800. Is the world God's creation?
Let's have a closer look at what the course says about the world and whether it is God's creation. This is going to be a long post so bear with me or pick and choose which quotes you want to...
Let's have a closer look at what the course says about the world and whether it is God's creation. This is going to be a long post so bear with me or pick and choose which quotes you want to...
Being afraid, a person is perceiving that someone or something is an enemy or threat. Yet it not actually true that the thing is a threat. The person is just giving it that meaning and is seeing that projected onto...
It’s not just a matter of something happening physically. It’s not just a matter of what is demonstrated. Since form can be changed EASILY by a miracle worker, sickness can be flipped on and off, and bodies made to appear...
In God, who is cause, He created Christ, who is Effect. Or "Father" created "Son".
At the "separation", the Son attempted to separate from the Father, thereby introducing a separation between Cause and Effect.
Cause and Effect in Heaven are ONE, unified...
In the Holy Mind (whole mind, one mind), what applies to you applies to others, because they are one with you. There is nothing you can do to them that you don’t *directly* do to yourself. Because you are AWARE...
Sin is really an attempt to make out that God is evil. It’s an attempt to turn a "loving cause" into "an evil cause".
When you are projecting your belief in sin outwards onto other people, what you’re really doing is...
"WHAT IS NOT LOVE IS MURDER" - ACIM
Here's how this works.
A mind which is fully awake and aware, recognizes that it actually shares a mind with everyone. It is at one with them. It sees its own identity within others,...
You as love cannot be attacked by the ego. The ego in others or in the world is utterly incapable of doing ANYTHING to love. Love is completely outside of the entire realm of the ego’s dream. All ego identities...
If you are going to pray for someone, you’ll need to first discern what the problem really is.
The problem is NOT what is happening to the person, what they perceive as happening to them, or what your own ego says...
We need to learn to not believe anything we see in this world.
We must learn it is all FALSE. Nothing more than an illusion that isn’t really there, is completely powerless, and cannot resist your undivided will.
We must stop seeing...
"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, which is the same as sin, and you will see it as sinful. Because it...
I love learning about miracles.
There are kind of two levels or layers of mind. The higher level is filled with love. It is a mind at-one with others and filled with God’s Will. It has no ego, has let go...
Attempting to take your self closer to the truth in any way, will be met with ego resistance.
The ego itself is nothing, just a "way of looking" which is the opposite to seeing the truth. It distorts everything and makes...
If you sin or do something wrong, there is no way you're going to be completely free of it UNTIL you are willing to recognize the atonement principle.
You could've done something many years ago or even when you were a...
You can't sin. What is sin but the ability to actually achieve separation from God in some way? Whichever way that separation manifests, whether it is a thought of murder or attack or withdrawal or hate or a split mind...
Continuing with the "it's bullshit" theme, let's look at how guilt is also bullshit.
Guilt is not atonement. It is not compensation. It does not make up for doing something wrong. It does not help the person who you hurt. It...
Perception of form is blindness.
What seems to save you destroys you.
Salvation has been equated with death and attack.
Love has been replaced with fake love.
What seems special is meaningless.
The body, a device for sensing, is aware of nothing.
The mind is idle,...
Being afraid and perceiving that someone or something separate from you is attacking you, can ONLY happen if YOU are being an attacker.
Fear is self attack.
You position yourself as the one who is being attacked, as if to suggest, you...
Denial is an attempt to get rid of something, make it go away, place it anywhere other than here, push it outside of conscious awareness, and to disassociate from it. It’s an attempt to pretend it does not exist. This...
I was thinking about why we seem to have a body at all.
It occurred to me that all ego illusions are put in place as a form of level confusion. When the dream (effect) seems to have a causal ability,...