Specialness Quotes

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Quotes on "Specialness"

T1B35C "HIS real specialness does NOT stem from exclusion, but from inclusion."
T12C11 "You who prefer specialness to sanity could not obtain it in your right minds."
T16B4 "Foolish requests ARE foolish, for the simple reason THAT THEY CONFLICT, because they contain an element of specialness."
T16E8 "No specialness can offer you what God has given, and what YOU are joined WITH Him in giving."
T16F4 "For the special relationship is THE RENUNCIATION OF THE LOVE OF GOD, and the attempt to secure for the self the specialness that He denied."
T16F4 "And it is essential to the preservation of the ego, that you believe this specialness is NOT hell, but HEAVEN."
T16F9 "The conviction of littleness lies in EVERY special relationship, for only the deprived COULD value specialness."
T16F9 "The "DEMAND" for specialness, and the perception of the GIVING of specialness AS AN ACT OF LOVE, would MAKE LOVE HATEFUL."
T16F10 "And you despise it BECAUSE YOU DO NOT THINK IT OFFERS YOU THE SPECIALNESS THAT YOU DEMAND."
T24B3 "All that is ever cherished as a hidden belief, to be defended though unrecognized, is FAITH IN SPECIALNESS."
T24B4 "And thus does specialness become a means and end at once."
T24B4 "For specialness not only sets apart, but serves as grounds from which attack on those who seem "beneath" the special one is "natural" and "just.""
T24B5 "Specialness is the great dictator of the wrong decisions."
T24B5 "SPECIALNESS MUST BE DEFENDED."
T24B5 "For what your brother MUST become, to KEEP your specialness, IS an illusion."
T24B5 "He who is "worse" than you MUST be attacked, so that your specialness can live on his defeat."
T24B5 "For specialness is triumph, and its victory IS his defeat and shame."
T24B6 "Specialness can NEVER share, for it depends on goals that you ALONE can reach."
T24B7 "Could you attack each other if you chose to see NO specialness of any kind between you?"
T24B7 "Is it not ALWAYS your belief your specialness is LIMITED by your relationship?"
T24B8 "The fear of God and of each other comes from each unrecognized belief in specialness."
T24B9 "For what is specialness but an attack upon the Will of God?"
T24C1 "Specialness ALWAYS makes comparisons."
T24C1 "And ALWAYS whom it thus diminishes would be your Savior, had you not chosen to make of him a tiny measure of your specialness instead."
T24C2 "Pursuit of specialness is always at the cost of peace."
T24C2 "But the pursuit of specialness MUST bring you pain."
T24C2 "To value specialness is to esteem an alien will, to which illusions of yourself ARE dearer than the truth."
T24C3 "Specialness is the idea of sin MADE REAL."
T24C3 "They chose their specialness INSTEAD of Heaven and INSTEAD of peace, and wrapped it carefully in sin, to keep it "safe" from truth."
T24C4 "If you think you are, and would defend your specialness against the truth of what you REALLY are, how can you know the truth?"
T24C4 "What answer that the Holy Spirit gives can reach you, when it is your specialness to which you listen, and which asks AND ANSWERS?"
T24C5 "You CAN defend your specialness, but never will you hear the Voice for God beside it."
T24C5 "The special messages the special hear convince them THEY are different and apart; each in his special sins and safe from love, which does not see his specialness at all."
T24C5 "And it WOULD show them that the specialness they think they see IS an illusion."
T24C6 "And all the world he made, and all his specialness, and all the sins he held in its defense AGAINST himself, will vanish as his mind accepts the truth about himself, as it returns to take their place."
T24C7 "You who have chained your Savior to your specialness, and given it HIS place, remember this: He has NOT lost the power to forgive you all the sins you think you placed between him and the function of salvation GIVEN him for you."
T24C7 "Let not the dream of specialness remain between you."
T24C8 "He IS the enemy of specialness, but ONLY friend to what is real in you."
T24C8 "Let him forgive you all your specialness, and make you whole in mind, and one with him."
T24C8 "But ONLY you, to save his specialness, and kill his Self."
T24C9 "Your brother's specialness and yours ARE enemies, and bound in hate to kill each other and DENY they are the same."
T24C10 "Here is your Savior FROM your specialness."
T24C11 "And ONLY specialness could make the truth of God and you AS One seem anything BUT Heaven."
T24C12 "Specialness is the seal of treachery upon the gift of love."
