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589. All is a choice

Saturday, May 06, 2017 540 words 2 mins 24 secs

This was something that our spiritual guides often told us years ago, and at the time it seemed to have some meaning. But I didn't realize just how far reaching it is.

You get to choose... everything. Total responsibility.

Part of our...

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588. The truth about doing unto others

Thursday, May 04, 2017 725 words 3 mins 13 secs

Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, isn't really optional. It's not something you can choose not to do, and it isn't something to aspire to. But that's how it's often viewed.

There is a metaphysical truth...

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587. Trying to decide what the truth is

Thursday, May 04, 2017 331 words 1 mins 28 secs

There's the truth, and then there's trying to decide on your own what the truth is.

The truth really can only be surrendered to and accepted, not made.

In your attempt to learn the truth, you will divert away from the truth...

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586. Karma isn't real

Thursday, May 04, 2017 227 words 1 mins 0 secs

For karma to be possible, you'd have to believe that you are capable of really doing something to someone else.

The only thing that can ever really be shared is love. You are only ever attacking yourself. And you do not...

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585. The truth belongs to God

Thursday, May 04, 2017 887 words 3 mins 56 secs

When you are in a mindset that tries to make the world real, it is a mindset of attempting to "make true" what is not really true.

It's the mindset of a seeker, or someone who is in denial of reality...

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584. You are attacking yourself indirectly

Thursday, May 04, 2017 306 words 1 mins 21 secs

Every time you believe you are attacking someone else and not yourself, you are attacking yourself indirectly.

Your attack is always self-attack. Your attack is never an attack on someone else at all.

If they were Christ, they would exhibit no symptoms...

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583. Starting to develop faith in God, because the world is not real

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 1800 words 8 mins 0 secs

When I recently started to recognize that the whole world is fundamentally unreal, I started to experience "faith" in God. It seemed to require an UNBELIEF that this world is "true", in order to shift my allegiance and dependence over...

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582. Some believe the world is real, but it is an illusion

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 793 words 3 mins 31 secs

Those course students who believe they are only supposed to correct their own perceptions - perceptions of the physical world, as though the physical world is reality and you simply need to see it without judgement in order to keep...

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581. What do you want more, this world or God?

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 160 words 0 mins 42 secs

What do you want more, this world, or God?

What do you want more, to be in a real body, or unlimited in God?

What do you want more, to trust that the real world of suffering and sickness and death is...

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580. The myth of achieving peace while continuing to be sick

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 453 words 2 mins 0 secs

You hear it often said that when you have peace, you will not care that the body is sick - you will be at peace so you won't mind what the body is doing. And then death will happen, because,...

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579. It is impossible to blame someone else

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 281 words 1 mins 14 secs

It is impossible to scapegoat or blame someone, because you are only attacking yourself.

Even in your ego denial and delusions you are not attacking anyone else, and they are not attacking you.

You can't really leave your mind, to go outside...

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578. Giving up the need to blame others

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 1304 words 5 mins 47 secs

Lately I'm noticing more and more often, I just don't want to blame. I'm believing in "real sin" less and less.

I didn't see this coming, and it's not that I've been deliberately working on not being blameful. But I'm starting...

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577. If you believe you have really sinned

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 878 words 3 mins 54 secs

If you have not really sinned, you automatically have no reason to try to get rid of the responsibility for having sinned.

If you believe you HAVE really sinned, and believe in your own sinfulness, you will try to escape the...

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576. You but accuse your brother of your own sins

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 579 words 2 mins 34 secs

"You but accuse your brother of your own sins." - ACIM

Every single occurrence of you being angry at someone, blaming them, being afraid of them, believing they are doing something to you, being hurt by them, getting revenge, or whatever......

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575. Learning to let go of the ego's hand

Tuesday, May 02, 2017 1262 words 5 mins 36 secs

There is a pivotal moment when you let go of the ego's hand and decide to take the hand of Christ.

This can and will happen in many scenarios and many times over. And it's going to happen in your "real...

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574. There are aspects of the truth which are mind blowing

Tuesday, May 02, 2017 325 words 1 mins 26 secs

There are aspects of the Truth that are just so mind-blowing in how they completely fly in the face of conventional truth. It's like, what they claim is so opposite to what we've been raised to believe, that it just...

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573. Being judgmental

Tuesday, May 02, 2017 758 words 3 mins 22 secs

"He who would not forgive MUST judge to justify his failure to forgive." - ACIM

Meaning, forgiveness is a fixation on the truth that Christ is real and nothing of the ego is real. It fore-gives by having a purely forgiving...

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572. The healing power of holding a forgiving space

Tuesday, May 02, 2017 1692 words 7 mins 31 secs

It can be very therapeutic to just listen and be still and judge not while someone expresses themeslves. This is the essence of being forgiving.

"Forgiveness … is still, and quietly does nothing. … It merely looks, and waits, and judges...

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571. Here's a simple and effective forgiveness process I did

Monday, May 01, 2017 871 words 3 mins 52 secs

Here is a simple and effective forgiveness process which I did this morning with Holy Spirit.

You start by figuring out where you are on a spectrum from Life to Death. The spectrum has these stages:

Love/Innocence > Separation > Sin >...

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570. Purification is necessary before miracles can come

Monday, May 01, 2017 220 words 0 mins 58 secs

When Jesus says that miracles are everyone's right, but purification is necessary first, it is because of the ways that you keep blocking miracles.

You DO have every right to access miracles and perform them, BUT, if you believe in sin,...

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