My holiness blesses the world.
“This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here. Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness.”
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I love it.
This lesson goes along with something I read last night in Chapter 10. It says that everyone has a light in them – in most people it is just a spark – and that if you do not see this spark in your brother, you are denying God.
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If you do not see the light in your brother, you are denying God.
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Today is exclamation point day.
I love this. My function is to see light and holiness everywhere, as a pure extension of myself and God.
If I am not honoring my brother, loving him, seeing the light in him … I am actively attacking and denying him and God.
Chapter 10: The End of Sickness and The Denial of God:
“The miracle is the act of the Son of God (which is you) who has laid aside all false gods (sickness, depression, fear, loneliness), and calls upon his brothers to do likewise. It is an act of faith, because it is the recognition that his brother can do it. It is a call to the Holy Spirit in his mind, a call that is strengthened by joining.”
So, here we are back at the Britney Spears issue again. I have let go of sickness – a false god to which I formerly obeyed and worshiped – and now I call everyone to let go of this false idol because the Holy Spirit is in both our minds. Sickness is impossible because truth is true and God is real.
“Because the miracle worker (me, you) has heard God’s Voice, he strengthens It in a sick brother by weakening his belief in sickness, which he does not share.”
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I love this. I just opened the Course up randomly last night and started reading, and was shocked of course, because I’ve been like: okay, how is healing accomplished??? How do I end sickness for everyone? How do I accept the Atonement? And I land on Chapter 10.
“The power of one mind (my mind or your mind) can shine into another, because all lamps of God were lit by the same spark. It is everywhere and it is eternal.”
Great stuff. And I haven’t even gotten yet to the part I liked the best, or the sentence that blew my mind. One more paragraph:
“In many only the spark remains, for the Great Rays are obscured. Yet God has kept the spark alive so that the Rays can never be completely forgotten. If you but see the little spark you will learn of the greater light, for the Rays are there unseen. Perceiving the spark will heal, but knowing the light will create.”
PERCEIVING THE SPARK WILL HEAL, BUT KNOWING THE LIGHT WILL CREATE.
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“Yet in the returning the little light must be acknowledged first for separation was a descent from magnitude to littleness. But the spark is still as pure as the Great Light, because it is the remaining call of creation. Put all your faith in it, and God Himself will answer.”
And here is the million dollar sentence:
“It is the denial of the spark that brings depression, for whenever you see your brothers without it, you are denying God.”
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No wonder! How obvious! How marvelous!
My function, if I want to be happy, is to see the light of God (which is mostly just a spark in most people) in everyone!
I love the song Pass it On:
It only takes a spark to get a fire going
and soon all those around will warm up in it’s glowing
That’s how it is with God’s Love
Once you experience it
You want to sing
It’s fresh like spring
You want to pass it on.
If I fail to see the spark in everyone, I am denying God … and depression is inevitable.
A Course in Miracles is uncompromising.
It doesn’t say to perceive the spark in some people when they deserve it, or when they have done something good or worthy. It says I must perceive this light in EVERYONE.
This is my function and my purpose … and to go back to today’s workbook lesson #37 it is the reason “why I am here.”
Now we are blessed together. I recognize my holiness and I see it everywhere and in everyone. I see it in you. There are no exceptions. God is everywhere. God is in everyone because He is in my mind.
This lesson is awesome: “No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through your holy vision. It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone his full due.”
And are you ready???? “And he is entitled to everything because it is his birthright as a Son of God.”
Please read today’s lesson. If you do not have A Course in Miracles yet, I highly suggest you buy it, but if not, click here LESSON 37 to read the lesson online at The Miracle Times.
You can also download the ACIM TOOLBAR which will flash the daily lesson on your computer screen all day long, and you can click to read the whole lesson as a reminder at any time. It also has great ACIM links, podcasts, lessons in several languages, and music.
So, please read today’s lesson.
Then read Chapter 10.
You will love it.
I would like to complete the entire text, workbook and Manual for Teachers in one year, by the end of 2008. With you.
