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And so reads my name inside.
He sees my name across and to me,

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y'all, i'll interrupt the song of
the welcome that one to this morning

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classed the lesson of the day.
I'm very very sorry that I didn't you

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the appointed time, which is nine
o'clock in the US Central time. I

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am currently in Spain, and I
was absolutely sure that I had it all

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figured out what time I was going
to do it, and for some unexplicable

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reason, the time passed by,
and it's now five thirty in the afternoon.

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Here. You will, amiable.
If you're not listening now, you

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will be able to catch this class
hopefully later. I'm a speaker. If

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you're still interested day, if the
lesson of the day, you would normally

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read this lesson at the beginning of
the day, and so I trust everybody

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did so. But yet we're going
to involve ourselves in this class with a

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lesson three forty seven, which is
a great it's an incredible lesson, actually,

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And the more we engage ourselves in
this theme what is the miracle?

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What is a miracle? The more
we actually begin to appreciate, at least

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this is what happens with me.
The more I begin to appreciate the value

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of the miracle and what becomes what
becomes a real what becomes a real experience

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is the certainty that is expressed in
less than ninety one miracles are seen in

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light that the miracle is going all
all the time, and that the only

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thing the problem is your only problem
would be that you are not aware of

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it. It doesn't your awareness is
not necessary for it to be available,

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nor is your denial of the occurrence
a reason for the miracle not to be

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present. It is going on all
the time, and it's only your We're

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only concerning ourselves with actually in this
course of miracles, to yeah to wipe

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away or to to express the intention
that are our defenses against the miracle,

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from against the happening miracle from happening
to be wiped away for us. And

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so this is part of the lesson
of the day. So what we'll start

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doing will read the as we as
we do, we will read what is

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a miracle? And welcome everyone.
And again I'm sorry that I was not

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there at the point in time,
but hey, time is going on all

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the time, so if you'll catch
it, you'll catch it. Here is

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the entire What is a miracle theme. A miracle is a correction. It

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does not create nor really change at
all. It merely looks on devastation and

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reminds the mind that what it sees
is false. It undoes error, but

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does not attempt to go beyond perception
nor exceed the function of forgiveness. Thus

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it stays within time's limits. Yet
it paves the way for the return of

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timelessness and loves awakening, for fear
must slip away, slip away under the

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gentle remedy it brings. A miracle
contains the gift of grace, for it

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is given and received as one,
and thus it illustrates the law of truth.

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The world does not obey because it
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A miracle inverts perception, which was
upside down before, and thus it ends

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the strange distortions that were manifest.
Nower's perception open to the truth. Now

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is forgiveness seen as justified. So
forgiveness is actually seen as justified as the

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miracle. As the miracle occurs,
there in fact simultaneous occurrences. You could

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say forgiveness is the home of miracles. The eyes of Christ deliver them to

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all they look upon in mercy and
in love. Perception stands corrected in his

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sight, and what was made was
meant to curse has come to bless Each

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lily or forgiveness offers all the world
the silent miracle of love, and each

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is laid before the Word of God
upon the universal altar to Creator and creation

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in the light of perfect purity and
endless joy. The miracle is taken first

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on faith, because to ask for
it implies the mind has been made ready

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to conceive or what it cannot see
and does not understand. Yet faith will

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bring its witnesses to show that what
it rested on is really there, and

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thus the miracle will justify your faith
in it and show it rested on a

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world more real than what you saw
before, a world redeemed from what you

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thought was there. Miracles fall like
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dry and dusty world where starved and
thirsty creatures come to die. Now they

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have water. Now the world is
green, and everywhere the signs of life

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spring up to show that what is
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life has immortality, and what has
life has immortality because there is only one

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life, and that I share with
God, and I love the more I

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read this, the more we can
love this. This, yeah, this

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centerpiece you could say, of of
course, in miracles, because it really

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addresses the question what is a miracle. And one of the things that occurred

