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by
Alan Cohen
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August 15 - September 18, 2020
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
The journey to God is merely the reawakening of the knowledge of where you are always, and what you are forever.
The voice of God is your own voice.
When you challenge God as to how the world will be changed, His answer is: through you.
us. Our partner becomes our savior when we choose to see the light in him and love him for who he is, not who we want to change him to be.
Extension means that we recognize godly
attributes within ourselves, and we extend them to enfold the world we perceive outside of us.
No matter what mistakes you have made or others have made against you, your inner being remains perfectly intact,
“I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt”
“Your past has no power to haunt you. You are haunting yourself by focusing on a past that hurts.”
If condemnation has not entered your consciousness, forgiveness is meaningless and unnecessary.
the only correct expectation of the future is one of limitless good.
“I place the future in the hands of God”
“God’s Will for me is perfect happiness”
You do not have to compete to prove yourself, for you have unique gifts that no one else can deliver. The judgment you have been running from will never come.
People who hurt others are hurting themselves.
“Hurt people hurt people,”
love. ACIM tells us that every act is either an expression of love or a call for love.
When you are free of pain, you are incapable of inflicting pain.
“Without forgiveness I will still be blind”
Inner peace is your strongest platform to create global transformation.
“I am affected only by my thoughts”
no person, group, situation, or condition has the power to take away your happiness.
“in my defenselessness my safety lies,”
The second step to reverse pain or illness is to replace the projection of sin with the extension of love.
There must be something you sincerely appreciate about this person. Shift your attention from the mean and nasty things they have said or done to the kind and helpful things they have said or done—
You will never gain by blaming others for your loss. You will always gain by honoring others for their contribution.
The special someone you have been looking for is you. “My salvation comes from me”
You demean yourself by needing someone else to validate you.
In a holy relationship, you do not see yourself as lacking, and you do not bestow your partner with the power to save or damn.
In the holy relationship, you seek to potentiate each other’s joy
(“Never wrestle with a pig,” goes an idiom attributed to George Bernard Shaw. “You’ll both get dirty and the pig likes it.”)
Special love relationships are the ego’s favorite weapon to keep you from peace
“My brother, choose again.” He would not leave one source of pain unhealed,
Authentic communication is the first step to transforming special relationships into holy relationships.
If you are in pain with a partner or any object of specialness, you are not seeing that person or object clearly. You are seeing your version of that person or object.
To heal your relationship, seek, find, and focus on aspects that support a version of the partner you prefer.
“Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.”
You cannot control the behavior of others, and you cannot dictate the choices they make. But you have total control over which aspects of them you are selecting to magnify in your experience. This is where your true authority lives.
Establish your awareness in the now.
Seek to join rather than separate.
You cannot get yourself out of a relationship mess with the same mind-set that got you into it.
The answer to your relationship challenges is far easier than you have believed. You do not have to do it all yourself. Pray for help with a sincere heart, and you will receive it. You will be told precisely what to do, when, and how. No matter what has happened or is happening with your human partner,
veil of specialness from our holy relationships so we can release, as Robert Browning described
When you shift your vision from the frame to the picture, you will find the masterpiece.
“Does this bring more joy into the world, or does it diminish joy in the world?”
The universe is set up to prosper what is sourced by Spirit, and to disintegrate what is ego driven.
“Am I the picture or am I the frame? Am I a body or am I the Spirit?”
Every day you reenact the shift from unity to separation. But you also have the opportunity to enact the shift from separation
At our core we are love.
