If something seems to have gone wrong with your body, the temptation is to believe it is has reality and truth to it.
ACIM: "Temptation has one lesson it would teach in all its forms wherever it occurs. It would persuade...
It suddenly occurred to me last night why this is true.
In truth, whatever the illusion is, it has no truth to it and does not really exist. Because it's an illusion, it isn't real. It is really actually nothing. It...
Death is not a cause. Death is just an effect of a belief in punishment. Death cannot do anything to you. It has no power over you. It is not a cause at all. It is nothing but an effect...
To attack someone you must feel justified in doing so, as though it is what you believe in, is the right thing to do, and therefore becomes a decision you make based on the conclusion you've come to about what...
Most people feel some sense of unworthiness. Some people feel it very strongly. Unworthiness means you do not believe you deserve to be loved. You're not good enough or smart enough or perfect enough or something enough. There is something...
A belief in separation takes place within your own mind. Your own mind becomes divided. A portion of your will goes into one part and the rest into another. Eventually this forms the conscious self and the unconscious self.
Separation leads...
The type of victim you're familiar with is the negative victim. Something seems to happen to them that they do not want.
The positive victim is someone for whom stuff happens to them that they do want.
What's wrong with that?
Well, it...
It is just a device with a single, fixed function. It does what it was designed to do, like a machine. It can't be upgraded or changed or transformed into something more spiritual.
Like an old car, the fact is, at...
In the ego's physical world, the form and the function of something are fixed.
You can use a pair of scissors to cut paper, but you can't use a pair of scissors to alleviate your hunger. You can use a screwdriver...
Here is another way of interpreting this well-known quote:
"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want...
YOU MADE UP THIS WORLD. IT DOES NOT EXIST. WILL YOU DENY IT?
"You made sickness and death and therefore can abolish both."
"The body is a fence the Son of God imagines he has built, to separate parts of his Self...
The physical properties of matter, this universe, enacts the ego's law of separation between cause and effect. Every single thing which happens in this universe stems from this fundamental canvas of separation.
For one thing to do something to another thing...
Our opinions don't mean anything at all. They are absolutely worthless. It doesn't matter what your truth is or what my truth is or what anyone's truth is. It's all bullshit. An opinion is the delusional voice of the ego.
In...
It's really impossible to separate from God, given that God is everywhere and there is nowhere else to go. But the ego mind believes that the impossible is possible. It thinks it can actually succeed in being separate and can...
It's very helpful for me to keep in mind the key fact, that every time I am upset about other people I am using them to get rid of my own sin.
Each time I become angry or upset or annoyed,...
In this world, everything which is held to be most true and cherished is actually the most false, fake thing imaginable.
It will be considered highly controversial and even insensitive and deranged to suggest, for example, that every victim wants to...
You are attacking victims with your false empathy. It's time for some honesty.
When you see someone as a victim, such as that they are sick, diseased, suffering, afraid, being victimized by someone else, are disabled, weak, helpless, vulnerable, at a...
It can only seem justified if you believe you have all the information, all the facts, and full awareness of everything that is happening.
If you believe you have full awareness and yet something is happening against your will, you will...
The mind of Holy Spirit is bi-directional, in that it both gives and receives equally. It isn't just a mind that gives, or just a mind that receives.
In the ego's mind, giving and receiving are separate, creating the illusion that...
Here in ACIM Chapter 2, the section on "Separation and the Atonement", Jesus spells out CLEARLY just how powerful the mind is to produce miracles.
He speaks of the combination of belief and thought with a power so great that it...