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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 11 "GOD'S PLAN FOR SALVATION"
IV. THE INVESTMENT IN REALITY

I once asked if you were willing to sell all you have and give to the poor and follow me. This is what I meant: If you had no investment in anything in this world, you could teach the poor where their treasure is. The poor are merely those who have invested wrongly, and they are poor indeed! Because they are in need, it is given you to help them since you are among them. Consider how perfectly your lesson would be learned if you were unwilling to share their poverty. For poverty is lack, and there is but one lack since there is but one need. 

      

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 In quiet I receive God's Word today.

 
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   Let this day be a day of stillness and
   of quiet listening. Your Father wills
   you hear His Word today. He calls to you
   from deep within your mind, where He abides.
   Hear Him today. No peace is possible
   until His Word is heard around the world;
   until your mind, in quiet listening,
   accepts the message which the world must hear
   to usher in the quiet time of peace.|

 

   This world will change through you. No other means
   can save it, for God's plan is simply this:
   The Son of God is free to save himself,
   given the Word of God to be his Guide,
   forever in his mind and at his side
   to lead him surely to his Father's house
   by his own will, forever free as His.
   He is not led by force, but only love.
   He is not judged, but only sanctified.|

 

   In stillness we will hear His Voice today,
   without intrusion of our petty thoughts,
   without our personal desires, and
   without all judgment of His holy Word.
   We will not judge ourselves today, for what
   we are cannot be judged. We stand apart
   from all the judgments which the world has laid
   upon the Son of God. It knows him not.
   Today we will not listen to the world,
   but wait in silence for the Word of God.|

 

   Hear, holy Son of God, your Father speak.
   His Voice would give to you His holy Word
   to spread across the world the tidings of
   salvation and the holy time of peace.
   We gather at the throne of God today,
   the quiet place within your mind where He
   abides forever in the holiness
   which He created and will never leave.|

 

   He has not waited until you return
   your mind to Him to give His Word to you.
   He has not hid Himself from you while you
   have wandered off a little while from Him.
   He does not cherish the illusions which
   you hold about yourself. He knows His Son,
   and wills that he remain as part of Him
   regardless of his dreams; regardless of
   his madness that his will is not his own.|

 

   Today He speaks to you. His Voice awaits
   your silence, for His Word cannot be heard
   unless your mind is quiet for a while,
   and meaningless desires have been stilled.
   Await His Word in quiet. There is peace
   within you to be called upon today
   to help make ready your most holy mind
   to hear the Voice of its Creator speak.|

 

   Three times today, at times most suitable
   for silence, give ten minutes set apart
   from listening to the world, and choose instead
   a gentle listening to the Word of God.
   He speaks from nearer than your heart to you.
   His Voice is closer than your hand. His Love
   is everything you are and what He is;
   the same as you, and you the same as He.|

 

   It is your voice to which you listen as
   He speaks to you. It is your Word He speaks.
   It is the Word of freedom and of peace,
   of unity of will and purpose, with
   no separation nor division in
   the single Mind of Father and of Son.
   In quiet listen to your Self today,
   and let Him tell you God has never left
   His Son, and you have never left your Self.|

 

   Only be quiet. You will need no rule
   but this to make your practicing today
   lift you above the thinking of the world,
   and free your vision from the body's eyes.
   Only be still and listen. You will hear
   the Word in which the Will of God the Son
   joins in His Father's Will, at one with It,
   with no illusions interposed between
   the wholly indivisible and true.

 

   As every hour passes by today

   be still a moment, and remind yourself
   you have a special purpose for this day;
   in quiet to receive the Word of God.
   

 

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God's word is in us because the truth is our inheritance as the Son of God. It is the Atonement Principle that is a guarantee that we have never separated from God nor have we changed ourselves because we can't. His light is in our minds. It is the one Self, the only true Self that is always there in the mind and waits in silence for our acknowledgement. "The memory of God comes to the quiet mind." (T.23.I.1.1)(ACIM OE T.23.II.7) There is nowhere to go and nothing to do. We are there now in our true state, but we are not aware that this is so until we choose it. We make this choice by choosing against the ego. In this place of silence and peace we connect to the Truth of this one Self.
 
