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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

Wahrhaft hilfreich sein - Was Hilfe begrenzt - 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 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

Wahrhaft hilfreich sein - Hilfe mittels Nichts-Tun - 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 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. ◊ ◊

Freies Lehren - Über die Bedeutung von Tod - EKIW Session mit #devavan Mehr Informationen zum Programm der #AlephAkademie: http://www.aleph-akademie.de Telegram: https://t.me/AlephAkademie WhatApp https://chat.whatsapp.com/L40lKLGeL7H5JM8BTvFY1J Die Audios aller täglichen Sessions findet ihr unter 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 #EinKursinWundern (#EKiW) ©2006 von der Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd., 306, Novato, CA 94949, acim.org und info@acim.org, verwendet mit Erlaubnis. All quotes are from A Course in Miracles, copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007 by the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd., #306, Novato, CA 94949, acim.org and info@acim.org, used with permission.

Wahrhaft hilfreich sein - Grundsätze zum Helfen - 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 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

In dieser Episode 19 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 von Werten in Bezug auf die Vernunft lehrt und anbietet, wie wir sie für uns zwar als Teile unseres Geistes erkennen, aber oft noch in begrenzten Bedeutungen halten. Wir sehen nun, dass in unserem Neuen Denken und Fühlen mit IHM die Ängste und Weltbilder, die wir so lange als "wertvoll" hielten und beschützten, vollkommen anders verstehen und erkennen lernen. Wir erkennen an, dass wir die korrigierende Fakultät des Heiligen GEISTES in Anspruch nehmen wollen.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 des Kap. 22-III-2.,4. 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/)

Wie hat Jesus (Hl. Geist) dein Leben verändert? - Vergebung ersetzt des Egos Loblied - 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 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

Festival Warm-Up - 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 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

In dieser Episode 17 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 und Ausdruck auf provokantes Verhalten von Weggefährten und Begleitern lehrt und anbietet, wie wir sie für uns zwar als Teile unseres Geistes erkennen, aber oft noch im Wirklichmachen und einen falschen Glauben an Wert als Götzen halten, und nun in unserem Neuen Denken und Fühlen mit IHM vollkommen anders verstehen und erkennen lernen. Wir erkennen an, dass wir im Umgang mit uns Selbst Erscheinungen wirklich machten und uns als wertvoll zu "verkaufen" versuchten, ohne den Witz dahinter anzuerkennen, dass hier niemand irgendetwas tut und somit auch keine Existenz hat. 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 119 des Übungsbuchs 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/)

In dieser Episode 18 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 von Werten lehrt und anbietet, wie wir sie für uns zwar als Teile unseres Geistes erkennen, aber oft noch im Wirklichmachen und einen falschen Glauben an begrenzten Werten halten, und nun in unserem Neuen Denken und Fühlen mit IHM vollkommen anders verstehen und erkennen lernen. Wir erkennen an, dass wir im Umgang mit uns Selbst Erscheinungen wirklich machten und uns als wertvoll zu "verkaufen" versuchten, ohne den Witz dahinter anzuerkennen, dass hier niemand irgendetwas tut und somit auch keine Existenz hat. 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 119 des Übungsbuchs 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 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

In dieser Episode 16 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 und Ausdruck der Gaben Gottes lehrt und anbietet, wie wir sie für uns zwar erkennen, aber oft noch in der Kleinheit und Begrenzung halten, und nun in unserem Neuen Denken und Fühlen mit IHM vollkommen anders verstehen und erkennen lernen. Wir erkennen an, dass wir uns selbst als unseren Bruder im Dachbodengescchoß als buchstäblich einen "Zombie" verrbannt und abgeschoben haben, ohne den wahren Sinn und Zweck seiner "Rückkehr von den Toten" anzuerkennen. 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 105 des Übungsbuchs von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW. Der Bezug auf den erwähnten Film "Life after Beth" ist auch auf Netflix zugänglich. ◊ ◊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/)

LESSON 10I Share God's Will For Happiness For Me.You do not want to suffer. You may think it buys you something, and may still believe a little that it buys you what you want. Yet this belief is surely shaken now, at least enough to let you question it, and to suspect it really makes no sense. It has not gone as yet, but lacks the roots that once secured it tightly to the dark and hidden secret places of your mind.Today we try to loose its weakened hold still further, and to realize that pain is purposeless, without a cause and with no power to accomplish anything. It cannot purchase anything at all. It offers nothing, and does not exist. And everything you think it offers you is lacking in existence, like itself. You have been slave to nothing. Be you free today to join the happy Will of God.For several days we will continue to devote our periods of practicing to exercises planned to help you reach the happiness God's Will has placed in you. Here is your home, and here your safety is. Here is your peace, and here there is no fear. Here is salvation. Here is rest at last.Begin your practice periods today with this acceptance of God's Will for you:I share God's Will for happiness for me,and I accept it as my function now.Then seek this function deep within your mind, for it is there, awaiting but your choice. You cannot fail to find it when you learn it is your choice, and that you share God's Will.Be happy, for your only function here is happiness. You have no need to be less loving to God's Son than He Whose Love created him as loving as Himself. Besides these hourly five-minute rests, pause frequently today, to tell yourself that you have now accepted happiness as your one function. And be sure that you are joining with God's Will in doing this.