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8Innocence
13Jesus, help me see my brother [name] as he really is, and thus release both him and me.
is your duty to establish beyond doubt that you are totally unwilling to side with (identify with) anyone’s misperceptions of you, including your
4The aim of the teacher is to give pupils more of what is temporarily his.
“Here I am, Lord.”125 2Repeat this very short phrase and don’t think
“Will ye first the Kingdom of Heaven,” and you have said “I know what I am, and I will to accept my own inheritance.”
8The Kingdom is perfectly united and perfectly protected, and the ego will not prevail against it.52 9Amen.
will not look there because I know these images are not true.
2If you are grateful to your brother you are grateful to God for what He created.
4Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
3The truly helpful are invulnerable, because they are not protecting their egos, so that nothing can hurt them.
am here only to be truly helpful. 3I am here to represent Him Who sent me. 4I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me. 5I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me. 6I will be healed as I let Him teach
6Let me know this brother as I know myself.3
2If you do not will to be wholly joyous, your mind cannot have what it does not will to be.
2I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.127 3I made the decision myself, but I can also decide otherwise. 4I will to decide otherwise, because I want to be at peace. 5I do not feel guilty, because the Holy Spirit will undo all the consequences of my wrong decision if I will let Him. 6I will to let Him by allowing Him to decide for God for me.
2We began with having and being,39 and have recently used others. 3Hearing and being is an example,40 to which we can now add teaching and being, learning and being, and above all, extending and being.
“Teach only love, for that is what you are.”
5All of that could be included in only three words: “Do only
5To have peace, teach peace and therefore learn it.
8Be vigilant only for God and His Kingdom.
2I have been unwilling to recognize that this quest is one of joy. 3Instead of reacting with anguish at times, and a feeling of frustration and futility, I will to see myself only as I truly am. 4Nothing else can matter but this. 5The Kingdom is entirely filled with peace and joy, and I am an essential part of it. 6Therefore, I must be unwilling to recognize what is already obvious, even in my conflicted state. 7I will only for God and His Kingdom. 8This is the only message that is meaningful, because it is my reality.
9All else is illusion. 10I will be helped as I offer help to others. 11I will know myself as I recognize my only true relationship with all my brothers.
6But you do recognize the Spirit that is already there, and thereby reawaken Him. 7This is why the healer is part of the resurrection and the
2Perceive any part of the ego’s thought system as wholly insane, wholly delusional, and wholly undesirable, and you have correctly evaluated all of
You cannot perpetuate an illusion about another without perpetuating it about yourself. 2There
Consider the kingdom which you have made, and judge its worth fairly. 2Is it worthy to be a home for a child of God? 3Does it protect his peace and shine love upon him? 4Does it keep his heart untouched by fear, and allow him to give always
6 When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. 2As you see him, you will see yourself. 3As you treat him, you will treat yourself. 4As you think of him, you
will think of yourself. 5Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose sight of yourself.
Whenever you are with a brother you are learning what you are, because you are teaching what you are. 2He will respond either with pain or with joy, depending on which teacher you are following. 3He will be imprisoned or released according to your decision, and so will you. 4Never forget your responsibility to him, because it is your responsibility to yourself. 5Give him his place in the Kingdom, and you will have yours. 6The Kingdom cannot be found alone, and you who
7Because I will to know myself, I see you as God’s Son and my brother.
To perceive errors in anyone and react to them as if they were real is to make them real to you.
2God Himself is incomplete without me.
2Every loving thought is true. 3Everything else is an appeal for healing and help.
Whenever you fail to recognize a call for help, you are refusing help.
Do not attempt to “help” a brother in your way, for you cannot help yourself. 2But hear his call for the help of God, and you will recognize your own need for the Father. 3Your interpretation of his need is your interpretation of yours. 4By giving help, you are asking for it, and if you perceive but this one need in yourself, you will be healed. 5For you
8For fear is a call for love, in unconscious recognition of what has been denied.
When you have accepted your mission to extend peace you will find it, for by making it manifest you will see
You have but to ask for this memory, and you will remember.
6For it is the function of love to unite all things unto itself,51 and to hold all things together by extending its wholeness.52
“To perceive errors in anyone and react to them as if they were real is to make them real to you.
Do not let any belief in its realness enter your mind at all, or you will also believe that you must undo what you have made in order to be forgiven.” T-9.V.4:4-5:
In the above example, you first interpret a brother’s behavior as an attempt to “attack you or desert you or enslave you,” when it was actually “an appeal for healing and help.”
another step before going on with the corrective process: Try saying to yourself that you must have willed not to love somehow or somewhere, or the fear which arises from behavior-will conflict could not have happened.”
“Your deep sense of loss” refers to your loss of love. Love
rather than loving our neighbor as we love ourselves, we know our brother as ourselves.
“Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
3For healing cannot be accomplished in the past, and must be accomplished in the present to release the future. 4This interpretation
And thus it is that you must attack yourself first, for what you attack is not in others. 2Its only reality is in your own mind, and by attacking others, you are literally attacking what is not there.
see in light brings your light closer to your own awareness. 4Love always leads to love. 5The sick, who ask for love, are grateful for it, and in their joy they shine with holy thanks.
5The only effort you need make to give this world away in glad exchange for one you did not make is willingness to learn the one you made is false.