Our petty thoughts, our judgments, our plans, our constant inner chatter, our personal desires, all keep us from awareness of the love that we are. Notice the incessant thoughts of the wrong mind, which are often described in the Course as senseless shrieks, frantic, riotous thoughts, raucous screams and senseless ravings. The constant noise-making that goes on in our thoughts keeps us from the experience of the Self that we are. We are so used to this relentless noise in our minds that we don't even notice it any more. Jesus calls on us to start noticing our thoughts and be vigilant in looking at them, as much as we can, so we can recognize how the ego keeps us from peace. It does so, not because it has any power, but only that we give our thoughts power over us. We can withdraw that power, whenever we choose to listen to another teacher.

God's Love is everything that we are. There is no separation from God. We are the expression of this Love. "His Love is everything you are and that He is; the same as you and you the same as He." (W.125.7.4) There is no separation. We don't have to go anywhere to reach God. We just have to accept ourselves as to who we are as the Christ Self. Our free will is the same will as God's although our experience is that we have made another will. He has never distanced Himself from us. In fact, "He speaks form nearer than your heart to you. His Voice is closer than your hand." (W.125.7.2-3) God is truly not watching us from a distance as in the song by Bette Midler. We are not trying to reach Him somewhere from afar. He is our very center, our heart center. When we don't experience that, it is because we have made a choice for the ego and now we identify with that will and believe it is who we are. We experience ourselves as a body and a special, separate self living in the world. In truth there is no body. Jesus reminds us that the body only exists in the past and future and never in the present. So when we experience the eternal moment of the holy instant, we have the experience of no body.
 
The thoughts that mostly occupy our minds distract us from the truth. These thoughts that keep us from hearing God's Word are described as petty thoughts, personal desires and our judgment of His Word based on our fear that He will not have our best interests in mind. We fear that we will have to sacrifice our self-interests, if we let go of our own will. We can get in touch with our fear of this god of the ego that we think demands sacrifice of us. We do so by looking at all areas of our lives and seeing how we are afraid of turning them over to God. For example, what fears come up, if you invite God to come into your life fully? What do you think might happen, if you give over your relationship, your money, your career, and your special interests for God to take over all these aspects of your life? Recognize that all of these fears are your definition of a god that you think does not have your best interests at the forefront. This is the god that the ego made. It is not the God of love that we can trust and put all of our faith in. It is this god of the ego that we are afraid to wake up to. That is the basis for our fear of God and thus our fear of His Love. We believe it will annihilate us, but nothing happens against our will. The goal of this Course is peace, and we will be well served, when we focus on that goal and recognize that our happiness is at the heart of the peace that is always available to us.

We are not led back to the truth by force, but by love. He is a loving Father who does not control, but leads us with His gentle love and counts on us to follow of our own free will. There is no control and no coercion. It is the essence of a love that is gentle and allowing. Our true will is "forever free as God's", (W.125.2.2) but when we identify with the ego thought system, our will is bound. Though we may have wandered off and forgotten who we are, our Father has never disowned us, but regards us as His beloved Son and has not changed His mind about us. Our fear is that we are not good enough, not spiritual enough and too caught up in our worldly desires to be available to know ourselves as love. We may have wandered off, yet He is still there. He knows us and is not waiting for us to clean up our act before He reveals Himself to us. "He has not hid Himself from you, while you have wandered off a little while from Him." (W.125.5.2) His presence is with us now. There is nothing we need to do. We are the ones that have wandered off. In this moment we can choose not to believe our ego thoughts, see them as totally unreal and remember that the only thing that is real is His love for us. "He does not cherish the illusions which you hold about yourself." (W.125.5.3) Thus, these beliefs we have of who we are, what we have done, and how we see ourselves and others are not the truth because only love is real. Everything we experience in this world of pain, disillusionment, suffering, and distress is not real. Everything we believe is our hallucination! "All power is of God. What is not of Him has no power to do anything."(T.11.V.3.6-7)(ACIM OE T.10.42)
 
