Holy Shift! (4 page)

The part of your mind in which truth abides is in constant communication with God, whether you are aware of it or not.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 49. 1:1-2.

 

Put not your faith in illusions. They will fail you.

Put all your faith in the Love of God within you; eternal, changeless and forever unfailing.

This is the answer to whatever confronts you today.

Through the Love of God within you, you can resolve all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence.

Tell yourself this often today. It is a declaration of release from the belief in idols.

It is your acknowledgment of the truth about yourself.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 50. 4:1-8.

 

Remember that where your heart is, there is your treasure also.

Text-2. II. 1:5.

 

When I have forgiven myself and remembered Who I am, I will bless everyone and everything I see.

There will be no past, and therefore no enemies.

And I will look with love on all that I failed to see before.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 52. 2:5-7.

 

You
will
undertake a journey because you are not at home in this world.

And you
will
search for your home whether you realize where it is or not.

If you believe it is outside you the search will be futile, for you will be seeking it where it is not.

You do not remember how to look within for you do not believe your home is there.

Yet the Holy Spirit remembers it for you, and He will guide you to your home because that is His mission.

As He fulfills His mission He will teach you yours, for your mission is the same as His.

By guiding your brothers home you are but following Him.

Text-12. IV. 5:1-7.

 

Sit quietly and close your eyes. The light within you is sufficient. It alone has power to give the gift of sight to you.

Exclude the outer world, and let your thoughts fly to the peace within.

They know the way.

For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 188. 6:1-6.

 

This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you.

Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:

I
am
responsible for what I see. I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve. And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked.

Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you.

Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear.

Text-21. II. 2:1-7.

 

Pain, illness, loss, age and death seem to threaten me.

All my hopes and wishes and plans appear to be at the mercy of a world I cannot control.

Yet perfect security and complete fulfillment are my inheritance.

I have tried to give my inheritance away in exchange for the world I see. But God has kept my inheritance safe for me.

My own real thoughts will teach me what it is.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 56. 1:3-8.

 

The miracle comes quietly into the mind that stops an instant and is still.

Text-28. I. 11:1.

 

You
are
the Will of God.

Do not accept anything else as your will, or you are denying what you are.

Deny this and you will attack, believing you have been attacked. But see the Love of God in you, and you will see it everywhere because it
is
everywhere.

See His abundance in everyone, and you will know that you are in Him with them.

They are part of you, as you are part of God. You are as lonely without understanding this as God Himself is lonely when His Sons do not know Him.

The peace of God is understanding this.

Text-7. VII. 10:1-8.

 

You always choose between your weakness and the strength of Christ in you.

And what you choose is what you think is real.

Text-31. VIII. 2:3-4.

 

No course whose purpose is to teach you to remember what you really are could fail to emphasize that there can never be a difference in what you really are and what love is.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 127. 4:1.

 

Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances.

It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety.

It will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 50. 3:1-3.

 

You are only love, but when you deny this, you make what you are something you must learn to remember.

Text-6. III. 2:3.

 

Remember that in every attack you call upon your own weakness, while each time you forgive you call upon the strength of Christ in you.

Do you not then begin to understand what forgiveness will do for you?

It will remove all sense of weakness, strain and fatigue from your mind.

It will take away all fear and guilt and pain.

It will restore the invulnerability and power God gave His Son to your awareness.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 62. 3:1-5.

 

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

Here is the answer to your search for peace.

Here is the key to meaning in a world that seems to make no sense.

Here is the way to safety in apparent dangers that appear to threaten you at every turn, and bring uncertainty to all your hopes of ever finding quietness and peace.

Here are all questions answered; here the end of all uncertainty ensured at last.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 121. 1:1-4.

 

God is not partial. All His children have His total love, and all His gifts are freely given to everyone alike.

Text-1. V. 3:2-3.

 

You are sad because you are not fulfilling your function as co-creator with God, and are therefore depriving yourself of joy.

Text-7. VI. 13:1.

 

Only you can deprive yourself of anything.

Do not oppose this realization, for it is truly the beginning of the dawn of light.

Remember also that the denial of this simple fact takes many forms, and these you must learn to recognize and to oppose steadfastly, without exception.

