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C:2.19 to use what you have learned to increase your guilt. Thus it wins in  daily battles and works for your final abdication, the day that you
C:2.22 on a state of neutrality in which the war is no longer fought, the  daily battles cease. Who wins and who loses is not of concern to us
C:9.44 or emotional mistreatment. These, like the larger examples of your  daily life gone awry, are but demonstrations of internal desires
C:22.7 path crosses that of others, where you encounter situations in your  daily life, where you experience those things that cause you to feel
C:22.13 category might include such things as the happenings of your  daily routine, chance encounters, illness, or accidents, while in the
T1:1.7 The mechanics of the mind were what engaged you in so many  daily battles that you became almost too weary to continue. The
T2:3.4 real and learning something that is of relevance even within the  daily life you currently move through. Now you must fully recognize
T3:10.2 as an exercise in forgetting. As often as is possible within your  daily life, I ask you to forget as much of what you have learned as
T3:16.4 very changes that you feel you need in order to reflect, within your  daily life, the new Self you have become.
D:13.4 of unity will still seem, at times, to need to be learned anew in  daily living. This is knowing that will often come in a flash, and
D:Day1.5 examples we are talking of simple requirements, requirements of  daily life rather than of eternal life. The requirement asked of you
D:Day6.13 to go about this creative process while remaining embroiled in  daily life—I want to acknowledge the difficulty some of you will
D:Day6.14 and a corresponding desire not to have to focus on the details of  daily life. You may be thinking that the ease so often spoken of in
D:Day6.14 invite abundance without having to look at the bills that arrive by  daily mail or worry about the many other aspects of your simple
D:Day6.15 for worry will have to come first, an ability to focus on other than  daily life will have to come first. These are what these continuing
D:Day6.18 will not have changed or will be changing the very fabric of your  daily life. Changes you feel called to make are not discouraged here.
D:Day6.20 own experience. They were temptations of the world, of the normal,  daily life of my time. They were attempts to distract me from my
D:Day6.30 Do you need to be other than yourself in order to navigate your  daily life? What you are being shown here is that you do not. What
D:Day7.5 say this because so many of you still do not feel supported in your  daily life. You may feel supported in your spiritual life, in your

daintiest (1)

D:4.12 to the animal and plant life that exists around you. From the  daintiest and most intricately laced snowflake to the stem of a plant

damage (1)

T4:12.23 into the thought processes of the singular brain, would cause brain  damage, because it would cause an overload of information. The

damaging (2)

C:P.15 peace, not conflict. Partial truth is not only impossible, it is  damaging. For sooner or later in this lopsided battle, the ego will
C:P.22 one ready for a new choice. Prolonged interest in self can be as  damaging as the selflessness of those intent on doing good works.

dance (7)

C:8.7 skin were the playground for all the angels and demons that would  dance there. What you would remember is replaced by memories of these
C:20.33 do battle. No molecules compete for dominance. The universe is a  dance of cooperation. You are but asked to rejoin the dance.
C:20.33 universe is a dance of cooperation. You are but asked to rejoin the  dance.
C:20.34 has returned you to attunement with the heartbeat, the music of the  dance. You have not known what you do or what to do only because of
C:20.34 and you will hear. Hear, and you cannot help but rejoice in the  dance.
T2:9.6 In relationship, every need is met by a corresponding need. It is a  dance of correspondence.
D:Day9.2 your true home, your return to your Self. Laugh. Cry. Shout or wail.  Dance and sing. Spin a new web. The web of freedom.

dancer (1)

T1:4.13 not be guided by responsibility and still fail to give love? Can a  dancer not struggle mightily to perfect her talent without

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C:9.1 seems to lead you astray, forcing you to walk through paths full of  danger and treachery into the deepest darkness instead of toward the
C:16.13 to you because you look upon an unforgiven world where evil walks,  danger lurks, and nowhere is safety to be found. Each separated one
C:20.31 which it operates. The laws of fear were laws of struggle, limits,  danger, and competitiveness. The laws of love are laws of peace,
C:25.13 now. It is not arrogance or a means by which to flirt with risk and  danger. It is simply your reality. During the time of tenderness you
T2:9.8 What is shared by all is not owned. What all have is in no  danger of being taken away. All that you are capable of having you
T3:1.13 to distinguish the personal self from the ego-self. There is a  danger even now in focusing upon the self of the body, as this self
T3:13.13 without forming your own ideas about your beliefs is to be in  danger of succumbing to false beliefs.
D:1.9 These anti-ego tendencies are a real  danger in this time. You are not called to selflessness but to Self !
D:11.10 full well, a wellspring from which you can continually draw with no  danger of ever drawing an empty bucket. You need never thirst again
D:13.1 There is no  danger, in this time, that you will know the truth and then discover
D:Day9.21 to accept an image is less prevalent now but still a common  danger.

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C:2.6 these extremes of feeling. Both “ends” of feelings are considered  dangerous and a middle ground is sought. It is said that one can love
C:4.14 forget to guard your heart or to keep your real Self in hiding. How  dangerous indeed is such an act in a world where trust can turn to
C:8.12 you would deem your property and its disposition your purview. How  dangerous would you be if union were such as this? How rightly you
C:9.21 And imagine that you could bring this one in from that dark and  dangerous place. She is cold, and you prepare a fire and give her a
C:16.16 the act of defiance fills the defiant one with boldness. Something  dangerous has been tried and has seemingly succeeded. The order of

dangled (1)

D:Day9.15 it was an ego-centered goal, a carrot of fulfillment the ego but  dangled before you in the place it called the future. As with all

dare (5)

C:P.9 There are still few who  dare to believe in the glory of who they are, few who can lay aside
C:10.5 are is the greatest hurdle to overcome. As you observe the body and  dare to think of life without it, you again and again encounter its
T1:3.5 for fear-based living have been discounted one by one. And yet you  dare not try to live without it. Why? Because of the thoughts of the
D:1.22 will guide you through the application of what you have learned. You  dare not, as yet, to turn to your own heart, and trust the knowing
D:11.10 that will provide you with direction. As was said earlier, you  dare not, as yet, turn to your own heart for answers. Yet your heart

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C:16.16 judge away from God is an act against God, and like a child who has  dared to defy his parents, the act of defiance fills the defiant one
T3:12.7 something you have not even dreamed of. This state you have not even  dared to dream of is a state in which only God’s laws of love exist
D:Day2.8 even here. These are the temptations that confront those who have  dared to ascend the mountain. It is not the height you have attained

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C:3.5 else unreal. You can close your eyes and believe that you are in the  dark, but you will not believe that you are no longer real. Close
C:6.10 the cold as well as the warmth, the snow as well as the rain, the  dark of night and the clouds that block the sun. Without all of
C:9.21 yourself. And imagine that you could bring this one in from that  dark and dangerous place. She is cold, and you prepare a fire and
C:9.39 what you have sought, you will not leave in deepest peace but in  dark despair and fear. You will have no hope for what lies beyond
C:12.4 from all that could be joined with you and all that would fill your  dark and lonely places with the happiness you seek.
T1:2.16 many things ranging from a desire to get safely home before it is  dark, to a desire to eat an evening meal. It signals change in the
T1:3.20 magic and power that is not of this world and thus that must have a  dark side as well as a light. Here suspicion dawns and threatens all
T3:20.17 by love. See not what love would not have you see. Turn from the  dark ways of illusion and shine the light of truth for all to see.