T24C13 "The hope of specialness makes it seem possible God made the body as the prison-house which keeps His Son from Him."
T24C14 "The death of specialness is NOT your death, but your awaking into Life Eternal."
T24D1 "Forgiveness is the end of specialness."
T24D2 "Whatever form of specialness you cherish, you have made sin."
T24D3 "But specialness is NOT the truth in you."
T24D4 "It is your specialness that is attacked by everything that walks and breathes, or creeps or crawls, or even lives at all."
T24D4 "Nor is it possible the two can ever be the same, while specialness stands like a flaming sword of death between them, and makes them enemies."
T24D5 "THEY are the same, for neither one wills specialness."
T24D6 "Forgive the great Creator of the universe, the Source of life, of love and holiness, the perfect Father of a perfect Son, for your illusions of your specialness."
T24D6 "Yet if you would release your brother from the depths of hell, you have forgiven Him Whose Will it is you rest forever in the arms of peace, in perfect safety, and without the heat and malice of one thought of specialness to mar your rest."
T24D6 "Forgive the Holy One the specialness He could not give, and yet you made instead."
T24D7 "They are lost in dreams of specialness."
T24D8 "The slaves of specialness will yet be free."
T24D8 "Love not your specialness instead of them."
T24E1 "Specialness is a lack of trust in anyone except yourself."
T24E2 "What could the purpose of the body Be BUT specialness?"
T24E3 "To minds intent on specialness, it is impossible."
T24E3 "Nothing could make LESS sense to specialness."
T24E4 "This shift in purpose DOES "endanger" specialness, but only in the sense that all illusions are "threatened" by the truth."
T24E4 "What you have given specialness has left you bankrupt, and your treasure-house barren and empty, with an open door inviting everything that would disturb your peace to enter and destroy."
T24E5 "To specialness the answer MUST be "no.""
T24E5 "If HE is sinful, then is YOUR reality not real, but just a dream of specialness which lasts an instant, crumbling into dust."
T24E6 "Your specialness seemed safe BECAUSE of it."
T24E6 "And so is specialness HIS enemy, and YOURS as well."
T24F1 "Specialness, too, takes joy in what it sees, although it is not true."
T24F2 "There is no dream of specialness, however hidden or disguised its form, however lovely it may seem to be, however much it delicately offers the hope of peace and the escape from pain, in which you suffer not your condemnation."
T24F4 "Yet let your specialness direct his way, and YOU will follow."
T24F4 "For what can specialness delight in but to kill?"
T24F7 "His perfect LACK of specialness He offers you, that you may save all living things from death, receiving from each one the gift of Life that your forgiveness offers to your Self."
T24F8 "You who would be content with specialness, and seek salvation in a war with Love, consider this: The holy Lord of Heaven has Himself come down to you to offer you your own completion."
T24G5 "Let not his specialness obscure the truth in him, for not one law of death you bind him to will YOU escape."
T24G6 "Let not your eyes be blinded by the veil of specialness that hides the face of Christ from him, and you as well."
T24G8 "Your specialness looks on his body, and beholds him not."
T24G10 "And never doubt but that your specialness will disappear before the Will of God Who loves each part of Him with equal love and care."
T24G11 "Specialness is the function that you gave yourself."
T24G11 "And all this grim determination was for this: YOU WANTED SPECIALNESS TO BE THE TRUTH."
T24G13 "Here is the voice of specialness heard clearly, judging AGAINST the Christ, and setting forth, for YOU, the purpose that you CAN attain, and what you can NOT do."
T24H1 "How bitterly does everyone tied to this world defend the specialness he WANTS to be the truth!"
T24H1 "Nothing his specialness demands does he withhold."
T24H1 "No effort is too great, no cost too much, no price too dear, to save his specialness from the least slight, the tiniest attack, the whispered doubt, the hint of threat, or anything but deepest reverence."
T24H3 "All of the tribute you have given specialness belongs to him, and thus returns to you."
T24H3 "Nothing you gave to specialness but is HIS due."
T24H3 "How will you KNOW your worth, while specialness claims you instead?"
T24H3 "Seek not to make your specialness the truth, for, if it were, you would be lost indeed."
T24H4 "Save it for show, as bait to catch another fish, to house your specialness in better style, or weave a frame of loveliness around your hate, and you condemn it to decay and pain."
T24H10 "Yet your specialness whispers, "Here is my own beloved son, with whom I am well pleased.""
T24H12 "It is not bound to specialness, but by your choice."
