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Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, Then there is not perfect love.
Only perfect love exists. If there is fear, It produces a state that does not exist.
Actions that stem from distortions are literally the reactions of those who know not what they do.
You believe in what you make. If you offer miracles, you will be equally strong in your belief in them.
Fantasies become totally unnecessary as the wholly satisfying nature of reality becomes apparent to both giver and receiver.
This is a course in mind training.
Revelation may occasionally reveal the end to you, but to reach it the means are needed.
you believe that some emptiness or lack exists in you, and that you can fill it with your own ideas instead of truth.
what God created can be changed by your own mind.
Idea in mind
what is perfect can be rendered imperfect or lacking.
you can distort the creations of God, incl...
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Projected idea
you can create yourself, and that the direction of your own cr...
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Make
related distortions
nothing was needed.
You do not have to continue to believe what is not true unless you choose to do so.
All that can literally disappear in the twinkling of an eye because it is ...
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as long as you continue to project or miscreate.
All fear is ultimately reducible to the basic misperception that you have the ability to usurp the power of God.
Here is the real basis for your escape from fear.
The escape is brought about by your acceptance of the Atonement, which enables you to realize that your...
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The knowledge that illuminates not only sets you free, but also shows you clearly that you are free.
In reality you are perfectly unaffected by all expressions of lack of love. These can be from yourself and others, from yourself to others, or from others to you.
Health is inner peace.
When you are afraid of anything, you are acknowledging its power to hurt you.
If you are afraid, you are valuing wrongly.
It denies the ability of anything not of God to affect you.
True denial is a powerful protective device. You can and should deny any belief that error can hurt you. This kind of denial is not a concealment but a correction. Your right mind depends on it. Denial of error is a strong defense of truth, but denial of truth results in miscreation, the projections of the ego. In the service of the right mind the denial of error frees the mind, and re-establishes the freedom of the will. When the will is really free it cannot miscreate, because it recognizes only truth.
The real questions are, what do you treasure, and how much do you treasure it?
Atonement was an act of love.
Atonement thus becomes the only defense that is not a two-edged sword. It can only heal.
Atonement is the final lesson.
Atonement is the device by which you can free yourself from the past as you go ahead.
A two-way defense is inherently weak precisely because it has two edges, and can be turned against you very unexpectedly.
This possibility cannot be controlled except by miracles.
your natural talent of protecting others, knowing yourself as both a brother and a Son.
It does recognize that Atonement in physical terms is impossible.
Before the separation the mind was invulnerable to fear, because fear did not exist.
Both the separation and the fear are miscreations that must be undone for the restoration of the temple, and for the opening of the altar to receive the Atonement.
Tolerance for pain may be high, but it is not without limit. Eventually everyone begins to recognize, however dimly, that there must be a better way.
children of God are entitled to the perfect comfort that comes from perfect trust. Until they achieve this, they waste themselves and their true creative powers on useless attempts to make themselves more comfortable by inappropriate means.
Whenever you are afraid you are deceived, and your mind cannot serve the Holy Spirit.
The miracle is the means, the Atonement is the principle, and healing is the result.
All healing is essentially the release from fear.
Only the mind is capable of error. The body can act wrongly only when it is responding to misthought.
The body cannot create, and the belief that it can, a fundamental error, produces all physical symptoms. Physical illness represents a belief in magic.
the body is a learning device for the mind.
The body is merely part of your experience in the physical world. Its abilities can be and frequently are overevaluated. However, it is almost impossible to deny its existence in this world.
All material means that you accept as remedies for bodily ills are restatements of magic principles. This is the first step in believing that the body makes its own illness.
Sometimes the illness has a sufficiently strong hold over the mind to render a person temporarily inaccessible to the Atonement.
This is because the last thing that can help the non-right-minded, or the sick, is an increase in fear. They are already in a fear-weakened state. If they are prematurely exposed to a miracle, they may be precipitated into panic. This is likely to occur when upside-down perception has induced the belief that miracles are frightening.
