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It’s a miracle.
The holiest of all
the spots on
earth is where an
ancient hatred
has become a present
love.
The Advent Of
A Great Awakening
“What Is A Course In
Miracles?”
Episode II
with
Master Teacher
miracles
A miracle is a universal blessing from
God through me to all my brothers.
It is the privilege of the forgiven
to forgive.
Miracles praise God through you.
They praise Him by honoring His
creations, affirming their perfection.
They heal because they deny
body-identification and affirm
spirit-identification.
I inspire all miracles,
which are really intercessions.
They intercede for your holiness
and make your perceptions holy.
By placing you beyond the physical laws
they raise you into the sphere of
celestial order.
In this order you are perfect.
Jesus Of Nazareth
(Singing) “Practice makes perfect ... Let’s
try that old embrace, in some romantic place, where we can take our
time ...
Welcome to
the mind training of A Course In Miracles, a required course in
which you enter into a new parameter of associations of love which
you find in correspondence with your self-identity and those that
appear to be around you. So this pra…. – (laughing) I started to
sing the song again: “Practice makes perfect”. Shall I tell you why
that’s true, if I can get through the introduction here. It’s true,
because in any idea of practice will be the solution, even though it
is not recognizable to you. Because the emanation of the thought
occurs within your own mind and it’s impossible that the solution
has not already been formulated.
That’s
actually not what your problem is. Your problem is when you asked
the question – and let’s go the very fundamental idea of this mind
training, shall we? – say to me: who am I? I don’t understand, what
do you mean “who are you”? You’re whole and perfect as you were
created. You’re the source and the continuing explanation of
yourself in a relationship with the recognition of the idea that
life is eternal. I am giving you the answer and heretofore it has
not been acceptable to you. In effect, what you’re saying to me is
that you haven’t trained your mind sufficiently, simply to
acknowledge the power that is contained and inherent in you. Look at
me. You’re using all the other so-called human associations out in
the world to continue to misplace yourself within a parameter of
static ideas that cause you to believe that you’re a body. And if
you are that body, you are going to get sick and you are going to
get old and you’re going to die.
There are
thousand of reports coming in now to our Healing Center, indicating
the success in individual recognitions, of the power of mind to
heal. We’re also getting a lot, and I’m sure we’ll continue to get a
lot, that simply deny the efficacy of the mind training. Shall I
tell you why? It doesn’t appear to be successful. That’s why I want
to read you – in the preamble to the Workbook there’s one more
little paragraph that I want you to see with me, those of you who
think you can fail. Listen.
Some of
the ideas the workbook presents
you will
find hard to believe, and others
may seem
to be quite startling.
This
does not matter.
You are
merely asked to apply the ideas
as you
are directed to do.
You are
not asked to judge them at all.
You are
asked only to use them.
It is
their use that will give them meaning
to you,
and will show you that they are true.
Some of the ideas
the workbook presents you will find hard to believe, and others may
seem to be quite startling. This does not matter. You are merely
asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do. Why? You are not
asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. Why? It
is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you
that they are true.
Every time I attempt within the mind training of the Course – and many
of you are becoming successful at it – now, when I tell you that
you’re whole and perfect as you were created, through my own
recognition of myself, you examine yourself within your own concepts
and may respond to me in any fashion that you choose. But you
remember this, every time you respond to me conceptually in your
idea of yourself, you are doing what? Denying your own perfection.
Now the solution of the mind training will become more and more
evident to you, because it requires the experience. One more
paragraph:
Remember
only this… you need not believe
the
ideas, you need not accept them,
and you
need not even welcome them.
Some of
them you may actively resist.
None of
this will matter, or decrease
their
efficacy.
But do
not allow yourself to make
exceptions in applying the ideas the
workbook
contains, and whatever your
reactions to the ideas may be, use them.
Nothing
more than that is required.
Remember only this;
you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you
need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist.
Listen. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy.
Listen. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the
ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the
ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required.
Now, for those of you who are conceptually in active resistance to this
– ok, let’s try it, let’s practice together: There isn’t any world.
The world you see is only in your own feverish imagination.
Practice: “I am hallucinating.” Say it. “Everywhere I look for the
solution, I become more and more fearful, because I can’t find it.”
Ask for help. Did you get it? Remember when you’re coming back down into
your black hole, you begin to feel the paranoia of the collapse of
yourself into your own mind. Yet the salvation of the world, the
solution still depends on you, doesn’t it?
