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January 1, 1981 - December 22, 2019
5All psychology rests on the principle of continuity of behavior.
6In fact, it duplicates in many ways the way you will one day react to your real creations, which are as timeless as you are.
What are our Real Creations?
2Belief is an ego function, and as long as your origin is open to belief at all, you are regarding it from an ego viewpoint.
5When teaching is no longer necessary, you will merely know God.
4The ego literally lives by comparisons.
3Myths and magic are related, in that myths are usually related to the ego’s origins, and magic to the powers which it ascribes to itself.
2Salvation is nothing more than “right-mindedness,” which is not the one-mindedness of the spirit, but which must be accomplished before one-mindedness can be restored.
4The ego cannot survive without judgment, and is laid aside accordingly.
4The Kingdom of Heaven is you.
6This is the whole message of the Atonement,
8The Kingdom is perfectly united and perfectly protected, and the ego will not prevail against it.52 9Amen.
2My role is to separate the true from the false in your own unconscious, so truth can break through the barriers the ego has set up and shine into your mind.
3Egos are concerned with self-protection, not with love.
4The Bible has many references to the immeasurable gifts which are for you, but for which you must ask.61 5This is not a condition as the ego sets conditions. 6It is the glorious condition of what you are. 7No force except your own will is strong enough or worthy enough to guide you. 8In this you are as free as God, and must remain so forever. 9You can never be bound except in honor, and that is always voluntary.62
9Because I wait in love and not in impatience, you will surely ask me truly.
God has given you everything.
3Consider how much vigilance you have been willing to exert to protect your ego, and how little you have been willing to expend to protect your higher mind!
3Think honestly what you have thought that God would not have thought, and what you have not thought that God would have you think.
2Depression is of the ego, and you are hiding little spots of hatred that are hurting you. 3Depression always arises ultimately from a sense of being deprived of something you want and do not have.
4Watch your mind for the temptations of the ego, and do not be deceived by it.
3Your mind and mine can unite in shining your ego away, and releasing the strength and beauty of God into everything you think and will and do.
5Watch your mind carefully for any beliefs that hinder its accomplishment, and step away from them.
2Judgment, like any other defense, can be used to attack or protect, to hurt or to heal.
15 If you will think over your life, you will see how carefully the preparations were made.
Another Between Life reference
2 The ego stays further off balance by keeping its primary motivation unconscious, and raising control rather than sensible judgment to predominance.
3Yet this demented state is essential to the ego, which judges only in terms of threat or non-threat to itself.
4The body is the ego’s home by its own election.
2Meaningful seeking is consciously undertaken, consciously organized, and consciously directed. 3The goal must be formulated clearly and kept in mind.
I must remind you that learning and wanting to learn are inseparable. 4All learners learn best when they believe what they are trying to learn is of value to them.
“What for?” 2This is the question which you must learn to ask in connection with everything your mind wills to undertake.
4Be always unwilling to adapt to any situation in which miracle-mindedness is unthinkable.
Miracles can always happen.
Always!
4What is the “you” who are living in this world?
Immortality is a constant state.
4Knowledge never involves comparisons.
6 The essential thing to remember always is that the ego does not recognize the real source of its perceived threat,
2Only your allegiance to it gives the ego any power over you.
7 The ego is nothing more than a part of your belief about yourself.
2Your other life has continued without interruption, and has been and always will be totally unaffected by your attempts to dissociate.
When I told you to concentrate on the phrase “Here I am, Lord,”85 I did not mean “in this world” by “here.” 2I wanted you to think of yourself as a distinct consciousness, capable of direct communication with the Creator of that consciousness.
3You may believe that you already accept the difference, but you are by no means convinced as yet. 4The very fact that you are preoccupied with the idea of escaping from the ego shows this.
2Your mission is very simple: You have been chosen to live so as to demonstrate that you are not an ego.
5Your gratitude to your brother is the only gift I want.
4Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
train yourself to be alert to any tendency to withdraw from your brothers.
3You are afraid of all complete involvements, and believe that they lessen you.
5As you come closer to a brother you do approach me, and as you withdraw from him I become distant to you.
that reward is repeatedly offered when the old habit is broken. 4You are still free
6If you ask what to do and are willing to forgo control of the decision, whatever you do will be only benign.
4The ego is thus against communication, except insofar as it is utilized to establish separateness rather than to abolish it.
3In contrast, the spirit reacts in the same way to everything it knows is true, and does not respond at all to anything else.
