Speaker 1: Hi, good morning, and welcome to this morning's episode of
Speaker 1: the work book Lesson of Across the Miracles. And for
Speaker 1: those of you who've been following the lessons starting on
Speaker 1: the first of January, you will be aware that we
Speaker 1: are right at lesson twenty six today, and what an
Speaker 1: extraordinary lesson it is. And I know that you'll tell
Speaker 1: me that I say this about every lesson, but that
Speaker 1: is true. Every lesson is extraordinary. It's completely out of
Speaker 1: the ordinary. And the purpose of it, obviously is to
Speaker 1: raise your awareness to the level of your recognition of
Speaker 1: your own extraordinariness. You are not an ordinary human being.
Speaker 1: You are the divine perfect son of a divine perfect
Speaker 1: creator m And clearly hearing those words have had no
Speaker 1: effect on you as you continue to labor under the
Speaker 1: misapprehension that you are a human being. So what you
Speaker 1: need is an experience of your own reality, a remembrance,
Speaker 1: if you like, of what you truly are. This is
Speaker 1: what the Course of Miracles means. In the beginning where
Speaker 1: it says that the course does not aim at teaching
Speaker 1: the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can
Speaker 1: be taught. It's already what you are. It's what everything is,
Speaker 1: but it does aim at removing the blocks to the
Speaker 1: awareness of Love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. So clearly,
Speaker 1: all you suffer from is a block in your own
Speaker 1: awareness to the truth of what you are. The purpose
Speaker 1: of the work book of a Course of Miracles, obviously,
Speaker 1: is to assist you and coax you, and gradually lead
Speaker 1: you by the hand to the point where you are
Speaker 1: absolutely ready to let those blocks go and to begin
Speaker 1: to recognize a that you're not that, and that you
Speaker 1: would not wanna be that, and that you really do
Speaker 1: want the piece and joy and laughter and love that
Speaker 1: is your entitlement as a perfect creation of a perfect creator.
Speaker 1: So with that preamble, why don't we just begin by
Speaker 1: taking a moment and taking a breath, taking several breaths
Speaker 1: in fact, and just relax. Let's play a little bit
Speaker 1: of music, Let's just let everything go as we really
Speaker 1: in a way get ready for an extraordinary experience. And
Speaker 1: I use the phrase get ready very loosely, so please
Speaker 1: don't write to me and tell me how no preparation
Speaker 1: is required. Very well aware of that, let's become aware
Speaker 1: that we've come here, We've come together in this moment
Speaker 1: for a reason. We want to practice the workbook lesson
Speaker 1: of a course of miracles. We want to experience the
Speaker 1: liberation that is promised in the steadfast, in the steadfast
Speaker 1: practice of this. So let's play a little music here,
Speaker 1: and I think we might begin with a beautiful song
Speaker 1: by Mitch. And why don't we go with Come to peace,
Speaker 1: Here we go, Come.
Speaker 2: To the table, come to the feet.
Speaker 1: Come be the giarver of the green.
Speaker 2: Come as a lover, Come as a friend.
Speaker 3: Come join the joy that will lo.
Speaker 4: As you so.
Speaker 1: You shall be.
Speaker 2: If it's love you would, If it's love for which
Speaker 2: you live, and love you must give, Come join the liberty.
Speaker 2: Come as you are.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Come for a moment, come to stand. Some come by fire.
Speaker 1: Some by fly, but to love it's all the same.
Speaker 3: Come be free, come see, come.
Speaker 1: With me to a past, to green.
Speaker 2: Are a quiet stream with a heart.
Speaker 1: So oh h h wow. Thank you so much much
Speaker 1: for that beautiful song. And let me turn off the music.
Speaker 1: It's not continue to play. Sorry about that. Yes, if
Speaker 1: it's love for which you live, then love you must give.
Speaker 1: That's an extraordinary idea, isn't it. And that's that's what
Speaker 1: we're here. For Uh, we are here to give love,
Speaker 1: for we are love, and we have forgotten over the millennia,
Speaker 1: over the millions of years that we think that we
Speaker 1: live here, we've really kind of forgotten how to do that.
Speaker 1: And so now we must be reminded. And you know,
Speaker 1: the extent to which we are individually reminded really is,
Speaker 1: you know, to the extent that we want to be reminded.
