A Course in Miracles
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It emphasizes application rather than theory, and experience rather than theology.
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It emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum. There are many others, this one differing from them only in form. They all lead to God in the end.
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emphasizes experience through application rather than a prior commitment to a spiritual goal:
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fundamental distinction between the real and the unreal; between knowledge and perception.
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perception,
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is based on interpretation, not on facts.
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founded on the belief in scarcity, loss, separ...
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What perception sees and hears appears to be real because it permits into awareness only what conforms to the wishes of the
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perceiver. This leads to a world of illusions, a world which needs constant defense precisely because it is not real.
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by teaching us how to reverse our thinking and unlearn our mistakes. Forgiveness is the Holy Spirit’s great learning aid in bringing this thought reversal about.
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We look inside first, decide the kind of world we want to see and then project that world outside, making it the truth as we see it.
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We have distorted the world by our twisted defenses,
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As we learn to recognize our perceptual errors, we also learn to look past them or “forgive.” At the same time we are forgiving ourselves, looking past our distorted self-concepts to the Self That God created in us and as us.
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Our sense of inadequacy, weakness and incompletion comes from the strong investment in the “scarcity
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principle”
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From that point of view, we seek in others what we feel is wanting in ourselves. We “love” another in order to get something ourselves. That, in fact, is what passes for love in the dream world. There can be no greater mist...
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The “little I” seeks to enhance itself by external approval, external possessions and external “love.” The Self That God created needs nothing. It is forever complete, safe, loved and loving. It seeks to share rather than to get; to extend rather than project. It has no needs and wants to join with others out of their mutual awareness of abundance.
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What was regarded as injustice done to one by someone else now becomes a call for help and for union. Sin, sickness and attack are seen as misperceptions calling for remedy through gentleness and love.
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To offer forgiveness is the only way for us to have it, for it reflects the law of Heaven that giving and receiving are the same.
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Holding no one prisoner to guilt, we become free.
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When we are ready, God Himself will take the final step in our return to Him.
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It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence,
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All expressions of love are maximal.
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In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
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His Voice will direct you very specifically. You will be told all you need to know.
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Consciously selected miracles can be misguided.
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They bring more love both to the giver and the receiver.
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The use of miracles as spectacles to induce belief is a misunderstanding of their purpose.
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Prayer is the medium of miracles. It is a means of communication of the created with the Creator. Through prayer love is received, and through miracles love is expressed.
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They are always affirmations of rebirth, which seem to go back but really go forward.
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they arise from conviction. Without conviction they deteriorate into magic, which is mindless and therefore destructive; or rather, the uncreative use of mind.
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Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively. It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end. Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.
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Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating it is as blessed to give as to receive. They simultaneously increase the strength of the giver and supply strength to the receiver.
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You recognize your own and your neighbor’s worth simultaneously.
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21. Miracles are natural signs of forgiveness. Through miracles you accept God’s forgiveness by extending it to others.
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You believe that what your physical eyes cannot see does not exist.
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Everything else is your own nightmare, and does not exist. Only the creations of light are real.
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Miracles represent freedom from fear.
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It is the privilege of the forgiven to forgive.
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By recognizing spirit, miracles adjust the levels of perception and show them in proper alignment. This places spirit at the center, where it can communicate directly. T-1.I.31. Miracles should inspire gratitude, not awe. You should thank God for what you really are. The children of God are holy and the miracle honors their holiness, which can be hidden but never lost.
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Miracles honor you because you are lovable. They dispel illusions about yourself and perceive the light in you. They thus atone for your errors by freeing you from your nightmares. By releasing your mind from the imprisonment of your illusions, they restore your sanity.
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The spirit’s strength leaves no room for intrusions.
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Miracles are expressions of love, but they may not always have observable effects.
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A miracle is a correction introduced into false thinking by me. It acts as a catalyst, breaking up erroneous perception and reorganizing it properly.
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The miracle dissolves error because the Holy Spirit identifies error as false or unreal. This is the same as saying that by perceiving light, darkness automatically disappears.
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Wholeness is the perceptual content of miracles. They thus correct, or atone for, the faulty perception of lack.
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42. A major contribution of miracles is their strength in releasing you from your false sense of isolation, deprivation and lack.
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Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind, or a state of miracle-readiness.
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The miracle is an expression of an inner awareness of Christ and the acceptance of His Atonement.
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A miracle is never lost. It may touch many people you have not even met, and produce undreamed of changes in situations of which you are not even aware.
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