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660. Can prayers go unanswered? Is it really possible to be a victim?

Friday, Jun 23, 2017 1586 words 7 mins 2 secs

A Course in Miracles would say no. You always get what you ask for. You only get what you ask for. You never get anything you do not ask for.

There are no victims. There are no accidents. Nothing happens unless...

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659. Awareness is your identity

Wednesday, Jun 21, 2017 621 words 2 mins 45 secs

Your sense of who you are depends entirely on the extent of your awareness. Awareness is your IDENTITY.

How much of your mind you are aware OF, determines the boundaries of your sense of Self.

If you have a lot of repression...

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658. Projection happens at every stage of separation, not just with guilt

Sunday, Jun 18, 2017 523 words 2 mins 19 secs

At each stage from separation through sin, guilt, fear, punishment and death, there is always some amount of projection of the cause of the problem.

When we believe in separation, i.e. sin, sin actually makes the separation unconscious, and then we...

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657. Accepting the atonement is the doorway home

Saturday, Jun 17, 2017 601 words 2 mins 40 secs

Years ago I had no clue what "atonement" meant, other than being able to quote the Course as saying "nothing happened". This was more or less meaningless to me.

I went about my efforts at "forgiveness" and made some headway but...

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656. Light shows you that nothing has gone wrong at all

Saturday, Jun 17, 2017 648 words 2 mins 52 secs

Light is truth. You can see what really is, when there is light. You cannot see in the dark. Darkness appears to hide the light, as though blocking it, removing it, or affecting it. But light cannot be affected by...

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655. Sickness is a form of guilt

Friday, Jun 16, 2017 659 words 2 mins 55 secs

"Sickness where guilt is absent cannot come, for it is but another form of guilt" - ACIM from "Only salvation can be said to cure".

Sickness is a form of guilt. You cannot recognize it as guilt if you do not...

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654. Fear is an enemy. All healing is the release from fear.

Tuesday, Jun 13, 2017 279 words 1 mins 14 secs

Fear has the potential to paralyze you. It stops people from living. It keeps people imprisoned in their own homes.

People affected by fear can avoid doing certain things many, many times over, missing out on countless experiences, interactions and relationships.

Afraid...

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653. The world is full of liars, falling for their illusions is false empathy

Saturday, Jun 10, 2017 824 words 3 mins 39 secs

Both sides of every war are run by the ego. The war is symptomatic of the ego attacking itself. War is self attack.

When you believe that one side of the war is the good guys and one side is the...

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652. You have a problem of identity, you think the ego is your Self

Wednesday, Jun 07, 2017 1532 words 6 mins 48 secs

Your main problem is one of identity. You've attempted to change your identity from Christ, to take on a new identity as an ego.

Your sense of your "Self" has become associated with, attached to, and confused with, an alternative model...

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651. If your brother is not forgivable, neither are you

Monday, Jun 05, 2017 501 words 2 mins 13 secs

If you are not forgivable, neither is your brother.

You can't have it be that you are reluctant to forgive your brother, believing that you're able to forgive yourself but not him. If you don't forgive him, you do not forgive...

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650. The physical world is not really a physical world - its in your mind

Sunday, Jun 04, 2017 1433 words 6 mins 22 secs

It is a scene in the mind. It is an imagined scene. A dream.

It is inside of a mind. It is made of thought. It presents images but these images are only there because of imagination.

Physical matter is not fixed...

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649. Miracles depend on you believing genuinely they will happen

Saturday, Jun 03, 2017 2360 words 10 mins 29 secs

Beliefs seem to be something we're supposed to be undoing and getting rid of - at least false ones. And the Course says that you do not necessarily need to have a belief about the truth because it's kind of...

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648. In need of some good news? Everything is okay. Be happy!

Friday, Jun 02, 2017 684 words 3 mins 2 secs

Here's some very simple logic which will be hard to actually accept if you have an ego.

In God's truth, nothing real has happened to warrant any kind of upset, suffering or concern. Absolutely nothing has gone wrong. There's no grounds...

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647. Forgiveness becomes more refined over time

Friday, Jun 02, 2017 1036 words 4 mins 36 secs

When you're first starting to apply A Course in Miracle's idea of forgiveness, it begins with where you're at and what kind of a perception you have.

Most people will be starting out with a mind that is quite strongly convinced...

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646. Break the illusion of cause-effect between your ego and their ego

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 534 words 2 mins 22 secs

If you are caught up in an emotional interaction with someone, upset by them or about them or struggling to forgive them, trying doing a forgiveness where you sever the connection of cause and effect between you.

By that I mean,...

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645. Forgive yourself and your brother simultaneously

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 270 words 1 mins 12 secs

If you are upset or having issues with a person, try doing a forgiveness which includes them. A forgiveness which applies to both of you at the same time. Forgive them, for them.

At each step of your forgiveness, as you...

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644. Ego relationships are not relationships at all - nothing ego is shared

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 470 words 2 mins 5 secs

With regards to your ego and the ego of your brother, everything about it is self inflicted and separate. What is in your ego is not in your brother's ego. They are two separate, private worlds. They do not connect...

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643. Atonement. Can you accept that nothing has happened?

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 1576 words 7 mins 0 secs

To the ego, its key difference in atonement is that something really DID happen. It then has a form of atonement which involves attempting to make up for what you did, to pay for it. That typically means being guilty...

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642. The Course asks you to heal yourself AND your brother

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 501 words 2 mins 13 secs

Sometimes the Course talks about what you can do for yourself, in terms of receiving your own healing and having your mind corrected so that sickness can be healed.

For example:

"Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. For the mind...

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641. Atonement gives you access to perform a miraculous cure

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 448 words 1 mins 59 secs

The first time that I became able to accept the atonement for myself, undoing a long-standing belief in a "real sin" that I had never been able to completely let go, Jesus said to me "now you will be able...

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