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The ego is our self-love turned into self-hatred.
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God goes with me everywhere, because God is in my mind.
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Your calling is what you would do whether you were paid to do it or not. Your calling is what you have to do in order to be happy. Your
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Think something isn't good enough, and it never will be. Think something is wonderful, and it will only get better.
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I surrender myself, that I might be used in bringing the end of suffering to all
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He reminds us that, in every situation, the love you've given is real, and the love you have received is real. Nothing else exists.
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The ego seeks intimacy through control and guilt. The Holy Spirit seeks intimacy through acceptance and release.
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The cultivation of mental rest, or surrender, is like eating healthy food. It doesn't give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy.
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are meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be,
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Today I will not be tempted to wander the byroads of pain, but rather I will set my feet upon the path of joy and peace. May the spirit of God protect my mind from any forces of fear that would divert my thinking.
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You're afraid of feelings the way you're afraid of food: you're afraid that once you start, you may never stop. But the truth is, feelings are only out of control when they're not handed over for divine resolution. Given to Divine Mind, they're lifted to divine right order--where they will be appropriately felt and then appropriately dissolved. So too shall it be with food appetites, for they are mere reflections of your turmoil or peace.
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you keep trying all your old tricks, the ones that never did work but that you keep thinking might work this time. Once you've had enough and you can't do it
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A belief in separation is always at the root of a problem, and a realization of our oneness is always at the root of its solution.
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Of course things might have gone roughly in the past, but the past is over and cannot touch you unless you hold on to it. Right now, in this moment, the universe is responding not to your past but to the truth of who you are, always were, and always will be.
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Please enter where You already abide. May my mind and heart be pure and true, and may I not deviate from the things of goodness.
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To remember that you are part of God, that you are loved and lovable, is not arrogant. It's humble. To think you are anything else is arrogant, because it implies you're something other than a creation of God. Love is changeless and therefore so are you. Nothing that you have ever done or will ever do can mar your perfection in the eyes of God. You're deserving in His eyes because of what you are, not because of what you do. What you do or ..
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I've noticed in myself that if something small and ultimately meaningless has gone wrong--I can't find the file I left on top of my desk, my daughter failed to do what I asked her to do before going to a friend's house--I can easily get rattled. But if someone calls to inform me of a serious difficulty--someone has been in an accident, or a child is in trouble--I notice a profound stillness come over me as I focus on the problem. In the for..
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The expansion of this country was accomplished at the cost of decimation to the Native American population. The American Indian death toll due to the United States' march to the Pacific was massive. Much of the land we stole from the Native Americans is uninhabited to this day; basically, the Indians could have stayed where they were. Had America expanded its boundaries yet been true to its conscience, the American Indian nations could have..
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The history of the African-American, also, is so morally outrageous as to make the fact that there has never been an official apology almost unbelievable. A strange psychological phenomenon occurs when a truth is so big, so obvious, that it becomes, in some perverse way, almost easy to resist. The history of racism in the United States is so cruel yet systemic in our society. Perhaps we fear we could not bear the feelings of guilt that woul..
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Without personal commitment to the attributes of fair play and integrity, the United States is in grave danger. Malice and intolerance stalk our society, staking claim to our minds, and not one corner of our social order is unaffected. This darkness is a significant threat to our national good, perhaps the most significant threat in our history, for it strikes at the heart of democracy. Where people are not free to disagree, there can be no..
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Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell
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The "face of Christ" is the innocence and love behind the masks we all wear,"
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We're not at the mountaintop until any zone is comfortable. Love isn't love until it's unconditional.
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The return to love is hardly the end of life's adventure. It's the real beginning. A course in miracle says we think we have many different problems but we really only have one: denying love is the only problem and embracing it is the only answer.
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Sometimes it takes the knife that emotionally pierces our heart, to pierce the walls that lie in front of it.
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Second, we resist love because it jams the rational mindset. The mortal mind cannot understand how miracles work, and for our entire lives we are taught to mistrust what cannot be rationally explained. Yet the fact that we cannot understand how miracles work does not mean that miracles don't happen. And while Western science argued for ages that the state of our inner being has little effect on the state of our world, even science today arg..
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universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.
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Childishness is when we're so preoccupied with things that ultimately don't matter, that we lose our essential connection with things that do.
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A moment of crisis can be a moment of growth, as the wounded self prepares to transform. From the chrysalis of my pain, I will forge my healing--the wings of my newborn self.
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Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one, the other disappears. All the darkness in my life--the fears, neuroses, dysfunctions, and diseases--are not so much things as the absence of things. They represent not the presence of a problem but rather the absence of the answer. And the answer is love. All fearful manifestations disappear in the presence of love.
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Where you hadn't yet dealt with your shadows, you manifested shadowy situations. Broken parts of you encountered broken parts of others.
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The Course teaches that fear is literally a bad dream. It is as though the mind has been split in two; one part stays in touch with love, and the other part veers into fear. Fear manufactures a kind of parallel universe where the unreal seems real,
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God knows our crooked places that need to be made straight, the wounds in our hearts that fester for years unhealed, the broken pieces of our lives that seem beyond repair. And He who is the author of miracles has infinite desire as well as power to heal them all.
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Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.
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En nuestro sueno, el dolor que no puede olvidar cae gota a gota sobre el corazon humano y en nuestra desesperacion, contra nuestra voluntad, viene la sabiduria a traves de la tremenda gracia de Dios.
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Eastern religions tell us that if we go for God, all that is not authentically ourselves will drop.
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All of a sudden, you're not too proud to ask for help. That's what it means to surrender to God.
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Love taken seriously is a radical outlook, a major departure from the psychological orientation that rules the world. It is threatening not because it is a small idea, but because it is so huge.
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By affirming that love is our priority in a situation,
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His correction of our perception is called the Atonement.
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The source of violence is in our heads. As it would not be appropriate to ignore "just a little" cancer in the body, so it is not appropriate for us to ignore "just a little" violent thinking. A little cancer, unchecked, turns into a monstrous killer. So do small, insidious, seemingly harmless judgmental thought forms become the pervasive cancers that threaten to destroy a society. As the body's defenses against cancer center around a healt..
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A healthy, civilized society can absorb some anger and dysfunction, as a healthy immune system can absorb some disease. But a massive buildup of anger and mean-spiritedness bombarding our social system day in and day out in millions upon millions of individual doses overwhelms our societal defenses. Medicine does little good in the absence of a healthy immune system. Likewise police and other institutional efforts to counter violence do lit..
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United States today, there is a widespread, malignant thought form that other people are the problem. Conservatives tend to blame liberals for our problems, while liberals blame conservatives. The media blames almost everyone, and almost everyone blames immigrants. Some people are convinced homosexuals are the problem, while others think that single mothers are the problem. Still others think the Christian Right is the problem, and far, far..
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Dear God, Please impress upon me The vision of whom I am meant to be. Reveal to me the bigger life That You would have me live. Undo the forces that keep me bound, That I might serve You more. Amen.
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