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LESSON 200There Is No Peace Except The Peace Of God.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 that 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 or jail for anyone.Freedom is given you where you beheld but chains and iron doors. But 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 God'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 be a choice to make between success and failure; love and fear?There is no peace except the peace of God, because He has one Son who cannot make a world in opposition to God's Will and to his own, which is the same as His. What could he hope to find in such a world? It cannot have reality, because it never was created. Is it here that he would seek for peace? Or must he see that, as he looks on it, the world can but deceive? Yet can he learn to look on it another way, and find the peace of God.Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. But peace begins within the world perceived as different, and leading from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond. Peace is the answer to conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, and meaningless endeavors. Now the way is easy, sloping gently toward the bridge where freedom lies within the peace of God.Let us not lose our way again today. We go to Heaven, and the path is straight. Only if we attempt to wander can there be delay, and needless wasted time on thorny byways. God alone is sure, and He will guide our footsteps. He will not desert His Son in need, nor let him stray forever from his home. The Father calls; the Son will hear. And that is all there is to what appears to be a world apart from God, where bodies have reality.Now is there silence. Seek no further. You have come to where the road is carpeted with leaves of false desires, fallen from the trees of hopelessness you sought before. Now are they underfoot. And you look up and on toward Heaven, with the body's eyes but serving for an instant longer now. Peace is already recognized at last, and you can feel its soft embrace surround your heart and mind with comfort and with love.Today we seek no idols. Peace can not be found in them. The peace of God is ours, and only this will we accept and want. Peace be to us today. For we have found a simple, happy way to leave the world of ambiguity, and to replace our shifting goals and solitary dreams with single purpose and companionship. For peace is union, if it be of God. We seek no further. We are close to home, and draw still nearer every time we say:There is no peace except the peace of God,And I am glad and thankful it is so.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
Lily Wolter is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and along with her brother Jack, a founding member of Brighton based band, Penelope Isles. Their newest release, 3 is due out September 25th via Bella Union. Lily shares her experience growing up on the Ilse of Mann, how that shaped her relationship with music and what motivated her and her brother to start playing music together. She tells us why the band took a three-year break, what they did with that time, and why Penelope Isles feels stronger than ever. Joe and Lily discuss her story telling style, the songwriting connection that these siblings have, and how their collaboration has evolved. The two bond on video making and content creation, how breaking the fourth wall drove the concept for their newest video, and we hear some new tunes. Penelope IslesBella UnionSummer Slip On Sale at Kingston Union. Add a little leisure and style to your summer vibrations with our classic Slip-On. Right now we're offering 25% Off on ALL Slip-On's. Pre beach, post beach, breezy nights on the deck or be your chillest self on your daily errands. Use code SUMMERSLIPS25 to get yours now.Episode supported by our friends Izotope This episode is produced with Ozone 12, the newest from Izotope. Head over to izotope.com now for savings on all their production software. Go check out Ozone 12 and RX 12 and master with the best and solve the unsolvable 20 plug-ins for mastering mastery. Use code FRET10 at checkout.Ep supported by @distrokid. Distrokid now offers Bandzoogle where you can build your bands website and store in minutes. @thetourstories listeners get 30% off at distrokid.com/vip/tourstories. GET YOUR MUSIC OUT THERE! ITS EASY WITH @distrokidTour Stories would like to welcome our newest sponsor Kuma Coffee. Kuma Coffee is a 100% Independently owned roasting company right here in Seattle since 2008. Kuma is a 5-person team, roasting over 100,000lbs of exclusively high scoring coffee each year. They source their coffees direct from origin and pay well over fair trade pricing to farmers. This guarantees the highest quality, while supporting rural farming communities throughout the Global SouthThey also just launched an instant coffee… (Joe's favorite instant)Find everything Kuma at Kumacoffee.comMentioned in this episode:IzotopeDistrokidKingston UnionKingston Union, your home for the original Wino shoes Kingstonunionmfg.com Kuma Coffee
LESSON 193All Things Are Lessons God Would Have Me Learn.God does not know of learning. Yet His Will extends to what He does not understand, in that He wills the happiness His Son inherited of Him be undisturbed; eternal and forever gaining scope, eternally expanding in the joy of full creation, and eternally open and wholly limitless in Him. That is His Will. And thus His Will provides the means to guarantee that it is done.God sees no contradictions. Yet His Son believes he sees them. Thus he has a need for One Who can correct his erring sight, and give him vision that will lead him back to where perception ceases. God does not perceive at all. Yet it is He Who gives the means by which perception is made true and beautiful enough to let the light of Heaven shine upon it. It is He Who answers what His Son would contradict, and keeps his sinlessness forever safe.These are the lessons God would have you learn. His Will reflects them all, and they reflect His loving kindness to the Son He loves. Each lesson has a central thought, the same in all of them. The form alone is changed, with different circumstances and events; with different characters and different themes, apparent but not real. They are the same in fundamental content. It is this:Forgive, and you will see this differently.Certain it is that all distress does not appear to be but unforgiveness. Yet that is the content underneath the form. It is this sameness which makes learning sure, because the lesson is so simple that it cannot be rejected in the end. No one can hide forever from a truth so very obvious that it appears in countless forms, and yet is recognized as easily in all of them, if one but wants to see the simple lesson there.Forgive, and you will see this differently.These are the words the Holy Spirit speaks in all your tribulations, all your pain, all suffering regardless of its form. These are the words with which