Mind training of the Course on a continuing basis has brought you to a
point where an alternative is more and more active in the converting
agencies of your conceptual self. As you have been getting the
results of your own thinking, can you begin to picture with me the
magnitude of the necessity for you to forgive your brother, to
forgive the enemy that appears to be out there? Why is it necessary?
Your enemy is a reflection of how you feel about yourself. All
right? If you grieve, he grieves. When you’re in joy at his
grievance, you are sharing your joy in order that he grieves. The
particulars of the conceptual association that justify, in your own
mind, your idea that you can associate love and all the things that
we are sharing at this time, with ideas of loneliness and loss, in
another moment are not going to be acceptable to you. Why is that
true? You have reached a place in space/time which was inevitable
within your idea about yourself, where you have discovered another
solution. Was this space and time inevitable within your own
constitution? Sure. The time had to come and finally did, when you
were seeing yourself in this new bright light that surrounds us. Is
this a direct contact with the universe? Yah. Is this showing you
the expanding nature of your own thoughts? Yeah. Am I concerned
about what your conceptual thoughts about yourself are? Of course
not, but you listen to me. There is nothing creative about attack
and defense. If you defend yourself, you will be attacked by other
thoughts with your own mind, so that your parameter of limitations
within your own conflict are what we call non-creative. They
formulate a matrix of light energy – are you listening to me? – say
to me: “Has no source.”
You’re getting back an idea of what you think is a part of you, rejected
by you and put out into this parameter of space/time. Yet it is
inevitable it will not return to you, simply because it’s a part of
your own light formulation. Listen carefully, this is how you
escape. When it returns to you, at the speed of light, you are no
longer in the location you were when you demonstrated your capacity
to be objective.
The first seven lessons of the Workbook of A Course In Miracles inform
you emphatically that you’re meaningless thoughts are showing you a
meaningless world. Are you listening? And you find it very
upsetting. In fact I would presume that you’re finding me very
upsetting. Because in a literal sense I am denying your ego. I am
actually denying the credentials by which you identify yourself in
your own mind. Are you listening? Who you’re presenting to me as
yourself is not true. It’s already over. Yet the tenacity with which
you hold it in your mind and project it from you, allows you to see
me in the limitation that you’re imposing on yourself. I am now an
imaginative figure within your own mind, because in the observation
of each other – say to me: we’re already over and gone.
Now, the idea that all around you is what I just read in these books,
and I have been showing them and demonstrating – here is one: (pulls
out Astronomy Magazine) “The Ultimate Cosmic Mystery” is the idea that dark matter, anti matter, other than this is all
around us. Why? Other than this is
all around us. Your idea of negative/positive associations are
denying you access to the entirety of the creation of light that
represents the self certainty of what we’re sharing at this moment.
Practice: “I am not from here.” This is the mind training. You’re
not from here. You’re just trying to locate yourself again. You said
to me, “Yes I am, I am from here.” Ok. Back in your own memory is
the idea that you’re this body and that you’re from here, and now
you put it into the future and you’re living within that little body
identity that constitutes you. Look at me. That’s not who you are.
You’re not that. You’re the only living Son of God and in
recognizing you I recognize myself. In the expansion of the love
that we feel for each other, we are experiencing the wholeness of us
as the entirety of our representation.
What has this Course In Miracles taught you hopefully? To stay in
continuing prayer. The delightful evidence that you can find
yourself each moment in new associations of time, through the
release of the defenses of your previous ideas about yourself, are
what this Course In Miracles has shown you. Will you look at this
with me from the Text, one little paragraph that best describes to
us your query: “What is this Course In Miracles?” Listen.
The
world but demonstrates an ancient
truth;
you will believe that others do to you
exactly
what you think you did to them.
But once
deluded into blaming them you
will not
see the cause of what they do,
because
you want the guilt to rest on them.
How
childish is the petulant device to keep
your
innocence by pushing guilt outside
yourself
but never letting go!
It is
not easy to perceive the jest when all
around
you do your eyes behold its heavy
consequences, but without their trifling
cause.
Without
the cause do its effects seem
serious
and sad indeed.
Yet they
but follow.
And it
is their cause that follows
nothing
and is but a jest.