Speaker 1: It's the extent that we really do want a different
Speaker 1: experience from that of separation and attack and hate and
Speaker 1: all of the stuff that characterizes a meaningless existence in
Speaker 1: the meaningless place. And so the truth is offered, the
Speaker 1: experience is offered. It's right here, it's right now, and uh,
Speaker 1: we've come together for that purpose. So let's take a
Speaker 1: look at today's lesson, and let's again remember that Jesus,
Speaker 1: the author of a Course of Miracles, is very clear
Speaker 1: about how these lessons should be practiced. He says that
Speaker 1: they should be practiced very specifically, with great specificity, I
Speaker 1: think is what he says. And so he lays out
Speaker 1: the instructions as to exactly what you're expected to do
Speaker 1: in every moment, or what you're directed to do, or
Speaker 1: what you are required to do for you to really
Speaker 1: begin to derive the benefits of what's being offered here,
Speaker 1: to derive the benefit of the change of mind that
Speaker 1: inevitably occurs if you practice what you're told to practice. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's look at today these lesson, which is Lesson
Speaker 1: twenty six. My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. My
Speaker 1: attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. And we immediately remember
Speaker 1: when we first came across this idea of attack thoughts.
Speaker 1: Does anybody remember three days ago I three days ago
Speaker 1: m Lesson twenty three, which says I can escape the
Speaker 1: world I see by giving up a my attack thoughts,
Speaker 1: and that lesson did really go into the necessity for
Speaker 1: the relinquishment of your attack thoughts. And now we see
Speaker 1: again that charity really does begin at home, that everything
Speaker 1: I do, I'm really doing to myself. And we've come
Speaker 1: across this over the days that we've been doing, uh,
Speaker 1: the lessons, and now we're seeing what these attack thoughts
Speaker 1: are actually doing to me individually. My attack thoughts are
Speaker 1: attacking my invulnerability. Wow, So I am invulnerable as I
Speaker 1: am created, and I am actually attacking my own invulnerability,
Speaker 1: my own innocence is not an amazing idea. So let's
Speaker 1: take a look, because he's going to ex explain to
Speaker 1: us why this is so, this is this is so exciting. Okay,
Speaker 1: my attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. It is surely
Speaker 1: obvious that if you can be attacked, you are not invulnerable.
Speaker 1: You see attack as a real threat. That is because
Speaker 1: you believe that you can really attack. Wow, and what
Speaker 1: would have effects through you must also have effects on you. Aha.
Speaker 1: It is this law. It's a law. It's immutable, it's
Speaker 1: not open to a discussion. And we'll look at this in
Speaker 1: greater detail in a minute. It is this law that
Speaker 1: will ultimately save you. But you are misusing it now,
Speaker 1: al right. There's no equivocation there cause I say, ah,
Speaker 1: you may be sometimes misusing it. No, you're misusing it now.
Speaker 1: That's okay. That's why you need the wind training of
Speaker 1: a course in miracles. So don't immediately get into a
Speaker 1: defense or an argument about how far you've come and
Speaker 1: therefore you're not misusing it. You're misusing it now, Okay.
Speaker 1: You need all the help you can get, alright. You
Speaker 1: must therefore learn how it can be used for your
Speaker 1: own best interests rather than against them. So we see
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of ideas that we've looked at in
Speaker 1: the last three days literally in capsure related in that
Speaker 1: one paragraph. Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you
Speaker 1: will fear attack. Hm. We have an interesting word there, projected. Okay.
Speaker 1: Have we come across that word before in the lessons?
Speaker 1: Do we do? We know? See? This is it's so great. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's let's continue because this is we can really kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, unravel this. I love to look at the
Speaker 1: lessons and how they're put together and what's actually working
Speaker 1: and what I am being told because I'm being given
Speaker 1: a lot in very few lines, very few paragraphs. They're huge.
Speaker 1: Just clear, well say they're loaded. Okay. And if you
Speaker 1: fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable.
Speaker 1: Attack thoughts therefore make you invulnerable, make you vulnerable in
Speaker 1: your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are.
Speaker 1: Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict
Speaker 1: to each other. Wow, split mind. The idea for today
Speaker 1: introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first. Woo.
Speaker 1: If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable,
Speaker 1: their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes.
