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January 1, 1981 - December 22, 2019
6Your mind does make your future, and can turn it back to full creation at any minute, if it accepts the Atonement first.
Guilt feelings are the preservers of time. 2They induce fears of future retaliation or abandonment, and thus ensure that the future will remain like the present.
Is this what karma is?
Subconscious guilt?
18 My role is only to unchain your will and make it free.
it.
Part of the rules of the Earth game.
2The chief value of the concept lies in its helpfulness in counteracting the idea of hell, a belief that is hard for the ego to relinquish.
only what it is building now that really generates the future.
5Patients in psychotherapy frequently go over their childhoods in some detail and at considerable expense, and it merely encourages their egos to become more tolerable to them. 6I would hardly want you to repeat that same error.
2Are you interested in healing insanity or in studying its past?
it would be much better to devote yourself to knowing God.
evaluative,
I.e. judgmental
4The ego will not be destroyed, because it is part of your thought. 5But because it is uncreative, and therefore unsharing, it will be reinterpreted entirely, to release you from fear.
10 Your patience with your brother is your patience with yourself. 2Is not a child of God worth patience? 3I have shown you infinite patience, because my will is that of our Father, from whom I learned of infinite patience. 4His Voice was in me as it is in you, speaking for patience toward the Sonship in the Name of its Creator. 5What you need to learn now is that only infinite patience can produce immediate effects. 6This is the way in which time is exchanged for eternity. 7Infinite patience calls upon infinite love, and by producing results now, renders time unnecessary.
2Fixation is the pull of God, on Whom your mind is fixed because of the Holy Spirit’s irrevocable set.
To think that a person’s past—which does not exist—can cause who that person is now is not logical; it is magical.
3Anger cannot occur unless you believe that you have been attacked, the attack was unjust, and you are in no way responsible for it. 4Given these three wholly irrational premises, the equally irrational conclusion that a brother is worthy of attack rather than of love follows.
2Teach only love, for that is what you are.
5No one is punished for sins, and the Sons of God are not sinners.
6What you project you disown, and therefore do not believe is yours.
4 Projection will always hurt you. 2It reinforces your belief in your own split mind, and its only purpose is to keep the separation going.
Projection and attack are inevitably related, because projection is always a means of justifying attack.
2This is because it is the acknowledgement that you are not in this world, for the world is unhappy.
5God created His Sons by extending His thought and retaining the extensions of His thought in His Mind.
3 The Holy Spirit enables you to perceive this wholeness now.
9You perceive from your mind and extend your perceptions outward.
5The full awareness of Atonement, then, is the recognition that the separation never occurred.
3 But through the ego you can hear and learn and teach and project what is not true. 2From this, which you have made, you have taught yourself to believe you are not what you are.
THANK GOD, THIS IS NOT THE TRUTH OF ME!
4Every lesson which you teach you are learning.
what you teach is teaching you. 3What you project or extend you believe.
4Safety is the complete relinquishment of attack.
6Teach attack in any form, and you have learned it and it will hurt you.
8Since you cannot not teach, your salvation lies in teaching exactly the opposite of everything the ego believes.
7 The only way to have peace is to teach peace.
8Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love.
5The ego does not regard itself as part of you. 6Herein lies its primary perceptual error, the foundation of its whole thought system.
3 The ego, then, raised the first question that was ever asked, but it can never answer it. 2That question, which was “What are you?,” was the beginning of doubt.
the ego is afraid of you.
3You have chosen a sleep in which you have had bad dreams, but the sleep is not real, and God calls you to awake.
because the first question was never asked.
9God is not conflicted.
6 The separation was not a loss of perfection, but a failure in communication.
10You did not believe in your own perfection.
9 A wise teacher teaches through approach, not avoidance.
10 The Holy Spirit never itemizes errors, because He does not frighten children, and those who lack wisdom are children.
5To have, give all to all. 6Do only that.
1 All the separated ones have a basic fear of retaliation and abandonment.
6An insane learner learns strange lessons.
2Strengthening motivation for change is their first and foremost goal.
Thus, the WIIFM is so important!
perceive
2 But what you must remember is that what the Holy Spirit rejects, the ego accepts.
8Be vigilant only for God and His Kingdom.
