May 31, 2016

We are truly whole. We are truly complete. We are innocent and sinless. We are truly the divine beings we are created to be. Nothing of that has changed. The only thing that has changed is that we have shrouded our awareness of our innocence in a dark denial of who we really are. We believed the mistaken idea that we are limited and powerless. We closed the doors to the awareness of our true essence and shrouded our minds in darkness. The closed doors shut out nothing. Neither do the shrouds of darkness hide anything. They merely seem to hide something that is not really there. All it succeeds in doing is interfering with the power and light that shine within us. Yet, we can choose to let all that would hide who and what we really are be brought to Spirit to be undone and released. Spirit is capable of guiding us through this process, for Spirit holds the memory of our true essence for us in our right mind. Our right mind, One with the Mind of the One, is within us waiting for us to allow the doors of separation to be flung open allowing our own light and power to flood into that little corner of our mind we had closed off.

The holy altar within us stands strong. It stands shared by our Source and our true Self, never having split. Yet we cluttered this holy place within us with all the dark hidden ideas that made the barriers to our awareness of our true being. None of these ideas altered who we are but they did succeed in blocking our awareness of who we are. We have so engrained these ideas in our minds that we can’t see beyond them anymore to the truth about ourselves. We have essentially hidden ourselves from ourselves in full view of ourselves! It’s time we opened our eyes to the divine truth about ourselves. And though we have lost sight of how to do this, Spirit is within us waiting to guide us to the awareness of the divine essence we are. The holy meeting place is within us. We are that holy place. We are that divine essence.

Let your mind wander not through darkened corridors, away from light’s center. You and your another may choose to lead yourselves astray, but you can be brought together only by the Guide appointed for you. This Guide will surely lead you to where God and the real You await your recognition. They are joined in giving you the gift of oneness, before which all separation vanishes. Unite with what you are. You cannot join with anything except reality. God’s glory and Yours belong to you in truth. They have no opposite, and nothing else can you bestow upon yourself.   T-14.VIII.3.1-8

Awaken. Open your eyes to the reality of the divine You. There is no substitution for this truth. Allow yourself to be brought with gentle understanding out of the place of unknowingness to knowingness. This is the place you meet with truth. In this holy meeting place, we are joined – God, Us and our Creations – all of Them together as One. This is the one link that holds us in the awareness of our Oneness.

The link with which the One joins to those the One gives the power to create can never be dissolved. Heaven itself is union with all of creation, and with its one Creator. And Heaven remains the Will of the One for you. Lay no gifts other than this upon your altars, for nothing can coexist with it. Here your little offerings are brought together with the gift of the One, and only what is worthy of the One will be accepted by the real You, for whom it is intended.         T-14.VIII.5.1-5

The ultimate gift we will find on the altar is the awareness of who we really are – Divine Oneness. Accept this gift in the holy meeting place within you.

May 24, 2016

What do we really want for our experience in this world? Do we really want the experience we have now? We content ourselves with limitation and fear. We content ourselves with darkness or at least shadows lurking in dark corners around the existence we have made for ourselves. We believe this is our lot and we are doomed to live that lot waiting for the next difficulty to fall on us. We are oblivious to the light, peace, and knowledge that are within us. We have hidden our wholeness, completeness and limitlessness behind the fear we hold of the darkness we believe we are in. Yet, by hiding our essence behind our fear, we block our divine identity from our awareness. Fear is the only thing that deters us from bringing the darkness we think we see to the light; the ignorance we think we feel to knowledge and truth. These opposites cannot be kept apart. They must be brought together.   Their separation is only in our minds and they are reconciled by union, as are we. Let the darkness come into the light and ignorance into knowledge. Darkness and ignorance simply fade away as they cannot exist in light and truth.

The search for truth is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes with truth. Truth is. It can neither be lost nor sought nor found. It is there, wherever you are, being within you. Yet it can be recognized or unrecognized, real or false to you. If you hide it, it becomes unreal to you because you hid it and surrounded it with fear. Under each cornerstone of fear on which you have erected your insane system of belief, the truth lies hidden. Yet you cannot know this, for by hiding truth in fear, you see no reason to believe that the more you look at fear the less you see it, and the clearer what it conceals becomes.   T-14.VII.2.1- 8

It is not possible to convince those who believe they are separate that they are whole and need not fear. They have spent a lifetime convincing themselves that what they believe about themselves is true. Bringing darkness and light together can be challenging. They cannot exist together. However, if we can release our attachment to darkness – our need to believe we are in darkness – the light within us shines darkness away. It is very difficult to accomplish this in separation for we are convinced of our separation. So, Spirit is within us waiting for us to allow It to guide a change in our perception. Beginning to allow ourselves to consider that we may actually be as we truly are – whole, complete and divine – is the change in perception Spirit is offering us. It is the opening Spirit needs to bring to our awareness the truth about who we really are – our divine identity in Oneness. Will we be willing to allow?