Speaker 1: So you're really now beginning to see the premise from
Speaker 1: which you depart as a human being. But you really
Speaker 1: do operate on the premise that you are vulnerable, that
Speaker 1: you can be attacked. What is an What is the
Speaker 1: result of that? You defend yourself. You must defend yourself
Speaker 1: if you believe that you can be attacked. What you
Speaker 1: do not see is that you are the attack or
Speaker 1: and the attacke isn't that an amazing idea? This is
Speaker 1: what you're now very beginning to learn. And if we've
Speaker 1: rewind a moment, we'll go back to number eleven where
Speaker 1: he mentions the word forgiveness. Oh, now we're beginning to
Speaker 1: see a connection between my meaningless thoughts are showing me
Speaker 1: a meaningless world, and my attack thoughts are attacking my
Speaker 1: in vulnerability. Amazing, But let me let me try to
Speaker 1: do this. I'm gonna I'm gonna come back and read
Speaker 1: this without comment, but I do like to kind of
Speaker 1: unravel it first and then read, So please forgive me.
Speaker 1: If you find it irritated, you might want to practice
Speaker 1: the idea that your tack thoughts are attacking your own vulnerability. Okay,
Speaker 1: attack thoughts and vulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict
Speaker 1: each other. The idea for today introduces the thought that
Speaker 1: you always attack yourself first. If attack thoughts must entail
Speaker 1: the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to
Speaker 1: weaken you in your own eyes. Thus they have attacked
Speaker 1: your perception of yourself, and because you believe in them,
Speaker 1: you can no longer believe in yourself. A false image
Speaker 1: of yourself has come to take the place of what
Speaker 1: you are. Wow. Now we have to realize that this
Speaker 1: lesson is not speaking about how you were five hundred
Speaker 1: years ago. This lesson is about right here and right now,
Speaker 1: and so that the image that you have of yourself
Speaker 1: in this moment is weakened by the idea that you
Speaker 1: can be attacked. And that's what you believe as you
Speaker 1: sit or stand or lie or however position, whatever position
Speaker 1: you're in, as you listen to this, or as you
Speaker 1: read this, that you really think of yourself as a
Speaker 1: human being, as something that is vulnerable, something that can
Speaker 1: be attacked. And that's actually how you perceive yourself, that's
Speaker 1: how you see yourself. Wow, that's an amazing idea. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's continue practice with today's idea will help you to
Speaker 1: understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your
Speaker 1: own thoughts. Period. You're the captain of that ship. That's
Speaker 1: an amazing idea. You are literally deciding and making up
Speaker 1: what you want to be. So for you. We've come
Speaker 1: across this idea repeatedly through the l UH the last
Speaker 1: twenty six days. Okay, nothing except your thoughts can attack you, period,
Speaker 1: end of story. Whether it's Kim Jong un or Isis
Speaker 1: or whomever, where is it to your own mind? They're
Speaker 1: your own thoughts. Wow, interesting, isn't it. Nothing except your
Speaker 1: thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make
Speaker 1: you think you are vulnerable, and nothing except your thoughts
Speaker 1: can prove to you you this is not so. This
Speaker 1: is why the change has to occur in your own mind.
Speaker 1: Is by your practice that you begin to see the
Speaker 1: truth of what you are. There is no other way.
Speaker 1: You cannot theoretically grasp this. It is your mind that
Speaker 1: has to change. This is so cool because you can
Speaker 1: literally let everything go and apply this to yourself always.
Speaker 1: There is no power that can prevent you from applying
Speaker 1: the truth to yourself, from literally taking this and getting
Speaker 1: free that's amazing. I'm so grateful. I'm so heavy. The key,
Speaker 1: you know, we came across that word key. The key
Speaker 1: to forgiveness lies in it. The key is in your
Speaker 1: own hands. You have the key, and I will give
Speaker 1: on to you, Jesus says to Simon Peter, you, I
Speaker 1: will give onto you the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Speaker 1: Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.
Speaker 1: Whatsoever you shall lose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Speaker 1: It's in your own hands, it's in your own mind,
Speaker 1: it's in your own thoughts. How simple is salvation? Wow? Okay.
Speaker 1: Six practice periods are required. They're not optional. They're required
Speaker 1: if you want to start to get the results. You're
Speaker 1: gonna do what you're told to do. Six practice periods
Speaker 1: are required in applying today's idea. A full two minutes
Speaker 1: should be attempted for each of them, although the time
Speaker 1: may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is
Speaker 1: too great. The discomfort will be huge if you persist
Speaker 1: in defending yourself against the idea. That's the only thing.
Speaker 1: We've just been told that only your thoughts can attack you.
