

A BEGINNING WITHOUT AN ENDING

Random thoughts without an Ego.

By Ron Rasmussen

Published by Ron Rasmussen at Smashwords

Copyright 2016 Ron RasmussenAuthorname

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_Included are interpretations of material from A Course in Miracles_

Table of Contents

Chaper 1Beginning

Chapter2 God is Love

Chapter 3 God Talks to Me

Chapter 4 Hearing God

Chapter 5 I AM

Chapter 6 Thoughts

Chapter 7 I Thught with God

Chapter 8 - Forgiveness

Chapter 9 - Let Go and Let God

Chapter 10 Healing

Chapter 11 Present Moment

Chapeter 12 Relationship with God

Chapter 13 Responsibilities

Chapter 14 Teachers of God

Chapter 15 The Ego

Chapter 16 Soul is a Fragment of God

Chapter 17 Is the Mind the Soul

Chapter 18 Spirit/Soul/God

Chapter 19 What Does a Child of God Look Like

Chapter 20 The Path

Chapter 21Prayers

Interpretations of Material from A Course in Miracles

What is the Last Judgment

What is the Real World

What is the Second Coming

What is the World

What is a Miracle

What is Creation

What is Forgiveness

What is Salvation

What is Sin

What is the Body

What is the Christ

What is the Ego

What is the Holy Spirit

EPILOGUE – Clarification of Terms

EPILOGUE – Daily Lessons

FINAL LESSONS Introduction

BEGINNING

In the very beginning was the Word and it was of God for it was God and God was before it. God was, is and always will be – God had no beginning, will have no ending for God is, was and always will be.

Of God I am. I am His thoughts, His idea, His creation – a part of Him yet whole as God is whole. I am a part of God yet not separate from Him. He is complete as I am complete, and I am complete as He is complete.

I was created to learn of God, yet I have all knowledge now and always will. I was created to be like God and I am as I was created, yet I am to be like God.

The body was chosen for the dream of life that is also a dream for to be in a dream, you also must be a dream. In the dream I can think apart from God and yet I am one with Him. I am never alone or separated from God.

In the dream I want to "learn" more of the dream and yet being of God, I know all knowledge. There is nothing I do not know. Learning is experienced by "doing" actions and discovering if they are favorable or not favorable in my dream state. Experiences can be held within the dream as the past by which the continuation of the dream is seen. The knowledge of God within me knows this is a dream and I am trying to wake from it, to "shake it off," to open my "eyes" and be where I always was.

But within the dream is an illusionary force called "ego" which appears to be the opposite of God and yet there can be no opposite of God, for only God is. This only proves this is a dream, for anything can happen in a dream. All are from God, like God and of Himself He cannot oppose. The ego attempts to rule the dream and attempts to show me items that it feels I will choose over God.

And in the dream I do choose things that are not of God. I choose things of the dream and I have a knowing that they are but part of the dream, not real, not eternal and yet within the dream, I choose them.

How ridiculous, how foolish is the dream and it's gifts that are offered. And yet I continue dreaming.

I am looking for the way to wake up from the dream. I feel pulled between wanting to go back to where it is I came from, and from staying with the dream to see if I can make it peaceful and serene.

Flashes of my knowledge will appear every now and then as clues to show me how to accomplish the peace and serenity. God's directions are shown to me throughout the dream is various ways; written, oral, feelings and knowing.

Although I communicate with God within the dream, I still accept the gifts the ego offers me from time to time. God always responds to me and yet I do not always listen. This is the frustration of the dream. This is the maddening part – this is the point where I want to be awakened.

Is there a "key" to the awakening? Will I find it within the dream, or does it exist outside the dream? Can it be brought into the dream, if is there?

God is Love

God is love as you are love. God is only love as you are only love. When you are not thinking you are love, as when you are abused, you are not thinking God, but relating to the ego.

"In the beginning was the Word"... there was no before the beginning.. God was, is and always will be.

We think we know what it is to be loved by God, that which we are experiencing now, is God's love. Yet, God tells us that we have forgotten what His love really feels like. How powerful must the feeling be, if what we are now experiencing is not God's love.

God created us in His image and likeness, meaning a soul, a spirit, a piece of God, and a thought of God. When we created our separateness from God by our thinking we were better than God (enter the ego), we created our body as vehicle to experience life. When we see God in other bodies, we are seeing the Christ in others, not the bodies, but the soul, the spirit, the image of God.

Although we are created as love, are love and always (all ways) will be love, unless we love ourselves, we cannot love others nor accept love from others. We give out love in order for it to return. First we acknowledge that we are love, we do love ourselves, we forgive ourselves, then we give out love to all we see, and receive love from all we see; and the cycle goes on. It is certainly true that love is forever, never ending, always flowing, and ever growing. But if we do not love ourselves, it becomes stagnant with us.

Boredom can never come from love nor can it exist where love is present.

God is love and therefore we are love. We can be nothing else, so why even try? This is what we are, what we will be and what we always will be. And it "don't" get any better than that. We are love, and love is what we are!

Let's look past our dream and realize that we need no defenses because nothing can get to us. We have no fears. We are love. That's all there is in our world, love or fear, and we choose love, but yet not really choosing, as much as remembering, that love is what we are.

Today and everyday, I see God in everyone I look upon or even think of. I leave no one out of my thoughts. God has told me that all of my brothers are my savior, as I am theirs. With all that help, how could I possibly doubt my return, my remembrance?

My heart, your heart, our hearts, are beating in the peace of God, in the love of God, in the light of God. What a wonderful thought that it is not just for today, but everyday. Knowing that we are all "beating" with the energy of God; it is our connection to our home, our connection with God.

God always says yes, we say no; God always says right, we say wrong; God always observes, we judge; God always has no need to forgive, we always do. God always loves, we sometimes don't; but God is, we are and we and God are One, so we are like God, now we have to work on the all the things we do that are not God-like.

Someone once said "God does nothing first." There again, we have the play on words, "first" as opposed to "second." God "does nothing" means to me that "God is" and since there was no beginning, "God is" says it all for me. It is only from the ego that we have to be told that God says yes, etc. There is no opposite of God; therefore there is nothing else.

There is nowhere, no place where love is not. Think on that for a minute, no place in this world we created where love is not. Do we see it? Do we feel it? Can we experience it? Love is all there is, there is nothing else, for if love is everywhere, what else could also be in the same place? Now do we understand how we often feel connected with others? How often we feel we are a part of another person. How often we feel someone is within ourselves. Love is, God is, We are One.

Love is the dominant force, the only force in the universe, and love is God, and so God is the dominant force in the universe. God is. Plain and simple; God is. I am. We are; One.

No one, but no one can love more than someone else. Impossible! We are created by God is His image and likeness, God is Love, therefore we are love. There is no degree of love possible, for God knows no degrees of anything. We all have the powers of God as gifts from God, not some of us, but all of us. Not all of us are aware of all the gifts and powers we have, but that is what this is all about...remembering who we really are and where we really belong.

Love of God, my love or your love, is not comparable to the emotional love we feel towards others. Emotional love does come in degrees and most of our life we have been spent trying to express it or describe it. But the love of God, your love and my love, is not describable, not able to be put into categories or words. It is a love that is boundless, ageless, everlasting and eternal.

God is here for us and we are not abandoned. Holy Spirit is here for us, and we are not abandoned. We are guided by God; we are guided by Holy Spirit. We receive love from God for we are love, for God is love, and we are created in the image and likeness of God. We are only love therefore that is all we have to offer at anytime. We cannot offer what we are not. We cannot offer what we don't have. We will never be punished for we cannot do anything that is "punishable." We can never punish another, for that is not love.

God is telling us to "Go for the Gold" and accept nothing less. There is no vision, no dream, no expectations, no desire that is not obtainable in this "life Believe it, know it, live it, then we will experience it.

Unconditional love is just that – unconditional – with no conditions, no strings attached, no expectations, nothing but love, that with which we are created, the love with which we are. It is much, much more than acceptance, it is beyond acceptance, for acceptance does not cover everything or anything forever... acceptance is a state at this time where we acknowledge something to be true for us, but we could change our minds. Unconditional love is not changeable; it is everlasting; it is whole and complete; it can withstand all time; it is eternal. Love without conditions and we shall experience the joy of God, we shall experience our real self.

Isn't it amazing that whatever we offer others, we are offered the same in return? God is but love and therefore what is not Love is not God. What is not God has no meaning, no power for us or over us, other than what we give it ourselves. How foolish it is that we would give to ourselves something that is not of God. Worse yet, that we would accept what it is we give, when what we give does not exist. Or to give the illusion that someone can take from us that which is God's. Impossible. That which is God's is ours, is us. We cannot have something taken from us, even though we say we can. What God has given is love and it is only love that we can give away to another, and yet still have it.

Learning to stop passing judgments on ourselves should be our first lesson to master. If we do not judge ourselves, then we will not judge others, for what we do not have, we cannot give.

Why wait for Christmas? Today let us allow ourselves to unwrap the present that we always have, unconditional love. Enjoy it now, why wait? What are we saving it for?

We have come from Love, through fear into Love. That is where we are now in this moment.

And remember that unconditional love is not to be found anywhere outside of us, anywhere but within us. We will not find it outside because it is not there. We will not find it in another because it is not there. It is within us, it is who we really are.

When we have lived with a feeling of something being wrong with us, and we experience unconditional love, we shall feel cleansed and pure and beautiful, without flaws, without guilt, shame and fear. And the unconditional love is present all the time in our lives; it is just that we don't accept it. God loves us with no conditions, no strings, no rules, no commandments attached. He sees no flaws in us because there are no flaws in us. He did not create us with flaws; He created us in His image.

God's class is the only class that we have to take. His teachings are the only teachings that we need ever know. In His class we need do nothing. In His class is everything given to us. Please plan to attend.

Love is a 4 letter word, just one of many in our language of verbalization. Love that we talk about is not this 4-letter word. It is not that which is sung about, written about in poetry and novels. It is not purchased and cannot be hoarded. The love we talk about is the love from which we came, the love of which we are, the one and only substance there is. There is nothing – no thing – other than love. Love cannot be classified a feeling or an emotion. But I think it is a knowing that comes from nowhere and yet has been given us, for it is what we are. In giving this out to others, we are extending ourselves, for we are love. And the others that we extend love to are also love, but perhaps they forgot that they are for the moment. Our love extended to them is a spark that ignites the forgotten flame, and then they too, remember they are love and they extend themselves to others and the cycle goes on and on. This is what love is. This is what I extend to others. This is how I wish to view others, as love. That is all we are, and we are everything, we lack nothing, we have it all. That is you and that is me

Can we really send another love, give love to someone else and still say we do not love them? And do we not look upon all others and see love reflected back to us? Do we not see the Christ in each and every one of us? We are love, we cannot not love another, it is not who we are.

I think when God suggests anything; we should pay attention to what is being said. We cannot do it better than God's way and as soon as we start believing that, the sooner we will experience joy and happiness.

We need love to live, to love is to live and then how do we look at the statement that we have strayed from God (separation) and/or wandered away from love (separation). If we think about what love is, we know that love is God and God is love, we are love. I had strayed from God or so the ego made me think. I had wandered away from love or so it appeared to me. But those are just illusions. I have never left God and God has never left me. God is love. I am created in His image and likeness, which is love, therefore I am love. God is, I am.

How many times have we forgotten to include ourselves in those we love?

Getting to know You is getting to trust You; getting to trust You is getting to love You; getting to love you is getting to embrace You; getting to embrace You is getting to use You; getting to use You is getting to help You; and getting to help you is why I am here. Thank you God for the seven steps to bliss.

When I think of the words "love transforms" I think of the simplicity of the words themselves, of the action that takes place. Transformation of anything and everything we think, see or do. "Love transforms," think of this when you are sluggish, down, out of sorts. Some thought is dragging me down and I can bet it is not love. Replace that thought with love and feel the difference instantly. Rid yourself of the block and allow the energy to serge through your body and your being. Only "unconditional love heals the body and the mind," nothing else, just love without conditions. The love that God gives, that we are capable of giving to ourselves and others. Are we not worthy of it? We know we are, at the very core of our being, we know we are.

If we stay connected with God and be aware of His presence within our being, God will come forth from us. The more we see with the eyes of God, hear with the ears of God, touch with the hands of God, and speak only the words of God; the more aware of our connection to God we become. We are always connected; we just have to be aware of it.

Just knowing that we are breathing in the love of God and exhaling all negative thoughts, feelings, emotions, patterns, beliefs, etc. relieves us of everything but love. Everything is replaced with love. There is room for nothing else within us, we are love and contain nothing else.

There is a term we use "to make love." In this world I cannot and do not "make love." I experience love, I see love, I give love, I live love, I receive love, but I do not "make love." Love is as God is, God is love, I am love, and you are love.

God is.........

God is always with us, all ways. We are never that He is not. There is never, ever one moment, one instant God is not with us. There is no reason to ever feel alone. We are never alone.

How powerful is the word "better." It is only because we thought we were better than God, that we could do better than God; that we are in this dream of separation. How foolish the word better, for we forgot we are God.

We forgot that God's love is ever present with us, and we look for someone else's love to make us happy, but of course, it never does. And what other love is there really than the love from God, and that love comes from us, all of us.

I refer to God as my friend because that is the way I feel towards God. I believe strongly that God and I are One, that we have been and always will be. I do not believe in the separation of God and myself. I am never, ever alone, for God is with me always and all ways, and I am with God. What I learned from the past, I have left there and am content where I am now, in this moment. I know that God is everywhere I look with the human eyes, but I also know that God is within me and always will be. We are One.

As God is, I am. I, too, am a being, a process that is created moment-by-moment, thought-by-thought.

As we see another, we see God. As we speak to another, we speak to God.

As we see ourselves, so shall we be seen. How do we wish to be viewed today? As the body we see in the mirror or as God?

Do we doubt God? Or in the process of God? Or that there is a God? Why then do you have fear? Why is it we can just simply know that God is, will and does provide for us? Why do we have to continue to second-guess God? Why do we continue the separation?

I am willing to see God everywhere, in everything, in everybody, every body. I am willing to see God first, therefore I will not judge beyond that, there will be no need. If I see God first in everyone, then everyone will see God in me.

If we go under the assumption that the universe is God, then we will never understand it and should acknowledge that fact. If, in fact, the soul is a part of God, then it too we will not understand. Understand to me is a word of the ego. Just to know that the soul is God or the universe is God or just that God is, is enough for me, just knowing.

It always amazes me when I am told over and over to get out of my own way so God can do His thing. If only I continue to remember, continue to think, that God and I are One. He is always present with me, but am I always present with Him? It is truly me that forgets to remember.

Is an idea a thought? If so, then I have a thought of God as He does of me. Can you possibly describe God anymore than you can describe your real Self, your soul. Isn't this just our "knowing" God is and therefore so am I. I do not need or require or even give it much thought of how God looks to me. God is an experience more than a sight. God is a feeling more than a sight. God is knowing more than a sight. God is, I am, we Are, One.

Truth is Love. Truth is God. Truth is me. We don't project, the ego projects. We extend love for that is what we are. A body does not live, it merely is. I am a spirit, a soul, a part of God and yet whole with God. This body is an illusion of the ego in the physical world. I am not "spending time" for that also is an illusion. I am merely experiencing this life. We are all teachers and we are all pupils, and our best teachers are the ones that we find most irritating in this life. We do not teach ourselves or others how to think, act or judge. We may influence them for a while, but the choice is always theirs. Our mind is never totally clear because we have a mind containing Spirit and ego. Not only is the past pointless and doesn't exist anymore, it never did exist. There is only the moment, the now, the instant. All else is an illusion. The truth is we are a child of God, perfect in every way just like God. We are created in God's image, we are a thought of God, and we are God.

Many times, many different ways, God is constantly telling us that we are like Him. And yet it seems too much for some of us to comprehend. But that really is the final step in returning to God, knowing and accepting that we are God.

Isn't it amazing how much of our life is spent in trying to "play" God instead of listening to God? We have no reason to "play" God, we are God.

Is God a Father, Mother, Creator? Is God something or someone other than God? Is God, He or She? Does God have a gender? And is it really important? God is, that says it all. Think of God as you will but don't place a lot of emphasis on names for God, God is God, that which is, is. I am that I am. And so it is with you. You also are God, yet in this dream you have given yourself a name, description, form, gender, because that is important to you, you think. You have shape and form because that is important to you, you think. You have a description for yourself and others and that too, is important to you, you think. You even have a name that is important also to you, you think. How do you see yourself, how do you describe yourself, how do you think you look. When you talk of yourself, do you say: "I am_________ or do you say: "My name is __________. You are not the name you say unless you say I am God. You go by names but you cannot ever change that which you are and will forever be. You are God. Accept that fact.

The next person we hug, even if it is ourselves, is God. Think about that!

As we look upon anything or anyone today, remember that God is also looking upon the same with you, through you, and seeing the same vision as we see. The question we must ask ourselves is: "Am I seeing as God ?"

We cannot love another if we have placed a value on the other, in fact, we cannot love anyone or anything if we have placed a value on them.

To think of God as a possible source of fear, is to not think of God at all. God is love and only love, for that is all there really is. Fear is from the ego, it is its creation and is an illusion. Can God show up as an illusion of the ego? And looking into the eyes of another, even a criminal, is really looking into a mirror. What is it that we see of ourselves in others that is frightening to us? All of the faces we look upon have one common denominator, a soul, united with us and with God. What they appear to be is not what they are, nor are we.

When we love ourselves and the person in front of us, we love God. When we love God, we love all.

I believe that unconditional love, the love of God, is always present in us. It is not anything we have to "activate" only become aware of. It is no different from what we have come to believe love is. It is really as it implies, love without conditions, something we find extremely hard to comprehend, let alone describe. Know that we have it, allow it to flow and we will soon experience it and then we will know it.

Unconditional love is that which we only feel of God, are able to extend to others and yet impossible for us to describe in the words we know. Love and its definition must be what the "ancient ones" in the Bible felt when they could not write the word "God." It is only from God and it is ever flowing through us, in a constant stream of bliss. It is only we who are at times not aware of who we are and what we are experiencing always.

What is love? It is beyond description, beyond our expectations, beyond our imaginations. We are told that we are of God and God is love and therefore, so are we. How do we describe God? How do we describe ourselves, that which we really are? Love is not a word or an emotion or even a feeling. Love or God is a knowing that is within each of us because of who we really are.

We know no words that could or would describe God, but remember the brilliant light because it is what we are.

Love is me because I am created from love, extend only love and receive only love. There is no pain where love is present. Give and receive, there is no shortage of love, there is no shortage of God, for that which is eternal, is always.

We will assume nothing and continue to keep looking until we see with love, until we see love. If it isn't love, if it isn't joy and peace, it isn't worth looking at. It is not of God, so keep looking.

GOD TALKS TO ME

I am with you from the beginning. I am with you now. There never is a time when I am not with you, and that you are with me, for we are One, we are now. We were then and always will be. There is no ending to our time. You are my thought, I am yours. You are my breath, I am yours. I am not of this body, nor are you, for the body is not eternal but you are, I am, we are. Go and be done for now, we will talk later. Know that you are love, I am love, we are love...know this, feel this... give this.

The easiest way for God to communicate with us is the same way that He created us... we are His thought, His expression of love. So too when He is directing us towards that which we are to have, we will get a feeling before the thought. He lets us know before we think that what we are thinking is for us. It is His preparation for our receipt.

This is how God communicates with us... through our heart, through our soul, through our self... and do these words not all mean the same? How wonderful it is for us to hear that we can disagree with God...from these disagreements come the lessons.

Words are our mode of communications with each other including sign language, which is visible words. Words are what we know. Does God use words to talk to us? Does He just speak to us like we do with each other? And isn't "each other" really God?

God does speak to us verbally, does communicate through written words, visible signs, every media we can think of in this dream, God uses for God is.

The part of us that is not attached to verbal and written messages – the part of us that is always there with us and yet we are not always aware of it – the part we call Soul – Spirit – that part communicates with God differently. That part receives the knowing from God, the memory from God, which is our memory as well. When we experience that "knowing feeling" within, we know we have touched a memory of God – no words – just a knowing of remembrance.

And as we allow the "memories" to come into focus, we become more "enlightened," more of what we truly are.

Hearing God

How do we hear other people? Do we hear the words or do we hear the cries of help? Do we recognize the cries or are our ego reactions louder? Do we hasten to judge those people and then realize that it is ourselves we are judging? Is it really we that is also calling for help? We must try to remember that if we are not hearing "love" then it must be a call for help. And this call doesn't necessarily mean that we can help the other person without their asking. It does mean that they are calling for help and may not know it. Be patient with them and send them love and wait for the opportunity to help them more. And it will come, for we are here to assist each other on the journey back to God, to the place and time when we all unite as one and become One with God, for that is what we really are, ONE.

God is constantly reminding us to listen. God tells us to listen to our feelings. Have you ever really listen to your feelings, to your highest thoughts, or listen to your experiences? Not just feeling your feelings, aware of your thoughts or looking at your experiences, but listening to them. God has told us that words are not reliable for learning the truth, for the truth lies within us. It is there for us. We just have to listen.

The more profound the silence becomes, the more I listen. And then I hear or do I hear, perhaps the answer was always known to me but it was I who could not see it; or would not see it or hear it or say it. In the silence do I have with my soul, my Self, my true being. In the silence am I really who I am and will be. In the silence I am, God is and heaven is also.

There are those of us that still think ourselves unworthy to hear God. I have been blessed because I stopped the "unworthiness" a long time ago. I really never give it a thought. I don't know if I "hear" the voice from God, but I know His response. I can hear the voice of God in other people's responses. All of my questions to God are not always answered in the manner I think they should be, but I know that they are answered and in accordance with God's divine plan for me.

It isn't so much that God has the "final say" as much as the word is God, was God. Do we ever think that if God were consulted in the beginning of anything, we would never have to turn to God for His help, assuming we followed His way? We would be already doing it His way.

We don't even have to be "home" when God calls or even have the cell phones on. But the question is: will God get a busy signal from us today?

In the silence we have no boundaries, no chains, no ties. We are free.

I can hear Spirit singing. I can hear the song, know the words, hum the melody, for it is truly within me, deep within the recesses of my soul which remembers it well. It is my "anthem" that brings me peace in the silence, joy in my heart, and love in my being. It is the "cure" to all sickness, a purge of the mind of all negativity leaving only thoughts of God behind. Listen to the song, sing with the song, and go with the song, for it will take you to God.

What is it about silence that so many of us dread? We come home to a quiet house and turn on the radio or TV or both. We go about the business at hand with noise in every room. What is it that we fear in the silence? Are we afraid that we just might hear God? That our ego will be offended by the silence? And when we try to meditate, and then say we can't because of noise, is that really true or is it a ploy of the ego? If we become observers rather than participants, as suggested by Wayne Dyer, we assume a different role. The ego really does not like to be the observer in this case. We can overcome "noise" if we choose to do so. We will tell our ego that it has the day off. Today, we are directing our story without the ego. Today we are observing ourselves without the ego. What do you suppose you will look like to yourself?

Isn't it truly amazing how many times we are told in so many different ways to be silent and be with God. This is God's message to us and it is conveyed so many times to us in so many different ways, and yet we are not all doing it.

What is I must do to hear You? Be silent and listen not with your ears, but listen with the heart within me.

I am creating that which I am experiencing now, but "talking" to You is a constant communication, for You are my source. You are my home. You are the One to which I shall return with a healed mind.

Sometimes, I wonder God, if it isn't better that I be "out of my mind" to feel the joy of my soul, the happiness it experiences, and the love it emits.

I AM

I am as I was created by God, in His image and likeness, as God is, I am, God and I are One. We are One, we are Whole, and each of us can say this about ourselves for we, you and I, are One with God and God is One with all of us. We are all part of and yet complete in God.

Who am I? Who am I really? I am a child of God created in His image and likeness, co-creating with Him, living this "life" with Him, utilizing His gifts that have been made known to me so far. Who am I? I am love, only love for there is nothing but love. If I am love, I cannot fear, cannot hate, and cannot feel anything but love for others. If I am love, then I will see love in everyone else I see, love in everything I see. This is my challenge in this lifetime, to be as God created me, for really is there any other way to be? Can I be anything but a thought in God's mind? And being that thought, can I be anything less than perfect? Can I be anything less than whole? We are told that our function here on this earth is forgiveness. Perhaps it is forgiveness of myself for not being that which I truly am? To be who I really am could be the whole purpose of "living" this experience.

What has been given to us is the knowledge that we are a mind, pure and sinless, having no fear because we were created from love and therefore are love. We have the knowing that God is with us now and forever as He was from the beginning, so are we. Not all of us are aware of it. As teachers of God, we have one vision, Christ's vision, to share. Christ's vision does not see the body, it sees the light. We see no separation and we see everyone the same. No one is better or lesser than the other. We are all One. We see the Christ in everyone as everyone sees the Christ in us. In this way, the "sins" of others are forgiven, as we forgive ourselves. Sins do not exist in our vision. So what is it that we give as we receive? Love is all there is. We can call it other names such as knowledge, wisdom, understanding, forgiveness, etc., but it is just love, for love is everything.

Nature is an abundance that has no boundaries. It is forever moving and it is unlimited. It is only my thoughts that think other than what it really is. It is only my self that portrays it for what it is not. I am a part of nature, of that forever moving force. I am also expanding and am totally unlimited. The universe and I are One, and I am One with the universe. It is the nature within me that attracts abundance, which knows no boundaries, that has no restraints. The force is really me. I am really nature. And becoming one with it, I can use all of its powers to bring to me that which I think I desire.

How beautiful it is to be told again that we can light up the world. We can make a difference. We are needed just because of who we are. We are unique and that is good. We are the light.

Deep within us, we know that we are God, but the ego is ever present with the fears and doubts to tempt us not to believe.

We are unique, we are all different, we are all individuals, and the feeling we experience is our own and it is okay to feel them. We never need approval from others to feel the way we choose to feel. And we will react differently to situations presented to us; there is no "pattern" as to how we "should" react or feel. Be ourselves, then we are being who we really are. Being influenced by others makes us something we are not.

Where exactly is the "heart" that is always referred to? Certainly it is not the organ in the physical body. It is the "heart," the center, the core of our being that is reflected upon. It is that place within us that we visit in meditation. It is that place we go to for peace and stillness, the silence. It is that place where the eternal light shines ever so brilliantly, yet not blinding. It is the pure essence of who we really are. Go there and be in the presence of God.

There is no one other than me, and I am One with You, but we sure give a lot of power to the "other person."

I am a divine instrument of love open to the idea of purpose and doing the next right thing, with limitless possibilities for outcome.

We know that we are love and that by giving love away, we also receive it. But do we give any thought to giving prosperity or health or abundance or worldly gifts away? That in order to give them away we must already have them? Affirm that which we already have, for we truly have everything.

