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    LESSON 131

    ”No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.”

    Failure is all about you while you seek for goals that cannot be achieved. You look for permanence in the impermanent, for love where there is none, for safety in the midst of danger;immortality within the darkness of the dream of death. Who could succeed where contradiction is the setting of his searching, and the place to which he comes to find stability? Goals that are meaningless are not attained. There is no way to reach them, for the means by which you strive for them are meaningless as they are. Who can use such senseless means, and hope through them to gain in anything? Where can they lead? And what could they achive that offers any hope of being real? Pursuit nothingness, and while you seek for life you ask for death. You look for safety and security, while in your heart you pray for danger and protection for the little dream you made. Yet searching is inevitable here. For this you came, and you will surely do the thing you came for. But the world can not dictate the goal for which you search, unless you give it power to do so. Otherwise, you still are free to choose a goal that lies beyond the world and every worldly thought, and one that comes to you from an idea relinquished yet remembered, old yet new; an echo of a heritage forgot, yet holding everything you really want. Be glad that search yoou must.Be glad as well to learn you search for Heaven, and must find the goal you really want. Be glad that search you must. Be glad as well to learn you search for Heaven, and must find the goal you really want. No one can fail to want this goal and reach it in the end. God´s Son can not seek vainly, though he try to force delay, deceive himself and think that it is hell he seeks. When he is wrong,he finds correction. When he wanders off, he is led back to his appointed task.No one remains in hell, for no one can abandon his Creator, nor affect His perfect, timless and unchanging Love. You will find Heaven. Everything you seek but this will fall away. Yet not because it has been taken from you. It will go because you do not want it. You will reach the goal you really want as certainly as God created you in sinlessness. Why wait for Heaven? It is here today. Time is the great illusion it is part or in the future. Yet this cannot be, if it is where God wills His Son to be. How could you Will of God be in the past, or yet to happen? What He wills is now, without a past and wholly futurless. It is as far removed from time as is a tiny candle from a distantstar, or what you chose from what you reall y want. Heaven remains your one alternative to this strange world you made and all its ways; its shifting patterns and uncertain goals, its painful pleasures and its tragic joys. God made no contradictions. What denies its own existence and attacks itself is not of Him. He did not make two minds, with Heaven as the glad effect of one, and earth the other´s sorry outcome which is Heaven´s opposite in every way. God does not suffer conflict. Nor is His creation split in two. How could it be His Son could be in hell, when God Himself established him in Heaven? Could he lose what the Eternal Will has given him to be his home forever? Let us not not try longer to impose an alien will upon God´s single purpose. He is here because He wills to be, and what He wills is persent now, beyond the reach of time. Today we will not choose a paradox in place of truth. How could the Son of God make time to take away the Will of God? He thus denies himself, and contradicts what has no opposite. Het hinks he made a hell opposing Heaven, and believes that he abides in what does not exist, while Heaven is the place he cannot find. Leave foolish thoughts like these behind today, and turn your mind to true ideas instead. No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth, and it is truth we seek to reach today. We will devote ten minutes to this goal three times a day, and we will ask to see the rising of the real world to replace the foolish images that we hold dear, with true ideas arising in the place of thoughts that have no meaning, no effect, and neither source nor substance in the truth. This we acknowledge as we start upon our practice periods. Begin with this:

    ”I ask to see a different world,and think
    A different kind of thought from those I made.
    The world I seek I did not make alone,
    The thoughts I want to think are not my own.”

    For several minutes watch your mind and see, although your eyes are closed, the senseless world you think is real. Review the thougths as well which are compatible with such a world, and which you think are ture. Then let them go, and sink below them to the holy place where they can enter not. There is a door beneath them in your mind,which you could not completely lock to hide what lies beyond. Seek for that door and find it. But before you try to open it, remind yourself no one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. And it is this request you make today.Nothing but this has any meaning now; no other goal is valued now nor sought,nothing before this door you really want, and only what lies past it do you seek. Put out your hand, and see how easily the door swings open with your one intent to go beyond it. Angels light the way, so that all darkness vanishes,and you are standing in a light so bright and clear that you can understand all things you see. A tiny moment of surprise, perhaps, will make you pause Before you realize the world you see before you in the light reflects the truth you knew, and did not quite forget in wandering away in dreams. You cannot fail today. There walks with you the Spirit Heaven sent you, that you might approach this door some day, and through His aid slip effortlessly past it, to the light. Today that day has come. Today God keeps His ancient promise to His holy Son, as does His Son remember his to Him. This is a day of gladness, for wecome to the appointed time and place where you will find the goal of all your searching here, and all the seeking of the world, which end together as you pass behond the door. Remember often that today should be a time of special gladness, and refrain from dismal thoughts and meaningless laments. Salvation´stime has come. Today is set by Heaven itself to be a time of grace for you and for the world. If you forget this happy fact, remind yourself with this:

    ”Today I seek and find all that I want
    My single purpose offers it to me.
    No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.”

    Love
    Core Affirmation: I am loved and I am worthy,
    I am safe and I am free.
    I am powerfully protected.
    I am master of my body and ruler of my mind.
    By Robert Bruce

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    LESSON 132

    ”I loose the world from all I thought it was.”