The world but
demonstrates an ancient truth; you will believe that others do to
you exactly what you think you did to them. But once deluded into
blaming them you will not see the cause of what they do, because you
WANT the guilt to rest on them. How childish is the petulant device
to keep your innocence by pushing guilt outside yourself, - are you
listening - but never letting go! It is not easy to perceive the
jest when all around you do your eyes behold its heavy consequences,
but without their trifling cause. Without the cause do its effects
seem serious and sad indeed. Yet they but follow. And it is their
cause that follows nothing and is but the jest.
Let’s share together why you discover some of us in our new
illuminations are laughing at you. This Course In Miracles, which is
the transformation of our minds, has showed us and demonstrated
dramatically how completely ridiculous is the human association with
itself. Why? It comes here, it’s occupied within this little
parameter of space/time, it searches and finds an identity that
justifies its location in space/time. Actually it doesn’t know who
it is or what it’s doing. But from that time on it assiduously
protects itself from any other ideas that might penetrate into the
idea that there is another way that it can look at itself. Say to
me: “It’s a miracle.” Yes. Ok? You’re watching this video – it’s
impossible this video is not the time and place where a projection
from your own conceptual mind is not offering you an alternative
within the parameter of consciousness in which you find yourself.
Maybe it’s time for us to laugh, to laugh at the idea that this is
what life is. One more paragraph:
In
gentle laughter does the Holy Spirit
perceive
the cause, and looks not to effects.
How else
could He correct your error,
who have
overlooked the cause entirely?
He bids
you bring each terrible effect to
Him that
you may look together on its
foolish
cause and laugh with Him a while.
You
judge effects,
but He
has judged their cause.
And by
his judgment are effects removed.
Perhaps
you come in tears.
But hear
Him say…
“My
brother, holy Son of God, behold your
idle
dream, in which this could occur.”
And you
will leave the holy instant with
your
laughter and your brother’s joined
with
His.
In gentle laughter
does the Holy Spirit perceive the cause, and looks not to effects.
How else could He correct your error, who have overlooked the cause
entirely? He bids you bring each terrible effect to Him that you may
look together on its foolish cause and laugh with Him a while. YOU
judge effects, but HE has judged their cause. And by his judgment
are effects removed. Perhaps you came in tears. But hear Him say,
“My brother, holy Son of God, behold your idle dream, in which this
could occur.” And you will leave the holy instant with your laughter
and your brother’s joined with His.
Here comes the secret to salvation. And it’s one of the totality of
associations from this Text that is appearing more and more in this
world. Perhaps, when you go out now, after you leave this little
continuum that has expanded your idea about where you are in
space/time, you’ll turn a corner and you’ll reach down and pick up
something that says: “The secret of salvation.” And you go, “What is
this?” It’s something that was heretofore a secret. Not a secret in
the universe, but a secret from you, because of your fear of the
revealing of the power of light, the consciousness of the totality
of identity that would show you instantly that you’re actually not
an occupant within this space/time.
I am in your dream of death and you asked me to show you this through
the practice of our re-identity with each other. And there was a
moment of success. Where we read in the Text was describing a holy
instant – you call it a quantum moment, a moment when just for a
second all of the light of the universe was revealed to you. If
there was still some fear in you, perhaps you crouched down again,
just for a moment. Now, stand up. Practice. Say to me: “There is
nothing to fear.” There is nothing to be afraid of. Trust me with
this. It’s all in your mind. All of this, right now, including me,
are only in your dream of death. I have entered into the parameter
of your conceptual self-containment and I’m offering you a light,
not in relationship with your concepts, as we just read, but in the
converting agency that you discover in the miracle procedure.
Beautiful. Again.
We know each other very well, don’t we? Say to me: “I know you.” How
would you not know me? I am a projection of your mind. That’s not
the question that’s arising here. The question is how do you know
me? Are you going to tell me you met me just now? How could that be
so? I must be based on other memories you have in association with
other people that appear to be around you. You have a tendency to do
separate body identity. You believe that one body represents one
association of your mind and another body represents another
association (laughing). All you have to remember with me is that
each body you’re meeting is a reflection or a projection of the
particle/wave association of light form that justifies your own body
location and identity. In the Course we call this ‘a quick
forgetting.’ There is no question that you put me out here based on
what you want me to be. I am now threatening you in a new space/time
location with someone who you momentarily do not recognize. In you
non-recognition of him, he becomes your enemy. This is simpler than
you think. All you have to remember with me is that time is always
going to be gone anyway. All right? Because this world was over and
gone a long time ago. Say it. Yes. So here is the secret:
The
secret of salvation is but this…
That you
are doing this unto yourself.
