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A Course in Miracles is a self-study course. In the beginning it tells us, "This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean
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Namaste!
"Miracles seem unnatural to the ego because it does not understand how separate minds can influence each other. Nor could they do so. But minds cannot be separate. This other Self is perfectly aware of this. And thus It recognizes that miracles do not affect another's mind, only Its own. They always change your mind. There is no other." A COURSE IN MIRACLES CH 21 THE INNER PICTURE VI "Reason And Perception" paragraph 51
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Daily Lesson
L e s s o n 238
On my decision all salvation rests.
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IAMBIC PENTAMETER
Father, Your trust in me has been so great,
I must be worthy. You created me,
and know me as I am. And yet You placed
Your Son's salvation in my hands, and let
it rest on my decision. I must be
beloved of You indeed. And I must be
steadfast in holiness as well, that You
would give Your Son to me in certainty
that He is safe Who still is part of You,
and yet is mine because He is my Self.
And so again today we pause to think
how much our Father loves us, and how dear
His Son, created by His Love, remains
to Him Whose Love is made complete in him.
~ Original Handscript of ACIM October 13, 1970
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What is Salvation?
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IAMBIC PENTAMETER
Salvation is a promise, made by God,
that you would find your way to Him at last.
It cannot but be kept. It guarantees
that time will have an end, and all the thoughts
that have been born in time will end as well.
God's Word is given every mind that thinks
that it has separate thoughts, and will replace
these thoughts of conflict with the Thought of peace.
The Thought of peace was given to God's Son
the instant that his mind had thought of war.
There was no need for such a Thought before,
for peace was given without opposite,
and merely was. But when the mind is split,
there is a need of healing. So the Thought
Which has the power to heal the split became
a part of every fragment of the mind
which still was one, but failed to recognize
its oneness. Now it did not know itself,
and thought its own identity was lost.
Salvation is undoing in the sense
that it does nothing, failing to support
the world of dreams and malice. Thus it lets
illusions go. By not supporting them,
it merely lets them quietly go down
to dust. And what they hid is now revealed;
an altar to the holy Name of God,
whereon His Word is written, with the gifts
of your forgiveness laid before It, and
the memory of God not far behind.
Let us come daily to this holy place,
and spend a while together. Here we share
our final dream. It is a dream in which
there is no sorrow, for it holds a hint
of all the glory given us by God.
The grass is pushing through the soil, the trees
are budding now, and birds have come to live
within their branches. Earth is being born
again in new perception. Night has gone,
and we have come together in the light.
From here we give salvation to the world,
for it is here salvation was received.
The song of our rejoicing is the call
to all the world that freedom is returned,
that time is almost over, and God's Son
has but an instant more to wait until
his Father is remembered, dreams are done,
eternity has shined away the world,
and only Heaven now exists at all. "
~ Original Handscript of ACIM ~ October 1, 1970
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ACIM Edmonton - Sarah's Reflections
Lesson 238
On my decision all salvation rests.
Sarah's Commentary:
I look at the words in this lesson and reflect on how much trust is invested in me to choose. It is a theme throughout the course that the only power we have in this world is the power of the mind to choose. There is no one in this world that would put their complete trust in me to put their salvation in my hands. Why would our Father invest that kind of trust in us? Because He knows us! Well just knowing myself makes me think that I can't be trusted that much. I don't feel that worthy. Yet He says I am. What does that say about what I think about myself? It says that I am wrong about myself. It says that because He created me, He knows the truth about who I really am as the perfect Son of God. And as lesson 237 says "today I will accept the truth about myself". He knows the light and glory that we are.
No, it does not mean that the separated self, the ego mind is to be trusted. The ego is devious. But the truth is that we are not this ego. The truth is that we are grand and glorious beings who have forgotten who we are. And it is this truth we are called to accept. And acceptance comes through the process of removing the blocks to awareness of the truth of our being. And this comes through forgiveness of our brother. Thus it is about healing our special relationships.