Spirit asks of us just this; bring to Spirit every secret you have locked away. Open every door to Spirit, and bid Spirit enter the darkness and lighten it away. At your request Spirit enters gladly and brings the light to darkness if you make the darkness open to Spirit. We must choose to be open to Spirit’s guidance. Spirit will never force anything upon us, for we are created with free will. If we choose to be in darkness, there is not anything Spirit can do but wait for us to be open to our own healing. Once we allow Spirit within us to guide our minds, we will then rise in our awareness of who we really are and experience the divine nature of our true being.

Joining with Spirit in seeing is the way in which you learn to share with Spirit the interpretation of perception that leads to knowledge. You cannot see alone. Sharing perception with Spirit Whom Source has given you teaches you how to recognize what you see. It is the recognition that nothing you see means anything alone. Seeing with Spirit will show you that all meaning, including yours, comes not from double vision, but from the gentle fusing of everything into one meaning, one emotion and one purpose. Source has one purpose which Source shares with you. The single vision which Spirit offers you will bring this oneness to your mind with clarity and brightness so intense you could not wish, for all the world, not to accept what Source would have you have. Behold your will, accepting it as Source’s, with all Source’s Love as yours.     T-14.VII.7.1-8

Choose now to let go of any attachment to any darkness, ignorance or fear you may be holding. Allow Spirit to guide your perception of who you are. Be happy to share perception with Spirit and see the world clearly through the Divine Eyes of your Divine Essence within. Spirit is in that divine essence within us. Let it rise in your mind and darkness will vanish to light and ignorance to truth. Let it be so.

May 17, 2016

The journey we undertake in this temporal world is the exchange of darkness for light, ignorance for understanding. We will all make this exchange, yet it is our choice when to allow it to take place. First we must decide to let go of our attachment to darkness and ignorance. Once we surrender that attachment the shift can take place in our minds. We find the world we seem to be surrounded by frightening. So we shrink away from it to further darkness. Yet it is only the hidden that can terrify, not for what it is – for it is nothing – but for its hiddenness. What is hidden cannot be understood for there is nothing in it to be understood. Only what is real can be understood. When we allow light to shine in our mind, darkness fades away and reveals that there was nothing hidden at all. What we hide cannot be shared, for by hiding it we keep it separate. Therefore, we remain apart from light because we have placed value in hiding. By releasing our attachment to darkness we allow light to shine within our minds and love to radiate from us. What is concealed cannot be loved, so it must be feared.

The quiet light in which the Holy Spirit dwells within you is merely perfect openness, in which nothing is hidden and therefore nothing is fearful. Attack will always yield to love if it is brought to love, not hidden from it. There is no darkness that the light of love will not dispel, unless it is concealed from love’s beneficence. What is kept apart from love cannot share its healing power, because it has been separated off and kept in darkness. The sentinels of darkness watch over it carefully, and you who made these guardians of illusion out of nothing are now afraid of them.   T-14.VI.2.1-5

Do we give our power to these imagined “sentinels of safety?” They guard nothing for they are imagined as are the obscure ideas we think they guard us from. Let them go. What appeared fearful will be so no longer. Without our attachment to darkness, the light of love shines freely in our minds. All else must fade away.

The light of guiltlessness shines guilt away because, when they are brought together, the truth of one must make the falsity of its opposite perfectly clear. Keep not guilt and guiltlessness apart, for your belief that you can have them both is meaningless. All you have done by keeping them apart is lose their meaning by confusing them with each other. And so you do not realize that only one means anything. The other is wholly without sense of any kind.   T-14.VI.4.2-6

Turn to the quiet light within you where Spirit dwells. It has always been within you waiting for you to allow it to rise to your awareness. The light of wholeness and love within you is rooted in understanding. It holds the remembrance of who you really are. It knows that your light and love have no limits and are eternal. It knows you are complete and cannot be harmed. The Spirit within that knows your wholeness will guide you in releasing your attachment to darkness and ignorance, exchanging them for light and understanding already present in your mind. Awaken to the light of Oneness and Communication will fill your mind. Communication will be.

May 10, 2016

We each teach innocence in our own way, joining together with other teachers of innocence, taking our part in the unified curriculum of the At-One-ment. There is no conflict in this curriculum, which has one aim, no matter how it is taught. The ultimate lesson is the release from guilt – the acceptance of guiltlessness. Every teaching that points to guiltlessness points directly to Oneness and peace. There is no pain, no fear, no trial that this teaching cannot fail to overcome. The power of Oneness supports this teaching and guarantees its limitless results. The unlimited unconditional peace and love we seek is within us and our awareness of all this rises in our learning and teaching the release of guilt – At-One-ment.