No
matter what the form of the attack,
this
still is true.
Whoever
takes the role of enemy
and of
attacker, still is this the truth.
Whatever
seems to be the cause of any pain
and
suffering you feel, this is still true.
For you
would not react at all to figures in
a dream
you knew that you were dreaming.
Let them
be as hateful and as vicious
as they
may, they could have no effect
on you
unless you failed to recognize
it is
your dream.
I am doing this to
myself. No matter what the form of the attack, this still is true.
Whoever takes the role of enemy and of attacker, still is this the
truth. Whatever seems to be the cause of any pain and suffering that
I feel, this is still true. Why? For you would not react at all to
figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let them be as
hateful and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you
unless you failed to recognize it is your dream.
So just for a moment you forgot. Say to me: “I forgot.” Yeah. Look at
me. You forgot why you came into this parameter of light. So you’re
searching around within, what you call latitude association of
sequential time and it’s going to take you a long time to find it
here, because the solution in the longevity of time has already
lasted for forty thousand years. Remember, that’s based on the idea
that the catastrophe is fourteen thousand million years old. You’re
still trapped within the idea of time and everything that you see is
acknowledging that you don’t know why you’re here or what you’re
doing. I am here to remind you that you’re on a mission, that you’ve
come from outside of time – this is our Course In Miracles, this
through the resurrection of Jesus, who demonstrated to you your
capacity to recognize who you are in this space/time and joyously
leave here. I am helping you remember why you’re here. Now, I ask
your forgiveness for what appears to be the mistake of the schism,
where just for a moment you couldn’t find yourself within this
relationship of time.
Look at me. You didn’t fail. Time has been adjusted for you at this time
through our recognition of each other, so you can see it’s time for
you to leave. Remember – I am going to come back and my time is up,
I’ll be back to do this final twenty seven minutes – remember that
heretofore you believe you came into this place, you looked around,
you held on to grief and you died. I am interrupting your cycle,
showing you that you came here, we looked at each other together, we
re-associated with our mission, sprang into light and disappeared.
Just like that. And again, and again. I’ll be right back.
Remember that God goes with us wherever we go, because God is the mind
with which we’re thinking. I am going to come back in a final twenty
seven minutes. You probably will make a decision to leave and it’s a
perfectly proper thing for you to do in the joy of the recognition
of yourself. Why? We are saying together: God bless us each and
everyone.
To be continued…
The Advent Of
A Great Awakening
“What Is A Course In
Miracles?”
Episode II
with
Master Teacher
And we’re down to twenty-seven minutes in what’s left, in the residual
of the idea that this was life. This Course In Miracles mind
training has brought you to a point where everywhere you look you’re
beginning to laugh at the idea that a human condition would be
confined to a very, very narrow range of conceptual identity that
justified himself heretofore.
What you want to see with me is the value in the sharing of – practice –
the action of forgiveness. I looked at your world this morning and
watched some of you as humans attempt to practice the idea of
forgiveness based on a grievance or a happening that from any, any
conceptual observation would be impossible to forgive. That’s not
the nature that I am offering you the correspondence with the truth
of the love of God, you remember this – this is from my savior Jesus
Christ – the Creator of the universe is going to see us, give us and
extend to us the entirety of the power of love that we may share
with each other at this time. The idea that there are specific
grievances or revenge motivations that you seek in a vendetta of the
protection of yourself, retain only the validity of the idea that
you can occupy this earth. The necessity for forgiveness is only
your continuing need to demonstrate – are you listening to me, would
you like to do this with me? – there is nothing to forgive. If the
whole universe is created whole and is accepted momentarily in a
parameter of your self-identity, what would there be to forgive?
Practice: I am doing this to myself. I am tired of suffering the
conflict that is being imposed on my by this world. I have learned
in one of the lessons of this Course In Miracles that when I defend
myself within the parameter of my dream, I will be attacked. I
learned this on the hundred and thirty fifth’ day in my practice of
the mind training and I had a sudden illumination, based on a
momentary release of my defense of myself.
Practice: There is nothing outside of me. Look at me. I am in your mind
right now. Could we share that moment of joy together? I hope so.
The vibrations of light energy in which we are finding
correspondence at this moment within the illusion, are showing us a
new parameter, a new continuum of time, that we are very happily
expecting and in the moment of expectation is the realization.
