Podcasts about in miracles

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

In "Miracles in Mass Quantities," Pastor Mike explores the powerful miracle of Jesus feeding the 5,000, revealing how God turns our scarcity into overflow. Emphasizing obedience, he notes that faith and following God's direction lead to supernatural results. Organization, too, plays a role as God often brings larger blessings when we structure our lives around Him. Finally, the twelve leftover baskets show how surrendering what we have, even our brokenness, results in abundance. This miracle reminds us to trust God with what we have and to expect His abundant provision. Subscribe to the latest sermons. To support this ministry and help us continue to reach people all around the world click here: https://givetofocus.com

Bright on Buddhism Episode 18 - What is the Buddhist philosophy of speech, language, and words? What are some of the doctrines surrounding speech, language, and words? How do these doctrines play out in ritual and practice? Resources: Kevin Trainor: Buddhism: An Illustrated Guide; Donald Lopez: Norton Anthology of World Religions: Buddhism; Chan Master Sheng Yen: Orthodox Chinese Buddhism; Nagarjuna: Verses of The Middle Way (The Madhyamakarika); Conze, Edward, trans. The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines and Its Verse Summary. Bolinas, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1973.; The Bodhisattva Vow: A Practical Guide to Helping Others, page 1, Tharpa Publications (2nd. ed., 1995) ISBN 978-0-948006-50-0; Flanagan, Owen (2011-08-12). The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized. MIT Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-262-29723-3.; Williams, Paul, Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations, Routledge, 2008, pp. 195–196.; Abé, Ryūichi. “Word” in Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism, (Chicago: Chicago University of Press, 2005), pp.291-310. Flores, Ralph. “Fictions of Reading,” in Buddhist scriptures as Literature: Sacred Rhetoric and the Use of Theory (Albany, SUNY Press, 2008), pp. 1-16.; Flores, Ralph. “A Prince Transformed,” in Buddhist scriptures as Literature: Sacred Rhetoric and the Use of Theory (Albany, SUNY Press, 2008), pp. 17-33.; Barbara Ruch, “Coping with Death: Paradigms of Heaven and Hell and the Six Realms in Early Literature and Painting.” In Flowing Traces: Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan, ed. by James Sanford, William Lafleur and Masatoshi Nagatomi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Charlotte. Eubanks. "The Ontology of Sutras." In Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), pp. 19-61.; Introduction to Kūkai on the Philosophy of Language by Shingen Takagi and Thomas Eijo Dreitlein. Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2010.; Abé Ryūichi, “Semiology of the Dharma, or the Somaticity of the Text,” in Weaving of the Mantra: Kūkai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000) pp. 275-304.; Kasulis, Thomas P. “Truth Words: The Basis of Kūkai's Theory of Interpretation,” in Buddhist Hermeneutics, ed. Donald Lopez, (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988), pp. 257-272. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by tweeting to us @BrightBuddhism, emailing us at Bright.On.Buddhism@gmail.com, or joining us on our discord server, Hidden Sangha https://discord.gg/tEwcVpu! Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host

In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2020), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with modern pawangs readers are introduced to a universe of miracle workers that existed both in the past and in the present, uncovering connections between miracles and material life. Sevea demonstrates how societies in which the production and extraction of natural resources, as well as the uses of technology, were intertwined with the knowledge of charismatic religious figures, and locates the role of the pawangs in the spiritual economy of the Indian Ocean world, across maritime connections and Sufi networks, and on the frontier of the British Empire. Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining Harvard Divinity School, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sevea is the author of Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and co-edited Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia (ISEAS, 2009). He is currently working on a forthcoming book entitled Singapore Islam: The Prophet's Port and Sufism across the Oceans. Kelvin Ng hosted the episode. He is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, History Department. His research interests broadly lie in the history of imperialism and anti-imperialism in the early-twentieth-century Indian Ocean circuit.

In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2020), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with modern pawangs readers are introduced to a universe of miracle workers that existed both in the past and in the present, uncovering connections between miracles and material life. Sevea demonstrates how societies in which the production and extraction of natural resources, as well as the uses of technology, were intertwined with the knowledge of charismatic religious figures, and locates the role of the pawangs in the spiritual economy of the Indian Ocean world, across maritime connections and Sufi networks, and on the frontier of the British Empire. Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining Harvard Divinity School, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sevea is the author of Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and co-edited Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia (ISEAS, 2009). He is currently working on a forthcoming book entitled Singapore Islam: The Prophet's Port and Sufism across the Oceans. Kelvin Ng hosted the episode. He is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, History Department. His research interests broadly lie in the history of imperialism and anti-imperialism in the early-twentieth-century Indian Ocean circuit.

In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2020), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with modern pawangs readers are introduced to a universe of miracle workers that existed both in the past and in the present, uncovering connections between miracles and material life. Sevea demonstrates how societies in which the production and extraction of natural resources, as well as the uses of technology, were intertwined with the knowledge of charismatic religious figures, and locates the role of the pawangs in the spiritual economy of the Indian Ocean world, across maritime connections and Sufi networks, and on the frontier of the British Empire. Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining Harvard Divinity School, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sevea is the author of Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and co-edited Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia (ISEAS, 2009). He is currently working on a forthcoming book entitled Singapore Islam: The Prophet's Port and Sufism across the Oceans. Kelvin Ng hosted the episode. He is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, History Department. His research interests broadly lie in the history of imperialism and anti-imperialism in the early-twentieth-century Indian Ocean circuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with modern pawangs readers are introduced to a universe of miracle workers that existed both in the past and in the present, uncovering connections between miracles and material life. Sevea demonstrates how societies in which the production and extraction of natural resources, as well as the uses of technology, were intertwined with the knowledge of charismatic religious figures, and locates the role of the pawangs in the spiritual economy of the Indian Ocean world, across maritime connections and Sufi networks, and on the frontier of the British Empire. Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining Harvard Divinity School, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Kelvin Ng hosted the episode. He is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, History Department. His research interests broadly lie in the history of imperialism and anti-imperialism in the early-twentieth-century Indian Ocean circuit.

In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with modern pawangs readers are introduced to a universe of miracle workers that existed both in the past and in the present, uncovering connections between miracles and material life. Sevea demonstrates how societies in which the production and extraction of natural resources, as well as the uses of technology, were intertwined with the knowledge of charismatic religious figures, and locates the role of the pawangs in the spiritual economy of the Indian Ocean world, across maritime connections and Sufi networks, and on the frontier of the British Empire. Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining Harvard Divinity School, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Kelvin Ng hosted the episode. He is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, History Department. His research interests broadly lie in the history of imperialism and anti-imperialism in the early-twentieth-century Indian Ocean circuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with modern pawangs readers are introduced to a universe of miracle workers that existed both in the past and in the present, uncovering connections between miracles and material life. Sevea demonstrates how societies in which the production and extraction of natural resources, as well as the uses of technology, were intertwined with the knowledge of charismatic religious figures, and locates the role of the pawangs in the spiritual economy of the Indian Ocean world, across maritime connections and Sufi networks, and on the frontier of the British Empire. Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining Harvard Divinity School, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Kelvin Ng hosted the episode. He is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, History Department. His research interests broadly lie in the history of imperialism and anti-imperialism in the early-twentieth-century Indian Ocean circuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with modern pawangs readers are introduced to a universe of miracle workers that existed both in the past and in the present, uncovering connections between miracles and material life. Sevea demonstrates how societies in which the production and extraction of natural resources, as well as the uses of technology, were intertwined with the knowledge of charismatic religious figures, and locates the role of the pawangs in the spiritual economy of the Indian Ocean world, across maritime connections and Sufi networks, and on the frontier of the British Empire. Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining Harvard Divinity School, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Kelvin Ng hosted the episode. He is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, History Department. His research interests broadly lie in the history of imperialism and anti-imperialism in the early-twentieth-century Indian Ocean circuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with modern pawangs readers are introduced to a universe of miracle workers that existed both in the past and in the present, uncovering connections between miracles and material life. Sevea demonstrates how societies in which the production and extraction of natural resources, as well as the uses of technology, were intertwined with the knowledge of charismatic religious figures, and locates the role of the pawangs in the spiritual economy of the Indian Ocean world, across maritime connections and Sufi networks, and on the frontier of the British Empire. Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining Harvard Divinity School, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Kelvin Ng hosted the episode. He is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, History Department. His research interests broadly lie in the history of imperialism and anti-imperialism in the early-twentieth-century Indian Ocean circuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with modern pawangs readers are introduced to a universe of miracle workers that existed both in the past and in the present, uncovering connections between miracles and material life. Sevea demonstrates how societies in which the production and extraction of natural resources, as well as the uses of technology, were intertwined with the knowledge of charismatic religious figures, and locates the role of the pawangs in the spiritual economy of the Indian Ocean world, across maritime connections and Sufi networks, and on the frontier of the British Empire. Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining Harvard Divinity School, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Kelvin Ng hosted the episode. He is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, History Department. His research interests broadly lie in the history of imperialism and anti-imperialism in the early-twentieth-century Indian Ocean circuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSONTumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacimREAD All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.htmllesson 200â??There is no peace except the peace of God.â??Seek you no further.You will not find peace except the peace of God. Accept this fact, and save yourself the agony of yet more bitter disappointments, bleak despair, and sense of icy hopelessness and doubt. Seek you no further. There is nothing else for you to find except the peace of God, unless you seek for misery and pain.This is the final point to which each one must come at last, to lay aside all hope of finding happiness where there is none; of being saved by what can only hurt; of making peace of chaos, joy of pain and Heaven out of hell. Attempt no more to win through losing, nor to die to live.You cannot but be asking for defeat.Yet you can ask as easily for love, for happiness, and for eternal life in peace that has no ending. Ask for this, and you can only win. To ask for what you have already must succeed.To ask that what is false be true can only fail. Forgive yourself for vain imaginings, and seek no longer what you cannot find. For what could be more foolish than to seek and seek and seek again for hell, when you have but to look with open eyes to find that Heaven lies before you, through a door that opens easily to welcome you?Come home. You have not found your happiness in foreign places, and in alien forms which have no meaning to you, though you sought to make them meaningful.This world is not where you belong. You are a stranger here. But it is given you to find the means whereby the world no longer seems to be a prison house for you or anyone.Freedom is given you where you beheld but chains and iron doors. For you must change your mind about the purpose of the world, if you would find escape.You will be bound till all the world is seen by you as blessed, and everyone made free of your mistakes and honored as he is.You made him not; no more yourself. And as you free the one, the other is accepted as he is.What does forgiveness do? In truth it has no function and does nothing, for it is unknown in Heaven. It is only hell where it is needed, and where it must serve a mighty function. Is not the escape of Godâ??s beloved Son from evil dreams that he imagines, yet believes are true, a worthy purpose? Who could hope for more while there appears to