The Holy Spirit is part of every fragment of the One Self, quietly waiting for our readiness to replace our thoughts of conflict with any brother with His Thought of peace. It is when we find that place of peace within ourselves, by doing our forgiveness work which means looking at the ego thought system and bringing all darkness to the light of Truth, that every thought of conflict, despair, frustration, bitterness can be remedied by the Holy Spirit. So salvation is basically turning within to that quiet center where we can know peace and releasing all that stands in the way. Our belief is that all this takes time and that that time seems long to us, but we are already home with God. We just need to work through the process of letting go of the drama of our lives and recognize that we have made up this dream. To be saved is simply to withdraw our belief from the illusion. So basically salvation does not require that we do anything. Only that we undo and by withdrawing our power of belief from the dream, the 'Illusions quietly go down to dust" (3.3) (What is Salvation)
We don't have to go along with the ego. We have choice. The ego says, "keep looking to the world for your happiness" There is always a new relationship, a new car, a better job, a hot fudge sundae, winning the lottery...anything in the world that we pin our happiness on. Yet Jesus reminds us that "You have not found your happiness in foreign places and in alien forms that have no meaning to you, though you sought to make them meaningful". (W.PI.200.4.2)This doesn't make anything we do in the world wrong. We seem to be in this world for now, and while we see ourselves as bodies we will need to work, make money, have special relationships. But while we are occupied in these and other activities, the thing to do is to withdraw our belief that our happiness lies outside of ourselves. So it is still all about our thoughts. In other words, we need to withdraw our attachment from the things of the world and recognize that the way back to our true happiness is to forgive ourselves and others and through the process of bringing the blocks to the love that we are to His healing light, we can know our own radiance.
So what do we do when we are not feeling accepting, joyful, loving...when we don't feel happy? The answer is always to notice our thoughts and simply choose to release them to the Holy Spirit for healing. Have the courage to honestly look at the darkness. Become aware of every ego thought and release it as it comes up to your awareness. It is a process of surrendering, of admitting we don't know what to do, of allowing whatever comes up to come up and of looking with Spirit, knowing we are the dreamer of this dream and not a character in the dream. It is about recognizing that every judgment we make of others is a reflection of the unhealed guilt in our own mind projected out.
I had a recent example of this when someone resisted attending workshops saying her husband did not want her to go and was threatened by her attendance. One day after reading a relevant passage in the course she came to the sudden awareness that her husband was the reflection of her own fear projected out. When she came to that awareness she could look at her own mind instead of blaming him. That is a perfect example of projection of our own guilt and fear on others who will act it out for us. Our responsibility is to own it and to heal it. What we are seeing in any brother is the split off part of our own mind. Saving the world is simply about bringing together the fragments of the Sonship. This means that we recognize that the holiness that is in us is in everyone. All of the fragments of the Sonship look different but the content of holiness is the same in each. When we recognize the sameness we see the holiness in each part. This is what healing is about in this world.
The world is just an outward picture of our own thoughts. There is no world. To save the world means to change our minds about the world. It is to do this healing work so that we can see that the world is just a projection of the mind. This only makes sense when we look back at the world from outside of the dream. For now we do the work of forgiveness so that in each encounter and in each difficulty we see that we have the power to choose by taking responsibility for the projections of our own mind that we put on others.
As today's lesson tells us, we are completely free to choose to listen to the ego or the Holy Spirit in our mind. We make the decision on our own to accept salvation for ourselves or not. With God's trust in us, we must be worthy. He knows the truth of who we really are. The truth may be obscure to us but not to Him. We may have forgotten who we are but He has not. His Truth about us is held for us in our minds until we are ready to know it. And in the end, our choice is just a matter of time. When we have gone down every road in the world looking for happiness and find it is not to be found here, we will finally conclude that "there must be a better way". As the course tells us, we have a high tolerance for pain but it is not without limit. And for some of us, our unwillingness to suffer a high degree of pain, brings us willingness to do the spiritual work before life totally brings us to our knees.
So the outcome is inevitable. But the time is by our own choosing. Today, take in the thought of how deeply loved you are; and do not refuse to hear His Call. So today, let's approach the lesson with the confidence in ourselves that we are totally worthy of this effort.
To put the decision of salvation in my hands is to know that I can be trusted to make this decision. No matter how unworthy I might feel, we are reminded how very loved we are to be invested with such trust. He has put it all on me....and on you. We are One. I know myself not to be "steadfast in holiness" yet He says I am so I must be. His certainty in my reality is unquestionable.
When we read all of this we have to conclude that if this is so, then our own valuation of ourselves must be so very wrong. Who we think we are and how we assess ourselves as well as others has to be so way off from the truth of our Reality!! Thus all of our thoughts can be put to question.
Love and blessings, Sarah
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A Course in Miracles
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Twenty One
The Inner Picture
VI. Reason and Perception
49 Perception selects and makes the world you see. It literally picks it out as the mind directs. The laws of size and shape and brightness would hold, perhaps, if other things were equal. They are not equal. For what you look for you are far more likely to discover than what you would prefer to overlook. The still small Voice for God is not drowned out by all the ego's raucous screams and senseless ravings to those who want to hear it. Perception is a choice and not a fact. But on this choice depends far more than you may realize as yet. For on the voice you choose to hear and on the sights you choose to see, depends entirely your whole belief in what you are. Perception is a witness but to this and never to reality. Yet it can show you the conditions in which awareness of reality is possible or those where it could never be.
