday, Aug 16, 2017 450 words 2 mins 0 secs

If you are upset by the world or offended by what people do, you will turn yourself into a false savior. You will make yourself look like you care, and you will become upset and reactionary about what happened. You'll...

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14. Demonstrate immortality instead of vulnerability and suffering

Wednesday, Aug 16, 2017 802 words 3 mins 33 secs

We're asked to demonstrate that nothing our brother does has the ability to affect us.

We're asked to show by example that our brother has no ability to hurt us or harm us or upset us or offend us.

If we demonstrate...

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13. Your attempt to help others may be entirely your own reaction to an illusion of suffering

Wednesday, Aug 02, 2017 1251 words 5 mins 33 secs

When you first perceive that someone has something wrong with them, is sick or suffering in some way, and this strikes you as real, you will have a reaction.

Your reaction will be part of what you have put in place...

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12. A guiltless mind cannot suffer

Saturday, Jun 24, 2017 1389 words 6 mins 10 secs

It is not possible for you to suffer unless there is guilt in your own mind. The only way for a mind to have guilt in it, is for that same mind to believe it is guilty, thus identifying itself...

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11. Karma isn't real

Thursday, May 04, 2017 227 words 1 mins 0 secs

For karma to be possible, you'd have to believe that you are capable of really doing something to someone else.

The only thing that can ever really be shared is love. You are only ever attacking yourself. And you do not...

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10. Lifting the lid off emotions

Wednesday, Apr 26, 2017 261 words 1 mins 9 secs

Often when you are experiencing some long-term struggle with something, where you have a lot of emotions and stress about it, when the thing finally gets resolved something happens.

Since you now perceive that the problem has gone, it's kind of...

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9. When everything goes wrong

Wednesday, Apr 12, 2017 480 words 2 mins 7 secs

Sometimes things go terribly, terribly wrong. And this wrongness compels you to seek and try to find answers as to why it went wrong. And if the thing is really, really wrong, you will not be able to find answers....

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8. You've appointed yourself your own worst enemy

Wednesday, Nov 23, 2016 586 words 2 mins 36 secs

We have appointed our own worst enemies, our controllers, our dominators, our victimizers, our haters, and everyone we do not like, to do all of these things TO us, FOR us, because we have a secret agenda.

We do not want...

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7. We need to stop trying to prevent bad things from happening

Sunday, Nov 13, 2016 570 words 2 mins 31 secs

Sometimes bad things seem to happen. And usually our reaction is to want to get rid of them, stop them, prevent them, fix them.

But we have spiritual lessons to learn. And usually a lesson means that something starts out appearing...

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6. Opening yourself up to abuse

Sunday, Oct 02, 2016 250 words 1 mins 6 secs

When you believe something is true which is not of God, you give an open invitation for others to compound your belief and thereby to abuse you.

Whenever you believe something of the ego, it gives permission to the entire ego...

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5. Sometimes it's very good to fail

Wednesday, Sep 21, 2016 538 words 2 mins 23 secs

It can be very important for your life to totally fail sometimes. It's good for the ego to totally fuck up.

It is important that you come to realize that what you've been trying to do DOES NOT WORK.

You will initially...

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4. You believe you're meant to suffer

Thursday, Aug 11, 2016 537 words 2 mins 23 secs

You believe that it is true that you are meant to suffer and die and that doing so is right and happy and is your salvation. How nuts is that? Even worse, you do not even REALIZE you are suffering...

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