Lesson 244

I am in danger nowhere in the world.

And there we are in truth. In God we are secure.

Lesson 243

Today I will judge nothing that occurs.

I will be honest with myself today.

Today I leave creation free to be itself. Truth must shine in all of us as one.

Lesson 242

This day is God's. It is my gift to Him.

I will not lead my life alone today. I do not understand the world. To try to lead my life alone is foolish. There is One Who knows all that is best for me. And He is glad to make no choices for me but the ones that lead to God. I give this day to Him, for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the way to God.

Lesson 241

This holy instant is salvation come.

What joy there is today! The day has come when sorrows pass away and pain is gone. Countless millions will be united now, as you forgive them all. For I will be forgiven by you today.

We have forgiven one another now, and so we come at last to You again. We return to Heaven and home. Our sanity is restored, and remember that we are one.

Lesson 240

Fear is not justified in any form.

Fear is deception. Not one thing in this world is true. It does not matter what form it may appear. The world is a witness to your own illusions of yourself. Let us not be deceived today. We are God's children. There is no fear in us, for we are each a part of Love Itself.

Give us faith to recognize ourselves and set us free. Let us forgive in Your Name.

Lesson 239

The glory of my Father is my own.

Thank you, Father, for the light that shines forever in us.

Lesson 238

On my decision all salvation rests.

Father, Your trust in me has been so great, I must be worthy. You created me, and know me as I am. And yet You placed Your Son's salvation in my hands, and let it rest on my decision. I must be beloved of You indeed. And I must be steadfast in holiness as well, that You would give Your Son to me in certainty that he is safe Who still is part of You, and yet is mine, because He is my Self.

Lesson 237

Now would I be as God created me.

I allow the light in me to shine.

Lesson 236

I rule my mind, which I alone must rule.

I have a kingdom I must rule. At times, it does not seem I am its king at all. It seems to triumph over me, and tell me what to think, and what to do and feel. And yet it has been given to me to serve whaterever, purpose I perceive in it. My mind can only serve. Today I give its service to the Holy Spirit to emply as He sees fit. I thus direct my mind, which I alone can rule. And thus I set it free to do the Will of God.

Lesson 235

God's Will is that I be saved.

I have no guilt nor sin in me, for there is none in You.

Lesson 234

Father, Today I am Yours.

Today we will anticipate the holy peace we never left.

Lesson 233

I give my life to God to guide today.

I give You all my thoughts today. I would have none of mine. I give you all my acts as well, that I may do Your WIll, not mine.

Lesson 232

Be in my mind, my Father, through the day.

Today, practice the end of fear. Have faith in Him. Trust all things to Him. Let Him reveal all things to you.

Lesson 231

Father, I will but remember You.

What can I seek for, Father, but Your Love? Perhaps I think I seek for something else; a something I have called by many names. Yet is Your Love the only thing I seek, or ever sought. For there is nothing else that I could ever really want to find. Let me remember You. What else could I desire but the truth about myself?

" Tolerance for pain may be high, but it is not without limit. Eventually everyone begins to recognize, however dimly, that there must be a better way. As this recognition becomes more firmly established, it becomes a turning point." (T-2. III.3:5-7).

Lesson 230: Now will I seek and find the peace of God

Now will I seek and find the peace of God.

(1) In peace I was created. And in peace do I remain. It is not given me to change my Self. How merciful is God my Father, that when He created me He gave me peace forever. Now I ask but to be what I am. And can this be denied me, when it is forever true?


Reality is changeless. Miracles but show what you have interposed between reality and your awareness is unreal, and does not interfere at all... Because reality is changless is a miracle already there to heal all things that change, and offer them to you to see in happy form, devoid of fear. (T-30.VIII.4:1-2).

Lesson 229

Love is what I am.

Father, my thanks to You for what I am, and thank You for saving me from my foolish thoughts that my mind made up. Amen.

Lesson 228

(1:1-3) My Father knows my holiness. Shall I deny his knowledge, and believe in what His knowledge makes impossible? Shall I accept as true what He proclaimed as false?

(2:1-2) Father, I was mistaken in myself, because I failed to realize the Source from which I came, I have not left that Source to enter in a body and to die. My holiness remains a part of me, as I am part of You. And my mistakes about myself are dreams. I let them go today. And I stand ready to receive your Word alone for what really am.

"Thoughts that are not born and cannot die. They share the attributes of their creator, no have they a separate life apart from his. The thoughts you think are in your mind, as you are in the Mind which thought of you." (T-30, III.6:5-7)

Lesson 227

This is my holy instant of release.

Today I am free, because my will is Yours. Nothing that I thought apart from You exists. I am free because I was mistaken, and did not affect my own reality at all by my illusions. I give them up, and lay them down before the feet of truth, to be removed forever from my mind. This is my holy instant of release. I know my will is one with Yours.

Lesson 226

My home awaits me. I will hasten there.

My home awaits my glad return. Your Arms are open and I hear Your Voice. What need have I to linger in a place of vain desires and of shattered dreams, when Heaven can so easily be mine?

Lesson 225

God is my Father, and His Son loves Him.

I must return Your Love for me, giving and receiving are the same, and You have given all Your Love to me. I must return it, for I want it mine in full awareness, blazing in my mind and keeping it within its kindly light, inviolate, beloved, with fear behind and only peace ahead. How still the way Your loving Son is led along to You!

Lesson 224

God is my Father, and He loves His Son.

My Name is known to You. I have forgotten It, do not know where I'm going, who I am, or what I do. Remind me, now, for I am weary of the world I see. Reveal what You would have me see instead.

Lesson 223

God is my life. I have no life but His.

Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes. Guilt proclaims that we are not Yours. We are lonely here, and long for Heaven, where we are at home. Our Name is Yours, and we acknowledge that we are Yours.

Lesson 222

God is with me. I live and move in Him.

Lesson 221

Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.

Father, I come to You today to seek the peace that You alone can give.

I come in silence. In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of my mind, I wait and listen for Your Voice. My Father, speak to me today. I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and love, sure You will hear my call and answer me.

Lesson 220

1. (200) There is no peace except the peace of God.

Let me not wander from the way of peace, for I am lost on other roads than this. But let me follow Him Who leads me home, and peace is certain as the Love of God.

Lesson 219

1. (199) I am not a body. I am free.

I am God's Son. Be still, my mind, and think a moment upon this. And then return to earth, without confusion as to what my Father loves forever as His Son.

Lesson 218

1. (198) Only my condemnation injures me.

My condemnation keeps my vision dark, and through my sightless eyes I cannot see the vision of my glory. Yet today I can behold this glory and be glad.

Lesson 217

1. (197) It can be but gratitude I earn.

Who should give thanks for my salvation but myself? And how but through salvation can I find the Self to Whom my thanks are due?

Lesson 216

1. (196) It can be but myself I crucify.

All that I do I do unto myself. if I attack, I suffer. But if I forgive, salvation will be given me.

Lesson 215

1. (195) Love is the way I walk in gratitude.

The Holy Spirit is my only Guide. He walks with me in love. And I give thanks to Him for showing me the way to go.

Lesson 214

1. (194) I place the future in the Hands of God.

The past is gone; the future is not yet. Now am I free from both. For what God gives can only be for good. And I accept but what He gives as what belongs to me.

Lesson 213

1. (193) All things are lessons God would have me learn.

A lesson is a miracle which God offers to me, in place of thoughts I made that hurt me. What I learn of Him becomes the way I am set free. And so I choose to learn His lessons and forget my own.

Lesson 212

1. (192) I have a function God would have me fill.

I seek the function that would set me free from all the vain illusions of the world. Only the function God has given me can offer freedom. Only this I seek, and only this will I accept as mine.

Lesson 211

1. (191) I am the holy Son of God Himself.

In silence and in true humility I seek God's glory, to behold it in the Son whom He created as my Self.

Lesson 210

1. (190) I choose the joy of God instead of pain.

Pain is my own idea. It is not a Thought of God, but one I thought apart from Him and from His Will. His Will is joy, and only joy for His beloved Son. And that I choose, instead of what I made.

Lesson 209

1. (189) I feel the Love of God within me now.

The Love of God is what created me. The Love of God is everything I am. The Love of God proclaimed me as His Son. The Love of God within me sets me free.

Lesson 208

1, (188) The peace of God is shining in me now.

I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me. And in that stillness we will find the peace of God. It is within my heart, which witnesses to God Himself.

Lesson 207

I bless the world because I bless myself.

