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LESSON 259Let Me Remember That There Is No Sin.Sin is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem unattainable. What else could blind us to the obvious, and make the strange and the distorted seem more clear? What else but sin engenders our attacks? What else but sin could be the source of guilt, demanding punishment and suffering? And what but sin could be the source of fear, obscuring God's creation; giving love the attributes of fear and of attack?Father, I would not be insane today. I would not be afraid of love, nor seek for refuge in its opposite. For love can have no opposite. You are the Source of everything there is. And everything that is remains with You, and You with it.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 32 von "Mit IHM Betrachten" dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns Ein Kurs in Wundern in Bezug auf eine "Neue Wahrnehmung" über unser Verständnis von Sünde, wie es im Kurs neu vermittelt wird, mit Beziehungen sich zeigt, lehrt und anbietet. Im genaueren Hinsehen auf diese Aspekte in unserem Geist lernen wir anzuerkennen, dass wir unsere Verbindung mit dem Heiligen GEIST wirklich wollen, um uns über die identifizierten Wahrnehmungsillusionen erheben und erfahren können. Wir richten uns auf die Wahrheit aus und vertrauen IHM!Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊"#MitIHMBetrachten" mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Lektion 259 von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW. ◊ ◊BITTE unterstütze diese Aktivitäten mit deiner SPENDE!Wenn du meinst, dass diese Aktivitäten, Sendungen und Archive dir für deine persönliche Transformation eine Hilfestellung beim Erinnern bringen:DANKE für “Deine Wertschätzung”. Klick einfach auf den Link und wähle dann aus, welche und wieviel Deine Unterstützung dieser Arbeit als “Mitgliedsbeitrag” sein soll. Du kannst es auch jederzeit verändern. Und DANKE an alle, die es schon tun!https://steady.page/de/ekiw-zu-einer-neuen-wahrnehmung-mit-devavan/aboutFür eine einmalige Wertschätzung oder einen Dauerauftrag von deinem Bankkonto, verwende BITTE mein dt. Comdirect Konto (siehe Details auf der Webseite: https://devavan.com/spenden/) 

"...und diese Welt wird verschwinden."- Der Welt, der wir vergeben haben - EKiW Session mit #devavan Mehr Informationen zum Programm der Aleph Akademie: https://www.aleph-akademie.de Telegram: https://t.me/AlephAkademie WhatApp https://chat.whatsapp.com/L40lKLGeL7H5JM8BTvFY1J #alephakademie #einkursinwundern #ekiw Alle Sessions als Audio sind hier zu finden: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aleph-akademie Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3HRjaWo11mazIcgEaSWNt3 Apple-Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/aleph-akademie/id1531860057 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.de/podcasts/3f5c0081-60eb-47ef-a6ac-d55335c26b4a/Aleph-Akademie deezer: https://deezer.page.link/TgUdkZFGCmmaiZZN9 Alle Zitate stammen aus Ein Kurs in Wundern ©2006 Foundation for Inner Peace, Novato, CA 94949, https://acim.org, verwendet mit freundlicher Erlaubnis.

LESSON 253My Self Is Ruler Of The Universe.It is impossible that anything should come to me unbidden by myself. Even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny. What happens is what I desire. What does not occur is what I do not want to happen. This must I accept. For thus am I led past this world to my creations, children of my will, in Heaven where my holy Self abides with them and Him Who has created me.You are the Self Whom You created Son, creating like Yourself and one with You. My Self, Which rules the universe, is but Your Will in perfect union with my own, which can but offer glad assent to Yours, that it may be extended to Itself.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 31 von "Mit IHM Betrachten" dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns Ein Kurs in Wundern in Bezug auf eine "Neue Wahrnehmung" über unser Verständnis von Wahrheit, die wahr bleibt, egal, was sich im Traum verändert, lehrt und anbietet. Im genaueren Hinsehen auf diese Aspekte in unserem Geist lernen wir anzuerkennen, dass wir keine Kompromisse mit diesem Angebot des Himmels mehr einzugehen gewillt sind, um uns mit Wahrnehmungsillusionen zufrieden zu geben und zu rechtfertigen. Wir richten uns ganz auf die Wahrheit aus!Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊"#MitIHMBetrachten" mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Lektion 251 & 252 von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW. ◊ ◊BITTE unterstütze diese Aktivitäten mit deiner SPENDE!Wenn du meinst, dass diese Aktivitäten, Sendungen und Archive dir für deine persönliche Transformation eine Hilfestellung beim Erinnern bringen:DANKE für “Deine Wertschätzung”. Klick einfach auf den Link und wähle dann aus, welche und wieviel Deine Unterstützung dieser Arbeit als “Mitgliedsbeitrag” sein soll. Du kannst es auch jederzeit verändern. Und DANKE an alle, die es schon tun!https://steady.page/de/ekiw-zu-einer-neuen-wahrnehmung-mit-devavan/aboutFür eine einmalige Wertschätzung oder einen Dauerauftrag von deinem Bankkonto, verwende BITTE mein dt. Comdirect Konto (siehe Details auf der Webseite: https://devavan.com/spenden/)

"...und diese Welt wird verschwinden."- Was hält dich in der Welt? - EKiW Session mit #devavan Mehr Informationen zum Programm der Aleph Akademie: https://www.aleph-akademie.de Telegram: https://t.me/AlephAkademie WhatApp https://chat.whatsapp.com/L40lKLGeL7H5JM8BTvFY1J #alephakademie #einkursinwundern #ekiw Alle Sessions als Audio sind hier zu finden: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aleph-akademie Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3HRjaWo11mazIcgEaSWNt3 Apple-Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/aleph-akademie/id1531860057 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.de/podcasts/3f5c0081-60eb-47ef-a6ac-d55335c26b4a/Aleph-Akademie deezer: https://deezer.page.link/TgUdkZFGCmmaiZZN9 Alle Zitate stammen aus Ein Kurs in Wundern ©2006 Foundation for Inner Peace, Novato, CA 94949, https://acim.org, verwendet mit freundlicher Erlaubnis.

LESSON 246To Love My Father Is To Love His Son.Let me not think that I can find the way to God, if I have hatred in my heart. Let me not try to hurt God's Son, and think that I can know his Father or my Self. Let me not fail to recognize myself, and still believe that my awareness can contain my Father, or my mind conceive of all the love my Father has for me, and all the love which I return to Him.I will accept the way You choose for me to come to You, my Father. For in that will I succeed, because it is Your Will. And I would recognize that what You will is what I will as well, and only that. And so I choose to love Your Son. Amen- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 30 von "Mit IHM Betrachten" dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns Ein Kurs in Wundern in Bezug auf eine "Neue Wahrnehmung" über unser Verständnis von Frieden und Sicherheit und die damit verbundenen Ideen, lehrt und anbietet. Im genaueren Hinsehen auf diese Aspekte in unserem Geist, lernen wir anzuerkennen, dass uns bereits Alles gegeben ist, und wir uns nur daran erinnern müssen. Der Weg führt über Eingestehen und Anerkennen von Ängsten, insbesondere in der Verbindung mit unseren Brüdern, ob wir den Christus zu erkennen bereit sind, oder Blockaden durch Bedeutungen und Urteile aufrecht erhalten werden. Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊ "#MitIHMBetrachten" mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Lektion 245 von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW. ◊ ◊BITTE unterstütze diese Aktivitäten mit deiner SPENDE! Wenn du meinst, dass diese Aktivitäten, Sendungen und Archive dir für deine persönliche Transformation eine Hilfestellung beim Erinnern bringen: DANKE für “Deine Wertschätzung”. Klick einfach auf den Link und wähle dann aus, welche und wieviel Deine Unterstützung dieser Arbeit als “Mitgliedsbeitrag” sein soll. Du kannst es auch jederzeit verändern. Und DANKE an alle, die es schon tun! https://steady.page/de/ekiw-zu-einer-neuen-wahrnehmung-mit-devavan/about Für eine einmalige Wertschätzung oder einen Dauerauftrag von deinem Bankkonto, verwende BITTE mein dt. Comdirect Konto (siehe Details auf der Webseite: https://devavan.com/spenden/)

"...und diese Welt wird verschwinden."- Wie wirklich ist die Welt? - EKiW Session mit #devavan Mehr Informationen zum Programm der Aleph Akademie: https://www.aleph-akademie.de Telegram: https://t.me/AlephAkademie WhatApp https://chat.whatsapp.com/L40lKLGeL7H5JM8BTvFY1J #alephakademie #einkursinwundern #ekiw Alle Sessions als Audio sind hier zu finden: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aleph-akademie Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3HRjaWo11mazIcgEaSWNt3 Apple-Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/aleph-akademie/id1531860057 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.de/podcasts/3f5c0081-60eb-47ef-a6ac-d55335c26b4a/Aleph-Akademie deezer: https://deezer.page.link/TgUdkZFGCmmaiZZN9 Alle Zitate stammen aus Ein Kurs in Wundern ©2006 Foundation for Inner Peace, Novato, CA 94949, https://acim.org, verwendet mit freundlicher Erlaubnis.

