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85. Those who are sick do not want healing

Thursday, Mar 06, 2025 1181 words 5 mins 14 secs

This may sound like a sweeping generalisation but it is true. It applies to EVERYONE. EVERY sick person has REJECTED health, love and God. They do NOT want healing.

"All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of...

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84. The money problem

Thursday, Mar 06, 2025 734 words 3 mins 15 secs

Money is one of the devices that the ego has come up with. It uses it to evalute the "value and worth" of everything. It puts a "price" on everything that happens based on a hierarchy of illusions. It...

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83. If Earth is real then peace is impossible

Sunday, Feb 23, 2025 2049 words 9 mins 6 secs

If a person is a body, and the body dies, there is no denying the fact that the body is gone. If it is buried or cremated, it's gone. it's not coming back.

It does not matter how much...

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82. You are hiding behind the truth

Sunday, Feb 23, 2025 1395 words 6 mins 12 secs

Sometimes, we can use the truth to deny what we really believe. We can say, ok in theory I get it, there is no world, people are not bodies, death isn't real, sickness is a lie etc. It all makes...

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81. We have to admit something has gone wrong

Monday, Feb 10, 2025 984 words 4 mins 22 secs

We do not want to LOOK AT the fact that there is a NEED for healing. We actually are in denial that something HAS gone wrong, and that healing is necessary. And instead we have covered it up with...

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80. The fear of God induces suffering and death

Sunday, Feb 09, 2025 1320 words 5 mins 51 secs

"All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the FEAR OF AWAKENING. They are attempts to reinforce UNCONSCIOUSNESS out of fear of CONSCIOUSNESS."

The entire problem of the people of the world is that we're very...

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79. Are you free to avoid God forever?

Saturday, Feb 08, 2025 1393 words 6 mins 11 secs

"It is NEVER God Who coerces you, because He SHARES His Will WITH you." God has given you freedom. This cannot be revoked. You are free to create, or to mis-create. God cannot oppose your will because it is...

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78. Lost souls do not recognize what anything is

Wednesday, Feb 05, 2025 2027 words 9 mins 0 secs

"You HAVE carried the ego's reasoning to its logical conclusion, which is TOTAL CONFUSION ABOUT EVERYTHING."

When we believed in separation from God, we entered into a very confused and backwards way of thinking. We shut out reality. We...

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77. The reversal of all the thinking of the world

Monday, Feb 03, 2025 977 words 4 mins 20 secs

"The resurrection is the denial of death, being the assertion of life. Thus is all the thinking of the world reversed entirely. Life is now recognized as salvation, and pain and misery of any kind perceived as hell."

Here...

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76. The paradigm shift

Thursday, Dec 26, 2024 626 words 2 mins 46 secs

What our minds really need is a paradigm shift. That means a really radical sweeping upgrade in terms of premise, context and outlook. Some kind of system-wide "shift" out of an entire field of form into some radically greater...

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75. Your anger is never justified

Friday, Nov 01, 2024 1086 words 4 mins 49 secs

"Anger is never justified." - ACIM

Anger is not natural. It is very common, but not natural or healthy. Anger isn't really a valid feeling. It's actually a device for projecting something. Usually we use it to project guilt or...

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74. All you need is God

Monday, Oct 07, 2024 1582 words 7 mins 1 secs

There really is only one problem in all the universe, and it's the sense of God's absence. The separation from God. Fix this one problem and everything is perfect.

"Separation from God is the only lack he really needs...

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73. Mind wandering leads to the mis-creation of suffering

Monday, Aug 05, 2024 1219 words 5 mins 25 secs1 comments

In ACIM Jesus warns us against mind-wandering, ie allowing your mind to just go wherever it seems to go with no sense of choosing or spiritual responsibility.

I've found myself mind-wandering about grief recently, causing a lot of upsets....

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72. Dealing with grief and loss

Saturday, Jul 13, 2024 2101 words 9 mins 20 secs

All sense of loss arises from believing that a changing world is real. If it is real, and if something goes away, a part of reality has been lost. If it is real, there has been a real separation. And...

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71. Stop fighting against death if you want to undo it

Friday, Jun 28, 2024 2225 words 9 mins 53 secs

"God made not death. Whatever form it takes must therefore be illusion. This the stand we take today. And it is given us to look past death and see the life beyond."

You can say that death is bad,...

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70. Lessons learned from sickness and death

Friday, Jun 07, 2024 2655 words 11 mins 48 secs1 comments

Since my wife "died" in January, my perspective on this world and the body, sickness and death has changed drastically.

My wife (her body) was afflicted with various disabilities and medical conditions for over 12 years. For the past 4...

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69. Souls don't care about keeping bodies from dying

Saturday, Feb 10, 2024 2057 words 9 mins 8 secs

Why do we try to keep bodies from dying? This is a very deep question. ACIM tells us we are immortal beings, incapable of sickness or death. That God has created us to live forever, because nothing real can...

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68. Everything in the world will end, so let it go

Tuesday, Jan 30, 2024 1133 words 5 mins 2 secs2 comments

Everything in the physical world is temporary. It comes, it lingers a while, and then it goes. This applies to absolutely everything. Bodies, worlds, animals, foods, cars, birds, insects, bicycles, trees, you name it. It seems to begin, it...

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67. The journey of the soul

Saturday, Jan 20, 2024 1195 words 5 mins 18 secs3 comments

Very often, Jesus would say to me, "it's fine". And I would be like, "how is this fine?" I would be upset about something, there'd be some physical medical issue to deal with, some seeming tragic loss, something going wrong....

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66. The detour into fear and the fear of God

Tuesday, Dec 26, 2023 1292 words 5 mins 44 secs

"Here is the fear of God most plainly seen. For love is treacherous to those who fear, since fear and hate can NEVER be apart. No-one who hates but is afraid of love, and therefore MUST he be afraid of...

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