Maybe it's your hair, the shape of your face, or some other body part. Maybe it's how you speak. Maybe it's the way you walk or where you came from.
In one way or another, you probably walk around with layer...
As you become more aware that you are doing everything to yourself, and you gradually learn to take responsibility for everything you are experiencing, at some point you'll start noticing more and more that you keep attacking yourself.
Whereas before you...
Let's make it clear now, that the Holy Spirit has SUPERNATURAL POWERS.
Through the Holy Spirit, any act of healing or correction is possible on any level, including what we call the physical body level.
There are many things in ACIM which...
Your ego has many strategies for making you responsible for things that you are not responsible for.
You're not really responsible for having separated from God, because you haven't, but the ego says you have.
You're not really responsible for being guilty...
It's quite common for us to say that the ego does this and it does that. The Course is filled with explanations about how the ego operates, and there is a lot of discussion outside the book about how the...
If your ultimate, completely long-term goal was to awaken to truth and return to God, and you knew that ultimately nothing could hurt you because you are Immortal Spirit, you would be COMPLETELY okay with WHATEVER is necessary in order...
Where could be absolutely no sympathy for victims, IF you could clearly see that the victim is 100% choosing everything that happens to them.
If someone is suffering with sickness and disease, you might feel sympathetic toward them, but would you...
The thing about idol worship, is that it puts you down.
You can't put someone or something up on a pedestal without diminishing your own value.
Jesus speaks to this many times in ACIM where, for example, we give a gift to...
If someone is being completely loving toward you, responding with unconditional love, then they can see who you really are.
If they fail to respond with love, this means they can't really see who you are. So what they're looking at...
The world is set up such that certain foods seem to cause certain things to happen in the body. And so we all go on this diet obsession trying to find the foods that will 'kill us the least'. Foods...
If a child were playing make-believe and pretending that things were happening, would you believe it? If you knew better, if you knew that the toy car is just a toy, not a real car, but the child was whizzing...
If judgement and forgiveness are opposites ("he who would not forgive must judge, to justify his failure to forgive"), then judgement is the condition of being unforgiving.
Being unforgiving really means that you are looking at the appearance of illusions and...
Forgiveness is nothing more than seeing correctly.
It means recognizing that illusions ARE illusions, and not falling for them.
It means overlooking illusions and seeing past them, rather that taking them at their appearance and thinking they are real.
This extends all the...
He also says nothing can happen without your decision to make it happen, and what you choose to happen must happen, and nothing else can happen. There are no accidents or victims.
This completely flies in the face of the typical...
Jesus said a curious thing to me last night, after I was pondering how I seemed to be here and was uncertain if he was present. He said:
"I'm not invisible, you are."
There is quite a lot of truth to this....
An idea that keeps coming back to me lately is that everything that's happening in the world is absolutely chosen, deliberate and intentional. It's the idea that we're all powerful creators, powerful choosers, and we simply keep on making poor...
The Son of God invented death.
And the Son of God cannot die.
So whenever there seems to be death, the Son of God must be pretending to die, all the while underneath that He is laughing at how everyone (really other...
We are constantly choosing, and in that choice are most often choosing to pretend that we have no choice.
That's the same thing as choosing to pretend that we have no power and that things are happening against our will.
When...
There are two kinds of power, God's power and ego power.
Ego power means that you have to rise up against enemies and fight them strongly. This manifests as intensity, anger, attack. You think that if you can 'over-power' the 'other',...
A powerful lesson: ACIM 152 - nobody dies without their own consent... this blows absolutely all victimhood out of the water...
"152: **The power of decision is my own.**
No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision. No one...