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 98I Will Accept My Part In God's Plan For Salvation.Today is a day of special dedication. We take a stand on but one side today. We side with truth and let illusions go. We will not vacillate between the two, but take a firm position with the One. We dedicate ourselves to truth today, and to salvation as God planned it be. We will not argue it is something else. We will not seek for it where it is not. In gladness we accept it as it is, and take the part assigned to us by God.How happy to be certain! All our doubts we lay aside today, and take our stand with certainty of purpose, and with thanks that doubt is gone and surety has come. We have a mighty purpose to fulfill, and have been given everything we need with which to reach the goal. Not one mistake stands in our way. For we have been absolved from errors. All our sins are washed away by realizing they were but mistakes.The guiltless have no fear, for they are safe and recognize their safety. They do not appeal to magic, nor invent escapes from fancied threats without reality. They rest in quiet certainty that they will do what it is given them to do. They do not doubt their own ability because they know their function will be filled completely in the perfect time and place. They took the stand which we will take today, that we may share their certainty and thus increase it by accepting it ourselves.They will be with us; all who took the stand we take today will gladly offer us all that they learned and every gain they made. Those still uncertain, too, will join with us, and, borrowing our certainty, will make it stronger still. While those as yet unborn will hear the call we heard, and answer it when they have come to make their choice again. We do not choose but for ourselves today.Is it not worth five minutes of your time each hour to be able to accept the happiness that God has given you? Is it not worth five minutes hourly to recognize your special function here? Is not five minutes but a small request to make in terms of gaining a reward so great it has no measure? You have made a thousand losing bargains at the least.Here is an offer guaranteeing you your full release from pain of every kind, and joy the world does not contain. You can exchange a little of your time for peace of mind and certainty of purpose, with the promise of complete success. And since time has no meaning, you are being asked for nothing in return for everything. Here is a bargain that you cannot lose. And what you gain is limitless indeed!Each hour today give Him your tiny gift of but five minutes. He will give the words you use in practicing today's idea the deep conviction and the certainty you lack. His words will join with yours, and make each repetition of today's idea a total dedication, made in faith as perfect and as sure as His in you. His confidence in you will bring the light to all the words you say, and you will go beyond their sound to what they really mean. Today you practice with Him, as you say:I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.In each five minutes that you spend with Him, He will accept your words and give them back to you all bright with faith and confidence so strong and steady they will light the world with hope and gladness. Do not lose one chance to be the glad receiver of His gifts, that you may give them to the world today.Give Him the words, and He will do the rest. He will enable you to understand your special function. He will open up the way to happiness, and peace and trust will be His gifts; His answer to your words. He will respond with all His faith and joy and certainty that what you say is true. And you will have conviction then of Him Who knows the function that you have on earth as well as Heaven. He will be with you each practice period you share with Him, exchanging every instant of the time you offer Him for timelessness and peace.Throughout the hour, let your time be spent in happy preparation for the next five minutes you will spend again with Him. Repeat today's idea while you wait for the glad time to come to you again. Repeat it often, and do not forget each time you do so, you have let your mind be readied for the happy time to come.And when the hour goes and He is there once more to spend a little time with you, be thankful and lay down all earthly tasks, all little thoughts and limited ideas, and spend a happy time again with Him. Tell Him once more that you accept the part that He would have you take and help you fill, and He will make you sure you want this choice, which He has made with you and you with Him.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 15 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 unser Selbstbild in Bezug auf die Vergangenheit lehrt und anbietet, wie wir vage Erinnerungen heranziehen, und nun in unserem Neuseein vollkommen anders verstehen und erkennen lernen. Wir erkennen an, dass wir uns nicht wahrlich aus der Vergangenheit kennen noch wiederkennen, was wir als Öffnung für eine ausgerichtete Selbst-Erkenntnis jenseits der wahrgenommenen Körper-Existenz anerkennen. 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 98 des Übungsbuchs 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 95I Am One Self, United With My Creator.Today's idea accurately describes you as God created you. You are one within yourself, and one with Him. Yours is the unity of all creation. Your perfect unity makes change in you impossible. You do not accept this, and you fail to realize it must be so, only because you believe that you have changed yourself already.You see yourself as a ridiculous parody on God's creation; weak, vicious, ugly and sinful, miserable and beset with pain. Such is your version of yourself; a self divided into many warring parts, separate from God, and tenuously held together by its erratic and capricious maker, to which you pray. It does not hear your prayers, for it is deaf. It does not see the oneness in you, for it is blind. It does not understand you are the Son of God, for it is senseless and understands nothing.We will attempt today to be aware only of what can hear and see, and what makes perfect sense. We will again direct our exercises towards reaching your one Self, Which is united with Its Creator. In patience and in hope we try again today.The use of the first five minutes of every waking hour for practicing the idea for the day has special advantages at the stage of learning in which you are at present. It is difficult