What you have learned in this Course In Miracles – look at me just for a
moment – in the mind training, say to me: I need to stay in
expectation. Yes. Expect God now, expect the return now, expect the
solution now, expect a new correspondence each moment and it will
always be available to you, even though you appear to be in this
parameter of consciousness. Because in each moment of expectation is
the entirety of the solution even though at that moment it might not
be obvious to you. This is the success of the mind training that
allows you now to stay in God correspondence. The idea that you were
unable to communicate with the source the universal reality of
everything that is, is what your grievance is. And you’re entitled
to grieve. Look at your condition. You have every right to be
remorseful, to hold on to revenge, to seek gratitude in murder, ok,
to contain the conflict which is in your own mind. But the question
cannot not arise somewhere within the frame of time… Why?
This mind training has allowed you to reason to the possibility of an
alternative in space/time, not connected to the resolution that you
found in the past. Release the past and let it go, for it is gone.
You have moved beyond that point in your mind with the re-imagery of
everyone that you’re meeting. And to your glad expectation you begin
to share in a new parameter of time - say to me: Continuum of time.
Yes. Now, no, no, not in parallel universes. There is another
article in this magazine: “the Cosmic Mysteries.” This conceptual
mind is convinced that there are parallel universes. There are nine
dimensions of association separate from each one. What good is that
going to do if you can only occupy one universe at a time. What I’m
showing you is that your capacity to alter in your particle/wave
association to a new continuum of time, so you won’t continue to
search within parameters of lateral time, the solution where it
isn’t. Say to me: I have been covering my now. Where? Here.
Practice: We’re meeting together at a point in space/time, where we
recognize each other – are you listening? – in the true purpose of
why we’re here. Your sole purpose for being here – I’m looking right
at you now within your own conceptual association – is to escape the
bondage of space/time. It’s crushing you. It’s increasing your fear.
I looked at your protective devices in this last forty days and you’ve
become fearful of everything. Are you listening to me? There is no
such thing as fear. When you are fearful you have momentarily
associated with your separation from God. And it’s impossible. You
have two emotions: the love that I am offering you at this time, and
your fear of accepting it. The power of love, that you’re beginning
to admit to at this moment is showing us that surrounding us is a
light of love – an including all our friends and all our neighbors –
it’s a metamorphose, it’s a re-visioning, “behold I show you a
mystery”, Paul in Corinthians, it’s still a mystery, but what a
joyous mystery, because it’s inclusive of all of space/time. Now,
the joy of searching takes on a new meaning to you, so when you look
out at the idea of venturing to the stars, you can see that in no
particulars will you be able to leave this parameter at the speed of
light, and that indeed the whole universe is self-contained within
you and in the beginning of that expansion we share the joy of this
miracle of mind.
One of the most beautiful prayers that occurs at this space/time or
anywhere in any galaxy is one that I am going to read to you now.
Because it expresses the rhythm of our love that we’re feeling for
each other. Listen.
My heart is beating in the peace of
God.
Surrounding me is all the life that
God
created in His Love.
It calls
to me in every heartbeat
and in
every breath; in every action
and in
every thought.
Peace
fills my heart, and floods my body
with the
purpose of forgiveness.
Now my
mind is healed, and all I need
to save
the world is given me.
Each
heartbeat brings me peace;
each
breath infuses me with strength.
I am a
messenger of God, directed by
His
Voice, sustained by Him in love,
and held
forever quiet and at peace
within
His loving Arms.
Each
heartbeat calls His Name,
and
every one is answered by His Voice,
assuring
me I am at home in Him.
Let me
attend Your Answer, not my own.
Father,
my heart is beating in the peace
the
Heart of Love created.
It is
there and only there
that I
can be at home.
My heart is
beating in the peace of God.
Surrounding me is
all the life that God created in His Love. It calls to me in every
heartbeat and in every breath; in every action and in every thought.
Peace fills my heart, and floods my body with the purpose of
forgiveness. Now my mind is healed, and all I need to save the world
is given me. Each heartbeat brings me peace; each breath infuses me
with strength. Listen. I am a messenger of God, directed by His
Voice, sustained by Him in love, and held forever quiet and at peace
within His loving Arms. Each heartbeat calls His Name, and every one
is answered by His Voice, assuring me I am at home in Him.