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to me this morning when I was
reading this one sentence and each is each

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lily, a forgiveness is laid before
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the idea of John One where it
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and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. It is

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it is really that intent, that
that the Word is God, and that

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the further we go back to that
certainty, the more the closer we come

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to the actually, yeah, to
recognizing the validity if I can use that

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word of forgiveness, the justification of
forgiveness, of forgiveness being fully justified on

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the basis of what we are,
and that actually that is that is as

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close as we can get to recognizing
the Word of God as God as what

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we are. Whereas we begin to
fail quite quickly here. Okay, so

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the lesson of the day then is
less than three forty seven. Anger must

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come from judgment. Judgment is the
weapon I would use against myself to keep

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the miracle away from me. Wow, that's amazing. Judgment is the weapon

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and I would use against myself to
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not that the miracle is not there. It is still there. It is

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always there. And so in the
first thing you could say, just from

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reading this the lesson title itself,
that you would recognize that by giving up

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judgment, the miracle becomes available to
you, and that your anger is any

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anger, that your experience is actually
an indication that you have judged and are

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keeping the miracle that is available to
you away from you. And as you

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begin to see with lesser number ninety
one that the miracle is going on is

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always there, then you can see
that there is really no necessity for that,

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that you just made a mistake in
keeping the miracle outside yourself. The

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occurrence of the miracle is really not
an accident or a coincidence or whatever.

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It is there if you intend to
see it. Father, I want what

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goes against my will, and do
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is the premise on which you could
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built that you could say, well, I want miracles and I love miracles.

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But really the truth of it is
you. In this situation in which

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you find yourself in a judgmental association
with everything around you, everything that you

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think you see, you are actually
actively choosing against your own will and do

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not want what is your will to
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giving you here. This is why
we are talking about the miracle as a

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correction. Straighten my mind. My
father, it is sick, but you

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have offered freedom, and I choose
to claim your gift today, and so

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I give all judgment to the one
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He sees what I behold, and
yet he knows the truth. He

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looks on pain, and yet he
understands it is not real, and in

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his understanding it is healed. He
gives the miracles my dreams would hide from

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my awareness. Let him judge to
day. I do not know my will,

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but he is sure it is your
own, and he will speak for

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me and call your miracles to come
to me. Listen today, be very

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still, and hear the gentle voice
for God assuring you that he has judged

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you as the son he loves.
And so this is where where you may

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become very active in offering all your
judgments to the Holy Spirit and in fact

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offer everything you see or you think
you see lesser number one. Nothing I

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see means anything I've judged in amiss
according to less than number three. It's

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your judgment that has given it the
meaning that you think it has, and

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it is really not what it is. Actually, those are all the things

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that you do not want and not
in yeah, in truth what you do

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not want, but you have to
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you want and that it goes against
your will. And in that sense is

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this course in miracle is a very
practical course. It is not trying to

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find a solution for your problem,
because the problems that you think you have

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really have no solution. So like, Okay, I have a problem,

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I need of need of parking space, or I have cancer, Please I

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need a miracle to to solve this
for me, is not what this course

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of miracles is offering. It is
really the the removal of the black the

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blocks to the awareness of Love's presence, where the things that you are concerned

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about are really not of any concern. And this is what this course of

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miracles is offering you. This is
what the mind training is offering you.

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This is what the practical application of
this of these lessons offers you. That

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that your mind begins to get become
adjusted to UH. And this will this

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is what you will see in the
beginning of of course of Course in Miracles,

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if you care to look that you
get a custom to performing miracles,

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and that miracle, the miracle is
actually going on all around you, if

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you just step out of the way
and allow forgiveness to wrestle on all things.