temptation ends, and guilt, abandoned, is revered no more. These are the words which end the dream of sin, and rid the mind of fear. These are the words by which salvation comes to all the world.Shall we not learn to say these words when we are tempted to believe that pain is real, and death becomes our choice instead of life? Shall we not learn to say these words when we have understood their power to release all minds from bondage? These are words which give you power over all events that seem to have been given power over you. You see them rightly when you hold these words in full awareness, and do not forget these words apply to everything you see or any brother looks upon amiss.How can you tell when you are seeing wrong, or someone else is failing to perceive the lesson he should learn? Does pain seem real in the perception? If it does, be sure the lesson is not learned. And there remains an unforgiveness hiding in the mind that sees the pain through eyes the mind directs.God would not have you suffer thus. He would help you forgive yourself. His Son does not remember who he is. And God would have him not forget His Love, and all the gifts His Love brings with it. Would you now renounce your own salvation? Would you fail to learn the simple lessons Heaven's Teacher sets before you, that all pain may disappear and God may be remembered by His Son?All things are lessons God would have you learn. He would not leave an unforgiving thought without correction, nor one thorn or nail to hurt His holy Son in any way. He would ensure his holy rest remain untroubled and serene, without a care, in an eternal home which cares for him. And He would have all tears be wiped away, with none remaining yet unshed, and none but waiting their appointed time to fall. For God has willed that laughter should replace each one, and that His Son be free again.We will attempt today to overcome a thousand seeming obstacles to peace in just one day. Let mercy come to you more quickly. Do not try to hold it off another day, another minute or another instant. Time was made for this. Use it today for what its purpose is. Morning and night, devote what time you can to serve its proper aim, and do not let the time be less than meets your deepest need.Give all you can, and give a little more. For now we would arise in haste and go unto our Father's house. We have been gone too long, and we would linger here no more. And as we practice, let us think about all things we saved to settle by ourselves, and kept apart from healing. Let us give them all to Him Who knows the way to look upon them so that they will disappear. Truth is His message; truth His teaching is. His are the lessons God would have us learn.Each hour, spend a little time today, and in the days to come, in practicing the lesson in forgiveness in the form established for the day. And try to give it application to the happenings the hour brought, so that the next one is free of the one before. The chains of time are easily unloosened in this way. Let no one hour cast its shadow on the one that follows, and when that one goes, let everything that happened in its course go with it. Thus will you remain unbound, in peace eternal in the world of time.This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:I will forgive, and this will disappear.To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. And then you hold the key that opens Heaven's gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. God will take this final step Himself. Do not deny the little steps He asks you take to Him.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
Samotność nie jest tylko przykrym uczuciem. Coraz częściej mówi się o niej jak o jednym z najpoważniejszych problemów naszych czasów — takim, który dotyka psychiki, ciała, relacji i życia duchowego. Samotność nie omija nikogo — ani owiec, ani pasterzy. Bywa, że zagubiony czuje się ten, kto szuka prowadzenia, ale bywa też, że samotny jest ten, kto sam ma prowadzić innych. Dlatego ta Ewangelia nie jest tylko opowieścią o potrzebie kapłanów, ale także o kruchości człowieka, odpowiedzialności za wspólnotę i modlitwie za tych, którzy niosą ciężar pasterzowania.⏰ Kliknij w rozdział, żeby przejść do konkretnego fragmentu kazania.00:00 - Powołanie - wspomnienie o. Jana Góry01:04 - Owce bez pasterza03:08 - Wolter - pseudo pasterz na usługach Carycy Katarzyny05:10 - Co Jezusa ściska w żołądku?06:24 - Kanonizacja w Czechach księża z czasów komunizmu09:16 - Świadectwo powołania ks. Adama i ks. Grzegorza12:24 - Jezuita z książki Dżuma
LESSON 186Salvation Of The World Depends On Me.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 Heaven's plan to save the world, restoring it to Heaven'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.Today'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 for God Himself.All false humility we lay aside today, that we may listen to God'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 God'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 which might affront their stance. Yet are the humble free to hear the Voice Which tells them what they are, and what to do.Arrogance makes an image of yourself that is not real. It is this image which quails and retreats in terror, as the Voice for God assures you that you have the strength, the wisdom and the holiness to go beyond all images. You are not weak, as is the image of yourself. You are not ignorant and helpless. Sin can not tarnish the truth in you, and misery can come not near the holy home of God.All this the Voice for God relates to you. And as He speaks, the image trembles and seeks to attack the threat it does not know, sensing its basis crumble. Let it go. Salvation of the world depends on you, and not upon this little pile of dust. What can it tell the holy Son of God? Why need he be concerned with it at all?And so we find our peace. We will accept the function God has given us, for all illusions rest upon the weird belief that we can make another for ourselves. Our self-made roles are shifting, and they seem to change from mourner to ecstatic bliss of love and loving. We can laugh or weep, and greet the day with welcome or with tears. Our very being seems to change as we experience a thousand shifts in mood, and our emotions raise us high indeed, or dash us to the ground in hopelessness.Is this the Son of God? Could He create such instability and call it Son? He Who is changeless shares His attributes with His creation. All the images His Son appears to make have no effect on what he is. They blow across his mind like wind-swept leaves that form a patterning an instant, break apart to group again, and scamper off. Or like mirages seen above a desert, rising from the dust.These unsubstantial images will go, and leave your mind unclouded and serene, when you accept the function given you. The images you make give rise to but conflicting goals, impermanent and vague, uncertain and ambiguous. Who could be constant in his efforts, or direct his energies and concentrated drive toward goals