at this point not to allow your mind to wander, if it undertakes extended practice. You have surely realized this by now. You have seen the extent of your lack of mental discipline, and of your need for mind training. It is necessary that you be aware of this, for it is indeed a hindrance to your advance.Frequent but shorter practice periods have other advantages for you at this time. In addition to recognizing your difficulties with sustained attention, you must also have noticed that, unless you are reminded of your purpose frequently, you tend to forget about it for long periods of time. You often fail to remember the short applications of the idea for the day, and you have not yet formed the habit of using the idea as an automatic response to temptation.Structure, then, is necessary for you at this time, planned to include frequent reminders of your goal and regular attempts to reach it. Regularity in terms of time is not the ideal requirement for the most beneficial form of practice in salvation. It is advantageous, however, for those whose motivation is inconsistent, and who remain heavily defended against learning.We will, therefore, keep to the five-minutes-an-hour practice periods for a while, and urge you to omit as few as possible. Using the first five minutes of the hour will be particularly helpful, since it imposes firmer structure. Do not, however, use your lapses from this schedule as an excuse not to return to it again as soon as you can. There may well be a temptation to regard the day as lost because you have already failed to do what is required. This should, however, merely be recognized as what it is; a refusal to let your mistake be corrected, and an unwillingness to try again.The Holy Spirit is not delayed in His teaching by your mistakes. He can be held back only by your unwillingness to let them go. Let us therefore be determined, particularly for the next week or so, to be willing to forgive ourselves for our lapses in diligence, and our failures to follow the instructions for practicing the day's idea. This tolerance for weakness will enable us to overlook it, rather than give it power to delay our learning. If we give it power to do this, we are regarding it as strength, and are confusing strength with weakness.When you fail to comply with the requirements of this course, you have merely made a mistake. This calls for correction, and for nothing else. To allow a mistake to continue is to make additional mistakes, based on the first and reinforcing it. It is this process that must be laid aside, for it is but another way in which you would defend illusions against the truth.Let all these errors go by recognizing them for what they are. They are attempts to keep you unaware you are one Self, united with your Creator, at one with every aspect of creation, and limitless in power and in peace. This is the truth, and nothing else is true. Today we will affirm this truth again, and try to reach the place in you in which there is no doubt that only this is true.Begin the practice periods today with this assurance, offered to your mind with all the certainty that you can give:I am one Self, united with my Creator,at one with every aspect of creation,and limitless in power and in peace.Then close your eyes and tell yourself again, slowly and thoughtfully, attempting to allow the meaning of the words to sink into your mind, replacing false ideas:I am one Self.Repeat this several times, and then attempt to feel the meaning that the words convey.You are one Self, united and secure in light and joy and peace. You are God's Son, one Self, with one Creator and one goal; to bring awareness of this oneness to all minds, that true creation may extend the Allness and the Unity of God. You are one Self, complete and healed and whole, with power to lift the veil of darkness from the world, and let the light in you come through to teach the world the truth about yourself.You are one Self, in perfect harmony with all there is, and all that there will be. You are one Self, the holy Son of God, united with your brothers in that Self; united with your Father in His Will. Feel this one Self in you, and let It shine away all your illusions and your doubts. This is your Self, the Son of God Himself, sinless as Its Creator, with His strength within you and His Love forever yours. You are one Self, and it is given you to feel this Self within you, and to cast all your illusions out of the one Mind that is this Self, the holy truth in you.Do not forget today. We need your help; your little part in bringing happiness to all the world. And Heaven looks to you in confidence that you will try today. Share, then, its surety, for it is yours. Be vigilant. Do not forget today. Throughout the day do not forget your goal. Repeat today's idea as frequently as possible, and understand each time you do so, someone hears the voice of hope, the stirring of the truth within his mind, the gentle rustling of the wings of peace.Your own acknowledgment you are one Self, united with your Father, is a call to all the world to be at one with you. To everyone you meet today, be sure to give the promise of today's idea and tell him this:You are one Self with me, united with our Creator in this Self.I honor you because of What I am, and What He is,Who loves us both as one.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 91Miracles Are Seen In Light.It is important to remember that miracles and vision necessarily go together. This needs repeating, and frequent repeating. It is a central idea in your new thought system, and the perception that it produces. The miracle is always there. Its presence is not caused by your vision; its absence is not the result of your failure to see. It is only your awareness of miracles that is affected. You will see them in the light; you will not see them in the dark.To you, then, light is crucial. While you remain in darkness, the miracle remains unseen. Thus you are convinced it is not there. This follows from the premises from which the darkness comes. Denial of light leads to failure to perceive it. Failure to perceive light is to perceive darkness. The light is useless to you then, even though it is there. You cannot use it because its presence is unknown to you. And the seeming reality of the darkness makes the idea of light meaningless.To be told that what you do not see is there sounds like insanity. It is very difficult to become convinced that it is insanity not to see what is