October 31st 2014   Lesson 226

Part II  Introduction

• We will continue spending time with God each morning and night and at each waking hour, using all future lessons as introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace, calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to forget our goal.  During these holy times, we will say some simple words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself to us, as He has promised that He would when we invited Him.
  
  This is how our times with Him will now be spent:  we say the words of invitation that His Voice suggests, and then we wait for Him to come to us.  Sit silently and wait upon your Father.  He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.  We need only call to God, and all temptations disappear.  Instead of words, we need but feel His Love.  Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name.  Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. 
  
  Our lessons will now be preceded by a theme of special relevance that we should review before each lesson until another is given us.  They should be slowly read and thought about a little while, preceding one of the holy times we sit in silence and wait for God to reveal Himself to us.  The first of these special thoughts follow and are relevant to lessons 221 - 230:

   1. What is Forgiveness

  Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred.  It does not pardon sins and make them real.  It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven.  What is sin, except a false idea about God's Son?  Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
  
  
  An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true.  The mind is closed, and will not be released.  The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason.  What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
  
  An unforgiving thought does many things.  In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path.  Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well.  It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
  
  
  Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing.  It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes.  It merely looks, and waits, and judges not.  He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive.  But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
  
  
  Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success.  He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God.  Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.
  
  

  Lesson 226

  My home awaits me.  I will hasten there. 

• If I so choose, I can depart this world entirely.  It is not death which makes this possible, but it is change of mind about the purpose of the world.  If I believe it has a value as I see it now, so will it still remain for me.  But if I see no value in the world as I behold it, nothing that I want to keep as mine or search for as a goal, it will depart from me.  For I have not sought for illusions to replace the truth.
      
• Invitation Prayer:  Father, my home awaits my glad return.  Your Arms are open and I hear Your Voice.  What need have I to linger in a place of vain desires and of shattered dreams, when Heaven can so easily be mine?
  
  

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Insights/comments:

• I am always at home in God!  This is the eternal truth, but I am usually not aware of it and so feel alone and lost in the make-believe dream world of forms and perceptions.  Yet, the Truth is true and remains true even when I am not aware of it.  My challenge then is only to remember what is true and who I truly am, especially when I feel alone or unhappy, for it is in such lost moments that I need most to remember:  Remember that I am a holy sinless child of God, for God created me perfect, Spirit, free; and God's creations cannot diminish; remember that I am never really alone, for God is always with me, even as I perceive myself within this dream world; remember that I always have access to God's invincible wisdom and power that can harmonize any situation.  Only this remembrance then is really needed.  What then can I do to help myself remember that I am eternally safe and in the loving arms of my Father?  Be still!  Be still.  Be still, and step, from time to time, away from this dream world, to rest in the silence within myself, opening my awareness to God's eternal presence.  

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I and my Creator are One. 

October 30th 2014   Lesson 225

Part II  Introduction

• We will continue spending time with God each morning and night and at each waking hour, using all future lessons as introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace, calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to forget our goal.  During these holy times, we will say some simple words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself to us, as He has promised that He would when we invited Him.
  
  This is how our times with Him will now be spent:  we say the words of invitation that His Voice suggests, and then we wait for Him to come to us.  Sit silently and wait upon your Father.  He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.  We need only call to God, and all temptations disappear.  Instead of words, we need but feel His Love.  Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name.  Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. 
  
  Our lessons will now be preceded by a theme of special relevance that we should review before each lesson until another is given us.  They should be slowly read and thought about a little while, preceding one of the holy times we sit in silence and wait for God to reveal Himself to us.  The first of these special thoughts follow and are relevant to lessons 221 - 230:

   1. What is Forgiveness

  Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred.  It does not pardon sins and make them real.  It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven.  What is sin, except a false idea about God's Son?  Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
  
  
  An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true.  The mind is closed, and will not be released.  The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason.  What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
  
  An unforgiving thought does many things.  In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path.  Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well.  It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
  
  
  Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing.  It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes.  It merely looks, and waits, and judges not.  He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive.  But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
  
  
  Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success.  He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God.  Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.
  
  

  Lesson 225

  God is my Father, and His Son loves Him. 

• Invitation Prayer:  Father, I must return Your Love for me, for giving and receiving are the same, and You have given all Your Love to me.  I must return it, for I want it mine in full awareness, blazing in my mind and keeping it within its kindly light, inviolate, beloved, with fear behind and only peace ahead.  How still the way Your loving Son is led along to You!
  
  Brother, we find that stillness now.  The way is open.  Now we follow it in peace together.  You have reached your hand to me, and I will never leave you.  We are one, and it is but this oneness that we seek, as we accomplish these few final steps which end a journey that was not begun.
  