    What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs? And what can save the world except your Self? Belief is powerful indeed. The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth. A mad man thinks the world he sees is real,and does not doubt it. Nor can he be swayed by questioning hist houghts´effects. It is but when their source is raised to question that the hope of freedom comes to him at last. Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it. Now thes ource of thought has shifted, for to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think. You free the past from what you thought before. You free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find. The present now remains the only time. Here in the present is the world set free. For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world. You have enslaved the world with all your fears, your doubts and miseries, your pain and tears, and all your sorrows press on it, and keep the world a prisoner to your beliefs. Death strikes it every where becauseyou hold the bitter thoughts of death within your mind. The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it meaning. And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them real. Perhaps you think you did not make the world, but came unwillignly to what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it meaning. Yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for when you came. There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. Ideas leave not their source. This central theme is often stated in the text, and must be borne in mind if you would understand the lesson for today. It is not pride which tells you that you made the world you see, and that it changes as you change your mind. But it is pride that argues you have come into a world, quite separate from yourself, imprevious to what you think, and quite apart from what you change to think it is. There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts to teach. Not everyone is reeady to accept it, and each one must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth. He will return and go still farther, or perhaps step back a while and then return again. But healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world, and can accept the lesson now. Their readiness will bring the lesson to them in some form which they can understand and recognize. Some see it suddenly on point of death, and rise to teach it. Others find it in experience that is not of this world, which shows them that the world does not exist because what they behold must be the truth, and yet it clearly contradicts the world. And some will find it in the course, and in the exercises that we do today. Today´s idea is true because the world does not exist. And if it is indeed your own imagining, then you can loose it from all things you ever thought it was by merely changing all the thoughts that gave it there appearances. The sick are healed as you let go all thoughts of sickness, and the dead arise when you let thoughts of life replace all thoughts you ever held of death. A lesson earlier repeated once must now be stressed again, for it contains the firm Foundation for today´s idea. You are as God created you. There is no place where you can suffer, and no time that can bring change to your eternal state. How can a world of time and place exist, if you remain as God created you? What is the lesson for today except another way of saying that to know your Self is the salvation of the world? To free the world from every kind of pain is but to change your mind about yourself. There is no world apart from your ideas because ideas leave not their source, and you maintain the world within your mind in thought. Yet if you are as God created, you cannot think apart from Him, nor make what does not share His timlessness and Love. Are there inherent in the world you see? Does it create like Him? Unless it does, it is not real,and cannot be at all. If you are real the world you see is false, for God´s creation is unlike the world in every way. And as it was His Thought by whichy ou were created, so it is your thoughts which made it and must set it free,that you may know the Thoughts you share with God. Release the world! Your real creations wait for this release to give you fatherhood, not of illusions, but as God in truth. God shares His Fatherhood with you who are His Son, for He makes no distinctions in what is Himself and what is still Himself. What He creates is not apart from Him, and nowhere does the Father end, the Son beginas something separate from Him. There is no world because it is a thought apart from God, and made to separate the Father and the Son, and break away a part ofGod Himself and thus destroy His Wholeness. Can a world which comes from this idea be real? Can it be anywhere? Deny illusions, but accept the truth. Deny you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world. Release your mind, and you will look upon a world released. Today our purpose is to free the world from all the idle thoughts we ever held about it, and about all living things we see uponit. They can not be there. No more can we. For we are in the home our Father set for us, along with them. And we who are as He created us would loose the world this day from every one of our illusions, that we may be free. Begin the fifteen minutes periods in which we practice twice today with this:

    ”I who remain as God created me
    Would loose the world from all It hought it was.
    For I am real because the World is not,
    And I would know my own reality.”

    Then merely rest, alert but with no strain, and let your mind in quietness be changed so that the world is freed, along with you. You need not realize that healing comes to many Brothers far across the world, as well as to the ones you see nearby, as you send out these thoughts to bless the world. But you will sense your own release,although you may not fully understand as yet that you could never be released alone. Throughout the day, increase the freedom sent through your ideas to all the world, and say whenever you are tempted to deny the power of your simple change of mind:

    ”I loose the world from all I thought it was,
    And choose my own reality instead.”

    Love
    Core Affirmation: I am loved and I am worthy,
    I am safe and I am free.
    I am powerfully protected.
    I am master of my body and ruler of my mind.
    By Robert Bruce

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    LESSON 133

    ”I will not value what is valueless.”