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Is the lesson will will prescribe.
I will will take a little break

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just to to consider this lesson for
a minute, and then I would like

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to come back and read from the
text of of Course in Miracles lesson in

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chapter three where it says judgment and
the authority and the authority problem, which

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is obviously actually what this is also
pointing to. And I'm just going to

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be curious to see how this feeds
into this lesson. Let's just have one

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song and then then I'll come be
right back with that. Let's see what

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we have here. That was not
what I was looking for. I was

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looking for another so it's heaven is
calling you. Softly, draw back the

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curtains, opened, the windows,
pull up the lines, softly, n

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letting the lie in heavenly every so
divine. Oh, everything was calling you.

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Everything is calling you. And the
kids baccady, come back, come

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back, come come come Gentlyna,
gather your men, rees, send them

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free on agre rees Gentlyna hold of
beas come through the flows and mans in

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the blood overythies on. Everyday is
calling your name. Kids back any come

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back, come back, come back, come back, come come back.

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Come the Jane Pina song me Jane, Okay, thank you so much,

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Mitch. It's a wonderful song.
So, as I said, on this

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day where the lesson is uh uh
anger comes from judgment, and this is

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you know, this is how you
keep the miracle away from you. Let's

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read from chapter three, the sixth
section, Judgment and the authority problem.

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Let's see how far we get with
this. If that's his, if this

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is is okay with everyone. We
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insufficient detail. But in insufficient detail, after the last judgment, there will

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be no more. Judgment is symbolic
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perception, there is no judgment.
Wow symbolic because beyond perception there is no

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judgment. Judgment is the realm of
symbols, and this is what you are

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aware of in the world you see, and beyond perception there is no judgment

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and therefore no symbolic when the people, when the Bible says judge not that

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you be not judged, it means
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will you will be unable to avoid? Sorry, sorry for that.

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When the Bible says judge not that
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if you judge the reality of others, you will be unable Sorry. It

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means that if you judge the reality
of others, you will be unable to

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avoid judging your own. So it
is it is actually having that effect effect

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Immediately you will you will also be
judging your own reality, and you will

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be judging it in as it is
not, and it is a wilful act

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of self deception. That is,
it is important to recognize that. So

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that's the only purpose you would you
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judgment? Then han has the choice
to judge rather than to know. Is

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the cause of the loss of peace. Judgment is the process on which perception,

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but not knowledge, rests. I
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of the selectivity of perception, pointing
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which is what judgment is. Judgment
always involves rejection. It never emphasizes

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only the positive aspects of what is
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What has been perceived and rejected or
judged and found wanting remains in your

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mind because it has been perceived.
One of the illusions from which you suffer

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is the belief that what you judged
against has no effect. This cannot be

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true unless you also believe that what
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evidently do not believe this, or
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In the end, this is really
cool. Is a really cool reasoning.

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I'll read this again. One of
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belief that what you judged against has
no effects. This cannot be true unless

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you also believe that what you judged
against does not exist. You evidently do

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not believe this, that it does
not exist, or you would not have

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judged against it. In the end, it does not matter whether your judgment

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is right or wrong. Either way, you are placing your belief in the

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unreal. This cannot be avoided in
any type of judgment because it implies the

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belief that reality is yours to select
from. Wow, and reality is obviously

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the realm of you could say beyond
the miracle, because the miracle is actually

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clearing that up if you allow the
Holy Spirit to to to demonstrate or to

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show you, because vision will will
make miracles apparent to you and make your

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reality a parent to you. You
have no idea of the tremendous release and

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deep peace that comes from meeting yourself
and your brother's totally without judgment. Wow.

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What an incredible offering that this is. This is This is not debatable

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as it is stated, is stated
as a as a fact that the piece

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that you're actually looking for is from
that. And what is wonderful about the

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lesson of the day is that your
anger is when it's when it's apparent.

