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September 2022
30 September 2022
Allow the Holy Spirit to train your mind to let go the false and make room for the true.
Let Him teach you the difference between Truth and illusion,
and learn to become aware of the constant choices you are making.
29 September 2022
All the suffering in your life is the result of the belief in judgment, sin, and guilt.
Lay down this sword you hold against your own throat to keep Love away.
Only the constant and chaotic activity of your mind denies the Truth and keeps Love from your awareness.
28 September 2022
The constant exercise of judgment, a function that is not yours, is exhausting you and sapping your strength.
Do not continue the same mistakes over and over and reap the same undesirable consequences.
27 September 2022
Now is the opportunity to leave behind all that you do not need.
To reach the heights, the gates of Heaven, you must lighten your load by throwing out what is false and unnecessary.
26 September 2022
If you would change your behavior, your actions, you must first change the mind through which action arises.
Action expresses thought, thought is shaped by belief, beliefs arise as response to what you value and desire, what you want and what you want to be true.
25 September 2022
Now is the time when changes can be made in your life and mind.
Change occurs first in the mind, as the mind is fundamental.
24 September 2022
Please do not turn your back on salvation when once you become aware of it and what it brings you. You will not find happiness here, you will not. You may continue to seek it where it is not, but you will find only frustration and disappointment. All things of this world will pass away, all accomplishments and honors will become as ashes, leaving only their bitter taste in the end.
23 September 2022
The means given you through this teaching is the practice of forgiveness, and a conscious relationship with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a part of every mind, but how many are aware of this? And of those, how many actively pursue the establishment of clear and consistent communication with Him? He is always with you, waiting for your willingness to accept His help. Whether to make use of it or not is your decision. Always is He willing and able. Are you?
22 September 2022
Salvation, or spiritual awakening, is the only purpose you can pursue that will lead to a truly beneficial outcome for you and all your brothers. Everything that supports this purpose will only help, and all that does not will only delay.
21 September 2022
Once the decision is made for God, for Truth, and the recognition of its inestimable value dawns on your awareness, the end is certain. Do not delay my brother. Do not hesitate to make the only decision that can be made.
20 September 2022
The Holy Spirit has the function of restoring the awareness of your true identity, the Self, the Christ. This is not difficult to do if He has your full cooperation. However, full cooperation takes time to develop in most cases; this delays the successful completion of the learning process.
19 September 2022
Virtually all spiritual practices aim to achieve just this quietness of mind that is the condition in which Truth can be experienced. Patience is a part of preparation, a quality of mind that must be developed, that awareness be able to rest quietly in the present. Patience rests on surrender and deepens it until they become one.
18 September 2022
A quiet mind, resting in the present, is ready and open to receive Truth. Truth cannot enter a mind that is busy, driven to distraction, filled with its own ideas and goals. In such a mind, there is no room for Truth nor would It be welcome, for the restless, constantly active mind is interested only in itself, its needs and wants.
17 September 2022
You must give up the need to force outcomes or set timetables for results; in other words, you must develop patience. Infinite patience brings immediate results.
The patient mind has surrendered the egoic preoccupation with the future that prevents it from experiencing itself as it is now.
16 September 2022
To be aware in the present requires the exercise of patience. The mind must be checked in its headlong flight through time, not by opposition but by relaxing in the present, by slowing down its race to the future. Release of the inner tension must be achieved, that the mind may become capable of being quiet and present.
15 September 2022
Patience is more than a virtue; it is a necessity for patience is a part of surrender. To be patient is to forgo demands on the present, on anyone or anything. Patience does not try to control what happens or force possible outcomes to be achieved into a timetable of its choosing.
14 September 2022
Remember the principle of salvation: whatever you give, you give yourself. Always this is true regardless of person, situation, or circumstance. This can also be stated thus: Whatever I do, I do to myself.
All doing, no matter the apparent object of action, has its desired effect on myself though that may not have been its intent. There is no evading the effects of any action I may take.
13 September 2022
To understand truly and accept the idea that Judgment Will Bring Me Only Pain, will free you from the awful burden of judgment you have laid upon yourself. You think that to judge another is your right. That it will bring you benefit, and help you set the world right by offering correction where it is needed.
The world does not need correction, being the effect of your own thinking. Correction does not deal with effects; it must be applied to their cause.
12 September 2022
You are not the ego though it lives in your mind as a part of your mind. You invited it in as a solution to the overwhelming fear arising from the first experience of separation. The ego is the belief in separation; inviting it into your mind to become part of you made separation ‘real’, and led to the further development of separation until the world you see arose. Your true identity was lost to you though it never left your mind. Yet is it buried so deep in your mind, you cannot remember or reach it without help.
11 September 2022
Your cherished right to decide for yourself is jealously guarded and protected from the infringement of other egos. Yet all along, while you are making decisions supposedly in your own self interest, you are actually supporting the ego’s interests rather than your own. Due to the fundamental confusion of identity, you do not realize they are not the same.
10 September 2022
Can you surrender to the Higher Power is the important question? You do not realize you have already surrendered your life to an alien will not your own. You seem to be an independent entity, capable of making your own decisions based on the exercise of ‘good’ judgment.
9 September 2022
You have relied on the ego as your guide and identity for too long, and it has cost you dearly. The most effective way to withdraw your allegiance is to turn your life over to the Guide God has given you.
He will not fail to lead you out of the trap you have made and back to freedom in God.
8 September 2022
There is no more effective way to begin to free yourself from the egoic misidentification and its consequences than to turn over decision making to the Holy Spirit. This is what is meant by surrender.
7 September 2022
The decisions you think are made on your own, are always determined by the understanding and value system of the ego. Their purpose is to maintain separation and fear, and keep egoic defenses intact.
6 September 2022
Surrender is essential in spiritual life. The ego bound personality is accustomed to living the way it chooses and making its own decisions, or so it thinks. In actuality, no decisions are made on your own. Every decision is made in concert with the guide you have chosen.
There are only two, and of these two, only one guides your decisions so as to strengthen you and lead you away from pain.
5 September 2022
Until now, your faith in the ego has been unwavering and consistent. Likewise your perseverance in following the ego’s goals and accepting its interpretation of the world you see.
This has only hurt you, and has given you a few paltry rewards that are fleeting and meaningless.
4 September 2022
Here is the way to Heaven, the state of Unity you once knew and will know again: surrender, patience, unwavering trust, perseverance, and constant willingness.
These qualities, these capacities, must be developed to transform the way you live now. They must be applied to the process of returning to Truth, and withdrawn from their dedication to upholding illusion.
3 September 2022
There is no more effective way to begin to free yourself from the egoic misidentification and its consequences than to turn over decision making to the Holy Spirit. This is what is meant by surrender.
You have relied on the ego as your guide and identity for too long, and it has cost you dearly. The most effective way to withdraw your allegiance is to turn your life over to the Guide God has given you. He will not fail to lead you out of the trap you have made and back to freedom in God.
2 September 2022
Every decision is made in concert with the guide you have chosen. There are only two, and of these two, only one guides your decisions so as to strengthen you and lead you away from pain.
1 September 2022
Awareness in its fundamental nature as itself, is quiet, open, and empty. It need not be constantly filled by frantic activity nor need it be identified with such. Truth comes to a quiet mind.
This quiet mind is nothing more than the quality of awareness freed from its false identification and absorption in delusory thought, resting quietly in itself in a condition of openness and receptivity. In such a mind, Truth is easily reflected, like an image appearing in a mirror.