like these? The functions which the world esteems are so uncertain that they change ten times an hour at their most secure. What hope of gain can rest on goals like this?In lovely contrast, certain as the sun's return each morning to dispel the night, your truly given function stands out clear and wholly unambiguous. There is no doubt of its validity. It comes from One Who knows no error, and His Voice is certain of Its messages. They will not change, nor be in conflict. All of them point to one goal, and one you can attain. Your plan may be impossible, but God's can never fail because He is its Source.Do as God's Voice directs. And if It asks a thing of you which seems impossible, remember Who it is That asks, and who would make denial. Then consider this; which is more likely to be right? The Voice That speaks for the Creator of all things, Who knows all things exactly as they are, or a distorted image of yourself, confused, bewildered, inconsistent and unsure of everything? Let not its voice direct you. Hear instead a certain Voice, Which tells you of a function given you by your Creator Who remembers you, and urges that you now remember Him.His gentle Voice is calling from the known to the unknowing. He would comfort you, although He knows no sorrow. He would make a restitution, though He is complete; a gift to you, although He knows that you have everything already. He has Thoughts which answer every need His Son perceives, although He sees them not. For Love must give, and what is given in His Name takes on the form most useful in a world of form.These are the forms which never can deceive, because they come from Formlessness Itself. Forgiveness is an earthly form of love, which as it is in Heaven has no form. Yet what is needed here is given here as it is needed. In this form you can fulfill your function even here, although what love will mean to you when formlessness has been restored to you is greater still. Salvation of the world depends on you who can forgive. Such is your function here.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
Healing Fiction: Was steckt hinter den Romanen, die Leser:innen innerlich heilen sollen? In dieser Folge sprechen wir mit Autorin und Psychologin Christiane Wolter darüber, was dieses Genre so besonders macht.Im Zentrum von Healing Fiction steht nicht der große Plot-Twist oder der atemberaubende Spannungsbogen, sondern die innere Reise einer Figur, die aus einer persönlichen Krise herausfindet. Die Geschichten enthalten eine tröstende Tonalität und oft psychologische Tiefe. Christiane erklärt, wie sie Atmosphäre, Naturbeschreibungen und Dialoge einsetzt, um einen Safe Space für die Figur zu schaffen, ohne dabei in Klischees zu verfallen.Wo liegen die Grenzen zu anderen Cozy Genres? Und wo ordnet der Buchhandel Healing Fiction ein?Außerdem erzählt Christiane, wie der Weg zum Verlagsvertrag für ihr Debüt 'Ein Garten voller Wunder' bei Ullstein verlief und wie sie ihr Marketing mit der Toxizität auf Social Media in Einklang bringt.LINKSUnser Gast: Website: https://www.christianewolter.com/buecher/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christianeschreibtvomglueck/ Gute-Laune-Newsletter: https://www.christianewolter.com/newsletteranmeldung/ Christianes Buchtipp: 'Im Grunde gut' von Rutger Bregman https://www.amazon.de/Im-Grunde-gut-Geschichte-Menschheit/dp/349900416X/Veras Buchstartparty: Am 27. August 2026, 19:30 Uhr Das Café, Tannenstraße 147, 47798 Krefeld Infos: https://vera-nentwich.de/termineMöchtest du, dass wir dein Buch in unserem Podcast vorstellen? Kein Problem! Sende uns ein kurzes E-Mail an alle@zweivondertalkstelle.de und wir senden dir die Details. Vielleicht erzählen wir unseren Hörerinnen und Hörern schon in der nächsten Episode von deinem Buch.Teile uns deine Wünsche und Anregungen mit unter https://forms.gle/thQ7NcCRqDy8gDDZ7Vielen Dank, dass du unsere Show hörst. Hast du sie schon abonniert? Bitte gib uns auch eine Bewertung, wo immer du uns hörst.Abonniere unseren Buchbubble-Bulletin unter http://eepurl.com/hoJYfDFolge uns: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dzvdt Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dzvdt/
De koloniale geschiedenis van Suriname werd lang vooral verteld vanuit het perspectief van koloniale macht. Maar nieuw historisch onderzoek en digitalisering van archieven laten een completer verhaal zien. Niet alleen een geschiedenis van onderdrukking, maar ook een van voortdurend verzet. Inheemsen verdedigden zich, slaafgemaakten vluchtten van de plantages en bouwden dorpen diep in de binnenlanden. Hoe zag verzet eruit in een systeem dat erop was gericht om je te breken? En hoe heeft dat het beeld van de Surinaamse geschiedenis veranderd?Shownotes:In deze aflevering worden de volgende boeken genoemd:Wolter van Hoëvell, Slaven en vrijen onder de Nederlandse wet, oorspronkelijk 1854, vijfde editie 2020.Anton de Kom, Wij slaven van Suriname, oorspronkelijk 1934.Leendert van der Valk, Vergeten plekken, vergeten mensen. Een atlas van het Nederlands slavernijverleden, 2026.Hans Buddingh', De geschiedenis van Suriname, achtste herziene editie 2021.Tessa Leuwsha, Boni, in het spoor van de Surinaamse vrijheidsstrijder, 2025.Presentatie: Gemma VenhuizenGasten: Nina Jurna, Hans BuddinghRedactie & montage: Liz DautzenbergHeeft u vragen, suggesties of ideeën over onze journalistiek? Mail dan naar onze redactie via podcast@nrc.nlZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Lesson 179Review of Lessons 167 - 168God is but Love, and therefore so am I.(167) There is one life, and that I share with God.God is but Love, and therefore so am I.(168) Your grace is given me. I claim it now.God is but Love, and therefore so am I.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
LESSON 172Review of Lessons 153 - 154God is but Love, and therefore so am I.(153) In my defenselessness my safety lies.God is but Love, and therefore so am I.(154) I am among the ministers of God.God is but Love, and therefore so am I.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
Andrea Wolter of I Travel Group talks with Alan Fine of Insider Travel Report at Traveller Made's Essence of Panama conference about the growth of Traveller Made's Serandipian community in North America, the group's luxury travel designer focus and how Traveller Made's training differs from other consortia. Wolter also discusses the Traveller Made application and vetting process, its supplier-supported model, preferred partner benefits, global conferences and how Traveller Made inspired her to expand her business. For more information, visit www.travellermade.com. All our Insider Travel Report video interviews are archived and available on our Youtube channel (youtube.com/insidertravelreport), and as podcasts with the same title on: Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Listen Notes, Podchaser, TuneIn + Alexa, Podbean, iHeartRadio, Google, Amazon Music/Audible, Deezer, Podcast Addict, and iTunes Apple Podcasts, which supports Overcast, Pocket Cast, Castro and Castbox.