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You now know with lesson three forty
seven that anger comes from judgment. You

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have judged, and you have judged, and this is the result. You're

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angry and you don't understand why you
give it all sorts of reasons. You're

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never You're never upset for the reason
that you think so, you're you're looking

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at something that is not there.
And this is why you're upset. When

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you recognize what you are and what
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judging them in any ways without meaning. And it's not that you are not

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allowed to judge. It is not
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Jesus says in the in the Teacher's
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judging. It's not we're not judging
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why would you want to do it? If it has this effect? And

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if and it and what he is
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demonstrating to you that judging has no
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would you? You can? But
why would you It is the course of

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your difficulty. In fact, their
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meaning of your brothers is lost to
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all uncertainly. Uncertainty comes from the
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judgment. You have no choice in
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to organize your life, and you
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In the presence of knowledge, all
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is the process that enables recognition to
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You do not need judgment to organize
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need it to organize yourself. In
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automatically suspended, and this is the
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You are very fearful of everything you
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believe that because you have refused to
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it. Well, I'll read it
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you perceive but have refused. You
perceive but have refused to accept. You

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believe that because you have refused to
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it. This is why you're fearful, and this is why you see it

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in nightmares or in pleasant disguises,
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Nothing that you have refused to accept
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is not dangerous in itself, but
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So we're beginning to see what he
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then everything is allowed in to your
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that you don't there's no reason for
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you feel tired, it is because
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else that you can You can say, I'm tired, so he this is

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reason why. It is because you
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When you laugh at someone, it
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unworthy. And when you laugh at
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if only because you cannot tolerate the
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Wow, these are all things that
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doing him as you interact with your
brothers. All this makes you feel tired

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because it is essentially disheartening. You
are not really capable of being tired,

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but you are very capable of wearing
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virtually intolerable. See this is also
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at others, Laughing at yourself.
You're judging yourself. It is very tiring.

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The strain of constant judgment is virtually
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ability so debilitating would be so deeply
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be the author of reality, you
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And this is why we are reading
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you have. You want to be
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control of reality. You will also
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will someday be used against you.
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that you believe in the efficacy of
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own authority. Again, this belief
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believe in the efficacy efficacy of judgment
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authority, which it would have to
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words should reflect only mercy. Wow, you are as God created you.

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This is you are as He is. And this is why this is the

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uh the direction. Not because that
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it's what you would you you would
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God created you, because that is
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that is what you should give.
Justice. What a wonderful lesson here,

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justice is a temporary expedient or an
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It is judgmental only because you are
capable of injustice. I've spoken of

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different symptoms, and at that level
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There is, however, only one
cause for all of them, the authority

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problem. Wow, symptoms and the
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You could say this is the root
of all evil. Every symptom the ego

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makes involves a contradiction in terms,
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and the Holy Spirit, so that
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This untenable position is the result of
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it accepts the one inconceivable thought as
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are inconceivable. The issue of authority
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Who is the creator? Who is
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you have an authority problem, it
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author of yourself and project your delusion
onto others. You then perceive the situation

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as one in which others are literally
fighting you for your authorship. This is

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cool, this says. If I
never read this, this is the fundamental

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error. Just a few more paragraphs, with your permission. This is the

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fundamental error of all those who believe
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This belief is very frightening to them, but hardly troubles God. He is,

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however, eager to undo it,
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only because he knows that it makes
them unhappy. God's creations are given their

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true authorship, but you prefer to
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choose to separate yourself from your author, being uncertain of your true authorship.

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As you are created by God,
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This leaves you in a position where
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yourself. You believe that your creation
was anonymous. This leaves you in a

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position where it sounds meaningful that you
believe you created yourself. Interesting this,

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the dispute over authorship, has left
such uncertainty in your mind that it may

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even doubt whether you really exist.
At all. Okay, two more paragraphs

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only those or three more paragraphs.
Only those who give over all desire to

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reject can know that their own rejection
is possible. It's impossible. The word

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rejection, rejection of your brother,
rejection of anything. It's the opposite of

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the word acceptance that we read just
a minute ago. It's like, if

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you accept everything as it is,
then there is no judgment, and if

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you reject, you begin to accept
yourself. If you reject your reject yourself,

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you have not usurped the power of
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Cool. Fortunately, to lose something
does not mean that it has gone.