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C:16.17 thus reinforces the idea of separation, making of it something even  darker than it started out as being. It no longer seems like a choice

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C:19.19 Out of the deepest,  darkest chaos of your mind comes the possibility of light. It is a

darkness (20)

C:P.41 proves to me that they will see when they are opened. You sit in  darkness awaiting proof that only your own light will dispel.
C:2.12 end? What light would there be in the universe that could end the  darkness?
C:5.32 of you has had at least one that was a shining light in a world of  darkness. A day in which the sun shone on your world and you felt
C:7.10 protection, for truth brought to illusion shines its light into the  darkness, causing it to be no more.
C:9.1 to walk through paths full of danger and treachery into the deepest  darkness instead of toward the light. It is your emotions rather than
C:9.18 of your heart, the light the Christ in you would shine upon the  darkness. Can you not see that when you chose to make yourself
C:16.8 function be fulfilled and bring the light to those who still live in  darkness.
C:28.7 spent. It is your time to shine, to be a light to those who live in  darkness.
T1:7.2 This belief exists in the in-between, where on the one hand there is  darkness, and on the other hand there is light. One or the other must
T2:5.1 desires to you. This type of calling comes as a light shone into the  darkness and is revelatory in nature. Other calls will come as
D:1.14 more. Where once I was empty, I now am full. Where once I dwelt in  darkness I now dwell in the light. Where once I had forgotten Now I
D:Day2.23 joining with my brothers and sisters, with the bringing of light to  darkness, power to the powerless, health to the sick, life to the
D:Day15.14 fears into the light of oneness and see how the light dispels the  darkness. This is what we are here for. There is no time to waste and
D:Day18.5 in the unknown through knowing, as a glimpse of fleeting light in  darkness provides for a knowing of light. Those who accept completion
D:Day18.5 of the way of Jesus accept their power to be generators of light in  darkness without judging or expelling darkness. They accept their
D:Day18.5 to be generators of light in darkness without judging or expelling  darkness. They accept their power to represent both the known and the
D:Day27.9 the mountain-top. Looking in one direction, you might see only  darkness. Looking in another, you might see the dawning of light.
D:Day27.11 As  darkness and light, hot and cold, sickness and health are each just
D:Day34.1 destruction are two sides of the same continuum as are hot and cold,  darkness and light. Seeing in wholeness includes seeing the opposites
A.32 fraught with peril, a cloud of despair will lift, a little more of  darkness recedes, and a little more light is available to show the

dart (1)

C:18.17 A wandering mind is seen as quite the norm, and thoughts that  dart about in a chaotic fashion are as acceptable and seemingly as

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C:3.14 for we bypass it now and send it no information to process, no  data for it to compute. The only change in thinking you are asked to

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C:3.16 soon to learn that what we would know cannot be computed in the  databanks of an over-worked and over-trusted brain, a mind we cannot

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C:22.12 sitting as that to which you have determined you will, at some later  date, get around to assigning meaning.
T1:3.22 done? Do they happen all at once? Or can they be for some future  date? What about the correction of something that has already

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C:P.26 to be, the love of the parent for the child is the same. A son or  daughter does not earn the love that is given him or her, and this
C:9.28 the reality you do see? Is this not the story of the gifted son or  daughter who squanders all the gifts he or she possesses by seeing
D:Day38.6 Call yourself  daughter or son, sister or brother, co-creator or friend. But call
D:Day40.16 in your own life? As if you could only be mother or father,  daughter or son, husband or wife, sister or brother, friend or foe?
D:Day40.18 just the relationships that you hold. You are more than a mother,  daughter, sister, friend. You are an “I” that stands separate from

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C:9.29 You are the prodigal sons and  daughters welcomed constantly to return home to your Father’s safe
T2:8.6 and its final acceptance necessary. You are the prodigal sons and  daughters who have returned home. Your stay is not finite. You are
T3:2.12 as well as to our discussion of the return of the prodigal sons and  daughters of God. This discussion may have seemed to accept the idea
T4:2.20 Can you remember this, blessed sons and  daughters of the most high? Your brothers and sisters are as holy as
D:11.3 idea of you extended and became you and me and all the sons and  daughters of creation.
D:Day1.15 You are all beloved sons and  daughters of love itself, no matter what you call that love. You all

daunting (1)

C:2.12 you are a small part of God no bigger than a pinprick of light in a  daunting sun, you still cannot believe in the reality of misery and

dawn (5)

C:28.5 is of the heart, and holds a consistency and certainty that the  dawn of innocence does not contain. The dawn of innocence is but a
C:28.5 and certainty that the dawn of innocence does not contain. The  dawn of innocence is but a recognition of the most common denominator
C:28.5 denominator of existence. As such, it is a beginning only, a true  dawn that must, as the sun rises, give way to day and the brilliance
C:28.6 approaching. It is the time for the sun to cut through the mists of  dawn. It is the middle of the journey, a time of teaching and of
C:28.10 As the  dawn is unrestrained in its bursting forth, so has been your time of

dawned (1)

T3:7.7 attention fell upon it. A great scrambling ensued as the recognition  dawned on those who looked, that treasures were to be found there.

dawning (3)

T4:12.12 out into the world. What he was really saying was that he saw the  dawning of his contentment as the sign that one period of learning
T4:12.25 and be glad and turn your attention to the new. Attend to the  dawning of the consciousness of unity. Realize that it is a truly new
D:Day27.9 you might see only darkness. Looking in another, you might see the  dawning of light. Opposites exist only as different aspects of one

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C:7.2 this in every situation. As the awareness of your withholding  dawns upon your heart, you will begin to realize what you do not
T1:3.20 thus that must have a dark side as well as a light. Here suspicion  dawns and threatens all you have come to hold dear.
T3:12.7 As it  dawns upon your once slumbering mind that change on a grand scale