God's blessing shines upon me from within my heart, where He abides. I need but turn to Him, and every sorrow melts away, as I accept His boundless Love for me.

Lesson 206

1. (186) Salvation of the world depends on me.

...and I would give His gifts where He intended them to be.

Lesson 205

1. (185) I want the peace of God.

The peace of God is everything I want, my one goal, the aim of all my living here, the end I seek, my purpose, my function, and my life, while I abide where I am not at home.

Lesson 204

1. (184) The Name of God is my inheritance.

God's Name reminds me that I am His Son, not slave to time, unbound by laws which rule the world of sick illusions, free in God, forever and forever one with Him.

Lesson 203

1. (183) I call upon God's Name and on my own.

The Name of God is my deliverance from every thought of evil and of sin, because it is my own as well as His.

Lesson 202

1. (182) I will be still an instant and go home.

Why would I choose to stay an instant more where I do not belong, when God Himself has given me His Voice to call me home?

Lesson 201

(181) I trust my brothers, who are one with me.
No one but is my borther. I'm blessed with oneness with the universe and God, my Father, one Creater of the whole that is my Self forever One with me.

Lesson 200

There is no peace except the peace of God.

And I am glad and thankful it is so.

Lesson 199

I am not a body. I am free.

LESSON 198

Only my condemnation injures me.

.. freedom is your gift, and you can now receive the gift you gave.

Lesson 197

It can be but my gratitude I earn.

The world must thank you when you offer it release from your illusions. The world's release can only mirror yours. Gratitude is all that is required, a lasting offering of a thankful heart, released from hell forever.

All gratitude belongs to you, because of what you are.

Give thanks as you receive it. Do not forget your function here. Forgive. Never think that He has ever ceased to offer thanks to you.

Lesson 196

It can be but myself I crucify.

To attack another is to attack yourself.

The hopeless thought that you can make attacks on others and escape yourself has nailed you to the cross. Maybe it seemed like salvation, but really it only reinforced your belief of God being real, an enemy separate from you and waiting to destroy you and blot you from the universe.

If you accept the fearful thought you can attack another and be free yourself, you are mad.

Until this form is changed, there is no hope. Until you see that this is impossible, how could there be escape? The fear of God is real to anyone who thinks this thought is true.

Question it! From there you can at least consider if you want to go along this painful path. Until this shift in thinking, you cannot perceive that it is but your thoughts that bring you fear, and your deliverance depends on YOU.

Once you understand it is impossible that you be hurt except by our own thoughts, the fear of God must disappear. God, Whom you had thought to banish, can be welcomed back within the holy mind He never left.

The thing you dread the most is your salvation. You are strong, and it is strength you want. And you are free, and glad of freedom. You have sought to be both weak and bound, because you feared your strength and freedom. Yet salvation lies in them.

Once you realize that it is YOU you fear, the mind perceives itself as split. The enemy is not on the outside. It is within YOU. You perceive a murderer within you, eager for your death, intent on plotting punishment for you until the time when it can kill at last. Yet in this instant is the time as well in which salvation comes. Fear of God has disappeared. And you can call on Him to save you from illusions by His Love, calling Him Father and yourself His Son/Daughter. Pray that the instant may be soon, - today. Step back from fear, and make advance to love.

There is no Thought of God that does not go with you to help you reach that instant, and to go beyond it quickly, surely and forever. When the fear of God is gone, there are no obstacles that still remain between you and the holy peace of God. How kind and merciful is the idea we practice! Give it welcome, as you should, for it is your release. It is you your mind can try to crucify. Yet your redemption, too, will come from you.

Lesson 195

Love is the way I walk in gratitude.

Lesson 195

Love is the way I walk in gratitude.

Your gratitude is due to him alone Who made all cause of sorrow disappear throughout the world.

Lesson 194

I place the future in the Hands of God.

Lesson 193

All things are lessons God would have me learn.

Each lesson has a central thought, the same in all of them. The form alone is changed, with different circumstances and events; with different characters and different themes apparent but not real. The are the same in fundamental content.

"A problem can appear in many forms, and it will do so while the problem lasts. It serves no purpose to attempt to solve it in a special form. It will recur and then recur again and yet again, until it has been answered for all time and will not rise again in any form. And only then are you released from it (T-26.II.5-8)."

Jesus tells us the content behind the form:

It is this: "Forgive, and you will see this differently."

LESSON 192

I have a function God would have me fill.

What can such a function mean within a world of envy, hatred and attack?

Forgiveness represents your function here. It is not God's creation, for it is the means by which untruth can be undone. On earth, you need the means to let illusions go. Creation merely waits for your return to be acknowledged, not to be complete.

Only forgiveness can relieve the mind of thinking that the body is its home.

With anger gone, you will perceive that for Christ's vision and the gift of sight, no sacrifice was asked, and only pain was lifted from a sick and tortured mind.

Hold no one prisoner. Release instead of bind, for thus are you made free. The way is simple. Every time you feel a stab of anger, realize you hold a sword above your head. And it will fall or be averted as you choose to be condemned or free. Each person who seems to tempt you to be angry represents your chance to forgive. You owe him thanks instead of pain.

Be merciful today. The Son of God deserves your mercy. Your function here on earth is only to forgive him. Forgive him now, and you will see that you are one with him.

Lesson 191

I'm the holy Son of God Himself.
This is our declaration of independence and release from the bondage of the world.

LESSON 190

I choose the joy of God instead of pain.

Choose between illusions and the truth, or pain and joy, or hell and Heaven. We are free to choose our joy instead of pain, the peace of God instead of conflict.

LESSON 189

I feel the Love of God within me now.

What would you see? The choice is given you. Do not let your mind forget this law of seeing. If hatred is in your heart, you will perceive a fearful world. If you feel the Love of God within you, you will look on a world of mercy and of love.

Salvation's ways are not our own, for they belong to You. Our hands are open to receive Your gifts. We ask Your Will, which is our own as well, be done in us and in the world. Amen.

LESSON 188

The peace of God is shining in me now.

This light cannot be lost. The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. Who recognizes it within himself must give it.

The peace of God is shining in me now.

Let all things shine upon me in that peace,

And let me bless them with the light in me.

LESSON 187

I bless the world because I bless myself.

Giving is proof of having. The truth maintains that giving will increase what you possess. When you give ideas away, you strengthen them in your own mind.

If you are to save the world, you first accept salvation for yourself. Until you see the miracles it brings to everyone you look upon, you will not believe that this is done. Herein is the idea of giving clarified and given meaning. Now you can perceive that by your giving is your store increased.

Give gladly. You can only gain.

LESSON 186

Salvation of the world depends on me.

All false humility aside, listen to God's Voice, revealing what He would have us do. With strength, wisdom and holiness, He deems us worthy, so we are. It is but arrogance that judges otherwise.

The arrogant must cling to words, afraid to go beyond them to experience which might affront their stance. Yet the humble are free to hear the Voice which tells them what they are, and what to do.

Let it go.

And so we find our peace. We will accept the function God has given us, for all illusions rest upon the weird belief that we can make another for ourselves. We can laugh or weep, and greet the day with welcome or with tears.

Salvation of the world depends on you who can forgive. Such is your function here.

LESSON 185

I want the peace of God.

To say these words is nothing. But to mean these words is everything.

If you could but mean them for just an instant, there would be no further sorrow possible for you in any form; in any place or time. Heaven would be completely given back to full awareness, memory of God entirely restored, the resurrection of all creation fully recognized.

Lesson 185: I want the peace of God

(1:1) To say these words is nothing. But to mean these words is everything.

(6:1) The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds...

"Now you can say to everyone who comes to join in prayer with you: I cannot go without you, for you are a part of me. So he is in truth." (S-1. V.3:8-10).

LESSON 184

The Name of God is my inheritance.

All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to have. And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. Your Name unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. Amen

LESSON 183

I call upon God's Name and on my own.

Your Father's Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not know; even though you have not remembered it.

Repeat God's Name, hear nothing else. Let God's Name become your only thought, word, wish you have. Acknowledge Him as sole Creator of reality.

Today you can achieve a state in which you will experience the gift of grace.

Turn to HIm for your release, and it is given you.

Lesson 182: I will be still an instant and go home

Holy instant is truly the time of Christ. For in this liberating moment no guilt is laid upon the Son of God, and his unlimited power is thus restored to him. ...
The time of Christ is the time appointed for the gift of freedom, offered to everyone. And by your acceptance of it, you offer it to everyone. (T-15.X.2: 1-2).