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 200 â??There is no peace except the peace of God.â?? Seek you no further.You will not find peace except the peace of God. Accept this fact, and save yourself the agony of yet more bitter disappointments, bleak despair, and sense of icy hopelessness and doubt. Seek you no further. There is nothing else for you to find except the peace of God, unless you seek for misery and pain. This is the final point to which each one must come at last, to lay aside all hope of finding happiness where there is none; of being saved by what can only hurt; of making peace of chaos, joy of pain and Heaven out of hell. Attempt no more to win through losing, nor to die to live.You cannot but be asking for defeat. Yet you can ask as easily for love, for happiness, and for eternal life in peace that has no ending. Ask for this, and you can only win. To ask for what you have already must succeed.To ask that what is false be true can only fail. Forgive yourself for vain imaginings, and seek no longer what you cannot find. For what could be more foolish than to seek and seek and seek again for hell, when you have but to look with open eyes to find that Heaven lies before you, through a door that opens easily to welcome you? Come home. You have not found your happiness in foreign places, and in alien forms which have no meaning to you, though you sought to make them meaningful.This world is not where you belong. You are a stranger here. But it is given you to find the means whereby the world no longer seems to be a prison house for you or anyone. Freedom is given you where you beheld but chains and iron doors. For you must change your mind about the purpose of the world, if you would find escape.You will be bound till all the world is seen by you as blessed, and everyone made free of your mistakes and honored as he is.You made him not; no more yourself. And as you free the one, the other is accepted as he is. What does forgiveness do? In truth it has no function and does nothing, for it is unknown in Heaven. It is only hell where it is needed, and where it must serve a mighty function. Is not the escape of Godâ??s beloved Son from evil dreams that he imagines, yet believes are true, a worthy purpose? Who could hope for more while there appears to

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSONTumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacimREAD All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.htmllesson 199â??I am not a body. I am free.â??Freedom must be impossible as long as you perceive a body as yourself.The body is a limit.Who would seek for freedom in a body looks for it where it can not be found.The mind can be made free when it no longer sees itself as in a body, firmly tied to it and sheltered by its presence. If this were the truth, the mind were vulnerable indeed!The mind that serves the Holy Spirit is unlimited forever, in all ways, beyond the laws of time and space, unbound by any preconceptions, and with strength and power to do whatever it is asked. Attack thoughts cannot enter such a mind, because it has been given to the Source of Love.And fear can never enter in a mind that has attached itself to Love. It rests in God, and who can be afraid who lives in Innocence, and only loves?It is essential for your progress in this course that you accept todayâ??s idea, and hold it very dear. Be not concerned that to the ego it is quite insane.The ego holds the body dear because it dwells in it, and lives united with the home that it has made. It is a part of the illusion that has sheltered it from being found illusory itself.Here does it hide, and here it can be seen as what it is. Declare your innocence, and you are free. The body disappears because you have no need of it except the need the Holy Spirit sees. For this, the body will appear as useful form for what the mind must do. It thus becomes a vehicle which helps forgiveness be extended to the all- inclusive goal that it must reach, according to Godâ??s plan.Cherish todayâ??s idea, and practice it today and every day. Make it a part of every practice period you take.There is no thought that will not gain thereby in power to help the world, and none which will not gain in added gifts to you as well.We sound the call of freedom round the world with this idea.And would you be exempt from the acceptance of the gifts you give?The Holy Spirit is the home of minds that seek for freedom. In Him they find what they have sought.The bodyâ??s purpose now is unambiguous. And it becomes perfect in the ability to serve

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 199 â??I am not a body. I am free.â?? Freedom must be impossible as long as you perceive a body as yourself.The body is a limit.Who would seek for freedom in a body looks for it where it can not be found.The mind can be made free when it no longer sees itself as in a body, firmly tied to it and sheltered by its presence. If this were the truth, the mind were vulnerable indeed! The mind that serves the Holy Spirit is unlimited forever, in all ways, beyond the laws of time and space, unbound by any preconceptions, and with strength and power to do whatever it is asked. Attack thoughts cannot enter such a mind, because it has been given to the Source of Love.And fear can never enter in a mind that has attached itself to Love. It rests in God, and who can be afraid who lives in Innocence, and only loves? It is essential for your progress in this course that you accept todayâ??s idea, and hold it very dear. Be not concerned that to the ego it is quite insane.The ego holds the body dear because it dwells in it, and lives united with the home that it has made. It is a part of the illusion that has sheltered it from being found illusory itself. Here does it hide, and here it can be seen as what it is. Declare your innocence, and you are free. The body disappears because you have no need of it except the need the Holy Spirit sees. For this, the body will appear as useful form for what the mind must do. It thus becomes a vehicle which helps forgiveness be extended to the all- inclusive goal that it must reach, according to Godâ??s plan. Cherish todayâ??s idea, and practice it today and every day. Make it a part of every practice period you take.There is no thought that will not gain thereby in power to help the world, and none which will not gain in added gifts to you as well.We sound the call of freedom round the world with this idea.And would you be exempt from the acceptance of the gifts you give? The Holy Spirit is the home of minds that seek for freedom. In Him they find what they have sought.The bodyâ??s purpose now is unambiguous. And it becomes perfect in the ability to serve

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 198 â??Only my condemnation injures me.â?? Injury is impossible. And yet illusion makes illusion. If you can condemn you can be injured. For you have believed that you can injure, and the right you have established for yourself can be now used against you, till you lay it down as valueless, unwanted and unreal. Then does illusion cease to have effects, and all it seemed to have will be undone.Then are you free, for freedom is your gift, and you can now receive the gift you gave. Condemn and you are made a prisoner. Forgive and you are freed. Such is the law that rules perception. It is not a law that knowledge understands, for freedom is a part of knowledge. To condemn is thus impossible in truth.What seems to be its influence and its effects have not occurred at all.Yet must we deal with them a while as if they had. Illusion makes illusion. Except one. Forgiveness is illusion that is answer to the rest. Forgiveness sweeps all other dreams away, and though it is itself a dream, it breeds no others. All illusions save this one must multiply a thousand fold. But this is where illusions end. Forgiveness is the end of dreams because it is a dream of waking. It is not itself the truth. Yet does it point to where the truth must be, and gives direction with the certainty of God Himself. It is a dream in which the Son of God awakens to his Self and to his Father knowing They are One. Forgiveness is the only road that leads out of disaster, past all suffering, and finally away from death. How could there be another way, when this one is the plan of God Himself? And why should you oppose it, quarrel with it, seek to find a thousand ways in which it must be wrong; a thousand other possibilities? Is it not wiser to be glad you hold the answer to your problems in your hand? Is it not more intelligent to thank the One Who gives salvation, and accept His gift with gratitude? And is it not a kindness to yourself to hear HisVoice and learn the simple lessons He would teach,instead of trying to dismiss HisWords,and substitute your own in place of His?