In dieser Episode 29 von "Mit IHM Betrachten" dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns Ein Kurs in Wundern in Bezug auf eine "Neue Wahrnehmung" über unser Verständnis über unsere Wahl zur Erlösung und die damit verbundenen Werte, lehrt und anbietet. Im genaueren Hinsehen auf diese Aspekte in unserem Geist, lernen wir die verschiedenen Denksysteme, des Egos und des Hl. GEISTES, klarer zu erkennen und zu unterscheiden. Ersteres wird uns immer ein vorübergehend besseres und schöneres Bild anbieten, die nach wie vor wirklich und wertvoll gehalten und geglaubt werden, aber kein Entrinnen aus dem Tod zuläßt. Wenn wir uns für unsere wahre Identität entscheiden, dann erfahren wir zwar die Erfüllung unserer Wünsche, aber der Hl. GEIST zeigt uns, dass kein Wert in wertlosen Illusionen zu finden ist. Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊"#MitIHMBetrachten" mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Lektionen 231-240 von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW. ◊ ◊BITTE unterstütze diese Aktivitäten mit deiner SPENDE!Wenn du meinst, dass diese Aktivitäten, Sendungen und Archive dir für deine persönliche Transformation eine Hilfestellung beim Erinnern bringen:DANKE für “Deine Wertschätzung”. Klick einfach auf den Link und wähle dann aus, welche und wieviel Deine Unterstützung dieser Arbeit als “Mitgliedsbeitrag” sein soll. Du kannst es auch jederzeit verändern. Und DANKE an alle, die es schon tun!https://steady.page/de/ekiw-zu-einer-neuen-wahrnehmung-mit-devavan/aboutFür eine einmalige Wertschätzung oder einen Dauerauftrag von deinem Bankkonto, verwende BITTE mein dt. Comdirect Konto (siehe Details auf der Webseite: https://devavan.com/spenden/)

Das natürliche Erbe: Freude ohne Gegenteil - Leben ohne Gegenteil - EKiW Session mit #devavan Mehr Informationen zum Programm der Aleph Akademie: https://www.aleph-akademie.de Telegram: https://t.me/AlephAkademie WhatApp https://chat.whatsapp.com/L40lKLGeL7H5JM8BTvFY1J #alephakademie #einkursinwundern #ekiw Alle Sessions als Audio sind hier zu finden: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aleph-akademie Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3HRjaWo11mazIcgEaSWNt3 Apple-Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/aleph-akademie/id1531860057 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.de/podcasts/3f5c0081-60eb-47ef-a6ac-d55335c26b4a/Aleph-Akademie deezer: https://deezer.page.link/TgUdkZFGCmmaiZZN9 Alle Zitate stammen aus Ein Kurs in Wundern ©2006 Foundation for Inner Peace, Novato, CA 94949, https://acim.org, verwendet mit freundlicher Erlaubnis.

LESSON 232Be In My Mind, My Father, Through The Day.Be in my mind, my Father, when I wake, and shine on me throughout the day today. Let every minute be a time in which I dwell with You. And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that You have remained with me, and always will be there to hear my call to You and answer me. As evening comes, let all my thoughts be still of You and of Your Love. And let me sleep sure of my safety, certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son.This is as every day should be. Today, practice the end of fear. Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because you are His Son.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 28 von "Mit IHM Betrachten" dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns Ein Kurs in Wundern in Bezug auf eine "Neue Wahrnehmung" über unser Verständnis über Erlösung und das Ende der Zeit, lehrt und anbietet. Im genaueren Hinsehen auf diese Aspekte in unserem Geist, lernen wir die verschiedenen Denksysteme des Egos und des Hl. GEISTES klarer zu unterscheiden. Ersteres wird uns immer eine begrenzte Lösung auf der Zeitlinie mit Wirkungen eines Besserwerdens anbieten, die nach wie vor wirklich und wertvoll gehalten und geglaubt werden. Dies betrifft v.a. Partnerschaften und Beziehungen. Wir nehmen dies am Weg an und dirihieren diese Werte hin zur wahren Vergebung, die schließlich das Bild aufhebt. Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊"#MitIHMBetrachten" mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Einleitung zu den Lektionen 231-240 "Was ist die Erlösung?" und Lektion 231 von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW. ◊ ◊BITTE unterstütze diese Aktivitäten mit deiner SPENDE!Wenn du meinst, dass diese Aktivitäten, Sendungen und Archive dir für deine persönliche Transformation eine Hilfestellung beim Erinnern bringen:DANKE für “Deine Wertschätzung”. Klick einfach auf den Link und wähle dann aus, welche und wieviel Deine Unterstützung dieser Arbeit als “Mitgliedsbeitrag” sein soll. Du kannst es auch jederzeit verändern. Und DANKE an alle, die es schon tun!https://steady.page/de/ekiw-zu-einer-neuen-wahrnehmung-mit-devavan/aboutFür eine einmalige Wertschätzung oder einen Dauerauftrag von deinem Bankkonto, verwende BITTE mein dt. Comdirect Konto (siehe Details auf der Webseite: https://devavan.com/spenden/)

Das natürliche Erbe: Freude ohne Gegenteil - Freude und Frieden als Erfahrung - EKiW Session mit Devavan Mehr Informationen zum Programm der Aleph Akademie: https://www.aleph-akademie.de Telegram: https://t.me/AlephAkademie WhatApp https://chat.whatsapp.com/L40lKLGeL7H5JM8BTvFY1J #alephakademie #einkursinwundern #ekiw Alle Sessions als Audio sind hier zu finden: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aleph-akademie Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3HRjaWo11mazIcgEaSWNt3 Apple-Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/aleph-akademie/id1531860057 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.de/podcasts/3f5c0081-60eb-47ef-a6ac-d55335c26b4a/Aleph-Akademie deezer: https://deezer.page.link/TgUdkZFGCmmaiZZN9 Alle Zitate stammen aus Ein Kurs in Wundern ©2006 Foundation for Inner Peace, Novato, CA 94949, https://acim.org, verwendet mit freundlicher Erlaubnis.

LESSON 225God Is My Father, And His Son Loves Him.Father, I must return Your Love for me, for giving and receiving are the same, and You have given all Your Love to me. I must return it, for I want it mine in full awareness, blazing in my mind and keeping it within its kindly light, inviolate, beloved, with fear behind and only peace ahead. How still the way Your loving Son is led along to You!Brother, we find that stillness now. The way is open. Now we follow it in peace together. You have reached your hand to me, and I will never leave you. We are one, and it is but this oneness that we seek, as we accomplish these few final steps which end a journey that was not begun.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

Das natürliche Erbe: Freude ohne Gegenteil - Aus dem Gegenteil-Denken erwachen - EKiW Session mit #devavan Mehr Informationen zum Programm der Aleph Akademie: https://www.aleph-akademie.de Telegram: https://t.me/AlephAkademie WhatApp https://chat.whatsapp.com/L40lKLGeL7H5JM8BTvFY1J #alephakademie #einkursinwundern #ekiw Alle Sessions als Audio sind hier zu finden: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aleph-akademie Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3HRjaWo11mazIcgEaSWNt3 Apple-Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/aleph-akademie/id1531860057 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.de/podcasts/3f5c0081-60eb-47ef-a6ac-d55335c26b4a/Aleph-Akademie deezer: https://deezer.page.link/TgUdkZFGCmmaiZZN9 Alle Zitate stammen aus Ein Kurs in Wundern ©2006 Foundation for Inner Peace, Novato, CA 94949, https://acim.org, verwendet mit freundlicher Erlaubnis.

LESSON 218Review of Lesson 198I am not a body. I am free.For I am still as God created me.(198) Only my condemnation injures me.My condemnation keeps my vision dark,and through my sightless eyes I cannot see the vision of my glory.Yet today I can behold this glory and be glad.I am not a body. I am free.For I am still as God created me.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

Das natürliche Erbe: Freude ohne Gegenteil - Die kompromisslose Idee von Erbe - EKiW Session mit #devavan Mehr Informationen zum Programm der Aleph Akademie: https://www.aleph-akademie.de Telegram: https://t.me/AlephAkademie WhatApp https://chat.whatsapp.com/L40lKLGeL7H5JM8BTvFY1J #alephakademie #einkursinwundern #ekiw Alle Sessions als Audio sind hier zu finden: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aleph-akademie Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3HRjaWo11mazIcgEaSWNt3 Apple-Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/aleph-akademie/id1531860057 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.de/podcasts/3f5c0081-60eb-47ef-a6ac-d55335c26b4a/Aleph-Akademie deezer: https://deezer.page.link/TgUdkZFGCmmaiZZN9 Alle Zitate stammen aus Ein Kurs in Wundern ©2006 Foundation for Inner Peace, Novato, CA 94949, https://acim.org, verwendet mit freundlicher Erlaubnis.