T25A2 "Yet does the Son of God abide EXACTLY where he is, and walks with him, within his holiness, as plain to see as is his specialness set forth within his body."
T25B6 "The Holy Spirit serves Christ's purpose in your mind, so that the aim of specialness CAN be corrected where the error lies."
T25D3 "For specialness it is the perfect frame to set it off; the perfect battleground to wage its wars, the perfect shelter for the illusions which it would make real."
T25D5 "Nothing remains an instant, to obscure the sinlessness that shines unchanged, beyond the pitiful attempts of specialness to put it out of mind, where it MUST be, and light the BODY up INSTEAD of it."
T25G5 "It is the means the Holy Spirit uses to TRANSLATE specialness from sin into salvation."
T25G6 "The specialness he chose to HURT himself did God appoint to be the means for his salvation, from the very instant that the choice was made."
T25G7 "Only in darkness does your specialness APPEAR to be attack."
T25I5 "It is impossible for you to SHARE the Holy Spirit's justice, with a mind that can conceive of specialness at all."
T25I11 "As specialness cares not who pays the cost of sin, so it BE paid, the Holy Spirit heeds not who looks on innocence at last, provided it IS seen and recognized."
T25I13 "How CAN specialness be just?"
T25J6 "Who is there who can be separate from salvation, if its PURPOSE is the end of specialness?"
T25J6 "If miracles, the Holy Spirit's gift, were given specially to an elect and special group, and kept APART from others as LESS deserving, then is He ALLY to specialness."
T26D6 "Is not this like your special function, where the separation is undone by change of PURPOSE in what once was specialness, and now IS union?"
T26H17 "The Unity that specialness denies will save them all, for what is One can HAVE no specialness."
T27C7 "This is the law the miracle obeys; That healing sees no specialness at all."
M5A1 "Their specialness is, of course, only temporary; set in time as a means of leading out of time."
P4B10 "Do not forget that any form of specialness must be defended, and will be."

Quotes on "Special"

T1B3D "There is nothing special or surprising about this at all."
T1B15B "SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Notes on this course have to be taken only under good learning conditions."
T1B18B "Intended as a special sign of love.)"
T1B22R "Special Explanatory Note: As soon as you (H and B) have entered the second phase, you will be not only willing to enter into communion, but will also understand peace and joy."
T1B23F "SPECIAL EXPLANATION: (In response to Helen Schucman request re possible corrections.)"
T1B30V "Special Revelation for Helen Schucman"
T1B35B "This is just a sign of special concern for him, because he keeps worrying about this.)"
T1B35C "ALL My Brothers are special."
T1B37Y "I submit (I'm using Jack's language in this section, because it always had a special meaning for you."
T1B41M "You and Bill DO have special talents which are needed for the Celestial speedup at this time."
T1B41N "When time is abolished, and all of the Sons of God have come home, no special agents will be necessary."
T1B41N "But do not underestimate the power of special agents now, or the great need there is for them."
T1B41AC "(special Revelation re Helen Schucman -OMISSION 1.)"
T2B73 "(Helen Schucman request for special message for Bill Tell B that his delaying tactics are holding him back."
T2E52 "However, it loses this special state as long as any of its parts are missing."
T3A8 "Bill acts as if he does not understand even his OWN special language, let alone mine, and you cannot read at all."
T3A15 "There is nothing of special interest about the events described below, EXCEPT their typical nature."
T3A27 "A storage problem is hardly more difficult for me to solve that a space problem, (see comments under special principles for miracle workers.)"
T5H16 "He reminds you of this in every passing moment of time, because it is His special function to return YOU to eternity and remain to bless YOUR creations there."
T7F4 "Magic ALWAYS sees something special in the healer, which he believes he can offer as a gift to someone who does NOT have it."
T11F5 "Creation is NOT of you, and poor learners need special teaching."
T11F5 "The learning situation in which you place yourself IS impossible, and IN this situation, you clearly require a special teacher, and a special curriculum."
T12C11 "You were at peace until you asked for special favor, and God did not give it."
T13D10 "Love is not special."
T14B3 "Each one of you has a special part to play in the Atonement, but the message given to each to share is always the same; GOD's SON IS GUILTLESS."
T15F3 "If you would love UNlike to God, Who KNOWS no special love, how CAN you understand it?"
T15F3 "To believe that SPECIAL relationships, with SPECIAL love, can offer you salvation, IS the belief that separation is salvation."
