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4But denial is a defense, and so it is as capable of being used positively as it is of being used destructively.
7Stated positively, the law requires you only to recognize part of reality to appreciate all of it. 8Mind is too powerful to be subject to exclusion. 9You will never be able to exclude yourself from what you project or extend.
3 When a brother acts insanely, he is offering you an opportunity to bless him. 2His need is yours. 3You need the blessing you can offer him.
6What you deny you lack, not because it is lacking, but because you have denied it in another, and therefore are not aware of it in you.
know, and produces a total lack of knowledge, simply because knowledge is total.
5The Holy Spirit judges every belief you hold in terms of where it comes from. 6If it comes from God, He knows it to be true. 7If it does not, He knows it is meaningless.
3Remember this when the ego speaks, and you will not hear it. 4The truth about you is so lofty that nothing that is unworthy of God is worthy of you.
Grandeur is of God, and only of Him. 2Therefore, it is in you.
2 Grandiosity is always a cover for despair.
5The essence of grandiosity is competitiveness, because it always involves attack.
6It is a delusional attempt to outdo, but not to undo.
8It remains suspicious as long as you despair of yourself. 9It shifts to viciousness whenever you will not tolerate self-debasement, and seek relief.
10Then it offers you the delusion of attack as a solution.
3Its own profound sense of vulnerability renders it incapable of judgment, except in terms of attack.
4When it experiences threat, its only decision is whether to attack now or withdraw to attack later. 5If you accept its offer of grandiosity, it will attack immediately.37 6If you do not, it will wait.
5 The ego will make every effort to recover and mobilize its energies against your release. 2It will tell you that you are insane, and argue that grandeur cannot be a real part of you, because of the littleness in which it believes.
5But your grandeur is of God, Who created it out of His love. 6From your grandeur you can only bless, because your grandeur is your abundance. 7By blessing you hold it in your mind, protecting it from illusions and
5Your grandeur is God’s answer to the ego, because it is true.
3When grandeur slips away from you, you have replaced it with something you have made.
8 You cannot triumph, but you are exalted. 2And in your exalted state, you seek others like you and rejoice with them.
because love is returned,
God wants you to behold what He created, because it is His joy.
9 When you think you are projecting what you do not want, it is still because you do want
6For to be healed is to pursue one goal because you have accepted only one, and want but one. 10 When you want only love you will see nothing else.
5Love is recognized by its messengers. 6If you make it manifest, its messengers will come to you, because you invited them.
world. 2You can decide to see it right.
4You cannot really give anything but love to anyone, nor can you really receive anything else from him.
13 When you have accepted your mission to extend peace you will find it, for by making it manifest you will see
7Through the eyes of Christ, only the real world exists and can be seen.
3Everything you behold without is a judgment of what you beheld within.
5If it is the judgment of the Holy Spirit, it will be right, for judgment is His function.
Remember, then, that whenever you look without and react unfavorably to what you see, you have judged yourself unworthy and have condemned yourself to death.
2But it is a traitor to you who believe you have been treacherous to your Father.
4For as long as you feel guilty, you are listening to the voice of the ego, which tells you that you have been treacherous to God, and therefore deserve death.
6And from what you want God does not save you.
3Would I have overcome death for myself alone? 4And would eternal life have been given me of the Father unless He had also given it to you?
4You attack the real world every day and every hour and every minute, and yet you are surprised that you cannot see it.
God’s Son is as safe as his Father, for the Son knows his Father’s protection and cannot fear. 2His Father’s love holds him in perfect peace, and needing nothing, he asks for nothing.
8You who knew have forgotten.
4 Because of your Father’s love, you can never forget Him, for no one can forget what God Himself placed in his memory. 2You can deny it, but you cannot lose it.
Peace But the essential thing is learning that you do not know.
and truth is beyond a semblance of any kind. 2 Yet all that stands between you and the power of God in you is but your learning of the false and your attempts to undo the true.
3Learning is therefore in the past, but its influence determines the present by giving it whatever meaning it holds for you. 4Your learning gives the present no meaning at all. 5Nothing you have ever learned can help you understand the present, or teach you how to undo the past. 6Your past is what you have taught yourself.
4 Let it all go. 2Do not attempt to understand any event or anything or anyone in its light, for the light of darkness by which you try to see can only obscure. 3Put no confidence in darkness to illuminate your understanding, for if you do, you contradict the light, and thereby think you see the darkness. 4Yet darkness cannot be seen, for it is nothing more than a condition in which seeing becomes impossible.
6 But to accomplish this, all your dark lessons must be brought willingly to truth and joyously laid down by hands open to receive, not closed to take. 2Every dark lesson that you bring to Him Who teaches light He will accept from you because you do not want it. 3And He will gladly exchange each one for the bright lesson He has learned for you. 4Never believe that any lesson you have learned apart from Him means anything.
true: If you are wholly free of fear of any kind, and if all those who meet or even think of you share in your perfect peace, then you can be sure that you have learned God’s lesson and not yours.
6I do not know what anything, including this, means. 7And so I do not know how to respond to it. 8And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now.
answer all problems for you. 11 Do you think that what the Holy Spirit would have you give He would withhold from you? 2You have no problems which He cannot solve by offering you a miracle. 3Miracles are for you. 4And every fear or pain or trial you have has been undone.
7The lessons you would teach yourself He has corrected already. 8They do not exist in His Mind at all, for the past binds Him not, and therefore binds not you.
12 He does not see time as you do, and each miracle He offers you corrects your use of time and makes it His. 2He Who has freed you from the past would teach you you are free of it. 3He would but have you accept His accomplishments as yours, because He did them for