LESSON 181

I trust my brothers, who are one with me.

REVIEW V - LESSON 180

1. (169) By grace I live. By grace I am released.

2. (170) There is no cruelty in God and none in me.

REVIEW V - LESSON 179

1. (167) There is one life, and that I share with God.

2. (168) Your grace is given me. I claim it now.

REVIEW V - LESSON 178

1. (165) Let not my mind deny the Thought of God.

2. (166) I am entrusted with the gifts of God.

REVIEW V - LESSON 177

1. (163) There is no death. The Son of God is free.

2. (164) Now are we one with Him Who is our Source.

REVIEW V - LESSON 176

1. (161) Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.

2. (162) I am as God created me.

REVIEW V - LESSON 175

1. (159) I give the miracles I have received.

2. (160) I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.

REVIEW V - LESSON 174

1. (157) Into His Presence would I enter now.

2. (158) Today I learn to give as I receive.

REVIEW V - LESSON 173

1 (155) I will step back and let Him lead the way.

2 (156) I walk with God in perfect holiness.

God is Love, and so am I.

REVIEW V - LESSON 172

1. (153) In my defenselessness my safety lies.

2. (154) I am among the ministers of God.

REVIEW V - LESSON 171

God is Love, and so am I.

1. (151) All things are echoes of the Voice for God.

God is Love, and so am I.

2. (152) The power of decision is my own.

God is Love, and so am I.

Lesson 170

There is no cruelty in God and none in me.

You make what you defend against, and by your own defense against it is it real and inescapable. Lay down your arms, and only then do you perceive it false.

Father, we are like You. No cruelty abides in us, for there is none in You. Your peace is ours. And we bless the world with what we have received from You alone. We choose again, and make our choice for all brothers, knowing they are one with us. We bring them Your salvation as we have received it now. And we give thanks for them who render us complete. In them we see Your glory, and in them we find our peace. Holy are we because Your Holiness has set us free. And we give thanks. Amen.

Lesson 169

By grace I live. By grace I am released.

By grace I live. By grace I am released.

By grace I give. By grace I will release.

Lesson168

Your grace is given me. I claim it now.

His grace is yours by your acknowledgment.

The gift He has preserved within our hearts is waiting to be acknowledged. His gift of grace is more than just an answer. It restores all memories the sleeping mind forgot; all certainty of what Love's meaning is.

Today is a new day. Receive what has been given you. Faith lies in the Giver, not our own acceptance. We acknowledge our mistakes, but He to Whom all error is unknown is yet the One Who answers our mistakes by giving us the means to lay them down, and rise to Him in gratitude and love.

Your grace is given me. I claim it now. Father, I come to You. And You will come to me who ask. I am the Son You love.

Lesson 167

There is one life, and that I share with God.

Life is like the truth. It does not have degrees.

In this world, there appears that life has an opposite, death. You think death is of the body. But it is only an idea that originates from the mind. Ideas do not leave their source. Change your mind about yourself. It is the cause of healing and why you cannot die. The truth is you are one with God.

What seems to be the opposite of life is merely sleeping. It dreams of time. When the mind awakes, it continues as it always was.

Let us be children of the truth, and not deny our holy heritage. Our life is not as we imagine it.

We share one life because we have one Source, a Source from which perfection comes to us. The wakened mind is one that knows its Source, its Self, its Holiness.

Lesson 166

I am entrusted with the gifts of God.

God's trust in you is limitless, giving without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness. And yet, unless your will in one with His, His gifts are not received.

Here is the paradox that underlies the making of the world. This world is not the Will of God, and so it is not real. Yet those who think it real must still believe there is another will. Every mind that looks upon the world and judges it as certain, solid, trustworthy and true believes in two creators; or in one, himself alone. But never in one God.

God's gifts go with you, all unknown to you. You cannot lose them. But you will not look at what is given you. You wander on, going ahead to nowhere. In misery and poverty, alone though God is with you, and a treasure so great that everything the world contains is valueless before its magnitude.

This is your chosen self, the one you made as a replacement for reality. This is the self you defend against all reason. You go on, eyes cast down, unless you catch a glimpse of truth, and be released from self-deception and set free.

Your ancient fear has come upon you now. Christ's hand has touched your shoulder, and you feel that you are not alone. Even the miserable self you thought you were may not be your Identity. Perhaps God's Word is truer than your own. Perhaps His gifts to you are real.

God's Will does not oppose. It merely is.

Now do we live, and cannot die. You are not what you pretend to be. He walks with you, answering all your fears with one reply, "It is not so."

The gifts you have are not for you alone. What He has come to offer you, you now must learn to give. The gifts are yours to give to all who chose the lonely road you have escaped. They do not understand they pursue their wishes. It is you who teach them now. For you have learned of Christ there is another way for them to walk. Let sorrow not tempt you to be unfaithful to your trust.

Your change of mind becomes the proof that who accepts God's gifts can never suffer anything. You are entrusted with the world's release from pain.

Betray it not. Become the living proof of what Christ's touch can offer everyone. God has entrusted all His gifts to you. Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. Such is your mission now. God entrusts the giving of His gifts to all who have received them. He has shared His joy with you. And now you go to share it with the world.

Lesson 165

Let not my mind deny the Thought of God.

What could keep you from what you already have except your choice not to see it, denying it is there?

The Thought of God created you, it belongs to you, and by it you live. It is you Source of life, holding you one with it, and everything is one with you. The Thought of God protects you, cares for you, lighting your mind with happiness and love.

Your doubts are meaningless, God is certain.

We count on God, not upon ourselves, to give us certainty.

Lesson 164

Now are we one with Him Who is our Source.

What time but now can truth be recognized? The present is the only time there is. Look past time, and see eternity as represented there. Hear the sounds, the senseless, busy world, yet hear them faintly. Beyond them all you hear is the song of Heaven, and the Voice for God more clear, more meaningful, more near.

Lesson 163

There is no death. The Son of God is free.

Death takes on many forms. It may appear as sadness, fear, anxiety or doubt; as anger, faithlessness and lack of trust; concern for bodies, envy, and all forms in which the wish to be as you are not may come to tempt you. All such thoughts are the worshipping of death as savior and as giver of release.

The thought of death seems mighty. It seems to hold all hopes and wishes in its grasp. All things but death are seen as unsure. Death is certain, taking all life as hostage to itself.

Here is the opposite of God, stronger than God's Will for life, changeless constancy. Here is the Will of Father and of Son defeated finally, and laid to rest beneath the headstone death has placed upon the body of the holy Son of God.

Either all things die, or else they live and cannot die. No compromise is possible. The idea of the death of God is so preposterous that even the insane have difficulty in believing it. For it implies that God was once alive and somehow perished.

Death's worshippers may be afraid. And yet, can thoughts like these be fearful? There is no death, and we renounce it now in every form, for their salvation and our own as well. God made not death. Whatever form it takes must therefore be illusion. It is given us to look past death, and see the life beyond.

Our Father, bless our eyes today. We are Your messengers, and we would look upon the glorious reflection of Your Love which shines in everything. We live and move in You alone. We are not separate from Your eternal life. There is no death, for death is not Your Will. And we abide where You have placed us, in the life we share with You and with all living things, to be like You and part of You forever. We accept Your Thoughts as ours, and our will is one with Yours eternally. Amen.

Lesson 162

I am as God created me.

This single thought would save the world. These words are sacred. They are the words God gave in answer to the world you made. By them it disappears, and all things seen within its misty clouds and vaporous illusions vanish as these words are spoken.

Holy is he who makes these words his own. He will save the world, because he gives the world what he receives each time he practices the words of truth.

Today, practice simply, for the words we use are mighty.

Lesson 161

Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.

Today take a stand against our anger that our fears may disappear and offer room to love.

Lesson 160

I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.

Fear is a stranger to love. Identify with fear, and you are a stranger to yourself. You are unknown to you. Your Self is alien to the part of you which thinks that it is real, but different from yourself. Who could be sane in such a circumstance? Who but a madman could believe he is what he is not, and judge against himself?

Love and fear cannot coexist. If you are love and real, then fear must be the stranger, the illusion. If fear is real, then you do not exist at all.

A stranger to himself can find no home wherever he may look, for he has made return impossible. His way is lost, except a miracle will search him out and show him that he is no stranger now. The miracle will come. For in his home his Self remains.

God's certainty suffices. Hear His Voice, quietly and sure, that you are not a stranger to your Father, nor is your Creator stranger to you. At home in Him, no stranger to Himself.