I felt overwhelmed with problems recently and felt extremely distressed and out of peace. Then I heard the loving presence of the Holy Spirit remind me that God does not bring this suffering. It came to me that I must be choosing it, if I was not feeling happy. That is a powerful thought because, if I am choosing it, I can change my mind, and with this change of mind comes the miracle. How simple is salvation!

We are asked not to "judge ourselves today, for what we are cannot be judged." (W.125.3.2) We are also asked not to let the world determine what we are. "We stand apart from all the judgments which the world has laid upon the Son of God." (W.125.3.3) We have been deceived in thinking that we are the concepts and beliefs that we hold about ourselves and that others have reinforced, but all we need to do is deny the illusion and accept that the only things that hold it in place are our beliefs about ourselves, none of which are true. Anything that is not of God is not true. He is constantly communicating His love to us, and we are listening to our own thoughts instead! "His Voice awaits your silence, for His Word cannot be heard until you mind is quiet for a while, and meaningless desires have been stilled." (W.125.6.2)
 
Jesus asks us to let this day be one of stillness and quiet listening. "We gather at the throne of God today, the quiet place within the mind where He abides forever, in that holiness that He created and will never leave." (W.125.4.3) What beautiful assurance of His place in our minds. He lives in our minds and waits for our willingness to choose the truth. We don't do this by good works or good deeds, but by bringing our false beliefs to the truth. That is what forgiveness is.
 
We are learning through application of the Lessons to clear our minds and enter into this silence. Clearly this is difficult for the untrained mind because the ego mind is still a regular distraction. The important thing is for us to see our reactions without feeling guilty or making ourselves wrong. Yes, it does take lots of practice and our minds will continue to wander, but putting more pressure and demands on ourselves will not help. Simply bring your mind back to peace with each Lesson. Also allow any related thoughts that help you to focus your attention on the teaching. We can also ask in our meditation for help in releasing our interfering thoughts, so that we can hear God's Voice, and assure our minds that He is one with us, closer than our very breath. It is not about trying harder, but by allowing, surrendering, melting into the experience. There is no separation. It is our own voice. "His Love is everything you are and that He is; the same as you, and you the same as He." (W.125.7.4) There is no "division in the single Mind of Father and of Son." (W.125.8.3) We are basically listening to our Self.  It is not an alien will. It is our own true Will, one with God's Will. Ours is the freedom to choose whether we will continue to listen to the ego or to choose love, which is to choose to forgive our thoughts and make room for the Love that is in us.
 
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IV. The Investment in Reality                 

24 I once asked if you were willing to sell all you have and give to the poor and follow me. This is what I meant: If you had no investment in anything in this world, you could teach the poor where their treasure is. The poor are merely those who have invested wrongly, and they are poor indeed! Because they are in need, it is given you to help them since you are among them. Consider how perfectly your lesson would be learned if you were unwilling to share their poverty. For poverty is lack, and there is but one lack since there is but one need.

 

25 Suppose a brother insists on having you do something you think you do not want to do. The very fact of his insistence should tell you that he believes salvation lies in it. If you insist on refusing and experience a quick response of opposition, you are believing that your salvation lies in not doing it. You, then, are making the same mistake that he is and are making his error real to both of you. Insistence means investment, and what you invest in is always related to your notion of salvation. The question is always two-fold-first, what is to be saved, and second, how can it be saved?

 

26 Whenever you become angry with a brother, for whatever reason, you are believing that the ego is to be saved and to be saved by attack. If he attacks, you are agreeing with this belief, and if you attack, you are reinforcing it. Remember that those who attack are poor. Their poverty asks for gifts, not for further impoverishment. You who could help them are surely acting destructively if you accept their poverty as yours. If you had not invested as they had, it would never occur to you to overlook their need.