T15F3 "How can YOU decide that special aspects of the Sonship CAN GIVE YOU MORE THAN OTHERS?"
T15F4 "Because of guilt, ALL special relationships have some elements of fear in them."
T15F4 "In His function as Interpreter of what you have made, the Holy Spirit USES special relationships, which YOU have chosen to support the ego, as a learning experience which points to truth."
T15F5 "The Holy Spirit knows NO-ONE IS SPECIAL."
T15F5 "But He also perceives that you have MADE special relationships, which He would purify, and NOT let YOU destroy."
T15F8 "Everyone on earth has formed special relationships, and, although this is not so in Heaven, the Holy Spirit knows how to bring a touch of Heaven to them here."
T15F8 "In the holy instant, no-one is special, for your PERSONAL needs INTRUDE on no-one, to MAKE them different."
T15H1 "Beyond the poor attraction of the special love relationship, and ALWAYS obscured by it, is the powerful attraction of the Father for His Son."
T15H1 "For EVERY relationship on which the ego embarks IS special."
T15H4 "And thus, it embarks on an endless, unrewarding chain of special relationships, forged out of anger, and dedicated to but one insane belief; that the more anger you invest OUTSIDE yourself, the safer YOU become."
T15H10 "Whenever you are angry, you can be sure that you have formed a special relationship which the ego has "blessed," for anger IS its "blessing.""
T15H10 "ALL anger is nothing more than an attempt to MAKE SOMEONE FEEL GUILTY, and this attempt is the ONLY basis which the ego accepts for special relationships."
T15I2 "Hear Him gladly, and learn of Him that you have need of no special relationships at all."
T15J8 "You seek to answer this question in your special relationships, in which you are both destroyer and destroyed IN PART, but with the idea of being able to be neither completely."
T15K1 "Your brothers and your Father have become VERY fearful to you, and you would bargain with them for a few special relationships, in which you think you see some scraps of safety."
T16A1 "This is the EGO's interpretation of empathy, and is ALWAYS used to form a special relationship, in which SUFFERING is shared."
T16E1 "Be not afraid to look upon the special hate relationship, for freedom lies here."
T16E1 "For the special love relationship, IN WHICH THE MEANING OF LOVE IS LOST, is undertaken SOLELY to OFFSET this, but NOT to LET IT GO."
T16E1 "The special love relationship will NOT offset it, but will merely DRIVE IT UNDERGROUND, and out of sight."
T16E3 "The special love relationship is an attempt to limit the destructive EFFECTS of hate, by finding a haven in the storm of guilt."
T16E3 "The special love relationship is NOT perceived as of value IN ITSELF, but as a place of safety, from which hatred is split off, and KEPT APART."
T16E3 "The special love partner is acceptable ONLY as long as he serves this purpose."
T16E7 "Recognize this, for it is true, and truth MUST be recognized, if it is to be distinguished from illusion: the special love relationship is an attempt TO BRING LOVE INTO SEPARATION."
T16E7 "In fundamental violation of love's one condition, the special love relationship would thus ACCOMPLISH THE IMPOSSIBLE."
T16E8 "The special love relationship is but a shabby substitute for what makes you whole IN TRUTH, NOT in illusion."
T16E8 "Across the bridge IS your completion, for you will be WHOLLY in God, willing for NOTHING special, but only to be wholly like unto Him, completing Him by your completion."
T16E13 "If special relationships of ANY kind would HINDER God's completion, CAN they have any value TO YOU?"
T16F1 "In looking at the special relationship, it is necessary first to realize that it involves a great amount of pain."
T16F2 "The special love relationship is the ego's chief weapon for keeping you from Heaven."
T16F2 "The special love relationship is the ego's most boasted gift, and the one that has the most appeal to those unwilling to relinquish guilt."
T16F4 "It is in the special relationship, born of the hidden wish for special love from God, that the ego's hatred triumphs."
T16F6 "The special relationship is a strange and unnatural ego device for joining hell and Heaven, and making them indistinguishable."
T16F6 "The special relationship is the triumph of this confusion."
T16F7 "Most curious of all, is the concept of the self, which the ego fosters in the special relationship."
T16F7 "Yet, when it FINDS the special relationship in which it thinks it can ACCOMPLISH this, IT GIVES ITSELF AWAY, and tries to TRADE itself for the self of another."
T16F8 "The "better" self the ego seeks is ALWAYS one that is MORE special."
