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Alan Cohen
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March 6 - April 6, 2023
All dedication is a statement of belief in the power to which you subscribe.
If you cannot claim perfect faith, claim perfect love.
Belief in love is the most effective faith, because God is love. When you love sincerely, the power of the entire universe is behind you.
Love heals because it reminds us of who we were before we were taught we needed something from outside to make us enough.
In many ways psychology is the religion of our time; in countries where religion does not thrive, psychology does.
God finds us where we live and speaks to us in the language of our belief.
The healing of the body proceeds from the healing of the mind, and the healing of the mind proceeds from the healing of the soul.
The Holy Spirit is the part of your mind that remains connected to the Mind of God
The Holy Spirit works through people. At any time you may serve as a voice of guidance for another person, and anyone might serve as a channel through which the Holy Spirit guides you.
We construct our future by the consciousness we hold. Human counselors can help us, but only if their advice resonates with our inner guidance.
Follow outer advice only if your internal consultant resonates.
Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You. I need be anxious over nothing. For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world.
The Holy Spirit within you recognizes that your every step is a part of your journey home.
But joy is not the result of struggle. Joy is the result of choosing joy.
Love is where you are because love is what you are.
If you burn with the fire of purpose, you will recognize yourself to be greater than any challenge that confronts you and you will be specifically directed to the path most in harmony with your calling.
Science and faith essayist Lyell Rader advised, “If you can’t pray a door open, don’t pry it open.” What is right for you wants to come to you. What is not right for you wants to flee from you.
Identify with the witness rather than the doer. The more you gain perspective, the more leverage you will find to make healthy choices. Beating yourself up for unwanted behaviors never works.
When you cultivate activities that truly bring you joy, you establish yourself in the domain of the soul.
Upset is a lens we choose to filter experiences. You participate in what disturbs you.
An Arab proverb says, “The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.”
Define all change as good, even if you don’t see the blessing at the moment.
Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore said, “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
At every moment God is extending a hand to you to lift you out of quicksand and onto higher ground. Stop fighting life and let it love you. Miracles are seeking you. Now you must let them find you.
Psychological threat is far more menacing than physical threat because it drags you into a mire of angst that has nothing to do with what is happening at the moment.
Fear and drama are not required or helpful.
All the good you seek is already here. It’s not about time.
Genuine healing goes far beyond the condition of the body. People who have a disability can be compelling teachers that their spirit is more real than their body. While their physical capacities seem limited, their souls are shining. Let us be grateful to those who radiate the presence of love and life in spite of apparent limitation.
He understood that illness is the result of erroneous thinking, not a hard fact at all.
Jesus’s consciousness was so rooted in the invulnerability of Spirit that those around him were lifted to the expansive realm in which he dwelled. When they attained resonance with that frequency, they were healed.
Yet the principles that create healing are universal: See perfection where others see limits. See wholeness where others see brokenness. Love while others fear.
When you give love, kindness, patience, or forgiveness, you gain the experience of the gift you are giving, in the moment you give it, so you are as blessed as the receiver.
You do not defeat dream monsters by battling them; that only reinforces their apparent reality.
The answer to the question of whether you are in greater danger being chased by one dream bear or by a hundred, then, is that you are not in danger in either case. No matter how many bears seem to be chasing you, none of them can hurt you because they are all dream bears.
Your safety lies not in running from them faster, but in opening your eyes.
The body comes and goes. Your spirit is forever.
“Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all” (W-188.1:4).
The only thing we are ever required to change is our perception. “Heaven is the decision I must make”
The goal of A Course in Miracles is not behavior management. It is c...
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The ego finds it more appealing to try to change the world than to change your mind, because you will never change enough things in the world to make you happy, and ...
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Time is kind, and if you use it on behalf of reality, it will keep gentle pace with you in your transition. The urgency is only in dislodging your mind from its fixed position here.
If, on the other hand, your job is an expression of passion and purpose, universal law will bolster your success. If you marry someone because you love him as he is and your life is better when you are with him, that union is blessed.
When joy is your motivation, joy is your result.
who have chosen kindness as their purpose.
Abraham Joshua Heschel noted, “When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
Happiness has nothing to do with the forms the world takes, and everything to do with the vision you are using to see the world.
Meeting God is not reserved for the moment your spirit leaves your body. It is reserved for the moment you choose it. In the happy dream, what you seek is already where you are. Love has not been hiding from us. We have been hiding from love. When the nightmare shifts to a happy dream, we are very close to home.
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. — T-IN.2:2–4
Being a miracle worker
It simply asks you to deliver your unique gifts as you walk through everyday life.
