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43. A major contribution of miracles is their strength in releasing a person from his misplaced sense of isolation, deprivation, and lack. 2They are affirmations of Sonship, which is a state of completion and abundance.
3The spirit is therefore unalterable because it is already perfect.
4But the mind can elect the level it chooses to serve. 5The only limit which is put on its choice is that it cannot serve two masters.
Free will is the attribute of the mind, not the spirit. 2The spirit always remains changeless, because it never leaves the sight of God. 3The creation of the spirit is already fully accomplished.
4The mind, if it votes to do so, becomes a medium by which the spirit can create along the lines of its own creation.
5If it does not freely elect to do so, it retains this creative ability, but places itself under tyrannous rather than authoritative control. 6As a result, what it makes is impris...
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To change your mind means to place it at the disposal of true authority. 2The miracle is thus a sign
that the mind has elected to be guided by Christ in His service. 3The abundance of Christ is the natural result of choosing to follow Him.
4The nature of any interpersonal relationship is limited or defined by what you want it to do, which is why you want it in the first place. 5Relating is a way of achieving an outcome.
7 All shallow roots have to be uprooted, because they are not deep enough to sustain you. 2The illusion that shallow roots can be deepened and thus made to hold is one of the corollaries on which the reversal of the Golden Rule, referred to twice before, is balanced.
the Nazis’ “Final Solution.” 2I shed many tears over this, but it is by no means the only time I said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
All actions which stem from reversed thinking are literally the behavioral expressions of those who know not what they do.
10 Many have lost sight of the end and are concentrating on the means.
6Hostility, triumph, vengeance, self-debasement, and all sorts of expressions of the lack of love are often very clearly seen in the accompanying fantasies. 7But it is a profound error to imagine that because these fantasies are so frequent (or occur so reliably), this implies validity.
8You can be wholly reliable and entirely wrong.
11 Intellect may be a “displacement upward,” but sex can be a “di...
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The confusion of miracle impulse with sexual impulse is a major source of perceptual distortion, because it induces rather than straightens out the basic level confusion which underlies all those who seek happiness with the instruments of the world.
5The thing to do with a desert is to leave.116
6The teacher (or miracle worker) gives more to those who have less, bringing them closer to equality with him, at the same time gaining for himself.
3Freedom from fear can be achieved by both teacher and pupil only if they do not compare either their needs or their positions in regard to each other in terms of higher and lower.
6Children have an authority problem only if they believe that their image is influenced by the authority.
5 A teacher with an authority problem is merely a pupil who refuses to teach others.
6 The role of a teacher, properly conceived, is one of leading himself and others out of the desert.
5I have made every effort to teach you entirely without fear. 6If you do not listen, you will be unable to avoid the very obvious error of perceiving teaching as a threat.
learning is to abolish fear. 3This is necessary so that knowledge can happen.
5This confusion is all too frequently made by parents, teachers, therapists, and the clergy.
You would be right to maintain that this course is a prerequisite for any rightful course you may teach. 2However, you would really be saying much more than that. 3The purpose of this course is to prepare you for knowledge.
5All that is required of you as a teacher is to follow me.
Either you can function in all of the roles you have properly undertaken to fill, or you cannot function effectively in any of them.
4You are either capable or not. 5This does not mean that you can do everything, but it does mean that you are either totally miracle-minded or not. 6This decision is open to no compromise whatever.
concentrate on “Here I am, Lord.”
13 A teacher is unlikely to be effective unless he begins with being there.
4When the Bible says, “Judge not, that ye be not judged,” it merely means that if you judge the reality of others at all, you will be unable to avoid judging your own.127 5The choice to judge rather than know has been the cause of the loss of peace.
129 4Judgment always involves rejection.
self. 6However, what has been perceived and rejected (or judged and found wanting) remains in the unconscious because it has been perceived.
3 One of the illusions from which human perception suffers is that what it perceives and judges against has no effect. 2This cannot be true, unless you also believe that what your judgment vetoes does not exist.
2You have exerted great effort to preserve what you have made because it is not true. 3Therefore, you must now turn your effort against it. 4Only this can cancel out the need for effort, and call upon the being which you both have and are.
3As God’s creative thought proceeds from Him to you, so must your creative thoughts proceed from you to your creations. 4In this way only can all creative power extend outward. 5God’s accomplishments are not yours, but yours are like His. 6He created the Sonship, and you increase it. 7You have the power to add to the Kingdom, but not to add to the Creator of the Kingdom.
2By accepting this power as yours, you have learned to be what you are. 3Your creations belong in you, as you belong in God. 4You are part of God, as your sons are part of His Sons.
5To create is to love.
4 Eternity is yours because He created you eternal.
4To gain you must give, not bargain.
7God does not limit His gifts in any way. 8You are His gifts, and so your gifts must be like His.
2I gave only love to the Kingdom, because I believed that was what I was.
6 To think like God is to share His certainty of what you are. 2And to create like Him is to share the perfect love He shares with you. 3To this the Holy Spirit leads you, that your joy may be complete because the Kingdom of God is whole.
9 The “last step” that God was said to take was therefore true in the beginning, is true now, and will be true forever.
7His light was never obscured, because it is His will to share it. 8How can what is fully shared be withheld and then be revealed?
VI. Extending the Gift of Life
Never underestimate the power of denial.
you can give it the power of your mind, whose power is without limit of any kind. 8If you use it to deny reality, reality is gone for you.
