Meditation on Miracles

PART 15 out of 16: With forgiveness as our practice, we journey toward the goal of true perception. * True perception is a different mode of perception which looks past bodies to the light of Christ in everyone and everything. * True perception looks on the real world, which is composed of the holiness in all minds and the loving thoughts in those minds. * Looking with true perception on the real world is the happiest experience we can have here. It is the goal of the spiritual journey. * The spiritual journey is the gradual making of a single choice, which slowly restores us to our right mind.

PART 14 out of 16: 14. Forgiveness also undoes the blocks that separate us from others, allowing us to experience the fact that we are one. * Forgiveness wipes away that which maintains our sense of separateness from others. * Forgiveness looks past differences and reveals our underlying sameness. * The holy relationship is a gradual reversal of the special relationship, in which two people slowly realize their sameness. * When two or more people join in a truly common goal, holiness enters the relationship at a deep level and makes it a holy relationship. * The relationship will go on a journey, as the holiness that entered it slowly rises and transforms the relationship. * As the relationship’s holiness rises to the surface, it will then reach out beyond the two people. They will be given a joint special function. * The journey to God is not a lonely journey. Through joining with others we discover our own wholeness and clear the way for uniting with God.

PART 13 out of 16: 13. Extending forgiveness to others reveals to us that we too are forgiven. This becomes our one function. * Forgiveness releases us from our fixation on our separate self and allows our love to flow out to the world. * We first allow forgiving perception into our minds and then extend this perception to others. * Extending forgiveness to others heals them in mind and body. This is the main sense of the word “miracle.” * Extending forgiveness to others is a psychological device for convincing us of our own innocence. * Extension will become our only function. The Holy Spirit will give us a special form of this called our special function.

PART 12 out if 16: We heal our perception by forgiving the world for what it did not do. * Forgiveness is the answer to our separated condition. * Forgiveness is the Course’s unique and original message, yet is also the heart of the Holy Spirit’s message to humanity. * Conventional forgiveness, in which we forgive another for his sin against us, is not real forgiveness. * Real forgiveness is a shift in perception, in which we let go of the perception that a sin occurred. * The Course’s thought system is one big rationale for the idea that sin is unreal and that forgiveness is justified.

PART 11: Changing our minds means allowing the Holy Spirit to heal our perception. * To awaken in Heaven all we need is a change of perception. * Projection makes perception. * Step one: Identify the cause of your pain as your own perception, and bring this illusion to the light of truth. * Step two: Let go of your perception; have a little willingness for the Holy Spirit to remove it and replace it with truth. * Step three: The Holy Spirit will replace your perception with His; He will give your mind a miracle.

PART 10 out of 16 from the course in Miracles: The Holy Spirit’s message is that we never sinned, never changed ourselves. We need only change our minds. * The guilt and pain produced by the ego is stored in an unconscious level of mind which also contains our call for God’s Love and help. * The Holy Spirit’s answer to our guilt is that we did not do it, that we are still as God created us, because the separation never occurred. * The journey home is an illusion. We need not purify ourselves or make sacrifices. Instead, we can wake up at any time we choose. * The holy instant is a moment when this is realized, applied, a moment of doing nothing. * The miracle is a free deliverance from the imprisonment of the human condition. It is our right, because we never sinned.

PART 9 out of 16 from the course on Miracles: We have lost touch with reality and so need the Holy Spirit’s help to be restored to sanity. * God created the Holy Spirit to bridge the gap in communication between Him and His children. * The Holy Spirit’s function is to heal our minds by leading us into a thought system that reflects reality. This is how He guides us home. * The Holy Spirit bridges the distance between reality and illusion. By seeing our illusions in light of reality, He places them in true perspective. * All that we made for ego He takes and uses for our awakening. * We accept Him as our Teacher by resigning as our own teacher.

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PART 8: Our “solution” is an attack and so, like the original problem, is an attack on ourselves. * Beneath the victim level is the ego proper, which is pure, unprovoked attack. * The victim level is an excuse to attack, produced by projecting our own attack outward. * The ego promises that attack will get us safety and happiness. This simply tricks us into accumulating guilt, to which it is attracted. * The ego promises that getting will fulfill us and defending will protect us. This tricks us into accumulating lack and vulnerability. * The ego promises us joy through bodily pleasure. This tricks us into making separation real. * The special relationship is the biggest false promise of all, the one that motivates us to pursue all of the ego’s false promises. * Through our normal daily activities the ego is carrying out its ancient attack on God. * >All that the ego does is really designed to attack us.

Part 7 & 8 out of 16 in the Course on Miracles…. PART 7: Our search for happiness is actually an expression of resentment and a quest for vengeance on the past. * Underneath our conscious face of innocence is the victim level, a place in us where we are enraged over what we think the world has done to us. * >The victim’s primary perception is that other people are sinful. * In this place we believe that past injustices have given us the right to resentment, restitution, and revenge. * Our attempt to rearrange the world is based on anger, resentment, grievances. * In our giving and in our suffering we constantly send the message, “I suffered because of you. Therefore, you owe me.” * We seek vengeance through subtle attempts to re-enact the past and reverse past “injustices” against us.