    Sometimes in teaching there is benefit, particularly after you have gone through what seems theoretical and far from what the student has already learned, to bring him back to practical concerns. This we will do today. We will not speak of lofty, world-encompassing ideas, but dwell instead on benefits to you. You do not ask too much of life,but far too little. When you let your mind be drawn to bodily concerns, to things you buy, to eminence as valued by the world, you ask for sorrow, not for happiness. This course does not attempt to take from you the little that you have. It does not try to subsitute utopian ideas for satisfacctions which the world contains. There are no satisfactions in the world. Today we list the real criteria by which to test all things you think you want. Unless they meet these sound requirements, they are not worth desiring at all, for they can but replace what offfers more. The laws that govern choice you cannot make, no moret han you can make alternatives from which to choose. The choosing you can do; indeed, you must. But it is wise to learn the law you set in motion when you choose, and what alternatives you choose between. We have already stressed there are but two, however many there appear to be. The range is set, and thiswe cannot change. It would be most ungenerous to you to let alternatives be limitless, and thus delay your final choice until you had considered all ofthem in time; and not been brought so clearly to the place where there is butone choice that must be made. Another kindly and related law is that there isno compromise in what your choice must bring. It cannot give you just a little,for there is no in between. Each choice you make brings everything to you or nothing. Therefore, if you learn the test by which you can distinguish everything from nothing, you will make the better choice. First, if you choose a thing that will not last forever, what you chose is valueless. A temporary value is without all value. Time can never take away a value that is real. What fades and dies was never there, and makes no offering to him who choose it. He is deceived by nothing in a form he thinks he likes. Next, if you choose totake a thing away from someone else, you will have nothing left. This is because, when you deny his right to everything, you hav e denied your own. You therefore will not recognize the things you really have, denying they are there. Who seeks to take away has been deceived by the illusion loss can offer gain. Yet loss must offer loss, and nothing more. Your next consideration is the one on which the others rest. Why is the choice you make of value to you? What attracts your mind to it? What purpose does it serve? Here it is easiest of all to be deceived. For what the ego wants if fails to recognize. It does not eventell the truth as it perceives it, for it needs to keep the halo which it uses to protect its goals from tarnish and from rust, that you may see how ”innocent”it is. Yet is its camouflage a thin veneer, which could deceive but those whoare content to be decieved. Its goals are obvious to anyone who cares to lookf or them. Here is deception doubled, for the one who is deceived will not perceive that he has merely failed to gain. He will believe that he has served the ego´s hidden goals. Yet though he tries to keep its halo clear within his vision, still must he perceive its tarnished edges and its rusted core. His ineffectual mistakes appear as sins to him, because he looks upon the tarnis has his own; the rust a sign of deep unworhiness within himself. He who would still preserve the ego´s goals and serve them as his own makes no mistakes,according to the dictates of his guide. This gudance teaches it is error to believe that sins are but mistakes, for who would suffer for his sins if this were so? And so we come to the criterion for choice that is the hardest to believe, because its obviousness is overlaid with many levels of obscurity. If you feel any guilt about your choice, you have allowed the ego´s goals to come between the real alternatives. And thus you do not realize there are but two,and the alternative you think you chose seems fearful, and too dangerous to be the nothingness it actually is. All things are valuable or valueless, worthy or not of being sought at all, entirely desirable or not worth the slightest effort to obtain. Choosing is easy because of this. Complexity is nothing but a screen of smoke, which hides the very simple fact that no decision can be difficult. What is the gain to you in learning this? It is far more than merely letting you make choices easily and without pain. Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. We will attempt to reach this state today, withself-deception laid aside, and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real. Our two extended practice periods of fifteen minutes each begin with this:

    ”I will not value what is valueless.
    And only what has value do I seek.
    For only what do I desire to find.”

    And then receive what waits for everyone who reaches, unencumbered, to the gate of Heaven, which swings open as he comes. Should you begin to let yourself collect some needless burdens, or believe you see some difficult decisions facing you, be quick to answer with this simple thought:

    ”I will not value what is valueless.
    For what is valuable belongs to me.”

    Love
    Core Affirmation: I am loved and I am worthy,
    I am safe and I am free.
    I am powerfully protected.
    I am master of my body and ruler of my mind.
    By Robert Bruce

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    Very nice! Where do you get all this content from?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tigre View Post
    Very nice! Where do you get all this content from?
    Hi Tigre,
    I write it from the book "A Course In Miracles".
    If you read this journal from beginning, you will see, I first started to write about what is also my oppinion, and then I noticed that it is as i see it too, it is like I have written this book
    but it is not...The writer is Dr Helen Schucman.

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    Core Affirmation: I am loved and I am worthy,
    I am safe and I am free.
    I am powerfully protected.
    I am master of my body and ruler of my mind.
    By Robert Bruce

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    LESSON 134

    ”Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.”

    Let us review the meaning of ”forgive,” for it is apt to be distorted and to be perceived as something that entails an unfair sacrifice of reghteous wrath, a gift unjustified and undeserved, and a complete denial of the truth. In such a view, forgieness must be seen as mere eccentric folly, and this course appear to rest salvation on a whim. This twisted view of what forgiveness means is easily corrected, when you can accept the fact that pardon is not asked for what is true. It must be limited to what is false. It is irrelevant to everything except illusions.Truth is God´s creation, and to pardon that is meanigless. All truth belongs to Him, reflects His laws and radiates His Love. Does this need pardon? How can you forgive the sinless and eternally benign? The major difficulty that you find in genuine forgiveness on your part is that you still believe you must forgive the truth, and not illusions. You conceive of pardon as a vain attempt to look past what is there; to overlook the truth, in an unfounded effort to deceive yourself by making an illusion true. This twisted viewpoint but reflects the hold that the idea of sin retains as yet upon your mind, as you regard yourself. Because you think your sins are real, you look on pardon as deception. For it is impossible to think of sin as true and not believe forgiveness is a lie. Thus is forgiveness really but as in, like all the rest. It says the truth is false, and similes on the corrupt as if they were as blameless as the grass; as white as snow. It is delusional in what it thinks it can accomplish. It would see as right the plainly wrong;the loath some as the good. Pardon is no escape in such a view. It merely is a further sign that sin is unforgivable, at best to be concealed, denied or called another name, for pardon is a treachery to truth. Guilt cannot be forgiven. If you sin, your guilt is everlasting. Those who are forgiven from the view their sins are real are pitifully mocked and twice condemned; first by themselves for what they think they did, and once again by those who pardonthem. It is sin´s unreality that makes forgiveness natural and wholly sane, a deep relief of those who offer it; a quiet blessing where it is received. It does not countenance illusions, but collect them lightly, with a little laugh,and gently lays them at the feet of truth. And there they disappear entirely.Forgiveness is the only thing that stands for truth in the illusions of the world. It sees their nothingness, and looks straight through the thousand from sin which they may appear. It looks on lies, but it is not deceived. It does not heed the self-accusing shrieks of sinners mad with guilt. It looks on them with quiet eyes, and merely say to them, ”My brother, what you think is not the truth.” The strength of pardon is its honesty, which is so uncorrupted that it sees illusions as illusions, not as truth. It is because of this that it becomes the undeceiver in the face of lies; the great restorer of the simple truth, which has been blocked by dreams of guilt. Now are you free to follow in the way your true forgiveness opens up to you. For if one brother has received this gift of you, the door is open to yourself. There is a simple way to find the door to ture forgiveness, and percieve that it is open wide in welcome.When you feel that you are tempted to accuse someone of sin in any form, do not allow your mind to dwell on what you think he did, for that is self-deception.Ask instead, ”Would I accuse myself of doing this?” Thus will you see alternatives for choice in terms that render choosing meaningful, and keep your mind as free of guilt and pain as God Himself intended it to be, and as it is in truth. It is but lies that would condemn. In truth is innocence the only thing there is. Forgiveness stands between illusions and the truth; between the world you see and that which lies beyond; between the hell of guilt and Heaven´s gate. Across this bridge, as powerful as Love which laid its blessing on it, are all dreams of evil and of hatred and attack brought silently to truth. They are not kept to swell and bluster, and to terrify the foolish dreamer who believes in them. He has been gently wakened from his dream by understanding what he thought he saw was never there. And now he cannot feel that all escape has been denied to him. He does not have to fight to save himself. He does not have to kill the dragon which he thought pursued him. Nor need he erect the heavy wills of stone and iron doors he thought would make him safe. He can remove the ponderous and useless armor made to chain his mind to fear and misery. His step is light, and as he lifts his foot to stride ahead a star is left behind, to point the way to those who follow him. Forgiveness must be practiced, for the world cannot perceive its meaning, nor provide a guide to teach you its beneficence. There is no thought in all the world that leads to any understanding of the laws it follows, nor the Thought that it reflects. Itis as alien to the world as is your own reality. And yet it joins your mind with the reality in you. Today we practice ture forgiveness, that the time of joining be no more delayed. For we would meet with our reality in freedom and in peace. Our practicing becomes the footsteps lighting up the way for all our brothers, who will follow us to the reality we share with them. That this maybe accomplished, let us give a quarter of an hour twice today, and spend it with the Guide Who understands the meaning of forgiveness, and was sent to us to teach it. Let us ask of Him:

    ”Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.”

    Then, choose one brother as He will direct, and catalogue his ”sins,”as one by one they cross your mind. Be certain not to dwell on any one of them, but realize that you are using his ”offenses”but to save the world from all ideas of sin. Briefly consider all the evil things you thought of him, and each time ask yourself, ”Would I condemn myslef for doing this?” Let him be freed from all the thoughts you had of sin in him.And now you are prepared for freedom. If you have been practicing thus far in willingness and honesty, you will begin to sense a lifting up, a lightening of weight across your chest, a deep and certain feeling of relief. The time remaining should be given to experiencing the escape from all the heavy chains you sought to lay upon your brother, but were laid upon your brother, but were laid upon yourself. Forgiveness should be practiced through the day, for there will still be many times when you forget its meaning and attack yourself. When this occurs, allow your mind to see through this illusion as you tell yourself:

    ”Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
    Would I accuse myself of doing this?
    I will not lay this chain upon myself.”

    In everything you do remember this:

    ”No one is crucified alone, and yet
    No one can enter Heaven by himself.”

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    Core Affirmation: I am loved and I am worthy,
    I am safe and I am free.
    I am powerfully protected.
    I am master of my body and ruler of my mind.
    By Robert Bruce

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    LESSON 135

    ”If I defend myself I am attacked.”

