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409. We're playing at make-believe, just like children

Saturday, Jan 28, 2017 1899 words 8 mins 26 secs

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...

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408. What does it mean to judge?

Saturday, Jan 28, 2017 603 words 2 mins 40 secs

If judgement and forgiveness are opposites ("he who would not forgive must judge, to justify his failure to forgive"), then judgement is the condition of being unforgiving.

Being unforgiving really means that you are looking at the appearance of illusions and...

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407. Forgiveness means seeing correctly

Friday, Jan 27, 2017 543 words 2 mins 24 secs

Forgiveness is nothing more than seeing correctly.

It means recognizing that illusions ARE illusions, and not falling for them.

It means overlooking illusions and seeing past them, rather that taking them at their appearance and thinking they are real.

This extends all the...

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406. Jesus says nobody can die without their own consent

Thursday, Jan 26, 2017 1073 words 4 mins 46 secs

He also says nothing can happen without your decision to make it happen, and what you choose to happen must happen, and nothing else can happen. There are no accidents or victims.

This completely flies in the face of the typical...

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405. Jesus isn't invisible, you are!

Thursday, Jan 26, 2017 415 words 1 mins 50 secs

Jesus said a curious thing to me last night, after I was pondering how I seemed to be here and was uncertain if he was present. He said:

"I'm not invisible, you are."

There is quite a lot of truth to this....

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404. Everything is chosen, so choose again

Thursday, Jan 26, 2017 760 words 3 mins 22 secs

An idea that keeps coming back to me lately is that everything that's happening in the world is absolutely chosen, deliberate and intentional. It's the idea that we're all powerful creators, powerful choosers, and we simply keep on making poor...

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403. Who invented death?

Thursday, Jan 26, 2017 318 words 1 mins 24 secs

The Son of God invented death.

And the Son of God cannot die.

So whenever there seems to be death, the Son of God must be pretending to die, all the while underneath that He is laughing at how everyone (really other...

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402. Choosing not to choose

Thursday, Jan 26, 2017 297 words 1 mins 19 secs

We are constantly choosing, and in that choice are most often choosing to pretend that we have no choice.

That's the same thing as choosing to pretend that we have no power and that things are happening against our will.

When...

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401. There are two kinds of power

Thursday, Jan 26, 2017 432 words 1 mins 55 secs

There are two kinds of power, God's power and ego power.

Ego power means that you have to rise up against enemies and fight them strongly. This manifests as intensity, anger, attack. You think that if you can 'over-power' the 'other',...

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400. ACIM on nobody dying without their own consent

Monday, Jan 23, 2017 204 words 0 mins 54 secs

A powerful lesson: ACIM 152 - nobody dies without their own consent... this blows absolutely all victimhood out of the water...

"152: **The power of decision is my own.**

No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision. No one...

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399. Nothing can happen without your consent

Monday, Jan 23, 2017 510 words 2 mins 15 secs

When Jesus says that nothing can happen without our consent, and that nobody can die without their own consent, what he's saying seems pretty extreme.

We are so used to living in such a way that we constantly believe things happen...

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398. Remembering the happy truth

Monday, Jan 23, 2017 397 words 1 mins 45 secs

The happy truth behind every seeming disasterous illusion in this world, is that nothing has gone wrong at all and we are still with God.

The happy truth is also that it is actually possible to be immortal, as spirit, and...

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397. A world of separate individuals

Monday, Jan 16, 2017 818 words 3 mins 38 secs

If you are open and whole and unified as a single awareness, that is who you are. That is your identity.

If you close down and put yourself into a box, associating yourself with some 'part' of the environment that is...

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396. The physical world was designed to cover up God

Monday, Jan 16, 2017 1088 words 4 mins 50 secs

The physical world we live in was deliberately designed by the ego mind to create the ILLUSION that separation is real. It is meant to, on purpose, deceive your awareness so that you believe how it APPEARS to be. Taking...

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395. 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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394. Do we need to forgive the good stuff?

Thursday, Jan 12, 2017 758 words 3 mins 22 secs

Well actually yes you do. Here's why.

Evaluations of 'good and bad' are both ego. In your ego, there are two parts.

A) The persona self, which is what the ego 'keeps' of your identity, and is only a part of the...

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393. The mistake of only trying to change your mind about the world

Wednesday, Jan 11, 2017 1066 words 4 mins 44 secs

There is a mistake that many of us make when it comes to ACIM, where we seem to think we should change our minds about the world in order to find peace.

It seems like the Course is saying we shouldn't...

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392. The need for forgiveness

Tuesday, Jan 10, 2017 846 words 3 mins 45 secs

Forgiveness only seems to be needed, as a process, because you currently believe there are things that need to be forgiven.

In other words, you currently are experiencing unforgiveness, and therefore the world seems unforgiven and unforgiving. And therefore, you think...

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391. The two layers of progress in your forgiveness work

Monday, Jan 09, 2017 745 words 3 mins 18 secs

You know sometimes when you're doing something on a computer and there's a progress bar, and sometimes there are actually two progress bars - overall progress and the progress of one of many smaller tasks? Well I think it's kind...

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390. The real world can't hurt you

Sunday, Jan 08, 2017 532 words 2 mins 21 secs

The real world is a symbol, like the rest of what perception offers. Yet it stands for what is opposite to what you made. Your world is seen through eyes of fear, and brings the witnesses of terror to your...

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