Speaker 1: So if you're experiencing discomfort. Guess where that's coming from
Speaker 1: and why it's not amazing. You can reduce it to
Speaker 1: a minute. If the discomfort is too great, do not
Speaker 1: reduce it further. Okay. Guys, set your alarms for six
Speaker 1: times today. When you're gonna set aside two minutes for
Speaker 1: practicing this, you're asked to do that. The forgetting is
Speaker 1: not an option, they say, oh well, I forgot, don't forget.
Speaker 1: Set an alarm, mark your calendar, tie a knot in
Speaker 1: your shield. Whatever it is you have to do, do
Speaker 1: it why because you want this? Okay? So these six
Speaker 1: practice periers are required in applying today's idea. A full
Speaker 1: two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although
Speaker 1: the time may be reduced to a minute. If the
Speaker 1: discomfort is too great, do not reduce it further. Okay.
Speaker 1: The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today.
Speaker 1: What's the idea for today? My attack thoughts are attacking
Speaker 1: my invulnerability? Wow, then closing your eyes and reviewing the
Speaker 1: unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. So my
Speaker 1: attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. I then close my
Speaker 1: eyes and I begin to review ideas that you know
Speaker 1: whose outcome or situations or whatever, who's out come you
Speaker 1: know are causing me concern, all right. The concern may
Speaker 1: take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of
Speaker 1: imposition haha, fear, foreboding, or preoccupation. Any problem as yet
Speaker 1: unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the
Speaker 1: day is a suitable subject. You will not be able
Speaker 1: to use very many for any one practice period because
Speaker 1: a longer time than usual should be spent with each one.
Speaker 1: You should really go through it, so it's not like
Speaker 1: a cursory glance. No, you take each thought and you
Speaker 1: really look at it. Today's idea should be applied as follows. Okay,
Speaker 1: first name the situation. Okay, I am concerned about I
Speaker 1: am concerned about my cousin Timothy. Let's say okay. Then
Speaker 1: go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you
Speaker 1: in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring
Speaker 1: to each one quite specifically saying I'm afraid blank will happen.
Speaker 1: For example, I'm concerned about my cousin Timothy. I'm afraid
Speaker 1: that I'm afraid that he will overdose on heroin and die.
Speaker 1: If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have
Speaker 1: some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation
Speaker 1: you use. So my cousin Timothy is gonna go steal
Speaker 1: to by drugs, attack his mother, do all kinds of
Speaker 1: stuff that will finally result in his imprisonment or death.
Speaker 1: But what he's saying here is that if you're doing
Speaker 1: the exercises properly, you should have some five or six
Speaker 1: distressing possibilities available for each situation you use. If you're
Speaker 1: doing it properly, you should have five or six. So
Speaker 1: it doesn't really do you any good to say, well,
Speaker 1: I have only one, so I have to move on.
Speaker 1: I do you see? So there has to be some
Speaker 1: willingness on your part to actually do the lessons properly. Okay,
Speaker 1: it is much more helpful to cover a few situations
Speaker 1: thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. As a
Speaker 1: list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will
Speaker 1: probably find some of them, especially those that occur to
Speaker 1: you to what the end less acceptable to you. This
Speaker 1: is a mind that really knows you. This is one
Speaker 1: thing that was very clear to me, and of course
Speaker 1: a miracle. Ah, I am exposed here, I'm revealed, I
Speaker 1: am like I'm known. Okay, so you might find you
Speaker 1: will find towards the end some of the outcomes less
Speaker 1: acceptable to you. Try, however, to treat them all alike
Speaker 1: to whatever extent you can. After you have named each
Speaker 1: outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself that thought
Speaker 1: is an attack upon myself. That thought, whatever the thought is,
Speaker 1: whatever the thought seems to be about, it is an
Speaker 1: attack upon myself. Conclude each practice period by repeating today's
Speaker 1: idea to yourself once more. My attack thoughts are attacking
Speaker 1: my invulnerability. What an extraordinary, extraordinary idea. So what I'm
Speaker 1: going to do, because of my inclination to commentating, and
Speaker 1: you know my vivacity, I am going to read this
Speaker 1: again without comment. And then I'm going to play a
Speaker 1: piece of music instrumental so that you don't get distracted
Speaker 1: by the lyrics. And we will actually spend a minimum
Speaker 1: of two minutes or well, he says a minimum of
Speaker 1: a minute, but I will play that the music will
Speaker 1: probably last longer than two minutes. That's why I'm saying it.