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSONTumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacimREAD All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.htmllesson 198â??Only my condemnation injures me.â??Injury is impossible. And yet illusion makes illusion. If you can condemn you can be injured. For you have believed that you can injure, and the right you have established for yourself can be now used against you, till you lay it down as valueless, unwanted and unreal. Then does illusion cease to have effects, and all it seemed to have will be undone.Then are you free, for freedom is your gift, and you can now receive the gift you gave.Condemn and you are made a prisoner. Forgive and you are freed. Such is the law that rules perception. It is not a law that knowledge understands, for freedom is a part of knowledge. To condemn is thus impossible in truth.What seems to be its influence and its effects have not occurred at all.Yet must we deal with them a while as if they had. Illusion makes illusion. Except one. Forgiveness is illusion that is answer to the rest.Forgiveness sweeps all other dreams away, and though it is itself a dream, it breeds no others. All illusions save this one must multiply a thousand fold. But this is where illusions end. Forgiveness is the end of dreams because it is a dream of waking. It is not itself the truth. Yet does it point to where the truth must be, and gives direction with the certainty of God Himself. It is a dream in which the Son of God awakens to his Self and to his Father knowing They are One.Forgiveness is the only road that leads out of disaster, past all suffering, and finally away from death. How could there be another way, when this one is the plan of God Himself? And why should you oppose it, quarrel with it, seek to find a thousand ways in which it must be wrong; a thousand other possibilities?Is it not wiser to be glad you hold the answer to your problems in your hand? Is it not more intelligent to thank the One Who gives salvation, and accept His gift with gratitude? And is it not a kindness to yourself to hear HisVoice and learn the simple lessons He would teach,instead of trying to dismiss HisWords,and substitute your own in place of His?

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The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 192 â??I have a function God would have me fill.â?? It is your Fatherâ??s holy Will that you complete Himself and that your Self shall be His sacred Son, forever pure as He, of love created and in love preserved, extending love, creating in its name, forever one with God and with your Self.Yet what can such a function mean within a world of envy, hatred and attack? Therefore you have a function in the world in its own terms. For who can understand a language far beyond his simple grasp? Forgiveness represents your function here. It is not Godâ??s creation, for it is the means by which untruth can be undone. And who would pardon Heaven?Yet on earth you need the means to let illusion go. Creation merely waits for your return to be acknowledged, not to be complete. Creation cannot even be conceived of in the world. It has no meaning here. Forgiveness is the closest it can come to earth. For being Heaven-borne, it has no form at all.Yet God created One Who has the power to translate into form the wholly formless.What He makes are dreams, but of a kind so close to waking that the light of day already shines in them. And eyes already opening behold the joyful sights their offerings contain. Forgiveness gently looks upon all things unknown in Heaven, sees them disappear, and leaves the world a clean and unmarked slate on which the Word of God can now replace the senseless symbols written there before. Forgiveness is the means by which the fear of death is overcome because it holds no fierce attraction now, and guilt is gone. Forgiveness lets the body be perceived as what it is; a simple teaching aid to be laid by when learning is complete, but hardly changing him who learns at all.The mind without the body cannot make mistakes. It cannot think that it will die, nor be the prey of merciless attack. Anger becomes impossible, and where is terror then? What fears could still assail those who have lost the source of all attack; the core of anguish and the seat of fear?

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSONTumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacimREAD All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.htmllesson 192â??I have a function God would have me fill.â??It is your Fatherâ??s holy Will that you complete Himself and that your Self shall be His sacred Son, forever pure as He, of love created and in love preserved, extending love, creating in its name, forever one with God and with your Self.Yet what can such a function mean within a world of envy, hatred and attack? Therefore you have a function in the world in its own terms. For who can understand a language far beyond his simple grasp?Forgiveness represents your function here. It is not Godâ??s creation, for it is the means by which untruth can be undone. And who would pardon Heaven?Yet on earth you need the means to let illusion go. Creation merely waits for your return to be acknowledged, not to be complete.Creation cannot even be conceived of in the world. It has no meaning here. Forgiveness is the closest it can come to earth. For being Heaven-borne, it has no form at all.Yet God created One Who has the power to translate into form the wholly formless.What He makes are dreams, but of a kind so close to waking that the light of day already shines in them. And eyes already opening behold the joyful sights their offerings contain.Forgiveness gently looks upon all things unknown in Heaven, sees them disappear, and leaves the world a clean and unmarked slate on which the Word of God can now replace the senseless symbols written there before. Forgiveness is the means by which the fear of death is overcome because it holds no fierce attraction now, and guilt is gone.Forgiveness lets the body be perceived as what it is; a simple teaching aid to be laid by when learning is complete, but hardly changing him who learns at all.The mind without the body cannot make mistakes. It cannot think that it will die, nor be the prey of merciless attack. Anger becomes impossible, and where is terror then? What fears could still assail those who have lost the source of all attack; the core of anguish and the seat of fear?

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The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 190 â??I choose the joy of God instead of pain.â?? Pain is a wrong perspective.When it is experienced in any form, it is a proof of self-deception. It is not a fact at all. There is no form it takes which will not disappear if seen aright. For pain proclaims God cruel. How could it be real in any form? It witnesses to God the Fatherâ??s hatred of His Son; the sinfulness He sees in him, and His insane desire for revenge and death. Can such projections be attested to? Can they be anything but wholly false? Pain is but witness to the Sonâ??s mistakes in what he thinks he is. It is a dream of fierce retaliation for a crime that could not be committed; for attack on what is wholly unassailable. It is a nightmare of abandonment by an Eternal Love Which could not leave the Son whom It created out of love. Pain is a sign illusions reign in place of truth. It demonstrates God is denied, confused with fear, perceived as mad and seen as traitor to Himself. If God is real there is no pain. If pain is real there is no God. For vengeance is not part of love. And fear, denying love and using pain to prove that God is dead, has shown that death is victor over life.The body is the Son of God, corruptible in death, as mortal as the Father he has slain. Peace to such foolishness! The time has come to laugh at such insane ideas.There is no need to think of them as savage crimes or secret sins with weighty consequence. Who but a madman could conceive of them as cause of anything? Their witness, pain, is mad as they, and no more to be feared than the insane illusions which it shields and tries to demonstrate must still be true. It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in any way.There is no cause beyond yourself that can reach down and bring oppression. No-one but yourself affects you.There is nothing in the world which has the power to make you ill or sad, or weak or frail. But it is you who have the power to dominate all things you see by merely recognizing what you are. As you perceive the harmlessness in them, they will accept your holy will as theirs.And what was seen as fearful now

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSONTumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacimREAD All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.htmllesson 190â??I choose the joy of God instead of pain.â??Pain is a wrong perspective.When it is experienced in any form, it is a proof of self-deception. It is not a fact at all. There is no form it takes which will not disappear if seen aright. For pain proclaims God cruel. How could it be real in any form? It witnesses to God the Fatherâ??s hatred of His Son; the sinfulness He sees in him, and His insane desire for revenge and death. Can such projections be attested to? Can they be anything but wholly false?Pain is but witness to the Sonâ??s mistakes in what he thinks he is. It is a dream of fierce retaliation for a crime that could not be committed; for attack on what is wholly unassailable. It is a nightmare of abandonment by an Eternal Love Which could not leave the Son whom It created out of love.Pain is a sign illusions reign in place of truth. It demonstrates God is denied, confused with fear, perceived as mad and seen as traitor to Himself. If God is real there is no pain. If pain is real there is no God. For vengeance is not part of love. And fear, denying love and using pain to prove that God is dead, has shown that death is victor over life.The body is the Son of God, corruptible in death, as mortal as the Father he has slain.Peace to such foolishness! The time has come to laugh at such insane ideas.There is no need to think of them as savage crimes or secret sins with weighty consequence. Who but a madman could conceive of them as cause of anything? Their witness, pain, is mad as they, and no more to be feared than the insane illusions which it shields and tries to demonstrate must still be true.It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in any way.There is no cause beyond yourself that can reach down and bring oppression. No-one but yourself affects you.There is nothing in the world which has the power to make you ill or sad, or weak or frail. But it is you who have the power to dominate all things you see by merely recognizing what you are. As you perceive the harmlessness in them, they will accept your holy will as theirs.And what was seen as fearful now

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 189 â??I feel the Love of God within me now.â?? There is a light in you the world can not perceive.And with its eyes you will not see this light, for you are blinded by the world.Yet you have eyes to see it. It is there for you to look upon. It was not placed in you to be kept hidden from your sight.This light is a reflection of the thought we practice now.To feel the Love of God within you is to see the world anew, shining in innocence, alive with hope, and blessed with perfect charity and love. Who could feel fear in such a world as this? It welcomes you, rejoices that you came, and sings your praises as it keeps you safe from every form of danger and of pain. It offers you a warm and gentle home in which to stay a while. It blesses you throughout the day, and watches through the night as silent guardian of your holy sleep. It sees salvation in you, and protects the light in you in which it sees its own. It offers you its flowers and its snow in thankfulness for your benevolence. This is the world the Love of God reveals. It is so different from the world you see through darkened eyes of malice and of fear that one belies the other. Only one can be perceived at all.The other one is wholly meaningless. A world in which forgiveness shines on everything and peace offers its gentle light to everyone is inconceivable to those who see a world of hatred, rising from attack, poised to avenge, to murder and destroy. Yet is the world of hatred equally unseen and inconceivable to those who feel Godâ??s Love in them.Their world reflects the quietness and peace that shines in them; the gentleness and innocence they see surrounding them; the joy with which they look out from the endless wells of joy within.What they have felt in them they look upon, and see Its sure reflection everywhere. What would you see? The choice is given you. But learn and do not let your mind forget this law of seeing: you will look upon that which you feel within. If hatred finds a place within your heart, you will perceive a fearful world, held cruelly in deathâ??s sharp-pointed, bony fingers. If you feel the Love of God within you, you look out upon a world of mercy and of love.