Christ's vision sees no strangers, joyously uniting with them. They see Him as a stranger, for they do not recognize themselves. Yet as they give Him welcome, they remember. And He leads them gently home again, where they belong.

Not one does Christ forget. Not one He fails to give you to remember, that your home may be complete and perfect as it was established. He has not forgotten you. But you will not remember Him until you look on all as He does. Who denies his brother is denying Him, and thus refusing to accept the gift of sight by which his Self is clearly recognized, his home remembered and salvation come.

Lesson 159

I give the miracles I have received.

No one can give what he has not received. You understand that you are healed when you give healing. You accept forgiveness as accomplished in yourself when you forgive. You recognize your brother as yourself, and thus do you perceive that you are whole. There is no miracle you cannot give, for all are given you. Receive them now by opening the storehouse of your mind where they are laid, and giving them away.

Lesson 158

Today I learn to give as I receive.

You have been given the knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out of love. You have never left your Source.

Time is set already. There is no step along the road that anyone takes but by chance. It has already been taken by him, although he has not yet embarked on it. Time seems to go in one direction, but our journey is already over. It just seems like we have a future unknown to us.

Time is a trick, an illusion in which figures come and go, yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. The script is written. When experience will come to end your doubting has been set.

A teacher does not give experience, because he did not learn it. It revealed itself to him at its appointed time. But vision is his gift. This he can give directly, for Christ's knowledge is not lost, because He has a vision He can give to anyone who asks.

Here is a quiet place within the world made holy by forgiveness and by love. All contradictions reconciled, for here the journey ends. Experience - unlearned, untaught, unseen - is merely there. This is beyond our goal, for it transcends what needs to be accomplished. Our concern is with Christ's vision. This we can attain.

Christ's vision has one law. It beholds a light beyond the body, pure, free from error and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. It sees no separation. And it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees.

This can be taught; and must be taught by all who would achieve it. It requires the recognition that the world cannot give anything that can compare with this in value. And this you give today. See no one as a body. Greet him as the Son of God he is, acknowledging that he is one with you in holiness.

Thus are his sins forgiven him, for Christ has vision that has power to overlook them all. In His forgiveness are they gone.

Thus do you learn to give as you receive. And thus Christ's vision looks on you as well. This lesson is not difficult to learn, if you remember in your brother you but see yourself. If he is lost in sin, so must you be; if you see light in him, your sins have been forgiven by yourself. Each brother whom you meet today provides another chance to let Christ's vision shine on you and offer you the peace of God.

It doesn't matter when revelation comes, for that is not of time. Yet time has still one gift to give, in which true knowledge is reflected in a way so accurate its image shares its unseen holiness; its likeness shines with its immortal love. We practice seeing with the eyes of Christ today. And by the holy gifts we give, Christ's vision looks upon ourselves as well.

Lesson 157

Into His Presence would I enter now.

This is a day of silence and of trust. You have spent long days and nights in celebrating death. Today you learn to feel the joy of life. Light your mind, and let it rest.

Lesson 156

I walk with God in Perfect holiness.

I walk with God in perfect holiness. I light the world, I light my mind and all the minds which God created one with me.

Lesson 155

I will step back and let Him lead the way.

To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.

I will step back and let Him lead the way,

For I would walk along the road to Him.

Lesson 154

I am among the ministers of God.

Let us today be neither arrogant nor falsely humble. We cannot judge, nor need to. These are but attempts to hold decision off, and to delay commitment to our function. What we think is weakness can be strength; what we believe to be our strength is often arrogance.

A messenger is not the one who writes the message he delivers. It is enough that he accept it, give it to the ones for whom it is intended, and fulfill his role in its delivery. If he determines what the messages should be, or what their purpose is, or where they should be carried, he is failing to perform his proper part as bringer of the Word.

No one can receive and understand he has received until he gives. For in the giving is his own acceptance of what he received.

I am among the ministers of God, and I am grateful that I have the means by which to recognize that I am free.

Lesson 153

In my defenselessness my safety lies.

Lesson 152

The power of decision is my own.

The power of decision is my own. This day I will accept myself as what my Father's Will created me to be.

In patience wait for Him. God's Voice will answer. He will substitute the peace of God for all you frantic thoughts, the truth of God for self-deceptions, and God's Son for your illusions of yourself.

Lesson 151

All things are echoes of the Voice for God.

Let Him be Judge as well of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth.

He will reinterpret all you see that seems to touch on you in any way from His one frame of reference, wholly unified and sure. And you will see the love beyond the hate, the constancy in change, the pure in sin, and only Heaven's blessing on the world.

Such is your resurrection, for your life is not a part of anything you see. Beyond the body and the world, you will see the holy face of Christ in everything, and hear in everything no sound except the echo of God's Voice.

Now has our ministry begun at last, to carry round the world the joyous news that truth has no illusions, and the peace of God, through us, belongs to everyone.

Lesson 150

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(139) I will accept Atonement for myself.

(140) Only salvation can be said to cure.

Lesson 149

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(137) When I am healed I am not healed alone.

(138) Heaven is the decision I must make.

Lesson 148

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(135) If I defend myself I am attacked.

(136) Sickness is a defense against the truth.

Lesson 147

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(133) I will not value what is valueless.

(134) Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.

Lesson 146

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(131) No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.

(132) I loose the world from all I thought it was.

Lesson 145

My mind holds only what I thing with God. (129) Beyond this world there a world I want. (130) It is impossible to see two worlds.

Lesson 144

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(127) There is no love but God's.

(128) The world I see holds nothing that I want.

Lesson 143

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(125) In quiet I receive God's Word today.

(126) All that I give is given to myself.

Lesson 142

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(123) I thank my Father for His gifts to me.
(124) Let me remember I am one with God.

Lesson 141

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(121) Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
(122) Forgiveness offers everything I want.

Lesson 140

Only salvation can be said to cure.
Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. Atonement takes away the guilt that makes sickness possible. Today we seek to change our minds about the source of sickness, for we seek a cure for all illusions, not another shift among them. Today we hear a single Voice which speaks to us of truth, where all illusions end, and peace returns to the eternal, quiet home of God.

With nothing in our hands to which we cling, with lifted hearts and listening minds we pray:

Only salvation can be said to cure.
Speak to us, Father, that we may be healed.

Lesson 139

I will accept Atonement for myself.

I will accept Atonement for myself, for I remain as God created me.

Lesson 138

Heaven is the decision I must make.

Heaven is the decision I must make. I make it now, and will not change my mind, because it is the only thing I want.

You think a thousand choices are confronting you, when there is really only one to make. You make but one. And when that one is made, you will perceive it was no choice at all. Truth is true, and nothing else is. There is no opposite to choose. There is no contradiction to the truth.

Lesson 137

When I am healed I am not healed alone.

When I am healed I am not healed alone. And I would share my healing with the world, that sickness may be banished from the mind of God's one Son, Who is my only Self. And I would bless my brothers, for I would be healed with them, as they are healed with me.

Healing is freedom. Let our minds be healed, that we may carry healing to the world, exchanging curse for blessing, pain for joy, and separation for the peace of God. Those who are healed become the instruments of healing.

Let healing be through you today. And as you rest in quiet, be prepared to give as you receive, to hold but what you give, and to receive the Word of God to take the place of all the foolish thoughts that ever were imagined. We come together to make well all that was sick, and offer blessing where there was attack.

Lesson 136

Sickness is a defense against the truth.

Sickness is a defense against the truth. I will accept the truth of what I am, and let my mind be wholly healed today.

Sickness is not an accident. It is a form of defense, a device for self-deception. And like all the rest, its purpose is to hide reality, attack it, change it, render it inept, distort it, twist it, or reduce it to a little pile of unassembled parts. The aim of all defenses is to keep the truth from being whole. The parts are seen as if each one were whole within itself.

Defenses are not unintentional, nor are they made without awareness. They seem to be unconscious but because of the rapidity with which you choose to use them. And afterwards, your plan requires that you must forget you made it. Defenses make facts unrecognizable.

Sickness is a decision. It is not a thing that happens to you. It is a choice you make. The sickness of the body convinces you that you are separate from the truth. This makes the body stronger than the truth, more powerful than everlasting life.

God knows not of your plans to change His Will. The universe remains unheeding of the laws by which you thought to govern it. And Heaven has not bowed to hell, nor life to death. Defenses are plans to defeat what cannot be attacked. Truth wants to give you happiness, that is its purpose. It may sigh a little when you throw away its gifts, and yet it knows, with certainty, that what God wills for you must be received.