LESSON 165Let Not My Mind Deny The Thought Of God.What makes this world seem real except your own denial of the truth that lies beyond? What but your thoughts of misery and death obscure the perfect happiness and the eternal life your Father wills for you? And what could hide what cannot be concealed except illusion? What could keep from you what you already have except your choice to see it not, denying it is there?The Thought of God created you. It left you not, nor have you ever been apart from it an instant. It belongs to you. By it you live. It is your Source of life, holding you one with it, and everything is one with you because it left you not. The Thought of God protects you, cares for you, makes soft your resting place and smooth your way, lighting your mind with happiness and love. Eternity and everlasting life shine in your mind, because the Thought of God has left you not, and still abides with you.Who would deny his safety and his peace, his joy, his healing and his peace of mind, his quiet rest, his calm awakening, if he but recognized where they abide? Would he not instantly prepare to go where they are found, abandoning all else as worthless in comparison with them? And having found them, would he not make sure they stay with him, and he remain with them?Deny not Heaven. It is yours today, but for the asking. Nor need you perceive how great the gift, how changed your mind will be before it comes to you. Ask to receive, and it is given you. Conviction lies within it. Till you welcome it as yours, uncertainty remains. Yet God is fair. Sureness is not required to receive what only your acceptance can bestow.Ask with desire. You need not be sure that you request the only thing you want. But when you have received, you will be sure you have the treasure you have always sought. What would you then exchange for it? What would induce you now to let it fade away from your ecstatic vision? For this sight proves that you have exchanged your blindness for the seeing eyes of Christ; your mind has come to lay aside denial, and accept the Thought of God as your inheritance.Now is all doubting past, the journey's end made certain, and salvation given you. Now is Christ's power in your mind, to heal as you were healed. For now you are among the saviors of the world. Your destiny lies there and nowhere else. Would God consent to let His Son remain forever starved by his denial of the nourishment he needs to live? Abundance dwells in him, and deprivation cannot cut him off from God's sustaining Love and from his home.Practice today in hope. For hope indeed is justified. Your doubts are meaningless, for God is certain. And the Thought of Him is never absent. Sureness must abide within you who are host to Him. This course removes all doubts which you have interposed between Him and your certainty of Him.We count on God, and not upon ourselves, to give us certainty. And in His Name we practice as His Word directs we do. His sureness lies beyond our every doubt. His Love remains beyond our every fear. The Thought of Him is still beyond all dreams and in our minds, according to His Will.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
Send us Fan MailThe Brodhead Manor haunting continues to escalate in ways investigators cannot ignore. Bill Wolter shares what has changed inside the location and why activity feels different now. What unfolds may challenge what you think you understand about this place.Watch the video version here: https://youtube.com/live/SzjEIfoAnoQDon't forget, you can watch us live on Tuesday nights at 8PM CST - U.S. on YouTube and Facebook! Support the Show: Patreon (Bonus Content)Follow us on Social Media: YouTube ChannelFacebook Fan PageInstagram Fan Page X (formerly Twitter)TikTok Fan PageSubmit Your Story, Comments, or Questions: theevppod@gmail.com
In dieser Episode spreche ich mit Julian Wolter von der Faaren Group und Maik Kynast von Santander Deutschland über eine richtungsweisende Kooperation: Wie entsteht aus klassischem Leasing und digitalem Auto-Abo ein völlig neues Angebot für Händler und Endkunden? Wir nehmen euch mit hinter die Kulissen unseres gemeinsamen Projekts, das Flexibilität, Digitalisierung und Convenience auf ein neues Level hebt. Gemeinsam diskutieren wir, wie Händler und Hersteller von dieser Innovation profitieren und warum die Verschmelzung von Abo und Leasing den Markt nachhaltig verändern könnte. Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen aus der Branche, erzählen von den ersten Herausforderungen und Erfolgen und wagen einen Ausblick auf die mobile Zukunft. Hört rein, wenn ihr wissen wollt, warum Abo Plus mehr als nur ein Buzzword ist!
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Michael Wolter City of Perth Brass Band City of Perth Brass Band is ecstatic to return to the Government House Ballroom to bring you an afternoon of music with guest international Euphonium soloist Bastien Baumet. With music for everyone, the tickets for this concert will sell quickly. Bastien will take to the stage multiple times to dazzle the audience with both beautiful melodic and virtuosic fast pieces. The concert will also feature talented musicians from within the City of Perth Brass Band. Sun, 21 Jun, 1pm - 3:30pm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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En este episodio Diego señala cómo el bloqueo del oficialismo y la bancada de Nueva República para evitar la sanción ética a Fabricio Alvarado por hostigamiento sexual también ocasionó que un proyecto de ley para evitar que las sociedades tengan que gastar 100.000 colones para inscribir un correo electrónico no se pudiera votar. Además, explica las noticias recientes relacionadas con Transcomer y Bolcomer, y qué implica el rol de vigilancia del Banco Central, así como lo que dejó la elección del directorio legislativo. Costa Rica Puede Ya les habíamos hablado del 15 aniversario de Mi Cuento Fantástico, hoy les cuento que se abrió una categoría especial sobre movilidad segura para estudiantes de primaria de todo el país. Las inscripciones estarán abiertas del 4 de mayo al 30 de junio, y recuerden, los cuentos ganadores serán publicados y premiados a nivel nacional.El estudiante de la UCR, Sebastián Meléndez, obtuvo una beca para formarse en el CERN, uno de los centros científicos más prestigiosos del mundo. Realizará una pasantía de dos meses en Europa, destacando el talento costarricense en investigación y tecnología a nivel internacional. La Cruz Roja Costarricense incorporará 14 nuevas ambulancias gracias a una donación de la Junta de Protección Social por más de ₡395 millones. Las unidades fortalecerán la atención de emergencias en todo el país, especialmente en zonas rurales y de difícil acceso. 22 estudiantes de Limón se graduaron del programa de becas Access, financiado por el gobierno de Estados Unidos. La iniciativa les brindó formación en inglés, liderazgo y habilidades para la economía global, ampliando sus oportunidades a futuro.Agenda Cultural La Feria de las Fresas se realiza en Varablanca del 30 de abril al 3 de mayo, con gastronomía, música y actividades para toda la familia. El evento reunirá a productores y emprendedores locales en más de 70 puestos, con propuestas culturales y recreativas durante todo el fin de semana largo.El Teatro Universitario de la UCR estrena la obra 5 en búsqueda de REALITY show el 7 de mayo, con funciones hasta el 31 de mayo en San Pedro. La puesta, dirigida por Luisa Pérez Wolter, es interactiva y permite al público votar en tiempo real mientras explora la identidad en redes sociales.La feria Viva el Arte celebra sus 20 años del 15 al 17 de mayo en Plaza del Sol, en Curridabat. El evento reunirá a más de 30 artistas y diseñadores nacionales en una propuesta gratuita que acerca el arte al público.Los Museos del Banco Central abrirán las exposiciones Los territorios que habitamos y Reflejos en ojos ajenos a partir del 2 de mayo. Las muestras reúnen obras de la colección artística nacional junto a nuevas miradas contemporáneas, con actividades y recorridos para el público durante el año.
