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720. THE TRUE METAPHYSICS OF A COURSE IN MIRACLES

Sunday, Aug 27, 2017 2639 words 11 mins 43 secs

The metaphysics of ACIM is not something that someone made up, it is not an interpretation, it is not subject to someone's opinion, and there is no room for questioning it. It is not one of many possible definitions of...

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719. Who is responsible for putting thoughts in your mind?

Saturday, Aug 26, 2017 361 words 1 mins 36 secs

Sometimes people say you should meditate and watch your thoughts go by. They say you should not believe the thoughts or get engaged with them. It seems helpful up to a point to be able to let them go without...

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718. Affirmations to undo fear and detach you from being at the effect of others

Saturday, Aug 26, 2017 432 words 1 mins 55 secs

"You can do anything I ask. I have asked you to perform miracles, and have made it clear that miracles are natural, corrective, healing and universal. There is nothing they cannot do, but they cannot be performed in the spirit...

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717. Fighting with your enemy is a state of denial caused by your split mind

Thursday, Aug 24, 2017 778 words 3 mins 27 secs

On the surface, it seems that fighting against something is a noble attempt to bring about change.

But what's really happening is that the ego has split the mind in two, one part is now opposed to the other part, and...

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716. You are using fear as a device to give away your own power

Thursday, Aug 24, 2017 1314 words 5 mins 50 secs

Fear is a psychological tool which you use to put yourself into the role of victim, where you then see yourself as being affected by something separate from you.

You are powerful, strong, confident, certain, loving, aware, filled with truth.

However, when...

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715. The scope of your awareness defines your identity

Wednesday, Aug 23, 2017 934 words 4 mins 9 secs

God's Son is huge. Infinite, unlimited, eternal, omnipresent. He is everywhere at all times and beyond. There is no edge to His being and no limits to His Self.

Think of the Son of God like a huge canvas or giant...

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714. Unconsciousness is a tricky bugger

Wednesday, Aug 23, 2017 812 words 3 mins 36 secs

It means there's something you have absolutely no awareness of. You can't see it, taste it, smell it, touch it, hear it or sense it. It's as though it does not exist whatsoever. And since you place a lot of...

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713. How cause and effect are separate in the ego mind but united in the right mind

Wednesday, Aug 23, 2017 920 words 4 mins 5 secs

On the level of the ego mind, let's call it "level 1", cause and effect are separate. This is entirely based on the notion that the Son of God (who is the effect of God) is separate from cause (from...

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712. If you are offended or upset by someone else, you agree with them

Wednesday, Aug 16, 2017 842 words 3 mins 44 secs

This will sound absurd to anyone who is actually upset or offended.

If you are completely clear and certain about what the truth is about yourself, it will be unshakeable and undeniable. You will be so aware of this truth that...

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711. 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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710. 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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709. The world is a depiction of the idea of an opposite to Life coexisting with it

Monday, Aug 14, 2017 258 words 1 mins 8 secs

Separation is the idea that there is an opposite to love.

It has given rise to a world where both love and hate seem to coexist, where there is both joy and sadness, and where there is both Life and death.

The...

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708. The ego wants war, but it doesn't want the war to be over

Friday, Aug 11, 2017 545 words 2 mins 25 secs

It needs war in order to exist, because the ego is a state of conflict.

On the one hand, it would intensify the sense of trying to get rid of a perceived enemy completely, but on the other hand, if it...

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707. We are all equal children of God, we must become equals with our parents and children

Monday, Aug 07, 2017 882 words 3 mins 55 secs

Every person is an equal member of the Sonship, meaning that everyone is your brother or sister. Everyone exists on an equal playing field, and the one "parent" is God.

This means that whether you are a parent or a child,...

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706. Concepts and theories are helpful in learning about the ego so you can undo it

Monday, Aug 07, 2017 480 words 2 mins 7 secs

Sometimes people say that concepts have to be let go. The course even says that concepts have to be let go. The course even says to let go of the course and come to God with empty hands.

Yes. However, the...

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705. There are at least 2 levels in the Course, and this is why the community is divided

Saturday, Aug 05, 2017 1043 words 4 mins 38 secs

In A Course in Miracles there are at least TWO levels on which Jesus speaks, because there are TWO stages in awakening.

There is the level that you relate to as an individual self, waking up to your higher self.

Then there...

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704. Projection makes perception, and is projecting the physical world

Saturday, Aug 05, 2017 4520 words 20 mins 5 secs

When you dream at night, your mind is perfectly capable of creating entire environments in great detail. These dreams are not real, and so are projections of ego thoughts from the mind, but at the time they seem like real...

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703. Every form or expression of sickness is a defense against the truth and must go

Wednesday, Aug 02, 2017 1528 words 6 mins 47 secs

Such defenses are put in place on purpose. They are chosen. They have a purpose, to fulfill a perceived need. They have a function - a task that they are to perform in order to achieve a goal.

The goal of...

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702. What passes for caring can in fact be an attack

Wednesday, Aug 02, 2017 375 words 1 mins 40 secs

Let's say that you're eating some ice-cream, and your loved-one says to you, "don't have too much, I don't want you to get sick"... that can seem like caring. But is it?

Their assertion is that ice-cream has power over you,...

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701. 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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