We cannot hide from that which we truly are, no matter how hard we try, we are exactly who we are, and acceptance of that is bliss, pure bliss.

The light that shines from us is neither measurable nor comparable to any light known to us. We are brighter than anything we can imagine. We can see our brightness even in the sunlight, for we are brighter than it. We will never separate ourselves from the light, for that is what we are, that is what I am. We do not go into the "darkness" to know ourselves, for we are not there. We are in the light and so am I. And our light shines for all to see. We need only be aware of it to see it shine.

If we stop judging or judging less, we will see the Christ in others; we will see love in others; we will see the Christ in ourselves and the love in ourselves.

When I was a child, I was often told to "stay within the lines" when coloring. That expression also carried over into other aspects of my life as well. Now I enjoy "coloring" outside the lines, seeing no lines, just being and doing what I enjoy. I practice knowing no limits on anything. This I mention as practice because the ego really roars when I am doing this exercise. Exercise brings habits and habits bring about changes, and changes bring new experiences in my life and the cycle continues.

We are ourselves, yet One with all. We are all the same beyond these bodies and it is in the way that we connect and become One. We are all bonded together because we are only One. No matter how you slice the pie, the pie is still whole.

I will share my love, my truth, my eternal being with everyone. I will extend these things that they may go forth to heal and return as love. I will keep the cycle of love in motion.

If we can't start a statement by saying "I am" then we will have to consider carefully what it is we are about to say.

If what I am doing or saying, does not give an image of what I am being, then I will change everything until I am seen as I truly am.

Whatever I have I can give away, and in giving it away, I know that it will come back to me. So I do want to be sure what it is I offer others, only that which I would want for myself.

Please yourSelf and you please God. Does anybody else matter? Do for others because that is your desire, not because you are looking for something in return from them.

I feel that I am always seeking to find out who I am, not what I want to be. I am a child of God, which is what I have discovered. I will not try to be something the ego leads me to want to be. I just want to be who I truly am.

I declare that I am Being, the soul within me, the part of God I AM, a part and yet whole. I declare I AM Being, that which I was created as, that which I will always be, without a beginning or ending.

It does appear that we spend a great amount of energy and time in the denial of Who We Really Are, more than we do in its acceptance. Accepting ourselves as a child of God, a perfect child of God, a being of love and light, a part of God, is the Truth. And its acceptance is as easy as saying "I AM" and believing in it. It is that quick to affirm whom we really are.

Are you a friend to you? Will you compassionately support yourself on your return to grace? Will you see yourself at your worse and still love you? Will you keep your heart open to yourself no matter what?

Acceptance of what you create is the open door to peace.

We are remembering who we really are, and in so doing, we will realize our Highest Self. We will realize our oneness with God. We will realize we are with God, and God with us.

Again and again, we see that we are our own obstacles to experiencing it all. It is in our acceptance of ourselves that the blockage occurs, the acceptance of who we really are, the acceptance of the knowledge we have, the power we have, the wisdom we have. We cannot place responsibility anywhere but upon ourselves for what we are experiencing, for whom else really exists?

Our core beliefs we have had since the womb. They are the beliefs that we obtained from others, from the press, from TV and similar sources. But knowings have been and always will be a part, a permanent part, of us. They are eternal truths. They are the guides by which we shall remember and return. They are the keys to remembering who we really are.

Beliefs can be changed, knowing is forever.

Try meditating using the mantra "I AM." Just continue to repeat it, stay with it, take it all the way into your being; dwell there with it, continue with it. You are affirming who you really are! It is probably the most powerful mantra we could use.

Stop listening to the songs of others and create your own song, dance to your own beat, sing your own words, dance as your feet move you. Be you, be who you really are.

Forget and forgive what you thought you were and live now as you really are and wish to be. This is within your powers from God, and only you can do this for you.

Our beliefs restrict us! They prevent us from experiencing life as it is laid at our feet, beautiful, peaceful, and joyful. With our beliefs, we seldom see life for what it really is. With our knowing, we create life as we experience it; we create the joy, the beauty and the peace that lies before us. Let go of our beliefs and use the knowing within you.

Our beliefs are a temporary thing, changeable on a moments notice. We are so easily influenced by what we hear, see, read, etc. Our knowing are eternal because they are of God.

We don't have to look on the outside for what we have on the inside. The opinions of others are as they see us, not as we see ourselves, and that is what is most important. Let's see ourselves for who we truly are and others will also see us that way, eventually.

How is this for an awesome thought? WE are the TRUTH, the LIGHT and the WAY. WE are IT! We really don't have to go anywhere else to find that which we already are. And is there really anywhere else but within us? Let's go there and discover the TRUTH that we have been searching for.

Tear aside the veil and see what it is we seek, see what it is we are, see where it is that you seek. Get all things of the ego out of the way and there will be no obstacles on our path.

I am that which is and was and will be. An awesome thought, but the truth all the same. We are as God created us. Accept that fact and get on with our path. Accept that fact and the path becomes easy.

All that I experience, I create. All that happens to me, I bring. I accept total responsibility for this life and the events that seem to occur in it. I am the only one responsible for what ever happens in my life. Knowing this, I continue to be aware that I can always choose again, should something happen which I do not wish to experience. I have that power within me. I am the only one that can change anything in my life. And nothing outside of me affects my life. That which is within me is the creating force and my only possession.

What is the highest thought we can think of? Is it "I AM?" Can we say it and mean and live it?

I must be able to embrace myself who loves without condition; I must be able to welcome myself into the kingdom of God with no questions about what I am doing here; I must be able to stop punishing myself for God does not punish; and I must be able to talk with myself who is God, if I love God, I love me. If I love me, I love God.

Nothing outside of us means anything. Only that which is within matters, and there do we find our highest self.

There is nothing I cannot be. There is nothing I cannot do. There is nothing I cannot have. This is because of who I am, not because I believe God made promises to me. I am a part and whole of God. What could God possibly promise that I already do not have?

Can someone who is eternal think of themselves in the context of age? If so, then we forget who we truly are. We are eternal creations of God, part and whole of God, and as such, we have always been and will be. There is no beginning to us and no end to us, we are as God is.

If we see specialness as nothing, just an illusion then we will see ourselves as we really are. And when we see ourselves as we really are, we will see ourselves connected with all others, for we are all One. What we all have is within us and nothing outside of us means anything. Not one of us is better than another, for in our remembrance of who we are, we realize we are of God. And God is and you are and I am.

I like the term "wired for God" that Ron Roth uses, and I like the thought that a part of me is constantly connected to God. Of course, that part is my soul and although I thought of it as being of God, I never really thought it was still connected to God. But why not? God is everywhere. There is no place God is not, so could there be any void where God is not? So I am connected to God and always will be with God. And being of God, I know that everyone else in this dream is also of God. We are the same. We are One. To think otherwise is to be "sick." I will not just affirm that I am God; I will allow the feeling to completely saturate my being. None of my thoughts ever really leave me, so why would a thought of God leave Him? I am a thought of God, I am of God, God and I are One.

We are formless beings, knowing no limits, being all places at all times, for we are created in the image of God. Many people have problems with gender words and will go to extremes to replace those words with either the opposite gender and with words denoting no gender. But those times are just ego exercises to me. There is no description to give to the word "God." There is, therefore, no description to give to ourselves. The ego created the body and thus created the genders, and thus created a judgement based on past knowledge on what we are. With God, we know within who and what we are, not based on past knowledge or experience, but because we always have been, we are eternal.

God's creations are all alike, for we are all created in His image. When we see the Christ in another, we are seeing ourselves reflected back to us. When we see anything else, we are seeing as the ego sees and we recognize that what we think we see is only an illusion. Being a part of and the whole of God makes us the same, for not one part of God is better than another, for God is. And as He is, we are. This dream that we are experiencing can be a beautiful adventure if we live as a child of God would live it. It can also be the often talked about "hell" if follow the advice of ego. It is so simple, always the choice of how we live is up to us.

The message from God is the same time and time again. Perhaps you find it hard to believe or you don't believe it or are afraid of believing, but the message is clear: You are a child of God! You are eternal and everlasting like God! You are created in the image and likeness of God, which is without form, without boundaries and you are everywhere there is to be! What you are experiencing is not your true reality! This is your dream, not God's! And of course, the big one: You are God!

We are what we say we are, or are becoming that which we say we are. A lot of people greet by saying: "Hi, my name is XXX and I am a XXXX." Stating, "I AM" is the most powerful affirmation known. And I realize that there are a lot of recovering people who say this and I am not saying what we say is wrong. What I am saying is we have to hear what it is we are stating to the universe, when we start anything with "I AM." It is, to me, better to say: "I am a recovering alcoholic" than stating, "I am an alcoholic." There is a difference in the two statements.

If we love, love radiates from us at all time. That love is our true inheritance that we give to the present and carry forward to the future.

Our mind is split, the separation does exist. We think we are different from God. We think we can do what God does not do. We think we control others, make others into something that they are not, make them believe they are not who they really are. And so the ego has us thinking! But, what we appear to forget, among many, many other things, is that we are of God and God has made us free to experience the life we choose. What God has created is eternal and everlasting and without change. Got the last part? Without change! Accept others as they are, for what they are, for they will never be anything less or more or different; and neither will you! Perhaps we must accept ourselves as we really are first, then we can accept others.

How long can you really hide your light, for within you is the eternal spark of light, within you is the way to eliminate all darkness. Let it shine, sweet child of God, let it shine!

To be stripped of, and to release all past; to be relieved of external masks and facades, to be seen as we really are, to be recognized for who I am, such is my goal.

Jesus has told us once that whatever he did, we could also do and even greater things. I affirm that I am invulnerable. I cannot be attacked or harmed. I affirm that I cannot die. I am eternal. I am as God created me and will forever be just like Him.

I have brought myself to this relative world so that I might have the tools with which to know and experience who I really am. Who I am is a creation of God; Who I appear to be is a creation of the ego.

We never judge ourselves for to do so, would have us judging a creation of the ego, an illusion. Nor will we ever judge Our Self as a creation of God, a thought of God, a breath of God, because that is beyond improvement and has nothing to compare it with.

That which you know, deeply know, is a part of who you really are. It is a sign to you that you are more than a creation of the ego, more than that which reflects back to you in the mirror. You know within your being who you really are. Express those feelings for all to see.

By going deeper and deeper into our being, into our soul, into our spirit, we will arrive at the knowledge and wisdom that is always present. We do not expect to find the beginning, for there is none for us, as we have always been. But by this soul searching, this spirit seeking, we will find what we seek, the truth of who we really are.

If what we think we need is outside of us, then we believe we are not complete. If, however, we have the need for nothing outside of us to make us feel complete, then we are experiencing being One with God. We are whole and complete. There is nothing nor anyone who could make us feel more complete that what we already are, and always have been and will be. We are One with God.

Let the statement, the yell, the proclamation, come from the very depths of your soul which knows nothing but the truth about you; let it come forth from your open mouth, be seen on your face, and observed in every action and movement you make. I AM, truly the most powerful, potent statement we can say.

Repeating the statement, "I am not a body, I am free," I have come to realize how I see myself in the reflections of others. I do not see the "body" but rather I see a child of God looking back at me. I see a soul smiling within my being. I feel the freedom of that soul, that formless entity that is of God, and image of God, is God. I know, not remember, but know that I am with God, I am One with God, I am a thought of God. I have no name but that of God's. The statement "I AM" is all that is needed. And I know, not remember, that what I am experiencing will be forever true. I am eternal. I have always been and will always be.

Thoughts

We do create what we experience. We do bring to ourselves what is happening to us. Thoughts are power, are energy, and are the source. Think what would occur if all beings thought about peace at the same time; if all beings thought about love at the same time, we would be as One. We are powerful beings; we just don't know it yet.

One of my hardest lessons is to accept all people, everyone, exactly where they are at, and that place are their right and perfect place. Notice, it doesn't mean it is my right and perfect place, but it is theirs.

We carefully choose our words when we are putting thoughts into the universe. And we remember that God already knows what we are thinking before we think it. So we do ask for it, and we ask in such a way that we know that it is coming to us right now.

We have created evil to show us good, we have created wrong to show us right, hot to show us cold, etc. These are our creations, we "made" them. They will not last so we know we made them. They indicate opposites, so we know we made them. That which is eternal, that which lasts forever and has no opposites, that is created by God.

And it is with this energy that we create, we manifest, we produce our life, we change our course, we become One with God. We think God; we become God.

To manifest is to believe and have no doubts, to see and to know, to feel that which we are. We see ourselves as successful and we are. We thank God for our successes and we have them. We are claiming them right now.

A thought of God created us, and we are that thought and always will be that thought. And can a thought of God be anything but perfect? And being a thought of God, we are always with God, never apart, never without, never lacking, never needing. We are with God, of God. And being that thought, we are in heaven. All we have to do is want to be there, to wake up for we are there. We have only to deny that which we see and look for that which has always been. All the "world" is ours, being ours by inheritance. We have all that is and need of nothing. The more we repeat those thoughts, the more is revealed to us. The more that is revealed to us, the more joy we experience. The more joy we experience, the more we feel the presence of God. The more presence of God we feel, the more Love we experience. And the cycle goes on. Once we have started this thinking, there is no stopping. The ego will try but that is all it can do, try.

We manifest what it is we experience. "Things" that come to us, we have brought to us. No one else is responsible for our life but us. No one else is to "blame." We need go no further than ourselves if something is going on in our life that is displeasing to us. And we have the power to change whatever it is that is displeasing. There is always another way of seeing. And we have the choice. How truly great it is! And when something comes into our life that appears foreign to us, we first try to realize what it is there for, what is the lesson we are to learn from it, why is here? Once it is acknowledge, we can see it in a different light, a different perspective and then let it go. And all of the "past programming" is still there ready to make those quick judgments for us. Try to look at anything as if it were for the first time, not based on the past. To live in the moment is our goal. To listen to the Holy Spirit is our goal. To be One with the Christ within us is our goal. Our goal is simple: to be in the Love of God, and we are, and we continue to work at it all the time.

Any day is a time for the harvest of that which we have planted, that which we have nurtured, that which we have helped to grow into our manifestations. The ideas of love we planted continue to grow without the thought of a "season," without the thought of "bringing to harvest." To harvest is to stop growing, but with love, it is a never-ending process. The more we "harvest," the more there is. The more we share, the more we have. The more we have, the more we have to share, and the cycle goes on.

Think of the trees and mountains, rivers and lakes. Do these things last forever? A tree grows, then "dies," rots and turns back into earth. A mountain slowly gets smaller from erosion from winds, rains and man. It, too, slowly goes back to earth. Rivers and lakes which appear as forever have been know to dry up completely, thereby returning to earth. And the waters that flow in them are never the same waters, for they are constantly changing. So I look up into my dream universe and look at the stars, and they also have been known to disintegrate, to disappear. So then I begin to think, what is it that is eternal, what is it that lasts forever, what is it that will always be? What is really meant by "eternal?" Of course, the answer is obvious. GOD! But then I remember that I am God, I am from Him, He is a part of me, and I am a part of Him. We are One. Therefore I understand that I too, am eternal. I too, will last forever. I too, will always be, One with God.

Feelings are reactions we choose to have. We listen to our feelings, honor our feelings. We cannot have a feeling without first having a thought. Our feelings will never get us into trouble, for they are the truth. Our feelings are not from the brain, but from our heart. They are not physical, but spiritual. They are returning to how we really feel, not how we think. Thoughts are from the mind and the ego is also there, so not all thoughts are from God, some are from the ego. Feelings, reactions to thoughts, that are not feelings with love or of love, are not from God, but ego.

What we project we see. If we project love, we will see love. I try (but have not accomplished this completely) not to live with what is presented to me. I always try to use another way of seeing everything. It doesn't always work as easy as I would like it to, and sometimes, (very often actually) I receive negative feed back from people.

Collective consciousness (all of us on the same wave length) can do wonders for the world we see, if only we would do it. We have all the powers needed to do anything and all that is necessary is to learn how to use them. We are One with God and our brothers and sisters, and nothing else.

It is often difficult to realize that we need nothing because we forget we have everything that we will ever need. We lack nothing, only our ego "wants" more, and more of what, nobody knows. The ego is never satisfied. Prosperity is of the mind and if we think we lack, we lack. If we think we are prosperous, then we are.

If we believe that we will focus on Truth, our imagination will go to endless limits.

Whenever we are going to think about another, let's think about the thought first. Is this thought how we want to be thought of, to be seen, to be heard, and to be remembered?

If only we would stop each time we have a choice to make and allow God's choice to come through, how much easier life would be. How much easier life would be if only we could remember that we have no wants, no needs, no desires. We have everything there is, just "good old ego" has the cravings. How much easier life would be if only we got out of God's way and let it flow, instead of "damming up the stream" with our "Yeah, buts" and "What ifs." We have choices and we can always choose again should we not agree with a choice we made. But when we make the choice initially, wouldn't it be nice and easy if we consulted with God first. After all, it is His life we are experiencing.

Thank God for the peace in our life. Thank God for the harmony in our life. Thank God for the happiness in our life, for we must realize that everything we want we already have. Showing a need indicates a lack and we lack nothing. Being grateful will show these things to us. Again, as always, we watch the words even if we have to write them out first, which is not a bad idea because then we can see what words are causing is certain responses, and then say the words out loud.

Crying is the best cleaning fluid I know of to clear the mind, really washes it out. Think of this the next time you cry, visualize it happening, see the cleaning going on.

I look at life and see it as a book with many chapters; a new one is about to begin now. When life is over, the book is finished and closed. I may choose to come back again and start another book.

The Course in Miracles© is a lot like life being a book. Chapters close but never the book, we just start over again and wonder how the words have changed since we last read them, certainly some of the thoughts were not there the last time we read them.

I Thought with God

I don't really talk with God – I "thought" with God. I am a thought of God; therefore I am always with Him, and He with me. His "mind" is my mind for God has no mind, yet has all minds. God is.

Parts of our minds, in this dream world, are occupied by ego and by Spirit – this is the split mind concept. How much "mind" we allow either to occupy is our choice. Which part is our driving force is also our choice. Are you Spirit led or ego driven?

As we progress on our spiritual path, the more we learn about the ego and its "control" over us. Actually, any "control" we experience is by choice, we have allowed it to happen. The message from God is always very clear – we are responsible for our life – we make the choices, we make the calls. Ego will often tell us that we are not responsible for happenings in our life; other people cause certain things to happen to us, they are at fault.

When I learned that my thoughts are known by God, I became more aware of what I was thinking. Is this what I would want God to know? Is this how God would think? Is this God's way or the ego's way?

We think of God as a "father" for we think of God as the creator. We think of God as Spirit because we cannot see Him. We think of God's son as ourselves for we are His creation.

This is the Trinity so often referred to as God – Father, Son, Spirit – and yet all one.

This is difficult to comprehend. We believe that God just is – that He is ever present everywhere – there is no place God is not. God has no form yet He is – and we are – and we are also without form – that which we really are.

We talk of the Holy Spirit as being sent by God, yet the Spirit God sends is Himself. It can be nothing else but Himself, for that is what God is – God. We are from God – we are God – a part of the whole and yet whole and complete with God.

Being with God – being God – we are capable of doing what ever God does – for we are. This thought is frightening to the ego for it knows the truth – we are God and we are eternal and it is not.

With the thought that we are God, the ego will attempt to get us to believe that we are capable of doing, having, making, getting, etc., anything we desire. The problem here is that the ego only exists in this dream world, so what it drives us to do is only of this world, not of the world of God. Big difference here.

God's world – our real world – is love, peace, joy, happiness, Oneness, wholeness, completeness. In His world we have everything yet nothing for we have no needs, no desires, no wants. We are just as God is. It is not possible to get better than that. Thinking to the contrary will get us exactly where we are now.

While in this world, I will live like it is God's world. I will make the best of this world. I will see it with the eyes of God. I will see it in love. I will live it in love. I am love.

What we create, we should create with God. If we forget who our partner was at the time, the item is not looking perfect. Perhaps we should re-create again, this time knowing that God is in it with us, and then we will see the perfection in it.

What a great feeling of elation to know, to understand, to believe that God needs us. This thought is real glue in cementing our relationship with God. God and we use each other to experience the wonders of our creations together.

I want this day, as God would create if for me if He was doing it, but actually I am creating this day for God, and where exactly is the difference?

We have all to give and yet retain; precious and valuable but only when shared. Without sharing, it is of no value, no meaning, nothing. Sharing, giving, produces a wealth beyond thoughts. The "force" running through us is love, is God, and it is the cause of everything, and we are the effect of everything for your thoughts create what you see.

We need no words to convey thoughts of God. All we need do is quiet our mind and go within, and be in the silence with God.

Why is it we place so much emphasis, so much importance, and so much attention on something that is and does nothing? I am referring here to the body. The key we are to focus on is not the body, but the mind. The mind is split between God and ego, an illusion. Here is where our attention is directed. Here is where all healing takes place. Here is where we remember who we really are.

What we plant and cultivate in our mind is what our harvest will be. We are constantly weeding our garden, and harvesting love.

Understanding is knowing and intellect is judgment. Intelligence is an ego stroke, knowing is inherited from God.

We don't die, we are eternal. The body dies, ceases to be, no longer has a function, but we do not die. Thoughts we may have are of this world and stay in this world. Upon the death of the body, we once again awaken from the dream and "realize" that we are with God, One with God, that we never really left God.

Forgiveness

We stand before a mirror, a large mirror and get relatively close to it, with adequate lighting in the room and on ourselves. We stare at the image we see in the mirror. We intensely gaze at it and try to identify with it, for that image is our body as we perceive it. It is as we imagine it to be. It is our vehicle for experiencing this life. It is the body and all it's attachments that we desired before we were conceived. It is as we created it. So what we see, we are and what we are is not necessarily what we see. We want to get a good image of what we see because the image will change shortly, quickly, within a holy instant. And we talk to the image before us. We tell it what we like and don't like. We tell it where we think it can improve. We tell it what we want it to be. We talk to it for as long as we can. When we are through talking to the image, we stare back at the image before us and tell it with total commitment, "I forgive you." We repeat that over and over and over. Thoughts will start to flow into our mind about issues we need to forgive. We just keep talking. We will know when it is time for us to stop.

If we don't forgive ourselves, we stop love from entering into our life. If we don't forgive ourselves, we are not able to love others because we do not love ourselves. So we must stop our denials, address ourselves, own our "problems," admit our faults, forgive ourselves and be welcomed back into our lives. Another great cycle of life.

How many times does a teacher of God have to tell us to give up our ego trinkets and trade them in on God's goodies? How many times must we be told that no one can do anything to us; that we are totally responsible for our life? There is no need for forgiveness for there is nothing to and no one to forgive, other than us for thinking otherwise.

Forgiveness implies that we forgave someone for what we thought they did to us. We let it go and get on with life. Forgiveness is nothing more than realizing that we have really nothing to forgive for nothing has happened to us that could possibly harm us. If we care to feel any emotions over what someone has said to us and done to us, that is our choice, and no one else's. All our "wounds" were self-inflicted. All victim roles were our choices. We cannot call our spirit back from our past for the past is gone; there is nothing to call it back from. We learn from the past, but we can never relive it. We can look at the past differently and change our mind about what happened, but we cannot relive it again. Nobody has ever "wounded" or "harmed" us because they cannot do either. Looking at others with the eyes of love, instead of anger, hate, despise, vengeance, etc., will show them differently to us.

"Unforgiveness festers anger and anger is sickness taken out upon the body." Not forgiving is giving ourselves power to not see us or someone else through the eyes of the Christ Spirit within us. Not forgiving is the desire of the ego so that it will continue to control us. Not forgiving is not giving love. The ego has us fooled; we cannot possibly give out love, let alone love ourselves, if we have not forgiven ourselves and others. And like other things that are not love, unforgiveness is fear based; what is it we are afraid to face?

There is no reason ever to ask God for forgiveness. God doesn't judge. Only we can perform both functions to ourselves. Guilt will lead us to unworthiness and inability to accept ourselves, and yet remember that we are a child of God. We know we are a child of God and we need never to feel those emotions for they are not inherent in a child of God. Those emotions are ego produced, they are but illusions.

Somewhere in my life I had allowed myself to become what others thought of me, this I allowed, this I have done. Now that part of my life is gone, in the past, it never happened and I am as I always was, created as love, and this I was in the beginning and will be forever and ever.

We forgive because we are ready to forgive, because we finally let go completely of whatever and are able to forgive. We cannot forgive if we are still holding on to something. Healing occurs in forgiveness, and forgiveness is only in the present, not in the past, or the future, but in the now, the present moment, the holy instant.

What is the problem with forgiveness but the fear of being united with God. By forgiving ourselves, we see ourselves as whole with God. What we do see in others, what we feel from others, is what we are at that moment. The ego will cause chaotic living the closer we get with God – and we are always with God – it is our feeling the closeness... feeling the experience of being with God – and finally feeling as God that causes the ego to erupt. Being God is like being without the ego; it is to be in the moment, the present moment and experience that which we are, truly are, and we are truly without ego. We are with God. Either we are with God or with the ego, either love or fear, and there is not partial place to be, no having it both ways – God and ego- it is our choice. We get to choose, the responsibility is ours, only ours. The choice is obvious, for one way is real and the other an illusion. One is eternal and the other doesn't exist. What God has created will last forever. What the ego has made will disappear.

Constant busy-ness appears as a screen preventing us from looking at ourselves, looking at what we need to address, attempting to be responsible for someone else instead of looking at ourselves; truly a false sense of responsibility. We can stop running from ourselves and get acquainted with who we really are.

We never have to forgive anyone other than ourselves. Nobody is responsible for anything other than us. Accept this responsibility, accept this love.

To pardon someone indicates that someone has done something wrong and is to be forgiven for the wrong. Acquittal indicates that someone has done nothing wrong, therefore pardon is not needed. True forgiveness being an acquittal means that we do not see anything "wrong" in another person, we see them as love. And really, forgiveness is for ourself for no one can do anything to us that needs forgiveness. We allow what appears to happen to us. The other person can do nothing unless we allow it.

Acceptance of what others have told us over and over also causes us to embrace it, to believe it. But is acceptance concrete? No, thank God we can and do change our minds. We do not have to always embrace something we were told, especially if we don't agree with it. How can we accept without agreeing? We can't. Beliefs that we have are the very ones we work on daily to change, and by change we can lift a veil that we are looking at life through. We can see a little more clearly, and that is what keeps us going. We like what we see and we want more.

Acceptance is the acknowledgment that what is, is what we see. How could we accept something and not agree with it?

Looking at another and seeing ourselves is often times called the mirror image. It is an image without judgment. It reflects that which we truly are and often times causes intense denial. Judgment always has a comparison factor involved and comes from the ego, not from within.