 

27 Recognize what does not matter, and if your brothers ask you for something "outrageous," do it because it does not matter. Refuse and your opposition establishes that it does matter to you. It is only you, therefore, who have made the request outrageous, for nothing can be asked of you, and every request of a brother is for you. Why would you insist in denying him? For to do so is to deny yourself and impoverish both. He is asking for salvation, as you are. Poverty is of the ego and never of God. No "outrageous" request can be made of one who recognizes what is valuable and wants to accept nothing else.

 

28 Salvation is for the mind, and it is attained through peace. This is the only thing that can be saved and the only way to save it. Any response other than love arises from a confusion about the "what" and the "how" of salvation, and this is the only answer. Never lose sight of this, and never allow yourself to believe even for an instant that there is another answer. For you will surely place yourself among the poor, who do not understand that they dwell in abundance and that salvation is come.

 

29 To identify with the ego is to attack yourself and make yourself poor. That is why everyone who identifies with the ego feels deprived. What he experiences then is depression or anger, but what he did is to exchange his self-love for self-hate, making him afraid of himself. He does not realize this. Even if he is fully aware of anxiety, he does not perceive its source as his own ego identification, and he always tries to handle it by making some sort of insane "arrangement" with the world. He always perceives this world as outside himself, for this is crucial to his adjustment. He does not realize that he makes this world, for there is no world outside of him.

 

30 If only the loving thoughts of God's Son are the world's reality, the real world must be in his mind. His insane thoughts, too, must be in his mind, but an internal conflict of this magnitude he cannot tolerate. A split mind is endangered, and the recognition that it encompasses completely opposed thoughts within itself is intolerable. Therefore the mind projects the split, not the reality. Everything you perceive as the outside world is merely your attempt to maintain your ego identification, for everyone believes that identification is salvation. Yet consider what has happened, for thoughts do have consequences to the thinker.

 

31 You are at odds with the world as you perceive it because you think it is antagonistic to you. This is a necessary consequence of what you have done. You have projected outward what is antagonistic to what is inward, and therefore you would have to perceive it this way. That is why you must realize that your hatred is in your mind and not outside it before you can get rid of it and why you must get rid of it before you can perceive the world as it really is.

 

32 We once said that God so loved the world that He gave it to His only-begotten Son. God does love the real world, and those who perceive its reality cannot see the world of death. For death is not of the real world, in which everything is eternal. God gave you the real world in exchange for the one you made out of your split mind, and which is the symbol of death. For if you could really separate yourselves from the Mind of God, you would die, and the world you perceive is a world of separation.

 

33 You were willing to accept even death to deny your Father. Yet He would not have it so, and so it is not so. You still could not will against Him, and that is why you have no control over the world you made. It is not a world of will because it is governed by the desire to be unlike Him, and this desire is not will. The world you made is therefore totally chaotic, governed by arbitrary and senseless "laws," and without meaning of any kind. For it was made out of what you do not want, projected from your mind because you were afraid of it.

 

34 Yet this world is only in the mind of its maker along with his real salvation. Do not believe it is outside of yourself, for only by recognizing where it is will you gain control over it. For you do have control over your mind since the mind is the mechanism of decision. If you will recognize that all attack which you perceive is in your own mind and nowhere else, you will at last have placed its source, and where it began it must end. For in this same place also lies salvation. The altar of God where Christ abideth is there.

 

35 You have defiled the altar but not the world. Yet Christ has placed the Atonement on the altar for you. Bring your perceptions of the world to this altar, for it is the altar to truth. There you will see your vision changed, and there you will learn to see truly. From this place, where God and His Son dwell in peace and where you are welcome, you will look out in peace and behold the world truly. Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as you have projected it, allowing the Holy Spirit to project the real world to you from the altar of God.

 

 

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