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSONTumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacimREAD All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.htmllesson 189â??I feel the Love of God within me now.â??There is a light in you the world can not perceive.And with its eyes you will not see this light, for you are blinded by the world.Yet you have eyes to see it. It is there for you to look upon. It was not placed in you to be kept hidden from your sight.This light is a reflection of the thought we practice now.To feel the Love of God within you is to see the world anew, shining in innocence, alive with hope, and blessed with perfect charity and love.Who could feel fear in such a world as this? It welcomes you, rejoices that you came, and sings your praises as it keeps you safe from every form of danger and of pain. It offers you a warm and gentle home in which to stay a while. It blesses you throughout the day, and watches through the night as silent guardian of your holy sleep. It sees salvation in you, and protects the light in you in which it sees its own. It offers you its flowers and its snow in thankfulness for your benevolence.This is the world the Love of God reveals. It is so different from the world you see through darkened eyes of malice and of fear that one belies the other. Only one can be perceived at all.The other one is wholly meaningless. A world in which forgiveness shines on everything and peace offers its gentle light to everyone is inconceivable to those who see a world of hatred, rising from attack, poised to avenge, to murder and destroy.Yet is the world of hatred equally unseen and inconceivable to those who feel Godâ??s Love in them.Their world reflects the quietness and peace that shines in them; the gentleness and innocence they see surrounding them; the joy with which they look out from the endless wells of joy within.What they have felt in them they look upon, and see Its sure reflection everywhere.What would you see? The choice is given you. But learn and do not let your mind forget this law of seeing: you will look upon that which you feel within. If hatred finds a place within your heart, you will perceive a fearful world, held cruelly in deathâ??s sharp-pointed, bony fingers. If you feel the Love of God within you, you look out upon a world of mercy and of love.

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSONTumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacimREAD All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.htmllesson 188â??The peace of God is shining in me now.â??Why wait for Heaven?Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well.The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home.This light can not be lost. Why wait to find it in the future, or believe it has been lost already or was never there? It can so easily be looked upon that arguments which prove it is not there become ridiculous.Who can deny the presence of what he beholds in him? It is not difficult to look within, for there all vision starts. There is no sight, be it of dreams or from a truer source, that is not but the shadow of the seen through inward vision.There perception starts and there it ends. It has no source but this.The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. It pauses to caress each living thing, and leave a blessing with it which remains forever and forever.What it gives must be eternal. It removes all thoughts of the ephemeral and valueless. It brings renewal to all tired hearts, and lights all vision as it passes by. All of its gifts are given everyone, and everyone unites in giving thanks to you who give and you who have received.The shining in your mind reminds the world of what it has forgotten, and the world restores the memory to you as well. From you salvation radiates with gifts beyond all measure, given and returned.To you, the giver of the gift, does God Himself give thanks. And in His blessing does the light in you shine brighter, adding to the gifts you have to offer to the world.The peace of God can never be contained.Who recognizes it within himself must give it. And the means for giving it are in his understanding. He forgives because he recognized the truth in him. The peace of God is shining in you now, and in

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 188 â??The peace of God is shining in me now.â?? Why wait for Heaven?Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well.The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home. This light can not be lost. Why wait to find it in the future, or believe it has been lost already or was never there? It can so easily be looked upon that arguments which prove it is not there become ridiculous.Who can deny the presence of what he beholds in him? It is not difficult to look within, for there all vision starts. There is no sight, be it of dreams or from a truer source, that is not but the shadow of the seen through inward vision.There perception starts and there it ends. It has no source but this. The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. It pauses to caress each living thing, and leave a blessing with it which remains forever and forever.What it gives must be eternal. It removes all thoughts of the ephemeral and valueless. It brings renewal to all tired hearts, and lights all vision as it passes by. All of its gifts are given everyone, and everyone unites in giving thanks to you who give and you who have received. The shining in your mind reminds the world of what it has forgotten, and the world restores the memory to you as well. From you salvation radiates with gifts beyond all measure, given and returned.To you, the giver of the gift, does God Himself give thanks. And in His blessing does the light in you shine brighter, adding to the gifts you have to offer to the world. The peace of God can never be contained.Who recognizes it within himself must give it. And the means for giving it are in his understanding. He forgives because he recognized the truth in him. The peace of God is shining in you now, and in

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 187 â??I bless the world because I bless myself.â?? No-one can give unless he has. In fact, giving is proof of having.We have made this point before.What seems to make it hard to credit is not this. No-one can doubt that you must first possess what you would give. It is the second phase on which the world and true perception differ. Having had and given, then the world asserts that you have lost what you possessed.The truth maintains that giving will increase what you possess. How is this possible? For it is sure that if you give a finite thing away, your bodyâ??s eyes will not perceive it yours.Yet we have learned that things but represent the thoughts that make them. And you do not lack for proof that when you give ideas away, you strengthen them in your own mind. Perhaps the form in which the thought seems to appear is changed in giving.Yet it must return to him who gives. Nor can the form it takes be less acceptable. It must be more. Ideas must first belong to you, before you give them. If you are to save the world, you first accept salvation for yourself. But you will not believe that this is done until you see the miracles it brings to everyone you look upon. Herein is the idea of giving clarified and given meaning. Now you can perceive that by your giving is your store increased. Protect all things you value by the act of giving them away, and you are sure that you will never lose them.What you thought you did not have is thereby proven yours.Yet value not its form. For this will change, and grow unrecognizable in time, however much you try to keep it safe. No form endures. It is the thought behind the form of things that lives unchangeable. Give gladly.You can only gain thereby.The thought remains and grows in strength as it is reinforced by giving.Thoughts extend as they are shared, for they can not be lost. There is no giver and receiver in the sense the world conceives of them.There is a giver who retains; another who will give as well. And both must gain in this exchange, for each will have the thought in form most helpful to him. What he seems to lose is always something he

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSONTumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacimREAD All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.htmllesson 187â??I bless the world because I bless myself.â??No-one can give unless he has. In fact, giving is proof of having.We have made this point before.What seems to make it hard to credit is not this. No-one can doubt that you must first possess what you would give. It is the second phase on which the world and true perception differ. Having had and given, then the world asserts that you have lost what you possessed.The truth maintains that giving will increase what you possess.How is this possible? For it is sure that if you give a finite thing away, your bodyâ??s eyes will not perceive it yours.Yet we have learned that things but represent the thoughts that make them. And you do not lack for proof that when you give ideas away, you strengthen them in your own mind. Perhaps the form in which the thought seems to appear is changed in giving.Yet it must return to him who gives. Nor can the form it takes be less acceptable. It must be more.Ideas must first belong to you, before you give them. If you are to save the world, you first accept salvation for yourself. But you will not believe that this is done until you see the miracles it brings to everyone you look upon. Herein is the idea of giving clarified and given meaning. Now you can perceive that by your giving is your store increased.Protect all things you value by the act of giving them away, and you are sure that you will never lose them.What you thought you did not have is thereby proven yours.Yet value not its form. For this will change, and grow unrecognizable in time, however much you try to keep it safe. No form endures. It is the thought behind the form of things that lives unchangeable.Give gladly.You can only gain thereby.The thought remains and grows in strength as it is reinforced by giving.Thoughts extend as they are shared, for they can not be lost. There is no giver and receiver in the sense the world conceives of them.There is a giver who retains; another who will give as well. And both must gain in this exchange, for each will have the thought in form most helpful to him. What he seems to lose is always something he

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 186 â??Salvation of the world depends on me.â?? Here is the statement that will one day take all arrogance away from every mind. Here is the thought of true humility which holds no function as your own but that which has been given you. It offers your acceptance of a part assigned to you, without insisting on another role. It does not judge your proper role. It but acknowledges the Will of God is done on earth as well as Heaven. It unites all wills on earth in Heavenâ??s plan to save the world, restoring it to Heavenâ??s peace. Let us not fight our function. We did not establish it. It is not our idea. The means are given us by which it will be perfectly accomplished. All that we are asked to do is to accept our part in genuine humility, and not deny with self-deceiving arrogance that we are worthy.What is given us to do we have the strength to do. Our minds are suited perfectly to take the part assigned to us by One Who knows us well. Todayâ??s idea may seem quite sobering until you see its meaning. All it says is that your Father still remembers you, and offers you the perfect trust He holds in you who are His Son. It does not ask that you be different in any way from what you are.What could humility request but this? And what could arrogance deny but this? Today we will not shrink from our assignment on the specious grounds that modesty is outraged. It is pride that would deny the Call of God Himself. All false humility we lay aside today, that we may listen to Godâ??s Voice reveal to us what He would have us do.We do not doubt our adequacy for the function He will offer us.We will be certain only that He knows our strengths, our wisdom and our holiness. And if He deems us worthy, so we are. It is but arrogance that judges otherwise. There is one way, and only one, to be released from the imprisonment your plan to prove the false is true has brought to you. Accept the plan you did not make instead. Judge not your value to it. If Godâ??s Voice assures you that salvation needs your part, and that the whole depends on you, be sure that it is so.The arrogant must cling to words, afraid to go beyond them to experience