When we work on forgiveness issues with ourselves (and who else do we really need to forgive) we will go into the darkness where we have hidden some secrets that we do not wish to recall. Why? Because the ego will have us believe that these "secrets" are our possessions and with them, we can continue to feel the pain and agony of the hurt we believe we felt or still feel. By shining the light into the darkness, we see nothing, for nothing was all that was there, other than a thought of the ego, which is an illusion and only creates illusions. Nothing cannot have any power over us. Guilt and fear are not real, they do not exist and yet we continue to give them such power and in effect, we are giving power to the ego. In facing fears, in facing pain, we will see that which is, we believe, causing it and understanding it (yes, we will) and then letting it go, it will heal us, heal us from the depth of our soul through the being we are experiencing. When we have truly gone into the darkness and found that nothing real exists there, we will remember that experience and that will help us continue to address other dark areas as they are revealed to us. The message in all of these writings is always the same: only we can heal ourselves; only we can forgive ourselves; only we can love ourselves. What we need to accomplish whatever we think we must do, we have already within us, nothing and no one can or will do any of this for us. It just is not possible.

We have the power to forgive ourselves. What an awesome responsibility we have. We, only we, have the power to forgive ourselves, and in so doing, all others are forgiven also. We don't have to go someplace or to someone for forgiveness, we have already have it! We have the power within us to do anything we desire, anything! We only but have to remember who we are and what we can do.

Atonement is available to us now! The root meaning of "Atonement" is the reconciliation of God and His estranged children. Atonement is really achieved by our realization that we never left God; that this split we "believe" in, is just an illusion, and that no "sin" was ever committed and therefore no "payment" is required. This is not something we have to wait for, but can have now. It is ours for the taking; it is ours for the believing. Why do we listen to the ego and wait until the end of this life to enjoy that which is now?

When we no longer feel the past is worth anything to us, we let go of it. When we let go of it, we no longer give it any focus. Anything in the past that we felt needed forgiveness is also gone with the past. We come to realize that it is only ourselves we must forgive. If we cherish the past, we say things like "I am a victim of such and such and because I am this victim, I can have my pain." By forgiving ourselves, we see that it is only ourselves we need to forgive because it is only we who feel the pain. It is only ours and no one else's. When we truly let go of the past, we see the present with the eyes of innocence. We have nothing to compare what it is we are looking at. To be in this moment for very long is not very probable. So we look back into the past and perceive those memories that appear so black to us, and we look at them again, and again, until we see what it was that was there for us. Then we have the "aha" experience of seeing what really occurred instead of what the ego said.

Again and again, we are told to forgive ourselves, forgive ourselves for being judgmental, for judging others, for seeing ourselves in others. There is no justification in judgments in the now, present moment. Being there, in the now, is seeing everything new, without a memory to recall and judge. If judgment enters, it is our fear. We look at our fear and see it for what it really is, nothing. And then we will also see the moment as new.

Forgiveness is not for others, it is just for us. Isn't it nice to know we can do something so great for ourself.

Let Go and Let God

When we say "Let Go and Let God" we are meaning in every situation in our lives. We have to let go of other people and our judgment of them. We have to know within ourselves, that they, like us, are exactly where we are supposed to be on our path.

Panic, anxiety, uncertainty are all words relating to fear. When we let go of fear, we let God operate more smoothly. When we let go of fear, we know that we have never been in charge of our lives. When we let go of fear, we realize that God does have a plan for us and that it will evolve if only we get out of our own way. Because it is of God, it is good. When we say the expression "Letting Go and Letting God" we must truly mean that; and to let go means completely, no strings, no threads, no hanging on. We may have said or heard "I forgive you but I will never forget." That's holding on. Knowing that we are perfect children of God, and knowing that we have eternal "life," and knowing that we truly are a part of God, a thought of God, part of the whole, how can we and what could we possibly fear?

I am what I choose today, not what I was before. Today, now, this moment, the present is what I truly am. I am without past, without future, only with the present. I am not what I was or what I believed I was. I am as I am. I am not what others think I am, what others hoped I would be, could be, and should be. I am as I am, complete, whole, one with God.

The day I thought of with God will be the day I experience, if I stay attuned with God. It is really that simple. Staying attuned with God. I am immune to the ego. Questions that arise are from the ego, not God. Doubts that arise are from the ego, not God. God is for sure, the ego never knows for sure. And I can be aware when this is going on, based on the feelings I am experiencing. If the feelings are not of peace, love, joy and unhappiness, then I am not experiencing the decisions of God.

It has been said: "what we resist, persists," but it goes much deeper than that. In resisting anything, we give it power, the more we resist, the more power we give it. It is the opposite of letting go. If we acknowledge anything and then let it go, we have given it no power whatsoever, but if we acknowledge anything, bring it into us, chew on it and chew on it, argue it, plead it... look at all the power we have given it, and look at all the power we have drained ourselves and others of, all because we didn't let go.

Experiencing life is a free flowing river of thought where we view the many aspects of this life. We just sit in the boat and let the current of thought take us to wherever it flows (God's will). When we try to alter our course (think we know better than God) we run into the rapids and obstacles in the river. When we trust in God, we flow smoothly; when we allow fear to come to the surface, we have turbulent waters. The choice is always ours. And by trusting in God to carry us down the river of life, we can allow ourselves the peace of remembering, remembering how it was, where we came from, who and what we really are, and then we experience the greatest joy of life, LOVE.

While in meditation I feel enlightenment, when I am within the light and feeling peace. I go beyond the physical plane. I know that I left the body and am observing, seeing it for the first time. Defending oneself is to give into the ego, for that is its game. I really have nothing to defend myself about, for I am a sinless, perfect creation and in God's image. Surrendering and trusting in the wisdom that created me is simply, letting go and letting God. How many times and different ways do we come across this message? Truly this has got to be one of the biggies in life to do. And those that have peace, have it, and know it.

Crying is so good! It relieves the body of so much stress. It relieves the mind of so much stress. It cleanses the soul and lets it shine with the Light. In crying, you experience a "hot tub" of tears and a good soaking. We cry and soak our emotions. We let them go and they dissolve.

In Conversations With God, God say He does not judge, He observes. Now, being that we are a part of God, if God only observes and does not judge, that should be good enough for us also. As we try observing rather than judging, and just by the word itself, we will find ourselves doing just that. If we see everyone as the Christ, then we will also be seen as Him also. If we judge others, we also will be judged. Wouldn't we rather be observed for what we truly are, instead of being judged for which we are not?

To be a "ghost" wallowing around in the past is a sorrowful thought and yet we all know of people who are just that. They are contained in their past, fear ridden to come into the present. Their favorite expression are "Yeah, but what if" of "But in the past" or "I feel safe with my old ways" or "that isn't how I did it" or "there is no reason for me to change" or "I couldn't go there." To choose what we are today takes faith and love; faith in God and love in ourselves. Again it boils down to: "love yourself and everything else comes easy." Be with love with God or be in fear with the ego. Choose!

Letting go of any item drives the ego wild, for it wants us to keep that item and just fret over it. To truly let go is to say that we cannot solve this dilemma we are in and have turned to God for His assistance, which by the way, is always there, we just have to get our of His way for it to happen. By truly letting go, we do not give the problem another thought. We go on with life knowing that God is handling that for us and it will be solved (actually is solved) in our best interest by God. With the ego, we are powerless; with God, nothing is impossible, for everything already is.

Another way of letting go is to thank God for the solution to whatever it is that is bothering us. Thanking Him in advance acknowledges that the solution is already (which it is) and will be shown to us. Do we ever get the feeling that we are looking at a problem with our mouth? It appears at times, that once we shut up, the solution shows up. All we had to do was be quiet.

Yet another way of letting go is through meditation. We go to that quiet spot within ourselves with the question we have and receive God's answer. But we do know that the answer may not always come in the meditation. It may come moments afterwards, by looking at a newspaper, magazine, listening to the radio or watching TV. We are aware and know, not just believe, but also know that the answer will come.

We can make the world of man into the world of God. We can do this! We have the power. All we have to do is have love, totally. And that is the only love we have, total love. We must release all fears, all ego driven thoughts, all negative emotional baggage, let it all go, and just love.

My problem; His solution. Let go and let God lead the way. Follow God; find peace, love and joy.

If we are still struggling, we are not following close enough; still carrying something with us that is weighing us down. We let go and lighten our load. Eventually, with God, there is no "load." It is our ego that is "struggling and fatigued" not us.

What we give, we receive. If we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. It makes no sense to withhold from others, for they are but reflections of us. This is total surrender in the faith of God. This is what we really are. This is what life is really about. And of course the ego is not sitting back quietly observing all of this either.

Guilt is caused by releasing something and yet holding on to it, forgiving ourselves and yet staying attached to whatever. Guilt was never taught as much as it was talked about, never really explained, but constantly experienced. Guilt is of the ego and as such it is nothing. By knowing it is nothing, it has no power over us, no meaning to us and nothing that we desire, for we do not desire nothing. Whenever guilt pops up, we know we must look at something again, see something differently, from a different perspective, look at it in a different light. Once it is seen differently, we can laugh at the feeling the ego imposed on us and get on with our life. Changing perceptions is just looking at something again, seeing it from different angle.

God constantly reminds us that we must get out of our own way and let "life" happen. This statement always puts the ego on the "alert." But within us, we know that this is exactly what we have to do... let go and let God.

If only we would let go of the past for it has served our purposes. If only we would allow God to show us how to live our life now, in the present. If only we would get out of God's way. If only we could understand our purpose in life as shown to us by those we have met along our path. If only we could let go of it all and allow what really is to be seen and experienced. If only...

When we are perfect we are as God and we go back to be joined with Him. Getting things done is a lot like letting go, once you let go, things are done. This is neither theory nor practice, just faith and knowing.

One thing about the past that is enjoyable is that it is just a story. We can always go back and read it again and see that what we read the second time was not what we thought we read the first time.

We will have perfection when there is no longer anything to let go of... when we no longer feel the need to hang on to anything... when we let go of this body and return to God as we were created... perfect. What we hang on to covers that which we really are.

Re-uniting is the process of letting go of this world and re-entering the world of God, being as we were, being as we are. The more we are aware of the process, the more progress we make.

We are the only thing that stands in our way of achieving what it is we want in this life.

By letting go of the wrong, we are right, and the wrong is gone.

Taking everything to the "Light" makes everything "Right." This is not to infer right from wrong but rather to mean that everything in the light is shown for what it is. Taking things to the light is like doing laundry frequently during the day, each time we have a "soiled" thought, we can go to the light to get it bright.

Knowing that beliefs let us down, how many beliefs are we going to let go of today? And how many old beliefs, core beliefs; how many safe and secure beliefs will we let go of just to know the knowing. And we already know, the beliefs are in the way of using the knowing. Release and know.

Where do we go when you want to find something out? To the beliefs we have accumulated or the knowing we have always had? Beliefs are temporary, changeable. Knowing are eternal. Where do we place our trust?

If my body signals anything but perfect health today, I will pay attention and go to the place of discomfort. I will discover what it is that I am hanging onto which is causing me this discomfort. I will discover and release it, for I shall have nothing but love with this body.

When we surrender to God, we are saying that we have goofed. We are not better that God. With surrender go all fears. We will not see right or wrong, good or bad, defense or offenses. With surrender comes love, and peace and we are in the hands of God.

When our bodies are experiencing physical pain, we need to look at what is going on with us. Are we experiencing fear instead of love? Is fear knotting us up, causing tension, headaches, anxiety, for that is what fear does. When we remember that energy (love) is meant to flow through us continually, that our meridians are to be balanced and aligned, that all pathways are to be opened, then we will be aware of something that is blocking the flow. Something is stopping us from feeling like we are supposed to feel. And the more we deny the symptoms, the more intense they will become until they manifest into a dis-ease that will get our attention. Why do we wait for this to occur? When we feel that we are not centered, that we are not feeling as great as we would like to feel, that we are not our "old self", we get quiet and go within and see what fears are hanging around that prevent us from feeling as we are meant to feel, whole, complete, well, happy.

God tells us to let go of the idea that something on our outside can make us happy, that love can be used to barter with, that we need something of the other person to be complete. We let it all go and discover that we have it all, all of it within our being. It always has been there and always will be there for us. We never lack or lacked anything, and what we have within us, everyone else has also, and in the same portions for what is of God is God and there could not be a small portion or large portion of God. There just is God and there is just us.

Isn't it amazing that we judge ourselves and yet we know that God does not judge us? And what part of us is really doing the judging and basing that judgment on what? The ego, of course. We are a part of God, what is there to judge? We are perfect, we are eternal, and we are One with God. Isn't that how separation began? Will we judge ourselves when this life is over? I doubt it, for if we would feel that way, then we would go through life wondering and worrying about a lot of life instead of just letting it happen. We will not judge ourselves, for whatever is happening in our "life" is what is supposed to be happening and what we want to be happening. And we know we can change what is happening by simply changing our mind.

When we stop running from fear, we will face it and it will vanish. Fear is an illusion and like all illusions, when looked at, they disappear.

Heaven does not support any of the illusions of this world. By letting them go, by seeing them for what they are not, we will have started to remove some of the "veils" preventing us from seeing heaven. And the forgiveness process, what about that? There really is nothing to forgive, no one to forgive, for nothing was ever done that requires forgiveness. We can see anything and everything differently. We need not forgive at all. Heaven is for the children of God, it is their home, and it is our home. We are a child of god.

In the Course Jesus tells us to let go of all beliefs and think love, which is without judgment, without a past to compare it with. With love, we know within that God will reveal life to us, that it is all ready there for us to enjoy. We only have to see it through the eyes of love, through the eyes of the Christ within us, the very same Christ spirit that Jesus had within him.

Remember that success is an inner matter, a feeling, and a knowing within you that we have accomplished what we set out to do. Material symbols of success mean very little or nothing, if the inner feeling is not present. And when we think about fear of failure and realize where those fears come from, who is it we are really afraid of, if not ourselves.

If we ever feel less than whole, less than complete, less than even; if we feel stuck, in a rut, sitting in the wrong pew, etc., we can be sure that energy is blocked within our body, blocked by some unforgiving thought that could manifest itself into an illness unless it is released. Allow the love to flow past those thoughts of anger, past those thoughts of "right and wrong" ideas, past that ego and let it flow freely into our being. And it will overflow to those around us and we, in return, will receive more.

Today is the tomorrow of yesterday. What did we put off that couldn't be done in the now?

Failure is only experience when we don't try.

A long time ago, I was told, "not to should on myself" and I have never forgotten it. This is probably the biggest guilt producer I can think of, with the "could's, would's, must's and only's right behind. Guilt is of the ego. If I feel it, then I am with ego, not where I want to be, so I choose again. Spiritual expansion for me is caused by my mind thinking of what it is I am reading, writing, seeing and/or hearing. My "beliefs" are still being replaced daily, as often as I am aware of them. I don't think I can manifest with guilt. I can only create illusions with guilt, with the ego. And I don't spend my time in manifesting illusions. It is much more exciting to continue to remember who I am and even perhaps why I am here now.

Acknowledge the pain, own the pain, be with the pain and let go of the pain. And then, the healing of the pain, the joy to be felt from experiencing it to surface and then disappear, to have rise and leave, for it to be seen and then forgotten. No repression, no stuffing, just being honest with ourselves. We have pain, we hurt, and it is okay. We see it for what it is and we let it go. And then it becomes the past quickly and we are left in the moment without it. What joy!

Are we aware of how great crying is? How fortunate we are to be able to cry? Crying is a release of that which we are holding within us; a cleanse of our being, a purification of our soul. Never question why we cry, rather simply respond and say thank you. And we are never alone, physically or spiritually. God is a part of us and we a part of God. The ego desires to have us feel separated, but we are not, could not nor ever will be. We are connected to all souls everywhere, we are all One. Feel us, touch us, love us and feel our love coming to us. Cry and cleanse and feel lighter, for with each tear, we have released something of the past, something we were holding onto within.

Because of the fear of success, we continue to stay in one spot. The fear of becoming or having what we desire. Visualize what it is we want, hold the vision and thank God in advance for its receipt.

We have to let go in order to proceed. It is easy to surrender to God when we realize that God is all, and we are a part of God. Do we trust ourselves? Do we believe in ourselves? Do we trust and believe in God? Same thing! We realize we are not a body and let go of what we think we are holding onto, just illusions. Realize we are of God and not of this world.

Healing

We can heal the world tomorrow, you and I. What an awesome thought. We can heal the world. What is preventing us from doing it now? Do we want it, do we really want it? Do we have faith in our own abilities? Do we have faith in God? If we don't have faith in ourselves, then we don't have faith in God. This is big-time commitment time. Do we really want this? Can we see everybody and everything as one? This is seeing through the eyes of the Christ within us. But this is how we were created. This is how it is supposed to be. This is how we are. We really aren't changing anything, we are just returning to how we were, what we know and who we are.

And what kind of help did Jesus tell us was available? To become whole? To become well? To become rich and famous? To be eternal? To be loved and loving and love? To forgive ourselves and then others? To see other than what we think we see? To choose again, if we are so inclined to? What was it that Jesus told us that we can get for help?

To heal is to change our perspective. Because we are not a body, only the mind thinks we are ill, so only the mind needs "healing." Healing the mind does more than just "heal" the body. Healing the mind helps us to remember what it was like before the dream. Any dis-ease of the body can be "cured" by the mind, for it was the mind that brought dis-ease into the body by its thoughts.

We allow everyone, including ourselves, to be in their right and perfect places, without judgments on our part. We just allow people to be who they really are, and the world will be healed.

If not by the body's eyes, how shall we see? Through the eyes of Christ, of course! And what will we see and how will we see it? We will see everything in love, in light. We will see it all as if for the first time. We will see it without a past on which to judge. We will see it in the moment and know that all is healed because of it. What a fantastic thought, that because we are seeing through the eyes of Christ, we have healed the world. We have forgiven everyone and now we are One with All.

"To join with others is to heal." This is what really occurs everyday, every single day, every single moment; someone of us is being healed because someone else is also being healed. Yes, we tell each other our feelings, our views, share our wounds and scars, seek help and assistance, and receive healing. Joining means remembering Spirit is within us all. Are we not joined? Do we not extend to each other the request for joining each time we say "Namaste?" We do see the one spirit in each other; we do know that we are the sole (and soul) creation of God. Together we can remember the Oneness, the love, the peace and feel the presence of Spirit. Together we can heal ourselves and each other. We are all on the path together for a purpose and is not the purpose to heal the mind?

We are all we will ever need; we are complete, we are whole, we are One with God.

When you experience pain, we ask ourselves what is the pain telling us? What is it we need to look at differently? What is needed for us to let go of? Where is it we need to extend love? Have we really forgiven ourselves for what we thought others have done to us?

When we release fear, illness disappears.

When I am healed, you are healed. When you are healed, I am healed. We have a bond with each other, and unspoken pact that we will do this for each other. And for that I say "Thank You!"

If we do not give love to our brothers, then we are really asking for healing and help. If we do not feel love coming from our brothers, then they are asking for healing and help. We do heal alone, so we heal with our brothers, so that all of us can be healed. Letting go of the past is healing, and we will let go of it now! To teach healing, to learn healing and to be healed, such is love.

In the original manuscript of A Course in Miracles©, Jesus uses the term "Mental Illness" which later is changed just to read "illness." I believe Jesus was making a major statement with that phrase, aside from the fact he was talking to a Psychiatrist. When we think about it, all illness is mental illness, for it comes from the mind. It does not start in the body, but in the mind. And here Jesus is telling us that if we wish to rid ourselves of illness, we have but to say the words "I will no longer deny God, nor myself." We hold those words in our mind, focus on those words and know that we have no illness.

When we invoke God's presence, we will be helped. We believe we are God, with God, are God. We thank God for the enlightenment and go on our journey always knowing who we really are. With that knowledge, there can be no blocks in our path, no obstacles that cannot be discarded.

When we give a call for healing and help, guess what? We get an answer. "Take me out of this world" was perhaps our cry and perhaps we came close to going then decided to stay. Feeling a prisoner in this world is from the ego, for who else has any interest in this world? God doesn't even acknowledge this world's existence, this is our creation. Perhaps, a part of us has died. Perhaps a part of us that we had held some strong beliefs about this world and our body, and the importance of both, has died within us. And now we feel lighter, a feeling of unexplainable joy, and a peace not quite describable to others. Life is indeed based on our beliefs. We are not our body! We are a free spirit, a formless entity, an eternal thought of God. When our body no longer serves its function here in this world, it ceases to be, but we continue forever. Nothing changes for nothing real has happened. This is but a dream, and we forget this all too often. Give this life no more meaning than a dream. And the beliefs, the knowledge, the wisdom that we have always had, will continue, for that is a part of who we really are. Remember this life is of the ego and the ego cannot ever be satisfied. It is forever seeking gratification and does not experience happiness ever. Happiness is of love, and love is of God. That which is of God lasts forever. That which is of the ego is but an illusion.

Present Moment

The present moment is all there is and it is fabulous. Be there with no past and no future expectations. Be there and know that we are One with God, and God is One with us. Bathe in that knowing, in that feeling. Allow the experience to fill every cell of our being.

Enlightenment begins with acceptance of what? The present moment, no doubt, for what else is there? Accepting where we are now, at this moment, is the only thing we choose to do. We could take the moment with the history of the past, but then it wouldn't be the moment, it would be the past, and because of that we would judge it. When we state something in the negative tense, denying... our minds do not comprehend the word "not" and hear the denial as an affirmation and bingo, what we think becomes our reality. Acceptance does not place us in control of anything, other than our thoughts of acceptance. Being in the present moment does not require control, only acceptance.

The challenge for us is to be in the Now, the Present, the Moment, whatever we want to call it, but it is not just enough to be there. Be there without the past! We take no baggage with us. We are there stripped of everything, every emotion, every feeling, every concern, every thought, every belief, just there knowing ourselves as a child of God, perfect in every detail, lacking nothing and having everything. There is nothing we cannot do. We have proved it before. We know it's possible because we have done it before. No more shame and blame, that's past cow droppings. No more guilt and anger, those are cow droppings also. So like all cow droppings, we let the past dry up and blow away.

Remember that feeling of pure love, pure joy, pure happiness, when we knew, deep within us, we knew we were with God, and God was with us? The feeling of complete union, complete joining, complete completion with God. No separation, no distance, no space between us and God, just being totally with God, consumed by God and God consumed by us. To know only the moment, this moment, the only moment there really is, to let go completely of the past, no hanging on, no ego, guilt, shame, blames and indecision. No worries, no regrets, no what ifs or yeah buts, just being with God, feeling His presence within our being, around our being, feeling whole, feeling content, completed, totally perfect. We do remember.

And when our ego rears its ugly voice, we know that we are so close to that feeling of ecstasy, for the ego never wants us to go there. We remember what is we like; we remember what it is we want; we remember that our ego cannot give us even a portion of that to us. Now for today, for right now, for this moment; let's not look over our shoulder and let's not look into the future; only the now, being with God in the now and extending the now keeps us in the moment. We let go of whatever it is that is lurking behind us (our past). We let go of sadness. We let go of the tears that wash it all away. Have a good cleanse, our body is telling us, so let the tears flow and visualize whatever it is that we are attached to at the moment. Let the tears wash it away, dissolve it, dissipate it, so that is never materializes again. We are a child of God and no child of God deserves to feel anything less than perfect as we already are.

Being in the moment is looking upon something for the first time, without past knowledge, we just see it. With nothing to compare it to, nothing to judge it against, nothing to relate to it, we just see it. This is the moment we strive for; the time when we have completely let go of the past, being only in the moment, for that is all there really is.

When in the present moment, this is what is heard, seen and felt. Sights and sound and thoughts are experienced for the first time, without judgment of the ego from the past, without fears, without boundaries, just being with God.

I stand in awe of everything I see. I see no flaws anywhere. I see uniqueness. I see individuality. I see the Christ in everyone and everything. I see perfection as I and all of creation was made. If I see anything less than perfect, I am judging. Then I am not open to the moment. Then I am not seeing the wonders of God. Then I am not seeing with the eyes of God. Then I am not being who I truly am.

God is constantly telling us that life is just one big "present moment." No wonder He urges us to be there all the time!

To be in the moment, the present, the space in time, is to be without the past... to know it all and need for nothing...to feel as one...united...gathered together... made whole...at peace...in bliss... in joy... only love... and knowing nothing else but love...there is no future unless we believe in the past, so we believe in the present where we are (I AM).

We are remembering what is was like...you are One with God, you are One with us, I am One with God, I am One with you, we are One with God and God is One with us. We are One.

Just think of the wonders that today holds for us. Will we be opened to them? Let the past go for it is over, done, behind, never to be lived again. Be here, now, in the moment and we will hear God. Have faith in God as He walks with us so that we may see ourselves, as we really are, a Child of God. And let God show us how to look at what it is we think we see. Allow Him to show us there is another way of viewing. Thoughts of God are thoughts of love. Any other thoughts are not His thoughts. If we are not thinking love, we are not thinking with God. And this may not be as simple as it appears, for our ego is really upset that we are turning to God and away from it.

We never wish that we are as we once were, no matter what the circumstances, for that is the past and we can do nothing about the past but learn. It can never be relived again for it is gone. We are the author, director and star performer of this life we are living. We are writing the script as we go, and we can change the story line of our life anytime. We choose the life we want, and then we live it. This is our life, so let's do it our way.

Remember this? "What if you slept, and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dreams you went to heaven and there picked a strange and wonderful flower, and what if when you awoke, you held that flower in your hand, ah, what then?" And what if we did wake and find this flower in our hand, would we still be in our dream or would we still be in heaven? Would we share what we have with those around us or would we be afraid to say what it was we did? Would we be concerned with what people would think of us or would we share it with all, that with which we were blessed? And what it we woke each day with a different flower in our hand? What if we know that the flower is always there but it is that we are not always awake? And what if this dream that we are in, is just another dream from the original dream we are in? And what if we woke from all dreams and we were with God? What if?

If we are in the moment and love to be in the moment, then doing whatever it is now should be no problem. And there is no size to a child of God, no low self esteem allowed, only Self-esteem. We are our true self and we will not play small.

Heaven...eternal light... no sound and yet sound... no music yet music... no faces and yet awareness... floating and drifting yet centered and grounded... hearing but not hearing... seeing and yet not...no body yet a complete feeling... a wholeness... a Oneness yet being one...knowing all and needing nothing... no feelings, only experiencing... being present with no past, no future...no fears, only love, engulfing love, overwhelming love, overpowering love and yet bliss, peace, joy, harmony, happiness...

Go within and there in see the light. Be lost in the light and go everywhere the light is and yet be nowhere is it not. With the knowing that the light is God and we are One with the Light. We are the Light. It is not that we have become the light, for we are the Light and forever will be the Light. There is nowhere the Light is not and there is nowhere we are not. All we have to do is allow it to happen, let go of this world.

What is a mis-take anyhow? Just a "take" that we don't care to experience, so we "take" again. This is just another way of making choices. God does tell us the simple principles of life in so many ways. In this world that we made, we will make mis-takes. In the world we created with God, all is perfect.