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It merely means that you do not
remember where it is. Its existence

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does not depend on your ability to
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It is possible to look on reality
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there. Wow. What an amazing
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Somewhere you begin to trust that the
Holy Spirit is actually seeing for you,

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and is seeing for is seeing what
is true, and that you're in

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safe hands, and that you can
allow you can allow to give over everything

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without the fear of losing anything,
because loss is impossible peace is a natural

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heritage of spirit. Everyone is free
to refuse to accept his inheritance, but

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he is not free to establish what
his inheritance is. So peace is your

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peace has been saved for you.
It cannot be lost. It is just

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waiting for you to accept it.
But it is the peace of God.

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It's not something else. It's not
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The problem everyone must decide is the
fundamental question of authorship. All fear

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comes ultimately, and sometimes by way
of very devious routes, from the denial

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of authorship. The offense is never
to God, but only to those who

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deny him. To deny his authorship
is to deny yourself the reason for your

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peace. So that you see yourself
only in segments, This strange perception is

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the authority problem. This strange perception
is the authority problem. So seeing yourself

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in segments as separated from everything is
actually a demonstration of how how absolutely determined

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you are to be your own author
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authority problem. It's not. It's
the same as saying that. It's like

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he would say, Okay, it's
arrogant to say that I'm the cause of

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what I see. No, it
is arrogant to say that you're not that,

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and that you're at the mercy of
everything that's happening around you, and

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that everything is happening for a reason
or whatever, that you don't know about

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all that stuff. Thank you God
for this. There is no one who

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does not feel that he is imprisoned
in some way. If this is the

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result of his own free will,
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or the circular reasoning in reasoning in
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Free will must lead to freedom.
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reality by the unstable scales of desire. Wishes are not facts. To wish

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is to imply that willing is not
sufficient. Yet no one in his right

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mind believes that what is wished is
as real as what is willed. Instead

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of SEEKI first the Kingdom of heaven, say will ye first the kingdom of

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heaven? And you have said,
I know what I am, and I

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accept my own inheritance. Wow,
what an incredible lesson. And I'm grateful

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that I'm that I that I that
I did not forget to do this class

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Finally I remembered. And this is
what is occurring with you now, you're

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remembering that you're you may have forgotten
about your your inheritance, but it is

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not lost. It's not it's you've
lost the power. What did you say?

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You lost the power, But that
power is not lost. You can

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still remember. And this is what
a cursing miracles teaching. This is what

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a course of miracles is teaching us
all the time. If you forget,

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just remember again, and you you're
back there. The miracle is always going

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on. Reality is always available to
you. All right. This was the

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lesson of the day, My lesson
of the day, lesson three forty seven.

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I'll repeat the Let me see this
anger must come from judgment. Judgment

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is the weapon I would use against
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Father, I want what goes against
my will, and do not want

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what is my will to have straighten
my mind. My father, it is

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sick, But you have offered freedom, and I choose to claim your gift

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to day, and so I give
all judgment to the one you gave to

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me to judge for me. He
sees what I behold, and yet he

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knows the truth. He looks on
pain, and yet he understands it is

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not real. And in his understanding
is it healed. He gives the miracles

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my dreams would hide from my awareness. Let him judge to day. I

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do not know my will, for
he is sure it is your own,

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and he will speak for me and
call your miracles to come to me.

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Listen to day, be very still
and hear the gentle voice for God shuring

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you that He has judged you as
the son he loves. I love you

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all very much, and I thank
you for your patience and bearing with me

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to day. And I wish you
were a wonderful, wonderful day With this

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lesson, you have been listening to
voice from heaven. Live in the Miracles

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Healing Center. Remember that God's voice
speaks to you all through the day,

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that God goes with you wherever you
go, and that God is the mind

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with which you think. God bless
us everyone,