    Who would defend himself unless he thought he were attacked, that the attack were real, and that his own defens could save himself? And here in lies the folly fo defense; it gives illusionsfull reality, and then attempts to handle them as real. It adds illusions to illusions, thus making correction doubly difficult. And it is this you do whenyou attempt to plan the future, activate the past, or organize the present as you wish. You operate from the belief you must protect from what is happening because it must contain what threatens you. A sense of threat is anacknowledgment of an inherent weakness; a belief that there is danger which has power to call on you to make appropriate defense. The world is based on thisin sane belief. And all its structures, all its thoughts and doubts, its penalties and heavy armaments, its legal definitions and its codes, its ethics and its leaders and its gods, all serve but to preserve its sense of threat.For no one walks the world in armature but must have terror striking at his heart. Defense is frightening. It stems from fear, increasing fear as each defense is made. You think it offers safety. Yet it speaks of fear made real and terror justified. It is not strange you do not pause to ask, as you elaborate your plans and make your armor thicker and your locks more tight, whatyou defend, and now, and against what? Let us consider first what you defend.It must be something that is very weak and easily assaulted. It must besomething made easy prey, unable to protect itself and needing your defense.What but the body has such frailty that constant care and watchful, deep concernare needful to protect its little life? What but the body falters and must failto serve the Son of God as worthy host? Yet it is not the body that can fear,nor be a thing of fear. It has no needs but those which you assign to it. Itneeds no complicated health structures of defense, no health-inducing medicine,no care and no concern at all. Defend its life, or give its gifts to make itbeautiful or walls to make it safe, and you but say your home is open to thethief of time, corruptible and crumbling, so unsafe it must be guarded withyour very life. Is not this picturefearful? Can you be at peace with such a concept of your home? Yet what endowedthe body with the right to serve you thus except your own belief? It is yourmind which gave the body all the functions that you see in it, and set itsvalue far beyond a little pile of dust and water. Who would make defense ofsomething that he recognized as this? The body is in need of no defense. Thiscannot be too often emphasized. It will be strong and healthy if the mind doesnot abuse it by assigning it to roles it cannot fill, to purposes beyond itsscope, and to exalted aims which it cannot accomplish. Such attempts,ridiculous yet deeply cherished, are the sources for the many mad attacks youmake upon it. For it seems to fail upon hopes, your needs, your values and yourdreams. The ”self” that needs protection is not real. The body, valueless andhardly worth the least defense, need merely be perceived as quite apart fromyou, and it becomes a healthy, serviceable instrument through which the mindcan operate until its usefulness is over. Who would want to keep it when itsusefulness is done? Defend the body and you have attacked your mind. For youhave seen iun it the faults, and weaknesses, the limits and the lacks fromwhich you think the body must be saved. You will not see the mind as separatefrom bodily conditions. And you will impose upon the body all the pain thatcomes from the conception of the mind as limited and fragile, and apart fromother minds and separate from its Source. These are the thoughts in need ofhealing, and the body will respond with health when they have been correctedand replaced with truth. This is the body´s only real defense. Yet is thiswhere you look for its defense? You offer it protection of a kind from which itgains no benefit at all, but merely adds to your distress of mind. You do not heal,but merely take away the hope of healing, for you fail to see where hope mustlie if it be meaningful. A healed mind does not plan. It carries out the planthat it receives through listening to Wisdom that is not its own. It waitsuntil it has been taught what should be done, and then proceeds to do it. Itdoes not depend upon itself for anything except its adequacy to fulfill theplans assigned to it. It is secure in certainty that obstacles can not impedeits progress to accomplishment of any goal that serves the greater planestablished for the good of everyone. A healed mind si relieved of the beliefthat it must plan, although it cannot know the outcome which is best, the meansby which it is achieved, nor how recognize the problem that the plan is made tosolve. It must misuse the body in its plans until it recognizes this is so. Butwhen it has accepted this as true, then it is healed, and lets the body go.Enslavement of the body to the plans the unhealed mind sets up to save itselfmust make the body sick. It is not free to be the means of helping in a planwhich far exeeds its own protection, and which needs its service for a littlewhile. In this capasity is health assured. For everything the mind employs forthis will function flawlessly, and with the strength that has been given it andcannot fail. It is, perhaps, not easy to perceive that self-initiated plans arebut defenses, with the puprose all of them were made to realize. They are themeans by which a frightened mind would undertake its own protection, at thecost of truth. This is not difficult to realize in some forms which theseself-deceptions take, where the denial of reality is very obvious. Yet planningis not often recognized as a defense. The mind engaged in planning for itselfis occupied in setting up control of future happenings. It does not think thatit will be provided for, unless it makes its own provisions. Time becomes afuture emphasis, to be controlled by learning and experience obtained from pastevents and previous beliefs. It overlooks the present, for its rest on the ideathe past has taught enough to let the mind direct its future course. The mindthat plans is thus refusing to allow for change. What it has learned beforebecomes the basis for its future goals. Its past experience directs its choiceof what will happen. And it does not see that here and now is everything itneeds to gurarantee a future quite unlike the past, without a continuity of anyold ideas and sick beliefs. Anticipation plays no part at all, for presentconfidence directs the way. Defenses are the plans you undertake to makeagainst the truth. Their aim is to select what you approve, and disregard whatyou consider incompatible with your beliefs of your reality. Yet what remainsis meangless indeed. For it is your reality that is the ”threat” which yourdefenses would attack, obscure, and take apart and crucify. What would you notaccept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, presentand to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good? Perhapsyou have misunderstood His plan, for He would never offer pain to you. But yourdefenses did not let you see His loving blessing shine in every step you evertook. While you made plans for death, He led you gently to eternal life. Yourpresent trust in Him is the defense that promises a future undisturbed, withouta trace of sorrow, and with joy that constantly increases, as this life becomesa holy instant, set in time, but heeding only immortality. Let no defenses butyour present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaninfulencounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal. Withoutdefenses, you become a light which Heaven greatfully acknowledges to be itsown. And it will lead you on in ways appointed for your happiness according tothe ancient plan, begun when time was born. Your followers will join theirlight with yours, and it will beincreased until the world is lighted up withjoy. And gladly will our brothers lay aside their cumbersome defenses, whichavailed them nothing and could only terrify. We will anticipate that time todaywith present confidence, for this part of what was planned for us. We will besure that everything we need is given us for our accomplishment of this today.We make no plans for how it will be done, but realize that our defenselessnessis all that is required for the truth to dawn upon our minds with certainty.For fifteen minutes twice today we rest from sensless planning, and from everythought that blocks the truth from entering our minds. Today we will recieveinstead of plan, that we may give instead of organize. And we are given truly,as we say:

    ”If I defend myself I am attacked
    But in defenselessness I will be strong,
    And I will learn what my defenses hide.”

    Nothing but that. If there areplans to make, you will be told of them. They may not be the plans you thoughtwere needed, nor indeed the answers to the problems which you thoughtconfronted you. But they are answers to another kind of question, which remainsunanswered yet in need of answering until the Answer comes to you at last. Allyour defenses have been aimed at not recieving what you will recieve today. Andin the light of joy of simple trust, you will but wonder why you ever thoughtthat you must be defended from release. Heaven asks nothing. It is hell thatmakes extravagant demands for sacrifice. You give up nothing in these timestoday when, undefended, you present yourself to your Creator as you really are.He has remembered you. Today we will remember Him. For this is Eastertime inyour salvation. And you rise again from what was seeming death and hoplessness.Now is the light of hope reborn in you, for now you come without defense, tolearn the part for you within the plan of God. What little plans or magicalbeliefs can still have value, when you have received your function from theVoice for God Himself? Try not to shape this day as you believe would benefityou most. For you can not conceive of all the happiness that comes to youwithout your planning. Learn today. And all the world will take this giantstride, and celebrate your Eastertime with you. Throughout the day, as foolishlittle things appear to raise defensivness in you and tempt you to engage inweaving plans, remind yourself this is a special day for learning, andacknowledge it with this:

    ”This is my Eastertime. And I would keep
    It holy. I will not defend myself,
    Because the Son of God needs no defense
    Against the truth of this reality.”

