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7He always gives what He has made in place of you. 8He would establish His bright teaching so firmly in your mind that no dark lesson of guilt can abide in what He has established as holy by His presence.
4God’s Son will always be indivisible.
7Listen in silence, and do not raise your voice against Him, for He teaches the miracle of oneness, and before His lesson division disappears.
8Teach like Him here and you will remember that you have always created like your Father.
willing this. 14 Those who remember always that they know nothing, but who have become willing to learn everything, will learn it.
2But whenever they trust themselves, they will not learn. 3They
have destroyed their motivation for learning by thinking ...
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4Think not you understand anything until you pass the test of perfect peace, for peace and understanding go togeth...
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2For it is the ego’s fundamental doctrine that what you do to others you have escaped. 3The ego wishes no one well, but its survival depends on your
belief that you are exempt from its evil intentions. 4It counsels, therefore, that if you are host to it, it will enable you to direct the anger that it holds outward, thus protecting you. 5And thus it embarks on an endless, unrewarding chain of special relationships, forged out of anger and dedicated to but one insane belief: that the more anger you invest outside yourself, the safer you become.
5 It is this chain that binds the Son of God to guilt, and it is this chain the Holy Spirit would remove from his holy mind. 2For the chain of savagery belongs not around the chosen host of God, who cannot make himself host to the ego. 3In the name of his release, and in the name of Him Who would release him, let us look more close...
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In these insane relationships, the attraction of what you do not want seems to be much stronger than the attraction of what you do.
4He is not in love with the other at all; he merely believes he is in love with sacrifice. 5And for this sacrifice, which he demanded of himself, he demands the other accept the guilt and sacrifice himself as well.
6Forgiveness becomes impossible, for the ego believes that to forgive another is to lose him. 7For it is only by attack without forgiveness that the ego can ensure the guilt which holds all its relationships together.
2For relationships to the ego mean only that bodies are together. 3It is always physical closeness that the ego demands, and it does not object where the mind goes or what it thinks, for this seems unimportant.
5To the ego the mind is private, and only the body can be shared. 6Ideas are basically of no concern except as they draw the body of another closer or let
move farther away. 7And it is in these terms that it evaluates ideas as “good” or “bad.”
because he would no longer believe that bodies communicate, and so he would be “gone.”
3In their angry alliances, born of fear of loneliness and yet dedicated to the continuance of loneliness, they seek relief from guilt by increasing it in the other.
6The fury of those joined at the ego’s altar far exceeds your awareness of it. 7For what the ego really wants, you do
not realize.
Whenever you are angry, you can be sure that you have formed a special relationship which the ego has “blessed,” for anger is its blessing. 2Anger takes many forms, but it cannot long deceive those who will learn that love brings no guilt at all, and what brings guilt cannot be love and must be anger.
3All anger is nothing more than an attempt to make someone feel guilty.
5Guilt is the only need the ego has, and as long as you identify with it, guilt will remain attractive to you.
But remember this: To be with a body is not communication.
4And how can He communicate with you while you believe that to communicate is to make yourself alone?
5Do you believe that I would leave you in the darkness you agreed to leave with me? 6In your relationship is this world’s light, and fear must disappear before you now.
3The gift is given forever, for God Himself received it. 4You cannot take it back. 5You have accepted God.
8All that was necessary was merely the wish to understand. 9That wish was the desire to be holy. 10The will of God is granted you. 11For you desire the only thing you ever had or ever were.
5I hold your hand as surely as you agreed to take each other’s. 6You will not separate, for I stand with you, and walk with you in your advance to truth. 7And where we go, we carry God with us.
your relationship, you have joined with me in bringing Heaven to the
Son of God, who hid in darkness.
3Those who would see will see.
5My need for you, joined with me in the holy light of your relationship, is your need for salvation.
4We are made whole in our desire to make whole. 5Let not time worry you, for all the fear that you experience is really past. 6Time has been readjusted to help us do together
what your separate pasts would hinder. 7You have gone past fear, for no two minds can join in the desire for love without love’s joining them.
Not one light in Heaven but goes with you. 2Not one ray that shines forever in the Mind of God but shines on you. 3Heaven is joined with you in your advance to Heaven. 4When such great light has joined with you to give the little spark of your desire the power of God Himself, can you remain in darkness?
The holy instant is the result of your determination to be holy. 2It is the answer. 3The desire to have it and the willingness to let it come precede its coming.
6Do not attempt to give the Holy Spirit what He does not ask, or you will add the ego unto Him and confuse the two.
10It is your realization that you need do so little that enables Him to give so much.
5That is why you came. 6If you could come without them, you would not need the holy instant.
8The miracle of the holy instant lies in your willingness to let it be what it is. 9And in your willingness for this lies also your acceptance of yourself as you were meant to be.
3Your difficulty with the holy instant arises from your fixed conviction that you are not worthy of it. 4And what is this but the determination to be as you would make yourself?
5God did not create His dwelling place unworthy of Him. 6And if you believe He cannot enter where He wills to be, you must be interfering with His will.
7The one created by his Father is wholly self-encompassing and self-extending. 8The one he made is wholly self-destructive and self-limiting.
3The body does not intrude upon it. 4Any relationship in which the body enters is based not on love, but on idolatry.
But idols do not share. 2Idols accept, but never make return.20 3They can be loved, but cannot love.
5The love of them has made love meaningless.
4 Love has no darkened temples where mysteries are kept obscure and hidden from the sun. 2It does not seek for power, but for relationships. 3The body is the ego’s chosen weapon for seeking power through relationships.
The Holy Spirit’s temple is not a body, but a relationship.
