A Course in Miracles Blog

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677. There is no such thing as genuine anger, it has a secret purpose

Thursday, Jul 13, 2017 483 words 2 mins 8 secs

You might be angry with someone, you might be upset and annoyed about what they're doing or how they're treating you or others, but here's the secret.

There is no such thing as genuine anger.

Anger always has a secret motive of...

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676. Holy relationships require you to be unaffected by others, positively or negatively

Thursday, Jul 13, 2017 547 words 2 mins 25 secs

Holy Relationships occur when a person recognizes that the other does absolutely nothing to them, nether good nor bad, neither beneficial or harmful, neither special or hurtful.

In specialness, you believe the other DOES things to you, causes you to feel...

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675. An illusion of being responsible is really an attack

Thursday, Jul 13, 2017 712 words 3 mins 9 secs

You can create an illusion of being responsible, by positioning yourself as being angry and upset about what other people are doing. You can make yourself seem like you are responsible by standing up for people's rights or agreeing with...

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674. We've become too comfortable living a life of littleness

Thursday, Jul 13, 2017 423 words 1 mins 52 secs

In this physical world, we have made ourselves extremely "little" and limited. We have implemented so much separation in our collective mind that most people barely have any sense of being connected to the minds of others.

It seems completely normal...

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673. Miracles are expressions of love that heal

Tuesday, Jul 11, 2017 331 words 1 mins 28 secs

Miracles can only properly be understood from the perspective of looking "down" from a higher vantage point, a vantage point of unconditional love.

They cannot so easily be understood when lookup "up" from below, as one who is attempting to awaken....

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672. If your lack of information is leading you to false conclusions, you need more truth

Monday, Jul 10, 2017 565 words 2 mins 30 secs

Most of your perceptual errors and projections come about because you simply lack some information. You are unaware of some truth. Some pieces of the picture are missing for you.

You try to make sense of what you see, ie what...

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671. Judgement and sin and attack are the same thing, happening within your mind

Sunday, Jul 09, 2017 2370 words 10 mins 31 secs

"He who would not forgive must judge, to justify his failure to forgive."

A Course in Miracles tells us that as soon as we cease to be forgiving, we enter into an unforgiving state where judgement is automatic. Judgement is attack....

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670. Heaven is for real, it is a place in the mind more real than the physical world

Sunday, Jul 09, 2017 519 words 2 mins 18 secs

Beyond the physical world, there are other universes. There is a spiritual universe, a higher universe, the christ universe (which is the "real world"), and Heaven.

If you are primarily located in the physical world, seeing God in it and saying...

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669. Holy Spirit can help you to heal, you don't have to do it all yourself

Saturday, Jul 08, 2017 554 words 2 mins 27 secs

A Course in Miracles might seem like a self-study where you do certain prescribed steps and have your own willingness and wake up all by yourself.

But, Holy Spirit has other ideas.

He is not only willing to help you, but is...

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668. Guilt is not really guilt, it is fake guilt and is a huge lie

Tuesday, Jul 04, 2017 1056 words 4 mins 41 secs

It seems as though guilt follows on from sin, but guilt is actually a big lie. When you sinned, you wanted to believe that the separation from God was real, that it has happened in reality with real effects. It...

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667. Shit happens, from your unconscious mind, but it's part of healing

Monday, Jul 03, 2017 695 words 3 mins 5 secs

Your life can seem blissful and happy. It can seem like nothing will go wrong. And then something fucks up big-time. It comes out of nowhere to destroy your life. "Shit happens".

You will be quite shocked when this happens because...

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666. Effects seem to be causes because we have separated ourselves from causality

Monday, Jul 03, 2017 501 words 2 mins 13 secs

When something causal is denied and made unconscious, its "effects" appear now to be a cause all of their own.

God is the "first cause." We as the creation of God, extension of God, Son of God, are his "effect".

When we...

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665. The ego has its own fake spiritual path

Monday, Jul 03, 2017 1197 words 5 mins 19 secs

When you are in the world and the world seems real, and you feel like life is meaningless and empty, instead of seeking truly within you tend to seek without.

The ego has asserted that the absence of meaning is real,...

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664. The physical universe and your body are your denial, covering up your unconscious guilt

Friday, Jun 30, 2017 1662 words 7 mins 23 secs

Before the physical universe came into being, there was only the Son of God and no "other".

The mind of the Son of God contained a state of guilt, which arose from the belief in the separation happening (sin).

The Son...

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663. The ego uses physical evidence to justify its actions

Sunday, Jun 25, 2017 1605 words 7 mins 8 secs

In the physical world, events seem to happen where physical objects and bodies are involved. Coupled with the illusion that some objects cause effects on other objects, it seems as though we live in a world where some thing or...

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662. Our fake innocence is hiding our unconscious guilt

Sunday, Jun 25, 2017 1814 words 8 mins 3 secs

Someone was accusing me of things I believed I didn't really do. They seemed to be just hell-bent on projecting their blame somewhere. It seemed uncalled for, and that I was unfairly treated.

My reaction to this was that I became...

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661. A guiltless mind cannot suffer

Saturday, Jun 24, 2017 1389 words 6 mins 10 secs

It is not possible for you to suffer unless there is guilt in your own mind. The only way for a mind to have guilt in it, is for that same mind to believe it is guilty, thus identifying itself...

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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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