This is a crucial step in the reawakening.

Text-11. IV. 4:1-4.

 

Love created me like itself.

You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self-images.

Four or five times an hour, and perhaps even more, it would be most beneficial to remind yourself that love created you like itself.

Hear the truth about yourself in this.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 67. 5:2-4.

 

You who were created by love like itself can hold no grievances and know your Self.

To hold a grievance is to forget who you are.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 68. 1:1-2.

 

Salvation is our only need.

There is no other purpose here, and no other function to fulfill.

Learning salvation is our only goal.

Let us end the ancient search today by finding the light in us, and holding it up for everyone who searches with us to look upon and rejoice.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 69. 3:2-5.

 

Salvation seems to come from anywhere except from you.

So, too, does the source of guilt.

You see neither guilt nor salvation as in your own mind and nowhere else.

When you realize that all guilt is solely an invention of your mind, you also realize that guilt and salvation must be in the same place.

In understanding this you are saved.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 70. 1:2-6.

 

[Ask] God to reveal His plan to us. Ask Him very specifically:

What would You have me do?

Where would You have me go?

What would You have me say, and to whom?

Workbook-p I. Lesson 71. 9:1-5.

 

The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God.

It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern.

To be without a body is to be in our natural state.

To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are.

To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God's plan for salvation, and to accept it instead.

And wherever His plan is accepted, it is accomplished already.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 72. 9:1-6.

 

Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within.

The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without.

Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world.

Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 73. 5:1-4.

 

There is no will but God's. I seek His peace today.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 74. 7:2-3.

 

The light has come. You are healed and you can heal.

The light has come. You are saved and you can save.

You are at peace, and you bring peace with you wherever you go. Darkness and turmoil and death have disappeared.

The light has come. Today we celebrate the happy ending to your long dream of disaster. There are no dark dreams now.

The light has come. Today the time of light begins for you and everyone. It is a new era, in which a new world is born.

The old one has left no trace upon it in its passing. Today we see a different world, because the light has come.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 75. 1:1-7 & 2:1-7.

 

The mind that serves the Holy Spirit is unlimited forever, in all ways, beyond the laws of time and space, unbound by any preconceptions, and with strength and power to do whatever it is asked.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 199. 2:1.

 

You are entitled to miracles because of what you are.

You will receive miracles because of what God is.

And you will offer miracles because you are one with God.

Again, how simple is salvation!

It is merely a statement of your true Identity.

It is this that we will celebrate today.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 77. 1:1-6.

 

Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle.

Each grievance stands like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal.

And as you raise it up before your eyes, you will not see the miracle beyond.

Yet all the while it waits for you in light, but you behold your grievances instead.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 78. 1:1-4.

 

A problem cannot be solved if you do not know what it is.

Even if it is really solved already you will still have the problem, because you will not recognize that it has been solved.

This is the situation of the world.

The problem of separation, which is really the only problem, has already been solved.

Yet the solution is not recognized because the problem is not recognized.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 79. 1:1-5.

 

A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct.

This sense of separation would never have arisen if you had not distorted your perception of truth, and had thus perceived yourself as lacking.

Text-1. VI. 2:1-2.

 

I am the light of the world.

Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 81. 1:1 & 3:1.

 

My forgiveness is the means by which the light of the world finds expression through me.

My forgiveness is the means by which I become aware of the light of the world in me.

My forgiveness is the means by which the world is healed, together with myself.

Let me, then, forgive the world, that it may be healed along with me.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 82. 1:2-5.

 

I have no function but the one God gave me.

This recognition releases me from all conflict, because it means I cannot have conflicting goals.

With one purpose only, I am always certain what to do, what to say and what to think.

All doubt must disappear as I acknowledge that my only function is the one God gave me.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 83. 1:2-5.

 

I am in the likeness of my Creator.

I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die.

I am not a body.

I would recognize my reality today.

I will worship no idols, nor raise my own self-concept to replace my Self.

I am in the likeness of my Creator.

Love created me like itself.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 84. 1:2-8.

 

It is as sure that those who hold grievances will redefine God in their own image, as it is certain that God created them like Himself, and defined them as part of Him.