LESSON 211Review of Lesson 191I am not a body. I am free.For I am still as God created me.(191) I am the holy Son of God Himself.In silence and in true humility I seek God's glory,to behold it in the Son whom He created as my Self.I am not a body. I am free.For I am still as God created me.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 27 von “Mit IHM Betrachten” dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns Ein Kurs in Wundern in Bezug auf eine “Neue Wahrnehmung” über unser Verständnis über den Umgang mit Hilferufen und um Hilfe zu bitten, lehrt und anbietet. Im genaueren Hinsehen auf diese Aspekte in unserem Geist, lernen wir die verschiedenen Denksysteme des Egos und des Hl. GEISTES klarer zu unterscheiden. Ersteres wird uns immer eine Variante von Schmerz- und Trennungsgedanken anbieten, die nach wie vor wirklich gehalten und geglaubt werden. Wir nehmen die Reflexion der Vollkommenheit unseres Selbstes anstelle dessen an. Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊ “#MitIHMBetrachten” mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Lektion 190 von Ein Kurs in Wundern – EKIW. ◊ ◊ BITTE unterstütze diese Aktivitäten mit deiner SPENDE!Wenn du meinst, dass diese Aktivitäten, Sendungen und Archive dir für deine persönliche Transformation eine Hilfestellung beim Erinnern bringen:DANKE für “Deine Wertschätzung”. Klick einfach auf den Link und wähle dann aus, welche und wieviel Deine Unterstützung dieser Arbeit als “Mitgliedsbeitrag” sein soll. Du kannst es auch jederzeit verändern. Und DANKE an alle, die es schon tun!https://steady.page/de/ekiw-zu-einer-neuen-wahrnehmung-mit-devavan/aboutFür eine einmalige Wertschätzung oder einen Dauerauftrag von deinem Bankkonto, verwende BITTE mein dt. Comdirect Konto (siehe Details auf der Webseite: https://devavan.com/spenden/)

LESSON 204Review of Lesson 184I am not a body. I am free.For I am still as God created me.(184) The Name of God is my inheritance.God's Name reminds me that I am His Son, not slave to time,unbound by laws which rule the world of sick illusions,free in God, forever and forever one with Him.I am not a body. I am free.For I am still as God created me.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 26 von "Mit IHM Betrachten" dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns Ein Kurs in Wundern in Bezug auf eine "Neue Wahrnehmung" über unser Verständnis des Kontaktes mit GOTT, was wir im Geist mit Zusammen-Sein und -Erfahren verbinden, lehrt und anbietet. Im genaueren Hinsehen auf diese Aspekte in unserem Geist, lernen wir die Kommunikation mit IHM so zu öffnen, dass sich Klarheit darüber zeigt, welche konkreten Rollen wir in unseren Traumszenarien einnehmen und manifestieren sollen, und damit eine Gewissheit erlangen, dass in Kommunikation mit dem Hl. GEIST für Heilung und Korrektur eingesetzt werden. Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊"#MitIHMBetrachten" mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Lektion 183 von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW. ◊ ◊BITTE unterstütze diese Aktivitäten mit deiner SPENDE!Wenn du meinst, dass diese Aktivitäten, Sendungen und Archive dir für deine persönliche Transformation eine Hilfestellung beim Erinnern bringen:DANKE für “Deine Wertschätzung”. Klick einfach auf den Link und wähle dann aus, welche und wieviel Deine Unterstützung dieser Arbeit als “Mitgliedsbeitrag” sein soll. Du kannst es auch jederzeit verändern. Und DANKE an alle, die es schon tun!https://steady.page/de/ekiw-zu-einer-neuen-wahrnehmung-mit-devavan/aboutFür eine einmalige Wertschätzung oder einen Dauerauftrag von deinem Bankkonto, verwende BITTE mein dt. Comdirect Konto (siehe Details auf der Webseite: https://devavan.com/spenden/) 

LESSON 197It Can Be But My Gratitude I Earn.Here is the second step we take to free your mind from the belief in outside force pitted against your own. You make attempts at kindness and forgiveness. Yet you turn them to attack again, unless you find external gratitude and lavish thanks. Your gifts must be received with honor, lest they be withdrawn. And so you think God's gifts are loans at best; at worst, deceptions which would cheat you of defenses, to ensure that when He strikes He will not fail to kill.How easily are God and guilt confused by those who know not what their thoughts can do. Deny your strength, and weakness must become salvation to you. See yourself as bound, and bars become your home. Nor will you leave the prison house, or claim your strength, until guilt and salvation are not seen as one, and freedom and salvation are perceived as joined, with strength beside them, to be sought and claimed, and found and fully recognized.The world must thank you when you offer it release from your illusions. Yet your thanks belong to you as well, for its release can only mirror yours. Your gratitude is all your gifts require, that they be a lasting offering of a thankful heart, released from hell forever. Is it this you would undo by taking back your gifts, because they were not honored? It is you who honor them and give them fitting thanks, for it is you who have received the gifts.It does not matter if another thinks your gifts unworthy. In his mind there is a part that joins with yours in thanking you. It does not matter if your gifts seem lost and ineffectual. They are received where they are given. In your gratitude are they accepted universally, and thankfully acknowledged by the Heart of God Himself. And would you take them back, when He has gratefully accepted them?God blesses every gift you give to Him, and every gift is given Him, because it can be given only to yourself. And what belongs to God must be His Own. Yet you will never realize His gifts are sure, eternal, changeless, limitless, forever giving out, extending love and adding to your never-ending joy while you forgive but to attack again.Withdraw the gifts you give, and you will think that what is given you has been withdrawn. But learn to let forgiveness take away the sins you think you see outside yourself, and you can never think the gifts of God are lent but for a little while, before He snatches them away again in death. For death will have no meaning for you then.And with the end of this belief is fear forever over. Thank your Self for this, for He is grateful only unto God, and He gives thanks for you unto Himself. To everyone who lives will Christ yet come, for everyone must live and move in Him. His Being in His Father is secure, because Their Will is one. Their gratitude to all They have created has no end, for gratitude remains a part of love.Thanks be to you, the holy Son of God. For as you were created, you contain all things within your Self. And you are still as God created you. Nor can you dim the light of your perfection. In your heart the Heart of God is laid. He holds you dear, because you are Himself. All gratitude belongs to you, because of what you are.Give thanks as you receive it. Be you free of all ingratitude to anyone who makes your Self complete. And from this Self is no one left outside. Give thanks for all the countless channels which extend this Self. All that you do is given unto Him. All that you think can only be His Thoughts, sharing with Him the holy Thoughts of God. Earn now the gratitude you have denied yourself when you forgot the function God has given you. But never think that He has ever ceased to offer thanks to you.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 25 von "Mit IHM Betrachten" dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns Ein Kurs in Wundern in Bezug auf eine "Neue Wahrnehmung" über unser Verständnis des Sich-Selbst-Kreuzigens, was wir im Geist mit Angriffsgedanken verbinden, lehrt und anbietet. Im genaueren Hinsehen auf jene Aspekte in unseren Geistern, die Gefühle des Verletztseins, Sich-Verteidigens und verschiedenste Ausdrucksweisen der Angst bewirken, sind wir überzeugt, una aus diesen Formen der Selbst-Kreuzigung zu befreien. Wir lernen, dass es Demonstrationen von Angst vor Gott sind, die wir der Aufhebung an den Heiligen GEIST übergeben.Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊"#MitIHMBetrachten" mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Lektion 196 von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW. ◊ ◊BITTE unterstütze diese Aktivitäten mit deiner SPENDE!Wenn du meinst, dass diese Aktivitäten, Sendungen und Archive dir für deine persönliche Transformation eine Hilfestellung beim Erinnern bringen:DANKE für “Deine Wertschätzung”. Klick einfach auf den Link und wähle dann aus, welche und wieviel Deine Unterstützung dieser Arbeit als “Mitgliedsbeitrag” sein soll. Du kannst es auch jederzeit verändern. Und DANKE an alle, die es schon tun!https://steady.page/de/ekiw-zu-einer-neuen-wahrnehmung-mit-devavan/aboutFür eine einmalige Wertschätzung oder einen Dauerauftrag von deinem Bankkonto, verwende BITTE mein dt. Comdirect Konto (siehe Details auf der Webseite: https://devavan.com/spenden/)

LESSON 190I Choose The Joy Of God Instead Of Pain.Pain is a wrong perspective. When it is experienced in any form, it is a proof of self-deception. It is not a fact at all. There is no form it takes that will not disappear if seen aright. For pain proclaims God cruel. How could it be real in any form? It witnesses to God the Father's hatred of His Son, the sinfulness He sees in him, and His insane desire for revenge and death.Can such projections be attested to? Can they be anything but wholly false? Pain is but witness to the Son's mistakes in what he thinks he is. It is a dream of fierce retaliation for a crime that could not be committed; for attack on what is wholly unassailable. It is a nightmare of abandonment by an Eternal Love, Which could not leave the Son whom It created out of love.Pain is a sign illusions reign in place of truth. It demonstrates God is denied, confused with fear, perceived as mad, and seen as traitor to Himself. If God is real, there is no pain. If pain is real, there is no God. For vengeance is not part of love. And fear, denying love and using pain to prove that God is dead, has shown that death is victor over life. The body is the Son of God, corruptible in death, as mortal as the Father he has slain.Peace to such foolishness! The time has come to laugh at such insane ideas. There is no need to think of them as savage crimes, or secret sins with weighty consequence. Who but a madman could conceive of them as cause of anything? Their witness, pain, is mad as they, and no more to be feared than the insane illusions which it shields, and tries to demonstrate must still be true.It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in any way. There is no cause beyond yourself that can reach down and bring oppression. No one but yourself affects you. There is nothing in the world that has the power to make you ill or sad, or weak or frail. But it is you who have the power to dominate all things you see by merely recognizing what you are. As you perceive the harmlessness in them, they will accept your holy will as theirs. And what was seen as fearful now becomes a source of innocence and holiness.My holy brother, think of this awhile: The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all. It merely represents your thoughts. And it will change entirely as you elect to change your mind, and choose the joy of God as what you really want. Your Self is radiant in this holy joy, unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable, forever and forever. And would you deny a little corner of your mind its own inheritance, and keep it as a hospital for pain; a sickly place where living things must come at last to die?The world may seem to cause you pain. And yet the world, as causeless, has no power to cause. As an effect, it cannot make effects. As an illusion, it is what you wish. Your idle wishes represent its pains. Your strange desires bring it evil dreams. Your thoughts of death envelop it in fear, while in your kind forgiveness does it live.Pain is the thought of evil taking form, and working havoc in your holy mind. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free. In pain is God denied the Son He loves. In pain does fear appear to triumph over love, and time replace eternity and Heaven. And the world becomes a cruel and a bitter place, where sorrow rules and little joys give way before the onslaught of the savage pain that waits to end all joy in misery.Lay down your arms, and come without defense into the quiet place where Heaven's peace holds all things still at last. Lay down all thoughts of danger and of fear. Let no attack enter with you. Lay down the cruel sword of judgment that you hold against your throat, and put aside the withering assaults with which you seek to hide your holiness.Here will you understand there is no pain. Here does the joy of God belong to you. This is the day when it is given you to realize the lesson that contains all of salvation's power. It is this: Pain is illusion; joy, reality. Pain is but sleep; joy is awakening. Pain is deception; joy alone is truth.And so again we make the only choice that ever can be made; we choose between illusions and the truth, or pain and joy, or hell and Heaven. Let our gratitude unto our Teacher fill our hearts, as we are free to choose our joy instead of pain, our holiness in place of sin, the peace of God instead of conflict, and the light of Heaven for the darkness of the world.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 24 von "Mit IHM Betrachten" dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns Ein Kurs in Wundern in Bezug auf eine "Neue Wahrnehmung" über unser Verständnis und Erfahren der Liebe Gottes, und was wir mit Fühlen und Sehen verbinden, lehrt und anbietet. Im Annehmen unseres Geistes, solange noch begrenzte Gedanken die Stille und Natur des Geistes mit Erfahrungen der Unruhe und Ängsten errsetzen. Wir lernen, was uns die Ausrichtung auf das Vernunftmäßige Denken mit dem Heiligen GEIST wirklich anbietet. Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊"#MitIHMBetrachten" mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Lektion 189 von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW. ◊ ◊BITTE unterstütze diese Aktivitäten mit deiner SPENDE!Wenn du meinst, dass diese Aktivitäten, Sendungen und Archive dir für deine persönliche Transformation eine Hilfestellung beim Erinnern bringen:DANKE für “Deine Wertschätzung”. Klick einfach auf den Link und wähle dann aus, welche und wieviel Deine Unterstützung dieser Arbeit als “Mitgliedsbeitrag” sein soll. Du kannst es auch jederzeit verändern. Und DANKE an alle, die es schon tun!https://steady.page/de/ekiw-zu-einer-neuen-wahrnehmung-mit-devavan/aboutFür eine einmalige Wertschätzung oder einen Dauerauftrag von deinem Bankkonto, verwende BITTE mein dt. Comdirect Konto (siehe Details auf der Webseite: https://devavan.com/spenden/)