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C:2.19 it wins in daily battles and works for your final abdication, the  day that you give up and admit defeat. It challenges your right to
C:2.20 Into this battlefield you have bravely marched. The war rages by  day and by night and you have grown weary. Your heart cries out for
C:3.7 not thus. A form is but a representation. You see a thousand forms a  day with different names and different functions and you think not
C:4.5 There remain no clouds to block the sun, and night gives way to  day.
C:4.6 confusion so rampant that no toehold of security is possible, and  day turns endlessly into night in a long march toward death.
C:4.12 you give attributes that you do not have and that you might one  day acquire when the time is right. For that kind and gentle stance
C:4.21 gain the strength you need to walk outside those doors again another  day. You spend your life intent upon retiring to this safe place you
C:4.21 love in a world of madness, and hope that you will live to see the  day when you can leave the madness behind, and that you will still
C:5.20 think of this and say it to yourself not once but a hundred times a  day if needed. You do not need to worry about what to replace your
C:5.32 Remember now one lovely  day, for each of you has had at least one that was a shining light in
C:5.32 had at least one that was a shining light in a world of darkness. A  day in which the sun shone on your world and you felt part of
C:6.10 might choose to live near the equator, to have the sun shine every  day and the need to stoke the fire put behind them. But not you. You,
C:6.10 be too easy, too lacking in imagination, too sterile. To have every  day the same would be uninteresting now. Perhaps later. Maybe when
C:6.12 chance to face the struggle and the challenge, the coming of the new  day and the dying of the old. How sad they have not had the
C:6.16 Peace is merely enjoyment of the rain and sun, night as well as  day. Without judgment cast upon it, peace shines on all that you
C:7.11 form of withholding, sometimes dozens or even hundreds of times a  day. An unreturned phone call, a bit of traffic, a harsh word spoken,
C:7.11 hold to yourself and refuse to let go. By the time you begin your  day you may hold several of these in your mind, and there you build
C:7.11 withholding. Now you have an excuse—or several excuses—for a bad  day. Why should you give anything to anyone when your day has already
C:7.11 —for a bad day. Why should you give anything to anyone when your  day has already treated you so badly? You withhold even a smile,
C:7.12 You might choose to tell those you encounter of your bad  day, and if they are properly sympathetic you may feel that you have
C:8.7 these emotions—so many that they could not be counted even for one  day, even by those who claim to have them not. It is not your
C:8.20 time expending that energy. One more time growing weary. One more  day is greeted, and its greeting lies upon your heart. Each day tells
C:8.20 One more day is greeted, and its greeting lies upon your heart. Each  day tells you all things come to pass. At times this is cause for
C:8.20 other times a cause for sorrow. But never can it be evaded that each  day is a beginning and an ending both. Night is as certain as day.
C:8.20 each day is a beginning and an ending both. Night is as certain as  day.
C:8.23 Where lives this past and future? Where does  day go when it is night? What are you to make of all these forms that
C:8.24 of creation, begun each morning and completed each night. Each  day is your creation held together by the thought system that gave it
C:8.28 How can it be that you move through the same world  day by day in the same body, observing many situations like onto each
C:8.28 How can it be that you move through the same world day by  day in the same body, observing many situations like onto each other,
C:8.28 to the same sun rising and setting, and yet can experience each  day so differently that one day you feel happy and one day you feel
C:8.28 and setting, and yet can experience each day so differently that one  day you feel happy and one day you feel sad, one day you feel hope
C:8.28 each day so differently that one day you feel happy and one  day you feel sad, one day you feel hope and one day you feel despair?
C:8.28 that one day you feel happy and one day you feel sad, one  day you feel hope and one day you feel despair? How can it be that
C:8.28 feel happy and one day you feel sad, one day you feel hope and one  day you feel despair? How can it be that what was created so like to
C:8.29 days are but evidence of this truth. What your eyes behold will one  day deceive you while what your heart beholds will the next day see
C:8.29 will one day deceive you while what your heart beholds will the next  day see through the deception. And so one day lived in your world is
C:8.29 beholds will the next day see through the deception. And so one  day lived in your world is misery incarnate and the next a thing of
C:9.1 you. It seems as fickle as your mind, telling you one thing one  day and one thing the next. Even more so than your mind it seems to
C:9.42 this but a demonstration, on a larger scale, of what you live each  day? This is all that anything larger than yourself demonstrates to
C:9.50 How different would the world be if you would but attempt for one  day to replace use with union! Before you can begin, however, we must
C:10.11 you do not feel the pain of a headache or the cold of a winter  day, and this pretending may even make you feel a little less pain or
C:10.27 as a whole. You will see it from behind as you follow it about its  day, without, at first even being aware that this is happening. And
C:12.12 alone that somehow is not what it was meant to be. On a lovely  day and in a lovely place you can see that creation’s paradise still
C:12.17 seems to arise out of nowhere can affect you. An idea, birthed one  day, does not seem to have been there the day before. Perhaps it is
C:12.17 you. An idea, birthed one day, does not seem to have been there the  day before. Perhaps it is the idea of taking a trip or having a baby,
C:12.17 of the idea would not come to be. You may have a thousand ideas one  day and ten thousand the next, so many that you could never keep
C:13.8 by these memories, do not push them aside as interruptions in your  day, but know that anything that distracts you from the little self
C:17.7 Each  day is an unknown you enter into, despite your every attempt to
C:22.9 that creates the intersection. Everything within your world and your  day must pass through you in order to gain reality. While you might
C:22.20 your door in the morning you might generally think, “What a lovely  day.” What this sentence says is that you have immediately taken in
C:22.20 taken in your surroundings and judged them. It is a lovely  day “to you.” The day has all or most of the requirements you find
C:22.20 your surroundings and judged them. It is a lovely day “to you.” The  day has all or most of the requirements you find pleasing in a day.
C:22.20 The day has all or most of the requirements you find pleasing in a  day. Replace such a thought with: “The grass is green. The birds are
C:22.21 When you are asked questions such as, “How was your  day?” respond as much as possible without using the word I or my.
C:25.9 anger is re-enacted in thousands of different scenarios in your life  day after day and year after year until you realize and truly believe
C:25.9 in thousands of different scenarios in your life day after  day and year after year until you realize and truly believe the basic
C:26.12 Have you not felt the call to live growing stronger in you by the  day? Are you not anxious to say: “Tell me what to do and I will do
C:26.18 invitation to the celebration. This is the invitation to greet this  day with no worry, disappointment, or planning. This is the
C:26.18 the invitation to greet your Self and to find your Self within this  day.
C:26.25 This viewing of your life as a story is what you do. You spend each  day in review or speculation. What has happened and what will happen
C:28.5 beginning only, a true dawn that must, as the sun rises, give way to  day and the brilliance and clarity of the wisdom of which we speak.
C:28.10 forth, so has been your time of innocence. Not so the approach of  day as the sun slowly rises and as slowly sets. This is a time of
T1:6.7 relate to anything else at all. Without memory, what you learned one  day would be gone the next. A person you met one day you would not
T1:6.7 you learned one day would be gone the next. A person you met one  day you would not know the next. Thus memory allows relationship.
T1:8.3 is one of slow realization. Change occurs all around you every  day without your realization of it. Only in retrospect are the
T2:7.2 are beyond your control, those who can influence the course of your  day or your life in ways you would not choose. Others represent the
T2:10.14 It is the voice of certainty that allows you to move through each  day and all the experiences within it as who you are in truth. It
T3:13.7 because you can put this new idea into practice today and every  day by simply refusing the temptation to believe in concepts such as
T3:13.10 You may even begin by something as simple as choosing one thing a  day that you will change to reflect the fact that you have accepted
T3:13.10 to sleep in the morning, I will awake refreshed and ready for my  day and no dire consequences will befall me from this action.”
T3:13.10 as allowing yourself to freely spend a small amount of money each  day that you ordinarily would not spend, always with the idea in mind
T3:15.5 be plagued by memories of failure. The alcoholic can approach each  day with faith while keeping fresh memories of past abuse or
T3:15.5 behavior. The loved one of an alcoholic can similarly approach each  day with faith even while suspiciously looking for signs that faith
T3:17.2 what this says about the nature of humankind but it is closer every  day to understanding the unity and interconnectedness of all things.
T4:2.21 something else and hope you will remember it and bid it true. Each  day is a creation and holy too. Not one day is meant to be lived
T4:2.21 it and bid it true. Each day is a creation and holy too. Not one  day is meant to be lived within a struggle with what it brings. The
T4:4.2 is the balance. Even in the biblical description of creation was a  day of rest spoken of. Creation balanced with rest is the pattern
D:4.5 system that tells you when you will awaken, how you will spend your  day and when you will retire. You remain at the mercy of those who
D:4.22 A hungry ex-prisoner may soon come to feel the three meals a  day provided in the prison were gifts indeed. So too are the gifts
D:5.17 that now that you are close you cannot bear to wait another  day, another hour. You want release from your prison now, and so you
D:5.22 the call that has already sounded in your heart. Let this be the  day of your final surrender, the day that will usher in a new day.
D:5.22 in your heart. Let this be the day of your final surrender, the  day that will usher in a new day.
D:5.22 be the day of your final surrender, the day that will usher in a new  day.
D:6.11 the prayer of the Native Americans who thank the sun for rising each  day is a prayer that acknowledges that the sun may not rise. This is
D:6.12 and cooperation. This is a harmony and cooperation that might one  day extend to the sun and a demonstration that the sun need not rise
D:7.3 will collapse and the sun may not need to rise or set to separate  day into night. Resting and waking will be part of the same continuum
D:12.10 as what might come to you in a reflective moment at the end of the  day. Again we will see the idea of thoughts “coming to you” at such
D:Day3.31 a monetary inheritance, would you not squirrel it away for a rainy  day, or spend it only with trepidation and an eye upon the bank
D:Day9.9 Let’s begin this  day with a consideration of the idea that you may have an inaccurate
A.39 that “I” am speaking to “you” directly in every moment of every  day, in all that you encounter, in all that you feel. It is a time of