Ask that the truth come to you and set you free, and truth will come, for it never has been apart from us. It merely waits for the invitation. Healing will flash across your open mind, as peace and truth arise to take the place of war and vain imaginings. Your mind will be healed of all sickness that it tried to authorize the body to obey.

Now is the body healed, because the source of sickness has been opened to relief.

I have forgotten what I really am, for I mistook my body for myself. Sickness is a defense against the truth. But I am not a body. And my mind cannot attack. So I cannot be sick.

Lesson 135

If I defend myself I am attacked.

If I defend myself I am attacked. But in defenselessness I will be strong, and I will learn what my defenses hide. This is my Eastertime. And I would keep it holy. I will not defend myself, because the Son of God needs no defense against the truth of his reality.

Defense gives illusion full reality, and then attempts to handle them as real. It adds illusions to illusions, thus making correction doubly difficult. And it is this you do when you attempt to plan the future, activate the past, or organize the present as you wish.

You operate from the belief you must protect yourself from what is happening because it must contain what threatens you. The world is based on the insane belief that there is danger which has power to call on you to make appropriate defense.

Defense is frightening. It stems from fear, increasing fear as each defense is made. You think it offers safety. yet it speaks of fear made real and terror justified. Is it not strange you do not pause to ask, as you elaborate your plans and make your armor thicker and your locks more tight, what you defend, and how, and against what?

Let's consider what you defend. It must be something that is very weak and easily assaulted. It must be something made easy prey, unable to protect itself and needing your defense. What but the body has such frailty that constant care and watchful, deep concern are needful to protect its little life? What but the body falters and must fail to serve the Son of God as worthy host?

Yet it is not the body that can fear, nor be a thing of fear. It has no needs but those which you assign to it. It needs no complicated structures of defense, no health-inducing medicine, no care and no concern at all. Defend its life, or give it gifts to make it beautiful or walls to make it safe, and you but say your home is open to the thief of time, corruptible and crumbling, so unsafe it must be guarded with your very life.

It is your mind which gave the body all the functions that you see in it, and set its value far beyond a little pile of dust and water. Who would make defense of something that he recognized as this?

The body is in need of no defense. It will be strong and healthy if the mind does not abuse it by assigning it to roles it cannot fill, to purposes beyond its scope, and to exalted aims which it cannot accomplish. Such attempts, ridiculous yet deeply cherished, are the sources for the many mad attacks you make upon it. For it seems to fail your hopes, your needs, your values and your dreams.

The "self" that needs protection is not real. The body, valueless and hardly worth the least defense, need merely be perceived as quite apart from you, and it becomes a healthy, serviceable instrument through which the mind can operate until its usefulness is over. Who would want to keep it when its usefulness is done?

Defend the body and you have attacked your mind. Identify with the body and impose all the pain that comes from the conception of the mind as limited and fragile, and apart from other minds and separate from its Source.

These are the thoughts in need of healing, and the body will respond with health when they have been corrected and replaced with truth. This is the body's only real defense. If you cherish the body, you take away the hope of healing, for you fail to see where hope must lie, in the mind. Healthy mind, healthy body. That is the universal law. Go against this, and sickness will follow.

A healed mind does not plan. It carries out the plans that it receives through listening to wisdom that is not its own. It waits until it has been taught what should be done, and then proceeds to do it. it does not depend upon itself for anything except its adequacy to fulfill the plans assigned to it.

All your defenses have been aimed at not receiving what you will receive today. And in the light and joy of simple trust, you will but wonder why you ever thought that you must be defended from release. Heaven asks nothing. It is hell that makes extravagant demands for sacrifice. You give up nothing in these times today when, undefended, you represent yourself to your Creator as you really are.

He has remembered you. Today we will remember Him. For this is Eastertime in your salvation. And you rise again from what was seeming death and hopelessness. Now is the light of hope reborn in you, for now you come without defense, to learn the part for you within the plan of God.

Learn today.

LESSON 134

Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
Forgiveness is not an unfair sacrifice or righteous wrath, a gift unjustified and undeserved, and a complete denial of the truth.
Forgiveness is irrelevant to everything except illusions. What you are forgiving is the illusion, and forgiving yourself for believing the illusion as truth. The problem is that you find it difficult to arrive at genuine forgiveness because you still believe you must forgive the truth, and not illusions. You believe that forgiveness is a vain attempt to look past what is there; to overlook the truth.

Because you think your sins are real, you look on pardon as deception. If sins are real and you forgive them, that's like saying the corrupt are blameless as grass and as white as snow. Forgiveness is delusional. It would see the loathsome as good. Those who are forgiven from the view their sins are real are mocked and twice condemned; first, by themselves for what they think they did, and once again by those who pardon them.

It is sin's unreality that makes forgiveness natural and wholly sane, a deep relief to those who offer it; a quiet blessing where it is received. It does not countenance illusions, but collects them lightly, with a little laugh, and gently lays them at the feet of truth. And there they disappear entirely.

Forgiveness is the only thing that stands for truth in the illusions of the world. It sees their nothingness, and looks straight through the thousand forms in which they may appear. It looks on lies, but it is not deceived. it does not heed the self-accusing shrieks of sinners mad with guilt. It looks on them with quiet eyes, and merely says to them, "My brother, what you think is not the truth."

The strength of pardon is its honesty, which is so uncorrupted that it sees illusions as illusions, not as truth. It is because of this that it becomes the undeceiver in the face of lies; the great restorer of the simple truth. By its ability to overlook what is not there, it opens up the way to truth, which has been blocked by dreams of guilt. Now are you free to follow in the way your true forgiveness opens up to you. For if one brother has received this gift of you, the door is open to yourself.

Their is a very simple way to find the door to true forgiveness, and perceive it open wide in welcome. When you feel that you are tempted to accuse someone of sin in any form, do not allow your mind to dwell on what you think he did, for that is self-deception. Ask instead, "Would I accuse myself of doing this?"

Lies condemn. In truth is innocence, the only thing there is. Forgiveness stands between illusions and the truth; between the world you see and that which lies beyond; between the hell of guilt and Heaven's gate.

Forgiveness must be practiced, for the world cannot perceive its meaning, nor provide a guide to teach you its benefits. Forgiveness is alien to this world.

Without delay, we practice true forgiveness today. We no longer delay freedom and peace.

Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. Would I accuse myself of doing this? I will not lay this chain upon myself. No one is crucified alone; and yet no one can enter Heaven by himself.

LESSON 133

I will not value what is valueless.
You do not ask too much of life, but far too little. When you let your mind be drawn to bodily concerns, to things you buy, to eminence as valued by the world, you ask for sorrow, not for happiness. If you choose a thing that will not last forever, what you chose is valueless. What fades and dies was never there, and makes no offering to him who chooses it. Furthermore, if you seek to take away from another, you take away from yourself. Who seeks to take away has been deceived by the illusion loss can offer gain. Loss must offer loss, and nothing more.

Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own.

I will not value what is valueless, and only what has value do I seek, for only that do I desire to find, for what is valuable belongs to me.

To put it succinctly, if you value something that won't last forever, you're screwed! - Philip Urso
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LESSON 132

I loose the world from all I thought it was.

I who remain as God created me would loose the world from all I thought it was. For I am real because the world is not, and I would know my own reality. I loose the world from all I thought it was, and choose my own reality instead.

What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs? And what can save the world but your Self? Belief is powerful indeed. Anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it. Free the past from what you thought before; free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find; the present now remains the only time. Here in the present is the world set free. As you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world. You have enslaved the world with all your fears, your doubts and miseries, your pain and tears; and all your sorrows press on it, and keep the world a prisoner to your beliefs. Death strikes it everywhere because you hold the bitter thoughts of death within your mind. We who are as He created us would loose the world this day from every one of our illusions, that we may be free.

Lesson 131

No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.

Today I seek and find all that I want.
My single purpose offers it to me.
No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.

"You dwell not here, but in eternity. You travel but in dreams, while safe at home" (T-13. VII.17:6)

LESSON 130

It is impossible to see two worlds.
What you see reflects your thinking. Your thinking reflects what you want to see. What you value you must want to see.

What then, can fear project upon the world? Truth is eclipsed by fear, and what remains is imagined.

Fear has made everything you think you see. All separation, all distinctions, all differences you believe make up the world. They are not there. Love's enemy has made them up. Yet love has no enemy, no opposite.

It is impossible to see two worlds. Let me accept the strength God offers me and see no value in this world, that I may find my freedom and deliverance.

