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January 1, 1981 - December 22, 2019
6It can only honor others, because honor is the natural greeting of the truly loved to others who are like them.
3 Innocence is also not a partial attribute. 2It is not a real defense until it is total.
5If you are willing to validate what is true in everything you perceive, you will make it true for you.
9True perception is the basis for knowledge, but knowing is the affirmation of truth.
you do not ask questions at all when you know.
7You know when you have ceased to ask questions.
9Knowledge brings mental strength for creative thinking but not for right doing.
2Knowledge is a result of revelation and induces only thought. 3Perception involves the body even in its most spiritualized form. 4Knowledge comes from the altar within and is timeless because it is certain.
10 If you attack another’s error, you will hurt yourself.
This is painfully true. Even when i offer gentle support and minor correction it can be felt as attack by another.
They then attack back, causing more pain.
12The prayer for the miracle is: 13Jesus, help me see my brother [name] as he really is, and thus release both him and me.
7Perception can and must be stabilized, but knowledge is stable.
6When they do not recognize each other, they do not recognize Him.
2Your spirit knows, loves, and creates.
5Only the levels of the Trinity are capable of unity.
only of the miracle ability and should be
4 Consciousness was the first split that you introduced into yourself. 2You became a perceiver rather than a creator in the true sense.
9 Perception always involves some misuse of will, because it involves the mind in areas of uncertainty.
2The mind is very active, because it has willpower. 3When it willed the separation, it willed to perceive. 4Until it chose to do this, it willed only to know.
11 The mind returns itself to its proper function only when it wills to know. 2This places it in the spirit’s service, where perception is meaningless.
13 The ability to perceive made the body possible, because you must perceive something, and with something.
“container”
Is this referring to the original creation or Freudian thought or?
5Thus, whenever you refuse to misperceive you are indeed behaving as I behaved.
9That is the real meaning of the celestial speed-up.81
10Strong wills can do this now, and they will find rest for their souls.82 11God knows you only in peace, and this is your reality.
2The spirit’s true functions are knowing, loving, and creating.
3Anything that is made is made for a specific purpose.
12 Perception is impossible without a belief in “more” and “less.”
the ability to perceive at all rests on lack.
14 Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation.
willed
This is a choice. This is Free Will.
3Each Son knows God completely. 4This is the miraculous power of the Son.
4Temporarily, the therapist or teacher can help in straightening out twisted perceptions, which is also the only role that I would ever contribute myself.
3If we were willing to forgive other people’s misperceptions of us, they could not possibly affect us at all. 4There is little doubt that you can explain your present attitudes in terms of how people used to look at you, but there is no wisdom in doing so. 5In fact, the whole historical approach can justifiably be called doubtful.
“How could they do this to me?”107 3The answer is they didn’t.
3This demonstration exonerates those who misperceive, by establishing beyond doubt that they have not hurt anyone.
An important note.
Jesus is saying that his resurrection means that Pilate and all his cronies in the illusion are forgiven because they didn't do anything!
13 Your parents probably did misperceive you in many ways, but their ability to perceive may have been quite warped, and their misperception stood in the way of their own knowledge.
6To be fatigued is to be dispirited, but to be inspired is to be in the spirit. 7To be egocentric is to be dispirited, but to be self-centered in the right sense is to be inspired, or in the spirit.
3 Things that are true are not embarrassing. 2Embarrassment is only a form of fear, and actually a particularly dangerous form because it reflects egocentricity. 3Embarrassment is always
“Be still, and know that I am God.”
7 Do not embark on foolish journeys, because they are indeed in vain. 2The ego may will them because the ego is both lean and foolish, but the spirit cannot embark on them because it is forever unwilling to depart from its foundation.
5The only message of the crucifixion is in respect to your ability to overcome the cross. 6Unless you do so, you are free to crucify yourself as often as you choose. 7But this was not the gospel I intended to offer you.
3The authority problem, not money, is the real “root of all evil.”
5Untenable positions such as this are the result of the authority problem, which, because it accepts the one inconceivable thought as its premise, can only produce ideas which are inconceivable.
7If a salesman must believe in the product he sells, how much more must a teacher believe in the ideas which he professes. 8But he needs another condition: he must also believe in the students to whom he offers his ideas.
learning means change. 3Change is always fearful to the separated, because they cannot conceive of it as a change toward healing the separation. 4They always perceive it as a change toward further separation, because separation was their first experience of change.
2The ego is a contradiction. 3Your self and God’s Self are in opposition.
4You have dreamed of a separated ego, and you have believed in a world which rests upon it. 5This is very real to you. 6You cannot undo this by doing nothing and not changing.
Contrast this with
I Need Do Nothing.
It seems that what we must do is at the level of thought, not form.
5But remember that laws are set up to protect the continuity of the system in which the lawmaker believes.
12 All separation anxiety is a symptom of a continuing will to remain separated.
2Your worth was established by God.
