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Finding Our Center of Peace

²Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. ³It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward. ⁴It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world arises.

⁴It is your inner world to which the applications of today’s idea should be made.

²Search your mind for fear thoughts, anxiety-provoking situations, “offending” personalities or events, or anything else about which you are harboring unloving thoughts.

…whenever you feel your peace of mind is threatened in any way… the exercise should take this form:

⁴I could see peace in this situation instead of what I now see in it. (A Course in Miracles, W-34.1:2-4;2:4;3:2;5:1,3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 34 Insights.)

Peace of mind can seem to be an illusive state. Ego-based thoughts can clutter our minds with distracting chatter about things that are not ‘as they should be.’ The ego is on a constant quest to arrange an outside world to its liking. But it is never satisfied because it is seeking peace where it cannot be found.

We dedicate today to letting the vision of our true Self show us the peace of changeless Love that is the truth about everyone. When we recognize we are not at peace, we are learning to ask the Holy Spirit to bring us to our center of peace, where we can recognize that we are united with all of God’s Love.

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Returning to the Light of Truth

The ego’s fundamental wish is to replace God. ²In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of that wish. ³For it is that wish that seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone, and unable to reach other minds except through the body that was made to imprison it.

…every grievance that you hold insists that the body is real. ⁷It overlooks entirely what your brother is. ⁸It reinforces your belief that he is a body, and condemns him for it.

…while the body stands at the center of your concept of yourself, you are attacking God’s plan for salvation, and holding your grievances against Him and His creation, that you may not hear the Voice of truth and welcome It as Friend.

The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. ²It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. ³To be without a body is to be in our natural state. ⁴To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. ⁵To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God’s plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. (A Course in Miracles, W-72.2:1-3;5:6-8;7:4;9:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 72 Insights.)

All our judgments are a defense against our unity with the Love of our Father. Judgment begins with the belief that bodies and what they do are real. Without the illusion that bodies are real, all that remains is God’s Love, for only His Love is real.

Our mistaken beliefs cannot change reality. We remain eternally one in His Love. Each time we recognize that we are judging something or someone, we have an opportunity to pause and ask for Truth to return to our awareness. With our open mind, the Holy Spirit will help us see the light of Truth beyond the ego’s false images. We accept the salvation God has planned for us.

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Letting Our True Self Lead

⁴It is impossible that anyone could seek [truth] truly, and would not succeed. ⁵Today belongs to truth. ⁶Give truth its due, and it will give you yours. ⁷You were not meant to suffer and to die. ⁸Your Father wills these dreams be gone. ⁹Let truth correct them all.

Begin by asking Him Who goes with you upon this undertaking that He be in your awareness as you go with Him. ²You are not made of flesh and blood and bone, but were created by the selfsame Thought which gave the gift of life to Him as well. ³He is your Brother, and so like to you your Father knows that You are both the same. ⁴It is your Self you ask to go with you, and how could He be absent where you are?

⁶Then let Him lead you gently to the truth, which will envelop you and give you peace so deep and tranquil that you will return to the familiar world reluctantly. (A Course in Miracles, W-107.6:4-9;8;9:6. See also ACIM Lesson 107 Insights.)

Our true Self is the part of us that knows Its Self as one with Its Creator, united with all in Love. It is the one Self we share with every brother. To perceive a brother as different from ourselves, is to believe illusions are real; it is a misperception caused by denial of the Love we are.

Today we ask to be aware of our true Self and let It show us the Love that our Father gave us as our true Identity. We want to see that Self as everyone’s Identity. With that recognition we will be certain of our safety. Anxiety will be replaced by peace, sadness will be replaced by joy, and fear will be replaced by Love.

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How to Have a Year of Joy and Peace

⁴Those who receive the Father are one with Him, being host to Him Who created them. ⁵And by allowing Him to enter, the remembrance of the Father enters with Him, and with Him they remember the only relationship they ever had, and ever want to have.

This is the time in which a new year will soon be born from the time of Christ. ²I have perfect faith in you to do all that you would accomplish. ³Nothing will be lacking, and you will make complete and not destroy. ⁴Say, then, to your brother:

⁵I give you to the Holy Spirit as part of myself.
⁶I know that you will be released, unless I want to use you to imprison myself.
⁷In the name of my freedom I choose your release, because I recognize that we will be released together.

⁸So will the year begin in joy and freedom. ⁹There is much to do, and we have been long delayed. ¹⁰Accept the holy instant as this year is born, and take your place, so long left unfulfilled, in the Great Awakening. ¹¹Make this year different by making it all the same. ¹²And let all your relationships be made holy for you. ¹³This is our will. ¹⁴Amen. (T-15.XI.9:4–10:14)

The Holy Spirit is in everyone everywhere because It is part of the unity of our Father’s Love. It is the Holy Spirit’s presence in our mind that reminds us that every brother we see or think of is part of our true Self. There is no distance between us.

To free ourselves from the limitations of the ego’s thought system, we need to open our mind to the Holy Spirit’s vision which shows us our unity in Love, beyond every appearance of differences. With this practice, this year will indeed be a year of joy.

