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920. Are you hiding in your happy place?

Thursday, Feb 01, 2018 1221 words 5 mins 25 secs

We are responsible for creating this world, not God.

We are responsible for creating our bodies and everything that seems to happen here.

This entire universe would not exist AT ALL if it were not for Sons of God dreaming it.

Prior to...

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919. It is not possible to do something to another person without doing it directly to yourself

Wednesday, Jan 31, 2018 343 words 1 mins 31 secs

This is a slight technicality which the ego forgot to mention.

If you knew and could see that any attempt you make to influence or hurt or affect another, immediately has direct repercussions upon yourself, and that it is absolutely impossible...

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918. I am not a victim of the world I see

Wednesday, Jan 31, 2018 587 words 2 mins 36 secs

In order to be invulnerable and not a victim of the world I see, it is necessary to recognize that no-one ever does anything to me.

Part of this recognition must also entail recognizing that, therefore, I never do anything to...

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917. You are as God created you

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2018 262 words 1 mins 9 secs

God has created you as an infinite, immortal soul, who is perfectly complete and lacking nothing.

There is nothing that you need to add to yourself to improve yourself or to make yourself in any way better than God created.

You are...

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916. Jesus is a soul, and one of many sons of God

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2018 279 words 1 mins 14 secs

"There is nothing about me that you cannot attain. I have nothing that does not come from God. The difference between us now is that I have nothing else. This leaves me in a state which is only potential in...

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915. ACIM IS NOT PURE NON-DUALITY - PURE NON-DUALITY IS BULLSHIT

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2018 1597 words 7 mins 5 secs

When we talk of duality, non-duality, pure-non-duality, we're talking concepts.

Duality means polar opposites (good/bad, right/wring, up/down etc)

Non-duality usually means both opposites are one thing. This also usually means the opposites still exist, ie the world is real, but it's all...

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914. The first level confusion

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2018 378 words 1 mins 40 secs

The very first level confusion occurs when we as Sons of God attempt to "cause God".

Whenever an effect, or a lower level, attempts to cause effects in the very cause that caused it, ie a higher level, that is level...

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913. Accepting the ego? No thanks.

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2018 769 words 3 mins 25 secs

There is a very fine line between accepting this world and justifying it.

If I am having sickness, or problems, or negative ego thoughts, then something is wrong. It does not matter whether I am accepting these things or not, or...

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912. The two-faced ego always pretends to be doing one thing while doing another

Tuesday, Jan 23, 2018 252 words 1 mins 7 secs

If I see myself as "being attacked" by someone, I am attacking.

If I see myself as "being victimized", I am victimizing.

If I see myself as afraid, I am threatening.

If I see myself as lacking, I am stealing.

If I see myself...

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911. No-one has sinned, forgiveness is always justified

Tuesday, Jan 23, 2018 1741 words 7 mins 44 secs

"Forgive them for they know not what they do" applies to anyone who believes in separation, because literally a state of ego-mindedness renders you unaware of what you are doing or why.

When you are whole minded you'll see the whole...

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910. The only problem - separation from God

Sunday, Jan 21, 2018 1093 words 4 mins 51 secs

"A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct. This sense of separation would never have arisen if you had not distorted your perception of truth, and had thus perceived yourself as lacking."

Let's be clear....

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909. Fear is trusting in your own strength

Saturday, Jan 20, 2018 1002 words 4 mins 27 secs

From lesson 48: "There is nothing to fear."

"The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength. The awareness that there is nothing to fear shows that somewhere in your mind, though not necessarily...

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908. Do I really know anything?

Saturday, Jan 20, 2018 722 words 3 mins 12 secs

So often I believe I know. I think that I have the facts or the information. Or that I have experiene. Or that my assumptions are true. Or that I know better than someone else. Or that they are wrong...

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907. 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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906. The second source of guilt

Friday, Jan 19, 2018 419 words 1 mins 51 secs

The primary source of guilt is the belief in having sinned against God.

But after this, when guilt has been established, it is denied and made unconscious, then projected, or see as disassociated from your identity.

The problem is, this then justifies...

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905. 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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904. Wavering trust

Wednesday, Jan 17, 2018 292 words 1 mins 17 secs

I notice myself wavering back and forth in trust, between believing the ego's temptations that something is going wrong, versus recognizing the truth that nothing can go wrong.

On the one hand, the truth says we are all immortal and invulnerable...

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903. Ego wants you to be attacked by external causes, then saved by them

Wednesday, Jan 17, 2018 462 words 2 mins 3 secs

I notice in particular that pretty much anything medical, anything scientific, or anything involving proof in the world, always entails this belief that something external causes something to happen.

It also accompanies the belief that, because the external causes stuff to...

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902. Ego presents only a lose-lose situation, tempting you with specialness

Wednesday, Jan 17, 2018 1079 words 4 mins 47 secs

Everything about the ego appears to present one way that you can win, and one way that you can lose. It always suggests there's some way to get away with something, to escape the effects of something. To be the...

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901. Ego is self attack

Monday, Jan 15, 2018 994 words 4 mins 25 secs

Perhaps one of the key features about the ego which many people do not realize, is that it is constantly attacking itself.

The ego IS the idea of self attack. It is the idea of you, attacking you. It is self...

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