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C:4.21 feel safe and gather those you love around you. Here you share your  day’s adventures, making sense of what you can and leaving out the

day-in (1)

D:Day36.5 your life, in short, would be a story of how you chose to respond,  day-in and day-out, to the world around you. You, in short, created

day-out (1)

D:Day36.5 in short, would be a story of how you chose to respond, day-in and  day-out, to the world around you. You, in short, created your life

day-to-day (2)

C:31.15 These are your great secrets, the secrets that fill your mind  day-to-day with thoughts that keep you from your Self.
C:31.29 nothing from you. If your truth about who you think you are changes  day-to-day, you are reflecting the very variety of answers they

daydream (2)

C:2.7 a successful life, for a life of joy is seen as nothing more than a  daydream, a life of pain a nightmare.
C:4.14 that can be maintained. It is the purview of the young, and the  daydream of the aging. It is synonymous with passion and an overflow

daydreaming (1)

C:22.1 to this instruction. To imagine is too often associated with  daydreaming, fiction, or make-believe, and these functions are all

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C:4.17 equal value. You give your mind to an idea, your body to a job, your  days to activities that do not interest or fulfill you. You accept
C:4.17 the world gives you for the ways in which you spend your  days. For spend your days you do, and soon that spending will deplete
C:4.17 gives you for the ways in which you spend your days. For spend your  days you do, and soon that spending will deplete the limited number
C:4.17 you do, and soon that spending will deplete the limited number of  days in store for you and you will die. Life is not fair, nor meant
C:4.18 your image of your life and has no resemblance to how you spend your  days or the way your days will end. Love is all that is set apart in
C:4.18 and has no resemblance to how you spend your days or the way your  days will end. Love is all that is set apart in your perception from
C:6.2 be separate. You can desire what is impossible until the end of your  days but you cannot make it possible. Why not forgive the world for
C:6.11 that you choose it not, or that you put it off until the end of your  days. A heaven such as this would be for the old and the infirm, the
C:8.4 This remembering is not of former  days spent upon this earth, but of remembering who you really are. It
C:8.21 Into these  days that come to pass move many other bodies such as yours. Each one
C:8.21 by the sheer magnitude of all that with you occupies the world. Some  days this will make you feel like one of many, a tiny peon of little
C:8.21 feel like one of many, a tiny peon of little significance. On other  days you will feel quite superior, the ultimate achievement of the
C:8.21 achievement of the world and all its years of evolution. There are  days you will feel quite of the earth, as if this is your natural
C:8.21 as if this is your natural home and heaven to your soul. On other  days your feeling will be quite the opposite, and you will wonder
C:8.22 observe it, you will become aware of how the past walks through your  days with you, and the future too. Both are like companions who for a
C:8.23 What are you to make of all these forms that wander through your  days with you? What is it, really, that you are observing?
C:8.29 eyes deceive you but your heart believes not in the deception. Your  days are but evidence of this truth. What your eyes behold will one
C:10.4 your self as “source” of all that you have done and felt in all your  days upon this earth. Yet your real Source is at the center of your
C:10.7 a teacher or a parent, whose “voice” you hear as you go through your  days. Whether you want to hear this voice or not, whether this voice
T2:6.2 I speak here not of the rules of time that govern your  days and years but the rules of time that you believe govern your
T2:6.2 days and years but the rules of time that you believe govern your  days and years and that you thus allow to govern your thinking. If
T3:3.9 you to be. Most of you have now believed you are “good enough” for  days or hours or moments, but something always and eventually calls
T4:1.23 incorrectly, that the new time that is here is the end of the  days of innocence. You may have thought it advantageous to have once
T4:1.23 have become more and more obscure. Some have yearned for a return to  days not long past, days during which distinctions between right and
T4:1.23 more obscure. Some have yearned for a return to days not long past,  days during which distinctions between right and wrong did seem to be
T4:2.21 what is relates to everything that exists with you, including the  days that make up your life in time and space. Observing what is
T4:2.30 I speak. You expect to see bodies and events moving through your  days as you have in the past. And yet your vision has already
D:14.12 progressing from youth to adolescence to maturity, as well as many  days of birthing new aspects of the self, all without becoming more
D:17.26 We will spend forty  days and forty nights here together, at the top of the mountain,
D:Day1.27 only fast from wanting by realizing what it is you desire. My forty  days and forty nights on the mountain succeeded my baptism and my
D:Day2.23 was followed by my “example life,” a life that began with the forty  days and forty nights spent upon the mountain, and continued with my
D:Day4.34 Why have we gathered together here? It is said that during my forty  days and forty nights I meditated or prayed. It is said that I
D:Day6.2 because to ask you to walk away from your “normal” life for forty  days and forty nights would cause too much anxiety and exclude too
D:Day32.18 —such as the two levels of experience you have achieved during the  days and nights of our time together, be attempts to show you how you

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C:28.6 This  daytime of your journey is approaching. It is the time for the sun to

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C:3.1 not strive. It neither succeeds nor fails. It is neither alive nor  dead. And thus it always was and always will be. It is not particular
C:9.41 The injunction to rest in peace is for the living, not the  dead. But while you run the race you will know it not. Competition
C:20.14 reigned within me on earth. In the cave on this earth where my  dead body was laid, the Christ in me returned me to the embrace. The
C:20.15 in the universe. Each cradles the other. None are passive. None are  dead. All share the heartbeat of the world and are at rest within
C:27.2 is no being apart from being. There is no being alive and being  dead, being human or being divine. There is only being. Being is.
T1:8.8 to you now in the form of miracles. How could one rise from the  dead and others not follow?
T3:8.4 angst you feel towards God and brothers and sisters both alive and  dead.
T4:6.1 consciousness. Your state of consciousness, be you alive or  dead, asleep or awake, literally or figuratively, is a part of the
D:15.2 through the veins and the consequent stiffening of the muscles. The  Dead Sea is a “dead” sea because of lack of movement. Thus these are
D:Day2.23 to darkness, power to the powerless, health to the sick, life to the  dead. My life touched all those willing to be touched, changed all
D:Day10.28 think of them? Do you not at times shake your head and think that a  dead loved one was lucky not to have lived to see the current state
D:Day22.2 channeler was perhaps seen as a mediator between the living and the  dead or the world of spirit and the world of humanity. This idea
D:Day22.2 and the world of humanity. This idea separated the living and the  dead, the spiritual and the human into two states—states that
D:Day37.16 in separation—between your separate self and the separate and now  dead self of the relative. This is not only a relationship in

deadened (1)