No wonder so many of us say the life is just the same old same old. Stop living in the past and create in the present. Be or do something not done before. Be free of the past and be creative in the moment.

Why are we holding ourselves back? We know we have experience the "other world" but only briefly, enough to make us understand that what we are choosing to do is correct for now, enough to make us aware of our thoughts, enough to have us stop and see things as they really are, enough to discover when we are using ego and when we are using Spirit, enough for us to realize what we truly are. And yet we haven't let go so that God can lift us the rest of the way. Perhaps it is not time to leave, perhaps there is more for us to do for our brothers, perhaps it is as simple as we haven't completely left go.

How can we attach ourselves to something we have not yet experienced? Don't fear it, find it exciting!

Expect nothing and be open to everything, and that is what we shall experience, that is what we shall have.

Give ourselves a holy instant to affirm that we are not only with God, but that we are God.

And because life is this never-ending, ongoing process of re-creating, we need to experience the present moment all the time, instead of bringing the past back and reliving it. Be new, be creative, and be in the moment.

Being in the moment is only love, but is it "growth" for the word indicates to become more of something. Being in the moment is just being, being who we really are and we cannot really expand on that. We are as we were created, as we always will be, eternal and everlasting. Is growth necessary for anything other than the ego? Is growth even possible?

Each and every moment is spectacular, it is wrapped in such splendor and possesses a bow of beauty, and even has a card addressed to us, signed from God.

I believe this "world" is comprised of ever changing energy, of God and my perception is whatever I choose at any given moment, at any given "present moment." I do constantly co-create with God, but what it is that I co-create in this "world" is not real for only the "world" of God is real. This "world" is just an illusion, just a dream, just an experience with God. I accept where I am because wherever I am, I am with God. It is not a question of "seeing clearly" or even having an "understanding" of what is occurring that matters, for being with God I "know" that whatever happens is for my highest good. Everything appears to be changing and yet nothing really has changed or can change, other than my perception.

Life begins at the end of the comfort zone. To leave our comfort of knowing to go into the area of unknowing, is this like living on the edge? Is this like leaving ego and going with God? Stepping into space? Going into the darkness? Sounds exciting and challenging! Be aware and awake and experience what life is really is.

Only by being in the moment can we not have expectations. Only being without the past to look at or the future to project it into, only then can we be without expectations. A choice is an expectation. A choice is a judgment, being in the moment, we have neither. If marriages contain unconditional love, there would be no divorces. Unconditional love is great to work at and hard to accomplish. God's love for us is unconditional. Ours for Him should be the same, but often we put expectations on it.

To create is like being in the present moment, being without the past hanging on or the future lurking ahead. It is our expression of only our thoughts in only our way of creating with God; fresh, honest, manifested out of our desire, our own desire to experience that which we think with Spirit.

In the total stillness is God. The ego naturally will not let us go there willingly, but we know that the ego is an illusion and as such has no power unless we give it power. There is no sound to be heard, no feeling within the body that is irritating to us. There is only the now and God. Accept this, believe this, become One with this.

The past and future are nothing by illusions; illusions that do not exist and yet stop and see how much of our energy we give to this fallacy. There really is no past, no future, so therefore there are no thoughts on those issues, and yet how we dwell there and dwell there. Again we give so much energy to something we know does not exist.

By embracing the Truth all else will fall away because what isn't truth will vanish, will disappear. It was never there in the first place. This works especially well for us. By embracing who we really are, all illusions of us will disappear and all that will remain will be our true being. That is what so many of us are searching for and go to great lengths in an attempt to find, when all the time, the goal is here, now, within us. We are It; we know It; and we are It.

What a great reason for being in the present moment, to be sinless, to be pure, to be as we really are. And the moment is just a thought away; think about it.

We will experience heaven without being "good" and we haven't sinned, so what is to there for us to save? The body of Jesus ceased to be, just as our body will one day cease to be. But we are like Jesus, we are eternal.

The reality of which we seek, we already have. It is in the moment, the only "time" there really is. In the present moment when we have no past to compare with, no future because of no past, just the moment of eternal peace; we take time to go there and continue to go there, and each "time" we will stay longer, and then we will begin to see that "reality" in our daily life, is all around us. We will not see with our physical eyes, but with the eyes of Spirit. We ask to see that way and we shall.

Choosing is just a decision in the moment and the next moment we can choose something different.

Isn't it fantastic to always be in the middle of a miracle, in the unfolding of the process? And all we need do is to be in love, to be in our natural, the created state of being; knowing that we are not separate from God; knowing that we are One with God; knowing that what we see in mirrors is never, ever in need of anything. We are aware that a miracle is unfolding this very moment. Be in that moment, experience that moment, and experience the miracle. We are creating it.

Choices themselves are not really difficult, if we do them in the moment, without the past brought in. Bringing up the past or thinking of the future can only cloud the decision to be made, and probably cause guilt, because this process is the ego's, not God's.

Making a choice takes but an instant, longer than that and you are not in the moment. And as to "large" or "small" choices, do not view them that way, for to do so is to give choices some "special" power. They are, after all, just an illusion within an illusion.

Making choice should not be uncomfortable if they are made in the moment, for in the moment there is nothing to compare, nothing to fear, nothing to bring up from the past.

The opportunity to remember who we really are is ever present, it is in the moment, the holy instant, we can experience anytime and all the time. It is always our choice to remember, but because of a split mind, we must continue to keep focusing on that thought of who we really are now, have been and will always be.

We lift ourselves away from the thoughts that we are separate from God and experience the feeling of Oneness with God.

To decide is to use judgment. To witness is to see as it is, with out comparison.

We cease to be who we are based upon what the past projects for us. Be the one we know we are based upon inner knowledge and our memory of who we were always before taking our present body. Don't rely on an old story, be new, be unique, and be creative. We write our story as we live from moment to moment. (Being in the moment, there is no story) There are no old items, just current events. There is no mold for us to fit, for we are without form and without boundaries. We are free, and we are unlimited. We are the all and the everything. Know it. Live it. Be it.

If we are in the present moment, and that is where we want to be, we do not bring into the moment anything from the past for the present moment would cease to be. In the moment is all there is and nothing there has been experienced before. In the moment we open ourselves up to the experiences of God, not those created with a split mind.

Each circumstance is an experience that is a treasure to us. It is not hidden from us. We choose not to see at times. The choice is always ours and we can easily choose again, and again.

Who we are is known within. If we are curious as to who we are, we go within and find ourselves, see ourselves, know ourselves, be ourselves; be with God.

If we don't seek we cannot possibly find. Many things can be laid at our feet, all of them of the truth, but if we are not seeking, we will not recognize them. How many times have we passed them up before?

Today was yesterday's tomorrow.

To know God is to feel the presence of God within our being, to sense the wholeness we feel when thinking of God, to know we know God, to know we "hear" God. We know we feel His presence in our lives always.

"It is impossible to see two worlds." And yet we continue to attempt to do this. Which world we choose will produce that which we seek. We cannot seek the love of God, the joy of God, the peace of God, in a world created by the ego. But we can experience all of that in the world of God, which is ever present before us. We have but to choose again and it is ours.

Not only are we in the process, we are the process and we are perfect. Because we thought once that we could improve upon perfection, we are now here in this state of dreaming and still trying to improve perfection. Nothing happens that we have not made happen and everything that has happened to us has been what we made happen to us. Bottom line: we are responsible for everything that happens. In the process of our blooming, spirituality doesn't come all at once, it is a gradual movement. As we warm up to it, we allow more of it to move through us. As that happens, love starts flowing from us as we bloom into the beautiful flower we really are. When we allow this to happen, our days will be sunny and warm, and we notice love all around us. We will see the now and know that there really is no future, that it is only built on the past, and that also doesn't exist.

Our last thought is our present thought and it is of love, for if it is not, I choose again until it is, and then our last thought will become our last thought and it will be of love.

Remember that time is something we invented and as such is something we can cease to create. Not to think about time allows us to be in the present easier. Not to think about time stops the aging process of the body. Not thinking about time places no stress on us. Being in the moment instead of looking in the future allows us serenity, peace and a feeling of love. In the "time" we created, we may only have one more minute or perhaps an hour before "check out time" so whatever we "have" to do, we better get on with it. And we remember to listen to our soul to hear what it has to say before going back. We may find that conversation very interesting.

Although we are living in eternity, we, in this lifetime, have nothing other than this moment, which of itself is eternal. It will not disappear as a snowflake. It will last like a diamond. It will last as long as we are aware of it and continue to stay in it.

The "best show in town" is the one playing inside, so stop looking elsewhere.

Be awake and walk and do not just smell the flowers, but "breathe them in." Don't just see the birds, but be with the birds, "soar like an eagle." Wherever we look we see beauty because wherever we look we see love, and love is all there is. If we don't see it wherever we look, we look again, and again, and again until we see it! It is there!

We don't even have to listen in the silence; we just have to be.

Life is just an illusion and God is reality. Our spirituality takes us to knowledge we had long forgotten, the knowledge of who we really are. Life as we know it is not real. What is real is within us.

We cannot find what we believe we are looking for outside of ourselves because it isn't there. It is within us, and only there. What we are looking for is us and often we hurry to no place in particular looking for something we are not even sure we will find, when within, we have all we will ever want and need, for we have everything, and have had and will have everything forever.

Anything of the past, and remember they are just that, the past, has taught us something we are using in the present. Bring nothing from the past so we may experience the present more fully, more openly, more innocently. We take the lessons learned, but let go of the experience. Who we are can never be changed. How we live our life is at our direction only. There is no right or wrong, good or bad experiences, just experiences. The labels of judgment are our doing at the direction of the ego. We are a child of God, created in the image of God, of the substance of God, as God is, we are. We are formless, eternal and everywhere. We are a part of and the whole of God. We can never change from what and who we are! And as God is love, so we are also.

To accept because that is our inner feeling is the challenge to us, the struggle between Spirit and ego. To see in the moment, to accept what is shown to us without the past to judge what it is, is bliss. It was because we tried to improve upon the perfection of God in the "beginning" that we are now experiencing the separation. We do not need to know what something means. It is okay for us to say, "I do not know."

The Holy Instant is that time when we are blended with God. God is our cause and we are God's effect. In the instant, we are as we always have been, One. For it is in this instant, that time ceases to exist and we are with God as that is all there really is. We are One with God. We are God. God and we are One.

That which we need, that which we are, that which we will always be, is within us now. There is nothing outside of us that can give us anything, for we already have everything within. When we go within, we feel we lack anything.

30-40-50 years ago! Just the past and just illusions! Why try to judge them as good or bad? What is important is the now we are in. Pay attention to this moment. Be in the here and now, instead of the then and when.

What we are looking for is not to be found outside of us. By humbly stating "I do not know" opens the mind for the answer to appear. And the answer to anything comes from within. Know and trust the love that is presenting a situation to be from God. We look at it until we can see it in the love with which it is presented. Then the answer will also appear. And allow whatever is moving to move. Do not attempt the flow, stay with it, ride it out.

Relationship with God

All relationships are relationships with God, but when we attach "special"

to them, we have separated them from the rest; we have separated them from God.

Words are just illusions; illusions that we made. It is not the words themselves that are so important to us, but the knowledge, the meaning that we feel within when we read these "illusions." It is part of the path to remembering all that we have forgotten; it is part of the path back to God. God speaks through us. His words are not the words on the pages, but the "words" in our heart. His "words" were never meant to be worshipped as idols. This is not what God wanted. That is not what we do. We listen to God and speak His words, for His words are our words, His thoughts are our thoughts. God is experiencing life through each one of us. Are we living a life worthy of God?

To "know God" is not the same as our knowing something is in order for us and we are grateful for it in advance. To know God is to know God, like we know our parents, children, etc., to have a relationship with God. To hear God, we have to shut down our thinking and get into the silence, otherwise our mind chatter gets louder and louder.

God is giving us what we have decided is best for us. And He does this because He is expressing His Self through us. Can God possibly offer us any more than this? He gives us what we believe we want, so that He can express Himself through us. Knowing that God is constantly expressing Himself through us makes us think before we act, think before we write, think before we speak, for all of our actions are expressions of God through us. But the real important point for us to remember is that God is Love, only Love; any actions, words, thoughts that are not love are not God's expression through us. The ego has slipped in, and that is not best for us, and therefore, not best for God. Think of the responsibility we have knowing that God is expressing Himself through us.

Those that know God, know God. Those that hear God, hear God. And we cannot know or hear God by constantly telling ourselves that we do. To know God and to hear God is not something we do, it is something God does with us.

What we put into a relationship is what the relationship will bring to us. By bringing something, we naturally give it; it is part of us and we want to share.

Will we ever stop trying to play God and start playing with God?

We are never alone! We have within us the most powerful substance we can imagine, the most anyone could ever desire, the most any of us could ever dream of. We have within us the Christ Spirit; we have within us God. We are a part of and the sum of God. We, all of us, are one; one with God, and one with each other.

Yes, God, You are our greatest gift. It is we that sometimes refuse to open the package. It is we that don't always know what it is we truly want. We do believe You, but it is we that forget sometimes. We want to be Your greatest gift, but we forget to "present" ourselves to You.

We can only create with God and whatever we create is already, whatever we think we need, we already have.

Human relationship may fail, but our relationship with God will never fail. It is not possible.

All of us are unique. All of us are the thought of God. All of us are One.

God tells us every now and again to be ourselves. It is okay to be as we are. It is okay to speak of God and yet we do not really know Him. It is okay to be a teacher without knowing it all. It is okay to learn as we teach, just be genuine and sincere. And we will have pleased God; thank you God, for making our life so simple.

Sometimes we will have a lot of questions in our head and it is necessary to "turn the volume down" so we can hear God. Sometimes we have to pause in asking God questions so that we may receive His answers, and often times, we have to look at ourselves in the mirror and ask "What?" Other times we simply ask ego to quiet down so that our "reception is clearer." We know that we and only we can do our own healing. We won't get healed from other people, so it is our responsibility to respond to or follow through with the instructions we receive. If we think we are content with our life and yet, we can complain, we can safely state that our life is following ego and not God. A life with God comes with a "guarantee"... what does the ego offer us?

God tells us over and over again: We cannot avoid the truth, we cannot hide from the truth, and we cannot escape from the truth.

We want to see all of life, not just selective viewing. We want to see all that is offered to us, not have fear to look beyond what is in front of us. And no one can see our life for it just that, our life, our life to experience with God. God, help us to open our eyes so that we may see all of what is ours, all that we have given, all that we may experience, all that we may be, and let us see this all with You.

"True friendship" can never be used. It can only be experienced and enjoyed.

Marianne Williamson talks about relationships as being assignments. From the past we know that assignment meant learning and if we didn't do them when they were presented, we would do them later, make them up. And so it appears that relationships are assignments. If we don't learn the lessons from the relationship, we will just go into another relationship with the same lesson to be learned. And we will moan and groan and say things like "I just walked away from this" or "This is how the old relationship was." We do have to look at what is going on to realize that there is something here that is being taught and needs to be learned. It appears in life that once we learn what lesson is taught we move on. A similar lesson may show up in our life but at a higher level of learning, graduate course we can always hope.

How many times, how many ways are we told of the simplicity of "finding" God? We have looked everywhere outside of ourselves for that which is and always has been within ourselves. No journey is necessary. No hard work is required. No physical exertion is needed. Simple be still and know and go within.

We do not have to comprehend God or to understand God. Just the knowing that God is is very satisfying.

We are looking at God all the time, and God is looking at us. The problem is that we don't always recognize God.

God has never been unattainable, not even unavoidable. It is just we who have not seen God, for God is wherever we are or see. God is there, everywhere. God is.

Many times we make the statement that God is this thing or that thing. The only statement we can truly make of God is: God Is! God is without beginning, so there is no ending. We can't say that God will be there, denoting a future event, for the future is an extension of the past, and there is no past for God. God IS!

As we explore deeper within ourselves the unknown areas of God, the deeper we go, the closer we become or so it seems. The deeper we go, the more truth is revealed to us; the more we remember who we really are.

"Not my will, but Thy will be done!" "My" will is our thought that we can do better than God. God's will for us is peace and love. Can we improve on that?

There are many people out there who constantly tell us that it is "God's will" that such and such is happening to us; that we have this disease, or relationship problem, etc. When we take responsibility for the happenings in our lives, when we accept that we are creating our own experiences and come to know within that God's will for us is love, only love, and His will is our will. And His will is love, joy, and happiness for us. His is that we awake from this dream and return to our original source, and that is our will as well. It is our choice to heal our minds, to become again one mind with God, and realize who we actually are.

Some people enter a relationship with God to see what they can get out of it. With that ego veil hanging in front of their eyes, they will never see what is within such a relationship. And every relationship is a relationship with God. Think of them all that way and then think of what you put into such a relationship.

If we maintain who we really are, we will do as God would do, for isn't God with us and we with Him always?

Denial of who we really are is not destructive. It's just a ploy of the ego to delay that which will eventually be known to us again. To accept who we really are, is to release the ego and be with God.

We come into the "life" as God, and we will leave this "life" as God. We have not changed that which we really are, nor could we. We cannot attain a "higher state" than that of being God.

Isn't it comical to think of making demands on God, knowing what we know now? And yet, we have all gone through this stage, "God, if you do this for me, I will do such and such," or "God, I demand you give me such and such." Now we can laugh at those experiences, but when we were there we were very serious about our demands and bargains with God. But now we realize we are co-creators with God, we are One, we are Whole, and we are All. Can we possibly want more than that? The ego will probably tell us there is more, in fact, that is most likely why we are still experiencing the separation. But we know within us that what we say is true. We know within us that we are eternal beings of God; that we are thoughts of God and that God is our reality. All the ego offers is illusions, tricks, slight of hand movements and a real con job. Most of the time it is a very comical existence, if we step back and look at the directing of the ego. We manifest that which we desire in this life. We manifest with God, knowing that what we create, we are creating with God.

Does God make "vows" to us, some being the "grandest" implying that some are not so grand? I don't think so. We are a thought of God. Is one thought greater than another thought of God? Does God have "degrees" of greatness? Do we picture ourselves as being "bound" to God or attached to God in some way? There is nothing that binds us to God, nothing with which we are attached to God. We are of God, a part of God, are God.

Responsibilities

We are responsible for our lives. God gave us free will with which to make choices, but we have two "coaches" who are always there for us in making those choices. They are, of course, Spirit and ego. The difference being that ego is always yakking and Spirit is always there, but is quiet until we request His guidance.

Understand that no one and nothing (no thing) is responsible for our life or what happens in it but us. Be sure we make the choices, not the ego. Accept ourselves where we are at and blame no one and no thing for where we are. If we don't like where we are at, we choose another place. The choice is always ours, just ours. And that's all there is to it, plain and simple. If we don't like where we are at now, we change. Talk about awesome powers! We have them! God gave them to us and they were not intended to be forgotten. These powers, like love, are eternal, never ending; they will always be there.

We are totally responsible for us, no one or nothing else. We will not find inner peace from any relationship nor any material item of want. We will find inner peace when we truly want it, but we "must want it truly" to experience it. It is a peace not of this world, but the world within, the world beyond, the world from which we came, the world to which we are returning. This world is brought to us by remembering, just remembering. Not remembering the past, as we know it in this world, but remembering who we really are, what we are and what we will always be. This is not of the past as we know it, but of the present.

Imagine a system of lessons without tests! Only God could create such an existence, certainly not us, for we always have to "test" ourselves to see where we are. Also imagine that we have to accept responsibility for this dream, not God. He didn't create the dream, He doesn't even believe in it. This dream is our production alone. He does offer guidance with the script, but there is one snag, we have to ask for the help. Humility is not one of the ego's strong traits. And how we "dream our dream" affects others around us. Talk about added responsibility! We can do our part to make "life" better for all, or we can attempt to make life better for just ourselves. It is a choice.

To give love with no strings attached is to build a relationship on a solid foundation. Always giving without holding back anything gives us the feeling of satisfaction, of peace, of joy, of love. Feeling empty is a condition we create for ourselves. Filling ourselves up with love is our choice. Once again, we see that we are responsible for our choices.

Just think of the enormous power we have, to be able to make any decision we so choose, just simply by choosing. And we do this every moment of this dream. We choose whatever we are experiencing now. Whatever is happening to us is our responsibility, just ours. We get this message from God over and over again. It is a tough message, but one that does make us think more about this life. It appears that no matter what we read or hear, the message is coming to us more and more: we are responsible for our own life. We are not responsible for someone else's life, and someone else is not responsible for ours. This is our life and our life only. How do we want to experience it?

Perhaps if we do things for our Self, instead of our self, things would definitely improve. Actually, our self doesn't exist, so it is just a waste.

Creating our own reality instead of discovering our own reality is a heavy responsibility. And it doesn't matter whether we are awake or sleeping, we are still creating our reality. No one else to blame, it is all ours.

It is okay for us to be, to do, to want, to have, to need and to choose that which only we desire, without concern how any of it will affect another. It is okay for us to please ourselves first, and then perhaps, please another, but not before we are pleased. If we have that which we desire first, then we are able to give that to another, for we must have something first before we can share it. Taking care of ourselves is really loving God.

I do want to be out "of my mind" and into the mind of God, which is my true mind.

Let's not judge ourselves, only observe ourselves. If we see what we do not like, we can change that piece of us. When we observe something in others that does not appear to be "right" with us, we can choose to observe them again, until we observe them in love and light. Everything begins with us; an awesome thought, a powerful thought; total responsibility. Accept it.

We accept the responsibility for our life, for it is ours. We don't try to give it to others, for it is not theirs. We are all that really is. We know within our very being what our mission is in this life. Only we know our own path. We go within and ask questions and wait in the silence for the response.

Guess who is in charge of what we see today?

Is living with purpose like living with intention? When our intention or purpose is love, is God, living with the purpose or intention of being who we really are. For when we live as who we really are, life does flow, obstacles are removed from the path and we feel, we know within our beings, that we are experiencing who we really are, we are being true. We are living our purpose.

We will do almost anything to get a need that is outside of us. A need that is really nothing really has no meaning. It is just a temporary satisfaction of the illusory ego. This is really very humorous, when we think about it.

The universe that is spoken of so often is the co-creation of us with God. Have we really not done well? Is it not superb? If we don't think so and we don't like what see, we change it, with God.

We accept what is happening or what has happened as what we have brought or are bringing to ourselves. Understand this. No one but ourselves is responsible for what we are experiencing. Knowing this will get us to think deeper on what it is we want to experience, what it is we want to happen in our life. How are we going to write the next scene of our life's movie? How are we going to direct our actions, and who, beside ourSelf, are we going to please?

Wouldn't we rather go through life consciously by choosing and doing what it is we choose to do, instead of living by chance and blaming others for what is in our lives?

To believe deeply in ourselves is the same as believing deeply in God, for are we and God not the same?

Anger is an emotion that must be allowed to be expressed. There is no shame to being angry, no guilt unless we allow it. It is amazing the things that we have been taught that really are no value to us, and in fact, can cause the body great harm. Holding anger within us allows it to fester within and cause dis-ease.

I once knew a counselor/friend of mine who expressed her anger by breaking dishes in her garage. She would go to garage sales and buy up the cheapest dishes she could find, boxes of them. Then, upon bringing them home, she would go into the garage and start throwing them against the walls. She eventually tired of this exercise and would sweep up the pieces that were in effect pieces of her anger she no longer held.

Our ego wants us to keep our anger, so that we can experience shame and guilt from it. By journaling on our anger, it will be released. We just write the words and we don't worry about spelling or punctuation. It is only you and God who will read them, and you and God will be writing them out together also.

To me, there is no "good" or "bad" in life. Whatever I get from God, I have created along with God, who does give me what I think I want, so I had best think several times before I hit the "send" button to God.

We can live our lives for a new reason; we can change it at anytime. We can choose again. And we understand this but at times forget, that the purpose of our lives is a result of what we put into it. What we give out in our life comes back to us. What we show we are; it is what we do that counts. It is what we give life that we will get. It is a message from God again, that we are totally responsible for this life. We can have it anyway we want it; it all depends on us.

Someone once wrote: "Difficulties are God's errands." If it is hard to do, just remember you are doing an errand for God.

We all know the expression about not seeing the forest for the trees. Just the word "forest" tells the mind something different than the word "trees." Is it any wonder we don't see the trees? How many times have we seen the "people" and not seen the person, the Christ spirit that is within each and every one of us. And how many times do we continue to "chop" up our words into finer and finer "bits" with the hope of understanding the words better. But within our very being, within our core, we already know that we will not understand anything in this lifetime. Instead of understanding, we already have a knowing, a belief about all that is.

As we create, we discover. Discover means to see something for the first time. As we create, we discover the capabilities we possess. As we create, we discover who we really are. As we create, we feel closer to God, who is of course, creating along with us. This too, we discover.

Is it important to know what is important to another person? And what is important to them may not be important to us, for we are your Self and care not what others really do. Let's please our Self, love our Self, and others will be loved and pleased.

A commitment to truth is a commitment to God. It is our inner knowing that compels us to make this commitment, our wanting to remember ourselves as we really are, our realization that this world is an illusion and we wake and find ourselves as we are. Rather than feed ego, we would rather be fed by God. Rather than spread chaos, we will spread joy and peace and love. Rather than see stress, we will see the calm. We will see with the eyes of God as part of our commitment to Him.

We work each day at thinking more on God than on ego. When we do this, we will speak from God, hear through God, and see through God. Then we will know the meaning of bliss and the satisfaction of being One with God.

Relationships are necessary for growth. We need relationships to grow, we can't do it alone. We learn from relationships, we teach in relationships. Establishing how we want to be in a relationship is not necessarily being open to the relationship or it's teachings. Choosing what must happen is control. Being open to what happens is another way of saying it. Looking for the meaning of the relationship indicates an openness to life, and our openness to God's plans as opposed to our plans. Individual growth will follow from the openness and awareness we exhibit in our relationships, either with other people or with God.

It is not what the other person does or sees that matters; it is what we see in the other person that matters.

Anger is not natural to our being. We are love, only love, for we are created just as love. Anger is from fear, fear is from ego, and ego is an illusion. We have neither a "higher" soul nor "lower" soul. We are a soul and do not give messages of anger. We are not capable of that. If we are in an abusive relationship, we see the relationship as abusive. We can continue to see it that way and remain in it, or we can see another way and choose to leave. If we choose to leave such a situation without discovering what it is that is being presented, then the same relationship will appear again to us until we learn from it.

Anything other than love is from the ego, anything. Anything else is based on fear and is ego based. Anger repressed will cause illness. The release of anger will often cause healing of the illness. We constantly remind ourselves that what we are experiencing is what we are creating, not some other person. If we are in a hostile relationship it is because we are creating and choosing it. Accepting that responsibility makes a big difference in what we are experiencing right now. There are only two emotions, love and fear. And we know what love is, so anything not of love is fear. It is simple, and yet we forget so quickly, thanks to the ego that constantly re-affirms the separation with God.