T16F8 "And whoever SEEMS to possess a special self is "loved," FOR WHAT CAN BE TAKEN FROM HIM."
T16F8 "Where both partners see this special self IN EACH OTHER, the EGO sees "a union made in Heaven.""
T16F9 "And the REAL purpose of the special relationship, in strict accordance with the ego's goals, is to DESTROY reality and SUBSTITUTE ILLUSION."
T16F10 "If you perceived the special relationship as a triumph over God, WOULD YOU WANT IT?"
T16F10 "And it is this theme that is acted out in the special relationship."
T16F11 "See how EXACTLY is this ritual enacted in the special relationship."
T16F12 "Whenever ANY form of special relationship tempts you to seek for love in ritual, remember love is CONTENT, and NOT form of ANY kind."
T16F12 "The special relationship is a RITUAL OF FORM, aimed at the raising of the form to take the place of God, at the EXPENSE of content."
T16F12 "The special relationship MUST be recognized for what it is; a senseless ritual, in which strength is extracted from the death of God, and invested in His killer, as the sign that form has triumphed over content, and love has LOST its meaning."
T16F13 "See in the special relationship nothing more than a meaningless attempt to raise other gods before Him, and, by worshipping them, to obscure THEIR tininess, AND HIS GREATNESS."
T16G1 "The search for the special relationship is the sign that you equate your self with the ego, and NOT with God."
T16G1 "For the special relationship has value ONLY to the ego."
T16G1 "To IT, UNLESS a relationship HAS special value, IT HAS NO MEANING."
T16G1 "And it perceives ALL love as special."
T16G2 "The holy instant is His most helpful tool in protecting you from the attraction of guilt, the REAL lure in the special relationship."
T16G3 "Yet, the closer you look at the special relationship, the more apparent it becomes that it MUST foster guilt, and therefore must IMPRISON."
T16G3 "The special relationship is totally without meaning WITHOUT A BODY."
T16G3 "The special relationship is a device for limiting YOUR self to a body, and for limiting your perception of others to THEIRS."
T16G3 "The Great Rays would establish the total LACK of value of the special relationship, IF THEY WERE SEEN."
T16G4 "Yet the special relationship which the EGO seeks, does NOT include even ONE whole individual."
T16G6 "This frame of reference is BUILT around the special relationship."
T16G8 "You could no longer find even the ILLUSION of love in ANY special relationship here."
T16G8 "Nothing you seek to strengthen, in the special relationship, is REALLY part of you."
T16G11 "Whenever your thoughts wander to a special relationship which still ATTRACTS you, enter with Him into a holy instant, and there, LET HIM RELEASE YOU."
T16H1 "It is impossible to let the past go, WITHOUT relinquishing the special relationship."
T16H1 "For the special relationship is an attempt to RE-ENACT the past, AND CHANGE IT."
T16H1 "Imagined slights, remembered pain, past disappointments, perceived injustices and deprivations, all enter into the special relationship, which becomes a way in which you seek to restore your wounded SELF-esteem."
T16H1 "What basis would you have for choosing a special partner, WITHOUT the past?"
T16H2 "The special relationship TAKES VENGEANCE ON THE PAST."
T16H2 "NO SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP IS EXPERIENCED IN THE PRESENT."
T16H3 "The fantasies it brings to the special relationships it chooses, in which to act out its hate, are fantasies of YOUR destruction."
T16H4 "In the special relationship, YOU ARE ALLOWING YOUR DESTRUCTION TO BE."
T16H4 "The past is gone; seek not to preserve it in the special relationship, which binds you to it, and would teach you that SALVATION is past, and that you must RETURN to the past, to FIND salvation."
T16H5 "In the special relationship, it does not SEEM to be an acting out of vengeance that you seek."
T16H5 "But the one thing that the ego NEVER allows to reach awareness, is that the special relationship is the acting out of VENGEANCE ON YOURSELF."
T16H5 "In seeking the special relationship, you look not for glory IN YOURSELF."
T17E2 "We have said repeatedly that the Holy Spirit would not DEPRIVE you of your special relationships, but would TRANSFORM them."
T17E2 "Every special relationship that YOU have made IS a substitute for God's Will, and glorifies yours instead of His, BECAUSE OF THE DELUSION THEY ARE DIFFERENT."
T17E3 "Every special relationship which you have ever undertaken has, as its fundamental purpose, the aim of occupying your minds so completely that YOU WILL NOT HEAR the call of truth."