T1:2.6 the ego-mind was so tyrannical that its use throughout your lifetime  deadened many of your feelings. It led you so far from the truth that

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T4:4.10 like the ranting of your science fiction, and cause you to turn  deaf ears to the knowledge I would impart, let me assure you that

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C:3.10 this concept that you hold so dear, because you use the mind to  deal in concepts, you have been unable to let new learning have its
T1:10.1 at the center of your Self now and the issues that you choose to  deal with will not affect that core of peace at all. While you may
D:2.19 upon faulty judgment. This system was meant to help you learn to  deal fairly with a hostile environment and then to develop a pattern
D:Day3.5 experiencing of anger in new ways. You may not have felt a great  deal of this anger yet, but it is there, and here we will discuss its
D:Day8.4 how you feel do you quit labeling good or bad; only then can you  deal with anything from a place of peace.
D:Day28.5 of these choices are externally directed. They may include a great  deal of inner reflection in order to be made, but they are still

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T1:4.13 Response happens from within. Responsibility is all about  dealing with an outside world. While both may result in the same or

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D:Day3.53 as you were told, in other words, that the “givens” are not to be  dealt with by the conscious, or “thinking” mind, so too is it with
D:Day5.19 Doubts are never more pronounced than when specifics are being  dealt with. Yet you continue to desire specifics. This is because you

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C:3.10 teachings have attempted to dislodge this concept that you hold so  dear, because you use the mind to deal in concepts, you have been
C:7.7 hold sacrosanct. This is your Self. Yet this Self that you hold so  dear that you will never let it go is precisely what you must be
C:10.3 the thought system that you made to protect the illusion you hold so  dear. Your thought system is completely alien to the truth, but
C:15.11 harm any of those you love even while betraying all they would hold  dear. But which would you rather betray? The truth or illusion? You
C:20.20 exist? And how could it exist apart from you? Oneness with Christ,  dear brother and sister, is nothing more than this concept realized.
C:20.41 see that what you would call your imperfections are as chosen and as  dear to you as all the rest.
C:25.3 You,  dear children, have faked your way through much of life. You have
C:31.17 My  dear brothers and sisters, what you truly are cannot be improved
T1:3.20 light. Here suspicion dawns and threatens all you have come to hold  dear.
T2:4.6 You are no longer confined to the conditions of separation, my  dear brothers and sisters, and this is what it is time for you to
T2:7.2 you feel in relation to others is as true of those you hold most  dear to you as it is of those you would call strangers. It is the
T3:3.1 Your personal self is  dear to you and dear to me as well. I have always loved you because I
T3:3.1 Your personal self is dear to you and  dear to me as well. I have always loved you because I have always
T3:3.1 been. Here is where you need realize that the personal self that is  dear to you is not your ego-self and never has been.
T3:3.3 room as possible for disappointment to affect it or others you hold  dear. Some of you have seemed to do the opposite, despite your best
T3:20.15 My  dear brothers and sisters in Christ, let nothing call you to return
T4:6.6 There is room in the universe,  dear brothers and sisters, for everyone’s choice. I call you to a new
T4:8.17 Learning,  dear brothers and sisters, does come to an end, and that end is fast
T4:11.3 Can I teach you to do this? My  dear brothers and sisters in Christ, as you once willingly resigned
T4:12.11 Another thing that you will want to be vigilant of,  dear brothers and sisters, is the learned wisdom of the past. Let me
T4:12.19 I know you still have questions,  dear brothers and sisters. I know that you will experience times of
T4:12.35 What will the future hold? It is up to us  dear brothers and sisters. It is up to us acting as one body, one
D:1.1  Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
D:3.2 My  dear brothers and sisters in Christ, this is the call you have heard
D:4.31  Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I hear your protests and the
D:11.2 inherent in all the others? To think of these Dialogues in this way,  dear brothers and sisters, is insane. To think of the thought or idea
D:Day10.33 My  dear brothers and sisters in Christ, turn your thoughts not to ideals
E.23 processes that, although they have bedeviled you, you have held  dear.
E.25 This one note is so full of love, so powerful, that it will be  dear to you forever more.

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C:4.23 protect love’s holiness, your homes host those you love most  dearly.
C:4.24 holiness been protected, within you abides the Host who loves all  dearly. Within you is the light that will show you what love is and