  

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Insights/comments:

• God's love for us is unchanging.  The variability in love we experience is from our side.  We remember God only occasionally, and love Him sometimes, usually when its convenient for us, while His love is constant and dependable.  The challenge is for us to love Him as He loves us, and to do that we must be mindful of Him, by seeing Him in everyone and in everything.
    

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I and my Creator are One. 

October 29th 2014   Lesson 224

Part II  Introduction

• We will continue spending time with God each morning and night and at each waking hour, using all future lessons as introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace, calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to forget our goal.  During these holy times, we will say some simple words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself to us, as He has promised that He would when we invited Him.
  
  This is how our times with Him will now be spent:  we say the words of invitation that His Voice suggests, and then we wait for Him to come to us.  Sit silently and wait upon your Father.  He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.  We need only call to God, and all temptations disappear.  Instead of words, we need but feel His Love.  Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name.  Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. 
  
  Our lessons will now be preceded by a theme of special relevance that we should review before each lesson until another is given us.  They should be slowly read and thought about a little while, preceding one of the holy times we sit in silence and wait for God to reveal Himself to us.  The first of these special thoughts follow and are relevant to lessons 221 -230:

   1. What is Forgiveness

  Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred.  It does not pardon sins and make them real.  It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven.  What is sin, except a false idea about God's Son?  Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
  
  
  An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true.  The mind is closed, and will not be released.  The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason.  What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
  
  An unforgiving thought does many things.  In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path.  Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well.  It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
  
  
  Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing.  It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes.  It merely looks, and waits, and judges not.  He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive.  But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
  
  
  Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success.  He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God.  Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.
  
  

  Lesson 224

  God is my Father, and He loves His Son. 

• My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great, wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give it light. It lights the world as well. It is the gift my Father gave to me; the one as well I give the world. There is no gift but this that can be either given or received. This is reality, and only this. This is illusion's end. It is the truth.
  
  
    
• Invitation Prayer:  My Name, O Father, still is known to You. I have forgotten It, and do not know where I am going, who I am, or what it is I do. Remind me, Father, now, for I am weary of the world I see. Reveal what You would have me see instead.
  
  

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Insights/comments:

• My true identity as a child of God never changes, it is perfect.  It cannot be diminished or increased, but it can be extended, just as we are perfect extensions of our Creator.  This is His eternal gift to us; it is our salvation, the means for remembering our true nature and awakening to our home in our Creator.
    

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I and my Creator are One. 

October 28th 2014   Lesson 223

Part II  Introduction

• We will continue spending time with God each morning and night and at each waking hour, using all future lessons as introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace, calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to forget our goal.  During these holy times, we will say some simple words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself to us, as He has promised that He would when we invited Him.
  
  This is how our times with Him will now be spent:  we say the words of invitation that His Voice suggests, and then we wait for Him to come to us.  Sit silently and wait upon your Father.  He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.  We need only call to God, and all temptations disappear.  Instead of words, we need but feel His Love.  Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name.  Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. 
  
  Our lessons will now be preceded by a theme of special relevance that we should review before each lesson until another is given us.  They should be slowly read and thought about a little while, preceding one of the holy times we sit in silence and wait for God to reveal Himself to us.  The first of these special thoughts follow and are relevant to lessons 221 - 230:

   1. What is Forgiveness

  Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred.  It does not pardon sins and make them real.  It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven.  What is sin, except a false idea about God's Son?  Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
  
  
  An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true.  The mind is closed, and will not be released.  The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason.  What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
  
  An unforgiving thought does many things.  In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path.  Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well.  It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
  
  
  Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing.  It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes.  It merely looks, and waits, and judges not.  He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive.  But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
  
  
  Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success.  He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God.  Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.
  
  

  Lesson 223

  God is my life.  I have no life but His. 

• I was mistaken when I thought I lived apart from God, a separate entity that moved in isolation, unattached, and housed within a body.  Now I know my life is God's, I have no other home, and I do not exist apart from Him.  He has no Thoughts that are not part of me, and I have none but those which are of Him.
    
• Invitation Prayer:  Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes.  For we who are Your holy Son are sinless.  We would look upon our sinlessness, for guilt proclaims that we are not Your Son.  And we would not forget You longer.  We are lonely here, and long for Heaven, where we are at home. Today we would return.  Our Name is Yours, and we acknowledge that we are Your Son.
  
  

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Insights/comments:

• It is impossible to imagine that we exist apart from the Creator of all that is.  If God is omnipresent, then He is present every-where, every-when, and in every-one; there cannot be anything, anytime or anyplace that is apart from that which is omnipresent.  God therefore is everything that I am, my life, my home, my breath and I have no existence apart from His.  I am part of His life, but He is all of my life.  Just as all the characters of a dream exist only in the mind of the dreamer, so everyone and everything in creation exists only in the mind of God.
    

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I and my Creator are One. 

