Let the activity of Truth in your consciousness be your first and last and only concern, and the Christ of you will also reveal Itself in an individual, infinite way. There is no evil. Let us therefore stop the resistance to the particular discord or inharmony of human existence which now confronts us. These apparent discords will disappear as we are able to cease our resistance to them. We are able to do this only in proportion to our realization of the spiritual nature of the universe. Since this is true, it is evident that neither heaven nor earth can contain error of any nature, and therefore the unillumined human thought is seeing error in the very place where God shines through, discord where harmony is, hate where love abounds, and fear where confidence really is.
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way
Fruitage must be experienced
The producer (cause) of spiritual fruitage in you and me individually is the EXPERIENCE of the Presence. With this, there’s no need of words or thoughts as the fruitage flows forth from individual Consciousness by an act of Grace making it possible for anyone anywhere who’s receptive to the spiritual impulse to feel or have a measure of this EXPERIENCE also whenever they come into the range of the Consciousness of the individual who is ordained by the indwelling Spirit.
Without the EXPERIENCE, all the words and thoughts uttered “ABOUT” it produce no lasting (permanent) fruitage . And this will be demonstrated as little if any spiritual progress for the individual.
❤️🌺❤️🌺❤️🌺❤️
John F. Drewery, Sr.
Christ doesn’t remove your thinking
You may still complain about fear, but you nevertheless persist in making yourself fearful. I have already indicated that you cannot ask me to release you from fear. I know it does not exist, but you do not. If I intervened between your thoughts and their results, I would be tampering with a basic law of cause and effect; the most fundamental law there is. I would hardly help you if I depreciated the power of your own thinking. This would be in direct opposition to the purpose of this course.
ACIM
Power of mind over fear
Everyone experiences fear. Yet it would take very little right thinking to realize why fear occurs. Few appreciate the real power of the mind, and no one remains fully aware of it all the time. However, if you hope to spare yourself from fear there are some things you must realize, and realize fully. The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating. It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. It appears at first glance that to believe such power about yourself is arrogant, but that is not the real reason you do not believe it. You prefer to believe that your thoughts cannot exert real influence because you are actually afraid of them. This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent. If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it. There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.
ACIM
Got the poop on someone?
AN URGENT REMINDER
Have you something on someone
and you’re keeping it safely
CONCEALED FROM YOURSELF?
Think now! It’s not unusual!
We all do it – and it’s absolutely
Devastating to our fully awakening!
We’ve got the poop on someone
And by Jove we’ll use it if pressed.
That! That right there is blocking you
From going all the way in .. and home.
Oh no, you’ve got the skinny, right?
That’s your insurance all paid up.
You’re covered, you’ve suffered
Long and hard, and you’re guarding
Their nasty secrets, stowed away
For a rainy day. Crocodile tears, that
Rainy day is always right here.
Stream-of-consciousness letter for you
A STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS LETTER TO YOU:
What I want for you with my whole heart is that you come into an awareness that supersedes any that I have ever known! I have been blessed with the truth at a young age but I never pursued it anywhere near as much as I wish I had and like I said I wish it even more for you. Don’t think for a moment that it doesn’t involve effort. It involves great effort to get yourself fully aware there’s much to undo to Free Yourself and open the floodgates of pure consciousness! I could have fully awakened long ago but I clung to the hideous notion that I wanted to truly live my mortal life to the fullest so that that desire always dogged me even as I pursued the truth Lo these many many years!
Improved belief > healing JSG
As we improve our concepts of idea, body, or manifestation, we term this improving of concepts, healing. Actually, nothing has happened to the so-called patient or his body – the change has come in the individual’s consciousness and becomes visible as improved belief or healing.
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way
No further search for reason to fail JSG
God is the mind and the life of the individual. Any mental hedging or inner reservation on this subject will result in ultimate failure. There is but one universal I whether it is being spoken by Jesus Christ or John Smith. When Jesus revealed, “He that seeth me seeth him that sent me,” he was revealing a universal truth or principle. There must be no quibbling about this. You either understand this truth or you do not – and if you do not, there is no need for you to seek any further reason for failure to heal.
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way
Forgive what hasn’t been done GR
PRACTICE FORGIVENESS BY REMEMBERING YOU’RE DREAMING
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You authored the dream and made the figures in it act out for you, so you could see your unconscious guilt outside yourself. If you remember your dreaming, then there’s nothing out there but your own projection. Once you believe that – and belief only comes from practice and experience – then there’s no need for what you’re seeing and now forgiving to have any impact on you…
As we say, this will all become part of your attitude, but it’s helpful at first to think of it as being made up of different components. Once you’re the cause and not the effect, another component of forgiveness would be to forgive both your projected images and yourself for dreaming them.
…You already know the Course tells you to forgive your brother for what he hasn’t done. That would be true forgiveness because, as the Course also says, you’re not making the error real. You’re not giving truth to your illusions; you’re bringing your illusions to the truth. Now it’s time to forgive yourself for dreaming this whole mess in the first place. If nothing’s happened – and if the Course teaches anything, it’s that nothing’s happened – then you’re innocent. Thus as you forgive your brothers and sisters, your mind realises simultaneously that you are forgiven. Remember, we’ve also quoted the Course as saying that as you see him, you will see yourself
Gary Renard
The Disappearance
of the Universe
Forgiveness is non-judgementalism
FORGIVENESS IS AN ATTITUDE OF NON-JUDGMENTALISM
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Everything you learn becomes incorporated in that attitude until forgiveness happens automatically. For most people, especially during the first few years, forgiveness requires that you think about it. You become a master by having forgiving thought processes. These right-minded thoughts eventually dominate the mind instead of the ego. A situation occurs or someone comes along whom you need to forgive, and following the lead of the Workbook, you’ve learned to have right-minded thoughts about the person or situation. Using your understanding of the Course’s entire thought system, including the Text and the Manual, contributes to and strengthens your attitude of forgiveness.
These forgiveness thoughts of yours usually won’t be linear.
Gary Renard
The Disappearance
of the Universe