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We Live in God’s Love Eternally

It is through us that peace will come. ²Join me in the idea of peace, for in ideas minds can communicate. ³If you would give yourself as your Father gives His Self, you will learn to understand Selfhood. ⁴And therein is love’s meaning understood. ⁵But remember that understanding is of the mind, and only of the mind. ⁶Knowledge is therefore of the mind, and its conditions are in the mind with it. ⁷If you were not an idea, and nothing but an idea, you could not be in full communication with all that ever was. ⁸Yet as long as you prefer to be something else, or would attempt to be nothing else and something else together, you will not remember the language of communication, which you know perfectly.

In the holy instant God is remembered, and the language of communication with all your brothers is remembered with Him. ²For communication is remembered together, as is truth. ³There is no exclusion in the holy instant because the past is gone, and with it goes the whole basis for exclusion. ⁴Without its source exclusion vanishes. ⁵And this permits your Source, and that of all your brothers, to replace [the past] in your awareness. ⁶God and the power of God will take Their rightful place in you, and you will experience the full communication of ideas with ideas. ⁷Through your ability to do this you will learn what you must be, for you will begin to understand what your Creator is, and what His creation is along with Him. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.VI.7–8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

In the timelessness of Love, there is no past, only the eternal present. Love is now and always. Belief in a past keeps us locked into the dream of separation. Though the past is not now, ‘memories’ of the past are used to affect our perception of the present. As long as we hang on to the past, we cannot know the unity of Love that is our Identity.

In truth, the past cannot touch us. Today we ask the Voice for God to help us forgive our mistaken thoughts of the past. As we let go of past thoughts, our minds are filled with the Light of Love. This Light shines on all the world, showing us that we are one with every brother and our Creator. In gratitude, we remember that we live in Love eternally.

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The Bridge That Brings Us Healing

The way to recognize your brother is by recognizing the Holy Spirit in him.

The Holy Spirit is the idea of healing. ²Being thought, the idea gains as it is shared. ³Being the Call for God, it is also the idea of God. ⁴Since you are part of God it is also the idea of yourself, as well as of all His creations. ⁵The idea of the Holy Spirit… is strengthened by being given away. ⁷It increases in you as you give it to your brother. ⁸Your brother does not have to be aware of the Holy Spirit in himself or in you for this miracle to occur. ⁹He may have dissociated the Call for God, just as you have. ¹⁰This dissociation is healed in both of you as you become aware of the Call for God in him, and thus acknowledge Its being.

⁴See him through the Holy Spirit in his mind, and you will recognize Him in yours. ⁵What you acknowledge in your brother you are acknowledging in yourself, and what you share you strengthen.

The Holy Spirit has the task of undoing what the ego has made. ⁶He undoes it at the same level on which the ego operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.III.1:1;2:1-10;3:4-5;5:5-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

To heal is to make whole. The Holy Spirit is idea of making whole what appears to be broken into pieces in the ego’s thought system. Thus He serves as a bridge between the oneness of our Identity in our Creator’s Love and our dream of individuality and specialness.

The Holy Spirit is the Truth in everyone. We need His help to learn to undo our ego-based perceptions so that we see the Holy Spirit in our brother, and recognize His presence in our own mind. This recognition heals our belief in differences to know our unity with the Love that we are with all our brothers.

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We Are God’s Extension of His Love

⁴The very fact that the Will of God, which is what you are, is perceived as fearful, demonstrates that you are afraid of what you are. ⁵It is not, then, the Will of God of which you are afraid, but yours.

Your will is not the ego’s, and that is why the ego is against you. ²What seems to be the fear of God is really the fear of your own reality.

⁵You have set up this strange situation so that it is impossible to escape from it without a Guide Who does know what your reality is. ⁶The purpose of this Guide is merely to remind you of what you want.

²When I said that the Holy Spirit’s function is to sort out the true from the false in your mind, I meant that He has the power to look into what you have hidden and recognize the Will of God there. ³His recognition of this Will can make it real to you because He is in your mind, and therefore He is your reality.

⁷Reality is the only safety. ⁸Your will is your salvation because it is the same as God’s. ⁹The separation is nothing more than the belief that it is different. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.I.1:4–2:2;3:5-6;4:2-3;7:7-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We are not the ego. We are not a unique identity with a unique body trying to survive in a world of limitations. Our true Identity lives in the oneness of Love where there are no differences, only the joyous receiving and extending of unlimited Love.

Because we have identified with the ego, we need a Guide to help us remember that our sole heart’s desire is to be and extend God’s Love. We have the Holy Spirit in our mind to help us see that differences are not real and can never threaten our Identity as God’s Son. We remain eternally safe in our Father’s Love.

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How to Read References for
Quotes from A Course in Miracles

Below are example references to specific sentences using the notation of the Second & Third Editions of A Course in Miracles published by the Foundation for Inner Peace:

T-26.IV.4:7 = Text, Chapt. 26, Section IV, paragraph 4, sentence 7.

W-169.5:2 = Workbook, Lesson 169, paragraph 5, sentence 2.

W-pII.1.1:1 = Workbook, Part II, Question 1, paragraph 1, sentence 1.

M-13.3:2 = Manual for Teachers, Question 13, paragraph 3, sentence 2.

C-6.4:6 = Clarification of Terms, Term 6, paragraph 4, sentence 6
The above numbering system of the Second & Third Editions published by The Foundation for A Course in Miracles

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