T17E3 "In a sense, the special relationship was the EGO's answer to the creation of the Holy Spirit, Who was God's Answer to the separation."
T17E6 "The special relationship, which is its chief defense, MUST therefore be insane."
T17E6 "But the special relationship still seems to you somehow TO BE DIFFERENT."
T17E8 "The special relationship has the most imposing and deceptive frame of all the defenses the ego uses."
T17F10 "For God Himself has blessed your special relationship."
T17I1 "The holy instant is nothing more than a special case, or an extreme example, of what EVERY situation is MEANT to be."
T18A1 "For this SPECIAL purpose, one is judged more valuable, and the other is REPLACED by him."
T18A3 "The body is emphasized, with special emphasis on certain parts, and USED AS THE STANDARD FOR COMPARISON for either acceptance or rejection of suitability for acting out a special FORM of fear."
T18B1 "And every special relationship you ever made is PART of it."
T18C7 "In your WAKING dreams, the special relationship has a special place."
T18C7 "The special relationship is your DETERMINATION to keep your hold on unreality, and to PREVENT yourself from waking."
T18C8 "That is what the Holy Spirit does in your special relationship."
T18C8 "Your special relationships will remain, NOT as a source of pain and guilt, but as a source of joy and freedom."
T18C9 "Your special relationship will be a means for UNDOING guilt in everyone blessed through your holy relationship."
T18C11 "Its coming means that you have chosen truth, and it has come, because you have been willing to let your special relationship meet its conditions."
T18F5 "All that remains of dreams within it is that it is still a SPECIAL relationship."
T18F5 "Yet it is VERY useful to the Holy Spirit, Who has a special FUNCTION here."
T18G12 "This feeling of liberation FAR exceeds the DREAM of freedom sometimes experienced in special relationships."
T18H7 "This is the special means this course is using, to save you time."
T18I12 "Be sure of this; love has entered your special relationship, and entered fully, at your weak request."
T19C5 "Here is its armor, its protection, and the fundamental PURPOSE of the special relationship, in its interpretation."
T19I1 "To you, into whose special relationship the Holy Spirit entered, it IS given to release and be released from the dedication to death."
T20E6 "To each who walks this earth in seeming solitude is a Savior given, whose special function here is to release him, and so to free himself."
T20E6 "Each holy relationship must enter here, to learn its special function in the Holy Spirit's plan, now that it SHARES His purpose."
T21D1 "All special relationships have sin as their goal."
T22D4 "Sin is but error in a special form the ego venerates."
T22E1 "Special Message: When you come to the place where the branch in the road is quite apparent, you cannot go ahead."
T24B3 "Only the special COULD have enemies, for they are different, and NOT the same."
T24B4 "The special ones feel weak and frail BECAUSE of differences."
T24B4 "For what would make them special IS their enemy."
T24B8 "For your relationship has been made clean of special goals."
T24B9 "What perspective can the special have that does NOT change with every seeming blow, each slight, or fancied judgment on itself?"
T24B9 "Those who are special MUST defend illusions against the truth."
T24C3 "His SPECIAL sons are many, NEVER one, each one in exile from himself and Him of Whom they are a part."
T24C4 "You are NOT special."
T24C5 "To every special one a DIFFERENT message, and one with DIFFERENT meaning, is the truth."
T24C10 "He is not special, for He would not keep one part of what He is unto Himself, NOT given to His Son, but kept for Him alone."
T24C10 "And it is this you fear; for, if He is not special, then He willed His Son be like Him, and your brother IS like you."
T24C10 "Not special, but possessed of everything, INCLUDING you."
T24C13 "For it DEMANDS a special place God cannot enter, and a hiding-place where none is welcome but your tiny self."
T24C13 "Here are the gates of hell you closed upon yourself, to rule in madness and in loneliness your special kingdom, APART from God, AWAY from truth and from salvation."
T24D7 "The special ones are all asleep, surrounded by a world of loveliness they do not see."
T25B5 "The Holy Spirit links the other part, the tiny, mad desire to be separate, different, and special, TO the Christ, to make the Oneness clear to what is REALLY One."
T25G4 "To each He gives a special function in salvation he alone can fill; a part for ONLY him."
T25G4 "Nor is the plan complete until he finds his special function, and fulfills the part assigned to him, to make himself complete within a world where incompletion rules."
T25G4 "And, BY this act of special faithfulness, to one perceived as OTHER than himself, he learns the gift was given TO himself, and so they MUST be one."