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSONTumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacimREAD All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.htmllesson 186â??Salvation of the world depends on me.â??Here is the statement that will one day take all arrogance away from every mind. Here is the thought of true humility which holds no function as your own but that which has been given you. It offers your acceptance of a part assigned to you, without insisting on another role. It does not judge your proper role. It but acknowledges the Will of God is done on earth as well as Heaven. It unites all wills on earth in Heavenâ??s plan to save the world, restoring it to Heavenâ??s peace.Let us not fight our function. We did not establish it. It is not our idea. The means are given us by which it will be perfectly accomplished. All that we are asked to do is to accept our part in genuine humility, and not deny with self-deceiving arrogance that we are worthy.What is given us to do we have the strength to do. Our minds are suited perfectly to take the part assigned to us by One Who knows us well.Todayâ??s idea may seem quite sobering until you see its meaning. All it says is that your Father still remembers you, and offers you the perfect trust He holds in you who are His Son. It does not ask that you be different in any way from what you are.What could humility request but this? And what could arrogance deny but this? Today we will not shrink from our assignment on the specious grounds that modesty is outraged. It is pride that would deny the Call of God Himself.All false humility we lay aside today, that we may listen to Godâ??s Voice reveal to us what He would have us do.We do not doubt our adequacy for the function He will offer us.We will be certain only that He knows our strengths, our wisdom and our holiness. And if He deems us worthy, so we are. It is but arrogance that judges otherwise.There is one way, and only one, to be released from the imprisonment your plan to prove the false is true has brought to you. Accept the plan you did not make instead. Judge not your value to it. If Godâ??s Voice assures you that salvation needs your part, and that the whole depends on you, be sure that it is so.The arrogant must cling to words, afraid to go beyond them to experience

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSONTumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacimREAD All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 184 â??The Name of God is my inheritance.â?? You live by symbols.You have made up names for everything you see. Each one becomes a separate entity, identified by its own name. By this you carve it out of unity. By this you designate its special attributes, and set it off from other things by emphasizing space surrounding it.This space you lay between all things to which you give a different name; all happenings in terms of place and time; all bodies which are greeted by a name. This space you see as setting off all things from one another is the means by which the worldâ??s perception is achieved. You see something where nothing is, and see as well nothing where there is unity; a space between all things, between all things and you.Thus do you think that you have given life in separation. By this split you think you are established as a unity which functions with an independent will. What are these names by which the world becomes a series of discrete events, of things ununified, of bodies kept apart and holding bits of mind as separate awarenesses? You gave these names to them, establishing perception as you wished to have perception be. The nameless things were given names, and thus reality was given them as well. For what is named is given meaning, and will then be seen as meaningful, a cause of true effects, with consequence inherent in itself. This is the way reality is made by partial vision, purposefully set against the given truth. Its enemy is wholeness. It conceives of little things, and looks upon them. And a lack of space, a sense of unity or vision which sees differently become the threats which it must overcome, conflict with and deny. Yet does this other vision still remain a natural direction for the mind to channel its perception. It is hard to teach the mind a thousand alien names and thousands more.Yet you believe this is what learning means; its one essential goal by which communication is achieved and concepts can be meaningfully shared. This is the sum of the inheritance the world bestows.

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSONTumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacimREAD All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.htmllesson 184â??The Name of God is my inheritance.â??You live by symbols.You have made up names for everything you see. Each one becomes a separate entity, identified by its own name. By this you carve it out of unity. By this you designate its special attributes, and set it off from other things by emphasizing space surrounding it.This space you lay between all things to which you give a different name; all happenings in terms of place and time; all bodies which are greeted by a name.This space you see as setting off all things from one another is the means by which the worldâ??s perception is achieved. You see something where nothing is, and see as well nothing where there is unity; a space between all things, between all things and you.Thus do you think that you have given life in separation. By this split you think you are established as a unity which functions with an independent will.What are these names by which the world becomes a series of discrete events, of things ununified, of bodies kept apart and holding bits of mind as separate awarenesses? You gave these names to them, establishing perception as you wished to have perception be. The nameless things were given names, and thus reality was given them as well. For what is named is given meaning, and will then be seen as meaningful, a cause of true effects, with consequence inherent in itself.This is the way reality is made by partial vision, purposefully set against the given truth. Its enemy is wholeness. It conceives of little things, and looks upon them. And a lack of space, a sense of unity or vision which sees differently become the threats which it must overcome, conflict with and deny.Yet does this other vision still remain a natural direction for the mind to channel its perception. It is hard to teach the mind a thousand alien names and thousands more.Yet you believe this is what learning means; its one essential goal by which communication is achieved and concepts can be meaningfully shared.This is the sum of the inheritance the world bestows.

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSONTumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacimREAD All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.htmllesson 183â??I call upon Godâ??s Name and on my own.â??Godâ??s Name is holy, but no holier than yours.To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own.A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him. His brothers share his name, and thus are they united in a bond to which they turn for their identity.Your Fatherâ??s Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not know; even though you have not remembered it.Godâ??s Name can not be heard without response, nor said without an echo in the mind which calls you to remember. Say His Name, and you invite the angels to surround the ground on which you stand, and sing to you as they spread out their wings to keep you safe, and shelter you from every worldly thought that would intrude upon your holiness.Repeat Godâ??s Name and all the world responds by laying down illusions. Every dream the world holds dear has suddenly gone by, and where it seemed to stand you find a star; a miracle of grace.The sick arise, healed of their sickly thoughts.The blind can see; the deaf can hear, the sorrowful cast off their mourning, and the tears of pain are dried as happy laughter comes to bless the world.Repeat the Name of God and little names have lost their meaning. No temptation but becomes a nameless and unwanted thing before Godâ??s Name. Repeat His Name and see how easily you will forget the names of all the gods you value.They have lost the name of god you gave them.They become anonymous and valueless to you, although before you let the Name of God replace their little names, you stood before them worshipfully, naming them as gods.Repeat the Name of God and call upon your Self,Whose Name is His. Repeat His Name and all the tiny, nameless things on earth slip into right perspective.Those who call upon the Name of God can not mistake the nameless for the Name, nor sin for grace, nor bodies for the holy Son of God.And should you join a brother as you sit with him in silence, and repeat Godâ??s Name along with him within your quiet minds, you have established there an altar which reaches to God Himself and to

The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html lesson 183 â??I call upon Godâ??s Name and on my own.â?? Godâ??s Name is holy, but no holier than yours.To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own.A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him. His brothers share his name, and thus are they united in a bond to which they turn for their identity.Your Fatherâ??s Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not know; even though you have not remembered it.Godâ??s Name can not be heard without response, nor said without an echo in the mind which calls you to remember. Say His Name, and you invite the angels to surround the ground on which you stand, and sing to you as they spread out their wings to keep you safe, and shelter you from every worldly thought that would intrude upon your holiness. Repeat Godâ??s Name and all the world responds by laying down illusions. Every dream the world holds dear has suddenly gone by, and where it seemed to stand you find a star; a miracle of grace.The sick arise, healed of their sickly thoughts.The blind can see; the deaf can hear, the sorrowful cast off their mourning, and the tears of pain are dried as happy laughter comes to bless the world. Repeat the Name of God and little names have lost their meaning. No temptation but becomes a nameless and unwanted thing before Godâ??s Name. Repeat His Name and see how easily you will forget the names of all the gods you value.They have lost the name of god you gave them.They become anonymous and valueless to you, although before you let the Name of God replace their little names, you stood before them worshipfully, naming them as gods. Repeat the Name of God and call upon your Self,Whose Name is His. Repeat His Name and all the tiny, nameless things on earth slip into right perspective.Those who call upon the Name of God can not mistake the nameless for the Name, nor sin for grace, nor bodies for the holy Son of God. And should you join a brother as you sit with him in silence, and repeat Godâ??s Name along with him within your quiet minds, you have established there an altar which reaches to God Himself and to

lesson 50â??I am sustained by the Love of God.â??Here is the answer to every problem that confronts you today and tomorrow and throughout time. In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God.Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols; pills, money, â??protectiveâ?? clothing, â??influence,â?? â??prestige,â?? being liked, knowing the â??rightâ?? people, and an endless list of forms of nothingness which you endow with magical powers.All these things are your replacements for the Love of God. All these things are cherished to ensure a body identification.They are songs of praise to the ego.Do not put your faith in the worthless. It will not sustain you. Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances. It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety. It will transport you into a state of mind which nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God.Put not your faith in illusions. They will fail you. Put all your faith in the Love of God within you, eternal, changeless and forever unfailing. This is the answer to whatever confronts you today. Through the Love of God in you, you can resolve all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence.Tell yourself this often today. It is a declaration of release from the belief in idols. It is your acknowledgment of the truth about yourself.Twice today, morning and evening, let the idea for today sink deep into your consciousness. Repeat it, think about it, let related thoughts come to help you recognize its truth, and allow peace to flow over you like a blanket of protection and surety. Let no idle and foolish thoughts enter to disturb the holy mind of the Son of God. Such is the Kingdom of Heaven. Such is the resting-place where your Father has placed you forever.