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C:P.16 known that, even though it is a world of conflict, sickness, and  death, you will not exchange it, will not relinquish it.
C:P.18 you are worthy or until some other designated time, such as at  death.
C:P.35 a stand against those with this kind of power that he was put to  death. But Jesus did not advocate for a powerless people. Jesus
C:4.6 possible, and day turns endlessly into night in a long march toward  death. Recognize who you are and God’s light goes before you,
C:4.7 Love alone has the power to turn this dream of  death into a waking awareness of life eternal.
C:6.13 To succeed is but a little  death from which you must hurry on to where the challenge of a new
C:6.20 in your mind, between who they were and who they are after  death? In honesty will you admit an envy, an awareness that they
C:6.20 of who you are, an awareness you would deny in favor of thoughts of  death so grim they make of life a nightmare.
C:7.9 the universe untouched. In an instant the eternal will be upon you.  Death will be a dream as the wind of life reunited with itself
C:7.21 the one sure thing that permeates your existence: the knowledge that  death will claim you and all of those you love.
C:8.25 is one of continuous destruction and disassembly, of decay and  death. And yet how like they are one to the other!
C:9.40 Your quest for what is missing thus becomes the race you run against  death. You seek it here, you seek it there, and scurry on to the next
C:11.9 but think of God as a vengeful God whose final vengeance is your own  death. While you still think of your self as a body, it is easier to
C:12.23 it can occur in truth. What would a child’s rejection or a parent’s  death mean to those who did not believe in separation? Do you believe
C:12.23 it not, He has not been hurt by it. He knows no rejection and no  death. He knows no pain or sorrow. His son remains with him in his
C:14.4 your notion of heaven being an attainment you can reach only after  death fits your goal of separation? If your belief in heaven were
C:14.4 were true, your challenge to creation would be real and only your  death would prove the victor. For if after death your creator God
C:14.4 be real and only your death would prove the victor. For if after  death your creator God provided you with a paradise not of this
C:14.5 would create a temporary life and hold eternal life as a reward for  death?
C:14.20 remain afraid of the great deceiver. Whether they call it life or  death, it is still the same. It is the chance that cannot be foreseen
C:14.20 same. It is the chance that cannot be foreseen but is always there:  death may take their loved one prematurely, and if not prematurely
C:16.4 justified any more than the judgment that condemns a body to  death or to “life” in prison.
C:16.5 Life in prison and a body condemned to  death is what judgment does to all of you who believe that what is
C:19.19 traveling backward, or the review of life that some experience after  death. In order to remember unity you must, in a sense, travel back
C:27.1 yourself to the visible and describable. Thus you have identified  death as the only means by which to reach oneness with your Father,
C:27.1 what quest can be fulfilled when the only answer to life seems to be  death? This is why and how my death and resurrection provided an
C:27.1 the only answer to life seems to be death? This is why and how my  death and resurrection provided an answer and an end to the need for
C:29.9 light beneath a rainbow vibrant with the colors of life. Life, not  death, assures your approach. God Himself will guide your entry.
C:31.3 is like a fear of the impossible being possible. Like the fear of  death, it is the product of upside-down thinking.
T1:8.5 I became flesh and bone through birth. But neither my birth nor my  death were consequent with the Word as the Word is I Am, the Word is
T1:8.9 Illusion is the  death you need but arise from. Arise and awaken to your resurrected
T1:8.15 is the glory that is yours returned to you in life rather than in  death.
T1:9.9 As I awaited my  death I was given the gift of knowing what would come to be through
T2:1.6 This place is not life but neither is it  death, for even death is not an eternal resting place in the sense
T2:1.6 This place is not life but neither is it death, for even  death is not an eternal resting place in the sense that you have
T2:1.6 journey of life any more than it is a place at which life stops and  death reigns. It is not a point at which you arrive, never to depart.
T2:4.1 as you know it now, but life in all its aspects. It is life beyond  death as well as life before birth and life during your time here. It
T2:11.4 much as the body that is your form will remain with you until your  death. But while your perception of your body as your identity and
T3:5.5 the crucifixion came to end the need to learn through suffering and  death.
T3:5.6 was that God’s love was so mighty that he would even allow the  death of his only son to redeem the world.
T3:5.7 The  death of an only son, then as now, would be seen as a sacrifice of
T3:6.2 traveled, discussing the reign of God and the meaning of life and  death. But this is one of the key ideas that will keep you from
T3:9.6 truth seems to lie far beyond the house of illusion in the valley of  death. Survivors of near death experiences have eased the fears of
T3:9.6 the house of illusion in the valley of death. Survivors of near  death experiences have eased the fears of many but made many more
T3:9.6 have eased the fears of many but made many more long for life after  death rather than life. You who have followed me beyond the walls of
T3:14.1 The  death of the ego thought system has made way for the birth of the
T3:15.2 departure from this idea has concerned the occasions of birth and  death. This is something we will return to, but first let us look at
T3:15.8 With the  death of the ego, special relationships too have breathed their last.
T3:17.3 into time and each self of form dies out of time. Both birth and  death have always existed as choices, as beginnings and endings to
T3:17.3 time. It is the nature of what is finite to begin and end. Birth and  death are all you have seen as true new beginnings.
T4:3.14 life in form has seemed a curse to some, a miracle to others.  Death comes as destruction to some, as new life to others. Either way
T4:3.14 attachment to life has kept you alive in form. Your attachment to  death has kept your form subject to the cycle of decay and rebirth.
T4:4.2 of changing form. It is one that is revealed on Earth by birth and  death, decay and renewal, seasons of growth and seasons of decline.
T4:4.2 to extremes within your world. You think of birth as creation and  death as rest. You do not realize that your nature, and the nature of
T4:4.3 In your history, generations pass, through  death, to allow for new generations to be born. As your planet has
T4:4.6 my life demonstrated was a capacity for inheritance not based upon  death. My life, death and resurrection revealed the power of
T4:4.6 was a capacity for inheritance not based upon death. My life,  death and resurrection revealed the power of inheritance, the power
T4:4.10 far would not appeal to many of you. Those aged and contemplating  death might wish for prolonged life, but many of these same welcome
T4:4.10 death might wish for prolonged life, but many of these same welcome  death as the end to suffering and strife. To continue on endlessly
T4:4.11 is it then, of which I speak? If you still must look ahead and see  death looming on the horizon, how can it be that I speak of
T4:4.11 of belief for countless ages? Am I but calling you to a happy  death and an afterlife in heaven?
T4:4.14 but to end the separated state in order to return to unity through  death. Once the return to unity has occurred in form, the decision to
T4:4.17 the idea that your true Self will be returned to you only through  death? What purpose would this Course serve if it were just another
T4:4.18 What purpose will  death serve when your true Self has joined with your physical form?
T4:5.1 and more than a man before my birth, during my lifetime and after my  death and resurrection, so are you. So are all who came before me and
T4:5.11 This is not a choice automatic to you in human form or even upon the  death of your human form. When you die, you do not die to who you are
T4:5.11 or who you think you are. You do not die to choice. At the time of  death you are assisted in ways not formerly possible to you in form,
T4:5.12 same opportunity that was formerly reserved for you only after your  death. It was formerly only after your death that you chose direct
T4:5.12 for you only after your death. It was formerly only after your  death that you chose direct revelation by God. Think about this now
T4:5.12 you as surely as did those that came to so many others after  death.
T4:5.13 vision, real choice has been revealed to those having experienced  death. At that time it is your judgment of yourself and your ability
T4:5.13 the consciousness returned to those loosed of the body by  death. Being loosed of the body by death was the chosen means of the
T4:5.13 to those loosed of the body by death. Being loosed of the body by  death was the chosen means of the time of the intermediary, the
T4:6.1 reports of the afterlife from those who have experienced temporary  death. It is why you hear differing words and scenarios attributed to
T4:7.5 This is why all fear, including the fear of  death, needs to be removed from you despite the radical sounding
D:3.2 invitation to return home. This call has always sounded. It is not a  death knell but a call to life. It is not of the past or the future
D:3.6 from the contrast of love and fear, sickness and health, life and  death. In this time of Christ, such learning is no longer necessary,
D:5.18 imprisons you is also what I am addressing here. Release through  death is no longer the answer. Release through life is the answer.
D:15.2 of creation is that of movement. Rigor mortis, or the stiffness of  death, is nothing but a lack of movement, a lack of movement of the
D:Day1.14 the conditions of learning exist no more? In which the suffering and  death that have obscured that love is the answer are banished,
D:Day2.17 for you to believe that my resurrection heralded eternal life when  death has been a constant companion of all those who have lived since
D:Day2.20 maturity, and with that maturity action in the world, suffering,  death, and resurrection.
D:Day2.24 by the idea that has been repeated as “I died for your sins.” My  death was meant to demonstrate that the end of suffering had come,
D:Day3.60 allows the great transformation from life as you have known it, to  death of that old life, to rebirth of new life. By clinging to some
D:Day3.60 rebirth of new life. By clinging to some of the old, you prevent its  death and you prevent the rebirth of the new. You prevent the very
D:Day4.13 free from suffering, a state free from learning, a state free from  death. To be told that such a place exists is no more comforting than
D:Day4.24 called it the Kingdom of Heaven and longed for access to it after  death.
D:Day10.28 remember from life and how you have thought of him or her since  death. Do you not occasionally think that this person would be happy
D:Day17.8 in human form was necessary to complete the cycle of birth,  death, and rebirth.
D:Day17.10 interaction with the world, demonstrating the myth of duality, the  death of form, the resurrection of spirit. The way of Mary
D:Day17.11 expressions meant to symbolize the completion of the cycle of birth,  death, and rebirth as a means of coming to know.
D:Day17.13 the stage of interaction with the world, the time of miracles, the  death of the old way and the birth of the new.
D:Day18.5 unknown and to reveal the unknown through the known. They accept the  death of the self and the resurrection of the One Self, the end of
D:Day22.7 place where nothing but love exists, where there is no suffering, no  death, no pain nor sorrow, no separation or alienation. You sense
D:Day28.14 probably been more affected by the relationships of life, by loss or  death of loved ones, by accidents, or illness, or “natural”
D:Day35.7 and union here and now come to replace all ideas of life after  death.

