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Alan Cohen
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August 15 - September 18, 2020
We ask for long life, but ‘tis deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
So the secret to triumph over the tyranny of time is to stay in love. Not simply romantic love, but the awareness that love is everywhere and you are in its midst.
The universe is holographic. The whole is contained in every part. Everything is here and now.
When we use time to discover, enjoy, and express the holiness of life, it becomes our friend.
The word deadline is an apt description of how the ego uses time to frighten you into submission. By contrast, the Holy Spirit throws you only lifelines.
All fear is of future events.
You can experience reality only now. Since love is the only reality, the only time to find love is now.
Establish yourself in the now, and fear will lose its power over your life.
Timing is more important than time, and no matter how much or how little time you have, you always have timing.
Go to the place in consciousness where the success you seek is already accomplished, and you will hasten its demonstration in time.
be a vessel through which Spirit expresses in the world, and let others see the light shining through you.
Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly.
Your body is not the cause of your mind and emotions; it is their effect.
your body is more liquid than solid, physically and metaphysically, constantly re-creating itself according to the current stream of consciousness you are holding. When that stream changes, so does the body.
Healing is the result of a shift in consciousness from separation to wholeness, a return to your true Self.
See perfection where others see limits. See wholeness where others see brokenness. Love while others fear.
ACIM does not tell you how to get stuff. It teaches you how to get peace. Money is not the only measure of wealth, and possessions do not equal happiness. Only happiness equals happiness.
create from the inside out.
Real generosity is generosity of the spirit. It is the feeling that you are blessed with enough of all good things, and you are happy to bless others with your overflow.
give. To know that you have enough, you must know that you are enough.
When you give a gift of the world, you have less and someone else has more. When you give a gift of God, both giver and receiver gain.
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 were born to thrive, not just survive.
Miracles enable you to heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness and death yourself, and can therefore abolish both. You are a miracle, capable of creating in the likeness of
your Creator. Everything else is your own nightmare, and does not exist. Only the creations of light are real.
“I am in danger nowhere in the world”
Because your true nature is spiritual, you cannot be touched, affected, changed, damaged, or killed by any earthly condition or situation.
Your freedom depends on your change of mind.
the only place to seek healing is within and the only time to do it is now.
The only thing we are ever required to change is our perception.
must make” (W, Lesson 138). The goal of A Course in Miracles is not behavior management. It is consciousness upgrade.
Ultimately there is only one miracle: the shift in awareness from the tyranny of fear to the healing presence of love.
conflict. The events, experiences, and relationships of the world become stepping-stones to heaven.
Upon discovering the happy dream, your purpose is no longer to escape the world, but to use the world on behalf of healing.
Kindness is the mark of spiritual maturity.
When joy is your motivation, joy is your result.
Love yourself no matter what you do, and what is not of love will be replaced by what is truly valuable.
the only real choice is between gladness and sorrow.
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
When you deny your ability to heal, you are rejecting your identity as a vessel through which the Holy Spirit can and will change lives
It simply asks you to deliver your unique gifts as you walk through everyday life.
“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”
“When I am healed, I am not healed alone”
them. When you allow someone to help you, you afford that person the joy of being a miracle worker.
They receive the reward of giving, while you receive the joy of receiving.
At every moment you are teaching love or you are teaching fear. There are no other lessons.
“When you have accepted your mission to extend peace you will find peace
you are here get peace, be yourself, and find people to love.
When you teach only love, you learn only love.
You are here to transform the world by changing your thoughts about the world and who you are in it.