there, and to see what is not there instead. You do not doubt that the body's eyes can see. You do not doubt the images they show you are reality. Your faith lies in the darkness, not the light. How can this be reversed? For you it is impossible, but you are not alone in this.Your efforts, however little they may be, have strong support. Did you but realize how great this strength, your doubts would vanish. Today we will devote ourselves to the attempt to let you feel this strength. When you have felt the strength in you, which makes all miracles within your easy reach, you will not doubt. The miracles your sense of weakness hides will leap into awareness as you feel the strength in you.Three times today, set aside about ten minutes for a quiet time in which you try to leave your weakness behind. This is accomplished very simply, as you instruct yourself that you are not a body. Faith goes to what you want, and you instruct your mind accordingly. Your will remains your teacher, and your will has all the strength to do what it desires. You can escape the body if you choose. You can experience the strength in you.Begin the longer practice periods with this statement of true cause and effect relationships:Miracles are seen in light.The body's eyes do not perceive the light.But I am not a body. What am I?The question with which this statement ends is needed for our exercises today. What you think you are is a belief to be undone. But what you really are must be revealed to you. The belief you are a body calls for correction, being a mistake. The truth of what you are calls on the strength in you to bring to your awareness what the mistake conceals.If you are not a body, what are you? You need to be aware of what the Holy Spirit uses to replace the image of a body in your mind. You need to feel something to put your faith in, as you lift it from the body. You need a real experience of something else, something more solid and more sure; more worthy of your faith, and really there.If you are not a body, what are you? Ask this in honesty, and then devote several minutes to allowing your mistaken thoughts about your attributes to be corrected, and their opposites to take their place. Say, for example:I am not weak, but strong.I am not helpless, but all powerful.I am not limited, but unlimited.I am not doubtful, but certain.I am not an illusion, but a reality.I cannot see in darkness, but in light.In the second phase of the exercise period, try to experience these truths about yourself. Concentrate particularly on the experience of strength. Remember that all sense of weakness is associated with the belief you are a body, a belief that is mistaken and deserves no faith. Try to remove your faith from it, if only for a moment. You will be accustomed to keeping faith with the more worthy in you as we go along.Relax for the rest of the practice period, confident that your efforts, however meager, are fully supported by the strength of God and all His Thoughts. It is from Them that your strength will come. It is through Their strong support that you will feel the strength in you.They are united with you in this practice period, in which you share a purpose like Their own. Theirs is the light in which you will see miracles, because Their strength is yours. Their strength becomes your eyes, that you may see.Five or six times an hour, at reasonably regular intervals, remind yourself that miracles are seen in light. Also, be sure to meet temptation with today's idea. This form would be helpful for this special purpose:Miracles are seen in light.Let me not close my eyes because of this.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 14 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" mit und über den Körper lehrt und anbietet, wie wir seine Unwirklichkeit zu verstehen und erkennen lernen. Wir erkennen an, dass wir dem Körper ganz bestimmte und alle Bedeutung gegeben und unser Denken und Erfahren dadurch begrenzt haben. Es ist das Verständnis über die Körperliche Auferstehung, die uns Jesus demonstrierte und nun von uns Selbst in Erfahrunng gebracht werden soll, die klarstellt, wie das "Ding" Körper verschwindet bzw nicht da ist, sobald wir die Illusionen darüber in unserer Denkweise aufgeben.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 91 des Übungsbuchs von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW ◊ ◊Aufnahme auf YouTube: https://youtu.be/8CPTrBO_P0IBITTE 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/) 

In dieser Aleph-Session teilen wir in einem Freien Thema unser Denken über Liebe und das Sie uns erschaffen hat, wie Sich Selbst. Wir sind bereit anzuerkennen, dass Liebe keinen Groll hegt. Und mit dieser Erkenntnis wollen wir nicht mehr länger unser wahres SELBST angreifen. Christus Jesus lehrt uns, dass jener Geist, der daran glaubte ein Ego für sich sellbst und für alle anderen gemacht zu haben, die Autonomie des Egos geschaffen hat, und damit ein Denksystem, das er Entscheidungen trifft und glaubt, dass er brauchen würde, was ihn verletzt. Deshalb sind seine Hinweise jene der Berichtigung der Wahrnehmung und dahinter die Erkenntnis davon, wer wir wirklich sind, zu finden und in Erfahrung zu bringen. ◊Devavan teilt mit dir Textstellen aus der Lektion 84, aus dem Übungsbuch, aus dem Textbuch Kap. 4-II, sowie einen Auszug aus “3 Tage zum Erwachen” – Tag 3, S. 47-50BITTE 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 84Review of Lessons 67 - 68These are the idea's for today's review:(67) Love created me like Itself.I am in the likeness of my Creator, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die. I am not a body. I would recognize my reality today. I will worship no idols, nor raise my own self-concept to replace my Self. I am in the likeness of my Creator. Love created me like Itself.You might find these specific forms helpful in applying the idea:Let me not see an illusion of myself in this.As I look on this, let me remember my Creator.My Creator did not create this as I see it.(68) Love holds no grievances.Grievances are completely alien to love. Grievances attack love and keep its light obscure. If I hold grievances I am attacking love, and therefore attacking my Self. My Self thus becomes alien to me. I am determined not to attack my Self today, so that I can remember Who I am.These specific forms for applying this idea would be helpful:This is no justification for denying my Self.I will not use this to attack love.Let this not tempt me to attack myself.