Speaker 1: So we will practice, okay, and we will really practice,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter that we did it before, because
Speaker 1: we need six practice periods today. Okay, so I'm going
Speaker 1: to read it through and you're gonna hear things in
Speaker 1: the completely new way from how you heard it ten
Speaker 1: minutes ago. So let's just, you know, get together, pay
Speaker 1: attention and listen and go. Okay, thank you so much
Speaker 1: all for being here. I love you with all my heart.
Speaker 1: I this is this is just for me, and I
Speaker 1: just appreciate so much your love and attention and your
Speaker 1: support in this. Okay, so let's start less than twenty
Speaker 1: six workbook of a Course of miracles. If you've just
Speaker 1: joined us, my attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. It
Speaker 1: is surely obvious that if you can be attacked, you
Speaker 1: are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat.
Speaker 1: That is because you believe that you can really attack,
Speaker 1: and what would have effects through you must also have
Speaker 1: effects on you. It is this law that will ultimately
Speaker 1: save you, but you are misusing it now. You must
Speaker 1: therefore learn how it can be used for your own
Speaker 1: best interests rather than against them. Because your attack thoughts
Speaker 1: will be projected, you will fear attack, and if you
Speaker 1: fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable.
Speaker 1: Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind,
Speaker 1: which is where the attack thoughts are. Attack thoughts and
Speaker 1: invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other. The
Speaker 1: idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack
Speaker 1: yourself first. My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. If
Speaker 1: attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable,
Speaker 1: their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes.
Speaker 1: Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself, and because
Speaker 1: you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself.
Speaker 1: A false image of yourself has come to take the
Speaker 1: place of what you are. The practice with today's idea
Speaker 1: will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is
Speaker 1: the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts
Speaker 1: can attack you, Nothing except your thoughts can make you
Speaker 1: think you are vulnerable, and nothing except your thoughts can
Speaker 1: prove to you this is not so. Six practice periods
Speaker 1: are required in applying today's idea. A full two minutes
Speaker 1: should be attempted for each of them, although the time
Speaker 1: may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is
Speaker 1: too grit do not reduce it further. The practice period
Speaker 1: should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing
Speaker 1: your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions whose outcomes are
Speaker 1: causing you concern. The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger,
Speaker 1: a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding, or preoccupation. Any problem,
Speaker 1: as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts
Speaker 1: during the day is a suitable subject. You will not
Speaker 1: be able to use very many for any one practice period,
Speaker 1: because a longer time than usual should be spent with
Speaker 1: each one. Today's idea should be applied as follows. First
Speaker 1: name the situation I am concerned about blank. Then go
Speaker 1: over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in
Speaker 1: that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to
Speaker 1: each one quite specifically saying I am afraid blank will happen.
Speaker 1: If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have
Speaker 1: some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation
Speaker 1: you use, and quite possibly more. It is much more
Speaker 1: helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch
Speaker 1: on a large number. As the list of anticipated outcomes
Speaker 1: for each situation continues, you will probably find some of
Speaker 1: them especially those that occur to you toward the end
Speaker 1: less acceptable to you. Try, however, to treat them all
Speaker 1: alike to whatever extent you can. After you have named
Speaker 1: each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself that
Speaker 1: thought is an attack upon myself. Conclude each practice period
Speaker 1: by repeating today's idea to yourself once more. My attack
Speaker 1: thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. So we're going to spend
Speaker 1: some time now and we're going to do this lesson.
Speaker 1: We're gonna practice. We're going to exercise, and the exercises
Speaker 1: are not like some remote dress rehearsal. They are real,
Speaker 1: they're for you. They are now use things that are
Speaker 1: really bothering you. This is your opportunity. This is the
Speaker 1: Miracles Healing Center. The whole purpose of this is healing.
Speaker 1: This is your opportunity for this transformation to occur in
Speaker 1: your mind. This is a learning So let's do it.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna play a piece of music. You're gonna
Speaker 1: begin with my attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. You're
Speaker 1: gonna close your eyes, and then you're gonna begin to
Speaker 1: think of the stuff that really distress you. You pick
Speaker 1: up each one and you'll say, I am concerned about
Speaker 1: my bank account. I am afraid that I will be destitute.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. You say that, but you whatever
Speaker 1: things are bothering you, and you do it exactly as
Speaker 1: we have been told. And after each situation that concerns you,
Speaker 1: and you've gone through all the possible eventualities, you say,
Speaker 1: this thought is an attack upon myself, and then you
Speaker 1: go on to the next thought. Okay, so we're going
Speaker 1: to do this with a piece of music, and I
Speaker 1: think we're going to choose the nock turn. Here, here
Speaker 1: we go.