Perhaps we need to pay more attention to this generation's stories that are being written now. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. There is no real need to go back to see what love is, and that is the lesson, just be love now. Learn and teach, teach and learn. Now is what is, and what is, is only what is real.

If we find peace within ourselves, we will find peace with all others we come in contact with. If we love ourselves, we are able only then to love others. It all begins with us.

Peace is ours for the asking. Peace is ours by inheritance. Peace is ours for the taking. If peace is readily available to us, why do we not stay there? Is it because we know nothing is impossible for us there? Is it that we do not feel worthy of peace? Is it that we fear peace? Is it that we are with ego instead of with God? And to change is also within our power! It is always our choice, our responsibility, and our response to ourselves.

This whole creation, this whole life, is all our doing. And only we can undo what we have created. We are our own savior; we own that; we believe that, and act accordingly.

The life God created for us is not of this world, but of His world, of the real world. Everything we see and experience in this world was created by us.

We have the potential of God within us because we are from God. Step into those thoughts and hear God, hear Spirit, and make the connection. No one and no thing outside of us is able to control or direct us unless we give them our power to do so. Affirm once again, that we are responsible for every thing that we experience in life.

Not to engage in an argument when we are drawn into one, takes less energy than to remain engage in it. Being attacked by someone's ego doesn't mean we must counter-attack. Some think of it as turning the "other cheek" perhaps, and I often vision just that way. I turn and walk away, thereby showing my "other cheek."

You can stop looking elsewhere for someone to blame for what we are experiencing. There isn't anyone else! This is our life; we own it and we direct it. We have the power within us to do just that. We don't have to look to Jesus to correct our life. He is a good example for us, but he is not to blame for what's happening to us. It is always just a matter of choice.

When we blame God for whatever is happening or has happened, we are really blaming ourselves. We know that what we see and experience is what we are creating. So if we don't like what we see, etc., we only have to change our thoughts and see it differently. Remember often, God doesn't even know this world exists. It is our creation, not God's.

Teachers of God

When we place a title "genuine" on our teachers, we are placing them away from us, on a pedestal perhaps. The real teachers are not always those we would have picked ourselves. The lessons are not always those lessons we thought we had to learn. When we place too much criteria on our teachers, we are not being open to teachers who presents themselves to us. We are looking for only those qualities our ego is approving of, and is momentarily safe with.

Teachers of God show us our walls, they push our buttons, they irritate and bother us, and generally cause us pain, but these are the teachers to pay attention to. These teachers are the ones that we shall learn lessons from. These teachers are the ones we see in the mirror.

God has told many times, many ways; that we have it all, all the knowledge there is we already have. We are not discovering any new knowledge or being taught new ideas, we are merely remembering what it is we forgot.

What kind of teacher we are today depends on where we have been studying lately, the college of Spirit or the streets of ego. Where will our guidance come from today? Whom will we call upon to be with? Spirit of course, for we want to experience love, we want to learn love, and we want to teach love. This is not a subject taught by ego.

And when are we the teacher or the pupil? And what exactly is the difference? Can we tell? It is from within that we will know what it is we are to learn, what we are to teach. Yet there is no curriculum and yet the greatest lessons are taught, and the greatest teachers are known. And there is never a lack of teachers or lessons. Do we come to teach or to learn? What exactly is the difference and can it really be separated?

The teachers of God who walk their talk, who teach by example, show their wares.

We know that we did not choose a "wrong" teacher. Acceptance of our "teacher" is our first step in learning what it is we are to learn. We also try not to call anyone "special" as that means that we have separated that person from us by placing them in a position above and away from us, making them appear better than us or someone else, and the separation continues. Not wanting to let go of anything is based on fear, our fear. Look at what it is that prevents us from releasing. Look at the fear. Look at what is under it all, and see the fear for what it is. And what is it? Just an illusion, nothing more. And when we see fears as illusions they quickly lose their punch. And it is not so much how we let go, but rather that we are ready to let go.

A seedling and an infant do know things and they are perfect. They know that they have the power within them to become something other that what they are. They both know that they have a purpose, known only to them, as ours is known only to us. Perhaps the seedling will grow into a tree or perhaps become nutrition for some animal. Perhaps the child will grow up into an adult and teach the world to love.

We cannot but help to learn as we teach, and often times we know not if we are teaching or learning.

Every person in our lives is a teacher to us and we a teacher to them. We learn by listening and seeing ourselves in them. When we see love in them, we have love in ourselves, and our lessons from them are learned. Until then, we keep listening and observing.

We don't choose to be an example for anyone. It is way too big a burden to carry. If we accept that role, then it seems that we become responsible for others for our actions. All of a sudden, we are no longer living authentically. We are living in our head, trying to figure out what is "best" for them, how it will appear if we do thus and so...we just walk our talk, and be what our mouth says we are. Be real, be true, be who we really are.

We don't really care what others think of us. We are their teachers and they are ours.

Remember, "good" is just "god" extended.

Of all the things of this world on which we place great importance, is there anything or anyone more important than our brother? As we see our brother we see ourselves. If we see our brother with anything less than love, then that is how we see ourselves. Our brother is, just as we are, and always will be, as God always is and will be.

We can see every person, no matter who they are, as the Teachers assigned to us.

Let's look upon our brothers and see ourselves and know that we cannot improve upon a child of God. We do not need to assemble a being from different ego perspectives. All we need do is to see ourselves in others, see others as children of God, perfect in every detail, as are we. First, we allow ourselves to be seen by us this same way.

Having Jesus as a teacher and model is a gift to us. Yet, if we look deeply enough, we will see "Jesus" in everyone we come in contact with. We are all teachers and pupils here, and Jesus is working through us all. Once we have accepted Jesus as the teacher, our thinking begins to change and our control by ego is lessened. We begin our shift from ego back to God.

The Ego

Try changing "fear" or "fears" to "excitement" or "excited." Just the word fear creates in us a link to the ego. Remember there is only love or fear, and the choice of what we experience is ours alone. If we choose fear, we can choose again and pick love.

And of course, the ego has problems comprehending "the moment" or "peace." If it did not, the feelings of both of them would be experienced all the time. There is nothing in life that is frightening, NOTHING. Time, we know, is just an illusion, an idol created to "run" our lives.

When our ego is in our way, we are experiencing fears, fears of failure, fears of being different, fear of being who we really are, fear of the truth, etc.

What effort goes into something as powerful as a smile? Sometimes, it takes a struggle to smile. Sometimes it goes against what "they" will think if we smile. But if a smile makes us feel as peaceful as it does, and we only have to please us, why not smile more often. It always appears that females smile more than men. Why? Is it because men hide their emotions more? Women are not as serious as men? Women know something that men don't.

How many parts of Self do we really have? Can we really experience anything but love? What are the many "feelings" of ego that we can experience? Our Self is God and therefore we experience only love when we are within our Self, and are we not always within our Self? We are but we are not always attuned with it. Sometimes we are on the "outside" looking in, wanting in. So close and yet so removed.

Watching a person during the transition moments, we see the fierce battle that the ego makes in an attempt not to die, even though that was its original intention from its beginning. When we finally overcome the ego, we breathe the last and pass over to God. For those trapped within the clutches of the ego, the battle is viscous. The ego appears to not want to quit and allow us to go back to God. Those who are not entrapped by the ego pass to God with the knowledge they are going back to where they came from. The dream is over and it is time to wake up. Death is not an ending, but a beginning or a continuation of what already is.

The ego, being something we create and having no powers whatsoever, knows only death. It cannot create, it cannot make us happy, and it cannot give us peace. Its only one sure item to be offered to us is death, death only of the body, but not death of ourselves, for we are eternal.

It really doesn't matter what we are separated from, just to be separated is enough.

Believe in no death or the ego. Neither one is real. Death is the goal of the ego and the end of the ego, but we are and will "live" forever. We came here to experience something in this lifetime. We came here to have God experience life through us.

Do not wait for the body and the ego and the dreams to be gone to realize that we will last forever. Know it now! Know that this is a dream and we will awaken from it and return from where we started, where we had our beginning. Death accomplishes nothing other than ending the experience of life, and life is of the mind, and the mind sees it as a dream. We overcome death because we are all of one mind, one body, whole and complete. The ego attempts to have us fear death as it its end and yet its goal. Like everything else about the ego, it is absolutely nothing, just as fears are. There is nothing to fear, there is no thing to fear, and therefore its source, the ego, is nothing, no thing.

The ego's function is to keep us separated from God. That is when it was created, at the time of separation, and that is when it will cease to exist in this illusion, when the separation is over (death). It was not created by God, therefore it contains no love, it will not last forever, and only contains fear and fear is its driving force. It is good to acknowledge the ego, but when discussing what is in your highest interest, turn to Spirit for answers. The ego cannot give you, although it will offer, what God offers you. And what God offers you is everlasting. The ego offers short term "satisfactions" and "quick fixes." Not very lasting gifts.

We really do not have "wants," we already have it all. When we "want," we will always "want." When we "have" as we do, we will be aware of all that we have.

With fear, we see nothing (no thing) clear, with love, there are no obstacles.

This is our home and fear is not welcome here. Not that it wasn't in the past; but not anymore. We have seen fear for what it truly is, and it is nothing. We have looked at fear and saw it with our eyes, and have seen nothing. We have questioned fear and saw it disappear instead of responding to it.

God was, is, and always will be. God has created perfect. There is no good or bad, right or wrong, in God's world. And it is from that world that we belong; it is from that world that we are striving to get back, it is from that world that we wish to end our "separation" from God. God does not judge, as all God sees is perfect. It is of our world that we have all the comparisons, the idols, the materialistic values that we place so much emphasis on. This is the world of the ego that constantly drives us to want and feel the need for all things we see in this world. And of course, when we do get some of those things, the ego is not satisfied (nor can it ever be) and drives us on for more and more.

This world of which we inhabit with this body is a dream, a dream that we are trying to wake from. And being a dream, we know it is not real, therefore what is in it is not real. And if it is not real, we don't have to have anything. We are children of God, inheritors of His kingdom, made in God's image and likeness. We are trying to return to God to end our "separation." In the meantime, we can start seeing everything in this world as love. We have the power to change what we see. Isn't that an awesome thought? We have all the powers that we need to change what we see. We have all the powers that Jesus had, all of them. We have but to remember how to use them.

We are made of love, made by love, and therefore are love. There is nothing else we could be because that is all there really is. Anything else is something we thought of. Death is not the end of anything but the beginning of another journey. It isn't necessary to ask God for anything, because we already have it. We thank God for whatever is it is we think we need, and it will be shown to us that we already have it. Not everything the ego wants, can we obtain. Only that which is of God and for our best interest will we receive.

Relationships, new and old, are present in our life for many reasons, mostly as learning experiences for us. Relationships are seldom what we think they ought to be (ego control) or what we think (ego judgment) they should be. Look at each experience as just that, an experience from which we not only taught but also were taught. Relationships are often of the ego. They offer us "happiness" then come the fears. The ego can never offer us happiness that will last forever.

There comes a point in this life when we say enough is enough, and yet a part of us wants more than what we have now. We are tough on ourselves. We have a lot to learn, and yet we have it all and know it all, but we are too busy thinking we have needs and wants and desires for more of everything. When we are in meditation, enough is always enough. In meditation, we are One with God and there is no ego. And then we come back to this dream and the ego is once again present, and the cycle continues. At least we are aware of the cycle and know that we have it all and that we actually desire for nothing more.

Have you ever noticed that the closer we get to holding the hand of God, the more the ego demands of us. The more Spirit we talk about, the less ego comes out. The more we heal, the less ego is there to bother us.

Understanding is to the ego as acceptance is to Spirit.

Have you ever noticed how much we write about the ego and how much we write about and talk about Spirit? These are our choices, our only choices, you know. The ego offers nothing that we want and Spirit offers everything we already have but have forgotten. Ego offers us this world that we created, and Spirit offers us the world from which we came and are seeking to return. The ego does make us feel bound to it, while Spirit gives us the feeling of being free. Where love is the glue with Spirit, guilt is the bonding agent with ego. Ego tells us of all the things we cannot do and Spirit shows us that there is nothing we cannot do. If this world is truly a classroom, how many times are we going to "skip school?" How many times are we going to choose other "courses" than the one that is being taught? When will we decide to "go back to school" to finish our education? How many times will we have to be told about ego and Spirit and still remain with ego?

Allow no failures in our life. Absolutely none! Failures are of the ego and we are not ego.

We have the ego to contend with, and how strong the ego can be at times. Its strength is our choice. How much do we allow it to control our life? How much negativity do we allow in our life? We have to constantly listen to what we say to see what we really are saying. Do we constantly make excuses for not doing something? Do we constantly entertain at "pity parties" where no one shows up but just us? Do we constantly lie dormant and look at what we could do in life, wishing it would change, and making no effort to do so? We cannot control anything! Nothing! No thing! And the ego screams to the contrary. We think that the hardest exercise is bending over and tying your shoes, but to "push ups" from the ego are the hardest. To be with God in this life, to allow God to experience life through us, is always, all ways, just a matter of choice. How simple God has made it for us and yet how difficult we have made it for ourselves. Sometimes we may "walk our talk" and other times we may "talk our walk." Sometimes we do and sometimes we talk about doing it. God is always, all ways, there for us. It is us who think we have left God. It is us who are not listening, hearing God.

Another ploy of the ego is to focus on others to avoid something about ourselves we do not want to look at. We often see ourselves in others, and yet we do realize it is ourselves we are looking at.

There are many things the ego dislikes that we do. One of them is writing out our feelings for then we not only think them (which makes the ego happy) but now we are reading them and thinking about them (which makes the ego unhappy.) Writing out our thoughts is very powerful. If we pick one person not to forgive, we have chosen all people not to forgive. We cannot forgive selectively. By keeping that one person tucked away somewhere, we are in effect not forgiving ourselves, and of course the ego is delighted in our decision to keep this person in a special category. We give a lot of thought to this person as being the one who will break the chain of unforgiveness in us. We thank this person within our heart, at least, for being the hardest teacher we have come across so far on our path. We forgive this person and continue on with our journey without the old baggage. We deserve to be free of this burden, and the universe, which is all of us, will be a better place for just this action by us. We really are a Child of God and no one, no body, no person, no thing can do us any harm, can cause us to feel anything but love, unless we allow it.

What a thought to escape from the ego. Like a genie escaping from a lamp, escaping into the forests of the unknown and yet familiar surroundings. We shiver with the fear of the unknown and yet we warm in the knowing that all is well. Warming just in the knowing, allowing life to rush in and have passions fill our beings, stomping our feet with new power so that old things disappear, much like what happen at Jericho. And we are happy, there is laughter and joy; we are as free as we were created to be.

Feeling "very special" is from ego, not from God. Feeling isolated is from ego, not from God. Showing fear is from ego, not from God.

Being a prisoner means to the ego to be secure, safe in its protection. Embracing uncertainty, going for the unknown breaks all ties with the ego and makes a sound connection with Spirit, and a whole new experience awaits. A miracle happens.

The ego is a part of the split mind we have. Let's not forget the other half is Spirit. The ego does not hold our individual information, Spirit does. The ego is over with the "death" of this body, but we are eternal, we go on and never change.

Why see the ego as an "enemy" when it really doesn't exist?

We attempt to curb the ego by restricting what it can and cannot do. It believes it has power and there are some who really believe it does. But it only has power if we give it power, and it doesn't really exist, so can we really give power to something that is an illusion? The ego will always want to keep us separate from our brother, for with our brother we become as one and teach others. The only thing the ego has to offer is depression.

We use the ego as a tool only in that it will show us what we are not. The ego will never show us our Selves. It will never offer us our true nature, for that is love and the ego does not know of love.

It is just as hard at time to recognize love, as it is to recognize fear, most of the time it is because we don't want to see either as they really are. We will be open to what we see today. We will see in love with the eyes of Spirit or in fear with the eyes of ego, it's our call.

And what is hatred but a fear. And fears held within will fester in the body into a dis-ease. Letting go of fear is an ongoing practice. We see a fear surface, we let it go; we see a fear surface, we let it go. Soon the practice becomes habit, the letting go quicker. And of course, as we release fears, love enters to take its place.

Coming face to face with oneself is a very threatening exercise to the ego. What if we really see ourselves for what we really are? What if we learn that beneath the exterior looking back at us, is God? What if we suddenly see nothing but truth in all we look at, see nothing but brilliant light reflecting back to us from another? What if we tell the ego, we know the Truth and the Truth does set us free to be who we really are? What if?

In remembering the ego does not exist, we have to question why we listen to it. The expression "a small change of mind" reminds me of the saying "a penny for your thoughts"; perhaps that is all the "change" we really need, just a "penny's" worth of change is all that is needed to change from ego to spirit, from fear to love.

I don't like to think of the ego as an "enemy." It is something I have in this life. I honor it to the point I know it is present. I listen because its choices are rarely for my own good. The end results of ego choices are never happiness or contentment. I talk to the ego daily, but I try not to follow it.

The best way we have of knowing when ego is or has been involved, is when the results of what we have chosen not to do what we thought they should, leave us wanting something more, then we know we had let ego make the choice for us. To make a choice in the moment is not as difficult as it appears. It usually requires that we pay attention to what our first instinct is. If we have to ponder, we are looking at the past and comparing and are in ego-land.

When we are not in "our loving inner presence" we are not with God, and then with whom are we?

Anytime we are using a "memory bank" for comparison to incoming data, we are with the ego part of our mind. Anytime we are simply in the moment, experiencing whatever it is as if for the first time, with no comparison to the anything that has come before, we are with the Spirit part of mind, we are with God in the moment.

Learn to live with the ego for it is with us for this "life." Just remember whom we choose to have in charge of your "life."

Acceptance of fear drives the ego bonkers. Once accepted we see is for what it is, nothing. Then it is so easily replaced with love and with love, all decisions are made with God.

The ego loves to be stroked with words, and yet is highly excited by actions of others and ourselves. It is just plain unpredictable and never satisfied. To convey to another just through the mind, without verbalizing, is really God's way, just the knowing within that we are loved, just the knowing within that we are cared for. The knowing creates feelings deep within us that words cannot possibly invoke. Mind to mind communication is true, whole, pure thoughts that cannot be misinterpreted because they is knowing they are not words. We do not have to stop and think about what the words mean; just knowing takes care of everything for us. The smile we give our brother today conveys how we are thinking about him. Remember to smile with love and think love and he shall receive it as such. We cannot do otherwise for love is what we are, where we came from and where we will return. Anything else is just an illusion of the ego.

The body is of the ego; it is of our creation. Our physical appearance measures nothing to us in the outside world. We are of the world within, what is outside is no importance to us, what is within is our true identity.

That which is within is that which is real and meaningful. What is outside can never replace what is inside.

Fear is the most productive thing that the ego has and what exactly is hate? Hate is our fear of not being loved by another, our belief that another has taken someone or something from us that we need in order to be happy. Hate is that which we believe is greater than dislike, worse than dislike, just another ploy of the ego to get us to believe in better or greater or lesser, etc. There are only two emotions to contend with in this world, love and fear, and it is definitely an either or situation. It is positively one or the other. Not just a little love or lots of love, but just love. Not just a little fear, but fear. We choose between these two all the time. We either choose love or fear, peace or chaos, etc. It is always our choice.

Temptation is the lure of the ego as we continue with this dream. It is luring us to try to improve this dream, and once again think of ourselves to be better than God. Temptation is but another illusion upon illusion, nothingness upon nothingness, and dream upon dream. And how subtle temptation is! We seldom know that it is there until we are entertaining the thought, then a choice is made and temptation is once again diminished to its real identity, nothing. Will we ever be free of temptations? Only when we make the last choice of this lifetime. Otherwise, temptation, being of the ego, will be around as long as the ego is present in this dream.

If we feel that our body does not live up to our dreams, who do you think is responsible for that? And the ego formed our body, and like everything else "created" by the ego, it is never satisfied with the results, therefore we are never satisfied with our body. The body is a vehicle for us to experience life, to have God experience life through us, with us. And using the body as the "life" vehicle, we go through life have lessons being taught to us. And the lesson that is taught the most is that we have the will to choose what happens in our life, and that this will is a gift from God and our responsibility, not God's. When there are times that we don't like what we chose, we only have to choose again. There are no mistakes, no scorecards. We simply re-write the script.

And did you ever notice that when we see a person of external beauty, the ego is quick to throw out some envy and hate, just to spoil the view. Be aware of the sabotage the ego throws at us. We know how to stop the attacks.

We are separate bodies, but our minds are joined, united a certain level. We are capable of collective consciousness.

Today and everyday we will learn from our body. We will learn that it is a perfect body because we created it with God. Together we could not create anything less than perfect. In fact, we are not capable of creating anything less than perfect with God. That certainly indicates that we had better be aware of who we are creating with all the time, and I do mean all the time.

Because the ego makes us think we are imperfect, it will have us create a world of deception in order to have us be seen as worthy in the eyes of others, or so it tells us. The loving presence within us shows our perfection, and it is there for others to see as we see others. If we act as we really are, we will be seen by others as we really are.

Worry is a ploy of the ego to keep us from feeling love, peace, and joy; from being who we really are.

If we can do away with sin, we have no need for forgiveness. If we have no need for forgiveness, there is no longer any separation and we have returned to God.

This is how the ego operates; always having us look elsewhere for that which we are seeking, to keep us agitated so that we continue to be in the momentum of the outside world of illusion. Anything and everything to prevent us from going within, because once we go within, we find that which we are looking for, that which we thought we had lost, all that we thought would never be. And it is all that close to us forever. It is a part of who we really are and we are eternal and without needs or desires for we have all that given us by God.

Acceptance is not of the ego, for the ego can never accept anything for what it is, without wanting to change or better it. The ego is never satisfied. Acceptance is not associated with surrender. Acceptance is what we choose to do; it is what we choose to believe. We do not say that we are human and therefore we do such and such, as if being human is some excuse for some behavior or beliefs. We are not human, we are spirits and we are love and nothing more or less than that. We can dream we do all sorts of other things, but all we can do is extend and receive love.

When Jesus said to love our God, perhaps he meant to love ourselves. That is where it begins before we can extend it. If we do not love ourselves, we cannot love another. Surrender is not tied to love. There are only two emotions, or if you wish, two motions, love and fear. Fear keeps us from being who we really are. Love allows us to express that part of us that we have claimed so far. The ego and God have no common ground because the ego does not exist and God is eternal. The ego was not created by God and therefore it cannot exist. Surrender is release of the ego's hold on us. Surrender is total acceptance of who we really are. Surrender and acceptance are possible. When our body no longer has a purpose, a function, it will cease to be. Then we will be free of the ego.

Are we more attached to sin and guilt than we are to love? Are we listening more to ego than to Spirit? Have we forgotten what it is we are to do in this lifetime? When we forgive ourselves, our image of ourselves will straighten up and be in alignment with the image of God. And what really is there to forgive ourselves for, other than thinking we are a sinner. We cannot and did not commit "sin" for it just an illusion of the ego. Sin is unknown to God and therefore is unknown to us. Welcoming love back into our life is welcoming God back into our life. He never really left us; it was only we that thought He did. That, too, is just an illusion.

Even though we are in human form, we do not have to "behave" like a human. By remembering who we are, we can then react and behave as who we are instead of the form we have taken. It is easy to judge, but loving not to. It is ego to judge, but it is being God not to. Who we really are tells us how we will "behave" today.

Having an ego is part of the dream. It is that which splits our mind, prevents us form remembering, from returning to God. And yet the other part of us is so strong that we know within our being that we are of God. God is with us, and this is heaven now.

Stop trying to understand everything all the time and allow things to happen knowing they are to be. Forget about coming back in another body, at least for now. This is the body we have for this experience and it is what we have to work with at this moment, this present moment. We are no different from anyone else, for we are all One. It is only what we have created that appears different from what someone else has created. For every reason known, we can stop telling ourselves what we do not want. We are trying to place the reason for where we are and how we feel, somewhere else instead of focusing on exactly where it is. And it is with us! The time has come for us, where we will accept, not necessarily understand, but accept that we and no one else but us is responsible for us. We are as we are because we have chosen to be that way. We can choose again anytime. Right now our ego is holding on with everything it has because we are on the edge of letting go of the façade. We stop giving power to our drinking, or our drugs, or our sexual preference. We chose them when we entered this life. We accept that and know that we are not different from anyone else, unless we desire to feel that way. We may feel scared, but that is not us only our ego. We have no fears; we know no fears. We are only love, eternally love. Everything else is of the ego and we know this within ourselves as a truth. We affirm this truth. We stop "affirming" to others and ourselves that we are a "drunk" or a "user" or what other label we are currently wearing with ego pride. We stop saying we are "crazy" or that we are "scared." We do give out love, whether we acknowledge that or not, for we are only love. We tell our ego that every day! We are love and we are capable of doing what ever we desire to do, that choice is always ours. We will get advice from Spirit and we will get advice from ego. Which one we listen to is also our choice.

Only thoughts of the ego could ever make us feel that God could leave at someplace or at sometime. But in the moment, we know that we are with God, and God is with us, and we are One and have always been and always will be One. There is no beginning for God or us.

Separation is superiority. There are no false or true superiorities. We are all One with God. Who among us thinks they are better than someone else, better than God.

Just the word "master" denotes a separation from others. Why would we need to call anyone "master?" Actually, we all One, there is no differences because there are no others, just One. Being One with God is it, there is no more, and there is none better. We cannot exceed that level, for there really is no level, there is God, and we are One with God.

Master also means specialness and I see no one on that level.

We are not a failure, never could be, never will be. Only the ego fails for it cannot succeed. It is never satisfied. We however, can always choose again should something occur that is not to our liking. Every result is changeable. Nothing, other than ourselves, is permanent! We are eternal; everything else will change and disappear. We cannot fail because God cannot fail, and we are from God.

Perhaps we should be asking who within us desires to wake up. Is it "I" the ego or "I" the Christ in us who is awakening? The ego for sure is more than content where we are at, for if you awaken, we will see it for what it really is, nothing, an illusion. And as we do start dropping old beliefs for the knowing we have always had, the ego will insert more fear for that is all it knows, that is all it has. Lonely feelings experiences are of the ego, for we are never, ever alone. We are always with God and God with us. Just as the world celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus on Easter, so we too, can celebrate our resurrection of the Christ in us. We can come out of our "tomb" and walk among us, knowing whom we really are. We can see in all of us that which is within us, the Christ Spirit. We are all one. Not one of us is different from the other, we are all the same. And because of that, we are all available for each other as we all journey back to God.

Regret and guilt of the ego and we should consciously make every effort to experience neither. When we are not being who we really are, it is because we are choosing that position and we can change that quickly by choosing again.

