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1510. The body as a separation device between parts of mind

Sunday, Mar 29, 2020 1342 words 5 mins 57 secs

The body is a wall, like a fence, which was drawn around a PART of your total mind, in order to section it off and claim it as personal territory. The purpose of this body fence is to define that...

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1509. Selfishness and specialness

Friday, Mar 27, 2020 1371 words 6 mins 5 secs

"The ego is the idea of selfishness."

At the very foundation of the entire ego thought system is the idea of selfishness. But more accurately, it is the idea of not sharing. It's an idea of being exclusive, the ownership of...

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1508. The making of a separated self

Tuesday, Mar 24, 2020 886 words 3 mins 56 secs

As Jesus says, "the separation has occurred". The separation is another name for the fall of man. We did in fact "fall asleep" and dream of another world in which we believed in and thus made/maintained "en ego". It has...

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1507. Undoing effects by removing the cause

Tuesday, Mar 17, 2020 2976 words 13 mins 13 secs

Cause produces effects. This is God's permanent law, without exception. It applies everywhere always. There is a secret to performing miracles based on this, resulting in the undoing of effects. This is directly tied into the Atonement and The Miracle.

"the...

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1506. The fake emotions of the ego

Saturday, Mar 14, 2020 1745 words 7 mins 45 secs

The only real feelings are those whose nature is in alignment with God's, and which apply to and are shared with everyone equally, openly and freely. These include love, joy, happiness, peace. There are other feelings, which arise in and...

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1505. The fear of permadeath

Saturday, Mar 07, 2020 590 words 2 mins 37 secs

It's not just death that we fear, it's permanent death. We tried to give all illusions a sense of eternity, constancy, permanence and irreversibility. We aren't just afraid of dying, or that someone will die. We're afraid it will be...

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1504. Is the dream dreaming you?

Saturday, Mar 07, 2020 1069 words 4 mins 45 secs

Whatever you believe is the cause of you, you believe is your creator. God is the cause of you, being your creator. When you displace causality and project it outside of yourself, onto the dream world that you are causing,...

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1503. How to deal with the ego .... love it? detach from it? dis-identify from it? transcend it? change it? heal it?

Tuesday, Mar 03, 2020 1727 words 7 mins 40 secs

Jesus says: "I am the teacher of the ego."

He also says "The ego is the idea of selfishness."

Now, consider this. Your mind is either in a state of sanity or a state of mental illness. When mentally ill, YOUR MIND...

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1502. Not recognizing what you're doing

Tuesday, Mar 03, 2020 729 words 3 mins 14 secs

One of the major problems we have is that while in ego, we're in a state of confusion. And that means we've lost sight of what is true and real. This then leads to confusing things which are false with...

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1501. The ego's either-or world vs God's both-and world

Monday, Mar 02, 2020 1297 words 5 mins 45 secs

Ego's world is run by the egoic thought system, based on an EITHER-OR mindset of separation.

God's world is run by God's thought system, based on a BOTH-AND mindset of sharing.

EITHER-OR is based on the idea of separation - there is...

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1500. Being willing to uncover blocks to awareness

Friday, Feb 28, 2020 1452 words 6 mins 27 secs

In order to uncover a blocked awareness, we need to be willing to admit to the truth. And that means being willing to admit that we are NOT doing what we are claiming to be doing, we DO want the...

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1499. The world of sin

Friday, Feb 28, 2020 903 words 4 mins 0 secs

"The world of bodies is the world of sin for only if there were a body is sin possible."

The physical world is made of the idea of sin. "The body is the idea of sin made flesh and projected outwards."...

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1498. The body does not forgive

Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020 638 words 2 mins 50 secs

The body's eyes do not forgive. They do not overlook any illusions. All they see is the forms of error, and everything they look upon is an illusion. They literally are incapable of seeing past illusions at all. Which means...

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1497. There is no sin, guilt, fear, sickness or death

Monday, Feb 24, 2020 258 words 1 mins 8 secs

"There is no sin. Creation is unchanged."

"There IS no guilt in you, for God is blessed in His Son, as the Son is blessed in Him."

"There is no fear in perfect love."

"In the real world, there is no sickness, for...

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1496. Awake in the dream vs the end of dreaming

Thursday, Feb 20, 2020 438 words 1 mins 56 secs

"Awake in the dream" is where a person has near-total christ vision and is still in a body, still seeing the world through physical senses while simultaneously overlooking it with direct mind-vision. The world appears as a thin veil, it...

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1495. A healed mind in a body can still see suffering

Thursday, Feb 20, 2020 2611 words 11 mins 36 secs

There is a myth in the ACIM community relating to how perception works. It's based on the belief that we only have one perception, one outlook. There's us, in the body, perceiving. We read stuff about how perception shifts and...

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1494. Fear is the opposite of love - all fear must go

Monday, Feb 17, 2020 671 words 2 mins 58 secs

Jesus redefines the meaning of fear. It is not some mere feeling that you have. In fact, He teaches that fear is the opposite of love. Love is essentially equated with the entire Kingdom of God and the nature of...

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1493. The ego is not your self, your soul is

Sunday, Feb 16, 2020 1354 words 6 mins 1 secs

God created you as a holy child of God. He gave you an individual soul with a mind and a free will. God has many creative children, forming the family of God.

"The soul is the idea of self fullness." It's...

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1492. You think you are outside the Kingdom in another world

Sunday, Feb 09, 2020 758 words 3 mins 22 secs

"When God created you (in Heaven), He made you part of Him. That is why attack WITHIN the Kingdom is impossible. But YOU made the ego without love, and so it does not love YOU. You could not remain WITHIN...

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1491. Special body relationships

Sunday, Feb 09, 2020 1518 words 6 mins 44 secs

The thing about the body is that it's a limitation. You as a spirit are unlimited, infinite, everywhere. You are omnipresent like God. To seemingly "enter" a body you have to massively confine yourself to one location, separated off from...

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