Speaker 5: My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability an.
Speaker 1: Cock?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 1: Thanks everyone? How was that great? Huh? It's nice to
Speaker 1: be finally known, isn't it to finally not have to hide?
Speaker 1: And the certainly that's how it is for me is
Speaker 1: that I find now that I can actually admit to
Speaker 1: things within my own mind. And what I found to
Speaker 1: be really quite bizarre over the years is how much
Speaker 1: I am defended, even within the so called privacy of
Speaker 1: my own thoughts, and how hard I have worked as
Speaker 1: a human being to justify myself to myself. Isn't that
Speaker 1: an amazing thing? And you know the great thing about
Speaker 1: how great it is. But with the attack thoughts, you
Speaker 1: really do become aware of how much time you spend
Speaker 1: in the attack on yourself, and how completely reversed the
Speaker 1: time is. And what I mean by that is how
Speaker 1: little time you spend at peace, and how much time,
Speaker 1: how disproportionately huge, the time is that you know, you
Speaker 1: spend in a war against yourself. Quite literally, you know,
Speaker 1: because now you've begun to realize that, you know, that
Speaker 1: sense of imposition, or that idea that someone is doing
Speaker 1: something to you or saying something about you, or you know,
Speaker 1: wal marters raise their prices or whatever it is, that
Speaker 1: all of these thoughts are literally an attack on yourself,
Speaker 1: that they're not happening outside of you, that you are
Speaker 1: literally that you literally are the architect, if you like,
Speaker 1: of the world in which you find yourself. That's an
Speaker 1: amazing idea, And also the realization that it's literally undone
Speaker 1: in your own thoughts as well. Isn't that incredible that
Speaker 1: creation has nothing to do with any of this, That
Speaker 1: you know, the world, although I see, has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with reality, is of my own making and does
Speaker 1: not exist. That's an extraordinary realization in every moment that
Speaker 1: you realize that and the one thing I do have
Speaker 1: to keep reiterating is that each lesson that we do
Speaker 1: does not render the previous lessons invalid. You see what
Speaker 1: I mean. And so, for instance, and I know that
Speaker 1: it sounds crazy that I have to say this, but
Speaker 1: I'm saying this for good reason, and it's because of
Speaker 1: questions I've been asked, or you know, comments that have
Speaker 1: been made, and so on and so forth. So if
Speaker 1: we take, for instance, leven lesson number fourteen, and God
Speaker 1: did not create a meaningless world that was as valid
Speaker 1: on the first day as it is today, regardless of
Speaker 1: what what aspect we seem to be working on. And
Speaker 1: so if in Lesson fourteen, as Jesus states, the world
Speaker 1: I see has nothing to do with reality. It is
Speaker 1: of my own making and it does not exist. That
Speaker 1: was true, then that was true on day one, and
Speaker 1: it is true today. We have a tendency and I
Speaker 1: am as guilty of this to forget about the lesson
Speaker 1: each day that it goes. You know, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it seems now that y as you're working with your
Speaker 1: attack thoughts that the world is real again, No, it's not,
Speaker 1: you see, And I don't know how well I've done
Speaker 1: in expressing that. But this is an in this is
Speaker 1: an integrated thoughts system. Truth is true and nothing else
Speaker 1: is true across the board. Nothing I see means anything
Speaker 1: is as true on day one as it is today.
Speaker 1: My thoughts are images that I have made this true
Speaker 1: right here and right now. And so that's the only
Speaker 1: thing that I really want to underscore here, that the
Speaker 1: lessons are part of a whole. They're not discreet things
Speaker 1: that suddenly become invalid, you know, when you decide to
Speaker 1: forget about them. So these ideas to which you are
Speaker 1: being introduced are true ideas, and they hang together, they
Speaker 1: are cohesive, they are one. It's really the same idea
Speaker 1: that is being expressed in many, many, many, many different ways.
Speaker 1: Because the whole idea of multiplicity is an idea that
Speaker 1: you have come up with that justifies or verifies to
Speaker 1: you your concept of separation, your concept of the separate self.