T25G5 "He HAS a special part in time, for so he chose, and choosing it, made it for himself."
T25G6 "His special sin was made his special grace."
T25G6 "His special hate became his special love."
T25G7 "The Holy Spirit needs YOUR special function, that HIS may be fulfilled."
T25G7 "Think not you lack a special value here."
T25G7 "In light, you see it is your SPECIAL FUNCTION in the plan to save the Son of God from ALL attack, and let him understand that he is safe, as he has ALWAYS been, and will remain in time and in eternity alike."
T25H8 "Your special function is the special form in which the fact that God is NOT insane appears most sensible and meaningful to you."
T25H8 "The FORM is suited to your special needs, and to the special time and place in which you think you find yourself, and where you can be free of place and time, and ALL that you believe must limit you."
T25H8 "Yet, if His Will is seen as madness, then the FORM of sanity which makes it most acceptable to those who ARE insane requires special choice."
T25H10 "To each his special function is designed to be perceived as possible, and more and more desired, as it PROVES to him that it is an alternative he WANTS."
T25H10 "Nor is he left without ESCAPE from madness, for he has a special part in EVERYONE's escape."
T25H10 "He can no more be left outside, WITHOUT a special function in the hope of peace, than could the Father overlook His Son, and pass him by in careless thoughtlessness."
T25H13 "This is the rock on which salvation rests; the vantage point from which the Holy Spirit gives meaning and direction to the plan in which your special function has a part."
T25H13 "For here your special function is made whole, because it shares the FUNCTION of the whole."
T25I9 "It is His Special Function to hold out to you the gifts the innocent DESERVE."
T25I11 "Each special function He allots is but for this; that each one learn that love and justice are NOT separate."
T25I12 "Your special function is a call to Him, that He may smile on you whose sinlessness He shares."
T25I12 "And so the Holy Spirit's Special Function has been fulfilled."
T25I13 "How can the special REALLY understand that justice is the same for everyone?"
T25I14 "Your special function shows you nothing else BUT perfect justice CAN prevail for you."
T25J6 "It is NOT a special gift to some, to be WITHHELD from others as LESS worthy, MORE condemned, and thus APART from healing."
T26B4 "WITHOUT your special function HAS this world no meaning for you."
T26B7 "It is your special function to ensure the door be opened, that he may come forth to shine on you, and give you back the gift of freedom by receiving it of you."
T26B7 "What is the Holy Spirit's Special Function but to release the holy Son of God from the imprisonment he made, to KEEP himself from justice?"
T26C1 "It serves no purpose to attempt to solve it in a SPECIAL form."
T26C5 "Consider once again your special function."
T26C6 "What seemed once to be a SPECIAL problem, a mistake WITHOUT a remedy, or an affliction WITHOUT a cure, has been transformed into a universal blessing."
T26C7 "Your special function opens wide the door beyond which is the memory of His Love kept perfectly intact and undefiled."
T27I2 "It looks about for special bodies which can SHARE its dream."
T29I8 "Each worshipper of idols harbors hope his SPECIAL deities will give him MORE than other men possess."
T30D3 "To seek a special person or a thing to ADD to you to make yourself complete, can ONLY mean that you believe some FORM is missing."
T30G5 "There would be an error that is MORE than a mistake; a special FORM of error, which remains unchangeable, eternal, and beyond correction or escape."
W31L3 "Do not dwell on any one in particular, but try to let the stream move on evenly and calmly, without any special investment on your part."
W50R14 "It will be necessary, however, that you learn to require no special settings in which to apply what you have learned."
W74L4 "If there is one conflict area which seems particularly difficult to resolve, single it out for special consideration."
W75L8 "Remind yourself every quarter of an hour or so that today is a time for special celebration."
W79L2 "Everyone in this world seems to have his own special problems."
W91L11 "This form would be helpful for this special purpose: "Miracles are seen in light."
W95L3 "The use of the first 5 minutes of every waking hour for practicing the idea for the day has special advantages at the stage of learning in which you are at present."
W98L1 "Today is a day of special dedication."
W98L5 "Is it not worth five minutes hourly to recognize your special function here?"
W98L9 "He will enable you to understand your special function."
W99L12 "You have a special message for today which has the power to remove all forms of doubt and fear forever from your mind."
W108L5 "For these are but some special cases of one law which holds for every kind of learning, if it be directed by the One Who knows the truth."