In deze aflevering hebben we het over Chinese auto’s: Wolter is net terug uit China en hij is zich rot geschrokken. De voorsprong van de Chinese auto-industrie is bizar, en de prijzen zijn bijna eng laag. We praten over zelfrijdende auto’s, de Beijing autoshow en waarom je in China direct een kenteken krijgt voor een EV, maar maanden moet wachten voor een benzine-auto. Verder vandaag: een app waarmee je sneller groen licht krijgt op de fiets, je oude analoge camera die ineens digitaal wordt, en waarom je moet oppassen met de zaklamp van je Samsung-telefoon. Sponsor: Alleen met Vodafone True Unlimited heb je altijd het snelste internet (tot wel 1 gbit/sec). Check voor meer info en alle Unlimited-abonnementen vodafone.nl/unlimited of loop even een winkel binnen voor extra info! Tips uit deze aflevering: Gadget: Twelve South - AirFly Pro, een draadloze verbinding tussen de minijack in bijvoorbeeld het vliegtuig en je koptelefoon of oordoppen met bluetooth. Serie: Margot’s Got Money Troubles op Apple TV. Alleenstaande jonge moeder en college drop-out moet rond zien te komen en opent een OnlyFans pagina. Sterke hoofdrol van Elle Fanning (laatst nog te zien als humanoid in Predator: Badlands) en verder veel cosplay, worstelaars en pikbeschrijvingen, heel erg vermakelijk. Film: Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice op Disney+. Een film van iets meer dan anderhalf uur met tijdreizen en domme personages. Geen hoogvlieger, wel gewoon een avond onnozel vermaak en dat moet er ook zijn.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Interior Designer Dana Wolter understands creating a sense of refuge and luxe livability at home. Whether designing newly constructed homes; extensive renovations; or finding peace during her own serious health challenge, Wolter speaks about creating tranquility and her new book, “The Elegance and Comfort of Home.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, host Judge Gunn is joined by attorneys Jim Lodoen of Spencer Fane LLP and Doug Kelley at Kelley, Wolter & Scott, P.A. to discuss Tom Petters, who operated a $3.65 billion Ponzi Scheme based in Minnesota before the scheme unraveled. Doug Kelley shares the fascinating details of the major criminal investigation into Petters that began when Diana Coleman, a participant in the scheme, informed the FBI that Petters owed at least $3.5 billion to victims of his scheme, and agreed to wear a wire to gather evidence against Petters. Petters cloaked his massive Ponzi scheme in a cloak of legitimacy by acquiring significant ownership interests in legitimate companies, including Polaroid, using ill-gotten gains from the scheme. Petters, a prolific salesman, started the scheme by targeting smaller mom and pop businesses, and eventually moved up to soliciting hedge funds to invest in the scheme. Petters used the fruits of the scheme to fund a lavish luxury lifestyle, including multiple luxury homes, a Bentley, and regular trips to Las Vegas. Doug Kelley was ultimately appointed as the receiver for a number of Petters' entities that were involved in the scheme, which then led them to file several Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. Jim Lodoen was then tapped in the corporate bankruptcies to assist in recovering fraudulent transfers made from the corporate debtors to the “net winners” of the Ponzi scheme for ratable distribution to all victims of the scheme, including clawing back charitable donations made by Petters using his ill-gotten gains, including (ironically) the John Petters Ethical School of Business at Miami, Ohio which was created using a $5 million donation from Petters. Lodoen also assisted in negotiating a cooperation agreement with the U.S. Attorneys' office to coordinate recovery efforts across the criminal case and the corporate bankruptcy cases, and ultimately wound up hiring attorneys in at least 32 different countries to assist in recovering funds from “net winners” abroad. Ultimately, the professionals working to recover the funds from “net winners” winded up making a roughly 30% dividend to all victims of the scheme. Petters was ultimately convicted of multiple counts of wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering, and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Did Jesus write these words himself—and why were they hidden for centuries? In this episode, Scott Wolter explores the discovery of encoded Yeshua scrolls and what they might reveal about history, identity, and truth.In this episode of the Always Better Than Yesterday Podcast, Ryan Hartley sits down with forensic geologist and researcher Scott Wolter to explore one of the most controversial discoveries of his career: a sealed jar containing encoded scrolls attributed to Yeshua. What emerges is not just an alternative historical theory, but a radically different framing of identity, spirituality, and truth. The scrolls describe Yeshua not simply as human or divine in the traditional sense, but as something more complex—pointing toward non-human lineage, advanced knowledge, and a teaching rooted in inner divinity rather than external authority. Scott shares how these documents were discovered, decoded, and interpreted, along with the role of the Knights Templar in preserving this knowledge across centuries. Together, Ryan and Scott explore the implications of these teachings—challenging institutional narratives, re-examining the balance between masculine and feminine, and questioning what may have been omitted from the story we've inherited. The conversation also moves into deeper territory: hidden knowledge, human origins, symbolic warnings of deception, and a specific date embedded within the scrolls—June 6, 2026. At its heart, this episode explores the tension between inherited belief and emerging evidence—and invites you to question what truth really means.
In deze aflevering staan we uitgebreid stil bij de verjaardag van Apple: het bedrijf bestaat vandaag precies 50 jaar. De datum is ook aangegrepen voor de opening van het Apple Museum in Utrecht. Erwin, Wolter en Floris komen er net vandaan en delen hun eerste indrukken. En we lopen voor de gelegenheid ook langs een paar van de belangrijkste Apple-geluiden, want het blijft toch een podcast. Verder vandaag: er is weer een bemande maanmissie, en dat is alweer 54 jaar geleden. We spreken met onze wetenschapsspecialist en ruimtevaartliefhebber Anna over de lancering van Artemis II. In de aflevering genoemd: de Apple-specials van Twenty Thousand Hertz: The Sound Of Apple: Tritones, Chords & Origins en The Sound Of Apple: Marimbas, Radars & Reflections Sponsor: Maak onderdeel uit van de energietransitie en werk aan het duurzame energienet van de toekomst. Bekijk alle mogelijkheden: werkenbij.alliander.com Tips uit deze aflevering: Korting: De Thuisbezorgd-app geeft momenteel bizarre kortingen: zomaar 70 procent korting op je bestelling. Doe er je voordeel mee! Serie: Last One Laughing UK seizoen 2 op Prime Video. Het inmiddels bekende concept: tien comedians zes uur opgesloten in een huis en het is verboden de lachen. De Britse versie is toch heel anders dan de Nederlandse, met vooral razendsnelle, ad-remme opmerkingen tussen de optredens door. Het duurt ook verrassend lang tot de eerste persoon afvalt… Ranglijst: The Verge heeft een toffe, interactieve Top 50 gemaakt voor Apple producten. Zodat je zelf kunt stemmen op jouw faborieten. Leuke gedaan, in de stijl van de System Software zoals MacOS oorspronkelijk heette.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Der neue Bildungsbericht zeigt: Nicht alle bildungspolitischen Ziele werden erreicht. So sinkt etwa der Anteil aller 25-jährigen mit einem Sekundarstufe II-Abschluss. Woran liegt das? Der Bildungsforscher Stefan Wolter ist zu Gast bei Simone Hulliger. Wolter hat als Direktor der Schweizer Koordinationsstelle für Bildungsforschung den Bericht verfasst. Dieser erscheint alle vier Jahre. Das ermögliche, langfristige Entwicklungen zu sehen. So sei es ein Trend, dass die Schülerinnen und Schüler seit 2015 in den PISA-Studien immer schlechter abschneiden. Ein Negativtrend, der auch im Ausland zu beobachten sei, für den es aber noch keine klare Erklärung gibt. Im «Tagesgespräch» spricht Wolter auch zu den Erkenntnissen über die integrative Schule und die Herausforderungen an die Bildung in Zeiten von KI.