lesson 50 â??I am sustained by the Love of God.â?? Here is the answer to every problem that confronts you today and tomorrow and throughout time. In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God.Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols; pills, money, â??protectiveâ?? clothing, â??influence,â?? â??prestige,â?? being liked, knowing the â??rightâ?? people, and an endless list of forms of nothingness which you endow with magical powers.All these things are your replacements for the Love of God. All these things are cherished to ensure a body identification.They are songs of praise to the ego. Do not put your faith in the worthless. It will not sustain you. Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances. It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety. It will transport you into a state of mind which nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God. Put not your faith in illusions. They will fail you. Put all your faith in the Love of God within you, eternal, changeless and forever unfailing. This is the answer to whatever confronts you today. Through the Love of God in you, you can resolve all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence.Tell yourself this often today. It is a declaration of release from the belief in idols. It is your acknowledgment of the truth about yourself. Twice today, morning and evening, let the idea for today sink deep into your consciousness. Repeat it, think about it, let related thoughts come to help you recognize its truth, and allow peace to flow over you like a blanket of protection and surety. Let no idle and foolish thoughts enter to disturb the holy mind of the Son of God. Such is the Kingdom of Heaven. Such is the resting-place where your Father has placed you forever.

lesson 25â??I do not know what anything is for.â??Purpose is meaning. Todayâ??s idea explains why nothing you see means anything. You do not know what it is for. Therefore it is meaningless to you. Everything is for your own best interests.That is what it is for; that is its purpose; that is what it means. It is in recognizing this that your goals become unified. It is in recognizing this that what you see is given meaning.You perceive the world and everything in it as meaningful in terms of ego goals.These goals have nothing to do with your own best interests, because the ego is not you. This false identification makes you incapable of understanding what anything is for. As a result, you are bound to misuse it.When you believe this, you will try to withdraw the goals you have assigned to the world, instead of attempting to reinforce them.Another way of describing the goals you now perceive as valuable is to say that they are all concerned with â??personalâ?? interests. Since you have no personal interests, your goals are really concerned with nothing. In cherishing them, therefore, you have no goals at all. And thus you do not know what anything is for.Before you can make any sense out of the exercises for today, one more thought is necessary. At the most superficial levels, you do recognize purpose.Yet purpose cannot be understood at these levels. For example, you do understand that a telephone is for the purpose of talking to someone who is not physically in your immediate vicinity. What you do not understand is what you want to reach him for.And it is this that makes your contact with him meaningful or not.It is crucial to your learning to be willing to give up the goals you have established for everything.The recognition that they are meaningless, rather than â??goodâ?? or â??bad,â?? is the only way to accomplish this.The idea for today is a step in this direction.Six practice periods, each of two minutes duration, are required. Each practice period should begin with a slow repetition of the idea for today, followed by looking about you and letting your glance rest on whatever happens to catch your eye, near or far, â??importantâ?? or

lesson 25 â??I do not know what anything is for.â?? Purpose is meaning. Todayâ??s idea explains why nothing you see means anything. You do not know what it is for. Therefore it is meaningless to you. Everything is for your own best interests.That is what it is for; that is its purpose; that is what it means. It is in recognizing this that your goals become unified. It is in recognizing this that what you see is given meaning. You perceive the world and everything in it as meaningful in terms of ego goals.These goals have nothing to do with your own best interests, because the ego is not you. This false identification makes you incapable of understanding what anything is for. As a result, you are bound to misuse it.When you believe this, you will try to withdraw the goals you have assigned to the world, instead of attempting to reinforce them. Another way of describing the goals you now perceive as valuable is to say that they are all concerned with â??personalâ?? interests. Since you have no personal interests, your goals are really concerned with nothing. In cherishing them, therefore, you have no goals at all. And thus you do not know what anything is for. Before you can make any sense out of the exercises for today, one more thought is necessary. At the most superficial levels, you do recognize purpose.Yet purpose cannot be understood at these levels. For example, you do understand that a telephone is for the purpose of talking to someone who is not physically in your immediate vicinity. What you do not understand is what you want to reach him for.And it is this that makes your contact with him meaningful or not. It is crucial to your learning to be willing to give up the goals you have established for everything.The recognition that they are meaningless, rather than â??goodâ?? or â??bad,â?? is the only way to accomplish this.The idea for today is a step in this direction. Six practice periods, each of two minutes duration, are required. Each practice period should begin with a slow repetition of the idea for today, followed by looking about you and letting your glance rest on whatever happens to catch your eye, near or far, â??importantâ?? or

lesson 15 â??My thoughts are images which I have made.â?? It is because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as nothing.You think you think them, and so you think you see them.This is how your â??seeingâ??was made. This is the function you have given your bodyâ??s eyes.It is not seeing. It is image-making. It takes the place of seeing, replacing vision withillusions. This introductory idea to the process of image-making which you call seeing will not have much meaning for you.You will begin to understand it when you have seen little edges of light around the same familiar objects which you see now.That is the beginning of real vision.You can be certain that real vision will come quickly when this has occurred. As we go along,you may have many â??light episodes.â??They may take many different forms,some of them quite unexpected.Do not be afraid of them.They are signs that you are opening your eyes at last. They will not persist, because they merely symbolize true perception, and they are not related to knowledge.These exercises will not reveal knowledge to you.But they will prepare the way to it. In practicing the idea for today, repeat it ï¬?rst to yourself, and then apply it to whatever you see around you, using its name and letting your eyes rest on it as you say: â??This _____is an image which I have made.â?? â??That _____is an image which I have made.â??

lesson 15 â??My thoughts are images which I have made.â?? It is because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as nothing.You think you think them, and so you think you see them.This is how your â??seeingâ??was made. This is the function you have given your bodyâ??s eyes.It is not seeing. It is image-making. It takes the place of seeing, replacing vision withillusions. This introductory idea to the process of image-making which you call seeing will not have much meaning for you.You will begin to understand it when you have seen little edges of light around the same familiar objects which you see now.That is the beginning of real vision.You can be certain that real vision will come quickly when this has occurred. As we go along,you may have many â??light episodes.â??They may take many different forms,some of them quite unexpected.Do not be afraid of them.They are signs that you are opening your eyes at last. They will not persist, because they merely symbolize true perception, and they are not related to knowledge.These exercises will not reveal knowledge to you.But they will prepare the way to it. In practicing the idea for today, repeat it ï¬?rst to yourself, and then apply it to whatever you see around you, using its name and letting your eyes rest on it as you say: â??This _____is an image which I have made.â?? â??That _____is an image which I have made.â??

lesson 10 â??My thoughts do not mean anything.â?? This idea applies to all the thoughts of which you are aware, or become aware in the practice periods. The reason the idea is applicable to all of them is that they are not your real thoughts.We have made this distinction before,and will again.You have no basis for comparison as yet.When you do,you will have no doubt that what you once believed were your thoughts did not mean anything. This is the second time we have used this kind of idea.The form is only slightly different.This time the idea is introduced with â??My thoughtsâ??instead of â??These thoughts,â??and no link is made overtly with the things around you.The emphasis is now on the lack of reality of what you think you think. This aspect of the correction process began with the idea that the thoughts of which you are aware are meaningless,outside rather than within; and then stressed their past rather than their present status. Now we are emphasizing that the presence of these â??thoughtsâ??means that you are not thinking.This is merely another way of repeating our earlier statement that your mind is really a blank.To recognize this is to recognize nothingness when you think you see it.As such,it is the prerequisite for vision. Close your eyes for these exercises, and introduce them by repeating the idea for today quite slowly to yourself.Then add: â??This idea will help to release me from all that I now believe.â?? The exercises consist, as before, in searching your mind for all the thoughts which are available to you,without selection or judgement. Try to avoid classiï¬?cation of any kind.In fact,if you ï¬?nd it helpful to do so, you might imagine that you are watching an oddly assorted procession going by,which has little if any personal meaning to you. As each one crosses your mind,say: â??This thought about _____does not mean anything.â?? â??That thought about _____does not mean anything.â?? Todayâ??s idea can obviously serve for any thought that distresses