LESSON 129

Beyond this world there is a world I want.
Following up from Lesson 128, you cannot stop with the idea the world is worthless. If there is nothing else to hope for, you will only be depressed! Our emphasis is not to give up on the world, but on exchanging it for what is far more satisfying, filled with joy and capable of offering you peace.

Think about the value you hold for this world. There is no loss in letting go all thought of value here. The world you see is merciless, unstable, cruel, unconcerned with you, quick to avenge and pitiless with hate. No lasting love is found, for none is here. This is the world of time, where all things end.

Find a world where losing is impossible; where love endures forever, hate cannot exist and vengeance has no meaning. Find all things you really want, and know they have no ending and they will remain exactly as you want them throughout time. A world where language ceases into silence and yet all is understood.

God and His Son's language has no words. What they say cannot be symbolized. Their knowledge is direct and wholly shared and wholly one. How far away from this are you who stay bound to this world. And yet how near are you, when you exchange it for the world you want.

The last step is certain; you stand an instant's space away from timelessness. Unbind your mind from little things the world sets forth to keep you prisoner. Do not value them, and they will disappear. Esteem them, and they will seem real to you. This world holds nothing you really want.

Beyond this world there is a world I want. I choose to see that world instead of this, for here is nothing that I really want.

The lights of Heaven bend to you, to shine upon your face as you rest beyond the world of darkness. A day of grace is given you today, and we give thanks. We realize that what you feared to lose was only loss.

Now you understand there is no loss. For you have seen its opposite at last, and are grateful.

LESSON 128

The world I see holds nothing that I want.
Be you deceived no more. The world you see holds nothing that you want. All things you seek to make your value greater in your sight limit you further, hide your worth from you, and add another bar across the door that leads to true awareness of your Self.
Let nothing that relates to body thoughts delay your progress to salvation. Certainty of worth cannot be found in worthlessness.

Let go all thought of values we have given to the world. We hold it purposeless within our minds.

Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world, when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. It will be grateful to be free a while. It knows where it belongs. But free its wings, and it will fly in sureness and in joy to join its holy purpose. Let it rest in its Creator, there to be restored to sanity, to freedom and to love.

Your whole perspective on the world will shift by just a little, every time you let your mind escape its chains. Open your mind to Him. Be still and rest.

This will not tempt me to delay myself.
The world I see holds nothing that I want.

LESSON 127

There is no love but God's.
Love is one. It has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergencies and no distinctions. It is like itself, unchanged throughout. It never alters with a person or a circumstance. It is the Heart of God, and also of His Son. Love cannot judge. As it is one itself, it looks on all as one. Love is a law without an opposite. There can never be a difference in what you really are and what love is. Love's meaning is your own, and shared by God Himself. For what you are is what He is. There is no limit placed upon Himself, and so are you unlimited as well. If you achieve the faintest glimmering of what love means, you have advanced in distance without measure and in time beyond the count of years to your release.

Escape from every law in which you now believe. Open your mind and rest. The world that seems to hold you prisoner can be escaped by anyone who does not hold it dear. Withdraw all value you have placed upon its meager offerings and senseless gifts, and let the gift of God replace them all.

I bless you, brother, with the Love of God, which I would share with you. For I would learn the joyous lesson that there is no love but God's and yours and mine and everyone's.

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I bless you, brother, with the Love of God, which I would share with you. For I would learn the joyous lesson that there is no love but God's and yours and mine and everyone's.

LESSON 126

All that I give is given to myself.
Today's idea, alien to the ego and to the world, is crucial to the thought reversal that this course will bring about. It seems to you that other people are apart from you, and able to behave in ways that do not affect your thoughts, nor yours on theirs. You think that they can sin without affecting your perception of yourself, while you can judge their sin, and yet remain apart from condemnation and at peace.

"When we realize that we are sinners needing forgiveness, it will be very easy for us to forgive others. If I do not understand this, it will be very hard for me to say 'I forgive you' to anyone who comes to me. It is not necessary to be a Christian in order to forgive. Every human being comes from God's hand, and we all know how much God loves us. No matter what our belief is, we have to learn how to forgive if we really want to love." – Mother Teresa.

Today we understand the truth that giver and receiver are the same. Give Him your faith today, and ask Him that He share your practicing in truth today. If you catch a tiny glimpse of the release that lies in the idea we practice for today, this is a day of glory for the world. Be willing to be taught. Hear the Voice of truth and heal.

All that I give is given to myself. The Help I need to learn that this is true is with me now. And I will trust in Him.

LESSON 125

In quiet I receive God's Word today.
Let this day be a day of stillness and of quiet listening. Your Father wills you hear His Word today. No peace is possible until His Word is heard around the world; until your mind, in quiet listening, accepts the message that the world must hear to usher in the quiet time of peace.

In stillness we will hear God's Voice today without intrusion of our petty thoughts, personal desires, and all judgment of His holy Word. We stand apart from all the judgments the world has laid upon the Son of God. It knows him not. We will not listen to the world, but wait in silence for the Word of God.

He has not waited or hid Himself from you, while you have wandered off a little while from Him. He does not cherish the illusions you have made about yourself. He knows His Son, and wills that he remain as part of Him regardless of his dreams; regardless of his madness that his will is not his own.

Today He speaks to you. His Word cannot be heard until your mind is quiet for awhile. There is peace within you to be called upon today, to help make ready your most holy mind to hear the Voice for its Creator speak. Love is everything you are and that He is; the same as you, and you the same as He.

Only be quiet. You will need no rule but this, to let your practicing today lift you above the thinking of the world, and free your vision from the body's eyes. Only be still and listen. You will hear the Word in which the Will of God the Son joins in his Father's Will, at one with it, with no illusions interposed between the wholly indivisible and true. As every hour passes by today, be still a moment and remind yourself you have a special purose for this day; in quiet to receive the Word of God.

LESSON 124

Let me remember I am one with God.
In perfect safety, power and strength in all that we do, we cannot fail. God Himself goes everywhere with us. God, Who loves us smiles on us and offers us the happiness we gave. Today we see only the loving and the lovable. We see it in the suffering, the lonely and afraid, who are restored to peace of mind in which they were created. We see it in the dying and the dead, restoring them to life. All this we see because we saw it first within ourselves.

We are one with God, saved and healed, saving and healing others. We have accepted, and we now would give.

Peace be to you today. you are one with God, as He is with you. Trust God's Voice to speak as he sees fit today, certain He will not fail. Your benefit will not be less if you believe that nothing happens. You may not be ready to accept the gain today. Yet sometime, somewhere, it will come to you, nor will you fail to recognize it when it dawns with certainty upon your mind.

Let me remember I am one with God, at one with all my brothers and my Self, in everlasting holiness and peace.

LESSON 123

I thank my Father for His gifts to me.

Be glad today, in loving thankfulness, your Father has not left you to yourself, nor let you wander in the dark alone. Be grateful he has saved you from the self you thought you made to take the place of Him and His creation. Give Him thanks today.

Today in gratitude we lift our hearts above despair, and raise our thankful eyes, no longer looking downward to the dust. We sing the song of thankfulness today, in honor of the Self that God has willed to be our true Identity in Him. Today we smile on everyone we see, and walk with lightened footsteps as we go to do what is appointed us to do.

We do not go alone. And we give thanks that in our solitude a Friend has come to speak the saving Word of God to us. And thanks to you for listening to Him.

Thanks be to you who heard, for you become the messenger who brings His Voice with you, and lets it echo round and round the world. receive the thanks of God today, as you give thanks to Him.

Remember to think of Him, and give Him thanks for everything He gave His Son, that he might rise above the world, remembering his Father and his Self.

LESSON 122

Forgiveness offers everything I want.

Forgiveness offers everything I want. Today I have accepted this as true. Today I have received the gifts of God.

LESSON 121

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

Here is the answer to your search for peace, all questions answered, the end of all uncertainty ensured at last. The unforgiving mind is full of fear, torn with doubt, sees only sins, is in despair, without the prospect of a future which can offer anything but more despair. Forgiveness is acquired, not inherent in the mind. As sin is an idea you taught yourself, forgiveness must be learned by you as well, but from a Teacher other than yourself, Who represents the other Self in you. Each unforgiving mind presents you with an opportunity to teach your own how to forgive itself. Each one awaits release from hell through you, and turns to you imploringly for Heaven here and now. It has no hope, but you become its hope. And as its hope, do you become your own. The unforgiving mind must learn through your forgiveness that it has been saved from hell. And as you teach salvation, you will learn. Yet all your teaching and your learning will be not of you, but of the Teacher Who was given you to show the way to you.