October 27th 2014   Lesson 222

Part II  Introduction 

• We will continue spending time with God each morning and night and at each waking hour, using all future lessons as introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace, calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to forget our goal.  During these holy times, we will say some simple words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself to us, as He has promised that He would when we invited Him.
  
  This is how our times with Him will now be spent:  we say the words of invitation that His Voice suggests, and then we wait for Him to come to us.  Sit silently and wait upon your Father.  He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.  We need only call to God, and all temptations disappear.  Instead of words, we need but feel His Love.  Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name.  Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. 
  
  Our lessons will now be preceded by a theme of special relevance that we should review before each lesson until another is given us.  They should be slowly read and thought about a little while, preceding one of the holy times we sit in silence and wait for God to reveal Himself to us.  The first of these special thoughts follow and are relevant to lessons 221 - 230:

   1. What is Forgiveness

  Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred.  It does not pardon sins and make them real.  It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven.  What is sin, except a false idea about God's Son?  Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
     
  An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true.  The mind is closed, and will not be released.  The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason.  What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
    
  An unforgiving thought does many things.  In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path.  Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well.  It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
     
  Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing.  It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes.  It merely looks, and waits, and judges not.  He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive.  But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
     
  Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success.  He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God.  Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.
  
  

  Lesson 222

  God is with me.  I live and move in Him. 

• God is with me.  He is my Source of life, the life within, the air I breathe, the food by which I am sustained, the water which renews and cleanses me.  He is my home, wherein I live and move; the Spirit which directs my actions, offers me Its Thoughts and guarantees my safety from all pain.  He covers me with kindness and with care, and holds in love the son He shines upon who also shines on Him.  How still is he who knows the truth of what He speaks today!
    
• Invitation Prayer:  Father, we have no words except Your Name upon our lips and in our minds, as we come quietly into Your Presence now, and ask to rest with You in peace a while.

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Insights/comments:

• I am not a body; I remain as God created me, perfect, Spirit, free.  Even though I seem to move about in a world of endless forms, I am in God Who is my home, and I remain forever safe in the only world that truly exists--the world that He created, where lasting peace and joy abide forever.  Yet even in the dream world of forms God rests quietly deep within everything I seem to perceive.  Let everything then remind me of His eternal preasence.
    

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I and my Creator are One. 

October 26th 2014   Lesson 221

Part II  Introduction

• We will continue spending time with God each morning and night and at each waking hour, using all future lessons as introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace, calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to forget our goal.  During these holy times, we will say some simple words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself to us, as He has promised that He would when we invited Him.
  
  This is how our times with Him will now be spent:  we say the words of invitation that His Voice suggests, and then we wait for Him to come to us.  Sit silently and wait upon your Father.  He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.  We need only call to God, and all temptations disappear.  Instead of words, we need but feel His Love.  Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name.  Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. 
  
  Our lessons will now be preceded by a theme of special relevance that we should review before each lesson until another is given us.  They should be slowly read and thought about a little while, preceding one of the holy times we sit in silence and wait for God to reveal Himself to us.  The first of these special thoughts follow and are relevant to lessons 221 - 230:

   1. What is Forgiveness

  Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred.  It does not pardon sins and make them real.  It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven.  What is sin, except a false idea about God's Son?  Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
  
  
  An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true.  The mind is closed, and will not be released.  The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason.  What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
  
  An unforgiving thought does many things.  In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path.  Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well.  It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
  
  
  Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing.  It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes.  It merely looks, and waits, and judges not.  He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive.  But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
  
  
  Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success.  He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God.  Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.
  
  

  Lesson 221

  Peace to my mind.  Let all my thoughts be still.

• Invitation Prayer:  Father, I come to You today to seek the peace that You alone can give. I come in silence. In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of my mind, I wait and listen for Your Voice. My Father, speak to me today. I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and love, sure You will hear my call and answer me.
  
  Now do we wait in quiet.  God is here, because we wait together.  I am sure that He will speak to you, and you will hear.  Accept my confidence, for it is yours.  Our minds are joined.  We wait with one intent; to hear our Father's answer to our call, to let our thoughts be still and find His peace, to hear Him speak to us of what we are, and to reveal Himself unto His Son.

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Insights/comments:

• I am the holy Son of God Himself.  Can it be that God who is everything forsake me His Holy Son?  Not only is this not possible, but it is also undesirable, for God cannot be less than Himself as the All-That-Is.  This simply means salvation is guaranteed to myself and all of creation as well.  Thus we choose to wait in silence and peace for only in this way will we precipitate our inevitable awakening.
    

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I and my Creator are One. 

October 25th 2014  Review VI 

Lesson 220 

• Intention:  To review one idea each the day, and practice it as often as possible.  Besides the time you give morning and evening, which should not be less than fifteen minutes, and the hourly remembrances you make throughout the day, use the idea as often as you can between them.
    