    Love
    Core Affirmation: I am loved and I am worthy,
    I am safe and I am free.
    I am powerfully protected.
    I am master of my body and ruler of my mind.
    By Robert Bruce

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    LESSON 136

    ”Sickness is a defence against the truth.”

    No one can heal unless he understands what purpose sickness seems to serve. For then he understands as well its purpose has no meaning. Being causeless and without a meaningful intent of any kind, it cannot be at all. When this is seen, healing is automatic. It dispels this meaningless illusion by the same approach that carries all of them to truth, and merely leaves them there to disappear. Sickness is not a accident. Like all defenses, it is an insane device for self-deception. And like the rest, its purpose is to hide reality, attack it, change it, render it inept, distort it, twist it, or reduce it to a little pile of unassembled parts. The aim of all defenses is to keep the truth from being whole. The parts are seen as if each one were whole within itself. Defenses are not unitentional, nor are they made without awareness. They are secret, magic wands you wave when truth appears to threaten what you would believe. They seem to be unconscious but because of the rapidity with which you choose to use them. Inthe second, even less, in which the choice is made, you recognize exactly what you would attempt to do, and then proceed to think that it is done. Who but yourself evaluate a threat, decides escape is necessary, and sets up a seriesof defenses to reduce the threat that has been judged as real? All this cannot be done unconsciously. But afterwards, your plan requires that you must forget you made it, so it seems to be external to your own intent; a happening beyond your state of mind, an outcome with a real effecct on you, instead of one effectec by yourself. It is this quick forgetting of the part you play inmaking your ”reality” that makes defenses seem to be beyond your own control.But what you have forgot can be remembered, given willingness to reconsider the decision which is doubly shielded by oblivion. Your not remembering is but the sigh that this decision still remains in force, as far as your desires are concerned. Mistake not this for fact. Defenses must make facts unrecognizable.They aim at doing this, and it is this they do. Every defense takes fragments of the whole, assembles them without regard to all their true relationships,and thus constructs illusions of a whole that is not there. It is this process that imposes threat, and not whatever outcome may result. When parts are wrested from the whole and seen as separate and wholes within themselves, they become symbols standing for attack upon the whole; successful in effect, and never to be seen as whole again. And yet you have forgotten that they stand but for your own decision of what should be real, to take the place of what isreal. Sickness is a decision. It is not a thing that happens to you, quiteunsought, which makes you weak and brings you suffering. It is a choice youmake, a plan you lay, when for an instant truth arises in your own deludedmind, and all your world appears to totter and prepare to fall. Now are yousick, that truth may go away and threaten your establishments no more. How doyou think that sickness can succeed in shielding you from truth? Because itproves the body is not separate from you, and so you must be separate from thetruth. You suffer pain because the body does, and in this pain are you made onewith it. Thus is your ”true” identity preserved, and the strange, hauntingthought that you might be something beyond this little pile of dust silence andstilled. For see, this dust can make you suffer, twist your limbs and stop yourheart, commanding you to die and cease to be. Thus is the body stronger thanthe truth, which asks you live, but cannot overcome your choice to die. And sothe body is more powerful than everlasting life, Heaven more frail than hell,and God´s design for the salvation of His Son opposed by a decision strongerthan His Will. His Son is dust, the Father incomplete, and chaos sits in triumphon His throne. Such is your planning for your own defense. And you believe thatHeaven quails before such mad attacks as these, with God made blind by yourillusions, truth turned into lies, and all the universe made slave to lawswhich your defenses would impose on it. Yet who believes illusions but the onewho made them up? Who else can see them and react to them as if they were thetruth? God knows not of your plans to change His Will. The univerese remainsunheeding of the laws by which you thought to govern it. And Heaven has notbowed to hell, nor life to death. You can but choose to think you die, orsuffer sickness or distort the truth in any way. What is created is apart fromall of this. Defenses are plans to defeat what cannot be attacked. What isunalterable cannot change. And what is wholly sinless cannot sin. Such is thesimple truth. It does not make appeal to might nor triumph. It does not commandobedience, nor seek to prove how pitiful and futile your attempt to plandefenses that would alter it. Truth merely wants to give you happiness, forsuch its purpose is. Perhaps it sighs a little when you throw away its gifts,and yet it knows, with perfect certainty, that what God will for you must bereceived. It is this fact that demonstrates that time is an illusion. For timelets you think what God has given you is not the truth right now, as it mustbe. The Thoughts of God are quite apart from time. For time is but anothermeanigless defense you made against the truth. Yet what He wills is here, andyou remain as He created you. Truth has a power far beyond defense, for noillusions can remain where truth has been allowed to enter. And it comes to anymind that would lay down its arms, and cease to play with folly. It is found atany time; today, if you will choose to practice giving welcome to the truth.This is our aim today. And we will give a quarter of an hour twice to ask thetruth to come to us and set us free. And truth will come, for it has never beenapart from us. It merely waits for just this invitation which we give today. Weintroduce it with a healing prayer, to help us rise above defensivness, and lettruth be as it has always been:

    ”Sickness is a defense against the truth.
    I will accept the truth of what I am,
    And let my mind be wholly healed today.”