LESSON 77I Am Entitled To Miracles.You are entitled to miracles because of what you are. You will receive miracles because of what God is. And you will offer miracles because you are one with God. Again, how simple is salvation! It is merely a statement of your true Identity. It is this that we will celebrate today.Your claim to miracles does not lie in your illusions about yourself. It does not depend on any magical powers you have ascribed to yourself, nor on any of the rituals you have devised. It is inherent in the truth of what you are. It is implicit in what God your Father is. It was ensured in your creation, and guaranteed by the laws of God.Today we will claim the miracles which are your right, since they belong to you. You have been promised full release from the world you made. You have been assured that the Kingdom of God is within you, and can never be lost. We ask no more than what belongs to us in truth. Today, however, we will also make sure that we will not content ourselves with less.Begin the longer practice periods by telling yourself quite confidently that you are entitled to miracles. Closing your eyes, remind yourself that you are asking only for what is rightfully yours. Remind yourself also that miracles are never taken from one and given to another, and that in asking for your rights, you are upholding the rights of everyone. Miracles do not obey the laws of this world. They merely follow from the laws of God.After this brief introductory phase, wait quietly for the assurance that your request is granted. You have asked for the salvation of the world, and for your own. You have requested that you be given the means by which this is accomplished. You cannot fail to be assured in this. You are but asking that the Will of God be done.In doing this, you do not really ask for anything. You state a fact that cannot be denied. The Holy Spirit cannot but assure you that your request is granted. The fact that you accepted must be so. There is no room for doubt and uncertainty today. We are asking a real question at last. The answer is a simple statement of a simple fact. You will receive the assurance that you seek.Our shorter practice periods will be frequent, and will also be devoted to a reminder of a simple fact. Tell yourself often today:I am entitled to miracles.Ask for them whenever a situation arises in which they are called for. You will recognize these situations. And since you are not relying on yourself to find the miracle, you are fully entitled to receive it whenever you ask.Remember, too, not to be satisfied with less than the perfect answer. Be quick to tell yourself, should you be tempted:I will not trade miracles for grievances.I want only what belongs to me.God has established miracles as my right.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In dieser Episode 12 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" und die Denkweise im Sinne der Erlösung anbietet. Wir erkennen an, dass wir unsere trivialen Alltagsprobleme nicht wirklich lösen konnten, und gestehen uns ein, dass eine wundergesinnte Handhabung wirklich gewolllt ist. Das Wunder ist eine Korrektur der Denkweise und Glaubenssätze und führt uns auf einen neuen Weg, der sich für uns selbst autentisch und klarr anfühlt, selbst wenn es im Ausdruck noch so aussieht, als ob dieses Wir-Selbst-Sein nicht spirituell oder alles erduldend und tolerant erscheinen mag. Wir wissen, dass es für unsere eigenen Transformation dienlich ist und vertrauen darauf. 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 77 des Übungsbuchs 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 70My Salvation Comes From Me.All temptation is nothing more than some form of the basic temptation not to believe the idea for today. Salvation seems to come from anywhere except from you. So, too, does the source of guilt. You see neither guilt nor salvation as in your own mind and nowhere else. When you realize that all guilt is solely an invention of your mind, you also realize that guilt and salvation must be in the same place. In understanding this you are saved.The seeming cost of accepting today's idea is this: It means that nothing outside yourself can save you; nothing outside yourself can give you peace. But it also means that nothing outside yourself can hurt you, or disturb your peace or upset you in any way. Today's idea places you in charge of the universe, where you belong because of what you are. This is not a role that can be partially accepted. And you must surely begin to see that accepting it is salvation.It may not, however, be clear to you why the recognition that guilt is in your own mind entails the realization that salvation is there as well. God would not have put the remedy for the sickness where it cannot help. That is the way your mind has worked, but hardly His. He wants you to be healed, so He has kept the Source of healing where the need for healing lies.You have tried to do just the opposite, making every attempt, however distorted and fantastic it might be, to separate healing from the sickness for which it was intended, and thus keep the sickness. Your purpose was to ensure that healing did not occur. God's purpose was to ensure that it did.Today we practice realizing that God's Will and ours are really the same in this. God wants us to be healed, and we do not really want to be sick, because it makes us unhappy. Therefore, in accepting the idea for today, we are really in agreement with God. He does not want us to be sick. Neither do we. He wants us to be healed. So do we.We are ready for two longer practice periods today, each of which should last some ten to fifteen minutes. We will, however, still let you decide when to undertake them. We will follow this practice for a number of lessons, and it would again be well to decide in advance when would be a good time to lay aside for each of them, and then adhering to your own decisions as closely as possible.Begin these practice periods by repeating the idea for today, adding a statement signifying your recognition that salvation comes from nothing outside of you. You might put it this way:My salvation comes from me.It cannot come from anywhere else.Then devote a few minutes, with your eyes closed, to reviewing some of the external places where you have looked for salvation in the past; - in other people, in possessions, in various situations and events, and in self-concepts that you sought to make real. Recognize that it is not there, and tell yourself:My salvation cannot come from any of these things.My salvation comes from me and only from me.Now we will try again to reach the light in you, which is where your salvation is. You cannot find it in the clouds that surround the light, and it is in them you have been looking for it. It is not there. It is past the clouds and in the light beyond. Remember that you will have to go through the clouds before you can reach the light. But remember also that you have never found anything in the cloud patterns you imagined that endured, or that you wanted.Since all illusions of salvation have failed you, surely you do not want to remain in the clouds, looking vainly for idols there, when you could so easily walk on into the light of real salvation. Try to pass the clouds by whatever means appeals to you. If it helps you, think of me holding your hand and leading you. And I assure you this will be no idle fantasy.For the short and frequent practice periods today, remind yourself that your salvation comes from you, and nothing but your own thoughts can hamper your progress. You are free from all external interference. You are in charge of your salvation. You are in charge of the salvation of the world. Say, then:My salvation comes from me.Nothing outside of me can hold me back.Within me is the world's salvation and my own.