  Each of these ideas alone would be sufficient for salvation, if it were learned truly.  Each would be enough to give release to you and to the world from every form of bondage, and invite the memory of God to come again.  Each contains the whole curriculum if understood, practiced, accepted, and applied to all the seeming happenings throughout the day.  One is enough.  But from that one, there must be no exceptions made.  And so we need to use them all and let them blend as one, as each contributes to the whole we learn.  
    
  

  Our practice sessions, are centered around a central theme with which we start and end each lesson.  It is this:
    
  
  

  I am not a body.  I am free.
  For I am still as God created me.

     

  The day begins and ends with this.  And we repeat it every time the hour strikes, or we remember, in between, we have a function that transcends the world we see.  Beyond this and the 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.

• Practice:  We will attempt to get beyond all words and special form of practicing for this review.  For we attempt, this time, to reach a quickened pace along a shorter path to the serenity and peace of God.  We merely close our eyes, and then forget all that we thought we knew and understood.  For thus is freedom given us from all we did not know and failed to understand. 
    
•  Application:  There is but one exception to this lack of structuring.  Permit no idle thought to go unchallenged.  If you notice one, deny its hold and hasten to assure your mind that this is not what it would have.  Then gently let the thought which you denied be given up, in sure and quick exchange for the idea we practice for the day.  When you are tempted, hasten to proclaim your freedom from temptation, as you say:
    
  This thought I do not want.  I choose instead ___________.
    
  

  Then repeat the idea for the day, and let it take the place of what you thought.  Beyond such special applications of each day's idea, we will add but a few formal expressions or specific thoughts to aid in practicing.  Instead, we give these times of quiet to the Teacher Who instructs in quiet, speaks of peace, and gives our thoughts whatever meaning they may have.  Let Him teach you what to do and say and think, each time you turn to Him.  He will not fail to be available to you, each time you call to Him to help you.  Let us offer Him the whole review we now begin.

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I am not a body.  I am free.  For I am still as God created me.
  
(200)  There is no peace except the peace of God
Let me not wander from the way of peace, for I am lost on other roads than this.  But let me follow Him Who leads me home, and peace is certain as the Love of God.
  
I am not a body.  I am free.  For I am still as God created me.

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I and my Creator are One. 

October 24th 2014  Review VI 

Lesson 219 

• Intention:  To review one idea each the day, and practice it as often as possible.  Besides the time you give morning and evening, which should not be less than fifteen minutes, and the hourly remembrances you make throughout the day, use the idea as often as you can between them.
    
  Each of these ideas alone would be sufficient for salvation, if it were learned truly.  Each would be enough to give release to you and to the world from every form of bondage, and invite the memory of God to come again.  Each contains the whole curriculum if understood, practiced, accepted, and applied to all the seeming happenings throughout the day.  One is enough.  But from that one, there must be no exceptions made.  And so we need to use them all and let them blend as one, as each contributes to the whole we learn.  
    
  

  Our practice sessions, are centered around a central theme with which we start and end each lesson.  It is this:
    
  
  

  I am not a body.  I am free.
  For I am still as God created me.

     

  The day begins and ends with this.  And we repeat it every time the hour strikes, or we remember, in between, we have a function that transcends the world we see.  Beyond this and the 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.

• Practice:  We will attempt to get beyond all words and special form of practicing for this review.  For we attempt, this time, to reach a quickened pace along a shorter path to the serenity and peace of God.  We merely close our eyes, and then forget all that we thought we knew and understood.  For thus is freedom given us from all we did not know and failed to understand. 
    
•  Application:  There is but one exception to this lack of structuring.  Permit no idle thought to go unchallenged.  If you notice one, deny its hold and hasten to assure your mind that this is not what it would have.  Then gently let the thought which you denied be given up, in sure and quick exchange for the idea we practice for the day.  When you are tempted, hasten to proclaim your freedom from temptation, as you say:
    
  This thought I do not want.  I choose instead ___________.
    
  

  Then repeat the idea for the day, and let it take the place of what you thought.  Beyond such special applications of each day's idea, we will add but a few formal expressions or specific thoughts to aid in practicing.  Instead, we give these times of quiet to the Teacher Who instructs in quiet, speaks of peace, and gives our thoughts whatever meaning they may have.  Let Him teach you what to do and say and think, each time you turn to Him.  He will not fail to be available to you, each time you call to Him to help you.  Let us offer Him the whole review we now begin.

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I am not a body.  I am free.  For I am still as God created me.
  
(199)  I am not a body.  I am free.
I am God's Son.  Be still, my mind, and think a moment upon this.  And then return to earth, without confusion as to what my Father loves forever as His Son.
  
I am not a body.  I am free.  For I am still as God created me.

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I and my Creator are One.