Speaker 1: They're not really many things. The idea of many is
Speaker 1: your idea because you believe that things are separate. The
Speaker 1: idea of separation is is is real to you. That
Speaker 1: central idea is being undone, and what is being revealed
Speaker 1: is your own oneness, your own integrity, the oneness in
Speaker 1: the wholeness of your own mind. I love the way
Speaker 1: that he says, and I think it's in less than
Speaker 1: twelve that he says, beneath your words are written the
Speaker 1: words of God, or is written the word of God.
Speaker 1: That's a real thing. So all the stuff, the churns
Speaker 1: and bubbles on the surface have no meaning and no reality.
Speaker 1: There still is reality, There still is God. Lesson twelve
Speaker 1: was when he says the word God for the first time,
Speaker 1: and then he moves it into the title in less
Speaker 1: than fourteen. But I'm not gonna go I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: into that. There's no need. But these things aren't just random.
Speaker 1: There's nothing in the lessons. They're just there because well
Speaker 1: you know why not. It's all part of an offering
Speaker 1: that's being made, and that offering is integral and it's here,
Speaker 1: it's now, it's you, and there's nothing that really stops
Speaker 1: you in any moment from realizing it. But the realization
Speaker 1: is in your experience, it's not in the words about them.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Kay, We've got fifteen minutes and
Speaker 1: I'm just going to open the book at random and
Speaker 1: just see, you know what we end up reading and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it online because I can't open up
Speaker 1: random on my UH kindle. So let's let's see what
Speaker 1: we have here. If we go to the text and
Speaker 1: if we go to the UH the C table of content,
Speaker 1: and I just click and see what comes up, and
Speaker 1: it's chapter four, the Illusions of the Ego. Oooh, this
Speaker 1: is really interesting. So we're just gonna just read a
Speaker 1: little bit here before we play some musics. I can
Speaker 1: go to the video. And by the way, I do
Speaker 1: really really recommend that you watch the video with us,
Speaker 1: the video of the master teacher. The master teacher, of course,
Speaker 1: the miracles teachers. Of course some miracles, as we teach
Speaker 1: a cours, some miracles. But it's not really about the
Speaker 1: conceptual expression of the ideas. It is really an invitation
Speaker 1: to the experience. That's all really that's happening. That's what's
Speaker 1: happening in the book, that's what's happening in this class,
Speaker 1: that's what's happening in the center. It's always an invitation
Speaker 1: to an experience of your self, and that self with
Speaker 1: a capital S. Okay, alright, So the Bible says that
Speaker 1: you should go with a brother twice as far as
Speaker 1: he asks. You know, remember walk the extra mile turned
Speaker 1: the other cheek. You know, if he asks you for
Speaker 1: your pants, give him your jacket. Also remember that.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, It certainly does not suggest that you set
Speaker 4: him back on his journey.
Speaker 1: This is really interesting. Devotion to a brother cannot set
Speaker 1: you back either. Devotion to a brother cannot set you
Speaker 1: back either. That's an interesting idea because the problem is
Speaker 1: not that. The problem is what you think devotion is. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's continue. It can lead only to mutual progress. The
Speaker 1: result of genuine devotion is inspiration, a word which properly
Speaker 1: understood is the opposite of fatigue. So there's a listen,
Speaker 1: let's just take a moment and take a look at that.
Speaker 1: That's very that's a very interesting idea that, you know,
Speaker 1: be devoted to your brother. Devotion can't set you back.
Speaker 1: But devotion, if it's genuine, if it's real, results and
Speaker 1: inspiration and inspiration is shared. Right, the opposite of inspiration
Speaker 1: is fatigue. Ah. So if you find, for instance, that
Speaker 1: you know your brother's wearing you out, may be what
Speaker 1: you're calling devotion, it's not really devotion. It's nothing to
Speaker 1: do with him. He has to do with you. Okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah, all right, so let's continue. The result of
Speaker 1: genuine devotion is inspiration, a word which properly understood is
Speaker 1: the opposite of fatigue. To be fatigued is to be dispirited,
Speaker 1: but to be inspired is to be in the spirit.
Speaker 1: To be egocentric is to be dispirited, but to be
Speaker 1: self centered And that's for the capital s in the
Speaker 1: right sense is to be inspired or in the spirit
Speaker 1: or in spirit. The truly inspired are enlightened and cannot
Speaker 1: abide in darkness. Wow. So you begin really now to
Speaker 1: see the joy of the mind training, because don't forget
Speaker 1: only we just read you that your attack thoughts attack
Speaker 1: just you, that you're being attacked by your own thoughts. Haha,
Speaker 1: So listen. To be self centered in the right sense
Speaker 1: is to be inspired or in spirit. Well, that would
Speaker 1: be the practice of today's lesson, right, That would be
Speaker 1: not attacking your invulnerability. That would be less than twenty three. Wow.