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 60Review of Lessons 46 - 50These ideas are for today's review:46) God is the Love in which I forgive. God does not forgive because He has never condemned. The blameless cannot blame, and those who have accepted their innocence see nothing to forgive. Yet forgiveness is the means by which I will recognize my innocence. It is the reflection of God's Love on earth. It will bring me near enough to Heaven that the Love of God can reach down to me and raise me up to Him.(47) God is the strength in which I trust. It is not my own strength through which I forgive. It is through the strength of God in me, which I am remembering as I forgive. As I begin to see, I recognize His reflection on earth. I forgive all things because I feel the stirring of His strength in me. And I begin to remember the Love I chose to forget, but Which has not forgotten me.(48) There is nothing to fear. How safe the world will look to me when I can see it! It will not look anything like what I imagine I see now. Everyone and everything I see will lean toward me to bless me. I will recognize in everyone my dearest Friend. What could there be to fear in a world that I have forgiven, and that has forgiven me?(49) God's Voice speaks to me all through the day. There is not a moment in which God's Voice ceases to call on my forgiveness to save me. There is not a moment in which His Voice fails to direct my thoughts, guide my actions and lead my feet. I am walking steadily on toward truth. There is nowhere else I can go, because God's Voice is the only voice and the only guide that has been given to His Son.(50) I am sustained by the Love of God. As I listen to God's Voice, I am sustained by His Love. As I open my eyes, His Love lights up the world for me to see. As I forgive, His Love reminds me that His Son is sinless. And as I look upon the world with the vision He has given me, I remember that I am His Son.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 56Review of Lessons 26 - 30Our review for today covers the following:(26) My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. How can I know who I am when I see myself as under constant attack? Pain, illness, loss, age and death seem to threaten me. All my hopes and wishes and plans appear to be at the mercy of a world I cannot control. Yet perfect security and complete fulfillment are my inheritance. I have tried to give my inheritance away in exchange for the world I see. But God has kept my inheritance safe for me. My own real thoughts will teach me what it is.(27) Above all else I want to see. Recognizing that what I see reflects what I think I am, I realize that vision is my greatest need. The world I see attests to the fearful nature of the self-image I have made. If I would remember who I am, it is essential that I let this image of myself go. As it is replaced by truth, vision will surely be given me. And with this vision, I will look upon the world and on myself with charity and love.(28) Above all else I want to see differently. The world I see holds my fearful self-image in place, and guarantees its continuance. While I see the world as I see it now, truth cannot enter my awareness. I would let the door behind this world be opened for me, that I may look past it to the world that reflects the Love of God.(29) God is in everything I see. Behind every image I have made, the truth remains unchanged. Behind every veil I have drawn across the face of love, its light remains undimmed. Beyond all my insane wishes is my will, united with the Will of my Father. God is still everywhere and in everything forever. And we who are part of Him will yet look past all appearances, and recognize the truth beyond them all.(30) God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. In my own mind, behind all my insane thoughts of separation and attack, is the knowledge that all is one forever. I have not lost the knowledge of Who I am because I have forgotten it. It has been kept for me in the Mind of God, Who has not left His Thoughts. And I, who am among them, am one with them and one with Him.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 53Review of Lessons 11 - 15Today we will review the following:(11) My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world. Since the thoughts of which I am aware do not mean anything, the world that pictures them can have no meaning. What is producing this world is insane, and so is what it produces. Reality is not insane, and I have real thoughts as well as insane ones. I can therefore see a real world, if I look to my real thoughts as my guide for seeing.(12) I am upset because I see a meaningless world. Insane thoughts are upsetting. They produce a world in which there is no order anywhere. Only chaos rules a world that represents chaotic thinking, and chaos has no laws. I cannot live in peace in such a world. I am grateful that this world is not real, and that I need not see it at all unless I choose to value it. And I do not choose to value what is totally insane and has no meaning.(13) A meaningless world engenders fear. The totally insane engenders fear because it is completely undependable, and offers no grounds for trust. Nothing in madness is dependable. It holds out no safety and no hope. But such a world is not real. I have given it the illusion of reality, and have suffered from my belief in it. Now I choose to withdraw this belief, and place my trust in reality. In choosing this, I will escape all the effects of the world of fear, because I am acknowledging that it does not exist.(14) God did not create a meaningless world. How can a meaningless world exist if God did not create it? He is the Source of all meaning, and everything that is real is in His Mind. It is in my mind too, because He created it with me. Why should I continue to suffer from the effects of my own insane thoughts, when the perfection of creation is my home? Let me remember the power of my decision, and recognize where I really abide.(15) My thoughts are images that I have made. Whatever I see reflects my thoughts. It is my thoughts that tell me where I am and what I am. The fact that I see a world in which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. Yet God's way is sure. The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not my will that they do so. My will is His, and I will place no other gods before Him.