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T1:8.8 The resurrection was evidence of this accomplishment. It laid aside  death’s claim and with it the claim of all that is temporary. The
T3:20.6 you begin, along with the one whom you observe, the long walk toward  death’s door. All of these actions could be called your “observance”
D:5.19 you have desired. To live as who you are in form. To not wait for  death’s release but to find release while still living in form. Thus
D:Day18.6 Resurrection lays aside  death’s claim and with it the claim of all that is temporary. This is

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C:9.39 You know that whatever else your life seems to be for, if on your  deathbed you have not found what you have sought, you will not leave
T1:2.13 or drive, rake leaves or gaze from an office window. It might be a  deathbed vision or the first sunset of which a young child is aware.

deaths (1)

T3:15.1 Each new school year of the young provides a fresh start.  Deaths of loved ones and the births of new family members form new

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D:Day3.45 of the condition of anger. Anger could be likened to an argument, a  debate, in which you are on one side and determined to be the one who
D:Day4.2 Yet we do not argue simply by engaging in  debate. To engage in debate is but a strategy for proving one side
D:Day4.2 Yet we do not argue simply by engaging in debate. To engage in  debate is but a strategy for proving one side right and one side
D:Day6.20 to distract me from my purpose, to change my focus, to engage me in  debate, to lure me from the place of elevation I knew I had attained.

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A.21 way the time of battles has ended. They care to engage in no more  debates, care not to be proven right or proven wrong, care not to

debt (2)

C:19.20 your previous attempts to go back have been like attempts to pay a  debt that will never go away. This going back will leave you debt
C:19.20 pay a debt that will never go away. This going back will leave you  debt free and thus free in truth.

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T3:8.5 choices for suffering were made for some greater good or to repay  debts of the past. The only choice that has been made is that of

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D:Day15.28 self-less but about realizing your true identity. We have now  debunked your myths about your true identity being an idealized form

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D:Day9.31 Thus you can see that a key step in doing this is the  debunking of the myth of an ideal self. An ideal self, like a god

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C:8.25 thought system is one of continuous destruction and disassembly, of  decay and death. And yet how like they are one to the other!
T4:3.14 Your attachment to death has kept your form subject to the cycle of  decay and rebirth. There is another alternative.
T4:4.2 form. It is one that is revealed on Earth by birth and death,  decay and renewal, seasons of growth and seasons of decline. This is

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D:Day37.16 in separation. It might be somewhat like your relationship with a  deceased relative in that you feel a bond, a link between heaven and

deceive (5)

C:8.28 like to God’s creation can be so opposite to it? How can memory so  deceive the eyes, and yet fail to deceive the heart?
C:8.28 opposite to it? How can memory so deceive the eyes, and yet fail to  deceive the heart?
C:8.29 This is the truth of your existence, an existence in which your eyes  deceive you but your heart believes not in the deception. Your days
C:8.29 are but evidence of this truth. What your eyes behold will one day  deceive you while what your heart beholds will the next day see
C:9.1 be said that your heart is not deceived when it seems so often to  deceive you. It seems as fickle as your mind, telling you one thing

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C:6.22 you, for your conception of it is based upon deception. You have  deceived only yourself, and your deception has not changed what is
C:8.30 Rejoice that your heart is not  deceived, for herein lies your path to true remembering.
C:9.1 You wonder how it can be said that your heart is not  deceived when it seems so often to deceive you. It seems as fickle as
C:12.2 a little chastised to be told you know love not. You feel a little  deceived to think that love may not be limited to what you have
C:26.5 cause for fear. You cannot fly too closely to the sun. You cannot be  deceived any longer by tales of woe or of fallen heroes. Your story

deceiver (1)

C:14.20 For even those who fear no deception must remain afraid of the great  deceiver. Whether they call it life or death, it is still the same.

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C:2.10 or see with eyes other than those of love? Would you expect any  decent human being to look on a loveless world, on misery and

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C:6.22 fail to disappoint you, for your conception of it is based upon  deception. You have deceived only yourself, and your deception has
C:6.22 is based upon deception. You have deceived only yourself, and your  deception has not changed what is nor will it ever succeed in doing
C:6.22 this self-deception to the truth. You have been so successful at  deception that you no longer can see the light unaided. But join your
C:8.29 in which your eyes deceive you but your heart believes not in the  deception. Your days are but evidence of this truth. What your eyes
C:8.29 you while what your heart beholds will the next day see through the  deception. And so one day lived in your world is misery incarnate and
C:14.20 remain strong despite their fear. For even those who fear no  deception must remain afraid of the great deceiver. Whether they call
C:15.3 the self that is prone to pettiness and bitterness, resentment and  deception. Be truthful as you examine yourself and you will see that
C:31.18 The truth is your identity. Honesty is being free of  deception. You, who are already worrying about honesty and sharing
C:31.23 as it lies within you. As you learn that who you are is love, no  deception is possible, and you can only be who you are in truth.

decide (3)

C:31.16 It is the ego that deems honesty a game; the ego that you let  decide upon your truth. For what you live is what you believe is the
D:Day16.11 of knowing, what something is or will be. You predetermine, or  decide, for instance, that a physical symptom is bad, and then choose
E.16 of all with everything abides within you now. You do not, and cannot  decide what to do with it, you can only be it. This is the choice you

decided (4)

C:P.18 to know God now, and wanting to wait to know God until you have  decided you are worthy or until some other designated time, such as
C:P.20 You have  decided that you know how to do good works but that you do not know
T1:4.17 smell, and touch differently must mean something. What you have  decided that this means is that you are an independent thinker,
T4:12.33 is part of the creation that is before us. It will be mutually  decided through the coming revelations and our responses to the

decides (1)

C:P.20 to please God. This is not unlike the attitude of a good mother who  decides to sacrifice herself for her children, without realizing that

deciding (4)

C:16.25 collapse and anarchy would rule. You think you are only fair in  deciding that if everyone cannot do what they would want, then you,
C:17.16 give thought to forgiveness. This many of you will give, even to  deciding to forgive despite your better judgment. See you not how
D:Day32.5 When thinking of the ideas put forth here, you might think of God  deciding to know Himself. You might think of God deciding to create.
D:Day32.5 might think of God deciding to know Himself. You might think of God  deciding to create. You might think of God creating. You might think

decipher (1)

C:19.14 This is, in essence, why the greatest thinkers have not been able to  decipher the riddle, the mystery, of the divine, and why they

deciphering (1)

T3:2.3 of your existence became paramount, became the only means you saw of  deciphering the world around you and your role within it. Separation,

decision (15)

C:1.18 Love is at the heart of all things. How you feel but reflects your  decision to accept love or to reject it and choose fear. Both cannot
C:4.8 you astray. Where what you have made will lead rests only on your  decision. Your decision, couched in many forms, is simply this: to
C:4.8 Where what you have made will lead rests only on your decision. Your  decision, couched in many forms, is simply this: to proceed toward
C:8.12 reality, the natural state in which you would exist but for your  decision to reject your reality and your true nature.
C:11.9 it is easier to accept that your banishment from paradise was God’s  decision, not your own. You think you can be grateful to Him for some
C:11.14 at this point. You are offered the opportunity to make a temporary  decision that can be rescinded at any time. Your temporary
C:18.10 of yourself and the limited range of power you believe your  decision making to have. The only way to make the unbelievable
C:18.17 much less normal although it is recognized that a split mind makes  decision making difficult. You were already told that the only
C:25.21 This will be a time of discernment. You may feel it as a time of  decision making, but the less you attempt to make conscious decisions
C:29.26 in the future? What gift of fortune, what chance encounter, what  decision might have changed your life? What should you have done that
T3:14.8 that lie before you. But this choice is not the choice of continuous  decision making but simply the choice to live by the truth of the new
T4:4.14 through death. Once the return to unity has occurred in form, the  decision to continue in form or to not continue in form will be yours.
T4:8.10 of this impossibility, you realize that you must let go. Your  decision was also God’s decision.
T4:8.10 you realize that you must let go. Your decision was also God’s  decision.