Let me attend Your
Answer, not my own. Father, my heart is beating in the peace the
Heart of Love created. It is there and only there that I can be at
home.
Let’s take this little time
together, shall we? Let’s share some very fundamental ideas about
this Course. First, this is the only time there is. Say it. Here you
are. Here and now is where Heaven’s gate is. The readjustment that
is occurring within the cycle of space/time that previously did not
allow you to see how completely available the idea of light was to
you, was a momentary displacement in space. This from our savior
Jesus, who says, in Aramaic, “khata”, the idea of sin, the idea of
separation was that you were off the mark. We have looked at this
many times together. Now you are healed: Go and sin no more. You
have been readjusted in a light frame, that’s showing you the
answer. There it is. When? Say to me: Now. Yes. Is this the time and
place that you chose to come to within the entirety of this
universal process of mind? Yes. Who am I speaking of? You. At your
accord you ask me at this time and place within your own dream, as a
character of your own association with yourself, to offer you the
entirety of your solution. It’s time to wake up. You’ve been in a
nightmare my friend. There isn’t any world. Just for a moment, when
the parameter of light begins to penetrate into your association of
time, your fear is increased. And why wouldn’t it be? Now, the mind
training has allowed us to see, where both the problem and the
solution are. Where are they? Right here, right now. Where? Here.
Practice: Let’s look through the
idea that we’re separate from each other. The Course In Miracles is
a course in communication. Will you practice this with me? Say to
me: I want to communicate. I want the solution to why I am here. And
I haven’t been able to find it within the parameter of my
self-consciousness. There must be another way.
Practice: There is and there it was,
and here it is again. And here it is again. Now, invite all of the
parameters of your mind to join with you in this exercise of
conversion, so that the practice of the extension of power of mind
can convert the agencies of those, who still suffer.
As a healer, as a server, you have
gone out into the world and tried to alleviate the pain that you see
out in this world, and no matter how much you struggle with it, you
still continue to occupy that body. I’ve offered you my certainty
that the entirety of the solution is in your mind and, that if you
change your mind, all of those, who are around you or were around
you in the past or will be around you in the future, cannot not
enter into the converting agency of self-recognition that
constitutes healing. What a great lesson in our Workbook When
I am healed I am not healed alone.
What is the practice we have learned? To accept Atonement for
ourselves was the prime requisite in our recognition that we can
escape from this place in space/time.
One paragraph from the idea that all
of this is going on within your own mind and you can escape at this
time:
No one can fail who seeks to reach the
truth.
Failure is all about you while you seek
for goals that cannot be achieved.
You look for permanence in the
impermanent, for love where there is
none,
for safety in the midst of danger;
immortality
within the darkness of the dream of
death.
Who could succeed where contradiction is
the setting of his searching, and the
place
to which he comes to find stability?
No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.
Failure is all about you while you seek for goals that
cannot be achieved. You look for permanence in the impermanent, for
love where there is none, for safety in the midst of danger;
immortality within the darkness of the dream of death. Who could
succeed where contradiction is the setting of his searching, and the
place to which he comes to find stability?
Look at me. You depend on the conflict of the organization of your own
conceptual self to justify the peace that you momentarily find. Yet,
when you find the peace within the parameter of your own
self-identity, it has no source. If all of your peace comes only
from our Creative Source, why not simply accept that peace, so you
don’t have to continue to battle with the solution of finding peace
within chaos. Listen.
Goals that are meaningless are not
attained.
There is no way to reach them…
for the means by which you strive for
them
are meaningless as they are.
Who can use such senseless means,
and hope through them to gain in
anything?
Where can they lead? And what could they
achieve that offers
any hope of being real?
Pursuit of the imagined leads to death
because it is the search for
nothingness,
and while you seek for life you ask for
death.
You look for safety and security, while
in
your heart you pray for danger and
protection for the little dream you
made.
No one remains in hell, for no one can
abandon his Creator, nor affect His
perfect,
timeless and unchanging Love.
You will find Heaven.
Everything you seek but this will fall
away.
Yet not because it has been taken from
you.
It will go because you do not want it.
You will reach the goal you really want
as
certainly as God created you in
sinlessness.
Goals that are
meaningless are not attained. There is no way to reach them, for the
means by which you strive for them are as meaningless as they are.
Who can use such senseless means, and hope through them to gain in
anything? Where can they lead? And what could they achieve that
offers any hope of being real? Listen. Pursuit of the imagined leads
to death because it is the search for nothingness, and while you
seek for life you ask for death. You look for safety and security,
while in your heart you pray for danger and protection for the
little dream that you make.
