If the People You See are Christ...

If the people you see are Christ, then so are you. If you respond with the judgment of the ego and give reality to the dreams of others that they too are egos, then that's what you'll think you are. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe  
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Strengthening Your Attitude of Forgiveness

For most people, especially during the first few years, forgiveness requires that you think about it. You become a master by having forgiving thought processes. These right-minded thoughts eventually dominate your mind instead of the ego. A situation occurs or someone comes along whom you need to forgive, and following the lead of the Workbook, you've learned to have right-minded thoughts about the person or situation. Using your understanding of the Course's entire thought system, contributes to and strengthens your attitude of forgiveness. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   
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Forgiveness is Done Silently

Just forgive - silently. Don't go up to people and say, "I'm forgiving you now, you know." Think forgiveness; don't say it; forgiveness is done silently. Do the Course. Don't dumb it down. Don't fall into the trap of thinking you can just pray to God and everything will be hunky-dory. That's a myth. The Course says of the words, "'I want the peace of God' :'To say these words is nothing. But to mean these words is everything.'" And , "To mean you want the peace of God is to renounce all dreams." Thus you demonstrate that you want the peace of God not with your words, but by your forgiveness. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo

Truth is not Temporal

Ultimately, the truth is not temporal; it is plenary, absolute, total. Yet on this level, the healing of your perception by the Holy Spirit is a temporary process leading to an absolute solution. 
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Sacrifice is of the Ego

People who are into religion usually believe it takes sacrifice, or suffering, to get to God. Christianity has J suffering and dying for everybody's sins. Yet sacrifice is an ego attribute, and has nothing to do with God. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Ego Mind

Even though there's only one ego mind, just like there is only one Son of God - and you're It - this one ego-mind is split into both a right mind and a wrong mind, which you must choose between. You're observing everything, and you've got to choose whether you want the ego to be your teacher as you observe everything, or the Holy Spirit. When we or the Course talk about the ego, we're almost always talking about the wrong part of the mind, and not the right mind where the Holy Spirit abides.
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The Universe Follows a Script

The universe follows a script that was made in a holographic way but appears to play out in a linear manner, like a movie that's already been filmed. The whole thing has already been written, and so has your life story. Even the day your body will die has already been determined.
The only real freedom you have is to choose to return to God by listening to the Voice for Him, instead of continuing indefinitely within a fixed system that has nothing to do with Him. Your brain isn't hard wired to know God; your mind tells your brain what to do! Be glad the universe and your brain have nothing to do with God, and that there's a way to return to His Universe.
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Your Responses and Reactions

It is by your responses and reactions to what you see that you make the experience of separation from God seem real. The details of what you are making real show up in your relationships, and in the predicaments that have been scripted out for you. It's not always about things that appear to happen to you. It can be about events you are observing as a spectator - in the relationships of others, or even on the news you watch or read on the Internet. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   
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It's All Symbolic of the Separation

The ego believes in the separation from God, and the seeming separation that is being constantly acted out here was a very upsetting thing for you, to say the least. You'll experience thousands of times in your life when things seem to be going good, just fine, and then suddenly something will happen to upset you. It may be something you think is big or small. It doesn't matter. If it disturbs your peace of mind even in the slightest, it's symbolic of the separation.

Whenever it happens, in all its different forms, it's always a way of repeatedly living out that first time when you were perfectly happy in Heaven and then suddenly you were very upset - that first time you thought you were separate from God - which is what all the other upsets in this world are based on. In your ordinary dream of life, the causes for the upsets seem to be happening to the specific identity you have as a body, which is itself a false idea of separation. 
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It's All a Dream

Arten: You are not completely unfamiliar with the concept of your experience being a dream.

Gary: It's not that the idea is completely alien; it just doesn't FEEL like a dream very often, although I have had those kinds of experiences.

Arten: Yes, and you'll have more of them - but forgiveness is where it's at if you want to make those experiences more the norm rather than an occasional thing. 
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