    Healing will flash across your open mind, as peace and truth arise to take the place of war and vain imaginings. There will be no dark, corners sickness can conceal, and keep defended from the light of truth. There will be no dim figures from yourdreams, nor their obscure and meaningless pursuits with double purposes insanely sought, remaining in your mind. It will be healed of all the sicklywishes that it tried to authorize the body to obey. Now is the body healed,because the source of sickness has been opened to relief. And you willrecognize you practiced well by this: The body should not feel at all. If youhave been successful, there will be no sense of feeling ill or feeling well, ofpain or pleasures. No response at all is in the mind to what the body does. Itsusefulness remains and nothing more. Perhaps you do not realize that thisremoves the limits you had placed upon the body by the purpose you gave to it.As these are laid aside, the strength the body has will always be enough toserve all truly useful purpose. The body´s health is fullu guaranteed, becauseit is not limited by time, by weather or fatigue, by food and drink, or anylaws you made it serve before. You need do nothing now to make it well, forsickness has become impossible. Yet this protection need to be preserved bycareful watching. If you let your mind harbor attack thoughts, yield tojudgment or make plans against uncertaintes to come, you have again misplacedyourself, and made a bodily identity which will attack the body, for the mindis sick. Give instant remedy, should this occur, by not allowing yourdefensivness to hurt you longer. Do not be confused about what must be healed,but tell yourself:

    ”I have forgotten what I really am,
    For I mistook my body for myself.
    Sickness is a defense against the truth.
    But I am not a body. And my mind
    Cannot attack. So I can not besick.”

    Love
    Core Affirmation: I am loved and I am worthy,
    I am safe and I am free.
    I am powerfully protected.
    I am master of my body and ruler of my mind.
    By Robert Bruce

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    LESSON 137

    ”When I am healed I am not healed alone.”

    Today´s idea remains the central thought on which salvation rests. For healing is the opposite of all the world´s ideas which dwell on sickness and on separation states. Sickness is are treat from others, and a shutting off of joining. It becomes a door that closes on a separate self, and keeps it isolated and alone. Sickness is isolation. For it seems to keep on self apart from all the rest, to suffer what the others do not feel. It gives the body final power to make the separation real, and keep the mind in solitary prison, split apart and held in pieces by a solid wall of sickened flesh, which it can not surmount. The world obeys the laws that sickness serves, but healing operates apart from them. It is impossible that anyone be healed alone. In sickness must he be apart and separate. But healing is his own decision to be one again, and to accept his Self with all Its parts intact and unassailed. In sickness does his Self appear to be dismenbered, and without the unity that gives It life. But healing is accomplished as he sees the body has no power to attack the unversal oneness of God´s Son. Sickness would prove that lies must be the truth. But healing demonstrates that truth is true. The separation sickness would impose has never happened. To be healed is merely to accept what always was the simple truth,and always will remain exactly as it has forever been. Yet eyes accustomed to illusions must be shown that what they look upon is false. So healing, never needed by the truth, must demonstrate that sickness is not real. Healing might thus be called a counter-dream, which cancels out the dream of sickness in the name of truth, but not in truth itself. Just a forgiveness overlooks all sins that never were accomplished, healing but removes illusions that have not occured. Just as the real world will arise to take the place of what has never been at all, healing but offers restitution for imagined states and false ideas which dreams embroider into picture of the truth. Yet think not healing is unworthy of your function here. For anti-Christ becomes more powerful than Christ to those who dream the world is real. The body seems to be more solid and mores table than the mind. Andlove becomes a dream, while fear remains the one reality that can be seen and justified and fully understood. Just as forgiveness shines away all sin and the real world will occupy the place of what you made, so healing must replace the fantasies of sickness which you hold before the simple truth. When sickness has been seen to disappear in split ofall the laws that hold it cannot but be real, the question have been answered.And the laws can be no longer cherished nor obeyed. Healing is freedom. For it demonstrates that dreams will not preval against the truth. Healing is shared.And by this attribute it proves that laws unlike the ones which hold that sickness is inevitable are more potent than their sickly opposites. Healing is strength. For by its gentle hand is weakness overcome, and minds that were walled off within a body free to join with other minds, to be forever strong.Healing, forgiveness, and the glad exchange of all the world of sorrow for a world where sadness cannot enter, are the means by which the Holy Sprit urgesy ou to follow Him. His gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours;how little practice you need undertake to let His laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death. His life becomes your own, as you extend the little help He asks in freeing you from everything that ever causedyou pain. And as you let yourself be healed, you see all those around you, orwho cross your mind, or whom you touch or those who seem to have no contactwith you, healed along with you. Perhaps you will not recognize them all, norrealize how great your offering to all the world, when you let healing come toyou. But you are never healed alone. And legions upon legions will receive thegift that you receive when you are healed. Those who are healed become theinstrument of healing. Nor does time elapse between the instant they arehealed, and all the grace of healing it is given them to give. What is opposedto God does not exist, and who accept it not within his mind becomes a havenwhere the weary can remain to rest. For here is truth bestowed, and here areall illusions brought to truth. Would you not offer shelter to God´s Will? Youbut invite your Self to be at home. And can this invitation be refused? Ask theinevitable to occur, and you will never fail. The other choice is but to askwhat cannot be to be, and this can not succeed. Today we ask that only truthwill occupy our minds; that thoughts of healing will this day go forth fromwhat is healed to what must yet be healed, aware that they will both occur asone. We will remember, as the hour strikes, our function is to let our minds behealed, that we may carry healing to the world, exhangeing curse for blessing,pain for joy, and separation for the peace of God. Is not a minute of an hourworth the giving to recieve a gift like this? It is not a little time a smallexpence to offer for the gift of everything? Yet must we be prepared for such agift. And so we will begin the day with this, and give ten minutes to thesethoughts with which we will conclude today at night as well:

    ”When I am healed I am not healed alone.
    And I would share my healing with the world.
    That sickness may be banished from the mind
    Of God´s one Son, who is my only Self.”

