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remains. 6And there will be guilt as long as you accept the possibility, and cherish it, that you can make a brother what he is...
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without. 3I offer you my perfect faith in you, in place of all your doubts. 4But forget not that my faith must be as perfect in all your brothers as it is in you, or it would be a limited gift to you.
wants. 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.
5Limit your vision of a brother to his body, which you will do as long as you would not release him from it, and you have denied his gift
3The gift of union is the only gift I was born to give. 4Give it to me, that you may have it. 5The
Sacrifice is attack, not love.
7If you would accept but this one idea, your fear of love would
Guilt cannot last when the idea of sacrifice has been removed. 2For if there must be sacrifice, as you are convinced, someone must pay and someone must get.
3You think that everyone outside yourself demands your sacrifice, but you do not see that only you demand sacrifice, and only of yourself.
5I give you to the Holy Spirit, as part of myself. 6I know that you will be released, unless I want to use you to imprison myself. 7In the name of my freedom, I will your release, because I recognize that we will be released together.
If you will merely sit quietly by and let the Holy Spirit relate through you, you will empathize with strength,1 and both of you will gain in strength and not in weakness.
relationship. 4You will neither to hurt it nor to heal it in your own way. 5You do not know what healing is. 6All you have learned of empathy is from the past. 7And there is nothing from the past that you would share,
5I am not alone, and I would not intrude the past upon my Guest.2 6I have invited Him, and He is here. 7I need do nothing except not to interfere.
3You are the learner; He the Teacher. 4Do not confuse your role with His, for this will never bring peace to anyone.
to place your faith in them, and not in their denial. 6This year invest in truth, and let it work in peace. 7Have faith in what has faith in you. 8Think
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against
5If you seek love outside yourself, you can be certain that you perceive hatred within and are afraid of
The Holy Spirit asks only this little help of you: Whenever your thoughts wander to a special relationship which still attracts you, enter with Him into a holy instant, and there let Him release you.
What God has given you is truly given, and will be truly received.
There is nothing you can hold against reality. 2All that must be forgiven are the illusions you have held against your brothers.
kind. 5Release your brothers from the slavery of their
illusions by forgiving them for the illusions which you perceive in them.
Seek and find His message in the holy instant, where all illusions are forgiven.37 2From here,
4Forgive us our illusions, Father,40 and help us to accept our true relationship with You, in which there are no illusions, and where none can ever enter. 5Our holiness is Yours. 6What can there be in us that needs forgiveness, when Yours is perfect? 7The sleep of forgetfulness is only the unwillingness to remember Your forgiveness and Your love. 8Let us not wander into temptation, for the temptation of the Son of God is not Your will.41 9And let us receive only what You have given, and accept but this into the minds which You created,
Since empathy involves understanding and sharing the feelings of another, to “empathize with strength” means to share the feelings of the (possibly unconscious) part of that person’s mind that is in touch with his strength, that feels his invulnerability.
objection to the saying from Virgil, “Love conquers all”: “Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right” (T-4.VIII.16:4). To speak of love conquering or triumphing would make love attacking and therefore hateful.
8Let me enter in the Name of God and bring you peace, that you may offer peace to me.
3And the truth is that the Holy Spirit is in close relationship with you, because in Him is your relationship with God restored to you.
uncertain, the first thing to consider, very simply, is “What do I want to come of this? 2What is it for?” 3The clarification of the goal belongs at the beginning,
2Invest it not with guilt, for guilt implies it was accomplished in reality.
God is not fear, but love,
enough. 3But trust implicitly your willingness, whatever else may enter.
made for you? 7You merely ask the question. 8The answer is given. 9Seek not to answer it, but merely to receive the answer as it is given.
7He Who established His dwelling place in me created it as He would have it be. 8It is not needful that I make it ready for Him, but only that I do not interfere with His plan to restore to me my own awareness of my readiness, which is eternal. 9I need add nothing to His plan. 10But to receive it, I must be willing not to substitute my own in place of it.
one which you would rather have. 2He will never fail in this. 3But forget not that your relationship is one, and so it must be that whatever threatens the peace of one is an equal threat to the other.
5I desire this holy instant for myself, that I may share it with my brother, whom I love. 6It is not possible that I can have it without him, nor he without me. 7Yet it is wholly possible for us to share it now. 8And so I choose this instant as the one to offer to the Holy Spirit, that His blessing may descend on us, and keep us both in peace.
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal the Son of God. 2And he is healed because you offered faith to him, giving him to the Holy Spirit and releasing him from every demand your ego would make of him.
gift of freedom from the past, which you have received. 4You do not use anything your brother has done before to condemn him now. 5You freely choose to overlook his errors, looking past all barriers between your self and his, and seeing them as one. 6And in that one, you see
