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January 1, 1981 - December 22, 2019
5The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. 6What you do comes from what you think.
6You do not need guidance except at the mind level. 7Correction belongs only at the level where causation is possible.
6You are much too tolerant of mind wandering, thus tacitly condoning your mind’s miscreations.
8 Remember that whenever there is fear, it is because you have not made up your mind. 2Your will is split, and your behavior inevitably becomes erratic.
11 The first corrective step is knowing it is fear.
1. 3Know first this is fear. 2. 4Fear arises from lack of love. 3. 5The only remedy for lack of love is perfect love. 4. 6Perfect love is the Atonement.
the miracle, or the expression of Atonement,
13 It is obvious, then, that when you are afraid, you have placed yourself in a position where you need Atonement because you have done something loveless, having willed without love.
2I would like to pray that my will be united with thine, recognizing that thy perfect love will suffice (or correct) for my imperfect love. 3I pray that I may accept the Atonement with conviction, recognizing its inestimable worth, and my own divine worth as part of this identification with thine. 4I pray that my fear be replaced by an active sense of thy love, and thy continual willingness to help me overcome the split or divided will which is responsible for my difficulty with this. 5I accept the divinity of the messages I have received,115 and affirm my will in both accepting and acting
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“Don’t give it a thought,” you are implying that if you do not think about something, it will have no effect on you. 6This is true enough.
6People prefer to believe that their thoughts cannot exert real control because they are literally afraid of them.
4Miracle working entails a full realization of the power of thought and real avoidance of miscreation.
cannot free the miracle worker from fear.125 2Both miracles and fear come from his thoughts, and if he were not free to choose one, he would also not be free to choose the other.
You are willing to accept primarily what does not change your mind too much, and leaves you free to leave it quite unguarded most of the time.
2 The unwatched mind is responsible for the whole content of the unconscious which lies above the miracle level.129
3 Jung’s best contribution was an awareness of individual versus collective unconscious levels. 2He also recognized the major place of the religious spirit in his schema. 3His archetypes were also meaningful concepts.
4 The deepest level of the unconscious is shared as an ability.131
4Unless a miracle actually heals, it is not a miracle at all.132
5It is essential not to control the fearful but to eliminate it.
3Physical birth is not a trauma in itself. 4It can, however, remind the individual of the separation, which was a very real cause of fear.
8 The idea of “will therapy” was potentially a very powerful one,138
3This led him to believe that his own mind’s creation could stand only if the creation of another’s fell.
2When you miscreate, you are in pain.
10 The fundamental opponents in the real basic conflict are creation and miscreation.
3Because of this difference, the basic conflict is one between love and fear.
12 Everything that you make has energy because, like the creations of God, it comes from energy and is endowed by its maker with the power to make.
2The conflict cannot disappear until it is fully recognized that miscreation is not real, and therefore there is no conflict.
3The only way out is to stop miscreating now, and accept the Atonement for miscreations of the past.
5It also follows that whatever you produce is real in your own eyes, but not necessarily in the sight of God.
5The essential resolution rests entirely on the mastery of love.
the conflict, fear is really nothing, and love is really everything.
2The purpose of time is essentially to serve as a device by which all compromise in this respect can be abolished.
divine psyche,
6The Sonship has the unique faculty of believing in error, or incompleteness, if it so elects.
6After the separation, however, there was a place for justice in the schema, because it was one of the many learning devices which had to be built into the overall plan.
3 Just as the separation occurred over many millions of years, the Last Judgment will extend over a similarly long period, and perhaps even longer.
5But it is essential that these individuals free themselves from fear sooner than would ordinarily be the case, because they must emerge from the basic conflict if they are to bring peace to the minds of others.
6 The first step toward freedom, then, must entail a sorting out of the false from the true.
4No one who lives in fear is really alive.
6When everything that you retain is lovable, there is no reason for any fear to remain in you. 7This is your part in the Atonement.
104. The record (see T-1.46.2:4) seems to be a nonphysical record of all of our thoughts, words, and deeds. This passage suggests that giving a miracle actually alters the record, erasing errors recorded for both the past and probable future.
The answer is to withdraw the importance given the physical and focus instead on taking responsibility for our thoughts. Turning our thoughts over to Jesus will allow him to guide our thinking and actually control our behavior.
138. Rank’s Will Therapy (originally published as two works in 1929 and 1931; published in English as Will Therapy in 1936) emphasized choice, responsibility, and action. He said, “Thus, my concept allows for operation of the patient’s own will as the most constructive force in the therapeutic process.” He taught that neurosis is due to poor will-organization, and that patients can regain their authentic will through analysis, in a process of self-creation.
140. In Freudian thought, “psychic energy” (also called libido) is the primal energy that powers the psyche. This energy takes the form of various drives that naturally move toward satisfaction and release.
2This course is a mind-training course.
Mental retardation is a defense which, like the others (with the exception of the Atonement), can be used on behalf of error or truth, as elected.2 2When it occurs in the literal sense, it is a temporary device, agreed on beforehand, to check the miscreative activities of a strong but misdirected will.
3But it was emphasized that awe is a proper reaction of the Son in the presence of his Creator.
3Pragmatically, what has no real effect has no real existence.
7 God Himself is not symbolic; He is Fact. 2The Atonement, too, is totally without symbolism. 3It is perfectly clear, because it exists in light.
2Anyone who is unable to leave the requests of others unanswered has not entirely transcended egocentricity.