Speaker 1: The truly inspired enlightened and cannot abide in darkness. You
Speaker 1: can speak from the spirit or from the ego, as
Speaker 1: you choose. If you speak from spirit, you have chosen
Speaker 1: to be still and know that I am God, I
Speaker 1: love it. These words are inspired because they reflect knowledge,
Speaker 1: and you know this really underscores the necessity for the
Speaker 1: practice of the workbook lessons. Can you imagine spending two
Speaker 1: minutes six times today in being still and knowing that
Speaker 1: God is Be still and know that I am God,
Speaker 1: and I is the capitalized eye. The I am that
Speaker 1: I am. It's the capitalized self which you discover in
Speaker 1: your stillness. Remember that beneath your words is written the
Speaker 1: word of God. That's the necessity for the practice. That's
Speaker 1: for you to be inspired, to be enlightened and not
Speaker 1: abide in darkness any longer. This is the whole workbook,
Speaker 1: of course of miracles. I love it. Okay that continue.
Speaker 1: You can speak from the spirit or from the ego,
Speaker 1: as you choose. If you speak from spirit, you have
Speaker 1: chosen to be still and know that I am God.
Speaker 1: These words are inspired because they reflect not If you
Speaker 1: speak from the ego, you are disclaiming knowledge instead of
Speaker 1: affirming it, and are thus dispiriting who exactly, and are
Speaker 1: thus dispiriting yourself. Do not embark on useless journeys, because
Speaker 1: they are indeed in vain. The ego may desire them,
Speaker 1: but spirit cannot embark on them because it is forever
Speaker 1: unwilling to depart from its foundation. I love the idea
Speaker 1: of forever unwilling, be forever unwilling to leave home, be
Speaker 1: forever unwilling to see a meaningless world, be forever unwilling
Speaker 1: to be in the hell of your attack thoughts, be
Speaker 1: forever unwilling to attack your invulnerability. Wow, the journey to
Speaker 1: the Cross should be the last useless journey. Do not
Speaker 1: dwell upon it, but dismiss it as accomplished. If you
Speaker 1: can accept it as your own last useless journey, you
Speaker 1: are also free to join my resurrection. Until you do so,
Speaker 1: your life is indeed wasted. It merely reenacts the separation,
Speaker 1: the loss of power, the futile attempts of the ego
Speaker 1: at reparation, and finally, the crucifixion of the body or
Speaker 1: death you call it. Such repetitions are endless until they
Speaker 1: are voluntarily given up. Do not make the pathetic error
Speaker 1: of clinging to the old rugged cross. The only message
Speaker 1: of the crucifixion is that you can overcome the cross.
Speaker 1: This is the entire workbook of a course in miracles.
Speaker 1: This is why you sit down for two minutes and
Speaker 1: go home. So I'm just gonna finish this paragraph and
Speaker 1: then we are going to go. Do not make the
Speaker 1: pathetic error of clinging to the old rugged cross. The
Speaker 1: only message of the crucifixion is that you can overcome
Speaker 1: the cross. Until then you are free to crucify yourself
Speaker 1: as often as you choose. This is not the gospel
Speaker 1: I intended to offer you. We have another journey to undertake,
Speaker 1: and if you will read these lessons carefully, they will
Speaker 1: help prepare you to undertake it. And this is the
Speaker 1: whole all work book. This is our lesson for today.
Speaker 1: My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability, and I will
Speaker 1: look at all the crazy concerns I have and remember
Speaker 1: that each one is an attack upon myself. I love
Speaker 1: you with all my heart. Thank you so very much
Speaker 1: for joining with me this morning in this extraordinary uh
Speaker 1: practice that we have today. M My gratitude to you
Speaker 1: knows no bounds. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Let's
Speaker 1: really today go our way, rejoicing in the endless love
Speaker 1: of God as we remember that our attack thoughts are
Speaker 1: attacking our invulnerability. So I love you and I will
Speaker 1: see you everywhere.
Speaker 6: You have been listening to voice from Heaven Live in
Speaker 6: the Miracles Healing Center. Remember that God's voice speaks to
Speaker 6: you all through the day, that God goes with you
Speaker 6: wherever you go, and that God is the mind with
Speaker 6: which you think.
Speaker 1: God bless us everyone,