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Heaven is a decision I must make. In the body there is nothing to do. No hill to climb, no race to run, no job to finish. But in the mind there is a decision and the decision is to know ourselves as we are in Creation. Any other choice brings only illusions in whichContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 138”

When I am healed I am not healed alone. Lesson 137 suggests that sickness is a choice we make that emphasizes the appearance of separate states and interests. It locks us in a body that is unwell, and whose unwellness it a witness unto death. It is the separation embodied. Therefore, healing must be joining,Continue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 137”

Sickness is a defense against the truth. Here we are invited to take a close look at what sickness is, and in doing so begin a critical discernment: what is the body and what is the mind? And what am I that I should be able to choose how to see myself? What am IContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 136”

Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. Forgiveness is the end of illusions, for it sees through them to reality, and thus releases us from bondage and suffering. It is a way of seeing, rather than a response to wrongdoing. Lesson 134 offers us an interesting correction: when we see a brother or sister asContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 134”

I will not value what is valueless. Today’s lesson takes the abstract intensity of “there is no world” and seeks to make it practical. It wants to give us a means by which to approach the truth of their is no world here in the world. In a sense, this is a hand-holding lesson, aContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 133”

I loose the world from all I thought it was. A Course in Miracles invites us to investigate not the world – which is an effect of our thoughts – but rather the source of thought, in order that we might realize that salvation is as easy as changing our mind (W-pI.132.2:1). You free theContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 132”