LESSON 183I Call Upon God's Name And On My Own.God's Name is holy, but no holier than yours. To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own. A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him. His brothers share his name, and thus are they united in a bond to which they turn for their identity. Your Father's Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not know; even though you have not remembered it.God's Name cannot be heard without response, nor said without an echo in the mind that calls you to remember. Say His Name, and you invite the angels to surround the ground on which you stand, and sing to you as they spread out their wings to keep you safe, and shelter you from every worldly thought that would intrude upon your holiness.Repeat God's Name, and all the world responds by laying down illusions. Every dream the world holds dear has suddenly gone by, and where it seemed to stand you find a star; a miracle of grace. The sick arise, healed of their sickly thoughts. The blind can see; the deaf can hear. The sorrowful cast off their mourning, and the tears of pain are dried as happy laughter comes to bless the world.Repeat the Name of God, and little names have lost their meaning. No temptation but becomes a nameless and unwanted thing before God's Name. Repeat His Name, and see how easily you will forget the names of all the gods you valued. They have lost the name of god you gave them. They become anonymous and valueless to you, although before you let the Name of God replace their little names, you stood before them worshipfully, naming them as gods.Repeat the Name of God, and call upon your Self, Whose Name is His. Repeat His Name, and all the tiny, nameless things on earth slip into right perspective. Those who call upon the Name of God can not mistake the nameless for the Name, nor sin for grace, nor bodies for the holy Son of God. And should you join a brother as you sit with him in silence, and repeat God's Name along with him within your quiet mind, you have established there an altar which reaches to God Himself and to His Son.Practice but this today; repeat God's Name slowly again and still again. Become oblivious to every name but His. Hear nothing else. Let all your thoughts become anchored on This.No other word we use except at the beginning, when we say today's idea but once. And then God's Name becomes our only thought, our only word, the only thing that occupies our minds, the only wish we have, the only sound with any meaning, and the only Name of everything that we desire to see; of everything that we would call our own.Thus do we give an invitation which can never be refused. And God will come, and answer it Himself. Think not He hears the little prayers of those who call on Him with names of idols cherished by the world. They cannot reach Him thus. He cannot hear requests that He be not Himself, or that His Son receive another name than His.Repeat God's Name, and you acknowledge Him as sole Creator of reality. And you acknowledge also that His Son is part of Him, creating in His Name. Sit silently, and let His Name become the all-encompassing idea that holds your mind completely. Let all thoughts be still except this one. And to all other thoughts respond with this, and see God's Name replace the thousand little names you gave your thoughts, not realizing that there is one Name for all there is, and all that there will be.Today you can achieve a state in which you will experience the gift of grace. You can escape all bondage of the world, and give the world the same release you found. You can remember what the world forgot, and offer it your own remembering. You can accept today the part you play in its salvation, and your own as well. And both can be accomplished perfectly.Turn to the Name of God for your release, and it is given you. No prayer but this is necessary, for it holds them all within it. Words are insignificant, and all requests unneeded when God's Son calls on his Father's Name. His Father's Thoughts become his own. He makes his claim to all his Father gave, is giving still, and will forever give. He calls on Him to let all things he thought he made be nameless now, and in their place the holy Name of God becomes his judgment of their worthlessness.All little things are silent. Little sounds are soundless now. The little things of earth have disappeared. The universe consists of nothing but the Son of God, who calls upon his Father. And his Father's Voice gives answer in his Father's holy Name. In this eternal, still relationship, in which communication far transcends all words, and yet exceeds in depth and height whatever words could possibly convey, is peace eternal. In our Father's Name, we would experience this peace today. And in His Name, it shall be given us.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

Lesson 176Review of Lessons 161 - 162God is but Love, and therefore so am I.(161) Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.God is but Love, and therefore so am I.(162) I am as God created me.God is but Love, and therefore so am I.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 23 von "Mit IHM Betrachten" dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns Ein Kurs in Wundern in Bezug auf eine "Neue Wahrnehmung" über unser Verständnis und Erfahren mit und als Heiliger Geist, und was wir mit Heiligsein verbinden, uns zu erkennen, lehrt und anbietet. Im Annehmen unserer menschlichen Mängel sehen wir uns genauer an, was in unserer Wahrnehmung über Gebet und Meditationen wirklich angeboten und im Geist gehalten wird, und was der Heilige GEIST uns wirklich anbietet. Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊"#MitIHMBetrachten" mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Lektion 159 von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW. ◊ ◊BITTE unterstütze diese Aktivitäten mit deiner SPENDE!Wenn du meinst, dass diese Aktivitäten, Sendungen und Archive dir für deine persönliche Transformation eine Hilfestellung beim Erinnern bringen:DANKE für “Deine Wertschätzung”. Klick einfach auf den Link und wähle dann aus, welche und wieviel Deine Unterstützung dieser Arbeit als “Mitgliedsbeitrag” sein soll. Du kannst es auch jederzeit verändern. Und DANKE an alle, die es schon tun!https://steady.page/de/ekiw-zu-einer-neuen-wahrnehmung-mit-devavan/aboutFür eine einmalige Wertschätzung oder einen Dauerauftrag von deinem Bankkonto, verwende BITTE mein dt. Comdirect Konto (siehe Details auf der Webseite: https://devavan.com/spenden/)