Wolter, Beeman, Lynch and Dennis law firm hosts the show at its Sixth Street offices as new partner Matt Brewer visits along with Brent Beeman. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The guys visit the law offices of Wolter, Beeman, Lynch and Dennis with new partner Matt Brewer and partners Suzanne Dennis and Frank Lynch. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The partners of Wolter, Beeman, Lynch and Dennis--Brent Beeman, Frank Lynch, Suzanne Dennis and new partner Matt Brewer--visit with Sam, and Nathan Boyle of Peterman Financial Group chats with Greg on this week's Money Talk Monday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
LESSON 29God Is In Everything I See.The idea for today explains why you can see all purpose in everything. It explains why nothing is separate, by itself or in itself. And it explains why nothing you see means anything. In fact, it explains every idea we have used thus far, and all subsequent ones as well. Today's idea is the whole basis for vision.You will probably find this idea very difficult to grasp at this point. You may find it silly, irreverent, senseless, funny and even objectionable. Certainly God is not in a table, for example, as you see it. Yet we emphasized yesterday that a table shares the purpose of the universe. And what shares the purpose of the universe shares the purpose of its Creator.Try then, today, to begin to learn how to look on all things with love, appreciation and open-mindedness. You do not see them now. Would you know what is in them? Nothing is as it appears to you. Its holy purpose stands beyond your little range. When vision has shown you the holiness that lights up the world, you will understand today's idea perfectly. And you will not understand how you could ever have found it difficult.Our six two-minute practice periods for today should follow a now familiar pattern: Begin with repeating the idea to yourself, and then apply it to randomly-chosen subjects about you, naming each one specifically. Try to avoid the tendency toward self-directed selection, which may be particularly tempting in connection with today's idea because of its wholly alien nature. Remember that any order you impose is equally alien to reality.Your list of subjects should therefore be as free of self-selection as possible. For example, a suitable list might include:God is in this coat hanger.God is in this magazine.God is in this finger.God is in this lamp.God is in that body.God is in that door.God is in that waste basket.In addition to the assigned practice periods, repeat the idea for today at least once an hour, looking slowly about you as you say the words unhurriedly to yourself. At least once or twice, you should experience a sense of restfulness as you do this.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
Lesson 25I Do Not Know What Anything Is For.Purpose is meaning. Today'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 is to say that they are all concerned with “personal” 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 “good” or “bad,” 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, “important” or “unimportant,” “human” or “nonhuman.” With your eyes resting on each subject you so select, say, for example:I do not know what this chair is for.I do not know what this pencil is for.I do not know what this hand is for.Say this quite slowly, without shifting your eyes from the subject until you have completed the statement about it. Then move on to the next subject, and apply today's idea as before.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
LESSON 22What I See Is A Form Of Vengeance.Today's idea accurately describes the way anyone who holds attack thoughts in his mind must see the world. Having projected his anger onto the world, he sees vengeance about to strike at him. His own attack is thus perceived as self defense. This becomes an increasingly vicious circle until he is willing to change how he sees. Otherwise, thoughts of attack and counter-attack will preoccupy him and people his entire world. What peace of mind is possible to him then?It is from this savage fantasy that you want to escape. Is it not joyous news to hear that it is not real? Is it not a happy discovery to find that you can escape? You made what you would destroy; everything that you hate and would attack and kill. All that you fear does not exist.Look at the world about you at least five times today, for at least a minute each time. As your eyes move slowly from one object to another, from one body to another, say to yourself:I see only the perishable.I see nothing that will last.What I see is not real.What I see is a form of vengeance.At the end of each practice period, ask yourself:Is this the world I really want to see?The answer is surely obvious.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
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In today's episode, I sit down with interior designer Dana Wolter, who is known for her chic Southern style, discerning eye, and creating spaces that blend timeless elegance with comfort. From her early experiences growing up in a large family to designing turnkey residences across the nation, Dana has cultivated a philosophy that homes should be sanctuaries for family life.RESOURCES:Visit Dana's website here.Follow along on Instagram.Shop her new book, The Elegance and Comfort of Home.
LESSON 18I Am Not Alone In Experiencing The Effects Of My Seeing.The idea for today is another step in learning that the thoughts which give rise to what you see are never neutral or unimportant. It also emphasizes the idea that minds are joined, which will be given increasing stress later on.Today's idea does not refer to what you see as much as to how you see it. Therefore, the exercises for today emphasize this aspect of your perception. The three or four practice periods which are recommended should be done as follows:Look about you, selecting subjects for the application of the idea for today as randomly as possible, and keeping your eyes on each one long enough to say:I am not alone in experiencing the effects of how I see _______.Conclude each practice period by repeating the more general statement:I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.A minute or so, or even less, will be sufficient for each practice period.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
LESSON 15My Thoughts Are Images That I Have Made.t 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 “seeing” was made. This is the function you have given your body's eyes. It is not seeing. It is image making. It takes the place of seeing, replacing vision with illusions.This introductory idea to the process of image making that 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 “light episodes.” 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 first 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:This _______ is an image that I have made.That _______ is an image that I have made.It is not necessary to include a large number of specific subjects for the application of today's idea. It is necessary, however, to continue to look at each subject while you repeat the idea to yourself. The idea should be repeated quite slowly each time.Although you will obviously not be able to apply the idea to very many things during the minute or so of practice that is recommended, try to make the selection as random as possible. Less than a minute will do for the practice periods, if you begin to feel uneasy. Do not have more than three application periods for today's idea unless you feel completely comfortable with it, and do not exceed four. However, the idea can be applied as needed throughout the day.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
Im Werder-Podcast „WORTWECHSEL“ – präsentiert von Haake Beck – ist Thomas Wolter zu Gast. Er kehrt in der Rückrunde als Trainer an die Seitenlinie von Werders U23 zurück. Gemeinsam haben wir uns über die anstehende Vorbereitung sowie kommenden Spiele unterhalten und darüber gesprochen, warum ihm Ehrlichkeit so wichtig ist. Das und vieles mehr erfahrt ihr in der neuesten Folge vom „WORTWECHSEL“.