We have noticed that fear produces an instant sweat, a coolness, a tingling effect, "goose flesh" etc., where as love produces an even flow of everything through us. With love we feel perfect. With fear we feel less that whole. Fear truly is the opposite of love and can never be used as a replacement for love. Fear is of the ego and love is of God. Who we are walking with, will determine what is flowing through us.

Try to never say that "fear is a powerful force." Remember there is only love and fear in this world, love from God and fear from ego. Love being Truth, fear being an illusion. We don't want to name any illusion "powerful" rather acknowledge it for what it is, nothing. Spirit takes us to the door, ego pulls us back. The choice is entirely ours as to whether we step across or not. We ask for the help of Spirit in those times, and accept that help when it comes. It may not be what we have expected, but we go with it anyway. Why stand outside when we are very welcome to come in? Remember what it was like before we went out?

We cannot and will not see "poisonous people" for if we do, they are mirror imaging us! How we judge others is how we see ourselves! Forgiveness not expressed will manifest itself into illness within our body. Forgiveness not expressed prevents us from being happy, not the other person. Forgiveness is of our self and not the other person. Who is the one who feels better when forgiveness has occurred? It is the one doing the forgiveness. We are all One!

Concentrate on that thought! Only the ego would attempt to tell us it is better not to forgive. There are only two emotions, love and fear. Love is of God, and fear is of the ego. If we think we see "poisonous people" we must ask ourselves what it is we fear, and realize we are in the clutches of the ego. The Bible is not carved in stone, and quite frankly, it has been altered so many times that the original is unknown. But in the Bible, remember Jesus forgave from the cross. He saw no one as anyone not seen in love. No one who we judge has to repent for what we think they did wrong. What they did, they did. What we do is what we do. And acceptance of each other is what it is all about. If we see ourselves as anything less than perfect, we will also see others less than perfect. If we do not love ourselves, we cannot love another. Best we all have a talk with the reflection in the mirror.

Envy is the dissatisfaction with oneself because of the desire to be like someone else. We just have to be ourselves, for we are beautiful and cannot be improved. The 2-year-old child trying to reach a doorknob is showing a desire and determination, not envy. Drive and determination is the force with which we perform many things we thought were impossible. Desire is desire, and envy is envy. Desire gives birth to greatness; envy gives birth to other fear based feelings.

If we are not seeing love, we are looking with ego. We change our perspective and we change partners. We see love through Spirit and find ourselves with Him. Anytime we pick someone as "special" we have created a separation between us. Wonder if this is the cause of our own separation with God? Did we think ourselves better than God or unworthy of God?

The ego/devil is our own creation in the world of illusions. Though we have "roasted in the sun" and "rolled in the mud" and have "tasted that which we created," we are not ready at this point to leave, for it is our soul that has to experience what it must in this illusion. For really this body does not exist, so we cannot leave. We are eternal, we are the soul, and we will "leave" when we decide, and that decision is our "souls" decision only.

Listen ego, that which I want is here, now, in the present. Your constant pushing's on me to look to the future or remember the past will no longer affect me in any way. I have and always did have unconditional love, love beyond descriptions, beyond dreams, beyond your ego centered thoughts. This love of which I am is without conditions, without strings attached, without the usual "you do this for me and maybe I will do this for you" routine. There is no bargaining here. It just is and God is and I am part of God and God is love. I know it is beyond your comprehension to feel love but then again, that is what is separating you from God. This is where I am coming from, being and going back to. Enjoy this experience with me.

Before we created the ego, we knew everything that there is to know, felt nothing but love for that is the ultimate God-like feeling, and quite frankly, we were enjoying "Paradise" if it is necessary to put a word to it. Was there a "Fall of Adam" and was there even an Adam? Even the Bible, which many favor as a source of wisdom, tells us that Adam went into a deep sleep, but nowhere does it say that Adam ever woke up. Guess what? Perhaps we are all "Adams."

The ego is never anything other than being offended for it cannot be satisfied with the results of anything that it has directed us to do. The ego is unable to experience love, for if it could, separation would be over and that would be that. We feel attack because of the constant state of offense that the ego is in. And when we do place rules, or walls around us, we can expect to be attacked, from our egos and those of others. The removal of the walls, the tearing down of barriers, the abolishment of rules, allows love to flow in us, through us and from us to others only to return. What a better way to be.

Many of us are unable to see ourselves for what we truly are. Is it because we cannot face the face of God, which is ourselves? That we cannot try to look beyond the image staring back in a mirror and see the Christ spirit within us? Is it that we believe we are unworthy of being with God, let alone looking upon God? The old prayer "Lord, I am not worthy...only say the word and I shall be healed" is repeated so many times but we fail to hear the message in it. We fail to hear the "word." The "word" has been said a million times a million and we still don't listen because we still don't believe we are worthy, we still rather wallow in our guilt, shame, blame, fears, etc. Like it or not, we are created by God, a thought of God, in the image of God, with all the powers of God, for the purpose of being God. This is what our ego is really screaming about! Once we realize who we really are, the ego is all but gone. For love shines beyond any and all darkness and casts no shadows as nothing stands in its way. The ego, being an illusion, just vanishes, and the mind is healed and whole and we see that we have never left God, but have always been as One.

We created the ego, and then gave it power to create this body. As the saying goes, "we are born into this world to die" according the ego. The body, being a creation of the ego, is an illusion that also will disappear when the ego "dies." If at the death of the body and ego, we return with a whole mind, instead of split, to God, our original source and become totally One with Him, could we conceivably improve upon that? We, as egos, place too much emphasis on the process of "death" instead of "living." Jesus placed no emphasis on his death, but rather his resurrection, his eternal presence.

Ego produces fear, fear produces guilt and we hold on to it like it's precious. Why? Look at a rubber band stretched out, and then see it as it let go of. It returns to the source (ego) and everything it contained is blown away.

When we release all fears they will be taken from us. But what is important is that we must release those fears ourselves. The release must come from us and cannot be found anywhere else. Once we release the fears, we will discover the inner peace we seek, everything within and what appears outside will be seen through the eyes of love. We will experience bliss, joy, and love.

Anything connected with the ego makes no "sense." Time is something we created with the ego and is, of course, and illusion. Healing, all healing is done in an instant and is done in the mind of the person who thinks they are sick. The soul has no constraints, and does not know time. Is the soul of this world? Sure, it is experiencing life. Is it bound by our creations? No, if we think it is, then we are not listening to the soul speaking.

Energy is love, is God. It is flowing through us, around us forever and always. Fear is of the ego, an attempt to stop the energy flow, an attempt to shut us down from God. We know when we look at fear, it is and contains nothing. We know that energy is real, God's love is real, and God is.

We are not capable of being upset. No one can do anything to us unless we permit it, unless we want it to occur. We cannot be attacked, only our ego. Anger is of the ego and it is the ego that reacts to attack. We need defend nothing. We need do nothing. We are not this body. We are a free, unlimited, formless entity, a soul, a part of God, a thought of God, and yet One with God.

Fear is of the ego and the one and only fear we have is, the fear of God. Why? Because fear is of the ego, created by the ego, for the benefit of the ego. The ego does not recognize God; it says that God does not exist. For it to acknowledge God would be its end. And this fear of God causes this separation to seem real. To be angry, we must first feel attacked and to feel attack, we must be with the ego. Knowing this, we can call upon Spirit to see things differently, and we will. We will see our "attack" with the eyes of love and we will not feel threatened.

SOUL IS A FRAGMENT OF GOD

That which is created in God's image and likeness – that which is one with God – that which is as God is – is you – is me. We are "souls" – the dictionary says "invisible" but that is not correct – for as souls we are a piece of God – a fragment of this Whole and yet the Whole is complete. We are not "invisible" or "visible" – We Are! We are at this "time" in our world – containing this body – to experience "life" through it. In Conversations With God – God says that is what the body is for; so God can experience life through us. And we "souls," we "fragments" of God, will join again with Him, the whole, upon the end of this life cycle. When the body has served whatever purpose we had when we incarnated – we will be united again with the Whole. God, of course, is not incomplete without us for He is Whole – but we are a part of Him. We have never, never really left God. God is with us always – all ways. He is, We are, I Am One. Believe in this and the ego has no comment for this is only love – LOVE.

We have never left God – He is with us now and always. It is on a feeling of separation that prevails – we are with Him. There is no need to be reunited for we never left Him nor did God leave us. We are as we always have been – One! The ego wants us to believe we are separate but we will not allow that. We feel the oneness – we feel the power of creativity – of manifestation within us – just as those powers have always been a part of us. This is what is needed to remember how to use that which we have always had – that is what we have forgotten to remember – not so much to remember from where we came from and never left – but to remember that which we possess and know how to use. That is the awakening! Once remembered, we use those powers to create our reality that does not have an ego within it. It is of love, joy, happiness, peace and serenity. It is of God. It is Heaven. It is ours!

Hello Soul, how are you today? Are you experiencing what it is you came to experience? I have been trying to listen to you and hopefully have been following your instructions. I, too, am enjoying your experiences of this life. I am aware that when I say I AM, I am referring to you, for I believe you are the part that is created by God, that you are that part where God and I are one, where one day, we will all join and become one, as it was in the beginning. I want you to know, soul, that I do love you, trust you and have complete faith in the obstacles you have on your path. I have this knowing that there is a solution to everything. No one or no thing can ever be without God. If what I see today is not what I like to see, I know I can look again and see differently. I can use the eyes of God to see with, instead of the physical eyes I think I am using. I know I can see more with my "eyes" closed than when they are opened. It has taken me a while to realize your presence, but now I know it, I will not forget it. Now that I have experienced you, I will not forget you.

Imagine your soul as outside of your body. That soul contains your body and perhaps your mind also. That is as God is, a part of God, a thought of God, being without a shape, no constraints, no boundaries, no limitations. Imagine your soul and everyone's soul joined in communion with all others, becoming One, knowing that which we are all thinking, having the same thoughts. What would they be? The peace of God, happiness, joy, could this be what is meant by "larger than you have imagined." How can we imagine God, when God is, we are One. There is no image, no size, and no shape, just being. We can experience the feeling of the soul if only we try.

To hear my own soul is to hear your soul also, for we are all one. How do we hear our soul? When? In meditation, in the silence of our being, deep within ourselves where we find our Self, where there is no sound other than the sound of God, where there is not light but the light of God, that place so deep within and yet so near, this is where we hear our soul. This is where we hear its voice; this is where we listen to its words. This is from where we came; this is our soul.

Good morning soul, I see you as that which is not within, but on the outside, but not external, but eternal. I see you containing this body, and I notice that as long as I stay focused on the moment, the present moment, I experience not other feeling but pure joy, bliss, happiness, and unconditional love. I see no "signs" of aging or illness, no lacks or needs. I know from the knowledge, that I can stay in this moment and continue to experience these feelings, this closeness with you, and this soul love. I really have no pride about how I feel, only a knowing, an ancient understanding of the real character that is contained here, not so much in this body, but in this soul, my soul, you and your everlasting love. And I find it is getting easier to see other "bodies" for what they also really are, other souls. And when I see them as such, there is an enlightening change of soul love between us all. I know that some of the people I meet have a difficult time accepting my love for them based on what they are within rather than how they look on the outside. Now I understand even more, that when I refer to the presence that is within them, I am really saying the presence that is within their souls, for that is what I am seeing, feeling, touching, experiencing. Thank you, sweet soul, for bringing this to my attention. I am open to your lessons.

Having one soul peer into another soul is a communication technique for souls. One soul is there for another; it is as it is in Heaven. All souls, all of us, are all One. In this inner search, we are just remembering how it was, how it will be again. Your soul, my soul, contains nothing, is nothing, and has no form or boundaries. There is nothing that is ever hidden for there is nothing one has that another does not, for we are all One. There is nothing, yet there is everything. We are not and yet we are. Being One we are with God, we are God. Looking into the soul of the body before us gives us the assurance that we sometimes need in this life, that other souls are also here with us, we are never alone for God is always with us, souls are always with us, we are never, never alone.

It is good to acknowledge ourselves. It pleases the soul and irks the ego, but do we really care about the ego? Please the soul and we are pleasing ourselves. Please ourselves and we have pleased God.

Is it any wonder that we sometimes feel "connected" with each other, that we sometimes feel as "one." That sometime we feel that we know something from "ages" ago. We are all living all the experience now, for that is all there is, just now.

God has said to us that the "soul yearns for the highest experience of itself." What is that "highest experience" the soul yearns for? Would it not be like God as it was created and it really is? Would it not be only love as it really is? Is this the push and pull we so often experience within ourselves? Is the soul realigning itself with its "highest experience"? So let's listen to our soul, talk with our soul and allow the experience of the soul to happen. We get out of its way and yet are there to assist. Enjoy that which we have come to experience.

Our soul is very elated when we take command of our life. When we do, the soul can experience what it is that it intended to experience in this lifetime. Now the soul rejoices for we are allowing it to manifest in our life. And there never is just a "little" that is shared in our life, unless we choose to limit that which we share. By limiting our sharing, we are also limiting the receiving of the same for us. And what we have to share is love for that is really what we are, what our soul is. We may think we have other things to share, but love is all that we have to share and who could possibly ask for more than that?

Have you ever experience a "winter" of your soul? That time when our soul sort of hibernates, sort of rests a while. It is usually a time of contentment, of peace and serenity; a time when all is calm and quiet. Then, later, the soul awakens in its "spring" and is rejuvenated and continues its quest of its highest experience. Both times are wonderful. Enjoy them both.

Listen to your soul and dance with it to its beat and sing its melody, for that is the reason we are within our body. Follow the soul; it will lead you back to God.

The spark within us is not capable of ever going out. It is as eternal as we are.

To see with the eye of the soul, to view the world through the eye of the soul, to recognize the sacredness in everything we see, to see everything for the first time, to see everything as sacred, to see God in everything; all this is so easily accomplished by viewing with the eye of the soul.

I view the soul as that part of me which is in the image of God, without form, shape, substance, and eternal. A piece of God and yet complete with God. I use spirit is much the same context. I am the soul with this body experiencing this life with God. When the body no longer functions, I, the soul, will be with God without this body, re-united but never really separated.

Negativity creates sickness within the body. But we forget what it causes to our soul, what it cause ourselves to feel. Have you taken the time today to inquire about the needs of your soul? This is, after all, who we really are.

The soul is the part of us that is a part of God. It is that which is eternal of us, created in God's image. The mind created the body, the soul takes the body as its vehicle in this life to experience what it chose to experience before it took the body. It is a vehicle that we say that God experiences life. The soul experiences life. God did not create separation, the mind did. That is why we try to heal the mind, to become One with God. The mind is split between ego and Spirit. The mind of Spirit gives us peace, lasting peace. Ego will appear to give us things but all of them are temporary and an illusion. And none of them, although from the ego, are satisfying to the ego.

Our purpose is not totally known to us, but we are open and receptive to knowing it. The body is our creation. It is that which separates us from God; for there is a part of our mind (ego) that believes in the body, and there is a part of our mind (Spirit) that knows that we are just an illusion, and do not really exist. Did you ever hold a newborn child in your arms, and look into its eyes and say: " Remember God, remember where you came from." Watch the expression in the baby's eyes. You will be amazed at what transpires. Spirit and soul are the same entity, the eternal body of who we are. Ego is of this world, but we are not. Ego cease to be upon the "death" of this body, but we are forever. God has made us perfect; it is we who have forgotten. And we were never, ever in the darkness, for that also, is an illusion of the ego. We were created as light and light we shall always remain. We are the light and the way, and we will return by following it.

We seek the original connection, the soul connection with other souls. This is the tie that binds us together as One, that bond that is beyond the physical world, the knowing that we are all One.

It is our desire to go back to God. It is that which is for sure. Work with our soul to accomplish this in peace instead of resisting and denying what will eventually be.

Hello Soul, I am glad I located you at last. It was not a matter of finding you, for I have never lost you. It is just a matter of being aware of your existence within me. You are my true center of being. You are my connection with God. You have come from God and you shall return to God and I shall have the experience in between.

Have you ever asked your soul where it has been? Perhaps it will tell you.

To give the soul what it is, love, we have given it back to ourselves, and then it comes to us in the never-ending cycle. Love truly is the only substance there is, we are, God is.

Our soul, a piece of God, is choosing to be God-like at this moment. What are we doing with our thoughts to aid the soul in its accomplishment? Are we getting in its way? Our home, heaven, is within the heart of God, within the heart of our being. We are in heaven now, at this moment. All we must do is remove the ego veil from our vision and we are there. There really is no death. Life does go on, we know it, feel it, believe it. We do live; we are in eternity now. We needn't wait for it is already here, as it was and ever shall be, unending. God needs nothing from us and we truly need nothing from God, for we have all that is to have. We are all that is. We have the love of God to share with all and yet to keep, to give and yet retain, without conditions, without expectations, no strings attached. We cannot but love God for He is, and we are. The message is clear to us, heaven is now, love is now, God is now, and now is all there is.

And the spirit of who we are is not of this earth. We have all come here from another realm, entering the bodies and experiencing life but the self-realization is the block for some of us. Jesus' mission was not just simply to show us who we are not, but rather who we really are.

The soul is right where it wants to be, in its right and perfect place, and seeing that I am my soul, I, too, am in my right and perfect place. So it appears everyone is happy about the situation, except the ego.

IS THE MIND THE SOUL

It is the soul that is the image of God. It is the soul that makes the decision to reincarnate. It is the soul that returns to become one with God. It is the soul that remembers its home. It is the longing of the soul within us that drives us to return. And what of the mind? Does not the mind also remember items of the past? Does not the mind recall things from past lives (I know I have done this before syndrome)? We think with the mind of God, so it must also be our soul, for that is all we are. Can we imagine wanting to be more than that! To be God! Wanting more than that is what got us in this predicament in the first place.

It is the mind that is in conflict with the ego constantly. The ego wants this and that, and the mind "knows" better than to allow it. Sometimes, the argument of the ego is too great and we follow it, only to be disappointed in the results and then we begin again.

When looking at each and every person in the eye (making eye contact) think of it as peering into their souls, into the depth of their souls, therein seeing the Christ in each and everyone. Then you can easily love all those you see.

We shall listen and follow our soul that which we are will show us how to be that which we are.

There is no dark side to my soul – my soul is pure light.

Being out of body is one thing to experience, but to be "out of mind" is without comparison, to be just soul.

Stay with our knowing, it is who we really are.

I so love it when God talks about my soul. It is so personal to my soul and me; my soul seeks to experience life. Didn't God also say that He also seeks to experience life through me? Isn't my soul the part that God created in His image and likeness?

Have you ever gone to the center of your being where the eternal flame burns ever so brightly, where you are One with God. Spirituality consumes me on my path. It consumes me and allows the Me to come forth. It does away with myself and shows my Self to everyone. It is this inner flame that radiates from my very being. It radiates love to all.

What could possibly harm something that is without form, without body, without boundaries, that is eternal, that always was and always will be; could anything harm this? Could there be anything greater than this?

Hello Soul, thanks for your guidance and patience with me. I will continue to pay closer attention to you, to listen to you and to follow your desires. This body is yours to do with as you please, to experience life as you are so inclined, and thank you for sharing the experiences with me.

Your mind contains the memory of God, the memory of heaven, the memory of peace. Your mind I believe is within your soul, is interconnected with God. When we talk of God being in our hearts, we are not referring to the heart of our physical body, but the Heart of our Being, the Heart of our Center, the Heart of our Soul, the center of our Soul, which to me, is also our memory. God is in our mind, and we continue thinking of Him there.

God's thought about the body is our thought about the body, for our mind is God's mind, our thoughts are His thoughts. And with these bodies do we extend His love to all we see. And through His love do we all realize that there is much more that what is we see physically. Our truth lies beyond this world, beyond this body. Our truth lies in the present moment, that quiet space in time where we know we are One with God.

We know within the depths of our soul that what we are seeing is not who we really are. This is our vehicle in this lifetime to experience God. This is a body and nothing more. This is our creation from our manifestation.

It is not that souls "desire" a Oneness, it is that they know of the Oneness, that they know that they are to accomplish in this life what it is they are to do, and they go about doing it, and so doing, they are with God.

Our soul is perfect love for it is a part of God. It seeks nothing, demands nothing, and wants nothing, for it already is everything.

Our soul is always ready for what is to unfold, for it is part of the Divine Plan. It is we who have to listen to the still small voice within; we have to listen to our soul. We have to allow the Divine Plan to unfold. We have to participate with God, instead of often blocking what it is that is happening.

Know that as we exist, we are existing; we are co-mingling with other souls, for we are all One. And all souls being alike and of God, know that we are with God. It is impossible for us to be alone. Think about how loneliness was taught to us, this is not something that was a part of us. Remember all the times when we were a child and someone told us how terrible it was to be alone, that was our teaching. Throw that belief aside and know within the depth of our being, we are not and cannot be alone.

The soul yearns to be re-united with God, plain and simple. It is here, with this body, to experience this "life," and beyond that, we do not know anything.

The truth of our soul, the feelings of our heart and the quiet of our mind, all reflect the silence within us. The silence where we are One with God; the silence where we are as we were created, where we are without this body, where we rest in the mind of God, all of this within the silence within us.

There is no order to our souls, no pattern of arrangement, no one better or lesser than another. We are free spirits and we are here for more than learning, evolving and sharing our way. The ways of Spirit are hard only to the ego, so if they appear that way to, we have but to look at them again. One of the reasons we are here is to help us all return and don't forget that. Not one of us goes back alone and that's what all this spirituality is all about. We collectively remember that which we forgot so that we can undo what we did to separate us from God. And that was only a thought! Think about that! We are only a thought away from being who we really are! But which thought?

We are a part of and the whole of God. God is formless, boundless, eternal and everlasting. Always was and always will be, forever. And being a part of God makes us the same, our soul is of God. We acknowledge this fact, and know the truth within us, remembering that it is the truth of who we really are. Announce it proudly to the world.

I don't believe in any evolution of the soul. The soul, my soul, your soul, is everlasting, eternal, a part of God. It is formless and colorless. It is in this illusion to experience this illusion, to fulfill whatever purpose it intended at the time of incarnating this body. My soul cries out to me when I focus too much on the body and forget who I really am. My soul is excited when I listen to it, when I follow its direction to fulfilling its purpose.

My soul is me, I am my soul, that which is of God, created by God, in the image of God. Within my mind is my awareness of who I really am, and as that is becoming more known to me, I am recalling who I am and from Whom I came and why I am here.

We have not forgotten who we are so that we may recreate ourselves again. We have forgotten who we are because we thought that we could do better than God and now we are remembering who we are as we also remember that we are God and we cannot better ourselves.

To be what it really is, to have us be who we really are, is the goal of the soul.

SPIRIT/SOUL/GOD

Three words used so often in our vocabulary. What do they mean? Are any alike?

What about "Spirit?" Is there a "Holy Ghost" or "Holy Spirit?" We were taught in the past that there were three "people" in God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – now we know more and God is God – we are the son of God and Spirit is what?

Spirit is the energy of God flowing around us, through us, in all places at all times. It knows no limitations for it is endless.

We often call our intuition as Spirit. We often call that "knowing" that we have as Spirit. We often call a lot of communication with God as Spirit.

It's time in our lives to look upon those communications as coming from God. Really, there is nothing else to refer to. God is God. God is God with us, we are as One. Jesus, like Buddha, Mohamed, and others, were teachers, messengers of God. They were beings like us. They were God as we are God, but they were not any greater than we were. God is God. Everything that occurs is by Him.

So where does the Soul come in?

Soul is the name given to that part of us that is God. It is the us that is eternal. It is the us that is everlasting. It is that part of God, His thought that inhabits our body for specific function in this lifetime. That function is known to the Soul and God, as the Soul is God's thought. We can learn of the soul's function by listening to God, by following His guidance, by being aware of His presence.

Now we might ask is it our Soul that is communicating with us or is it God? And is there really a difference? So does the Soul speak to us? Yes! Does God speak to us? Yes! Are the Soul and God one and the same? Yes. We are One with God and God is One with us.

All of what we see we created. This is our world of dreams. This is not created by God. We say God created certain things in this world but it is really we who have done it. God experiences life through us but it is always our choice what we do with it.

What God created is eternal, what we have created does not last forever. Nothing in our world lasts forever, but everything in God's world is eternal, everlasting and immortal.

So Spirit, Soul, and God are actually all One. And aren't we all?

The brain operates the body, but if the body is not real, then so must the brain not be real. So where do our thoughts come from? From our mind which is no illusion. From our mind that is the mind of God also, it is our connection, our communication link with God. The brain just follows the thoughts of the mind and the body moves accordingly.

It is an enlightened spirit that is willing to be led by the soul to the experiences that are meant to be learned.

If we never went to the wilderness, we would never see the desert bloom and if we never cried, there would be no moisture to make the blossoms appear. We carry the seeds, we have the nourishment needed, and we have the power. All we must do is allow the experience to happen.

Many people attempt to peer into their bodies when the terms "going within" or "looking within" are used. I have even known some who have told me to go into my heart, or into my chest, or even get in touch with my gut. These are all physical terms relating to the body, which is itself, an illusion. To go within, means to go within my being, to withdraw into myself to be with God alone, if I so imagine that. It is not a place to go to but a feeling to experience. When we quiet the mind, close our eyes and focus on the thought of God, we can go within our mind to a place where we are with God, where we are face to face with ourselves, our true eternal beings. It is at such times we get the glimpse of who we truly are, a glimpse of that which appears as if we have forgotten. Why does it feel so peaceful? Because it is an experience of peace, of joy, of happiness, of experiencing what love really is. No wonder we want to recapture that feeling. It is our feeling of being home with God.

The Holy Spirit is the thought of God within the thought of God...us!

Let's take the time to listen to our soul, to our Selves. Let it assist us in making our choices.

WHAT DOES A CHILD OF GOD LOOK LIKE?

What does a child of god look like? As His children, we resemble Him. So what does God look like? What do His children look like?

When we see children of fellow humans, we often remark at the resemblance of the offspring to the parents. But is this not part of our training – that which is handed down to us from generation to generation. Is it really true or is it something we believe in because it is given to us from the past. Remember without the past, there can be no future. Without the past, we are experiencing the present moment.

So if we had no knowledge of how offspring look in relation to parents, we would see the child as if for the first time, with nothing to compare, no prior judgments, no previous convictions. Would the child still resemble the parent?

If God is all, is One, just is, then there is no image of God other that God is everything everywhere. Then what of His children? Are we also not all, are we not just one? Are we not everything and everywhere? Do we have an individual image?

What does a soul look like? Can it be seen? How is it described? Is the soul the part of God we are? Is it just the name we place on it as our image of God? If our soul is the part of God we are and we believe we are one with Him now and always (all ways), then is God not Soul? And is Soul not God?

So what does a child of God look like? We look like everything everywhere and yet we are all one. As God is, we are created by God in His image. We are One with God. We are a thought of God's – a thought in God's mind. I only have to be still and know in the "silence" what it is I am to do. An answer to the question – when no one is around, does a tree make a noise falling and hitting the ground? No, for without someone being there to hear, drawing on their past memories of sounds, what would the noise be – just stillness. The sound of God.

