The injunction “Be of one mind” is the statement for revelation-readiness. My request “Do this in remembrance of me” is the appeal for cooperation from miracle workers. The two statements are not in the same order of reality. Only the latter involves an awareness of time, since to remember is to recall the past in the present. Time is under my direction, but timelessness belongs to God. In time we exist for and with each other. In timelessness we coexist with God.
ACIM
Who told you? HF
Who told you? My doctor, his charts, his machines, his X-rays. Well does God know anything about this, and you’re about to say, “Well I suppose so,” but it occurs to you that if God knew something about this, how come God is letting it happen? How come God is letting a million plus die every year, how come God is selecting, fifty thousand youths and sending them away and saying, “Here, get your brains shot out?” How come God permits two thousand to be massacred in five minutes? How can God permit two million Blacks to be massacred in Biafra? How come God permits war after war after war, killing off what seems to be his own creation? Is that what the human mind sees, is it truth, is it what God sees? And finally, we see we have been creating a monster called God, a monster who kills, who permits killing, who encourages killing. Then we look at the real monster and find out it is the human mind; the misperceiving mind, the miscreating mind, the unillumined mind, that mind which walks the earth in a body of clay, and sees what is not there.
Herb Fitch
Thunder Of Silence
Shouldn’t spiritualize things in the universe GR
The ego, or wrong mind, makes everything that appears to happen on the level of form. Spirit makes nothing happen on the level of form, which is why you shouldnt spiritualize events or objects in the universe. The right mind gives the Holy Spirits interpretation of the level of form, leading you – and by you we mean that observatory part of the mind that has identified with and this bound itself to the ego – back home. Home is unchangeable spirit.
Gary Renard
The Disappearance
of the Universe
Can’t forgive what’s not real
Papa said: “It is not possible for you to forgive others, only to desire to forgive others. By so desiring, I give you the gift of forgiveness and then you truly have forgiveness. It flows out from you, through you. In Truth, it is not yours to give. All things come of Me and are My free gift to all who will receive freely. Thus can these good gifts not be abused or manipulated by distorted desires.”
When Papa says that it is not possible for me to forgive others, only to desire to forgive, but that He had empowered Jesus in this, I interpret this as meaning that all the while the fragmented Sonship perceives sin as real, we are unable, of our limited, persona self, to truly forgive, but when we desire to forgive, we begin on the path back to wakefulness, remembrance of our true Being as His one Son, Christ. Then, like Jesus, we come to realize that there is no actual sin, only a dream of sin, so true forgiveness becomes possible for us.
Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and (thus) make them real (‘false’ forgiveness). It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin, except a false idea about God’s Son? Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
~ Seek ye First the Kingdom: One man’s journey with the living Jesus (Longhurst, Brian) [claudenoirjean]
Fear of healing
The fear of healing arises in the end from an unwillingness to accept unequivocally that healing is necessary. What the physical eye sees is not corrective, nor can error be corrected by any device that can be seen physically. As long as you believe in what your physical sight tells you, your attempts at correction will be misdirected. The real vision is obscured, because you cannot endure to see your own defiled altar. But since the altar has been defiled, your state becomes doubly dangerous unless it is perceived. T-2.V.9. Healing is an ability that developed after the separation, before which it was unnecessary.
ACIM
Meaninglessness undoes ego
Recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety in all the separated ones. It represents a situation in which God and the ego “challenge” each other as to whose meaning is to be written in the empty space that meaninglessness provides. The ego rushes in frantically to establish its own ideas there, fearful that the void may otherwise be used to demonstrate its own impotence and unreality. And on this alone it is correct.
ACIM
Meaninglessness <> indescribably happy
INDESCRIBABLY HAPPY !!
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What is meaningless is neither good nor bad. Why, then, should a meaningless world upset you? If you could accept the world as meaningless and let the truth be written upon it for you, it would make you indescribably happy. But because it is meaningless, you are impelled to write upon it what you would have it be. It is this you see in it. It is this that is meaningless in truth. Beneath your words is written the Word of God. The truth upsets you now, but when your words have been erased, you will see His.
A Course in Miracles
ACIM
You’ll laugh anything ego throws GR
To forgive means to give ahead of time. In other words, your attitude is that you’re ready to forgive, no matter what it is that comes up in your awareness. At first, that seems like a tall order. Yet I promise you the day will come when you’ll be capable of laughing at anything the ego throws at you — just like J[esus] could, and just like we did eventually.
Gary Renard
The Disappearance
of the Universe
Different forces in univ pull at you GR
[… I]nstead of being a robot, you have a mind —and […] you can change it. It doesn’t matter if you have different forces of nature pulling at you, electromagnetic chi telling you what to do, gravity pulling you one way and dark energy pulling you the other way, and allowing the universe to expand at the same time —and a thousand other forces that all work together to cover up the mind during the dance of duality. No matter what appears to be happening, you can outmaneuver the ego simply by remembering there are really only two choices, then forgiving the contents of your own ego mind. You were being trained in the art of true forgiveness the second you started hearing these ideas —because from that moment on you were looking at the world differently. To emphasize an important point, you still believe you have a thousand different problems, but the Course knows you have only one problem —the seeming separation from God.
Gary Renard
The Disappearance
of the Universe
Less world successful = more spiritual success GR
It should be pointed out that people who are not as successful in the world have a tendency to get more out of the Course than highly successful people . Some of the people who appear to have it made in the world, and who are relatively satisfied with their lot in life, are actually falling into a trap. The ego sucks them into thinking the world is a good place.
Gary Renard
The Disappearance
of the Universe