LESSON 169By Grace I Live. By Grace I Am Released.Grace is an aspect of the Love of God which is most like the state prevailing in the unity of truth. It is the world's most lofty aspiration, for it leads beyond the world entirely. It is past learning, yet the goal of learning, for grace cannot come until the mind prepares itself for true acceptance. Grace becomes inevitable instantly in those who have prepared a table where it can be gently laid and willingly received; an altar clean and holy for the gift.Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real.Grace is not learned. The final step must go beyond all learning. Grace is not the goal this course aspires to attain. Yet we prepare for grace in that an open mind can hear the Call to waken. It is not shut tight against God's Voice. It has become aware that there are things it does not know, and thus is ready to accept a state completely different from experience with which it is familiarly at home.We have perhaps appeared to contradict our statement that the revelation of the Father and the Son as one has been already set. But we have also said the mind determines when that time will be, and has determined it. And yet we urge you to bear witness to the Word of God to hasten the experience of truth, and speed its advent into every mind that recognizes truth's effects on you.Oneness is simply the idea God is. And in His Being, He encompasses all things. No mind holds anything but Him. We say “God is,” and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. It has united with its Source. And like its Source Itself, it merely is.We cannot speak nor write nor even think of this at all. It comes to every mind when total recognition that its will is God's has been completely given and received completely. It returns the mind into the endless present, where the past and future cannot be conceived. It lies beyond salvation; past all thought of time, forgiveness and the holy face of Christ. The Son of God has merely disappeared into his Father, as his Father has in him. The world has never been at all. Eternity remains a constant state.This is beyond experience we try to hasten. Yet forgiveness, taught and learned, brings with it the experiences which bear witness that the time the mind itself determined to abandon all but this is now at hand. We do not hasten it, in that what you will offer was concealed from Him Who teaches what forgiveness means.All learning was already in His Mind, accomplished and complete. He recognized all that time holds, and gave it to all minds that each one might determine, from a point where time was ended, when it is released to revelation and eternity. We have repeated several times before that you but make a journey that is done.For oneness must be here. Whatever time the mind has set for revelation is entirely irrelevant to what must be a constant state, forever as it always was; forever to remain as it is now. We merely take the part assigned long since, and fully recognized as perfectly fulfilled by Him Who wrote salvation's script in His Creator's Name, and in the Name of His Creator's Son.There is no need to further clarify what no one in the world can understand. When revelation of your oneness comes, it will be known and fully understood. Now we have work to do, for those in time can speak of things beyond, and listen to words which explain what is to come is past already. Yet what meaning can the words convey to those who count the hours still, and rise and work and go to sleep by them?Suffice it, then, that you have work to do to play your part. The ending must remain obscure to you until your part is done. It does not matter. For your part is still what all the rest depends on. As you take the role assigned to you, salvation comes a little nearer each uncertain heart that does not beat as yet in tune with God.Forgiveness is the central theme that runs throughout salvation, holding all its parts in meaningful relationships, the course it runs directed and its outcome sure. And now we ask for grace, the final gift salvation can bestow. Experience that grace provides will end in time, for grace foreshadows Heaven, yet does not replace the thought of time but for a little while.The interval suffices. It is here that miracles are laid; to be returned by you from holy instants you receive, through grace in your experience, to all who see the light that lingers in your face. What is the face of Christ but his who went a moment into timelessness, and brought a clear reflection of the unity he felt an instant back to bless the world? How could you finally attain to it forever, while a part of you remains outside, unknowing, unawakened, and in need of you as witness to the truth?Be grateful to return, as you were glad to go an instant, and accept the gifts that grace provided you. You carry them back to yourself. And revelation stands not far behind. Its coming is ensured. We ask for grace, and for experience that comes from grace. We welcome the release it offers everyone. We do not ask for the unaskable. We do not look beyond what grace can give. For this we can give in the grace that has been given us.Our learning goal today does not exceed this prayer. Yet in the world, what could be more than what we ask this day of Him Who gives the grace we ask, as it was given Him?By grace I live. By grace I am released.By grace I give. By grace I will release.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 22 von "Mit IHM Betrachten" dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns Ein Kurs in Wundern in Bezug auf eine "Neue Wahrnehmung" über unser Verständnis und Erfahren von Gnade, und den Bruder darin zu erkennen, lehrt und anbietet. Im Annehmen Seiner Gnade als Mittel sehen wir uns bestärkt in unserer Wahrnehmung über uns selbst und unsere Brüder sie als verändert so zu demonstrieren, dass Grollhalten und ähnliche Ego-Darstellungen keine Auswirkungen in uns mehr zeigen. Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊"#MitIHMBetrachten" mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Lektion 168 von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW, sowie Teile des Buches von Devavan "3 Tage zum Erwachen - TAG 3", Seite 100 und 122-123. ◊ ◊BITTE unterstütze diese Aktivitäten mit deiner SPENDE!Wenn du meinst, dass diese Aktivitäten, Sendungen und Archive dir für deine persönliche Transformation eine Hilfestellung beim Erinnern bringen:DANKE für “Deine Wertschätzung”. Klick einfach auf den Link und wähle dann aus, welche und wieviel Deine Unterstützung dieser Arbeit als “Mitgliedsbeitrag” sein soll. Du kannst es auch jederzeit verändern. Und DANKE an alle, die es schon tun!https://steady.page/de/ekiw-zu-einer-neuen-wahrnehmung-mit-devavan/aboutFür eine einmalige Wertschätzung oder einen Dauerauftrag von deinem Bankkonto, verwende BITTE mein dt. Comdirect Konto (siehe Details auf der Webseite: https://devavan.com/spenden/)

LESSON 166I Am Entrusted With The Gifts Of God.All things are given you. God's trust in you is limitless. He knows His Son. He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness. And yet, unless your will is one with His, His gifts are not received. But what would make you think there is another will than His?Here is the paradox that underlies the making of the world. This world is not the Will of God, and so it is not real. Yet those who think it real must still believe there is another will, and one that leads to opposite effects from those He wills. Impossible indeed; but every mind that looks upon the world and judges it as certain, solid, trustworthy and true believes in two creators; or in one, himself alone. But never in one God.The gifts of God are not acceptable to anyone who holds such strange beliefs. He must believe that to accept God's gifts, however evident they may become, however urgently he may be called to claim them as his own, is to be pressed to treachery against himself. He must deny their presence, contradict the truth, and suffer to preserve the world he made.Here is the only home he thinks he knows. Here is the only safety he believes that he can find. Without the world he made is he an outcast; homeless and afraid. He does not realize that it is here he is afraid indeed, and homeless, too; an outcast wandering so far from home, so long away, he does not realize he has forgotten where he came from, where he goes, and even who he really is.Yet in his lonely, senseless wanderings, God's gifts go with him, all unknown to him. He cannot lose them. But he will not look at what is given him. He wanders on, aware of the futility he sees about him everywhere, perceiving how his little lot but dwindles, as he goes ahead to nowhere. Still he wanders on in misery and poverty, alone though God is with him, and a treasure his so great that everything the world contains is valueless before its magnitude.He seems a sorry figure; weary, worn, in threadbare clothing, and with feet that bleed a little from the rocky road he walks. No one but has identified with him, for everyone who comes here has pursued the path he follows, and has felt defeat and hopelessness as he is feeling them. Yet is he really tragic, when you see that he is following the way he chose, and need but realize Who walks with him and open up his treasures to be free?This is your chosen self, the one you made as a replacement for reality. This is the self you savagely defend against all reason, every evidence, and all the witnesses with proof to show this is not you. You heed them not. You go on your appointed way, with eyes cast down lest you might catch a glimpse of truth, and be released from self-deception and set free.You cower fearfully lest you should feel Christ's touch upon your shoulder, and perceive His gentle hand directing you to look upon your gifts. How could you then proclaim your poverty in exile? He would make you laugh at this perception of yourself. Where is self-pity then? And what becomes of all the tragedy you sought to make for him whom God intended only joy?Your ancient fear has come upon you now, and justice has caught up with you at last. Christ's hand has touched your shoulder, and you feel that you are not alone. You even think the miserable self you thought was you may not be your Identity. Perhaps God's Word is truer than your own. Perhaps His gifts to you are real. Perhaps He has not wholly been outwitted by your plan to keep His Son in deep oblivion, and go the way you chose without your Self.God's Will does not oppose. It merely is. It is not God you have imprisoned in your plan to lose your Self. He does not know about a plan so alien to His Will. There was a need He did not understand, to which He gave an Answer. That is all. And you who have this Answer given you have need no more of anything but This.Now do we live, for now we cannot die. The wish for death is answered, and the sight that looked upon it now has been replaced by vision which perceives that you are not what you pretend to be. One walks with you Who gently answers all your fears with this one merciful reply, “It is not so.” He points to all the gifts you have each time the thought of poverty oppresses you, and speaks of His Companionship when you perceive yourself as lonely and afraid.Yet He reminds you still of one thing more you had forgotten. For His touch on you has made you like Himself. The gifts you have are not for you alone. What He has come to offer you, you now must learn to give. This is the lesson that His giving holds, for He has saved you from the solitude you sought to make in which to hide from God. He has reminded you of all the gifts that God has given you. He speaks as well of what becomes your will when you accept these gifts, and recognize they are your own.The gifts are yours, entrusted to your care, to give to all who chose the lonely road you have escaped. They do not understand they but pursue their wishes. It is you who teach them now. For you have learned of Christ there is another way for them to walk. Teach them by showing them the happiness that comes to those who feel the touch of Christ, and recognize God's gifts. Let sorrow not tempt you to be unfaithful to your trust.Your sighs will now betray the hopes of those who look to you for their release. Your tears are theirs. If you are sick, you but withhold their healing. What you fear but teaches them their fears are justified. Your hand becomes the giver of Christ's touch; your change of mind becomes the proof that who accepts God's gifts can never suffer anything. You are entrusted with the world's release from pain.Betray it not. Become the living proof of what Christ's touch can offer everyone. God has entrusted all His gifts to you. Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. Such is your mission now. For God entrusts the giving of His gifts to all who have received them. He has shared His joy with you. And now you go to share it with the world.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 162I Am As God Created Me.This single thought, held firmly in the mind, would save the world. From time to time we will repeat it, as we reach another stage in learning. It will mean far more to you as you advance. These words are sacred, for they are the words God gave in answer to the world you made. By them it disappears, and all things seen within its misty clouds and vaporous illusions vanish as these words are spoken. For they come from God.Here is the Word by which the Son became His Father's happiness, His Love and His completion. Here creation is proclaimed, and honored as it is. There is no dream these words will not dispel; no thought of sin and no illusion which the dream contains that will not fade away before their might. They are the trumpet of awakening that sounds around the world. The dead awake in answer to its call. And those who live and hear this sound will never look on death.Holy indeed is he who makes these words his own; arising with them in his mind, recalling them throughout the day, at night bringing them with him as he goes to sleep. His dreams are happy and his rest secure, his safety certain and his body healed, because he sleeps and wakens with the truth before him always. He will save the world, because he gives the world what he receives each time he practices the words of truth.Today we practice simply. For the words we use are mighty, and they need no thoughts beyond themselves to change the mind of him who uses them. So wholly is it changed that it is now the treasury in which God places all His gifts and all His Love, to be distributed to all the world, increased in giving; kept complete because its sharing is unlimited. And thus you learn to think with God. Christ's vision has restored your sight by salvaging your mind.We honor you today. Yours is the right to perfect holiness you now accept. With this acceptance is salvation brought to everyone, for who could cherish sin when holiness like this has blessed the world? Who could despair when perfect joy is yours, available to all as remedy for grief and misery, all sense of loss, and for complete escape from sin and guilt?And who would not be brother to you now; you, his redeemer and his savior. Who could fail to welcome you into his heart with loving invitation, eager to unite with one like him in holiness? You are as God created you. These words dispel the night, and darkness is no more. The light is come today to bless the world. For you have recognized the Son of God, and in that recognition is the world's.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 21 von "Mit IHM Betrachten" dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns Ein Kurs in Wundern in Bezug auf eine "Neue Wahrnehmung" über unsere Handhabung des Segnens in Bezug auf das Verständnis, Segen einzuladen und Christus zu erkennen, lehrt und anbietet. Sind wir einmal bereit, unsere Wahrnehmung über unsere Brüder zu ändern, finden wir heraus, wie sich Bider von Ego-Darstellungen zu Christuserscheinungen wandeln. Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊"#MitIHMBetrachten" mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Lektion 161-1.,11.-12. von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW. ◊ ◊

