Showing posts with label Inner peace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inner peace. Show all posts

Friday, 19 September 2014

ACIM – Reality vs. Illusion

“A Course in Miracles“


is a self-study thought system, about undoing the blocks in awareness to the experience of love. It’s unique in teaching forgiveness to reach inner peace and the remembrance of the unconditional love of God. It is not a religion, nor does it require anything except your willingness, motivated by your own search for meaning in life.


A Course about ACIM itself…



Corrective learning begins with the awakening of spirit, and the turning away from belief in physical sight. (p. 22)


There are no idle thoughts. (p. 27)


Only those who give over all desire to reject can know that their own rejection is impossible. (p. 43)


Do not ask Spirit to heal the body. Ask rather that Spirit teach you the right perception of the body. (p. 146)


A therapist doesn’t heal, he lets healing be. (p. 161)


You will remember everything the instant you desire it wholly. To desire wholly is to create. (p. 164)


What is healing but the removal of all that stands in the way of knowledge. (p. 188)


What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good? (?)


You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. (?)


About Love…


Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, then there is not perfect love. (p.12)


Love will immediately enter into any mind that truly wants it. (p. 55)


Anger involves projection of separation, which must ultimately be accepted as one’s own responsibility, rather than being blamed on others. (p. 84)


You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you, and so you seek without for what you cannot find within. (p.293)


The search for love is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes with love. (p. 267)


Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. (?)


ACIM about reality and illusion…


This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary.

Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum.

It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.

The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught.

It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence,

which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear,

but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.

This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:


Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God. (Intro)


The hidden can terrify not for what it is, but for its hiddenness. (p. 265)


Nothing you see means anything alone. (p. 268)


Clean but the mirror and the message shines forth. (p. 271)


Fantasies are the veil behind which truth is hidden. (p. 316)


Whenever your thoughts wander, enter with Him into a holy instant, and there let Him release you. He needs only your willingness to share His perspective to give it to you completely. (p. 323)


There is nothing outside you. (p. 358)


Heaven is not a place or a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect oneness. (p. 359)


Let your self be one with something beyond it. (p. 361)


Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. (?)


Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed. (?)


Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal. (?)


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Friday, 5 September 2014

Choosing Peace

A Look In The Mirror

by: Selena Richardson


That’s all it takes to change the world. Take a long hard look in the mirror and really notice who you are.


We’re all screaming for peace right now – not just world peace – but peace in our cities, in our workplaces, in our homes and in our minds. There has to be a better way to end this madness.


We need a new way of doing things. Yet we seem to be stuck in outdated modes of thought that have not been working. For if they did, we wouldn’t be in the predicaments we are in now. The past will keep repeating itself until we make a conscious choice to go in a new direction.


Going in a new direction begins inside of you, of me, and of us as individuals. Until we change as individuals, only then can the world change.


One of my favorite quotes is from Mahatma Gandhi – ‘You must be the change you want to see in the world.’ So to have world peace we have to look in the mirror. Take a look and try to find the peace you’re searching for in your heart.


If you can’t find it ask yourself why. It’s not missing – it’s been there with you all along waiting for you to begin your search within. Peace isn’t hard to find at all. You just have to dig from underneath all of the rubble – fear and anger. Once you push the fear and anger to the side peace will be in plain view.


When you find the peace in your heart you start to exude it. It becomes infectious. Joy soon follows and a sense of calm is not too far behind. All of this from one good look in the mirror. One hard look at who you really are. That’s all it takes to get the ball rolling.


And it’s easy to pass it on. Remind your loved ones to find their peace within. They’ll know it can be done because they would have seen the transformation in you. Be a walking example of peace and watch how it spreads.


When others come to you full of fear and anger remember the peace within yourself and gently remind them that no matter how bad it gets it will eventually work itself out for the best.


We get what we dwell upon so if we keep our thoughts based on fear and anger that’s what we’ll continue to get. Instead let’s focus on peace – peace within ourselves and let these thoughts multiply. Remember, be the change you want to see – so be peaceful within your heart and watch your world begin to mirror that.


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Saturday, 23 August 2014

Create Peace Within To Save The World

Let There Be Peace on Earth

by: Dr. Sheri Rosenthal


How many of us pray for peace, become involved in organizations that promote peace and, through our spiritual practices, advocate peace? Many of us certainly do yet, despite our efforts, we seem to move from one war to another, from one act of terrorism to another. As we become more technologically advanced, so do our methods of war. We appear to be more intelligent as a species than a thousand years ago, so why are we still fighting, why are we still at war?


Yes, we can blame conflicting concepts regarding religion and property as two of the top reasons for war. But truly, as aware and awake people on our spiritual path, it behooves us to take responsibility for the real reason for war in our reality. War only occurs in humans and, although animals may defend their families or feeding grounds, they do not engage in war to defend ideas. Only humans do this.


The reason for war among humans is that we are projecting the personal reality from our minds out into our conjoined reality. We create this reality with the word, as the word is the power we have from the infinite to create in this life. If we have conflict in our minds between the concepts, ideas and beliefs in our heads, that is what we are going to project. Those conflicting beliefs and agreements, which are at war in our minds, are formed using the word because words form the basis of any agreement or belief.


When we cannot make a choice due to our conflicting thoughts, even about something simple in our life, this is war. When we are having an argument in our head with someone we love, this is war. When we are listening to our mind making assumptions about someone or something and we feel ourselves getting upset at our own thoughts, this is war.


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This war inside our mind is ongoing. Only by cleaning our minds of everything that is not truth can our minds become calm. When this occurs, and we no longer get upset about anything in life, we are no longer at war. Then we will project our inner peace out into the dream of the planet, which will shift the balance of the dream from war to one of calm.


What I am saying is that as long as humans create war within their minds and are at the mercy of their conflicting concepts and beliefs there will never be peace on earth.


No amount of committees or organizations can change the human mind and its fear-based egocentric projections. Only each one of us, by taking responsibility for our thoughts and beliefs, can change this reality. That means each of us must make a choice to stop blaming the ills of the world on others, stop focusing our attention on everyone else’s problems, and, instead, work on changing what is inside of us.


I know what I am suggesting is challenging – but what else do we have to do while we are alive except learn to be happy and at peace? Let’s start right now and make the commitment to change ourselves and, in turn, the world.


About The Author


Dr. Sheri Rosenthal is a master Toltec teacher and author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Toltec Wisdom. Having trained with don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements, she currently takes students on spiritual journeys, works with personal apprentices and enjoys being extremely happy. You can reach her at info@sherirosenthal.com or at http://ift.tt/1kkdwau.


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