lesson 10 â??My thoughts do not mean anything.â?? This idea applies to all the thoughts of which you are aware, or become aware in the practice periods. The reason the idea is applicable to all of them is that they are not your real thoughts.We have made this distinction before,and will again.You have no basis for comparison as yet.When you do,you will have no doubt that what you once believed were your thoughts did not mean anything. This is the second time we have used this kind of idea.The form is only slightly different.This time the idea is introduced with â??My thoughtsâ??instead of â??These thoughts,â??and no link is made overtly with the things around you.The emphasis is now on the lack of reality of what you think you think. This aspect of the correction process began with the idea that the thoughts of which you are aware are meaningless,outside rather than within; and then stressed their past rather than their present status. Now we are emphasizing that the presence of these â??thoughtsâ??means that you are not thinking.This is merely another way of repeating our earlier statement that your mind is really a blank.To recognize this is to recognize nothingness when you think you see it.As such,it is the prerequisite for vision. Close your eyes for these exercises, and introduce them by repeating the idea for today quite slowly to yourself.Then add: â??This idea will help to release me from all that I now believe.â?? The exercises consist, as before, in searching your mind for all the thoughts which are available to you,without selection or judgement. Try to avoid classiï¬?cation of any kind.In fact,if you ï¬?nd it helpful to do so, you might imagine that you are watching an oddly assorted procession going by,which has little if any personal meaning to you. As each one crosses your mind,say: â??This thought about _____does not mean anything.â?? â??That thought about _____does not mean anything.â?? Todayâ??s idea can obviously serve for any thought that distresses

lesson 9 â??I see nothing as it is now.â?? This idea obviously follows from the two preceding ones.But while you may be able to accept it intellectually, it is unlikely that it will mean anything to you as yet.However,understanding is not necessary at this point.In fact,the recognition that you do not understand is a prerequisite for undoing your false ideas. These exercises are concerned with practice,not with understanding.You do not need to practice what you really understand. It would indeed be circular to aim at understanding,and assume that you have it already. It is difï¬?cult for the untrained mind to believe that what seems to be pictured before it is not there.This idea can be quite disturbing, and may meet with active resistance in any number of forms.Yet that does not preclude applying it.No more than that is required for these or any other exercises.Each little step will clear a little of the darkness away,and understanding will ï¬?nally come to lighten every corner of the mind which has been cleared of the debris that darkens it. These exercises, for which three or four practice periods are sufï¬?cient,involve looking about you and applying the idea for the day to whatever you see, remembering the need for its indiscriminate application, and the essential rule of excluding nothing. It is emphasized again that while complete inclusion should not be attempted,speciï¬?c exclusion must be avoided.Be sure you are honest in making this distinction.You may be tempted to obscure it. For example: â??I do not see this typewriter as it is now.â?? â??I do not see this key as it is now.â?? â??I do not see this telephone as it is now.â?? Begin with things that are nearest you,and then extend the range: â??I do not see that coat rack as it is now.â?? â??I do not see that face as it is now.â?? â??I do not see that door as it is now.â??

lesson 9 â??I see nothing as it is now.â?? This idea obviously follows from the two preceding ones.But while you may be able to accept it intellectually, it is unlikely that it will mean anything to you as yet.However,understanding is not necessary at this point.In fact,the recognition that you do not understand is a prerequisite for undoing your false ideas. These exercises are concerned with practice,not with understanding.You do not need to practice what you really understand. It would indeed be circular to aim at understanding,and assume that you have it already. It is difï¬?cult for the untrained mind to believe that what seems to be pictured before it is not there.This idea can be quite disturbing, and may meet with active resistance in any number of forms.Yet that does not preclude applying it.No more than that is required for these or any other exercises.Each little step will clear a little of the darkness away,and understanding will ï¬?nally come to lighten every corner of the mind which has been cleared of the debris that darkens it. These exercises, for which three or four practice periods are sufï¬?cient,involve looking about you and applying the idea for the day to whatever you see, remembering the need for its indiscriminate application, and the essential rule of excluding nothing. It is emphasized again that while complete inclusion should not be attempted,speciï¬?c exclusion must be avoided.Be sure you are honest in making this distinction.You may be tempted to obscure it. For example: â??I do not see this typewriter as it is now.â?? â??I do not see this key as it is now.â?? â??I do not see this telephone as it is now.â?? Begin with things that are nearest you,and then extend the range: â??I do not see that coat rack as it is now.â?? â??I do not see that face as it is now.â?? â??I do not see that door as it is now.â??

lesson 8 â??My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.â?? This idea is,of course,the reason why you see only the past.No-one really sees anything.He sees only his thoughts projected outward.The mindâ??s preoccupation with the past is the cause of the total misconception about time from which your seeing suffers.Your mind cannot grasp the present,which is the only time there is.It therefore cannot understand time,and cannot,in fact,understand anything. The only wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here.To think about it at all is therefore to think about delusions.Very few minds have realized what is actually entailed in picturing the past or in anticipating the future.The mind is actually blank when it does this, because it is not really thinking about anything. The purpose of the exercises for today is to begin to train your mind to recognize when it is not really thinking at all. While thoughtless â??ideasâ??preoccupy your mind, the truth is blocked. Recognizing that your mind has been merely blank, rather than believing that it is ï¬?lled with real ideas,is the ï¬?rst step to opening the way to vision. The exercises for today should be done with eyes closed.This is because you actually cannot see anything,and it is easier to recognize that no matter how vividly you may picture a thought,you are not seeing anything.With as little investment as possible, search your mind for the usual minute or so,merely noting the thoughts you ï¬?nd there.Name each one by the central ï¬?gure or theme it contains,and pass on to the next.Introduce the practice period by saying: â??I seem to be thinking about _____.â?? Then name each of your thoughts speciï¬?cally,for example: â??I seem to be thinking about [name of person], about [name of object],about [name of emotion],â?? and so on,concluding at the end of the mind searching period with: â??But my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.â??

lesson 8 â??My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.â?? This idea is,of course,the reason why you see only the past.No-one really sees anything.He sees only his thoughts projected outward.The mindâ??s preoccupation with the past is the cause of the total misconception about time from which your seeing suffers.Your mind cannot grasp the present,which is the only time there is.It therefore cannot understand time,and cannot,in fact,understand anything. The only wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here.To think about it at all is therefore to think about delusions.Very few minds have realized what is actually entailed in picturing the past or in anticipating the future.The mind is actually blank when it does this, because it is not really thinking about anything. The purpose of the exercises for today is to begin to train your mind to recognize when it is not really thinking at all. While thoughtless â??ideasâ??preoccupy your mind, the truth is blocked. Recognizing that your mind has been merely blank, rather than believing that it is ï¬?lled with real ideas,is the ï¬?rst step to opening the way to vision. The exercises for today should be done with eyes closed.This is because you actually cannot see anything,and it is easier to recognize that no matter how vividly you may picture a thought,you are not seeing anything.With as little investment as possible, search your mind for the usual minute or so,merely noting the thoughts you ï¬?nd there.Name each one by the central ï¬?gure or theme it contains,and pass on to the next.Introduce the practice period by saying: â??I seem to be thinking about _____.â?? Then name each of your thoughts speciï¬?cally,for example: â??I seem to be thinking about [name of person], about [name of object],about [name of emotion],â?? and so on,concluding at the end of the mind searching period with: â??But my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.â??

lesson 7 â??I see only the past.â?? This idea is particularly difï¬?cult to believe at ï¬?rst.Yet it is the rationale for all of the preceding ones. It is the reason why nothing that you see means anything. It is the reason why you have given everything you see all the meaning that it has for you. It is the reason why you do not understand anything you see. It is the reason why your thoughts do not mean anything,and why they are like the things you see. It is the reason why you are never upset for the reason you think. It is the reason why you are upset because you see something that is not there. Old ideas about time are very difï¬?cult to change, because everything you believe is rooted in time,and depends on your not learning these new ideas about it.Yet that is precisely why you need new ideas about time.This ï¬?rst time idea is not really so strange as it may sound at ï¬?rst.Look at a cup,for example. Do you see a cup, or are you merely reviewing your past experiences of picking up a cup,being thirsty,drinking from a cup, feeling the rim of a cup against your lips,having breakfast and so on? Are not your aesthetic reactions to the cup, too, based on past experiences? How else would you know whether or not this kind of cup will break if you drop it? What do you know about this cup except what you learned in the past? You would have no idea what this cup is except for your past learning.Do you,then,really see it? Look about you.This is equally true of whatever you look at. Acknowledge this by applying the idea for today indiscriminately to whatever catches your eye.For example: â??I see only the past in this pencil.â?? â??I see only the past in this shoe.â?? â??I see only the past in this hand.â?? â??I see only the past in that body.â?? â??I see only the past in that face.â??

lesson 7 â??I see only the past.â?? This idea is particularly difï¬?cult to believe at ï¬?rst.Yet it is the rationale for all of the preceding ones. It is the reason why nothing that you see means anything. It is the reason why you have given everything you see all the meaning that it has for you. It is the reason why you do not understand anything you see. It is the reason why your thoughts do not mean anything,and why they are like the things you see. It is the reason why you are never upset for the reason you think. It is the reason why you are upset because you see something that is not there. Old ideas about time are very difï¬?cult to change, because everything you believe is rooted in time,and depends on your not learning these new ideas about it.Yet that is precisely why you need new ideas about time.This ï¬?rst time idea is not really so strange as it may sound at ï¬?rst.Look at a cup,for example. Do you see a cup, or are you merely reviewing your past experiences of picking up a cup,being thirsty,drinking from a cup, feeling the rim of a cup against your lips,having breakfast and so on? Are not your aesthetic reactions to the cup, too, based on past experiences? How else would you know whether or not this kind of cup will break if you drop it? What do you know about this cup except what you learned in the past? You would have no idea what this cup is except for your past learning.Do you,then,really see it? Look about you.This is equally true of whatever you look at. Acknowledge this by applying the idea for today indiscriminately to whatever catches your eye.For example: â??I see only the past in this pencil.â?? â??I see only the past in this shoe.â?? â??I see only the past in this hand.â?? â??I see only the past in that body.â?? â??I see only the past in that face.â??