We go within "to the silence" because when all else is quiet, there we experience silence, and there we experience God.

Does God really "talk" to us? We are created by God in His image. We are One with God. We are a thought of God's – a thought in God's mind. Is there any reason that being of God that He would have to "talk" with us? God communicates to us in many ways. But being a thought of God, we only have to be still and know in the "silence" what it is we are to do. The answer to any question – all questions – is already there for us. We must re-train ourselves to remember all that we know – and we know it all! We lack confidence in that statement – past experience perhaps tell us that we are being ego tested thinking that way. The ego and God are that close to us – just a simple view of separation between us and God – the ego is that veil – lift that veil and we are with God – so close – so near – so within reach and yet it appears so difficult to grasp – to comprehend – to believe – t o have faith – to have trust – that it is just like that.

As a child, we may fall for we are learning how to move. Falling is nothing more than an interruption in the movement. We tell our ego that is all it is. We try not to move too swiftly in our childhood, for it is precious time, a time of revelation, learning, experiencing and receiving love.

We are not discovering ourselves, but creating ourselves anew. We seek, therefore, not to find out who we are, but we seek to determine who we want to be. And we want to be whom we are, a child of God, created in His image, with His gifts given to us, with eternal life, to remain a part of Him and to remember. We are co-creating with Him every breath we take. He is experiencing life through us and we are experiencing Him. What a beautiful, perfect union, we are One.

Genders are something we created in the beginning. Choose not to see female/male bodies. Instead see children of God, all parts of God, all having the same beginnings, all equal in all aspects, all the same as everyone. If we can see this instead of bodies, peace will flow.

There was a time when we would have taken great offense to such words as men and women. Now we can look upon us all as creations of God, all children of God, all beings through whom God is experiencing life. There are no male and female views. That is plain ego, just like right and wrong, good and bad, etc. We have placed too much emphasis on the difference between the sexes, and yet there is none, only what we created. It is absolutely amazing that we are responsible for the world we see, and yet do nothing to change what it is we see.

God has created us in His likeness, which is love; so therefore we are love, perfect love, changeless and eternal. We are nothing else but love. No matter what our ego tells us, we are only love. Just saying, "I AM" declares with God what we are, and stating anything with God is stating love, for that is what God is. We are eternal and changeless. The more we accept these facts, the fewer struggles we will have with this life, the less stress we place upon ourselves. The less stress we place upon ourselves, the more at peace we are, and the more at peace we are, the more we will remember we are created in perfect love that is changeless and eternal. What a great cycle! What a joy it is to remember!

When we see the Christ in anyone, we do not see Jesus. We see the "Christ"... the part of us that radiates love, the part of us that is a part of God. Jesus was a man, a son of God, as we are. He attained the "Christ" Spirit by living love, showing love, teaching love. He trusted completely in God, became One with God, all the things that we are capable of doing. Being "Christian" means that we are being "Christ" like. We respect all people wherever they are in their beliefs, and we do not intentionally offend anyone and no one offends us. Rather than being careful (full of care), we practice being full of love, for that is all we or anyone else really are. We are Love.

We are a child of God and as such, there is nothing we cannot do. We simply have to let go of all the beliefs we have been carrying around with us since birth. We have to know that within our being we are not what reflects back to us in the mirror. We have no flaws, no imperfections. We are perfect because we were created in God's image. We are a part of God and yet whole with God. If we see ourselves less than perfect, we see God as less than perfect also. Only fear, the product of the ego, can prevent us from doing whatever it we want to do. It is only fear that stops us from accepting the love of God totally. It is only fear that keeps us in the state of mind we are in. Release fear and we have only love, we have only God.

"I believe" and with that simple statement can our whole life be changed. Believe that we are a child of God; believe that we have all that God has said was given us. Believe that we are eternal, believe that we are love. Believe that we are a part of God; believe that we are whole and complete. Believe that we are free of any and every dis-ease. Believe, just believe.

It is not so much that we feel unworthy as that we forget who we really are, remembering will do away with all unworthiness. What does worthy mean to us? Something we deserve but do not have? Something that is being withheld from us? Something that someone has told us that is being withheld from us? We are no less than God! Is God not worthy of everything? We are as we will always be, a part of God and yet complete with God. Remember this and never feel unworthy again. Remember this and live in the peace of God.

Let's visualize ourselves painting a picture of our Self. Look and see how far we have progressed with the painting. Did we capture who we really are? Is it a good likeness of our self or our Self? Does the picture convey peace and joy and love? We will not call the portrait complete until we are seeing ourselves as our Self.

By seeing beyond the personality and individual behavior of another, we stop judging them. We see them for what they truly are, children of God, created in God's image, containing nothing but love. Just like ourselves, they are mirror images of us; we see them and we see ourselves.

We declare that we are a child of God. It is a knowing within us that we cannot deny no matter how hard we may try. We are what we are and we could not nor would not want to improve on that.

Accepting our humanness, accepting who we are in this body, in this physical body in this physical world, is the way to the acceptance of the Divine within us. We often think that because we are not what "society" thinks we should be, or that we act in a manner that "society" looks down on, that we are less than others we encounter. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Within each physical body is the divine presence, the Christ, the God. When we are okay with ourselves, really accept ourselves for who we are in this life and know who we really are within the physical body, then we also can become the Christ, experience the divine. We are not who they say we are. We are not the alcoholic, or the addict, or the over-eater, or the unworthy, etc. We are not any of those labels. We are this body in this world and within us is the soul of God, the Christ Spirit; the eternal flame of everlasting light. Nothing we can call ourselves will ever, ever change who we are.

Inner strength is our power. What is of the body is of the body, but what is within is of God.

We were born and we were as all of us are, a child of God. And in our last conversation with God before entering this human life, we asked again about what our role would be, and God replied: "Be My Teacher, that all might learn from you. All of my children are teachers of the world." And we responded that it sounds pretty easy if all of us are to do the same thing.

And God replied: "You are not all going to do it the same way. Some of you will think yourself to be different from others, and think My way is too easy; there must be a different way. But I tell you this, let go of the differences you think you might have and allow the sameness to wash over you. Then you will be like all others. Then you will see yourself and you will be pleased."

So we said to God: "Okay, God, you got a deal!" and we entered this world and the ego was there to catch your entrance. "Look, here!" the ego exclaimed. "You are already different. One of your parents drinks too much and he will mistreat you. Do not look at the fact that the man knows no other way, just look at the fact that you are different. And Oh yeah, you are going to be gay in this life. How's that for making life difficult? You may as well give up now, because life is not going to get better." So we look at the life ahead of us and say "Oh, Shit!" But perhaps in remembering how it was with God and us before the beginning, we will remember that we can choose the original way. We are not gay, alcoholic and drinking ourselves to death. We are on our path and right now we are at the "Acceptance" crossroad. To the right is Acceptance, and to the left is Acceptance. We can't miss it. It is our path. And we are there to light our path for others so we may see that which we have forgotten.

Would your God break His word to us? Would we break our word to ourselves? Is there a difference? Only the word "God" and how we accept that word, as love or fear? How do we accept ourselves, as love or fear? There is no difference between God, and us other than God knows and we won't admit we do.

We will be shown how to wake from the dream for we cannot wake alone. But while we are in the dream, knowing that it is a dream, why not project peace and love in the dream? Why not make it the most spectacular dream we can imagine? Why not dream we are a child of God?

Being the son of God, a child of God, we are of love, pure, spotless and invulnerable. Guilt, a gift from the ego, cannot cling to us for it is not of us. There is absolutely nothing for us to extend to another except love. Anything else is also a creation of the ego and is just an illusion. Love is eternal, real, positive. Love is of God. Love is God. Love is Us.

We are neither inferior nor superior, sinner nor saint. We are a child of God, the same as Jesus, Buddha, Tao, etc. We are what they were; we have what they had. We are of God, in the image and the likeness, the formlessness and the brilliance. That is who we are. Are we not but a thought of God and did God have more than one thought for all of us, or is the one thought of God enough for all of us. We are One with God.

Growth is becoming who we really are, our inner selves, our souls.

Perceive ourselves as for what we really are: a child of God, a thought of God, an image of God, God. Forgive ourselves of any thought other than this. There is no forgiveness necessary to offer to anyone other than ourselves, for there is no one but ourselves. This world is not the real world, not the world from where we really exist. This world is of our doing, our creation, and as such we can change how we perceive it at anytime. And everything within this world, everything, including the body we think we are, is but illusions and will disappear upon our awakening.

We are from Love. We are Love. We extend Love because that is what we are. We extend nothing else because there is nothing else but Love, we are nothing else but Love. Love is God. Affirm it: "I am One with God, I am Love, I am God."

The Path

Be aware of our path, for there are many sights to see and places to visit along the way that are very important to us. If some places look like we have been there before, then we have. Now is the time to stop and look and listen. We learned this as children, and are we not still children of God?

Along the path are often "plateaus." Plateaus are good spots. Normally to rest, re-group, and then decide to move on. They are good because we are "higher" than we were before. Looking ahead is "looking up." Looking back is definitely a "downer." Sometimes, the feeling of being "stuck" is because we have too much "fear glue" on us. The "no motion" spirituality could be the result of a blockage to the power of Spirit to flow. We are that blockage.

Spiritual desert is a nice term for that time when we are feeling lost, lost in thought and yet no thought, lost in mind yet not thinking, lost within, not being able to be centered. When this feeling comes over us, know that the ego is trying hard to stop the flow of Spirit that is coming to us. Know that this is another plateau, another higher vibration, another breakthrough, and another step away from ego. Just allow the energy to flow and experience no fears, none at all. Experiencing no fears is in direct opposition to the ego and eventually breaks the tie that binds us to it. Sometimes we will experience this as feeling "ill" or "tired," etc. Whatever the feeling, just allow it to be. Do not fight it. With no resistance, it won't last long.

I feel, from my own experiences in life, that wherever I have come to on my path, I have not come there alone, nor will I proceed alone.

Remembering all that we know is "learning" again.

Why are we reading this material? We are reading this because it is on our path, it is another step of the journey, steps to take slowly and observe, seeing the details and reading the "inscription" on each step, to feel the steps as we progress, and to take them one at a time. When we rush, we slip, fall and start again. The path is much easier to see when it is illuminated with messages, and of course, the author of the messages is God.

If we are seeking the truth, sincerely seeking the truth, we will succeed. While seeking the truth, our ego will be having one of its infamous tirades, shouting and hollering, filling our mind with garbage, inserting all sorts of doubts and fears, and yet, we are grateful to the ego for all its suggestions. Those are our choices, not the ego's. We wouldn't be searching, if we didn't think we would find what we are looking for. And what that is, is right before us, a little cloudy perhaps, but as we continue to look further, it becomes clearer to us.

We are not blind! Can't we see, that we are seeing, we are searching, and we are finding. The reasons other souls are on our path are not just for the decorations and to acknowledge us. They are there for us and for them. Remember again and again, we are never alone, never. If we don't remember that God is a part of us, within us, then at least remember all the souls that are there for us and for themselves as well.

If only we would get out of our own way, we would be very happy with what is coming to us. We are the block in our path to happiness. We are stopping the flow of that which is ours. We are preventing ourselves from receiving what we have asked for.

Failure is what we think we did when we didn't do what we thought we should.

So if we were never intended to fail, then we must be responsible for our own failures. Just another way of saying we are responsible for our own lives, again. The message keeps appearing in different forms. And another thought comes with these, if failure was not our intention and failure is not possible with God, failure itself must be an illusion we conjure up to put ourselves down. How sly the ego appears, and how great God is.

We cannot use our Spiritual Path as a cop-out, if it is really our Spiritual Path, and not the ego's. There are no temptations when living in the Present Moment. Promise denotes the future, and the future is based on the past, and the past did not really exist. All things come to us from God, as our direct inheritance, not promises. God didn't promise us anything. He made us in His image and likeness. We are a part of God and have no needs, for we truly have everything. Both paths cannot be traveled at the same time. We are either on the path with God, our Spiritual Path, or we are on the path the ego laid out that goes nowhere. To be on one would be direct conflict with the other. The ego does not know love, but that is what we truly are, Love. The ego only knows fear and attempts to control us by its use.

Do we find it difficult to say that we do not have any goals that we idolize, knowing that we are taken care of by God? That we have faith in God and not the ego? That we trust God and not the ego? That we know we are eternal and the ego is not? Who would we rather go with, that which really is, or that which only appears to be?

Promising ourselves to do something tomorrow is just another way of the ego setting us for failure. When we don't do what it is that we "saved" until tomorrow, we feel guilty. And guilt is from fear and fear is from the ego.

There are no karmic debts to pay, there is nothing from a past "life" we have to make up for, to make amends. We have done no wrong. We are not capable of doing wrong.

We have come to experience what we chose – the accomplishment of which is in conflict with the ego at all times. Does the ego ever win? There we are wondering about "winning" versus "losing." We are here to experience God, so that God can experience life. No two of you are the same, therefore God never experiences the same occurrence in a life, and we are all different.

Do we have auras, chakras and several bodies? Why do we even ask? So we get to know more about us? Is it really to make use wiser?

Do we think we can "interpret" our brothers by observing what "colors" are perceived around him? We know energy is motion, is emotion and so the energy around us will certainly change with the changing of our emotions, with our feelings, our moods. But that is part of the "physical" world, the world of our dreams.

Auras are not "spirits." Auras are not our souls or any part or fragment of them. Our souls, remember, are a part of God, His image and likeness, as He is, so are we also. And although we a part, we are still One. There is no form to the soul for it is a part of God. T here is no color to the soul for it is a part of God. There is no containing the soul to any area for it is God, and God is everywhere.

When we say that God is pure, we are saying it is as God is and God just is!

If the soul of man is God therefore looking at all our brothers, is really looking at God. But do we really see God in all our brothers? What is it we really see when we say that we see God in our brothers? Do we see the image created for us of what God looks like? Do we see what we term "the Christ" in our brothers? And what does that mean? What does that look like?

Saying God is, is simply stating that fact – God is. He is without form, color, shape or description. Seeing "the Christ" in someone is seeing the love in each brother. We are all made of love, only love, so there really isn't anything else to see but love.

When the body no longer serves the soul to experience "life," the soul departs. The body remains for a short time and then disappears.

I believe that those beings that have experienced "near death" episodes in this dream are beings whose soul simply changed their minds, and decided not to leave yet. Those who have related their experiences often tell of a "journey" away from the body, and then their return.

Along the path, it is often time to stop at the "laundry line" of feelings. A place where we take our feelings, shake them awake a bit, wash them off every now and then with some tears, and hang them out to air and have the wind of God blow through them. And the wind of God is each of us. So blow through my "laundry" and I will blow through yours. See you at the "clothes line of love."

"The road is lit by lamps of fear" and as we walk along our path, we blow them out. We are the Light of God and darkness does not frighten us, and fear cannot guide us, only love.

Isn't it nice to know that all paths are correct, some are quicker than others, but all paths lead to God? And to know that we cannot get where we are going, because we are already there? It's just that we haven't caught up with ourselves.

Have we ever stopped and thought about the lives of people that cross our path everyday; the touching of them and the knowing of being touched by them? The knowing that we care and they care is so very satisfying to the soul, so soothing, so calming, and so loving.

Be with one another and yet let each other have their own space. Know that each of us have a separate, yet same path to God. Each path is our own path and we do not need to tell another how to walk their path.

Once on the path, there is no other choice. The responsibility and desire are present and we continue forward. Stopping is no longer an option. Once on the path, we are faced with many choices, many obstacles, and many different roads. The choice we make determines how quickly we move along the path. There will be times when we may appear stuck on the path, an absolute standstill. We really don't like those time and we learn from them. Stopping is always an option at that point; always a choice, between ego and Spirit. Who do we choose to walk with?

Marriage is more than just a quirk of the ego. The act of marriage is because two people made the same choice at the same time to unite under the laws of the dream they are in. Not necessarily an ego driven event all the time, for many an ego has screamed at the thought of entering a meaningful relationship; a relationship where each person commits to learn from their teacher, each other; where two people want to share their path and exchange their affection for each other.

Marriage is from society, it is expected in society, or at least was. We are now becoming more relaxed about the issue; now we look at everything as a relationship for really is that not what everything is; how we relate to one another? Guilt will drive some to marriage; guilt will keep some a prisoner in a marriage. Love will guide us into and out of a relationship. Commitment will induce guilt and awareness will bring about love. Relationships are not carved in stone, as often times, marriage implies. Relationships are altered as we grow, and they can end when it is time for them to end. Remember, even in relationships, our teacher is ever present and we are ever learning. We have the single most important source for counseling available to us at any time. Just go within and listen.

If there are "things" in our past we are not proud of, perhaps we could look at them again and again with new perspective until we can see them for what they really were. Look at the past for what it was, learning time and learn from it with no judgments, no pride, no guilt, no shame. And could we laugh about anything we still think was "cruel?" Instead of even choosing any "amount of guilt" we choose none. No guilt allowed in our life. There is no reason to ever accept guilt, ever. And if we consider the past as "baggage" perhaps we might consider leaving the baggage at the station and just get on with the train and our journey. We will be taken care of. We have no use or need for the baggage.

If we remembered all that we have "forgotten" then there is no reason for us to be here. The dream would be over, the soul goes back to God and comes back again (perhaps) and begins "life" once more. What if each time it got easier for us to "remember? What if each time we know more from the beginning? What if this continues until we are all thinking alike at the same moment? Would "it" or would "it" not continue?

If we follow our "heart," listen to our soul; we will not forget that which we should always remember. We will know we are on this path, this journey, and what it is we wish to accomplish. We will fulfill the desire, the original desire of the soul. We will listen to our soul, it is our Self speaking.

We do not make "mistakes" just choices that we wish to change. And there could be no darkness if we did not have light to compare it with. And because of this comparison, this judgment, we know that darkness is just an illusion of the ego, something that is not there, never was nor will be. We are the light, we are the way and in so being, we walk not in darkness but in light, in love.

We are not so hard on ourselves if we fall on our path along the way. Remember that Jesus fell a couple of times on his path, and also remember he was helped by a brother along his way.

Someone once remark that life was like a camera we hold in our hands and capture the scene we look upon. Think of the camera as our eyes. Where we look, we focus. If we see something other than love, we need to put a "different lens" on, change our perception. Once we see love, we 'shoot' capturing the moment. The film itself is our memory, holding the picture in keeping for us. And we can look at the picture from time to time and what we thought we 'shot' may not be what is appearing to us, for we may have changed our perspective about the scene. We can never 're-shoot' the scene, we can only to create it again. Once the scene is seen it is the past. There will never be a next time, only a new time, a new experience, a new now where the past will not be able to cloud our 'lens' and where we may have to place a 'filter' on the lens to screen out something we no longer desire to see. Perhaps, our next 'shot' will be with a 'wide angle lens' and take in more of what is immediate in the now. And an important reminder, before we 'shoot,' let us be sure that the scene is worth taking a picture of.

Rain is so great! Watching it, I visualize a great cleansing of myself (my soul) and feel so refreshed afterwards. Rain washes away whatever I throw into it, toss it and it is gone, lay it out there and it dissolves.

Prayers

God, You have truly given us our brothers as our saviors. They are all You as we are You. And we are, likewise, savior to them. In them, we see You. In them, we do see the Christ and we see the Christ in them looking back at us. We will do our part in helping our brothers to remember You. We will do our part in having them remember where they came from and where they will return. And we know that they, like us, will offer each other, the same assistance in return. We will not forget, nor will we allow them to forget, that they are You and You are they, and we are One.

Thanks God for giving us all the resources. You give us all the answers we need. Now, all we have to do is to remember that it is You talking to us, that there is a message there for us, that we are open to receiving it. How simple You make our life, how difficult we try to make it. That in itself is a message.

It is the words we use that we know not what we ask for sometimes.

We are grateful for all that God has given us. We are grateful to see the shifting of the consciousness that is taking place in our world, shifting to spirituality, to God thought, to God awareness. We are grateful for the wakefulness we are experiencing, to become one with nature, to become One with God, to see everything with the eyes of the soul, with the eyes of God. We are grateful for our acceptance of the fact that we are the creator of what we see. We are grateful that we have come this far on our path with God, for we were never alone, God was and is always with us. And when we are finished here what it is we are to complete, we will be once again with God, and we will be as we are.

God, we accept your invitation and thank you for accepting ours. We understand we have talked before, but we were not aware of who exactly we were hearing. Now that we know, we will not only hear, but we will listen.

We see the light of God surrounding us, holding us from giving in to our cravings, the cravings of the ego. Our body does not want, need, require, or will have those poisons. We are not this body, but we will care for this vehicle as long as it is in our care. Although created by the ego, the body serves us well, when we take care of it. Many things are not meant to be consumed. The choice of accepting them into the body is always our. We will be in the light of God and the comfort of Spirit today as we make our choices. We will see only love and nothing else. We will have no needs for we are a child of God, and we have everything that God has. There is no way to improve on God. There is no way to improve on our real self.

God, let us see only love wherever we look today, then we will understand that we also see ourselves as the love we are.

We affirm that we are a child of God. We are created in God's image and likeness just as Jesus was or Buddha or any other teacher/person. As that child of God, we have inherited with all the gifts of God, and it is this that we are grateful for. We need for nothing, for what could we possibly desire that we do not already have. And the reason we continually affirm these things is because we are also in touch with ego, which is thinking just the opposite of our affirmation. The ego has us desiring more and more, all things of the illusory world, none of which can make us eternally happy and content. What we dwell on, affirm and know is what we truly have. We have contentment that must be of heaven, for it is only to be experienced and impossible to put into words. By this positive affirmation, we know within our being that this life is great, that God provides for us if only we allow Him to. We only have to get out of His way, for the blessed experience to occur.

God, all it takes on our part is total remembrance of who we really are, and You are showing us the ways to obtain that knowledge back. We have no artificial friendship with you, for You and we are One. We are real in every sense of the word. We exist together; we are part and yet whole. We appear separate, but we are not. This is the knowledge of your that we are using to rebuild our return, our remembrance of who we really are. Yet, truly, we have never left you, nor have You left us, for that is not possible for either of us.

Holding you in our thoughts, we feel a surge of love flowing through us. We feel a gratitude swelling within. We know all this because of you! We realize what a creation we are because of what a Creator You are. We know we are talking to God. Anything we say, we say to God.

Thank you God for giving us what we are about to desire, for we know that everything is already ours, everything has already been given to us. We merely think of it and it is ours. Thank You.

God, we have tried everything else and now we turn to You. What lessons we have learned in this process! We turn to you within because you are always with us. You never forget us, but we have often forgot Your presence. What we see as a problem, You show to us in Your Light. What we perceive as a source of pain, You show us me as love. What we see as our judgment, You show to us as truth.

Interpretations from A Course in Miracles

"What is the Last Judgment"

The Second Coming of Christ gives us the gift that we may all hear as the Holy Spirit tells us what is false and what is true, and what is true has not and will not ever change. And here is where all perception ends. We now see our world in truth, in love, in the Light of Christ. Perception simply disappears at this point, no longer required.

The Final Judgment on the world we made holds no condemnation for us. The Final Judgment looks upon the world we made as being wholly forgiven, pure in all respects and totally without purpose. Without a cause, it too disappears and is now longer present. In our mind is its birth, and in our mind is its end. All the many figures we have placed within that world also quickly disappear. The bodies which appear as having a purpose for us are now seen as without meaning and quickly vanish from our sight. We acknowledge and accept that we are without limitations, without boundaries.

For those of us who still believe that the Last Judgment is something God administers and that He will condemn us all to hell, there is a holy truth that is shown: the Final Judgment of God is His gift of the Correction He has given to all errors. This gift from God has relieved us from the condemnation we thought we would receive and all the effects we thought we would endure. This gift from God has but change our thoughts and we are healed.

The Final Judgment of God of us is but His call for us to return Home. We are not to fear love, not to fear ourselves nor God. Love alone does heal all of our sorrows, all of our pain and suffering; it wipes the t ears of sorrow from our eyes. Love gently wakens up for a sleep long ago begun. There is no fear for us here, only love. Salvation asks only that we welcome love. The world we made is waiting for our acceptance of love, which will then set the world free.

This is the Final Judgment of God: we are still and always will be the Son of God, completely innocent, completely loving and eternally loved. We are as God is, with no limits, not changeable and eternally pure. Knowing this, we gladly awaken and find ourselves in the arms of God once again. God is our Father, and we His Son.

"What is the Real World?"

The world we made stands in direct opposition to the world we made. The world we made is constructed of illusions, of fears and terror while the real world stands as a symbol to us of what our perception has to offer us. The real world, the world of God, can only be seen by us through eyes blessed by our forgiveness. Through these eyes of holiness no fears nor terrors are seen.

For every thought no of love we have in the world we made, there lies a thought of love to replace it in the real world, in Heaven. The real of God, our real world, is seen through "quiet eyes and with a mind at peace." Nothing but rest for us can be found there. We hear no sounds like pain and sorrow heard in our world. Only the sights and sounds of Heaven are heard; nothing else exists.

Then we must ask ourselves why do we have thoughts of death, attack and murder? The answer is obvious to us. Those thoughts are of the world of illusion we made. They are not part of the real world. In the real world, in the Kingdom of God, in Heaven, there exists nothing for us to judge, nothing for us to condemn. There exists only love, peace, harmony and happiness. Danger is not seen there for there exists no fears.

The real world of God is our symbol that the dream of sin and guilt we hold onto so firmly, are finally over. In the passing of that dream is our awakening. In that moment of awakening we see only the Love of God wherever we cast our vision. We know instantly that we are at home, we are again awake in the real world. This real world, this world of God, Heaven, indicates to us that time has come to its end and our once perception of it is no longer needed.

The Holy Spirit has no longer any need of time once time has served His purpose of it. Spirit is just waiting for that last moment when the hand of God reaches out and tugs across the last step. Then time ceases to exist and with time goes all perception and leaving only truth remaining. Truth is eternal and will forever be. That moment we speak of is the remembrance of God. We have but to look upon the world we made with eyes of forgiveness, and the hand of God is extended.

"What is the Second Coming?"

The Second Coming is nothing more than the correction of mistakes and our return to the sanity of who we are. The Second Coming is just a part of the condition that corrects what never was and has us see it all in truth. The Second Coming is an invitation to us from God to have His Word replace all illusions. It is our willingness to see forgiveness wherever we look.

The Second Coming embraces our world and holds us safe within it. Forgiveness paves the way for the Second Coming which is without ending for it is a time where all of our minds become again as One with God; to become as they have forever been.

The Second Coming ceases all lessons of the Holy Spirit and makes way for the Final Judgment where learning stops and God Himself reaches out to us to have us join Him.