Think of someone you do not like, who seems to irritate you, or to cause regret in you if you should meet him; one you actively despise, or merely try to overlook. It does not matter what the form your anger takes. You probably have chosen him already. He will do. See him in your mind, and look at him a while. Try to perceive some light in him somewhere; a little gleam which you had never noticed. Try to find some little spark of brightness shining through the ugly picture that you hold of him. Look at this picture till you see a light somewhere within it, and then try to let this light extend until it covers him, and makes the picture beautiful and good. Look at him for a while in this light, and turn your mind to one you call a friend. Transfer the light you learned to see around your former "enemy" to him. Perceive him now as more than a friend to you, for in that light his holiness shows you your savior, saved and saving, healed and whole. Let him offer you the light you see in him, and let your "enemy" and friend unite in blessing you with what you gave. Now are you one with them, and they with you. Now have you been forgiven by yourself.

Forgiveness is the key to happiness. I will awaken from the dream that I am mortal, fallible and full of sin, and know I am the perfect Son of God.

Addendum from ELENA

(L 121: 2:1)The unforgiving min is full of fear and offers love no room to be itself…

“You see yourself as vulnerable, frail and easily destroyed, and at the mercy of countless attackers more powerful than you.” (T-22.VI.10.6)

(L 121: 4:1)The unforgiving mind sees no mistakes, but only sins.It looks upon the world with sightless eyes and shrieks as it beholds its own projections risking to attack its miserable parody of life.It wants to live, yet wishes it were dead.It wants forgiveness, yet it sees no hope.....

“The secret of salvation is but this: that you are doing this unto yourself. No matter what form of the attack, this still is true. Whoever takes to the role of enemy and of attacker, still this is the truth. Whatever seems to be the cause of any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true. For you would not react at all to figures in the a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let them be as hateful and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to recognize it is your dream. “(T-27.VIII.10).

LESSON 120

1. (109) I rest in God.

I rest in God today, and let Him work in me and through me, while I rest in Him in quiet and in perfect certainty.

2. (110) I am as God created me.

I am God's Son. Today I lay aside all sick illusions of myself, and let my Father tell me Who I really am.

Lesson 119

1. (107) Truth will correct all errors in my mind.

I am mistaken when I think I can hurt in any way. I am God's Son, whose Self rests safely in the Mind of God.

2. (108) To give and to receive are one in truth.

I will forgive all things today, that I may learn how to accept the truth in me, and come to recognize my sinlessness.

Lesson 118

1 (105) God's peace and joy are mine.

Today I will accept God's peace and joy, in glad exchange for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.

2. (106) Let me be still and listen to the truth.

Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for Truth Itself assure me that I am God's perfect Son.

Lesson 117

(1) God, being Love, is also happiness.

Let me remember love is happiness, and nothing else brings joy. And so I choose to entertain no subsititutes for love.

(2)I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

Love is my heritage, and with it joy. These are the gifts my Father gave to me. I would accept all that is mine in truth.

To choose anything but the Love of God condemns us to a life of pain, depression, and suffering. Why am I choosing anything else if the Love of God is the only reality?

REVIEW III - LESSON 116

For morning and evening review:

1. (102) God's Will for me is perfect happiness.

God's Will is perfect happiness for me. And I can suffer but from the belief there is another will apart from His.

2. (102) I share God's Will for happiness for me.

I share my Father's Will for me, His Son. What He has given me is all I want. What He has given me is all there is.

3. On the hour:

God's Will for me is perfect happiness.

On the half hour:

I share God's Will for happiness for me.

REVIEW III - LESSON 115

For morning and evening review:

1. (99) Salvation is my only function here.

My function here is to forgive the world for all the errors I have made. For thus am I released from them with all the world.

2. (100) My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.

I am essential to the plan of God for the salvation of the world. For He gave me His plan that I might save the world.

3. On the hour:

Salvation is my only function here.

On the half hour:

My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.

REVIEW III - LESSON 114

For morning and evening review:

1. (97) I am spirit.

I am the Son of God. No body can contain my spirit, nor impose on me a limitation God created not.

2. (98) I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.

What can my function be but to accept the Word of God, Who has created me for what I am and will forever be?

3. On the hour:

I am spirit.

On the half hour:

I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.

REVIEW III - LESSON 113

1. (95) I am one Self, united with my Creator.

Serenity and perfect peace are mine, because I am one Self, completely whole, at one with all creation and with God.

2. (96) Salvation comes from my one Self.

From my one Self, Whose knowledge still remains within my mind, I see God's perfect plan for my salvation perfectly fulfilled.

3. On the hour:

I am one Self, united with my Creator.

On the half hour:
Salvation comes from my one Self.

REVIEW III - LESSON 112

1. (93) Light and joy and peace abide in me.

I am the home of light and joy and peace. I welcome them into the home I share with God, because I am a part of Him.

2. (94) I am as God created me.

I will remain forever as I was, created by the Changeless like Himself. And I am one with Him, and He with me.

3. On the hour: Light and joy and peace abide in me. On the half hour: I am as God created me.

REVIEW III - LESSON 111

For morning and evening review:

1. (91) Miracles are seen in light.

I cannot see in darkness. Let the light of holiness and truth light up my mind, and let me see the innocence within.

2. (92) Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.

I see through strength, the gift of God to me. My weakness is the dark His gift dispels, by giving me His strength to take its place.

3. On the hour:

Miracles are seen in light.

On the half hour:

Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.

Lesson 110

I'm as God created me.
His Son can suffer nothing.
And I am His Son.

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false." (T-16.IV.6).

Learning to recognize false images so we can release them is what forgiveness does. The process of letting go is forgiveness.

“In this world the only remaining freedom is the freedom of choice; always between two choices or two voices. “ (C-1.7:1)

Lesson 109

I rest in God.

Addendum to Lessons 100-108

And now in all your doings be you blessed.
God turns to you for help to save the world.
Teacher of God, His thanks He offers you,
And all the world stands silent in the grace
You bring from Him.
You are the Son He Loves.
And it is give you to be the means
Through which His Voice is heard around the world,
To close all things of time; to end the sight
Of all things visible; and to undo all things that change. Through you is
Ushered in a world unseen, unheard, yet truly there.
Holy are you, and in your light the world
Reflects you holiness, for YOU ARE NOT
ALONE and FRIENDLESS. I give thanks for you,
And join your efforts on behalf of God,
Knowing they are on my behalf as well,
And for all those walk to God with me.
AMEN.

Lesson 108

To give and to receive is one in truth.
I will receive what I am giving now.

To everyone I offer quietness.
To everyone I offer peace of mind.
To everyone I offer gentleness.

"If he speaks not of Christ to you, you spoke not of Christ to him. You hear but your own voice, and if Christ speaks through you, you will hear Him (T-11.V.18).

Lesson 107

Truth will correct all errors in my mind.

And I will rest in Him Who is my Self.

Lesson 106

Let me be still and listen to the truth.

If you will lay aside the ego's voice, not accept its petty gifts that you really do not want, listen with an open mind, you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its messages.

Hear one Voice today.

Hear Him today, and listen to the Word which lifts the veil that lies upon the earth, and wakes all those who sleep and cannot see. God calls to them through you. He needs your voice to speak to them, for who could reach God's Son except his Father calling through your Self?

Be ready for salvation. It is here, and will today be given unto you.

I will be still and listen to the truth.
What does it mean to give and to receive?
Let me be still and listen to the truth.
I am the messenger of God today.
My voice is His, to give what I receive.

Lesson 105

God's peace and joy are mine.

My brother, peace and joy I offer you,
That I may have God's peace and joy as mine.

Lesson 104

I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

And joy and peace are my inheritance.
God's gifts of joy and peace are all I want.

Lesson 103

God, being Love, is also happiness.

To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.
And it is happiness I seek today.
I cannot fail, because I seek the truth.

Lesson 102

I share God's Will for happiness for me.

...and I accept it as my function now.

You do not want to suffer. You may think it buys you something, and may still believe a little that it buys you what you want. This belief is surely shaken now, at least enough to let you question it, and to suspect it really makes no sense. Pain is purposeless, without a cause and with no power to accomplish anything. It cannot purchase anything at all. It offers nothing, and does not exist. And everything you think it offers you is lacking in existence, like itself. You have been slave to nothing. Be you free today to join the happy Will of God.