We are going to keep going with the daily lessons, but once we get to the lesson 51, I am going to start with the Teachers Manual for a month or two, and then we are going to do one chapter a week for 31 weeks. We’ll still be doing the daily lessons during all of this.
You can always be reading whatever you like in the meantime – you are free to do whatever you want – but I thought it would be good to stay focused on certain sections for those of you who want additional clarity and structure. You can ask questions. I’ll blog about the sections. You can write in the comment areas your own thoughts.
But for today: Lesson 37, and to begin reading Chapter 10 when you have a chance.
I love you. I’m glad we’re taking this journey together.
My holiness envelops everything I see.
Today’s lesson corresponds with what I wrote last night about being responsible for Britney Spears. I can heal her because my holiness envelops her, and we are part of God together.
What makes healing simple is that it has already been accomplished … and in fact, there is nothing to heal.
She is whole and perfect.
So when I say I can “heal” Britney Spears, I’m actually not doing anything except remembering the truth of our shared Identity in each other and in God.
I am remembering WHO she really is. She is the perfect Son of God, One with me.
How simple!
These practice periods get easier and easier now.
I am holy and so is everything I look upon. I am holy because my mind is part of God’s.
We are looking at fragments of a dream, and still thinking them real. This is the reason you should never allow your BODY’S EYES to be the barometer for what is happening, or for what is real. Do not use your body’s eyes. They will deceive you every time. They will show you a picture of something that is absolutely false.
The body’s eyes will show you sickness, limitation, fear, addiction, and a world of chaos.
Christ vision allows you to look past all things solid. It allows you to look beyond appearances. You will stop trying to “heal” things as you recognize that there is nothing to heal. Everything is perfect as God created it.
Christ vision sees only perfection. The Christ in you sees only love. So you will still be looking through the body’s eyes, but you will see only what is true now. You won’t be concerned anymore with what people are doing or saying. Nothing can affect you now. With Christ in you, you have eyes to see. It’s like in the 3rd Matrix movie when Neo’s eyes get destroyed and he is “blind” and suddenly – a miracle – he can see clearly.
Look around you now. You see something solid. A window. A computer. A desk. A door. A rug. A body. A pen. Fingers typing on a keyboard.
Now realize that your holiness envelops everything you see.
You are one with everything you see, and your holiness envelops all of it.
Say this out loud: My holiness envelops everything I see.
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I’m trying to figure out if things are getting worse with drugs and alcohol these days, or if it’s just the speed in which information travels.
Lindsay Lohan takes a swig of champagne of New Years Eve (after getting out of rehab) and the photo is plastered everywhere within an hour.
Amy Winehouse is in rehab. Eve Mendes is in rehab.
All these young celebrities in and out of rehab … and they can’t leave their front door without the paparazzi documenting their every step. It’s gotta suck.
I was thinking last night about recent events with Britney Spears and how she is in rehab at UCLA Medical Center … and I realized …
Wait a second. Britney doesn’t have a problem … I DO!!!!
I’m the one with the problem, and I’m causing her pain and suffering.
I’m the one that needs healing.
Not her.
ME.
All healing occurs in my mind. Everyone is healed as I am healed … as I accept Atonement for myself.
I started thinking last night (to jump on the already growing bandwagon of Britney well-wishers) of how much I want to help Britney. How much I wish i could get a weekend with her alone and HELP HER.
And then it hit me like a ton of bricks: but wait a second, Britney is in my mind.
I was thinking: she is here now. She is literally here with me now.
She’s not outside of me. She is in my mind.
So I thought: Then what is the problem here? What should I tell her? What can I do to help? What needs healing?
There is no Britney. There is ONLY acceptance of healing in my own mind … and then she – along with everyone else in the entire world – is healed along with me.
What does Britney represent that needs to be healed in me? That’s the only question.
What is the major problem I see in Britney Spears??
Lack of love. Separation. She is not nice to herself. She sabotages herself. She needs love love love love love love love love, and then some more love.