LESSON 8My Mind Is Preoccupied With Past Thoughts.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 mind's preoccupation with the past is the cause of the 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 one 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 illusions. Very few 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 ideas preoccupy your mind, the truth is blocked. Recognizing that your mind has been merely blank, rather than believing that it is filled with real ideas, is the first 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 find there. Name each one by the central figure or theme it contains, and pass on to the next. Introduce the practice period by saying:I seem to be thinking about _______.Then name each of your thoughts specifically, for example:I seem to be thinking about [name of a person], about [name of an object],about [name of an emotion],and so on, concluding at the end of the mind-searching period with:But my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.This can be done four or five times during the day, unless you find it irritates you. If you find it trying, three or four times is sufficient. You might find it helpful, however, to include your irritation, or any emotion that the idea for today may induce, in the mind searching itself.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
De Bright Podcast staat deze week natuurlijk in het teken van de CES. Collega's Wolter en Eric vlogen naar Las Vegas en we bellen met ze over wat ze gezien hebben. Luister op Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Omny of kijk (of luister) via YouTube . Of in je favoriete podcast-app natuurlijk! Op de CES zagen we alles van van een slim LEGO-blokje tot de eerste blik op de vouwbare iPhone en van flitsende tv’s tot menselijke huisrobots. Is dit weer een hele andere CES dan we gewend zijn, en zijn er trends aan te wijzen? Luister hier de Bright Podcast. Tips uit deze aflevering: Film: The Roses, met Olivia Colman en Benedict Cumberbatch als stel dat elkaar alles gunt, maar eigenlijk toch niet en dat gaat irriteren totdat de bom barst. Soms herkenbaar, vooral heel grappig. Te zien op Disney+. Serie: The Lowdown op Disney+. Een lekker Amerikaans drama met wat comedy, met in de hoofdrol Ethan Hawke die als freelance journalist zijn tanden heeft gezet in een levensgevaarlijk mysterie. Je valt er middenin en toch snap je al snel precies wie wie is, en wat ze doen. Knap gedaan. Veiling: Dit jaar in april bestaat Apple 50 jaar. Daar wordt al op ingehaakt, zoals door een bijzondere veiling met veel Steve Jobs memorabilia. Waaronder de eerste cheque die Jobs en Steve Wozniak uitschreven namens Apple. Die moet naar verwachting 500 duizend dollar opleveren. Maar ook een prototype van het moederbord dat uiteindelijk de Apple I zou worden. Een van de allereerste Apple II computers zonder ventilatiegaten. Of een verzameling strikjes van Jobs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
LESSON 4These Thoughts Do Not Mean Anything.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 “bad.” You will find, 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 “good” or “bad.” This is why they do not mean anything.In selecting the subjects for the application of today's idea, the usual specificity is required. Do not be afraid to use “good” thoughts as well as “bad.” None of them represents your real thoughts, which are being covered up by them. The “good” ones are but shadows of what lies beyond, and shadows make sight difficult. The “bad” 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 first steps toward the goal of separating the meaningless from the meaningful. It is a first 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 figure or event it contains; for example:This thought about _______ does not mean anything.It is like the things I see in this room [on this street, and so on].You can also use the idea for a particular thought that 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 first of their kind, you may find the suspension of judgment in connection with thoughts particularly difficult. Do not repeat these exercises more than three or four times during the day. We will return to them later.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
IntroductionA theoretical foundation such as the text provides is necessary as a framework to make the exercises in this workbook meaningful. Yet it is doing the exercises that will make the goal of the course possible. An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of this workbook to train your mind to think along the lines the text sets forth.The exercises are very simple. They do not require a great deal of time, and it does not matter where you do them. They need no preparation. The training period is one year. The exercises are numbered from 1 to 365. Do not undertake to do more than one set of exercises a day.The workbook is divided into two main sections, the first dealing with the undoing of the way you see now, and the second with the acquisition of true perception. With the exception of the review periods, each day's exercises are planned around one central idea, which is stated first. This is followed by a description of the specific procedures by which the idea for the day is to be applied.The purpose of the workbook is to train your mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world. The exercises are planned to help you generalize the lessons, so that you will understand that each of them is equally applicable to everyone and everything you see.Transfer of training in true perception does not proceed as does transfer of the training of the world. If true perception has been achieved in connection with any person, situation or event, total transfer to everyone and everything is certain. On the other hand, one exception held apart from true perception makes its accomplishments anywhere impossible.The only general rules to be observed throughout, then, are: First, that the exercises be practiced with great specificity, as will be indicated. This will help you to generalize the ideas involved to every situation in which you find yourself, and to everyone and everything in it. Second, be sure that you do not decide for yourself that there are some people, situations or things to which the ideas are inapplicable. This will interfere with transfer of training. The very nature of true perception is that it has no limits. It is the opposite of the way you see now.The overall aim of the exercises is to increase your ability to extend the ideas you will be practicing to include everything. This will require no effort on your part. The exercises themselves meet the conditions necessary for this kind of transfer.Some of the ideas the workbook presents you will find hard to believe, and others may seem to be quite startling. This does not matter. You are merely asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true.Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required.LESSON 1Nothing I See Means Anything.Now look slowly around you, and practice applying this idea very specifically to whatever you see.This table does not mean anything.This chair does not mean anything.This hand does not mean anything.This foot does not mean anything.This pen does not mean anything.Then look farther away from your immediate area, and apply the idea to a wider range:That door does not mean anything.That body does not mean anything.That lamp does not mean anything.That sign does not mean anything.That shadow does not mean anything.Notice that these statements are not arranged in any order, and make no allowance for differences in the kinds of things to which they are applied. That is the purpose of the exercise. The statement should merely be applied to anything you see. As you practice the idea for the day, use it totally indiscriminately. Do not attempt to apply it to everything you see, for these exercises should not become ritualistic. Only be sure that nothing you see is specifically excluded. One thing is like another as far as the application of the idea is concerned.Each of the first three lessons should not be done more than twice a day each, preferably morning and evening. Nor should they be attempted for more than a minute or so, unless that entails a sense of hurry. A comfortable sense of leisure is essential.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
