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January 1, 1981 - December 22, 2019
“Everything you teach you are learning. Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love.”
The foundation for everything in the Course is its concept of an unconditionally loving God.
“Guilt is…the sole cause of pain in any form.”
The real world is ultimately an illusion, yet it is a pristine reflection of reality.
What if that lovely figure that humanity has been waiting for centuries to see again has in some sense already returned? What would that mean for our world? And for ourselves?
2All expressions of love are maximal.
Love is the perfect extention of GOd
Plan ahead” is good advice in this world, where you should and must control and direct where you have accepted responsibility.
4You should begin each day with the prayer “Help me to perform whatever miracles you want of me today.”
7The karmic law demands abandonment for abandoning, but you have received mercy, not “justice.”
total forgiveness.
2Your commitment is not yet total. 3That is why you still have more to learn than to teach.
6Meanwhile, remember that no effort is wasted.
The word “atone” really means “undo.”
3Therefore, when you say, “If you want me to I will,” please add “and if you don’t want me to I won’t.”
2I told you before that time would cease when it was no longer useful as a learning aid.40 3There is a way of speeding you up, and that is by leaving more and more time for me, so you can devote it to miracles.
You have to remember to ask me to take charge of all minutiae, and they will be taken care of so well and so quickly that you cannot get bogged down in them.
I cannot save you more time than you will let me, but if you are willing to try the Higher Shopping Service, which also covers all lower-order necessities, and even quite a number of whims within reason, I have very good use for the time we could save.
“Lord heal me” is the only legitimate prayer.
4You now share my inability to tolerate lack of love in yourself and in everyone else, and must join the Great Crusade to correct it. 5The slogan for this Crusade is “Listen, learn, and do.” 6This means: 7Listen to my voice, learn to undo the error, and
do something to correct it.
Revelation unites you directly with God. 2Miracles unite you directly with others.
3Possession is very closely related to projection. 4“Lucifer” could literally be translated “light-bearer.”62 5He literally projected himself from Heaven.
3 Projection still has this “hurling” connotation, because it involves hurling something you do not want, and regard as dangerous and frightening, to someone else. 2This is the opposite of the Golden Rule, and having placed this rule upside down, the reverse of miracles, or projection, follows automatically.
6Atonement is the knowledge that the belief that angels can fall is false.
The spiritual eye perceives both the creations of God and the products of human beings.
3 Consider the Golden Rule again.94 2You are asked to behave toward others as you would have them behave toward you. 3This means that your perception of both must be accurate, since the Golden Rule is the order for appropriate behavior.
4The way to perceive for Golden Rule behavior is to look out from the perception of your own holiness and perceive the holiness of others.97
4Death is a human affirmation of a belief in hate.
3Your witnessing demonstrates your belief and thus strengthens it.
has elected to be guided by Christ in His service.
5The ultimate purpose of the body is to render itself unnecessary. 6Learning to do this is the only real reason for its existence.
2The miracle prayer is: 3If you will tell me what to do, I will to do it.
3You must be: 4Ready to listen, willing to learn, and able to do.
6The prayer should therefore read: 7If you will tell me what to do, only that I will to do.
20 The Holy Spirit is the highest communication medium.
4 The basic decision of the miracle-minded is not to wait on time any longer than is necessary.
You do have special talents which are needed for the celestial speed-up at this time.151
9As long as a single slave remains to walk the earth, your release is not complete.
4Any relationship you have undertaken for whatever reasons becomes a responsibility.
20 A need implies lack by definition. 2It involves the recognition, conscious or unconscious (and at times, fortunately, superconscious), that you would be better off in a state which is somehow different from the one you are in.
21 After the separation, needs became the most powerful source of motivation for human action. 2All behavior is essentially motivated by needs, but behavior itself is not a divine attribute.
4Separation from God is the only lack you really need to correct. 5But your separation would never have occurred if you had not distorted your perception of truth, and thus perceived yourself as lacking.
7As you integrate, you become one and your one need becomes one accordingly.
23 Internal integration within the self will not suffice to correct the lack fallacy, but it will correct the need fallacy.
4The physical world exists only because you can use it to correct your unbelief, which placed you in it originally.
25 You can never control the effects of fear yourself, because you have made fear and believe in what you make.
Note the focus is on the EFFECTS of fear, not the cause.
3All creation rests on belief, and the belief in the creation produces its existence.
the concept of size exists only in a plane that is itself unreal.
This universe exists in a plane which is unreal.
2Denial is not mere negation. 3It is a positive miscreation.
3Some are both more miracle-minded and less able to recognize fear, because of their stronger but split identification. 4Others are