So that’s the new dedication of my mind.
Love love love love love. To be nice to myself. To accept myself as God created me. I am 100% responsible. I caused this situation. I created it. I am responsible for it.
I’m sorry.
I’m really sorry.
Forgive me.
(this suddenly sounds like a lot like Ho’oponopono)
I actually have a book on it, one moment …. let me get it … okay here we go … from Dr. Hew Ihaleakala Len:
I operate my life and my relationships according to the following insights:
1. The physical universe is an actualization of my thoughts.
2. If my thoughts are cancerous, they create a cancerous physical reality.
3. If my thoughts are perfect, they create a physical reality brimming with LOVE.
4. I am 100% responsible for creating my physical universe the way it is.
5. I am 100% responsible for correcting the cancerous thoughts that create a diseased reality.
6. There is no such thing as out there. Everything exists as thoughts in my mind.
to read the entire article online now, click here: Self I-Dentity Through Ho’oponopono
This article is amazing. It’s A Course in Miracles. There is no such thing as “out there”. There is only my mind – which is part of God’s. I am very holy.
There is work to do, and I am willing to do it.
I love you.
My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.
This statement is about YOU.
This statement is about ME.
The workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles are stated in a format that make it easy for you to declare.
The “my” and “I” in these lessons are about you, as you state these lessons out loud or silently to yourself.
My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.
Say that out loud.
My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.
This idea can be very startling the first time you use it. It is a statement that goes against EVERYTHING you have learned about yourself and God.
You thought you were separate, you thought you were a body, and you thought that God was outside of you … if he even existed at all.
Now, you are being brought back to truth.
This statement, if you have the courage to declare it, will change you.
Say it out loud.
My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.
Now keep repeating this idea to yourself.
My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.
Now close your eyes for 3-5 minutes and search your mind for various kinds of descriptive terms in which you see yourself. Use positive and negative terms, desirable or undesirable, grandiose or debased.
I am fat, I am pretty, I’m getting old, I have lots of energy, I am generous, I am kind, I see myself as failing, I see myself as helpless, I see myself as doubtful.
Spend the next 3-5 minutes thinking about yourself and all descriptive terms in which you see yourself.
NOW REALIZE NONE OF THESE IDEAS ARE TRUE.
Why?
Because your mind is part of God’s. You are very holy.
I did a search on the internet for a photo to post here and all I could find when I typed in “holy” and “holiness” were images of saints, the Dalai Lama, Jesus, God, water, rosary, bibles, and photos of places in nature and churches.
The world’s definition of holy.
Do you see? This world defines holy as certain people, statues, and places, but never as you.
Today you are declaring the truth about yourself. Your mind is part of God’s. You are very holy.
I could see peace instead of this.
This is a great lesson. It is a continuation of yesterday’s lesson, There is another way of looking at the world.
Today’s lesson shows you what that “other” way of seeing is:
I could see peace instead of this.
You can love the world, absolutely. You don’t even need a reason. You can just love everyone around you, starting today. What have you got to lose? What reason do you have for holding back? What are you protecting? What are you afraid of?
You can absolutely love the world, your neighbor and your enemy … starting right now.
What reason could you possibly have for holding on to conflict?
When you look at it reasonably like this, you will see that conflict is actually a childish temper tantrum. It’s a bratty kid’s game.
It’s for bullies.
Look at it. Look at the way you turn your back at some people and POUT and scream and kick and yell.
It’s what 2-year olds do.
We are told as children to behave, to share, and to play nicely … and then we grow up to steal, lie, cheat and kill. What the hell happened here??
When you look at it in this way, you will be very appalled by your behavior.
I’m speaking from deep personal experience here.
I used to be in therapy in NYC – in the 90s – because I had a ton of problems. All imagined, of course, but still. I was totally depressed. I drank every day. Mostly I couldn’t stop whining about an ex-boyfriend, and I couldn’t move on. And then one day a light bulb when off in my head and voice said, loud & clear: GROW UP!!!