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 49God's Voice Speaks To Me All Through The Day.It is quite possible to listen to God's Voice all through the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way. The part of your mind in which truth abides is in constant communication with God, whether you are aware of it or not. It is the other part of your mind that functions in the world and obeys the world's laws. It is this part that is constantly distracted, disorganized and highly uncertain.The part that is listening to the Voice for God is calm, always at rest and wholly certain. It is really the only part there is. The other part is a wild illusion, frantic and distraught, but without reality of any kind. Try today not to listen to it. Try to identify with the part of your mind where stillness and peace reign forever. Try to hear God's Voice call to you lovingly, reminding you that your Creator has not forgotten His Son.We will need at least four five-minute practice periods today, and more if possible. We will try actually to hear God's Voice reminding you of Him and of your Self. We will approach this happiest and holiest of thoughts with confidence, knowing that in doing so we are joining our will with the Will of God. He wants you to hear His Voice. He gave It to you to be heard.Listen in deep silence. Be very still and open your mind. Go past all the raucous shrieks and sick imaginings that cover your real thoughts and obscure your eternal link with God. Sink deep into the peace that waits for you beyond the frantic, riotous thoughts and sights and sounds of this insane world. You do not live here. We are trying to reach your real home. We are trying to reach the place where you are truly welcome. We are trying to reach God.Do not forget to repeat today's idea very frequently. Do so with your eyes open when necessary, but closed when possible. And be sure to sit quietly and repeat the idea for today whenever you can, closing your eyes on the world, and realizing that you are inviting God's Voice to speak to you.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 46God Is The Love In Which I Forgive.God does not forgive because He has never condemned. And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary. Forgiveness is the great need of this world, but that is because it is a world of illusions. Those who forgive are thus releasing themselves from illusions, while those who withhold forgiveness are binding themselves to them. As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself.Yet although God does not forgive, His Love is nevertheless the basis of forgiveness. Fear condemns and love forgives. Forgiveness thus undoes what fear has produced, returning the mind to the awareness of God. For this reason, forgiveness can truly be called salvation. It is the means by which illusions disappear.Today's exercises require at least three full five-minute practice periods, and as many shorter ones as possible. Begin the longer practice periods by repeating today's idea to yourself, as usual. Close your eyes as you do so, and spend a minute or two in searching your mind for those whom you have not forgiven. It does not matter “how much” you have not forgiven them. You have forgiven them entirely or not at all.If you are doing the exercises well you should have no difficulty in finding a number of people you have not forgiven. It is a safe rule that anyone you do not like is a suitable subject. Mention each one by name, and say:God is the Love in which I forgive you, [name].The purpose of the first phase of today's practice periods is to put you in a position to forgive yourself. After you have applied the idea to all those who have come to mind, tell yourself:God is the Love in which I forgive myself.Then devote the remainder of the practice period to adding related ideas such as:God is the Love with which I love myself.God is the Love in which I am blessed.The form of the application may vary considerably, but the central idea should not be lost sight of. You might say, for example:I cannot be guilty because I am a Son of God.I have already been forgiven.No fear is possible in a mind beloved of God.There is no need to attack because love has forgiven me.The practice period should end, however, with a repetition of today's idea as originally stated.The shorter practice periods may consist either of a repetition of the idea for today in the original or in a related form, as you prefer. Be sure, however, to make more specific applications if they are needed. They will be needed at any time during the day when you become aware of any kind of negative reaction to anyone, present or not. In that event, tell him silently:God is the Love in which I forgive you.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 42God Is My Strength. Vision Is His Gift.The idea for today combines two very powerful thoughts, both of major importance. It also sets forth a cause and effect relationship that explains why you cannot fail in your efforts to achieve the goal of the course. You will see because it is the Will of God. It is His strength, not your own, that gives you power. And it is His gift, rather than your own, that offers vision to you.God is indeed your strength, and what He gives is truly given. This means that you can receive it any time and anywhere, wherever you are, and in whatever circumstance you find yourself. Your passage through time and space is not at random. You cannot but be in the right place at the right time. Such is the strength of God. Such are His gifts.We will have two three-to-five-minute practice periods today, one as soon as possible after you wake, and another as close as possible to the time you go to sleep. It is better, however, to wait until you can sit quietly by yourself, at a time when you feel ready, than it is to be concerned with the time as such.Begin these practice periods by repeating the idea for today slowly, with your eyes open, looking about you. Then close your eyes and repeat the idea again, even slower than before. After this, try to think of nothing except thoughts that occur to you in relation to the idea for the day. You might think, for example:Vision must be possible. God gives truly,or:God's gifts to me must be mine, because He gave them to me.Any thought that is clearly related to the idea for today is suitable. You may, in fact, be astonished at the amount of course-related understanding some of your thoughts contain. Let them come without censoring unless you find your mind is merely wandering, and you have let obviously irrelevant thoughts intrude. You may also reach a point where no thoughts at all seem to come to mind. If such interferences occur, open your eyes and repeat the thought once more while looking slowly about; close your eyes, repeat the idea once more, and then continue to look for related thoughts in your mind.Remember, however, that active searching for relevant thoughts is not appropriate for today's exercises. Try merely to step back and let the thoughts come. If you find this difficult, it is better to spend the practice period alternating between slow repetitions of the idea with eyes open, then with eyes closed, than it is to strain to find suitable thoughts.There is no limit on the number of short practice periods that would be beneficial today. The idea for the day is a beginning step in bringing thoughts together, and teaching you that you are studying a unified thought system in which nothing is lacking that is needed, and nothing is included that is contradictory or irrelevant.The more often you repeat the idea during the day, the more often you will be reminding yourself that the goal of the course is important to you, and that you have not forgotten it.