Final LessonsIntroductionOur final lessons will be left as free of words as possible. We use them but at the beginning of our practicing, and only to remind us that we seek to go beyond them. Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our footsteps sure. To Him we leave these lessons, as to Him we give our lives henceforth. For we would not return again to the belief in sin that made the world seem ugly and unsafe, attacking and destroying, dangerous in all its ways, and treacherous beyond the hope of trust and the escape from pain.His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. It is His way that everyone must travel in the end, because it is this ending God Himself appointed. In the dream of time it seems to be far off. And yet, in truth, it is already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go. Let us together follow in the way that truth points out to us. And let us be the leaders of our many brothers who are seeking for the way, but find it not.And to this purpose let us dedicate our minds, directing all our thoughts to serve the function of salvation. Unto us the aim is given to forgive the world. It is the goal that God has given us. It is His ending to the dream we seek, and not our own. For all that we forgive we will not fail to recognize as part of God Himself. And thus His memory is given back, completely and complete.It is our function to remember Him on earth, as it is given us to be His Own completion in reality. So let us not forget our goal is shared, for it is that remembrance which contains the memory of God, and points the way to Him and to the Heaven of His peace. And shall we not forgive our brother, who can offer this to us? He is the way, the truth and life that shows the way to us. In him resides salvation, offered us through our forgiveness, given unto him.We will not end this year without the gift our Father promised to His holy Son. We are forgiven now. And we are saved from all the wrath we thought belonged to God, and found it was a dream. We are restored to sanity, in which we understand that anger is insane, attack is mad, and vengeance merely foolish fantasy. We have been saved from wrath because we learned we were mistaken. Nothing more than that. And is a father angry at his son because he failed to understand the truth?We come in honesty to God and say we did not understand, and ask Him to help us to learn His lessons, through the Voice of His Own Teacher. Would He hurt His Son? Or would He rush to answer him, and say, “This is My Son, and all I have is his”? Be certain He will answer thus, for these are His Own Words to you. And more than that can no one ever have, for in these Words is all there is, and all that there will be throughout all time and in eternity.LESSON 361This Holy Instant Would I Give To You.Be You In Charge. For I Would Follow You,Certain That Your Direction Gives Me Peace.And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. If I need a thought, that will He also give. And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. He is in charge by my request. And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
LESSON 354We Stand Together, Christ And I, In Peace And Certainty Of Purpose.And In Him Is His Creator, As He Is In Me.My oneness with the Christ establishes me as Your Son, beyond the reach of time, and wholly free of every law but Yours. I have no self except the Christ in me. I have no purpose but His Own. And He is like His Father. Thus must I be one with You as well as Him. For who is Christ except Your Son as You created Him? And what am I except the Christ in me?- Jesus Christ in ACIM
LESSON 347Anger Must Come From Judgment.Judgment Is The Weapon I Would Use Against Myself,To Keep The Miracle Away From Me.Father, I want what goes against my will, and do not want what is my will to have. Straighten my mind, my Father. It is sick. But You have offered freedom, and I choose to claim Your gift today. And so I give all judgment to the One You gave to me to judge for me. He sees what I behold, and yet He knows the truth. He looks on pain, and yet He understands it is not real, and in His understanding it is healed. He gives the miracles my dreams would hide from my awareness. Let Him judge today. I do not know my will, but He is sure it is Your Own. And He will speak for me, and call Your miracles to come to me.Listen today. Be very still, and hear the gentle Voice for God assuring you that He has judged you as the Son He loves.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
LESSON 333Forgiveness Ends The Dream Of Conflict Here.Conflict must be resolved. It cannot be evaded, set aside, denied, disguised, seen somewhere else, called by another name, or hidden by deceit of any kind, if it would be escaped. It must be seen exactly as it is, where it is thought to be, in the reality which has been given it, and with the purpose that the mind accorded it. For only then are its defenses lifted, and the truth can shine upon it as it disappears.Father, forgiveness is the light You chose to shine away all conflict and all doubt, and light the way for our return to You. No light but this can end our evil dream. No light but this can save the world. For this alone will never fail in anything, being Your gift to Your beloved Son.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
LESSON 326I Am Forever An Effect Of God.Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left its home. I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause. As You created me I have remained. Where You established me I still abide. And all Your attributes abide in me, because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and Its Effect are indistinguishable. Let me know that I am an Effect of God, and so I have the power to create like You. And as it is in Heaven, so on earth. Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God.Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and then, forgiven, fade entirely into God's holy Will.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
Lesson 319I Came For The Salvation Of The World.Here is a thought from which all arrogance has been removed, and only truth remains. For arrogance opposes truth. But when there is no arrogance the truth will come immediately, and fill up the space the ego left unoccupied by lies. Only the ego can be limited, and therefore it must seek for aims which are curtailed and limiting. The ego thinks that what one gains, totality must lose. And yet it is the Will of God I learn that what one gains is given unto all.Father, Your Will is total. And the goal which stems from it shares its totality. What aim but the salvation of the world could You have given me? And what but this could be the Will my Self has shared with You?- Jesus Christ in ACIM
LESSON 312I See All Things As I Would Have Them Be.Perception follows judgment. Having judged, we therefore see what we would look upon. For sight can merely serve to offer us what we would have. It is impossible to overlook what we would see, and fail to see what we have chosen to behold. How surely, therefore, must the real world come to greet the holy sight of anyone who takes the Holy Spirit's purpose as his goal for seeing. And he cannot fail to look upon what Christ would have him see, and share Christ's Love for what he looks upon.I have no purpose for today except to look upon a liberated world, set free from all the judgments I have made. Father, this is Your Will for me today, and therefore it must be my goal as well.- Jesus Christ in ACIM
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