50 Reality needs no cooperation from you to be itself. But your awareness of it needs your help because it is your choice. Listen to what the ego says and see what it directs you see, and it is sure that you will see yourself as tiny, vulnerable, and afraid. You will experience depression, a sense of worthlessness, and feelings of impermanence and unreality. You will believe that you are helpless prey to forces far beyond your own control and far more powerful than you. And you will think the world you made directs your destiny. For this will be your faith. But never believe because it is your faith it makes reality.
51 There is another vision and another Voice in which your freedom lies awaiting but your choice. And if you place your faith in them, you will perceive another Self in you. This other Self sees miracles as natural. They are as simple and natural to It as breathing to the body. They are the obvious response to calls for help, the only one It makes. Miracles seem unnatural to the ego because it does not understand how separate minds can influence each other. Nor could they do so. But minds cannot be separate. This other Self is perfectly aware of this. And thus It recognizes that miracles do not affect another's mind, only Its own. [They always change your mind.] There is no other.
52 You do not realize the whole extent to which the idea of separation has interfered with reason. Reason lies in the other Self you have cut off from your awareness. And nothing you have allowed to stay in it is capable of reason. How can the segment of the mind devoid of reason understand what reason is or grasp the information it would give? All sorts of questions may arise in it, but if the basic question stems from reason, it will not ask it. Like all that stems from reason, the basic question is obvious, simple, and remains unasked. But think not reason could not answer it.
53 God's plan for your salvation could not have been established without your will and your consent. It must have been accepted by the Son of God, for what God wills for him he must receive. For God wills not apart from him, nor does the Will of God wait upon time to be accomplished. Therefore, what joined the Will of God must be in you now, being eternal. You must have set aside a place in which the Holy Spirit can abide and where He is. He must have been there since the need for Him arose and was fulfilled in the same instant. Such would your reason tell you if you listened. Yet such is clearly not the ego's "reasoning." Its alien nature to the ego is proof you will not find the answer there. Yet if it must be so, it must exist. And if it exists for you and has your freedom as the purpose given it, you must be free to find it.
54 God's plan is simple-never circular and never self-defeating. He has no Thoughts except the Self-extending, and in this your will must be included. Thus, there must be a part of you that knows His Will and shares it. It is not meaningful to ask if what must be is so. But it is meaningful to ask why you are unaware of what is so, for this must have an answer if the plan of God for your salvation is complete. And it must be complete because its Source knows not of incompletion. Where would the answer be but in the Source? And where are you but there, where this same answer is? Your Identity, as much a true effect of this same Source as is the answer, must therefore be together and the same.
55 Oh yes, you know this and more than this alone. Yet any part of knowledge threatens dissociation as much as all of it. And all of it will come with any part. Here is the part you can accept. What reason points to you can see because the witnesses on its behalf are clear. Only the totally insane can disregard them, and you have gone past this. Reason is a means which serves the Holy Spirit's purpose in its own right. It is not reinterpreted and redirected from the goal of sin as are the others. For reason is beyond the ego's range of means.
56 Faith and perception and belief can be misplaced and serve the great deceiver's needs as well as truth. But reason has no place at all in madness, nor can it be adjusted to fit its end. Faith and belief are strong in madness, guiding perception toward what the mind has valued. But reason enters not at all in this. For the perception would fall away at once if reason were applied. There is no reason in insanity, for it depends entirely on reason's absence. The ego never uses it because it does not realize that it exists. The partially insane have access to it, and only they have need of it. Knowledge does not depend on it, and madness keeps it out.
57 The part of mind where reason lies was dedicated by your will in union with your Father's to the undoing of insanity. Here was the Holy Spirit's purpose accepted and accomplished both at once. Reason is alien to insanity, and those who use it have gained a means which cannot be applied to sin. Knowledge is far beyond attainment of any kind. But reason can serve to open doors you closed against it.
58 You have come very close to this. Faith and belief have shifted, and you have asked the question which the ego will never ask. Does not your reason tell you now the question must have come from something that you do not know but must belong to you? Faith and belief, upheld by reason, cannot fail to lead to changed perception. And in this change is room made way for vision. Vision extends beyond itself, as does the purpose which it serves and all the means for its accomplishment.
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