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 39My Holiness Is My Salvation.If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? Like the text for which this workbook was written, the ideas used for the exercises are very simple, very clear and totally unambiguous. We are not concerned with intellectual feats nor logical toys. We are dealing only in the very obvious, which has been overlooked in the clouds of complexity in which you think you think.If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? This is not difficult, surely. The hesitation you may feel in answering is not due to the ambiguity of the question. But do you believe that guilt is hell? If you did, you would see at once how direct and simple the text is, and you would not need a workbook at all. No one needs practice to gain what is already his.We have already said that your holiness is the salvation of the world. What about your own salvation? You cannot give what you do not have. A savior must be saved. How else can he teach salvation? Today's exercises will apply to you, recognizing that your salvation is crucial to the salvation of the world. As you apply the exercises to your world, the whole world stands to benefit.Your holiness is the answer to every question that was ever asked, is being asked now, or will be asked in the future. Your holiness means the end of guilt, and therefore the end of hell. Your holiness is the salvation of the world, and your own. How could you to whom your holiness belongs be excluded from it? God does not know unholiness. Can it be He does not know His Son?A full five minutes are urged for the four longer practice periods for today, and longer and more frequent practice sessions are encouraged. If you want to exceed the minimum requirements, more rather than longer sessions are recommended, although both are suggested.Begin the practice periods as usual, by repeating today's idea to yourself. Then, with closed eyes, search out your unloving thoughts in whatever form they appear; uneasiness, depression, anger, fear, worry, attack, insecurity and so on. Whatever form they take, they are unloving and therefore fearful. And so it is from them that you need to be saved.Specific situations, events or personalities you associate with unloving thoughts of any kind are suitable subjects for today's exercises. It is imperative for your salvationthat you see them differently. And it is your blessing on them that will save you and give you vision.Slowly, without conscious selection and without undue emphasis on any one in particular, search your mind for every thought that stands between you and your salvation.Apply the idea for today to each of them in this way:My unloving thoughts about _______ are keeping me in hell.My holiness is my salvation.You may find these practice periods easier if you intersperse them with several short periods during which you merely repeat today's idea to yourself slowly a few times. You may also find it helpful to include a few short intervals in which you just relax and do not seem to be thinking of anything. Sustained concentration is very difficult at first. It will become much easier as your mind becomes more disciplined and less distractible.Meanwhile, you should feel free to introduce variety into the exercise periods in whatever form appeals to you. Do not, however, change the idea itself as you vary the method of applying it. However you elect to use it, the idea should be stated so that its meaning is the fact that your holiness is your salvation. End each practice period by repeating the idea in its original form once more, and adding:If guilt is hell, what is its opposite?In the shorter applications, which should be made some three or four times an hour and more if possible, you may ask yourself this question, repeat today's idea, and preferably both. If temptations arise, a particularly helpful form of the idea is:My holiness is my salvation from this.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 35My Mind Is Part Of God's. I Am Very Holy.Today's idea does not describe the way you see yourself now. It does, however, describe what vision will show you. It is difficult for anyone who thinks he is in this world to believe this of himself. Yet the reason he thinks he is in this world is because he does not believe it.You will believe that you are part of where you think you are. That is because you surround yourself with the environment you want. And you want it to protect the image of yourself that you have made. The image is part of this environment. What you see while you believe you are in it is seen through the eyes of the image. This is not vision. Images cannot see.The idea for today presents a very different view of yourself. By establishing your Source it establishes your Identity, and it describes you as you must really be in truth. We will use a somewhat different kind of application for today's idea because the emphasis for today is on the perceiver, rather than on what he perceives.For each of the three five-minute practice periods today, begin by repeating today's idea to yourself, and then close your eyes and search your mind for the various kinds of descriptive terms in which you see yourself. Include all the ego-based attributes which you ascribe to yourself, positive or negative, desirable or undesirable, grandiose or debased. All of them are equally unreal, because you do not look upon yourself through the eyes of holiness.In the earlier part of the mind-searching period, you will probably emphasize what you consider to be the more negative aspects of your perception of yourself. Toward the latter part of the exercise period, however, more self-inflating descriptive terms may well cross your mind. Try to recognize that the direction of your fantasies about yourself does not matter. Illusions have no direction in reality. They are merely not true.A suitable unselected list for applying the idea for today might be as follows:I see myself as imposed on.I see myself as depressed.I see myself as failing.I see myself as endangered.I see myself as helpless.I see myself as victorious.I see myself as losing out.I see myself as charitable.I see myself as virtuous.You should not think of these terms in an abstract way. They will occur to you as various situations, personalities and events in which you figure cross your mind. Pick up any specific situation that occurs to you, identify the descriptive term or terms you feel are applicable to your reactions to that situation, and use them in applying today's idea. After you have named each one, add:But my mind is part of God's. I am very holy.During the longer exercise periods, there will probably be intervals in which nothing specific occurs to you. Do not strain to think up specific things to fill the interval, but merely relax and repeat today's idea slowly until something occurs to you. Although nothing that does occur should be omitted from the exercises, nothing should be “dug out” with effort. Neither force nor discrimination should be used.As often as possible during the day, pick up a specific attribute or attributes you are ascribing to yourself at the time and apply the idea for today to them, adding the idea in the form stated above to each of them. If nothing particular occurs to you, merely repeat the idea to yourself, with closed eyes.- Jesus Christ in ACIM