LESSON 47 God Is The Strength In Which I Trust. If you are trusting in your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious and fearful. What can you predict or control? What is there in you that can be counted on? What would give you the ability to be aware of all the facets of any problem, and to resolve them in such a way that only good can come of it? What is there in you that gives you the recognition of the right solution, and the guarantee that it will be accomplished? Of ...
Feb 16, 2024•50 min
LESSON 47 God Is The Strength In Which I Trust. If you are trusting in your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious and fearful. What can you predict or control? What is there in you that can be counted on? What would give you the ability to be aware of all the facets of any problem, and to resolve them in such a way that only good can come of it? What is there in you that gives you the recognition of the right solution, and the guarantee that it will be accomplished? Of ...
Feb 16, 2024•42 min
LESSON 46 God Is The Love In Which I Forgive God does not forgive because He has never condemned. And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary. Forgiveness is the great need of this world, but that is because it is a world of illusions. Those who forgive are thus releasing themselves from illusions, while those who withhold forgiveness are binding themselves to them. As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself. Yet although God does not forgive, His Love is ne...
Feb 15, 2024•53 min
LESSON 45 God Is The Mind With Which I Think. Today’s idea holds the key to what your real thoughts are. They are nothing that you think you think, just as nothing that you think you see is related to vision in any way. There is no relationship between what is real and what you think is real. Nothing that you think are your real thoughts resemble your real thoughts in any respect. Nothing that you think you see bears any resemblance to what vision will show you. You think with the Mind of God. T...
Feb 14, 2024•52 min
LESSON 44 God Is The Light In Which I See. Today we are continuing the idea for yesterday, adding another dimension to it. You cannot see in darkness, and you cannot make light. You can make darkness and then think you see in it, but light reflects life, and is therefore an aspect of creation. Creation and darkness cannot coexist, but light and life must go together, being but different aspects of creation. In order to see, you must recognize that light is within, not without. You do not see out...
Feb 13, 2024•49 min
LESSON 43 God Is My Source. I Cannot See Apart From Him. Perception is not an attribute of God. His is the realm of knowledge. Yet He has created the Holy Spirit as the Mediator between perception and knowledge. Without this link with God, perception would have replaced knowledge forever in your mind. With this link with God, perception will become so changed and purified that it will lead to knowledge. That is its function as the Holy Spirit sees it. Therefore, that is its function in truth. In...
Feb 12, 2024•47 min
LESSON 42 God Is My Strength. Vision Is His Gift. The idea for today combines two very powerful thoughts, both of major importance. It also sets forth a cause and effect relationship that explains why you cannot fail in your efforts to achieve the goal of the course. You will see because it is the Will of God. It is His strength, not your own, that gives you power. And it is His gift, rather than your own, that offers vision to you. God is indeed your strength, and what He gives is truly given. ...
Feb 11, 2024•50 min
LESSON 41 God Goes With Me Wherever I Go. Today’s idea will eventually overcome completely the sense of loneliness and abandonment all the separated ones experience. Depression is an inevitable consequence of separation. So are anxiety, worry, a deep sense of helplessness, misery, suffering and intense fear of loss. The separated ones have invented many “cures” for what they believe to be “the ills of the world.” But the one thing they do not do is to question the reality of the problem. Yet its...
Feb 10, 2024•49 min
LESSON 40 I Am Blessed As A Son Of God. Today we will begin to assert some of the happy things to which you are entitled, being what you are. No long practice periods are required today, but very frequent short ones are necessary. Once every ten minutes would be highly desirable, and you are urged to attempt this schedule and to adhere to it whenever possible. If you forget, try again. If there are long interruptions, try again. Whenever you remember, try again. You need not close your eyes for ...
Feb 09, 2024•57 min
LESSON 39 My Holiness Is My Salvation. If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? Like the text for which this workbook was written, the ideas used for the exercises are very simple, very clear and totally unambiguous. We are not concerned with intellectual feats nor logical toys. We are dealing only in the very obvious, which has been overlooked in the clouds of complexity in which you think you think. If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? This is not difficult, surely. The hesitation you may fe...