Grow up? Grow up? How dare you tell me, to grow up! How dare you suggest I am acting like a child! I work in publishing. I have a good job. I pay my bills on time. I am kind and loyal and generous and good. I am respected by many. Grow up?
After the initial shock, I started laughing.
It was time to put my toys away. And believe me, I had lots of them! Anger, judgment, guilt, jealousy, worry, anxiety and fear. These are toys children play with.
So today’s lesson is asking you to see every situation differently. Look at what you are doing. Ask yourself what you want.
Most people will tell you they want to be happy or they want to be at peace.
So, what are you waiting for then?
If you want to be happy, why do you cling to fear? If you want to be at peace, why do you still keep a wall between you and your brother? If you want to feel joy, why do you sulk and pout and sit in your room depressed?
In my experience, the best way to start living a life of joy and purpose is to start being truly helpful. To begin extending yourself to others.
Reach out. Help someone. Open your heart. Open your mind. Shine your light.
Peace is available IMMEDIATELY as you change your mind. You’ll see a new way of thinking, seeing and behaving … and then that peace automatically extends itself.
I was reading Chapter 8 again last night and it says “If you use the body for attack, it is harmful to you. If you use it only to reach the minds of those who believe they are bodies, and teach them through the body that this is not so, you will understand the power of the mind that is in you.”
Isn’t that amazing? You are not trying to get rid of your body, you are not trying to make it disappear, you are not even trying to transform it. You are simply changing the way you think about yourself, other people, and the world. Now the body simply becomes a useful tool – a vehicle of communication – for the Holy Spirit. That He can extend His light and love THROUGH you to reach other minds.
I love it.
I’m getting lots of great messages lately in my email box. If you want to start extending your light and reaching out to other minds, feel free to post your stories and insights as comments here on this website, in the comment section. Feel free to leave your email addresses and websites if you want others to contact you. Reach out. Feel free to inspire people. Feel free to use this website to teach and reach out to others, and to share your experiences of how your life is changing through the practice of the lessons in A Course in Miracles.
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There is another way of looking at the world.
I got an example yesterday of today’s lesson that showed me this lesson WORKS.
I got an e-mail yesterday from someone who ripped me to shreds. I’ve never gotten an e-mail like it before. It was pure hatred. It told me my teaching is the height of idiocy, that I’m totally irresponsible, I’m condemning and judging other people, standing up on high elevating myself as a teacher, and that I should stop teaching such nonsense.
I was totally shaken up.
But in every situation, I have a willingness to LOOK AGAIN, to see beyond appearances, to see what is being offered to me. There are no accidents and if something comes into my awareness, sight or mind then I have nothing to lose by looking at it.
So I prayed.
I said to myself, this beautiful brother is trying to tell me something. I want to see what he has to say. Let me look at it, and see what is here.
And all of a sudden, I could see that I do need to get off the mountaintop. To really apply these lessons to ME. To develop a deeper sense of humility and compassion.
These teachings are not for “other” people to get – but for me. I write and dedicate my mind and life to “training my mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world” so that I may know the peace of God.
An amazing sense of calm came over me last night. The conflict disappeared.
I suddenly wasn’t upset about the e-mail. I received it as the gift that it was for me.
And then this morning I got another letter from the same person:
Hello Lisa,
Miracles often happen overnight, and I am writing to you not
knowing whether you ever read my e-mails.
This e-mail is to thank you and to tell you of my shift in perception.
I took the irritation I sensed arising from being exposed to
you interpretations of the lessons within, and they dissolved.
Let me not hold anything between us and the light of forgiveness,
and the glorious opportunity to grant each other freedom.
I am deeply touched by the idea of the
forgotten song. I will join with you and everyone no matter their structures
or learning environment, join in the choir in the song of redemption.
Thank you for the generous Light you have allowed to shine
that helped us heal another layer of confusion.
I believe the Holy Spirit is present in this world, and therefor is the
only Logic to be found. His logic made me grateful for
the one and single Purpose we can find, no matter where.