LESSON 160I Am At Home. Fear Is The Stranger Here.Fear is a stranger to the ways of love. Identify with fear, and you will be a stranger to yourself. And thus you are unknown to you. What is your Self remains an alien to the part of you which thinks that it is real, but different from yourself. Who could be sane in such a circumstance? Who but a madman could believe he is what he is not, and judge against himself?There is a stranger in our midst, who comes from an idea so foreign to the truth he speaks a different language, looks upon a world truth does not know, and understands what truth regards as senseless. Stranger yet, he does not recognize to whom he comes, and yet maintains his home belongs to him, while he is alien now who is at home. And yet, how easy it would be to say, “This is my home. Here I belong, and will not leave because a madman says I must.”What reason is there for not saying this? What could the reason be except that you had asked this stranger in to take your place, and let you be a stranger to yourself? No one would let himself be dispossessed so needlessly, unless he thought there were another home more suited to his tastes.Who is the stranger? Is it fear or you who are unsuited to the home which God provided for His Son? Is fear His Own, created in His likeness? Is it fear that love completes, and is completed by? There is no home can shelter love and fear. They cannot coexist. If you are real, then fear must be illusion. And if fear is real, then you do not exist at all.How simply, then, the question is resolved. Who fears has but denied himself and said, “I am the stranger here. And so I leave my home to one more like me than myself, and give him all I thought belonged to me.” Now is he exiled of necessity, not knowing who he is, uncertain of all things but this; that he is not himself, and that his home has been denied to him.What does he search for now? What can he find? A stranger to himself can find no home wherever he may look, for he has made return impossible. His way is lost, except a miracle will search him out and show him that he is no stranger now. The miracle will come. For in his home his Self remains. It asked no stranger in, and took no alien thought to be Itself. And It will call Its Own unto Itself in recognition of what is Its Own.Who is the stranger? Is he not the one your Self calls not? You are unable now to recognize this stranger in your midst, for you have given him your rightful place. Yet is your Self as certain of Its Own as God is of His Son. He cannot be confused about creation. He is sure of what belongs to Him. No stranger can be interposed between His knowledge and His Son's reality. He does not know of strangers. He is certain of His Son.God's certainty suffices. Who He knows to be His Son belongs where He has set His Son forever. He has answered you who ask, “Who is the stranger?” Hear His Voice assure you, quietly and sure, that you are not a stranger to your Father, nor is your Creator stranger made to you. Whom God has joined remain forever one, at home in Him, no stranger to Himself.Today we offer thanks that Christ has come to search the world for what belongs to Him. His vision sees no strangers, but beholds His Own and joyously unites with them. They see Him as a stranger, for they do not recognize themselves. Yet as they give Him welcome, they remember. And He leads them gently home again, where they belong.Not one does Christ forget. Not one He fails to give you to remember, that your home may be complete and perfect as it was established. He has not forgotten you. But you will not remember Him until you look on all as He does. Who denies his brother is denying Him, and thus refusing to accept the gift of sight by which his Self is clearly recognized, his home remembered and salvation come.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 20 von "Mit IHM Betrachten" dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns CHRISTUS Jesus in Bezug auf eine "Neue Wahrnehmung" über unsere Handhabung des Dienens in Bezug auf das Verständnis über unsere Funktion lehrt und anbietet, wie wir sie für uns zwar als Teile unseres Geistes erkennen, aber oft noch Bedrohungen, wie sie das Ego-Denksystem produziert, in unserrem Geist halten. Wir gestehen uns ein, dass in unserem Neuen Denken und Fühlen mit IHM das Annehmen und Übergeben an den Heiligen GEIST von Ängsten und weltlichen Bildern essenziell sind. Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊"#MitIHMBetrachten" mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Lektion 154-1.-2. von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW. ◊ ◊

LESSON 148Review of Lessons 135 - 136My Mind Holds Only What I Think With God.(135) If I defend myself I am attacked.(136) Sickness is a defense against the truth.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 145Review of Lessons 129 - 130My Mind Holds Only What I Think With God.(129) Beyond this world there is a world I want.(130) It is impossible to see two worlds.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