Feb 08, 2024•52 min
LESSON 38 There Is Nothing My Holiness Cannot Do. Your holiness reverses all the laws of the world. It is beyond every restriction of time, space, distance and limits of any kind. Your holiness is totally unlimited in its power because it establishes you as a Son of God, at one with the Mind of his Creator. Through your holiness the power of God is made manifest. Through your holiness the power of God is made available. And there is nothing the power of God cannot do. Your holiness, then, can re...
Feb 07, 2024•50 min
We are sharing in this episode in a direct meeting with Master Teacher the first part of the video presentation of The Healing Of The Dream, Episode I, in which he offers us the recognition of Joy in the exploration of the fundamental idea that conceptual mind is the cause of the world it perceives. He invites you to awaken from the dark form association to the representation of a Single Whole Idea of Perfection that is Universal Mind. He teaches and directs you to a Memory of Light through whic...
Feb 06, 2024•52 min
LESSON 37 My Holiness Blesses The World. This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here. Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. Thus are you and the world blessed together. No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through your holy vision. It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone his full due. And he is entitled to everything because it is his birthright as a Son of God. There is no ...
Feb 06, 2024•50 min
LESSON 36 My Holiness Envelops Everything I See. Today’s idea extends the idea for yesterday from the perceiver to the perceived. You are holy because your mind is part of God’s. And because you are holy, your sight must be holy as well. “Sinless” means without sin. You cannot be without sin a little. You are sinless or not. If your mind is part of God’s you must be sinless, or a part of His Mind would be sinful. Your sight is related to His holiness, not to your ego, and therefore not to your b...
Feb 05, 2024•56 min
LESSON 35 My Mind Is Part Of God’s. I Am Very Holy. Today’s idea does not describe the way you see yourself now. It does, however, describe what vision will show you. It is difficult for anyone who thinks he is in this world to believe this of himself. Yet the reason he thinks he is in this world is because he does not believe it. You will believe that you are part of where you think you are. That is because you surround yourself with the environment you want. And you want it to protect the imag...
Feb 04, 2024•50 min
LESSON 34 I Could See Peace Instead Of This. The idea for today begins to describe the conditions that prevail in the other way of seeing. Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward. It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world arises. Three longer practice periods are required for today’s exercises. One in the morning and one in the evening are advised, with an additional one to be undertaken at any time in...
Feb 03, 2024•53 min
LESSON 33 There Is Another Way Of Looking At The World. Today’s idea is an attempt to recognize that you can shift your perception of the world in both its outer and inner aspects. A full five minutes should be devoted to the morning and evening applications. In these practice periods, the idea should be repeated as often as you find comfortable, though unhurried applications are essential. Alternate between surveying your outer and inner perceptions, but without an abrupt sense of shifting.Mere...
Feb 02, 2024•54 min
LESSON 32 I Have Invented The World I See. Today we are continuing to develop the theme of cause and effect. You are not the victim of the world you see because you invented it. You can give it up as easily as you made it up. You will see it or not see it, as you wish. While you want it you will see it; when you no longer want it, it will not be there for you to see. The idea for today, like the preceding ones, applies to your inner and outer worlds, which are actually the same. However, since y...
Feb 01, 2024•56 min
LESSON 31 I Am Not The Victim Of The World I See. Today’s idea is the introduction to your declaration of release. Again, the idea should be applied to both the world you see without and the world you see within. In applying the idea, we will use a form of practice which will be used more and more, with changes as indicated. Generally speaking, the form includes two aspects, one in which you apply the idea on a more sustained basis, and the other consisting of frequent applications of the idea t...
Jan 31, 2024•57 min
We are sharing in this episode in a direct meeting with Master Teacher the first part of the video presentation of Volume III, in which he offers us a joyous Entanglement with Jesus Quantum perspectives in regard to what "Causal Loop" means and offers. He brings it together with the story of the "stoning of the woman" and to "cast the first stone". He teaches the reversal of the space - time perception that left the human mind in grievance, attack and separation. In inviting and allowing the mir...
