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The miracle worker must have genuine respect for true cause and effect as a necessary condition for the miracle to occur.
The fundamental conflict in this world, then, is between creation and miscreation. All fear is implicit in the second, and all love in the first. The conflict is therefore one between love and fear.
The true resolution rests entirely on mastery through love.
Nothing and everything cannot coexist. To believe in one is to deny the other. Fear is really nothing and love is everything.
no compromise is possible between everything and nothing.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life” needs only one slight correction to be meaningful in this context; “He gave it to His only begotten Son.”
Readiness is only the prerequisite for accomplishment.
Confidence cannot develop fully until mastery has been accomplished.
whatever you alone make is real in your own sight, though not in the Mind of God.
free yourself from fear quickly, because you must emerge from the conflict if you are to bring peace to other minds.
It is a final healing rather than a meting out of punishment,
the aim of the Last Judgment is to restore right-mindedness to you.
If the meaning of the Last Judgment is objectively examined, it is quite apparent that it is really the doorway to life. No one who lives in fear is really alive.
Innocent or true perception means that you never misperceive and always see truly. More simply, it means that you never see what does not exist, and always see what does.
only what God creates or what you create with the same Will has any real existence. This, then, is all the innocent can see. They do not suffer from distorted perception.
An “imprisoned” mind is not free because it is possessed, or held back, by itself.
The way to correct distortions is to withdraw your faith in them and invest it only in what is true.
You cannot make untruth true.
Truth overcomes all error, and those who live in error and emptiness can never find lasting solace.
Questioning illusions is the first step in undoing them.
The miracle, or the right answer, corrects them.
“Fear God and keep His commandments” becomes “Know God and accept His certainty.”
brother when you attack him. Attack is always made upon a stranger. You are making him a stranger by misperceiving him, and so you cannot know him.
Perceive him correctly so that you can know him.
God knows His children with perfect certainty. He created them by knowing them. He recognizes them perfectly. When they do not recognize each other, they do not recognize Him.
You have every reason to feel afraid as you perceive yourself. This is why you cannot escape from fear until you realize that you did not and could not create yourself.
when your behavior is unstable, you are disagreeing with God’s idea of your creation.
Ingenuity is totally divorced from knowledge, because knowledge does not require ingenuity.
the only meaningful prayer is for forgiveness, because those who have been forgiven have everything.
The prayer for forgiveness is nothing more than a request that you may be able to recognize what you already have.
You have lost the knowledge that you yourself are a miracle of God. Creation is your Source and your only real function.
Perception is a continual process of accepting and rejecting, organizing and reorganizing, shifting and changing. Evaluation is an essential part of perception, because judgments are necessary in order to select.
What happens to perceptions if there are no judgments and nothing but perfect equality? Perception becomes impossible. Truth can only be known.
To know God’s miracle is to know Him.
Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation.
The world believes that if anyone has everything, there is nothing left. But God’s miracles are as total as His Thoughts because they are His Thoughts.
God and His miracle are inseparable.
Your worth is beyond perception because it is beyond doubt.
Know yourself in the One Light where the miracle that is you ...
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Judgment is symbolic because beyond perception there is no judgment.
“Judge not that ye be not judged,” it means that if you judge the reality of others you will be unable to avoid judging your own.
The choice to judge rather than to know is the cause of the loss of peace.
Judgment always involves rejection.
what you judged against does not exist.
The strain of constant judgment is virtually intolerable.
To deny His Authorship is to deny yourself the reason for your peace,
Free will must lead to freedom. Judgment always imprisons because it separates segments of reality by the unstable scales of desire.
Will ye first the Kingdom of Heaven,”
“I know what I am and I accept my own inheritance.”
Nothing made by a child of God is without power. It is essential to realize this, because otherwise you will be unable to escape from the prison you have made.