The Second Coming is one time when time has no effect on anything. In the Second Coming, all of us who have come to die, or will come to die or who are present in this moment, are all released from the death we have made. In this equal moment our minds are again made One and we see each other in that way. And God is pleased in what is seen.

We pray that the Second Coming will be soon. The Second Coming requires our eyes and ears and hands and feet. It requires our voice and mostly our willingness. We are happy to be able to do God's Will and we join together in the holy light. We see the Son of God in everyone and anyone we look upon and we feel the Oneness with them. We know we can reach God through them and they through us.

"What is the World?"

This world I made is not true, not real. It was made by me in error and it will remain in that error. It will last only as long I last, as my ego lasts. Upon the death of the ego, when this body has no longer any need to be here, the world will end. I can see this world I made differently by seeking the assistance of the Holy Spirit to see this world in His vision. Changing my perception is a miracle.

This world I made came about because I thought I could do without God; that I could be better than God; that I could improve upon perfection. Truly this last statement is but a joke which I forgot to laugh at. This world is everything that God is not. God is only Love and this world is not love. It is a world of fear, suffering, pain and separation. God would not enter into this world for it is but an illusion, a dream, and God does not recognize illusions or dreams. It is a world made by me for me so that I can experience a separation from God that is not real. This is perception. This is a view of the world that I see and I can change this view by simply changing my mind, my thought. What my eyes see is not there and what my ears hear never was said. It is all but an illusion. It is all insane.

Many in this world believe in this world. They strive hard to convince others of its existence, of its' purpose, of its' value. They make illusions upon illusions until the truth is completely hidden from the sight of others. But because it is all illusion means that nothing real exists here. We can see through the illusion and see God beyond them. We can cast aside the veil that appears before us so that the light which is beckoning us can be seen.

We come to know that the path of illusion we were on is not a real path; it will lead us only in circles and offer nothing more than disappointment and frustration. It is a path led by the ego. We find our spiritual path by following the still, small voice within us that not only directs our way, but lights it for us as well. And with the light He provides we see this world differently. We see the world in light and the darkness is no longer here. We see love where once we thought we saw fear. We see peace and joy where once we saw chaos and confusion.

We will not be content until all in the world can see it in the light of God. Others may see the world simply be changing their minds as well. In our forgiveness of ourselves for seeing others less than perfect, the world will change. And this is our function. We are here to save this world from the darkness and bring it to the eternal light. It is our function to see what we made with the eyes of the Christ within us all; to see that light and Christ spirit in everyone we look upon.

"What is a Miracle?"

We have learned from the very beginning of the Course, that a miracle is but a change, a correction of our perception. A miracle does not create anything new and it does not change what is seen. A miracle is but a reminder to our mind that what we think we are looking upon is not real. The miracle will undo error for me, but it will not go beyond my perception, and a miracle will not go beyond the function of forgiveness. A miracle remains with time's constraints and yet the miracle prepares a way for the return of timelessness to me. It prepares me for love's awakening. As the miracle is brought into view, fear drops away.

A miracle is a gift of grace and is given and received as one. This is just another illustration of the law of truth the world does not see. The miracle turns perception upside down so that what we thought we see is see correctly. Perception is open to truth and forgiveness is therefore justified.

The home of miracles is forgiveness. I give miracles to all I look upon in love. My perception is corrected and what was seen as a "curse" is now seen as a blessing. Forgiveness offers the world the silent miracle of love. And each miracle is laid upon my altar to God.

A miracle is first taken on faith. The miracle asks my mind to become open to what cannot be seen nor understood. Faith alone will be witness to that what is really there. So the miracle will justify my faith in it. The miracle will show me a world more real than I knew; and a world redeemed from all that I thought was there.

Miracles fall upon us as drops of a Heavenly rain and they quench our parch thirst for them. The miracles but show us that death is but an illusion; that life continues onward, and that there is no end for us, we are eternal as is our Creator, God.

"What is Creation?"

Creation can be seen as the total of us, the children of God. We are without total and everywhere without limitation. God creates and only as He Is. There never existed a time when what God created was not already present. And there will never be a time when what God created can suffer anything. We are the Thoughts of God and we are exactly as we have forever been and forever will be. Nothing ever can change us.

We have been given the Power of God as His creation. His Love is forever extended through us. In this way, we share with God in His creation and so share in His power to create. What God has brought forth will forever be. We are as God is and will be forever as God Is.

Creation by God is the opposite to the illusions we see, because what God created is truth. We are truth. We are as complete as God is complete and whole. We are sinless and pure as our Creator is, for God only creates Himself in us.

We are the creation of God, His children. We appear as if we do not know of our unity with God, but within us all is that spark of remembrance that shines through all fears and shows us the truth. The memory of God, the memory of who we are, is firmly and forever placed within our minds. It is there we know of our Oneness and Unity with God. Our function then becomes to have this memory totally restored to all so that we all may be as we were so created.

God call to us and we do hear His Voice, and we forgive others in the name of God. We see within others the Christ Spirit that glows within us, and we light up the world for all to see.

"What is Forgiveness?"

Forgiveness sees that what we thought another did to us never happened. Forgiveness doesn't pardon sins and make them real. Forgiveness doesn't see any sin, period. And so all of our sins are forgiven. What really is a sin, other than a false idea, an untruth, about us. Forgiveness just sees the untruth, and lets it go. And the Will of God takes the place occupied by that illusion.

A thought that we have which is unforgiving is one where we make a judgment of another and we will not allow any doubt to come into the discussion. Case closed! Even though the thought is not true, it doesn't matter, we are closed. The mind refuses to open up and allow the thought to be looked at again. The thought becomes entangled in its own chains and distortions become rampant and our sight is less clear. We are refuse to have doubt enter and reason to be shown. What can possibly come between a rock-hard projection of thought and the aim it has picked out as its goal?

A thought which is unforgiving does many things; it follows it own goals, throwing out anything that gets in its way which appears as possibly interfering with is quest. The purpose of an unforgiving thought is simply distortion, and the means by which it will accomplish it as well. An unforgiving thought moves swiftly and quickly to ruin our reality, and has no concern at all for anything or anyone getting in its way.

Forgiveness is still, quiet and appears to do nothing. Forgiveness offends no part of our reality, nor does forgiveness attempt to twist reality to appearances it prefers. Forgiveness but looks and waits patiently not judging at all. If we would not forgive, then we must judge because we have to somehow justify our failure in not forgiving. But we who do forgive ourselves will learn to welcome and recognize truth for what it truly is.

Jesus tells us to do nothing and simply allow forgiveness to show us what to do, through the Holy Spirit, our Guide. In Spirit we are certain of ultimate success. The Holy Spirit, the Voice of God, has already forgiven us because that is His function given Him by God. Now Spirit shares that function with us, as He forgives us seeing us as being sinless creations of God.

"What is Salvation?"

Salvation is simply God's promise to you that you will find your way back to God. And if it is from God, you know it will be kept. You have God's assurance that "time" and all that is included in "time" - including your many thoughts, will end as well. This promise of God is already within us and will forever be. This promise of God will replace every thought we ever had that was not in a state of love.

The Thought of peace was given to you the instant you thought of war. There was never a need for a thought of peace before you thought of war, for peace simply was and will forever be. But you have a split mind that thinks thoughts that need correction. The Thought of peace, the Thought of God, heals your split mind and the Oneness of all others is experienced. You once thought you were lost forever, but now know that you cannot be lost from God ever.

Salvation is really an undoing of nothing as our world is just that, nothing! You let the illusions of your world go and peace comes to you. Once you have taken back the value you have given your illusions, the illusions just vanish as if they never were, and they never were. And in their place is peace shown to you, the forgiveness you have given laid before you, and the memory of who you are slowly returns.

Come daily to this altar within you, and spend "time" there. It is here that your final dream is. The final dream is one in which there is only peace, the peace of God as you remember it. Everything and everywhere you look, the changes are taking place before your eyes, and you are born again into a new perspective of the world you made. Night no longer exists and only sunshine and peace exists for you, and for everyone.

From this place you give salvation to your world, for it is there that salvation was received by you. The song your soul sings is heard by all others and they know that freedom, the Peace of God, is once again returned. You know and they know that "time" is jus about no longer needed. You have but a holy instant more in which to wait for your memory of God to fully return. Then your dreams are done, eternity is experience and Heaven in known.

"What is Sin?"

Jesus tells us that sin is simply insanity; a means whereby our minds are driven to madness while we allow our illusions to become our truths. Because of this madness, our mind sees the illusions as truth and replaces truth with them. Sin, Jesus says gave the body eyes. Then sin is us, our ego! We gave the body eyes to see all that the sinless would never see. We are truly sinless and have no need for the senses we gave this body. What we see, or touch or even hear is but illusions, not truth. We have no need of the senses for we have the eternal knowing within us. If we sense anything, it must be an illusion. Truth contains knowledge and nothing else, for nothing else exists.

The body is simply something we made in hopes of deceiving ourselves into believing who we are. The purpose of the body is for us to strive but the goal is forever changing. And the body follows the next goal until a new goal is given it by the mind. What the body is looking for now has been chosen by the goal the mind has chosen as the replacement of the aim of self-deception. Truth can be the aim of the mind, just as well as lies. Our eyes now search for witnesses to the truth.

Sin is the home of all illusions. Illusions are but images of untrue thoughts. Sin is of the ego for the ego and like everything else from the ego, it is forever just an illusion. Sin attempts to prove that we are evil instead of being the perfect creation of God. Sin attempts to show that timelessness has an ending and eternity does not exist. And sin attempts to prove that God has indeed lost His Son and peace cannot exist.

Insane dreams are indeed frightening and maddening. Sin, being of fear, does certainly appear to terrify us. Still what sin is sees is just like a child's game. We make believe we have a body. We make believe we are lured by evil and guilt, with no other ending to this madness but death. And while we are making believe all this game, God continues to shower us with His Love and God knows that nothing has changed and nothing could ever change.

Just how long we continue to make believe in this game is not known to us. Yet how about we put our toys of make believe away and concentrate on returning to God. How soon are you ready to return? It could be today, right now in this moment! We have awaken to the truth that sin does not and could not exist. Sin is but a hoax the ego has played on us. We are as God created us and forever will be. Know this truth deep in your heart and ready yourself for your return. The game is over!

"What is the Body?"

I see the body as a veil that hides who I truly am from others and myself. I have made this veil so that I may see myself as separate from all others. Behind this veil is the life I have made – one that I simply live and then simply die. At that point the veil is no longer seen or needed. This veil offers me a security I believe from love, which I know is all around me. I believe so strongly in this tiny thin veil, that I believe love cannot penetrate through it. I am safe behind the veil.

I know that the body will not survive, but that is okay with me. This veil just proves that oneness does not exist and only separation does. I want and need that separation for the many roles to be played out in the life. Roles like a victim, an attacker or being the target of an attack.

Jesus states that the body is but a dream, and because of that, the body can experience many different feelings, including fear which is the opposite of love. It is this fear that gives strength to the veil. Only love creates truth and truth knows not of fear. My body, my making, being an illusion of fear, can only serve the purpose given it by the mind. And here is the big key for me, the mind can change what the body does. I can simply change my thought and my body with obey.

My body is seen as just a mean for me to return to sanity, to re-call God. Even though I made a veil to keep me in hell and not see heaven, that veil can be brought down by me. This is done by me whenever I extend Love to another, whenever I extend my hand to help another on their path as they help me on mine. The veil is then dropped and swept away and the body is seen as holy and is ready to respond to a mind that heals.

My identity, my true identity, will be shown to me as I believe whatever I think will give me the safety I seek. My safety is within truth and within Love, one and the same. There is no safety to be found in fear, only in love. When I align myself with Love, I align myself with God. When I align myself with God, I find MySelf.

"What is the Christ?"

The Christ is you and me just as God created us. The Christ is the One Self we all share, the Oneness we are feel, and with God as well. The Christ is the thought we are that still remains within the Mind of God which is our Source. The Christ, us, has not left the Mind of God nor has It lost the innocence It was created as. The Christ still is a part of God as It shall be for all eternity.

The Christ is the connection to God that gives us the feeling of the eternal Oneness we all are. The Christ knows that we are not separated from God, nor could ever be, for we are a part of and the Whole of God. Our mind is part of God's mind, and therefore God's mind is part of ours as well. We are forever united at One. The Christ is that part of us that contains all the knowledge we have forgotten but which is forever present for us. It is that part of us where everything has already occurred and this dream is over. It is the now moment of eternity that we all can enter. The Christ is not moved by what the physical eyes look upon. And although with the Christ is our salvation, the Christ is like God also knowing no sin.

The Christ remains peaceful within the Home of God alone which is within our minds. This part is our truth, our real reality. All else is but a dream. But as we give these dreams to the Christ within us, those dreams fade from our view and what is shown is our truth – our Holy Self, the Christ.

The Holy Spirit, the Voice of God, reaches from the Christ in us to all our dreams. And the Holy Spirit takes those dreams and shows us them in truth. The Holy Spirit changes our dreams, our illusions, for the last dream we shall ever have, as God has willed. When forgiveness is seen throughout our world and peace is experienced by each and everyone of us, then there will be nothing to continue this illusion of separation from God. All that remains is for us to see the face of Christ on all we look upon.

And just how long will the face of Christ be seen by us, when we see it as a symbol that learning, remembering is now complete, and the goal of Atonement has been reached? Let us look diligently for the face of Christ on each person we look upon and let us see nothing else, for nothing else is real. When we accomplish that, we will know that remembrance and the thought of time or anything else in our illusion are no longer required. All that is remaining forever shall be the Christ in us, just as God created us.

"What is the Ego?"

The ego is but a symbol, an idol we have worshipped. The ego is a symbol of the separation we think we are in. The ego is this body we look upon, a prison of our making where we have sentenced ourselves to suffer pain, misery, and ultimately death itself. The ego speaks of God as an enemy and attempts to keep us from the reach of the enemy. The ego's strength is really weakness and it's professed love is actually fear; life is its death and the truth that it proclaims is in opposition to God. This is, by all standards, a description of insanity.

The ego trembles in fear of God. The ego actually believes it has overcome God and believes the Will of God no longer exists, only its own. The ego dreams of punishment and fears the images it has created as enemies. The ego feels that these images are attempting to kill it, and therefore attacks all of them.

We, created in the image of God, have no ego. What do we know of such madness about the death of God, when we are One with God. Are we dead? We are what LIVE means! We do not know sorrow, suffering, hate and fear because we live in the eternity where God exists. We have no knowledge of fear and punishment, of sin and guilt, hate, attack and the other makings of the ego. We have no knowledge of such illusions because they are not real; they are not of God.

For us to truly know our reality is for us not to see the ego and its many illusions of darkness. Our reality is light, the light of God, and where we are, no darkness exists. In the darkness of the ego all suffering, pain and self inflicted sorrows are waiting for all who stumble in the unlit caverns of it's depth.

We are the light of the world; Jesus has told us this many times. We are that light that shines away the darkness of the ego and allows love to be seen in its place. Within the light is the peace we seek; the peace that has always been within us and yet forgotten at times. That peace was placed within by God Himself and within that peace we are as God is; we are One with our Creator.

"What is the Holy Spirit?"

Please note the author did not ask "Who is the Holy Spirit?" but "What is the Holy Spirit?" This is, I believe, an important point to remember. The Holy Spirit, the Voice for God as it also called, acts as a mediator between our illusions, our dreams, and the truth of what we are. As the Holy Spirit bridges the gap between our dreams and our reality, our perception leads us to an awakening of the knowledge we have within. True perception is a gift to all who turn to the Holy Spirit to be shown the truth. All of our dreams, all of them, are then moved from the point of illusion to the point of reality by the Holy Spirit. Once the dreams are exposed to the light of truth, they no longer exist and love has filled the vacancy.

The goal of the teachings of the Holy Spirit is simply an end to the dreams we believe in. The sights and sound we see and hear in fear are seen in the light of love. Once this has been completely fulfilled, the learning has met its goal of showing the truth to us. Our learning, our remembering, as guided by the Holy Spirit, becomes our means by which we can go beyond the means and replaced by the light.

God yearns to have us awake, to recognize what we are in truth. Holy Spirit is understanding of what we made. All we have to do is give over to the Holy Spirit all of our illusions, all of our thoughts, and we will be awaken; our mind will no longer be split and the dream of illusions over.

We have the knowledge already in us, and the Holy Spirit calls to us to allow this knowledge to be shown and known to us. The Holy Spirit would have us allow our forgiveness to go upon our dreams, and our sanity and peace of mind will be restored. If we fail to allow forgiveness, our dreams will continue and our fears will be present. And the memory that we are searching for will once again be hidden behind some veil.

We gladly accept the gift God has given us in the Holy Spirit. It is a call from Love to Love, from God to us. The Holy Spirit is but a gift from God to us, and if we not only open this gift, but use it, the peace of God will once again be known to us. It is our choice to use the Holy Spirit, and it is our function of completing our own Oneness. That alone should be enough of a reason for doing so.

EPILOGUE – Clarification of Terms

"Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain. Doubt along the way will come and go and go to come again. Yet is the ending sure. No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do. When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart. Who could despair when hope like this is his? Illusions of despair may seem to come, but learn how not to be deceived by them. Behind each one there is reality and there is God. Why would you wait for this and trade it for illusions, when His Love is but an instant farther on the road where all illusions end? The end is sure and guaranteed by God. Who stands before a lifeless image when a step away the Holy of the Holies opens up an ancient door that leads beyond the world?"

We will never, ever fail in what God wants from us. If we think our journey will end, then we also believe that it began. When we are in doubt, remember what is within each of us – our truth of who we are. And we have forgotten most of what we knew once, but the Course is aiding us in its remembrance. The illusions we believe we see come and go in the world we make with them, but never are one of them real. We shall awake from this dream to discover that we never left where it was that we have forever been.

"You are a stranger here. But you belong to Him Who loves you as He loves Himself. Ask but my help to roll the stone away, and it is done according to His Will. We have begun the journey. Long ago the end was written in the stars and set into the Heavens with a shining Ray that held it safe within eternity and through all time as well. And holds it still; unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable."

Indeed I am the stranger in this land I make, for this is not my home, my truth. I am forever as God created me – in the image and likeness of God. And God extends God through me. My world is only a thought away. It would be think it is a great distance when in truth, it is before me now. I have taken this journey once again and have remembered more of what I have forgotten. If there be an end to this journey, then it is also a beginning. For that which I know within is my truth will forever more remain unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable. As God is, I AM.

"Be not afraid. We only start again an ancient journey long ago begun that but seems new. We have begun again upon a road we traveled on before and lost our way a little while. And now we try again. Our new beginning has the certainty the journey lacked till now. Look up and see His Word among the stars, where He has set your Name along with His. Look up and find your certain destiny the world would hide but God would have you see."

These are, for me, some of the most beautiful words presented to me in the Course. I fear nothing because I know my truth. And as I begin once again my journey which will appear fresh and new to me, I will have this knowing within, that I walk this way before. Now as I begin the journey, I see the image and likeness of God wherever I look. I see the Oneness I sought. I see the Love I AM.

"Let us wait here in silence, and kneel down an instant in our gratitude to Him Who called to us and helped us hear His Call. And then let us arise and go in faith along the way to Him. Now we are sure we do not walk alone. For God is here, and with Him all our brothers. Now we know that we will never lose the way again. The song begins again which had been stopped only an instant, though it seems to be unsung forever. What is here begun will grow in life and strength and hope, until the world is still an instant and forgets all that the dream of sin had made of it."

And within the silence of my soul, within the peace of the sanctuary of my heart, within the stillness of my mind, I AM in the Presence of God and I AM the Oneness. And I cry in gratitude that this knowledge has been shown to me. I have never been alone; I have never been separated; I have forever been and will forever be One with God. The way was not lost but hidden perhaps behind some veils of darkness. But the Light from within me now shines away the darkness. And I hear familiar sounds of a long ago forgotten place – sounds that soothe me and call me back to a place I yet cannot see. In the holy instant, I am there in my eternity, my reality.

"Let us go out and meet the newborn world, knowing that Christ has been reborn in it, and that the holiness of this rebirth will last forever. We had lost our way but He has found it for us. Let us go and bid Him welcome Who returns to us to celebrate salvation and the end of all we thought we made. The morning star of this new day looks on a different world where God is welcomed and His Son with Him. We who complete Him offer thanks to Him, as He gives thanks to us. The Son is still, and in the quiet God has given him enters his home and is at peace at last."

A newborn world is one that we make from new thoughts of Love we hold within our mind. The Christ Spirit within us is alive and vibrant. We thought we lost what could never be taken from us. We thought we were lost ourselves, and yet we, too, can never be taken from our Source. God is complete through us and yet creates through us in a never ending thought of Love. And we are still here for a moment – a holy instant in time that no longer exists – and we not only feel the presence and power of God, we feel the presence and power of our truth. And peace comes over us from within, and we project that peace unto the world we see. Peace on earth and Peace to all men.

EPILOGUE – Daily Lessons

"This course is a beginning, not an end. Your Friend goes with you. You are not alone. No one who calls on Him can call in vain. Whatever troubles you, be certain that He has the answer, and will gladly give it to you, if you simply turn to Him and ask it of Him. He will not withhold all answers that you need for anything that seems to trouble you. He knows the way to solve all problems, and resolve all doubts. His certainty is yours. You need but ask it of Him, and it will be given you."

That which is without a beginning could have no ending. And we are being told here exactly what we can be sure of – we are never, ever alone – the Holy Spirit, the Voice of God, is ever present within us. Perhaps this past year we have learned to ask more of the Holy Spirit than we had before. Perhaps this past year we saw what we thought were problems as simply a mistake in our perception. Perhaps this past year we believe we did not get all the answers to all of our questions to God. Perhaps we had best look at how we asked them.

"You are as certain of arriving home as is the pathway of the sun laid down before it rises, after it has set, and in the half-lit hours in between. Indeed, your pathway is more certain still. For it can not be possible to change the course of those whom God has called to Him. Therefore obey your will, and follow Him Whom you accepted as your voice, to speak of what you really want and really need. His is the Voice for God and also yours. And thus He speaks of freedom and of truth."

Perhaps this past year you made statements like this would be your last year with the Course for whatever reason. Perhaps you might reconsider for you know deep within you that your path is not yet over, and that you are still be called to follow, for you are not yet able to lead. Follow that Voice within you as it leads yet upon another journey in this dream of illusion.

"No more specific lessons are assigned, for there is no more need of them. Henceforth, hear but the Voice for God and for your Self when you retire from the world, to seek reality instead. He will direct your efforts, telling you exactly what to do, how to direct your mind, and when to come to Him in silence, asking for His sure direction and His certain Word. His is the Word that God has given you. His is the Word you chose to be your own."

And each day as we repeat that we shall give this holy instant to the Voice within, know that in the silence that follows you shall be told what you are to know. From that silence you will be given instructions of what you are to do next on your journey to no return. And in that silence, you know that what you hear is what you are.

"And now I place you in His hands, to be His faithful follower, with Him as Guide through every difficulty and all pain that you may think is real. Nor will He give you pleasures that will pass away, for He gives only the eternal and the good. Let Him prepare you further. He has earned your trust by speaking daily to you of your Father and your brother and your Self. He will continue. Now you walk with Him, as certain as is He of where you go; as sure as He of how you should proceed; as confident as He is of the goal, and of your safe arrival in the end."

And so we are placed in the comfort of the Holy Spirit – in the comfort of the Voice of God – to be led further on our path; to be led to where we shall know that only Love is real. Now we step out on the path holding the hand of the Voice of God – holding the hand of the Presence within us, knowing that we shall forever be One that now feel. And we walk with a confidence we had not had when we first started the Course. Now we have a confidence of the Truth which lies within us.

"The end is certain, and the means as well. To this we say "Amen." You will be told exactly what God wills for you each time there is a choice to make. And He will speak for God and for your Self, thus making sure that hell will claim you not, and that each choice you make brings Heaven nearer to your reach. And so we walk with Him from this time on, and turn to Him for guidance and for peace and sure direction. Joy attends our way. For we go homeward to an open door which God has held unclosed to welcome us."

What a comfort to be told that we will be told EXACTLY what God wills for us each time we need to make a choice. We have only to remember that when a choice appears. And so we continue towards the awakening we seek, towards the final door that is already open for us to enter. And we say "So it is, and it is so."

"We trust our ways to Him and say "Amen." In peace we will continue in His way, and trust all things to Him. In confidence we wait His answers, as we ask His Will in everything we do. He loves God's Son as we would love him. And He teaches us how to behold him through His eyes, and love him as He does. You do not walk alone. God's angels hover near and all about. His Love surrounds you, and of this be sure; that I will never leave you comfortless."

And so in peace we continue on our path; in confidence we know His answers will be given as we ask; and in the Love we are. We now look out in the world we make and see there, the Spirit radiating back to us from all we look upon. We are not alone. We are the Oneness we have remembered. And so it is once again, and it is so forever more.

FINAL LESSONS Introduction

"Our 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."

One thing that we were told early on in the Course was that words were but symbols, with their meanings many times removed. So now we come to a place where we can drop most words as we seek to go beyond their meaning. By our giving those words to Spirit for interpretation, we discover that their meaning is meaningless.

"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."

Through the Holy Spirit we find the peace of God that lies within us. As we go within we know that we go a place of no beginning and no end – to the truth of who we are. And from there we shall reach out to our brother, and accept him as he is, and watch as he becomes One with us. The Light in you shows him the way, as his shows you yours.

"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."

To forgive my world, I but need to forgive myself for projecting thoughts which were not love. In my forgiveness I drop all fears, all illusions, all belief in a past and a future. There I enter in the "dream" I have been seeking, the awakening from this dream. As I continue to forgive myself, my thoughts change and my world is being seen in love. In my world is my brother, and I see him as well in love. And in that sight are we saved from fear. We are as we have forever been and will forever be.

"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."

And so my function is have God experience God through me. In that experience I see no separation, only the Oneness that has forever been. The memory of our Truth is complete and we are where we have forever been.

"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?"

God has promised me Peace and the Peace of God is mine now to experience. In that Peace I see nothing but Love. I see no corrections to be made for none were ever required, other than a change of thought. As I drop my beliefs of this world, I remember All That Is, and I AM. In the Peace I see what I had believed in as insane thoughts at best, and fantasy for sure. I was simply mistaken in what I believed. I was not damned, I was not cast out to lie in despair forever. I was never separated from God, I simply failed to see that I was still One with All That Is.

"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."

Early on in the Course, we remember that we do not know what anything in our world of illusion is for; we understand nothing. Once we show this little willingness, more lessons were presented for us as a way of remembering our truth. They were there for us to replace the many "lies" we held onto as truths. We remembered that God has indeed given All That Is to us, and yet we cannot comprehend it all completely yet; we continue to hold onto a few false ideas about who we are, and so we will begin our journey once again.

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Thank you for reading my book. I truly hope that not only that you enjoyed, but that it may serve as a guide to be used on your spiritual path. Namaste my friend...