Review Lessons 141-150IntroductionNow we review again, this time aware we are preparing for the second part of learning how the truth can be applied. Today we will begin to concentrate on readiness for what will follow next. Such is our aim for this review, and for the lessons following. Thus, we review the recent lessons and their central thoughts in such a way as will facilitate the readiness that we would now achieve.There is a central theme that unifies each step in the review we undertake, which can be simply stated in these words:My mind holds only what I think with God.That is a fact, and represents the truth of What you are and What your Father is. It is this thought by which the Father gave creation to the Son, establishing the Son as cocreator with Himself. It is this thought that fully guarantees salvation to the Son. For in his mind no thoughts can dwell but those his Father shares. Lack of forgiveness blocks this thought from his awareness. Yet it is forever true.Let us begin our preparation with some understanding of the many forms in which the lack of true forgiveness may be carefully concealed. Because they are illusions, they are not perceived to be but what they are; defenses that protect your unforgiving thoughts from being seen and recognized. Their purpose is to show you something else, and hold correction off through self-deceptions made to take its place.And yet, your mind holds only what you think with God. Your self-deceptions cannot take the place of truth. No more than can a child who throws a stick into the ocean change the coming and the going of the tides, the warming of the water by the sun, the silver of the moon on it by night. So do we start each practice period in this review with readying our minds to understand the lessons that we read, and see the meaning that they offer us.Begin each day with time devoted to the preparation of your mind to learn what each idea you will review that day can offer you in freedom and in peace. Open your mind, and clear it of all thoughts that would deceive, and let this thought alone engage it fully, and remove the rest:My mind holds only what I think with God.Five minutes with this thought will be enough to set the day along the lines which God appointed, and to place His Mind in charge of all the thoughts you will receive that day.They will not come from you alone, for they will all be shared with Him. And so each one will bring the message of His Love to you, returning messages of yours to Him. So will communion with the Lord of Hosts be yours, as He Himself has willed it be. And as His Own completion joins with Him, so will He join with you who are complete as you unite with Him, and He with you.After your preparation, merely read each of the two ideas assigned to you to be reviewed that day. Then close your eyes, and say them slowly to yourself. There is no hurry now, for you are using time for its intended purpose. Let each word shine with the meaning God has given it, as it was given to you through His Voice. Let each idea which you review that day give you the gift that He has laid in it for you to have of Him. And we will use no format for our practicing but this:Each hour of the day, bring to your mind the thought with which the day began, and spend a quiet moment with it. Then repeat the two ideas you practice for the day unhurriedly, with time enough to see the gifts that they contain for you, and let them be received where they were meant to be.We add no other thoughts, but let these be the messages they are. We need no more than this to give us happiness and rest, and endless quiet, perfect certainty, and all our Father wills that we receive as the inheritance we have of Him. Each day of practicing, as we review, we close as we began, repeating first the thought that made the day a special time of blessing and of happiness for us; and through our faithfulness restored the world from darkness to the light, from grief to joy, from pain to peace, from sin to holiness.God offers thanks to you who practice thus the keeping of His Word. And as you give your mind to the ideas for the day again before you sleep, His gratitude surrounds you in the peace wherein He wills you be forever, and are learning now to claim again as your inheritance.LESSON 141Review of Lessons 121 -122My Mind Holds Only What I Think With God.(121) Forgiveness is the key to happiness.(122) Forgiveness offers everything I want.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 134Let Me Perceive Forgiveness AsIt 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 righteous wrath, a gift unjustified and undeserved, and a complete denial of the truth. In such a view, forgiveness 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 meaningless. 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 a sin, like all the rest. It says the truth is false, and smiles 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 loathsome 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 pardon them.It is sin's unreality that makes forgiveness natural and wholly sane, a deep relief to those who offer it; a quiet blessing where it is received. It does not countenance illusions, but collects 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 forms in 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 says 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. By its ability to overlook what is not there, it opens up the way to 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 very simple way to find the door to true forgiveness, and perceive it 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 dragons which he thought pursued him. Nor need he erect the heavy walls 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. It is as alien to the world as is your own reality. And yet it joins your mind with the reality in you.Today we practice true 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 may be 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 myself 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 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.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 130It Is Impossible To See Two Worlds.Perception is consistent. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. Your values are determiners of this, for what you value you must want to see, believing what you see is really there. No one can see a world his mind has not accorded value. And no one can fail to look upon what he believes he wants.Yet who can really hate and love at once? Who can desire what he does not want to have reality? And who can choose to see a world of which he is afraid? Fear must make blind, for this its weapon is: That which you fear to see you cannot see. Love and perception thus go hand in hand, but fear obscures in darkness what is there.What, then, can fear project upon the world? What can be seen in darkness that is real? Truth is eclipsed by fear, and what remains is but imagined. Yet what can be real in blind imaginings of panic born? What would you want that this is shown to you? What would you wish to keep in such a dream?Fear has made everything you think you see. All separation, all distinctions, and the multitude of differences you believe make up the world. They are not there. Love's enemy has made them up. Yet love can have no enemy, and so they have no cause, no being and no consequence. They can be valued, but remain unreal. They can be sought, but they can not be found. Today we will not seek for them, nor waste this day in seeking what can not be found.It is impossible to see two worlds which have no overlap of any kind. Seek for the one; the other disappears. But one remains. They are the range of choice beyond which your decision cannot go. The real and the unreal are all there are to choose between, and nothing more than these.Today we will attempt no compromise where none is possible. The world you see is proof you have already made a choice as all-embracing as its opposite. What we would learn today is more than just the lesson that you cannot see two worlds. It also teaches that the one you see is quite consistent from the point of view from which you see it. It is all a piece because it stems from one emotion, and reflects its source in everything you see.Six times today, in thanks and gratitude, we gladly give five minutes to the thought that ends all compromise and doubt, and go beyond them all as one. We will not make a thousand meaningless distinctions, nor attempt to bring with us a little part of unreality, as we devote our minds to finding only what is real.Begin your searching for the other world by asking for a strength beyond your own, and recognizing what it is you seek. You do not want illusions. And you come to these five minutes emptying your hands of all the petty treasures of this world. You wait for God to help you, as you say:It is impossible to see two worlds.Let me accept the strength God offers me and see no value in this world,that I may find my freedom and deliverance.God will be there. For you have called upon the great unfailing Power Which will take this giant step with you in gratitude. Nor will you fail to see His thanks expressed in tangible perception and in truth. You will not doubt what you will look upon, for though it is perception, it is not the kind of seeing that your eyes alone have ever seen before. And you will know God's strength upheld you as you made this choice.Dismiss temptation easily today whenever it arises, merely by remembering the limits of your choice. The unreal or the real, the false or true is what you see and only what you see. Perception is consistent with your choice, and hell or Heaven comes to you as one.Accept a little part of hell as real, and you have damned your eyes and cursed your sight, and what you will behold is hell indeed. Yet the release of Heaven still remains within your range of choice, to take the place of everything that hell would show to you. All you need say to any part of hell, whatever form it takes, is simply this:It is impossible to see two worlds.I seek my freedom and deliverance, and this is not a part of what I want.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 126All That I Give Is Given To Myself.Today's idea, completely alien to the ego and the thinking of the world, is crucial to the thought reversal that this course will bring about. If you believed this statement, there would be no problem in complete forgiveness, certainty of goal, and sure direction. You would understand the means by which salvation comes to you, and would not hesitate to use it now.Let us consider what you do believe, in place of this idea. It seems to you that other people are apart from you, and able to behave in ways which have no bearing on your thoughts, nor yours on theirs. Therefore, your attitudes have no effect on them, and their appeals for help are not in any way related to your own. You further think that they can sin without affecting your perception of yourself, while you can judge their sin, and yet remain apart from condemnation and at peace.When you “forgive” a sin, there is no gain to you directly. You give charity to one unworthy, merely to point out that you are better, on a higher plane than he whom you forgive. He has not earned your charitable tolerance, which you bestow on one unworthy of the gift, because his sins have lowered him beneath a true equality with you. He has no claim on your forgiveness. It holds out a gift to him, but hardly to yourself.Thus is forgiveness basically unsound; a charitable whim, benevolent yet undeserved, a gift bestowed at times, at other times withheld. Unmerited, withholding it is just, nor is it fair that you should suffer when it is withheld. The sin that you forgive is not your own. Someone apart from you committed it. And if you then are gracious unto him by giving him what he does not deserve, the gift is no more yours than was his sin.If this be true, forgiveness has no grounds on which to rest dependably and sure. It is an eccentricity, in which you sometimes choose to give indulgently an undeserved reprieve. Yet it remains your right to let the sinner not escape the justified repayment for his sin. Think you the Lord of Heaven would allow the world's salvation to depend on this? Would not His care for you be small indeed, if your salvation rested on a whim?You do not understand forgiveness. As you see it, it is but a check upon overt attack, without requiring correction in your mind. It cannot give you peace as you perceive it. It is not a means for your release from what you see in someone other than yourself. It has no power to restore your unity with him to your awareness. It is not what God intended it to be for you.Not having given Him the gift He asks of you, you cannot recognize His gifts, and think He has not given them to you. Yet would He ask you for a gift unless it was for you? Could He be satisfied with empty gestures, and evaluate such petty gifts as worthy of His Son? Salvation is a better gift than this. And true forgiveness, as the means by which it is attained, must heal the mind that gives, for giving is receiving. What remains as unreceived has not been given, but what has been given must have been received.Today we try to understand the truth that giver and receiver are the same. You will need help to make this meaningful, because it is so alien to the thoughts to which you are accustomed. But the Help you need is there. Give Him your faith today, and ask Him that He share your practicing in truth today. And if you only catch a tiny glimpse of the release that lies in the idea we practice for today, this is a day of glory for the world.Give fifteen minutes twice today to the attempt to understand today's idea. It is the thought by which forgiveness takes its proper place in your priorities. It is the thought that will release your mind from every bar to what forgiveness means, and let you realize its worth to you.In silence, close your eyes upon the world that does not understand forgiveness, and seek sanctuary in the quiet place where thoughts are changed and false beliefs laid by. Repeat today's idea, and ask for help in understanding what it really means. Be willing to be taught. Be glad to hear the Voice of truth and healing speak to you, and you will understand the words He speaks, and recognize He speaks your words to you.As often as you can, remind yourself you have a goal today; an aim which makes this day of special value to yourself and all your brothers. Do not let your mind forget this goal for long, but tell yourself:All that I give is given to myself.The Help I need to learn that this is true is with me now.And I will trust in Him.Then spend a quiet moment, opening your mind to His correction and His Love. And what you hear of Him you will believe, for what He gives will be received by you.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 124Let Me Remember I Am One With God.Today we will again give thanks for our Identity in God. Our home is safe, protection guaranteed in all we do, power and strength available to us in all our undertakings. We can fail in nothing. Everything we touch takes on a shining light that blesses and that heals. At one with God and with the universe we go our way rejoicing, with the thought that God Himself goes everywhere with us.How holy are our minds! And everything we see reflects the holiness within the mind at one with God and with itself. How easily do errors disappear, and death give place to everlasting life. Our shining footprints point the way to truth, for God is our Companion as we walk the world a little while. And those who come to follow us will recognize the way because the light we carry stays behind, yet still remains with us as we walk on.What we receive is our eternal gift to those who follow after, and to those who went before or stayed with us a while. And God, Who loves us with the equal love in which we were created, smiles on us and offers us the happiness we gave.Today we will not doubt His Love for us, nor question His protection and His care. No meaningless anxieties can come between our faith and our awareness of His Presence. We are one with Him today in recognition and remembrance. We feel Him in our hearts. Our minds contain His Thoughts; our eyes behold His loveliness in all we look upon. Today we see only the loving and the lovable.We see it in appearances of pain, and pain gives way to peace. We see it in the frantic, in the sad and the distressed, the lonely and afraid, who are restored to the tranquility and peace of mind in which they were created. And we see it in the dying and the dead as well, restoring them to life. All this we see because we saw it first within ourselves.No miracle can ever be denied to those who know that they are one with God. No thought of theirs but has the power to heal all forms of suffering in anyone, in times gone by and times as yet to come, as easily as in the ones who walk beside them now. Their thoughts are timeless, and apart from distance as apart from time.We join in this awareness as we say that we are one with God. For in these words we say as well that we are saved and healed; that we can save and heal accordingly. We have accepted, and we now would give. For we would keep the gifts our Father gave. Today we would experience ourselves at one with Him, so that the world may share our recognition of reality. In our experience the world is freed. As we deny our separation from our Father, it is healed along with us.Peace be to you today. Secure your peace by practicing awareness you are one with your Creator, as He is with you. Sometime today, whenever it seems best, devote a half an hour to the thought that you are one with God. This is our first attempt at an extended period for which we give no rules nor special words to guide your meditation. We will trust God's Voice to speak as He sees fit today, certain He will not fail. Abide with Him this half an hour. He will do the rest.Your benefit will not be less if you believe that nothing happens. You may not be ready to accept the gain today. Yet sometime, somewhere, it will come to you, nor will you fail to recognize it when it dawns with certainty upon your mind. This half an hour will be framed in gold, with every minute like a diamond set around the mirror that this exercise will offer you. And you will see Christ's face upon it, in reflection of your own.Perhaps today, perhaps tomorrow, you will see your own transfiguration in the glass this holy half an hour will hold out to you, to look upon yourself. When you are ready you will find it there, within your mind and waiting to be found. You will remember then the thought to which you gave this half an hour, thankfully aware no time was ever better spent.Perhaps today, perhaps tomorrow, you will look into this glass, and understand the sinless light you see belongs to you; the loveliness you look on is your own. Count this half hour as your gift to God, in certainty that His return will be a sense of love you cannot understand, a joy too deep for you to comprehend, a sight too holy for the body's eyes to see. And yet you can be sure someday, perhaps today, perhaps tomorrow, you will understand and comprehend and see.Add further jewels to the golden frame that holds the mirror offered you today, by hourly repeating to yourself:Let me remember I am one with God,at one with all my brothers and my Self, in everlasting holiness and peace.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 123I Thank My Father For His Gifts To Me.Today let us be thankful. We have come to gentler pathways and to smoother roads. There is no thought of turning back, and no implacable resistance to the truth. A bit of wavering remains, some small objections and a little hesitance, but you can well be grateful for your gains, which are far greater than you realize.A day devoted now to gratitude will add the benefit of some insight into the real extent of all the gains which you have made; the gifts you have received. Be glad today, in loving thankfulness, your Father has not left you to yourself, nor let you wander in the dark alone. Be grateful He has saved you from the self you thought you made to take the place of Him and His creation. Give Him thanks today.Give thanks that He has not abandoned you, and that His Love forever will remain shining on you, forever without change. Give thanks as well that you are changeless, for the Son He loves is changeless as Himself. Be grateful you are saved. Be glad you have a function in salvation to fulfill. Be thankful that your value far transcends your meager gifts and petty judgments of the one whom God established as His Son.Today in gratitude we lift our hearts above despair, and raise our thankful eyes, no longer looking downward to the dust. We sing the song of thankfulness today, in honor of the Self That God has willed to be our true Identity in Him. Today we smile on everyone we see, and walk with lightened footsteps as we go to do what is appointed us to do.We do not go alone. And we give thanks that in our solitude a Friend has come to speak the saving Word of God to us. And thanks to you for listening to Him. His Word is soundless if it be not heard. In thanking Him the thanks are yours as well. An unheard message will not save the world, however mighty be the Voice that speaks, however loving may the message be.Thanks be to you who heard, for you become the messenger who brings His Voice with you, and lets It echo round and round the world. Receive the thanks of God today, as you give thanks to Him. For He would offer you the thanks you give, since He receives your gifts in loving gratitude, and gives them back a thousand and a hundred thousand more than they were given. He will bless your gifts by sharing them with you. And so they grow in power and in strength, until they fill the world with gladness and with gratitude.Receive His thanks and offer yours to Him for fifteen minutes twice today. And you will realize to Whom you offer thanks, and Whom He thanks as you are thanking Him. This holy half an hour given Him will be returned to you in terms of years for every second; power to save the world eons more quickly for your thanks to Him.Receive His thanks, and you will understand how lovingly He holds you in His Mind, how deep and limitless His care for you, how perfect is His gratitude to you. Remember hourly to think of Him, and give Him thanks for everything He gave His Son, that he might rise above the world, remembering his Father and his Self.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 120Review of Lessons 109 - 110For morning and evening review:(109) I rest in God.I rest in God today,and let Him work in me and through me,while I rest in Him in quiet and in perfect certainty.(110) I am as God created me.I am God's Son.Today I lay aside all sick illusions of myself,and let my Father tell me Who I really am. On the hour:I rest in God.On the half hour:I am as God created me.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 119Review of Lessons 107 - 108For morning and evening review:(107) Truth will correct all errors in my mind.I am mistaken when I think I can be hurt in any way.I am God's Son,whose Self rests safely in the Mind of God.(108) To give and to receive are one in truth.I will forgive all things today,that I may learn how to accept the truth in me,and come to recognize my sinlessness. On the hour:Truth will correct all errors in my mind.On the half hour:To give and to receive are one in truth.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 113Review of Lessons 95 - 96For morning and evening review:(95) I am one Self, united with my Creator.Serenity and perfect peace are mine,because I am one Self, completely whole,at one with all creation and with God.(96) Salvation comes from my one Self.From my one Self, Whose knowledge stillremains within my mind, I see God's perfect planfor my salvation perfectly fulfilled. On the hour:I am one Self, united with my Creator.On the half hour:Salvation comes from my one Self.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 112Review of Lessons 93 - 94For morning and evening review:(93) Light and joy and peace abide in me.I am the home of light and joy and peace.I welcome them into the home I share with God,because I am a part of Him.(94) I am as God created me.I will remain forever as I was,created by the Changeless like Himself.And I am one with Him, and He with me. On the hour:Light and joy and peace abide in me.On the half hour:I am as God created me.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 106Let Me Be Still And Listen To The Truth.If you will lay aside the ego's voice, however loudly it may seem to call, if you will not accept its petty gifts that give you nothing that you really want; if you will listen with an open mind, that has not told you what salvation is; then you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its messages.Listen, and hear your Father speak to you through His appointed Voice, Which silences the thunder of the meaningless, and shows the way to peace to those who cannot see. Be still today and listen to the truth. Be not deceived by voices of the dead, which tell you they have found the source of life and offer it to you for your belief. Attend them not, but listen to the truth.Be not afraid today to circumvent the voices of the world. Walk lightly past their meaningless persuasion. Hear them not. Be still today and listen to the truth. Go past all things which do not speak of Him Who holds your happiness within His hand, held out to you in welcome and in love. Hear only Him today, and do not wait to reach Him longer. Hear one Voice today.Today the promise of God's Word is kept. Hear and be silent. He would speak to you. He comes with miracles a thousand times as happy and as wonderful as those you ever dreamed or wished for in your dreams. His miracles are true. They will not fade when dreaming ends. They end the dream instead; and last forever, for they come from God to His dear Son, whose other name is you. Prepare yourself for miracles today. Today allow your Father's ancient pledge to you and all your brothers to be kept.Hear Him today, and listen to the Word which lifts the veil that lies upon the earth, and wakes all those who sleep and cannot see. God calls to them through you. He needs your voice to speak to them, for who could reach God's Son except his Father, calling through your Self? Hear Him today, and offer Him your voice to speak to all the multitude who wait to hear the Word that He will speak today.Be ready for salvation. It is here, and will today be given unto you. And you will learn your function from the One Who chose it in your Father's Name for you. Listen today, and you will hear a Voice Which will resound throughout the world through you. The Bringer of all miracles has need that you receive them first, and thus become the joyous giver of what you received.Thus does salvation start and thus it ends; when everything is yours and everything is given away, it will remain with you forever. And the lesson has been learned. Today we practice giving, not the way you understand it now, but as it is. Each hour's exercises should begin with this request for your enlightenment:I will be still and listen to the truth.What does it mean to give and to receive?Ask and expect an answer. Your request is one whose answer has been waiting long to be received by you. It will begin the ministry for which you came, and which will free the world from thinking giving is a way to lose. And so the world becomes ready to understand and to receive.Be still and listen to the truth today. For each five minutes spent in listening, a thousand minds are opened to the truth and they will hear the holy Word you hear. And when the hour is past, you will again release a thousand more who pause to ask that truth be given them, along with you.Today the holy Word of God is kept through your receiving it to give away, so you can teach the world what giving means by listening and learning it of Him. Do not forget today to reinforce your choice to hear and to receive the Word by this reminder, given to yourself as often as is possible today:Let me be still and listen to the truth.I am the messenger of God today,My voice is His, to give what I receive.