May your days be filled with Love and Peace,
And thank you again.
oneLove
Can you believe this??? I’m not going to sign the name, for reasons of privacy, but believe me, I was over here crying then laughing this morning. I’m so grateful. These lessons really work as I take responsibility for what I see and think, and not react or blame other people. My brother is my savior, no matter what the form or appearance.
If someone is attacking me, he’s still my savior because he’s my brother, a perfect part of God and myself, and I love him.
I prayed and saw things differently. My peace and sanity was restored as I realized what a gift this brother was despite the anger of his letter, and then I get this letter this morning.
The world changes as I change my mind.
I love it.
Thank you Jesus!
Great video. The boy who sees without eyes.
Congratulations! We’ve gone one month.
One thing you can be sure of with me … I’ll never water down the message.
You might not be grateful now and you might even be very skeptical of these lessons, but someday – hopefully – you will see how much faster and simpler this Course is when you don’t wrap the message in bubble foam to cushion the blow of learning there is nothing outside of you.
I believe in A Course in Miracles 100% because I’ve seen it work miracles in my own life. I do not try to delete or alter sentences so they fit within a belief system that works for me. I take the whole message, in its entirety, word for word. I follow instructions. I don’t make exceptions nor bend the rules to my liking. I do not choose the sentences that make me feel all warm and fuzzy and happy, and throw the rest out the window because they are too shocking or dark.
I follow Jesus: one day at a time, one lesson at a time, one step at a time.
A Course in Miracles says this world is a “slaughterhouse.”
Some of these lessons in here are downright painful. It’s painful to hear you are a murderer, even though in your heart you know it’s true.
You have killed your brother, many times on many occasions, and you know it’s true.
How do I know this? Because I’ve done it. I’ve gotten away with murder. All the gossiping, the lies, the horrible things I’ve said to people’s faces and behind their backs.
It’s called “back-stabbing” for a reason. It’s murder.
You’ve done everything in your life to be accepted and likable. You’ve done everything possible to hide your dark treacherous thoughts, and to keep them hidden. You’ve followed the rules, paid your bills, voted like a good citizen, been a loyal friend, a faithful wife or husband. You try to be on time, you’re patient (mostly), you do your best to be honest, and on most occasions you feel like you’ve done a good job at being a good person.
Along comes A Course in Miracles and says some very shocking things. Statements that will leave you appalled, pissed off, angry, and in many cases will cause you to slam the book, and probably take me off your Favorites list.
I’ve been there. I’ve destroyed 3 course books in my lifetime, ripped them to shreds. I’ve broken glassware on the kitchen floor in a fit of rage and I overturned a Queen size bed at 2am in the morning, and destroyed the sheets. Wailing out at God, at Jesus, at myself, at the universe. I’ve punched a wall. I’ve sobbed, screamed, howled, and cursed.
So there you go.
I’m not saying it’ll be like this for you – I pray it will be smooth sailing – but if your whole world start to turn upside down, just hang in there.
I’ve been there. What I’ve learned is that it doesn’t do any good to quit, because A Course in Miracles is “a required course” and you’ll have to come back to it eventually.
Eventually you are going to have to forgive your neighbor and love your enemy.
In the Teachers Manual, in the section under Trust, it lists all the stages you’ll go through – 6 stages – and they all kinda suck. Except for one period of “settling down” (4th stage) and the final stage “a period of achievement.”
But for the rest, well, it’s a bit of a bumpy ride.
One thing I know for sure: after the darkness is pure sunlight. After the storm is an everlasting calm.
In the beginning, it can be a little topsy-turvy and you may feel like you’re losing your balance. It might appear like your life is falling apart as you stop trying to control things.
Just trust. Keep going.
I suggest you read The Teachers Manual, especially “What Are the Characteristics of God’s Teachers”
You need to build a foundation of TRUST under you, and it’s good to start building that foundation now.
Everyone feels all happy and optimistic in the first week – like being on a honeymoon — feeling the bliss of anticipation of miracles, but then we start to wade in the muck and immediately all sorts of raw emotions start bubbling to the surface.