    Let healing be through you this very day. And as you rest in quiet, be prepared to give as you recieve, to holdbut what you give, and to receive the World of God to take the place of all the foolish thoughts that ever were imagined. Now we come together to make well allthat was sick, and offer blessing where there was attack. Nor will we let this function be forgot as every hour of the day slips by, remembering our purpose with this thought:

    ”When I am healed I am not healed alone.
    And I would bless my brothers,for I would
    Be healed with them, as they are healed with me.”

    Love
    Core Affirmation: I am loved and I am worthy,
    I am safe and I am free.
    I am powerfully protected.
    I am master of my body and ruler of my mind.
    By Robert Bruce

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    LESSON 138

    ”Heaven is the decision I must make.”

    In this world Heaven is a choice, because here we believe there are alternatives to choose between. We think that all things have an opposite, and what we want we choose. If Heaven exists there must be hell as well, for contradiction is the way we make what we preceive, and what we think is real. Creation knows no opposite. But here is opposition part of being ”real.” It is this strange perception of the truththat makes the choice of Heaven seem to be the same as the relinquishment of hell. It is not really thus. Yet what is true in God´s creation cannot enter here until it is reflected in some form the world can undertand. Truth cannot come where it could only be perceived with fear. For this would be the error truth can be brought to illusions. Opposition makes the truth unwelcome, and it cannot come. Choice is the obvious escape from what appears as opposites.Decision lets one of conflicting goals become the aim of effort and expenditure of time. Without decision, time is but a waste and effort dissipated. It is spent for nothing in return, and time goes by without results. There is nosense of gain, for nothing is accomplished; nothing learned. You need to be reminded that you think a thousand choices are confronting you, when there is really only one to make. And even this but seems to be a choice. Do not confuse yourself with all the doubts that myriad decisions would induce. You make but one. And when that one is made, you will perceive it was no choice at all. For truth is true, and nothing else is truel. There is no opposite to choose instead. There is no contradiction to the truth. Choosing depends on learning.And the truth cannot be learned, but only recongized. In recognition its acceptance lies, and as it is accepted it is known. But knowledge is beyond the goals we seek to teach within the framework of this course. Ours are teaching goals, to be attained through learning how to reach them, what they are, and what they offer you. Decisions are the outcome of your learning, for they reston what you have accepted as the truth of what you are, and what your needs must be. In this insanely complicated world. Heaven appears to take the form of choice, rather than merely being what it is. Of all the choices you have tried to make this is the simplest, most defintive and prototype of all the rest, the one which settles all decisions. If you could decide the rest, this one remains unsolved. But when you solve this one, the others are resloved with it, for al ldecisions but conceal this one by taking different forms. Here is the final and the only choice in which is truth accepted or denied. So we begin today considering the choice that time was made to help us make. Such is its holy purpose, now transformed from the intent you gave it; that it be a means for demonstrating hell is real, hope changes to despair, and life itself must inthe end be overcome by death. In death alone are opposites resolved, for ending opposition is to die. And thus salvation must be seen as death, for life is seen as conflict. To resolve the conflict is to end your life as well. These mad beliefs can gain unconscious hold of great intensity, and grip the mind with terror and anxiety so strong that it will not relinquish its ideas about its own protection. It must be saved from salvation, threatened to be safe, andmagically armored against truth. And these decisions are made unaware, to keepthem safely undeisturbed; apart from question and from reason and from doubt.Heaven is chosen consciously. The choice cannot be made until alternatives areaccurately seen and understood. All that is veiled in shadows must be raised tounderstanding, to be judged again, this time with Heaven´s help. And allmistakes in judgment that the mind had made before are open to correction, asthe truth dismisses them as causless. Now are they without effects. They cannotbe concealed, because their nothingness is recongnized. The conscious choice ofHeaven is as sure as is the ending of the fear of hell, when it is raised fromits protective shield of unawarness, and is brought to light. Who can decidebetween the clearly seen and the unrecognized? Yet who can fail to make achoice between alternatives when only one is seen as valuable; the other as awholly worthless thing, a but imagined source of guilt and pain? Who hesitates to make a choice like this? And shall we hesitate to choose today? We make a choice for Heaven as we wake, and spend five minutes making sure that we have made the one decision that is sane. We recognize we make a conscious choice between what has existence and what has nothing but an appearance of the truth.Its pseudo-being, brought to what is real, is flimsy and transparent in the light.It holds no terror now, for what was made enormous, vengeful, pitiless with hate, demands obscurity for fear to be invested there. Now it is recognized asbut a foolish, trivial mistake. Before we close our eyes in sleep tonight, we reaffirm the choice that we have made each hour in between. And now we give the last five minutes of our waking day to the decision with which we awoke. As every hour passed, we have declared our choice again, in a brief quiet time devoted to maintaining sanity. And finally, we close the day with this,acknowledging we chose but what we want:

    ”Heaven is the decision I must make.
    I make it now, and will not change my mind,
    Because it is the only thing I want.”

    Love
    Core Affirmation: I am loved and I am worthy,
    I am safe and I am free.
    I am powerfully protected.
    I am master of my body and ruler of my mind.
    By Robert Bruce

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