Listen. No one
remains in hell, for no one can abandon his Creator, nor affect His
perfect, timeless and unchanging Love. Are you listening? You will
find Heaven. Everything you seek but this will fall away. Yet not
because it has been taken from you. It will go because you do not
want it. You will reach the goal you really want as certainly as God
created you in His sinlessness.
Are you in prayer there with me? Is this the time and place where you’ve
decided to accept the simplicity of the solution? I hope so. Because
it’s a reasoning process in which the application of the idea of
freedom, an alternative not within the confines of time, can be
reached by you in a literal sense, through this moment of
communication of my mind to yours. Where is it going to be going on?
In your mind. Look at me, I saw you begin to practice that. Within
your mind, where all of this is contained, are memories that you
have projected using other concepts of power in your mind to
reflect the illusion of what’s out there. Are you listening with me?
When you came into this parameter of consciousness you brought
another memory with you. What it actually is, is a package memory of
before you came and after you left. And it’s there, but you’ve been
afraid to use it within the parameter of your self concept, because
it will appear to be a momentary loss of your association within
this body form. Ok? The loss of your need to continue to annihilate
yourself by seeking and not finding. There is a door in your mind
that can open at this time. Listen. One paragraph:
I ask to
see a different world, and think a
different kind of thought from those that I made.
The
world I seek I did not make alone,
the
thoughts I want to think are not my own.
There is
a door beneath my thoughts in my mind,
which I
could not completely block or hide
what
lies beyond.
Seek for
that door and find it.
But
before you try to open it…
remind
yourself no one can fail who
seeks to
reach the truth.
And it
is this request that you make today.
Nothing
but this has any meaning now;
no other
goal is valued now nor sought,
nothing
before this door you really want,
and only
what lies past it do you seek.
Put out
your hand, and see how easily
the door
swings open with your one intent
to go
beyond it.
Angels
light the way, so that all darkness
vanishes, and you are standing in a light
so
bright and clear that you can understand
all
things you see.
A tiny
moment of surprise, perhaps,
will
make you pause before you realize
the
world you see before you in the light
reflects
the truth you knew, and did not
quite
forget in wandering away in dreams.
I ask to see a
different world, and think a different kind of thought from those
that I made. The world I seek I did not make alone, the thoughts I
want to think are not my own.
There is a door
beneath my thoughts in my mind, which I could not completely block
or hide what lay beyond. Seek for that door and find it. But before
you try to open it, remind yourself no one can fail who seeks to
reach the truth. And it is this request that you make today. Nothing
but this has any meaning now; no other goal is valued now nor
sought, nothing before this door you really want, and only what lies
past it do you seek.
Put out your hand,
and see how easily the door swings open with your one intent to go
beyond it. Angels light the way, so that all darkness vanishes, and
you are standing in a light so bright and clear that you can
understand all things you see. A tiny moment of surprise, perhaps,
will make you pause before you realize the world you see before you
in the light reflects the truth you knew, and did not quite forget
in wandering away in dreams.
There, the door opened. Momentarily the door opened in our concepts of
our self through the forgiveness and love that we have found within
our own mind. When that light begins to shine in each other, the
light of Heaven opens and suddenly all around us is going to be this
light.
Practice: This is the time and place that we decided to meet and leave
this continuum of time together. Not the world. You, in recognition
of each other. Look at me. I’ve been waiting for you. I’ll help you
with this time where your fear has increased, I’ll help you with
this time where the world begins to cave in on you and you feel the
despondency of not being able to find the solution, I’ll help you.
And we’ll share the light and love of God together and we’ll depart
this continuum of time, because we did. And we’re now in memory of
returning just for a moment to share that recognition with each
other. Thank you for the miracle of the practice of this Workbook of
A Course In Miracles. We’re together now and you’re going to go out
in this parameter of old time and teach the memory that can be
shared by everyone who you meet, just as certainly as the power of
the Love of God goes with us wherever we go, we can say together at
this time and place, God bless us everyone, here and now. Thank you
for hearing your call. Thank you for allowing me to teach you what
you really wanted to learn, that this whole place of pain and death
was over a long time ago and that in our memories we are certain
that we have left and have returned to Heaven.
I’ll be seeing you on the other side.
Welcome Home.
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