If I am not fully responsible for who I am, I will perceive and find people outside of me and try to make them responsible for who I am.
Another way to describe this mechanism is to realize that you are...
The ego always has an ulterior motive, a secret agenda, and a hidden plan that it would hide from you while it lies to your face.
Or rather, while you lie to yourself.
When the ego says you are afraid, it makes...
When I am upset, feeling unhappy, having a cry, feeling guilty or afraid, or whatever, Holy Spirit is gentle and compassionate. He often says, "I know". Sometimes I feel a hand on my shoulder from Him or Jesus.
They are compassionate...
I's very important to realize that when you separated from God, it was completely deliberate. There wasn't any victimhood involved prior to this. It was a very clear choice. And no matter how it was experienced as unwanted after that...
I am guilty, I will only be able to see guilt in other people. I will not be able to tell if they are *really* guilty because I am seeing through a filter of guilt, like a stained glass window,...
I often fall for the trap of trying to be right. After of a period of time of trying to be right over and over again, I noticed that this rightness was basically a position of defensiveness, trying to defend...
Just about everyone believes in it.
Just about everyone bows down and allows it to happen.
Just about everyone wants it to happen to them.
Just about everyone fears it as a result.
Just about everyone is choosing it.
Just about everyone knows someone who...
Sometimes when we're trying to help others, we are taking away their power.
It is more important to help the person become self-empowered, to learn that they can do what they seemed to need help with, even if its a struggle.
It...
As usual, the ego has a version of whatever the Holy Spirit has, seeking to replace it and obscure it.
It has its own version of healing, its own version of forgiveness, its own version of helpfulness, its own version of...
In ACIM Jesus says the ego made the body as a way to focus away from the mind and to make the mind seem to be 'private'. The body is like a wall around the mind which creates the illusion...
Sickness is not truth.
Even if it seems to be true that someone is sick, even if there is evidence for it, or explanations that describe why it is occurring. It is still not the truth.
Even if there are trained medical...
If you are upset for some reason, there is something in you already which is not at peace. Some part of your mind is identified with ego, having an emotional reaction, or perhaps something is coming up for release.
If you...
Quite often when I'm stressing about whether I'm doing the right thing or not, focusing on doing something I think I want to do but feeling guilty about it, Holy Spirit will give me a wide berth of permission. Instead...
No matter what you do you are innocent!
This is true, but it is grossly misunderstood and misused by the ego.
In order for this truth to apply, you have to BE in your innocence. It can't be intellectual. You can't use...
There are healings happening on planet Earth which defy the ego and undermine everything the ego world-view believes in.
There are healers who have performed miracles and who are performing them as we speak.
There are churches where healing miracles occur through...
You can heal with the ego, or with God.
The ego's form of healing is terrifying. It involves becoming very very certain that you know what the problem is. It's entirely based around looking at the problem so closely that you...
The ego thought system, the mind with which you operate most of the time, and the system of perception or 'world view' which governs most of your decision making, is completely the opposite of the truth.
The mind which uses the...
There's no such thing as "guilt-inducing" or "fear-inducing".
If something is capable of causing fear or guilt, that means it must induce fear or guilt in everyone regardless of whether they want guilt or fear to be induced or not, even...
What it claims is that if you will not say certain things, or do certain things, other people will be less hurt and less offended and less victimized. And that therefore, this is more loving and supportive.
This is not true.
What...
If there is a pain in my hand, and if I believe there is a pain in my hand, I will begin to experience reactions about the pain.
This is simply because I see there being some kind of causality coming...