Join your own efforts to the power that cannot fail and must result in peace. No one can be untouched by teaching such as this. You will not see yourself beyond the power of Oneness if you teach only this. You will not be exempt from the effects of this most holy lesson, which seeks but to restore what is the right of Creation. From everyone whom you accord release from guilt you will inevitably learn your innocence. The circle of At-One-ment has no end. And you will find ever-increasing confidence in your safe inclusion in the circle with everyone you bring within its safety and its perfect peace.   T-14.V.7.1-7

Peace then rises in everyone who becomes a teacher of peace. Peace comes to all who acknowledge perfect purity, for none are excluded. This is the unifying attribute of each one that joins us into Oneness, leaving no one outside. This is the power of Oneness that draws everyone to its safe embrace of love and union. Stand quietly within this circle of At-One-ment and attract all misperceiving minds to join with you in the safety of its peace, love and holiness.

Each one we encounter, let us see them as they truly are, guiltless and holy, whole and complete as they are, accepting their guiltlessness and placing them in their rightful place in the circle of At-One-ment. Each one is a blessing and as we allow our minds to see each one clearly, we are filled with the limitless love and peace that wells up within us. We feel the joy well up within our being as we join and rejoin with each other again and again. There is no end to this peace and joy as it rises from the limitless Source within us.

Each one you see you place within the holy circle of At-One-ment or leave outside. If you bring them into the circle of purity, you will rest there with them. If you leave them without, you join them there. Judge not except in quietness. Refuse to accept anyone as without the blessing of At-One-ment, and bring them into it by blessing them. Holiness must be shared, for therein lies everything that makes it holy. Come gladly to the holy circle, and look out in peace on all who think they are outside. Cast no one out, for here is what they seek along with you. Come, let us join them in the holy place of peace which is for all of us, united as one within the Cause of peace.   T-14.V.11.

See each other. See each other only with holy eyes that see beyond any appearances to the guiltlessness within. Thus we see each one’s wholeness, their holiness, their Oneness. Let the light of Love shine on all you see. See that they stand within the circle of purity just as you do. Allow the unlimited blessing of Oneness to flow freely, showering all with the abundant blessings of peace, joy and love. This is the circle of At-One-ment. Welcome all into its embrace.

May 3, 2016

Our divinity is woven into the very fabric of our being. It is integral in who we are. It reflects our divine nature and is characterized by peace, love and joy. We are inseparable from this divine nature. Yet we have chosen to deny this divine nature by some means and believed that denial. We dwell on the little beliefs of our egoic thought system that try to convince us we are alone and limited in this world. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The only part of your mind that has reality is the part that links you still with Source, the One. Would you have all of it transformed into a radiant message of the One’s Love, to share with all the lonely ones who have denied their Source? 3 The One makes this possible. Would you deny the One’s yearning to be known? You yearn for your Source, as your Source for you. This is forever changeless. T-14.V.1.1-6

We yearn to be together. We yearn to be in the divine Oneness we are. We have denied the Divine Oneness that is woven into the fabric of our being, and we will never feel complete and whole until we stop denying the divine Oneness we are. The plan of At-One-ment is our return to the awareness of our divine nature. Nothing else will relieve the longing we feel in this world for something better.

We each have our own special part to play in the At-One-ment, yet the message each of us is given is always the same: We are guiltless. We each teach this lesson differently and we each learn this lesson differently. Until we each teach and learn this lesson, we will appear to suffer the pain of our dim awareness that our true function remains unfulfilled in us. When we feel lack and incompleteness, it is a signal that we have not yet learned the lesson of the At-One-ment. If we are not experiencing peace, love and joy, we have not yet taught or learned the lesson of the At-One-ment. Our function is to learn and teach the true nature of our being. Learning that we are not separate from Source and each other – that we are One – is the shift in our belief in who we really are. It is accepting each other’s guiltlessness. It is no longer denying the divine nature that is woven into the fabric of our being. Releasing these mistaken beliefs dissolves the barriers to our awareness of who we really are and rejoins our minds with the Mind of the One – Oneness – which we never really left.

The Course tells us this:

We are all joined in the At-One-ment here, and nothing else can unite us in this world. So will the world of separation slip away, and full communication be restored between the One and Us. The miracle acknowledges the guiltlessness that must have been denied to produce the need of healing. Do not withhold this glad acknowledgment, for hope of happiness and release from suffering of every kind lie in it. Who is there but wishes to be free of pain? We may not yet have learned how to exchange guilt for innocence, nor realize that only in this exchange can freedom from pain be ours. Yet we who have failed to learn need teaching, not attack. To attack those who have need of teaching is to fail to learn from them.   T-14.V.5.1-8

The Circle of At-One-ment is the condition in which we correctly learn and teach the lesson we need to teach and learn. It is a mindful state that allows us to release our desire to be alone and separate from Oneness. As we relax into this state of mindfulness we release our need for guilt and accept the guiltlessness that then allows our divine nature, woven into our being, to rise to our awareness and bring peace, love and joy to our minds. The joy in the reuniting in Oneness has no parallel. It is truly divine. And so we join in the Circle of At-One-ment.