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August 2022
31 August 2022
In the state of separation, awareness becomes the basis of mind being used for perception and delusory thinking. Constantly distracted and filled with the activity of perception, thought and feeling, awareness becomes absorbed in and identified with the content that appears in it. Thus is its fundamental nature lost to experience.
As mind in separation, you seldom if ever experience the basis of your mind which is awareness; even then, it is only a fleeting, momentary experience quickly swallowed up by the maelstrom of thought activity.
30 August 2022
There is an additional reason for hope, which, along with the help of the Holy Spirit, is the way out of the labyrinth of illusion. Awareness is in itself of the essence of Mind.
29 August 2022
There is hope, for the Holy Spirit abides in a deep level of the subconscious mind beyond the levels inhabited by the ego, and He is also able to communicate with the conscious mind when it permits Him to do so.
28 August 2022
The surface level of awareness we call the conscious mind; beneath it are levels of subconscious mind from which the impulses and thoughts arise that drive the actions of conscious mind.
27 August 2022
The Christ in you has never been absent, even in the dream, for the mind with which you think you think, functions by virtue of the Light arising from the Self.
It is as if you have closed off what you are, and allowed only a tiny little part of it to be experienced as you.
26 August 2022
The day will come when you will choose Love over fear unequivocally, and on that day you will be free.
The Self is what you are and have always been.
25 August 2022
The return of the Love that you are to your awareness, would be the end of the ego’s domination of your mind, and thus the end of its existence.
24 August 2022
The return to Love, the ego fears more than anything, though it does not understand what it fears.
Yet it does recognize threat, and it is to threat of any kind that the ego devotes most of its attention.
23 August 2022
This Love for your Father is so deep, so powerful, that were you to feel it again, you would rush back to Him, forgetting the world of separation and all you thought you held dear.
Everything you have valued, everything you have learned through the ego, would vanish instantly in that moment when Love returns to Love.
22 August 2022
Yet there is something that you fear more than the emptiness, more than the sorrow.
Under this, and beyond the fear of God deep in your mind, is the Love you feel and have always felt for your Creator.
21 August 2022
The loss of your relationship with your Father, Who is the Source of your very existence, is a wound so deep and lasting that you cannot face it; sorrow would overwhelm your defenses and flood your mind.
You fear the deep emptiness within, the result of the loss of God, and much of your activity has the purpose of covering it up so that you do not have to face it.
20 August 2022
Much human behavior and energy is devoted to avoiding pain, controlling pain, or suppressing it. Yet it cannot be escaped while living in the state of separation.
Separation is itself a state of fear and pain, but much of it is suppressed and kept from awareness by egoic mechanisms such as dissociation.
19 August 2022
Your true desire is to return to the Truth hidden deep in your mind. Nothing can prevent this if you apply your willingness to this goal consistently and persistently.
Pain and sorrow are constants in human life; they are never far away. Pain takes many forms, constantly exerting its dark influence on your life.
18 August 2022
You have believed in illusion since time began; your mind is very attached to what it has made. Illusions will not disappear in a day.
With patience, and the willingness to learn what is true and what is illusion and the difference between them, all illusion will be steadily undone through the consistent choice of Truth with the help of the Holy Spirit. Nothing more is needed but also nothing less.
17 August 2022
The belief that illusions are real is what gives them their seeming power over you.
Let the Holy Spirit teach you the unreality of illusions, and do not resist His teaching.
16 August 2022
You need not oppose the ego or struggle against it. The ego is a part of your mind that has an illusory existence that you believe real.
Illusion need not be opposed; opposition merely strengthens it. By your opposition you make it real, and this is a continuation of the problem not a solution.
15 August 2022
The ego is itself a personification of fear and the hatred that always accompanies it.
The only thing that can be done with the ego and the thought system of separation, is to let it be undone with the help of the Holy Spirit, that Reality may be revealed to you.
14 August 2022
Through your obvious experience of separation, you have come to identify with the belief in separation that holds the center of your mind and the whole thought system that arises from it.
The ego, the personification of this thought system, is suspicious of everyone and everything, for it believes danger surrounds it and attack will come at any moment from any direction.
13 August 2022
The ego, always suspicious of what is offered, insists on controlling every decision, and censoring always what would enter the mind.
Do not listen to the ego. You have chosen it as your guide by the act of identifying with a body.
12 August 2022
If you could make a choice right here and now that would end pain and sorrow forever, would you?
The sane answer to this question would be yes, yet the ego bound mind can seldom respond in a straightforward and uncomplicated manner.
11 August 2022
Salvation is not just another goal, one among many that may attract your efforts; it is the only goal worth aiming for as it is the only one worthy of you, and the only one whose attainment is wholly positive and lasting.
And it is the only goal in the world of illusion that restores Reality to your experience, ending fear, pain, and suffering forever.
10 August 2022
The strength of your desire for Truth is the determiner of the duration and the conditions of the journey.
You may have other desires that compete with Truth for your allegiance. These may contradict or even oppose the attraction to Truth, resulting in slow and uneven progress.
9 August 2022
What is needed at this time is a solution to the hopeless situation in which you are seemingly trapped.
The Truth will set you free, but first you must become aware of Its at least theoretical existence. Generally, for most minds, the movement towards freedom is a gradual one that may unfold over a period of many years.
8 August 2022
There is something within you that is true, soaring high above the pain and strife of this world. The purpose of life is to find this within yourself, and live in the Light of That.
Do not seek It outside yourself, It is not there.
7 August 2022
There is something within you that is true, soaring high above the pain and strife of this world.
The purpose of life is to find this within yourself, and live in the Light of That.
6 August 2022
Your belief in guilt is not what you should base your life upon, for it brings you only pain, conflict, and discord.
Life, to be meaningful, must be based on that which is true and good, that which helps you rise above fear and limitation.
5 August 2022
The only way to reach God is to surrender.
The egoic identity is not in a condition of surrender to anything except its inclination to seek pleasure and avoid pain, and its habit of projecting guilt onto others.
4 August 2022
Begin the process of making all decisions with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Learn to listen to the Voice for God in your own mind, and follow the direction you receive.
3 August 2022
God has given you the Answer to separation and all the problems you seem to have, the solution to all pain and suffering.
Why would you look for another when this One Answer contains all answers? Turn within and decide for peace.
2 August 2022
The Holy Spirit knows your strengths and weaknesses, knows how to strengthen you in every way, and bring you beyond all weakness to the strength of Christ within you.
He will shorten your journey, and go before you to clear the way.
1 August 2022
The cooperation that is needed is simple and straightforward. Recognize and accept that you know not the way back to God; you know not what is required.
Remember always that you know nothing, but that you have a Teacher Who knows everything.