LESSON 105God's Peace And Joy Are Mine.God's peace and joy are yours. Today we will accept them, knowing they belong to us. And we will try to understand these gifts increase as we receive them. They are not like to the gifts the world can give, in which the giver loses as he gives the gift; the taker is the richer by his loss. Such are not gifts, but bargains made with guilt. The truly given gift entails no loss. It is impossible that one can gain because another loses. This implies a limit and an insufficiency.No gift is given thus. Such “gifts” are but a bid for a more valuable return; a loan with interest to be paid in full; a temporary lending, meant to be a pledge of debt to be repaid with more than was received by him who took the gift. This strange distortion of what giving means pervades all levels of the world you see. It strips all meaning from the gifts you give, and leaves you nothing in the ones you take.A major learning goal this course has set is to reverse your view of giving, so you can receive. For giving has become a source of fear, and so you would avoid the only means by which you can receive. Accept God's peace and joy, and you will learn a different way of looking at a gift. God's gifts will never lessen when they are given away. They but increase thereby.As Heaven's peace and joy intensify when you accept them as God's gift to you, so does the joy of your Creator grow when you accept His joy and peace as yours. True giving is creation. It extends the limitless to the unlimited, eternity to timelessness, and love unto itself. It adds to all that is complete already, not in simple terms of adding more, for that implies that it was less before. It adds by letting what cannot contain itself fulfill its aim of giving everything it has away, securing it forever for itself.Today accept God's peace and joy as yours. Let Him complete Himself as He defines completion. You will understand that what completes Him must complete His Son as well. He cannot give through loss. No more can you. Receive His gift of joy and peace today, and He will thank you for your gift to Him.Today our practice periods will start a little differently. Begin today by thinking of those brothers who have been denied by you the peace and joy that are their right under the equal laws of God. Here you denied them to yourself. And here you must return to claim them as your own.Think of your “enemies” a little while, and tell each one, as he occurs to you:My brother, peace and joy I offer you,That I may have God's peace and joy as mine.Thus you prepare yourself to recognize God's gifts to you, and let your mind be free of all that would prevent success today. Now are you ready to accept the gift of peace and joy that God has given you. Now are you ready to experience the joy and peace you have denied yourself. Now you can say, “God's peace and joy are mine,” for you have given what you would receive.You must succeed today, if you prepare your mind as we suggest. For you have let all bars to peace and joy be lifted up, and what is yours can come to you at last. So tell yourself, “God's peace and joy are mine,” and close your eyes a while, and let His Voice assure you that the words you speak are true.Spend your five minutes thus with Him each time you can today, but do not think that less is worthless when you cannot give Him more. At least remember hourly to say the words which call to Him to give you what He wills to give, and wills you to receive. Determine not to interfere today with what He wills. And if a brother seems to tempt you to deny God's gift to him, see it as but another chance to let yourself receive the gifts of God as yours. Then bless your brother thankfully, and say:My brother, peace and joy I offer you,That I may have God's peace and joy as mine.- Jesus Christ in ACIM