Jan 30, 2024•51 min
LESSON 30 God Is In Everything I See Because God Is In My Mind. The idea for today is the springboard for vision. From this idea will the world open up before you, and you will look upon it and see in it what you have never seen before. Nor will what you saw before be even faintly visible to you. Today we are trying to use a new kind of “projection.” We are not attempting to get rid of what we do not like by seeing it outside. Instead, we are trying to see in the world what is in our minds, and ...
Jan 30, 2024•24 min
LESSON 29 God Is In Everything I See. T he idea for today explains why you can see all purpose in everything. It explains why nothing is separate, by itself or in itself. And it explains why nothing you see means anything. In fact, it explains every idea we have used thus far, and all subsequent ones as well. Today’s idea is the whole basis for vision. You will probably find this idea very difficult to grasp at this point. You may find it silly, irreverent, senseless, funny and even objectionabl...
Jan 29, 2024•51 min
LESSON 28 Above All Else I Want To See Things Differently. Today we are really giving specific application to the idea for yesterday. In these practice periods, you will be making a series of definite commitments. The question of whether you will keep them in the future is not our concern here. If you are willing at least to make them now, you have started on the way to keeping them. And we are still at the beginning.You may wonder why it is important to say, for example, “Above all else I want ...
Jan 28, 2024•56 min
In this last episode we are continuing to look at the teaching of Christ-Jesus and His Course in Miracles in regard to the idea of the decision for God, as taught at the end of chapter 5. We review our dedication to the mind training and what the daily lessons offer us, and choose Vision above all else in order to recognize that God is in everything we see. We accept His directive of accepting the Atonement for ourselves and decide for the Holy Spirit who will undo all the consequences of our wr...
Jan 27, 2024•59 min
LESSON 27 Above All Else I Want To See. Today’s idea expresses something stronger than mere determination. It gives vision priority among your desires. You may feel hesitant about using the idea, on the grounds that you are not sure you really mean it. This does not matter. The purpose of today’s exercises is to bring the time when the idea will be wholly true a little nearer. There may be a great temptation to believe that some sort of sacrifice is being asked of you when you say you want to se...
Jan 27, 2024•54 min
LESSON 26 My Attack Thoughts Are Attacking My Invulnerability. It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack. And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you. It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them. Because your attack thoughts...
Jan 26, 2024•58 min
LESSON 25 I Do Not Know What Anything Is For. Purpose is meaning. Today’s idea explains why nothing you see means anything. You do not know what it is for. Therefore, it is meaningless to you. Everything is for your own best interests. That is what it is for; that is its purpose; that is what it means. It is in recognizing this that your goals become unified. It is in recognizing this that what you see is given meaning. You perceive the world and everything in it as meaningful in terms of ego go...
Jan 25, 2024•51 min
LESSON 24 I Do Not Perceive My Own Best Interests. In no situation that arises do you realize the outcome that would make you happy. Therefore, you have no guide to appropriate action, and no way of judging the result. What you do is determined by your perception of the situation, and that perception is wrong. It is inevitable, then, that you will not serve your own best interests. Yet they are your only goal in any situation which is correctly perceived. Otherwise, you will not recognize what t...
Jan 24, 2024•52 min
LESSON 23 I Can Escape From The World I See By Giving Up Attack Thoughts. The idea for today contains the only way out of fear that will ever succeed. Nothing else will work; everything else is meaningless. But this way cannot fail. Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed. If the cause of the world you see is attack thoughts, you must learn that it is these thoughts whic...
Jan 23, 2024•53 min
LESSON 22 What I See Is A Form Of Vengeance. Today’s idea accurately describes the way anyone who holds attack thoughts in his mind must see the world. Having projected his anger onto the world, he sees vengeance about to strike at him. His own attack is thus perceived as self defense. This becomes an increasingly vicious circle until he is willing to change how he sees. Otherwise, thoughts of attack and counter-attack will preoccupy him and people his entire world. What peace of mind is possibl...
Jan 22, 2024•42 min