It can take the form of feeling absolutely pissed off, like you’ve been tricked.
You might also feel a deep sense of frustration & futility because you know you can’t go back to being oblivious. It’s like you don’t want to go ahead, but you can’t go back either and you’re standing in a place where you’re literally stuck. You can’t go forward and you can’t go back.
You’ll think: “I just wanted to be happy” and “I didn’t ask for this.”
Well, we’re gonna get to the treasure … but first we have to go through the fear and rage.
First you have to take off the rose-colored blinders and really see what is around you, REALLY SEE IT.
To stop being blind.
To stop saying the world is a nice place, because it’s not a nice place.
It is a place of appalling violence, loneliness, sickness and sadness.
Yes. Yes. I know. You’ve had moment of joy and happiness. I know. That’s Heaven. Literally. You’ve been in Heaven.
The aim of this journey is to reside in Heaven all the time. To leave the world of chaos behind and live in a place where there is only love. This is not a fantasy. This is an experience that I want you to see for yourself.
If you have A Course in Miracles and you’ve gotten this far though the lessons – on the 32nd day – then you should be feeling SOMETHING.
Either you are really pissed off, or confused, or excited or really scared. I have no idea how it is for anyone. But if you are doing the lessons, then SOMETHING is stirring in you. You might be thinking “Who the hell does she think she is?” or you might be feeling terrifically grateful, or you might be terrified.
All I can ask is PLEASE do not stay in a scared place, alone, when all is dark. Email me. I’m here to help.
lisanatoli2@gmail.com
Just let me know what is going on with you. You can write me your stories. You don’t have to monitor yourself. You don’t have to edit your writing so that you come off sounding spiritual.
Just be yourself, and write to me if you have a question. You’re not alone.
It gets good, trust me.
Let yourself fall apart. Let yourself cry like a baby. Let yourself feel terror.
Most people have kept these emotions buried for so long that when they finally come to the surface, they want to run far, far away.
Just trust me. Keep going. It gets really good.
I love you.
lisa
I have invented the world I see.
“Today we are continuing to develop the the theme of cause and effect. You are not the victim of the world you see because you invented it.”
This is terrific.
This means that YOU hold the key to change the world.
All this time you’ve been waiting for the government to change the world, when all along … it was you.
These images are thoughts in your mind. You’re the president. You’re in charge. Not them. You.
It doesn’t matter who wins because change doesn’t come from them, it comes from you.
You have invented the world you see.
The reason there is conflict in the world is because there is conflict in your own personal life.
You might as well hear it. People are being killed in the world because of your grievances and judgment in your own personal life. There is war and national debt because you worry about money. There is struggle in the world because you struggle wondering if you will ever meet someone to love you and marry you.
I hope you can see this. There is continual judgment of groups in the world (blacks, Jews, Muslims) because you continue to judge your co-worker, your friend, your husband, wife or children. You think the way you secretly make fun of someone’s appearance (or they way they walk or talk or live their life) isn’t harming anyone … and yet it’s causing a world of destruction.
You are causing all of it.
All those private thoughts you hold of hoping someone fails? It’s murder.
While you decide if someone is good enough, smart enough, worthy enough to participate in your life … the world waits in chains.
This is the reason why we move beyond concepts. There is work to do. Stop trying to figure out how to have a better life for yourself: more money, more fun, more relationships, more love, more, more, more … and simply step into a place of total responsibility for all your thoughts and all your actions.
If someone asks for your help, help them. If someone wants to be a part of your life, invite them in. It’s so simple, it’s ridiculous.
What are you waiting for? Why do you try to decide if someone is good enough? What are you afraid of?
Give up your grievances. Give up your conflict. Stop worrying. Stop judging. Stop attacking. And just love.
Simply be willing to let God work through you.
God knows only one emotion – LOVE – and that should be your only emotion.
Look how simple this gets.
Love all, no exceptions.
Jesus is asking for your help. Will you help him?