lesson 6 â??I am upset because I see something that is not there.â?? The exercises with this idea are very similar to the preceding ones. Again, it is necessary to name both the form of upset (anger, fear, worry, depression, and so on) and the perceived source very speciï¬?cally for any application of the idea.For example: â??I am angry at ____ because I see something that is not there.â?? â??I am worried about ____ because I see something that is not there.â?? Todayâ??s idea is useful for application to anything that seems to upset you, and can proï¬?tably be used throughout the day for that purpose. However, the three or four practice periods which are required should be preceded by a minute or so of mind searching,as before, and the application of the idea to each upsetting thought uncovered in the search. Again,if you resist applying the idea to some upsetting thoughts more than to others, remind yourself of the two cautions stated in the previous lesson: â??There are no small upsets.They are all equally disturbing to my peace of mind.â?? And: â??I cannot keep this form of upset and let the others go. For the purposes of these exercises, then,I will regard them all as the same.â??

lesson 6 â??I am upset because I see something that is not there.â?? The exercises with this idea are very similar to the preceding ones. Again, it is necessary to name both the form of upset (anger, fear, worry, depression, and so on) and the perceived source very speciï¬?cally for any application of the idea.For example: â??I am angry at ____ because I see something that is not there.â?? â??I am worried about ____ because I see something that is not there.â?? Todayâ??s idea is useful for application to anything that seems to upset you, and can proï¬?tably be used throughout the day for that purpose. However, the three or four practice periods which are required should be preceded by a minute or so of mind searching,as before, and the application of the idea to each upsetting thought uncovered in the search. Again,if you resist applying the idea to some upsetting thoughts more than to others, remind yourself of the two cautions stated in the previous lesson: â??There are no small upsets.They are all equally disturbing to my peace of mind.â?? And: â??I cannot keep this form of upset and let the others go. For the purposes of these exercises, then,I will regard them all as the same.â??

lesson 5 â??I am never upset for the reason I think.â?? This idea, like the preceding one, can be used with any person, situation or event you think is causing you pain.Apply it speciï¬?cally to whatever you believe is the cause of your upset,using the description of the feeling in whatever term seems accurate to you.The upset may seem to be fear, worry, depression, anxiety, anger, hatred, jealousy, or any number of forms,all of which will be perceived as different.This is not true. However, until you learn that form does not matter, each form becomes a proper subject for the exercises for the day.Applying the same idea to each of them separately is the ï¬?rst step in ultimately recognizing they are all the same. When using the idea for today for a speciï¬?c perceived cause of an upset in any form,use both the name of the form in which you see the upset,and the cause which you ascribe to it.For example: â??I am not angry at ____ for the reason I think.â?? â??I am not afraid of ____ for the reason I think.â?? But again, this should not be substituted for practice periods in which you ï¬?rst search your mind for â??sourcesâ??of upset in which you believe,and forms of upset which you think result. In these exercises, more than in the preceding ones, you may ï¬?nd it hard to be indiscriminate,and to avoid giving greater weight to some subjects than to others. It might help to precede the exercises with the statement: â??There are no small upsets.They are all equally disturbing to my peace of mind.â?? Then examine your mind for whatever is distressing you,regardless of how much or how little you think it is doing so. You may also ï¬?nd yourself less willing to apply todayâ??s idea to some perceived sources of upset than to others.If this occurs,think

lesson 5 â??I am never upset for the reason I think.â?? This idea, like the preceding one, can be used with any person, situation or event you think is causing you pain.Apply it speciï¬?cally to whatever you believe is the cause of your upset,using the description of the feeling in whatever term seems accurate to you.The upset may seem to be fear, worry, depression, anxiety, anger, hatred, jealousy, or any number of forms,all of which will be perceived as different.This is not true. However, until you learn that form does not matter, each form becomes a proper subject for the exercises for the day.Applying the same idea to each of them separately is the ï¬?rst step in ultimately recognizing they are all the same. When using the idea for today for a speciï¬?c perceived cause of an upset in any form,use both the name of the form in which you see the upset,and the cause which you ascribe to it.For example: â??I am not angry at ____ for the reason I think.â?? â??I am not afraid of ____ for the reason I think.â?? But again, this should not be substituted for practice periods in which you ï¬?rst search your mind for â??sourcesâ??of upset in which you believe,and forms of upset which you think result. In these exercises, more than in the preceding ones, you may ï¬?nd it hard to be indiscriminate,and to avoid giving greater weight to some subjects than to others. It might help to precede the exercises with the statement: â??There are no small upsets.They are all equally disturbing to my peace of mind.â?? Then examine your mind for whatever is distressing you,regardless of how much or how little you think it is doing so. You may also ï¬?nd yourself less willing to apply todayâ??s idea to some perceived sources of upset than to others.If this occurs,think

lesson 4 â??These thoughts do not mean anything.They are like the things I see in this room [on this street,from this window,in this place].â?? Unlike the preceding ones, these exercises do not begin with the idea for the day. In these practice periods, begin with noting the thoughts that are crossing your mind for about a minute.Then apply the idea to them.If you are already aware of unhappy thoughts use them as subjects for the idea. Do not, however, select only the thoughts you think are â??bad.â??You will ï¬?nd,if you train yourself to look at your thoughts,that they represent such a mixture that,in a sense,none of them can be called â??goodâ??or â??bad.â??This is why they do not mean anything. In selecting the subjects for the application of todayâ??s idea, the usual speciï¬?city is required.Do not be afraid to use â??goodâ??thoughts as well as â??bad.â??None of them represents your real thoughts,which are being covered up by them.The â??goodâ??ones of which you are aware are but shadows of what lies beyond,and shadows make sight difï¬?cult. The â??badâ?? ones are blocks to sight, and make seeing impossible.You do not want either. This is a major exercise,and will be repeated from time to time in somewhat different form.The aim here is to train you in the ï¬?rst steps toward the goal of separating the meaningless from the meaningful.It is a ï¬?rst attempt in the long-range purpose of learning to see the meaningless as outside you,and the meaningful within.It is also the beginning of training your mind to recognize what is the same and what is different.In using your thoughts for application of the idea for today, identify each thought by the central ï¬?gure or event it contains;for example: â??This thought about _____ does not mean anything. It is like the things I see in this room [or wherever you are].â?? You can also use the idea for a particular thought which you recognize as harmful.This practice is useful,but is not a substitute for the more random procedures to be followed for the exercises.Do not, however,examine your mind for more than a minute or so.You are too inexperienced as yet to avoid a tendency to become pointlessly preoccupied.Further,since these exercises are the ï¬?rst of their kind, you may ï¬?nd the suspension of judgement in connection with thoughts particularly difï¬?cult. Do not repeat these exercises more than three or four times during the day.We will return to them later. PART I

lesson 4 â??These thoughts do not mean anything.They are like the things I see in this room [on this street,from this window,in this place].â?? Unlike the preceding ones, these exercises do not begin with the idea for the day. In these practice periods, begin with noting the thoughts that are crossing your mind for about a minute.Then apply the idea to them.If you are already aware of unhappy thoughts use them as subjects for the idea. Do not, however, select only the thoughts you think are â??bad.â??You will ï¬?nd,if you train yourself to look at your thoughts,that they represent such a mixture that,in a sense,none of them can be called â??goodâ??or â??bad.â??This is why they do not mean anything. In selecting the subjects for the application of todayâ??s idea, the usual speciï¬?city is required.Do not be afraid to use â??goodâ??thoughts as well as â??bad.â??None of them represents your real thoughts,which are being covered up by them.The â??goodâ??ones of which you are aware are but shadows of what lies beyond,and shadows make sight difï¬?cult. The â??badâ?? ones are blocks to sight, and make seeing impossible.You do not want either. This is a major exercise,and will be repeated from time to time in somewhat different form.The aim here is to train you in the ï¬?rst steps toward the goal of separating the meaningless from the meaningful.It is a ï¬?rst attempt in the long-range purpose of learning to see the meaningless as outside you,and the meaningful within.It is also the beginning of training your mind to recognize what is the same and what is different.In using your thoughts for application of the idea for today, identify each thought by the central ï¬?gure or event it contains;for example: â??This thought about _____ does not mean anything. It is like the things I see in this room [or wherever you are].â?? You can also use the idea for a particular thought which you recognize as harmful.This practice is useful,but is not a substitute for the more random procedures to be followed for the exercises.Do not, however,examine your mind for more than a minute or so.You are too inexperienced as yet to avoid a tendency to become pointlessly preoccupied.Further,since these exercises are the ï¬?rst of their kind, you may ï¬?nd the suspension of judgement in connection with thoughts particularly difï¬?cult. Do not repeat these exercises more than three or four times during the day.We will return to them later. PART I