W108L6 "To learn that giving and receiving are the same has special usefulness, because it can be tried so easily and seen as true."
W108L6 "And when this special case has proved it always works in every circumstance where it is tried, the thought behind it can be generalized to other areas of doubt and double vision."
W108L7 "Today we practice with the special case of giving and receiving."
W110R31 "We will observe the special format for these practice periods, which you are urged to follow as closely as you can."
W124L8 "This is our first attempt at an extended period for which we give no rules nor special words to guide your meditation."
W125L9 "As every hour passes by today be still a moment, and remind yourself you have a special purpose for this day; - in quiet to receive the Word of God."
W126L11 "As often as you can, remind yourself you have a goal today; an aim which makes this day of special value to yourself and all your brothers."
W131L15 "Remember often that today should be a time of special gladness, and refrain from dismal thoughts and meaningless laments."
W135L27 "Throughout the day, as foolish little things appear to raise defensiveness in you and tempt you to engage in weaving plans, remind yourself this is a special day for learning, and acknowledge it with this: "This is Easter time."
W140R49 "Each day of practicing, as we review, we close as we began, repeating first the Thought that made the day a special time of blessing and of happiness for us; and through our faithfulness restored the world from darkness to the light, from grief to joy, from pain to peace, from sin to holiness."
W157L1 "It is a special time of promise in your calendar of days."
W180L3 "Our next few lessons make a special point of firming up your willingness to make your weak commitment strong; your scattered goals blend into one intent."
W180L4 "Our lessons now are geared specifically to widening horizons, and direct approaches to the special blocks which keep your vision narrow, and too limited to let you see the value of our goal."
W184L1 "By this you designate its special attributes, and set it off from other things by emphasizing space surrounding it."
W200R63 "Beyond this, and a repetition of the special thought we practice for the day, no form of exercise is urged, except a deep relinquishment of everything that clutters up the mind, and makes it deaf to reason, sanity and simple truth."
W200R64 "We will attempt to get beyond all words and special forms of practicing for this review."
W200R66 "Beyond such special applications of each day's idea, we will add but few formal expressions or specific thoughts to aid your practicing."
W220IN212 "From time to time, instructions on a theme of special relevance will intersperse our daily lessons and the periods of wordless, deep experience which should come afterwards."
W220IN212 "These special thoughts should be reviewed each day, each one of them to be continued 'til the next is given you."
W241L1 "It is a time of special celebration."
W274L2 "A special blessing comes to us today from Him Who is our Father."
W317L1 "I have a special place to fill; a role for me alone."
M1A1 "Further, the act of teaching is regarded as a special activity in which one engages only a relatively small proportion of one's time."
M2A4 "This is a manual for a special curriculum, intended for teachers of a special form of the universal course."
M5A1 "God gives special gifts to His teachers because they have a special role in His plan for Atonement."
M5A1 "These special gifts, born in the holy relationship toward which the teaching-learning situation is geared, become characteristic of all teachers of God who have advanced in their own learning."
M5H1 "The term generosity has special meaning to the teacher of God."
M6C2 "Special agents seem to be ministering to him, yet they but give form to his own choice."
M10A1 "There are those who are called upon to change their life situation almost immediately, but these are generally special cases."
M22A4 "This process is merely a special case of the Workbook lesson "I will step back and let Him lead the way.""
M23A1 "Partial Atonement is a meaningless idea, just as special areas of hell in Heaven is inconceivable."
M23A4 "This recognition has no special reference."
M24A1 "A name does not heal, nor does an invocation call forth any special power."
M26A2 "He is doing nothing special, and there is no magic in his accomplishments."
M26A3 "Nor does their value lie in proving anything; achievements from the past, unusual attunement with the "unseen," or special favors from God."
M26A3 "God gives no special favors, and no-one has any powers that are not available to everyone."
M26A3 "Only by tricks of magic are special powers "demonstrated.""
U7A3 "In order to fulfill this special function the Holy Spirit has assumed a dual function."
P4B1 "These people need no special rules, of course, but they may be called upon to use special applications of the general principles of healing."
P4B2 "For this, however, he needs special training, because the curriculum by which he became a therapist probably taught him little or nothing about the real principles of healing."
S3D4 "You do not make yourself the bearer of the special gift that brings the healing."
S3E1 "They are not special."
S3E1 "They have chosen holiness, and given up all separate dreams of special attributes through which they can bestow unequal gifts on those less fortunate."
G3A3 "What is there that is your special gift within the dream?"
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