Be happy, for your only function here is happiness. Tell yourself that you have now accepted happiness as your one function. And be sure that you are joining with God's Will in doing this.

LESSON 101

God's Will for me is perfect happiness.

This is the truth, because there is no sin.

Lesson 100

My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation

God’s Will for you is perfect happiness. Why should you choose to go against His Will?

We will not let ourselves be sad today. For if we do, we fail to take the part that is essential to God’s plan, as well as to our vision. Sadness is the sign that you would play another part, instead of what has been assigned to you by God. Thus do you fail to show the world how great the happiness He wills for you. And so you do not recognize that it is yours.

Today we will attempt to understand joy is our function here. If you are sad your part is unfulfilled, and all the world is thus deprived of joy, along with you. God asks that you be happy, so the world can see how much He loves His Son, and wills no sorrow rises to abate his joy; no fear besets him to disturb his peace.

You are God’s messenger today. You bring His happiness to all you look upon; His peace to everyone who looks on you, and sees His message in your happy face. We will prepare ourselves for this today, in our five minute practice periods by feeling happiness arise in us according to our Father’s Will and ours.

Addendum to Lesson 99

“… forgiveness is the means by which I will recognize my innocence. It is the reflectionof God’s Love on earth. It will bring me near enough to Heaven that the Love of God can reach down to me and raise me up to Him.” (W-pL.60)

“Salvation now becomes a borderland between the truth and the illusion.” (L-99) It is described in Chapter 26 :

“There is a borderland of thought that stands between this world and Heaven. It is not a place, and WHEN you reach it is APART from time. Here is the meeting place where thoughts are brought TOGETHER; where conflicting values MEET, and ALL illusions are laid down beside the truth, where they are judged to be untrue. This borderland is just beyond the gate of Heaven. Here is every thought made pure and wholly simple. Here is sin denied, and everything that IS, received instead.

This is the journey's end. We have referred to it as the "real world." And yet there is a contradiction here, in that the words imply a LIMITED reality, a PARTIAL truth, a SEGMENT of the universe made true. This is because knowledge makes NO attack upon perception. They are brought together, and only ONE continues past the gate where Oneness is. Salvation IS a borderland, where place and time and choice have meaning still, and yet it can be seen that they are temporary, OUT of place, and EVERY choice has been ALREADY made. “ (T-26.III)

“The mind that sees illusions thinks them real. The have existence in that they are thoughts. And yet they are not real, because the mind that thinks these thoughts is separated from God.” (L-99)

“I think, therefore I’m” is the famous Descartes’s statement. Well, according to the course “I think therefore I’m not” (K.Wapnick). What is being and existence then?

“Existence as well as being rests on communication. Existence is SPECIFIC in how, what, and with whom communication is worth undertaking. Being is completely without these distinctions. It is a state in which the mind IS in communication with everything that is real, including its own Soul. To whatever extent you permit this state to be curtailed, you are limiting your sense of your OWN reality, which becomes total only by recognizing ALL reality in the glorious context of its real relationship to YOU. This IS your reality. Do not desecrate it or recoil from it. It is your real home, your real temple, and your real self. “ (T-4.V-VII)

LESSON 99

Salvation is my only function here.

God still is Love, and this is not His Will.
Salvation and forgiveness are the same.

Truth and illusions are equal now, for both have happened. Salvation now becomes the borderland between truth and illusion. It reflects the truth because it is the means by which you can escape illusions. Yet it is not yet the truth because it undoes what was never done. HS looks on what you see; on sin and pain and death, on grief and separation and on loss. Yet does He know one thing must still be true; God is still Love, and this is not His Will. This is the Thought that brings illusions to truth, that saves and that forgives, because it lays no faith in what is not created by the only Source it knows.

This is the Thought whose function is to save by giving you its function as your own. Salvation is your function, with the One to Whom the plan was given. Now are you entrusted with this plan, along with Him. He has one answer to appearances; regardless of their form, their size, their depth or any attribute they seem to have:

Salvation is my only function here.
God still is Love, and this is not His Will.
Salvation and forgiveness are the same.

LESSON 98

I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.

We take a stand on but one side today. We side with truth and let illusions go. We dedicate ourselves to truth today, and to salvation as God planned it be. How happy to be certain! All our sins washed away by realizing they were but mistakes. Is it not worth 5 minutes of your time each hour to accept the happiness that God has given you, to recognize your special function here? His confidence in you will bring the light to all the words you say, and you will go beyond their sound to what they really mean. Do not lose one chance to be the glad receiver of His gifts, that you may give them to the world today.

LESSON 97

I am spirit.

Spirit am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world.

No fear can enter, for your mind has been absolved from madness, letting go illusions of a split identity. HS will be glad to take five minutes of each hour from your hands, and carry them around this aching world where pain and misery appear to rule. Listen for His assurance every time you speak the words He offers you today, and let Him tell your mind that they are true. Use them against temptation, and escape its sorry consequences if you yield to the belief that you are something else. HS gives you peace today. Receive His words, and offer them to Him.

LESSON 96

Salvation comes from my one Self.

You experience yourself as two, both good and evil, loving and hating, mind and body. This induces feelings of acute and constant conflict, and leads to frantic attempts to reconcile the contradictory aspects of this self-perception. You've sought many solutions, and none work. The opposites you see in you will never be compatible. But one exists.

You must accept that truth and illusion cannot be reconciled if you are to be saved. Until you accept this, you will attempt an endless list of goals you cannot reach; wasted time and effort, hopefulness and doubt, each one as futile as the one before, and failing as the next one surely will.

Two selves could not be resolved, and good and evil have no meeting place. The self you made can never be your Self, nor can you Self be split in two, and still be what It is and must forever be. A mind and body cannot both exist. Make no attempt to reconcile the two, for one denies the other can be real.

The mind that serves the spirit is at peace and filled with joy. Seeing itself divorced from spirit it perceives itself within a body and gets confused. Without its function then it has no peace, and happiness is alien to its thoughts.

Your Self retains Its Thoughts, and they remain within your mind and in the Mind of God. The HS holds salvation in your mind, and offers it the way to peace. Salvation is a thought you share with God, because His Voice accepted it for you and answered in your name that it was done. Salvation is kept among the Thoughts your Self holds dear and cherishes for you.

LESSON 95

I am one Self, united with my Creator.

I am one Self, united with my Creator, at one with every aspect of creation, and limitless in power and in peace. You are one Self with me, united with our Creator in this Self. I honor you because of What I am, and What He is, Who loves us both as One.

Lesson 94

I am as God created me.

I am His Son eternally.
You are as God created you.
You are His Son eternally.

.. and all the thoughts this world ever held are wiped away forever by this one idea.
Here salvation is accomplished and sanity restored.
True light is strength. Strength is sinlessness.

Lesson 93

Light and joy and peace abide in me.

The self you made is not the Son of God. This self does not exist at all. It is neither bad nor good. It is unreal, and nothing more than that. It does not battle with the Son of God. It does not hurt him, nor attack his peace. What power can this self you made possess, when it would contradict the Will of God?

My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.
Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God.

Salvation requires the acceptance of but one thought; you are as God created you, not what you made of yourself. Creation is eternal and unalterable. Light and joy and peace abide in you because God put them there.

You can do much for the world's salvation today. You can do much today to bring you closer to the part in salvation that God has assigned to you, to bring the conviction to your mind that the idea for the day is true indeed.

Lesson 92

Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.

The body's eyes cannot see, the brain cannot think. It is God's strength in you that is the light in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think. Your weakness sees through the body's eyes, peering into darkness, beholding the likeness of itself; the small, the weak, the sickly and the dying, those in need, the helpless and afraid, the sad, the poor, the starving and the joyless. These are seen through eyes that cannot see and cannot bless. Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances. It sees with light, it sees itself, Self appears. Strength is the truth about you; weakness is an idol falsely worshipped and adored that strength may be dispelled, and darkness rule where God appointed that there should be light.

Strength comes from truth. Weakness cannot see a purpose in forgiveness and in love. It sees all others different from itself, and nothing in the world that it would share. It judges and condemns, but does not love. It fears, and it attacks and hates itself, and darkness covers everything it sees, leaving its dreams as fearful as itself. No miracles are here, but only hate. It separates itself from what it sees, while light and strength perceive themselves as one. The light of strength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, because it cannot give but to itself. No one can leave without a miracle before his eyes, and strength and light abide in his heart.

The strength in you will offer you the light, and guide your seeing so you do not dwell on idle shadows that the body's eyes provide for self-deception. Strength and light unite in you.