decision-making (3)

C:25.22 and awaiting wisdom. Your feeling of being identity-less will make  decision-making and choices of all kinds appear to be difficult
C:29.21 choices is an act that comes from an entirely different place than  decision-making. Claiming is akin to prayer and is but an asking, an
D:14.5 doctor’s diagnosis of a disease. These questions could be asked when  decision-making seems to be called for, and when plans seem to need

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C:5.16 that makes the most sense. It is where your values are formed, your  decisions are made, your safety found. This comparison is not idly
C:11.10 those your Creator would make for you. This right to make your own  decisions, and the power to flaunt them before God, is all that makes
C:25.21 time of decision making, but the less you attempt to make conscious  decisions the quicker your unlearning will take place and the lessons
C:25.22 all kinds appear to be difficult during this time. You must realize  decisions and choices are made by relying upon the very lessons you
C:25.22 you are in the process of unlearning. At the same time, however,  decisions and choices will seem to need to be made with increasing
C:26.19 It requires no new plans. It asks not that you make any  decisions. It asks not that you do anything new. This is an
C:28.13 lies. Certainty and ease as surely go together. There are no more  decisions for you to make. There is only a call for a dedicated and
D:Day2.13 or wrongdoing. You all have moments you wish you could re-enact,  decisions you wish you could change. These actions are unchangeable.

declaration (1)

C:11.7 not arise from conviction but brings conviction. Willingness is your  declaration of openness, not necessarily of firm belief. You see free

declare (2)

C:5.9 things I love are what I leave the world, what I pass down; they  declare that I was here.” Again you have the right idea, yet it is so
T3:3.9 at your behaviors, your habits, your general personality, and simply  declare yourself unsuitable for further learning. Whether you think

declassify (1)

D:3.7 in understanding what we are called together to do is to begin to  declassify all the various aspects of life that were needed in the

decline (1)

T4:4.2 birth and death, decay and renewal, seasons of growth and seasons of  decline. This is the pattern of creation taken to extremes. Inherent

decoding (1)

D:12.4 through the written form of this book, by means of your eyes and the  decoding mechanism of your brain, they do not, nor did the words of

decreased (1)

C:5.28 into, your real world is increased and what is left to terrify you  decreased. This is the only loss that union generates, and it is a

dedicate (5)

C:5.20 exercise for your mind within this Course has already been stated:  Dedicate your thought to union. When senseless thoughts fill your
C:5.20 the thought that comes to open your heart and clear your mind: “I  dedicate all thought to union.” As often as you need to replace
C:18.17 your mind that would be included in this Course of Love is that you  dedicate all thought to union. This now must be seen in two
C:18.17 In addition to dedicating thought to unity with the whole, you must  dedicate yourself to unifying thought itself.
T4:6.8 you accept in this fullness of time. In this time of unity,  dedicate all thought to unity. Accept no separation. Accept all

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C:5.2 thoughts, are trustworthy. This is why your thoughts must be newly  dedicated, dedicated to the only purpose worthy of your thought: the
C:5.2 are trustworthy. This is why your thoughts must be newly dedicated,  dedicated to the only purpose worthy of your thought: the purpose of
C:28.13 are no more decisions for you to make. There is only a call for a  dedicated and devoted will, a will dedicated to the present moment,
C:28.13 make. There is only a call for a dedicated and devoted will, a will  dedicated to the present moment, to those who are sent to you and to

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C:18.17 now must be seen in two dimensions rather than one. In addition to  dedicating thought to unity with the whole, you must dedicate
C:23.25 needed. If you will remember that the one exercise for your mind is  dedicating all thought to union, you will keep your mind engaged and

dedication (4)

C:11.3 go slowly and carefully through each page and section, giving total  dedication to what this text would have them do, are at risk of
C:23.25 will resist unlearning what it has striven to learn—return your  dedication to union. Acknowledge your mind’s resistance as a sign
C:29.6 repeated here: Only you can be accomplished. Your service is but  dedication to this goal.
T2:8.3 While your  dedication to the goal of being who you are may at first seem

deduction (1)

C:23.12 of ways of thinking similar to those which you term induction and  deduction. In the past, exercises have most often begun with an

deed (1)

C:P.20 God and all your brothers and sisters. You prefer to think a good  deed here, a bit of charity there, is more important. You prefer to

deeds (3)

C:P.17 of the world, many have done good, heroic, and at times miraculous  deeds without the world changing from a place of misery and despair.
C:4.12 is not being nice when you are feeling surly. Love is not doing good  deeds of charity and service. Love is not throwing logic to the wind
T3:6.3 Reward is intricately tied to your notions of being good, performing  deeds of merit, and taking care of, or surviving, the many details

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C:8.12 that is still righteousness no matter what the noble cause you  deem yourself willing to address. You would see into another’s mind
C:8.12 to have power over them. Whatever you might come to know you would  deem your property and its disposition your purview. How dangerous
C:9.2 the lookout for what might hurt or slight the little you that they  deem under their protection, or the other little selves you deem
C:9.2 they deem under their protection, or the other little selves you  deem under yours. But remember now how like to creation in form if
C:16.10 to the ridiculous notion that you can judge judgment itself. You  deem yourself capable of making good judgments and poor judgments,
C:16.10 capable of making good judgments and poor judgments, and you  deem love as being capable of neither. Love seems to operate on its
C:20.47 myself with.” Even when you think of expanding your view, you  deem that expansion unrealistic. You cannot do everything. You cannot
C:22.1 to be for certain parts of your life and for certain times that you  deem appropriate. Please assure yourself, as I assure you, that now
C:22.9 meaning to that which intersects with you in a given way that you  deem as purposeful. Yet it is in the passing through that meaning
T2:1.5 weary to fully live. Done with the adventures of living, you would  deem yourself no longer interested in the hunt for buried treasure
T2:7.2 to happen, love that is not returned, the withholding of things you  deem important. This fear that you feel in relation to others is as

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C:8.26 truth they were only trying to help. The memories of situations you  deemed meant to embarrass or destroy you that were in truth meant to
C:15.1 more sacred to some than others, no resources withheld, no people  deemed subservient.
C:16.3 with the “problem” child who seeks love and attention in ways  deemed inappropriate. You know this child is no less than any other
C:22.8 interpreted. Intersections that create function and purpose are  deemed meaningful. Intersections that seem to have no function or
C:22.8 Intersections that seem to have no function or purpose are  deemed meaningless. The act of passing through is, of itself, seen as
C:31.16 a small portion of yourself you share, the portion that your ego has  deemed safe, acceptable, presentable. The portion that your ego has
C:31.16 deemed safe, acceptable, presentable. The portion that your ego has  deemed will cause you no risk. It is the ego that asks: Are you
T3:2.4 the choice we have called the separation, a choice you have  deemed as sin.
T3:3.9 be “good” for her, the diet is often rejected because failure is  deemed a certainty. While you continue to see the call of this Course

deems (1)

C:31.16 try something new, you will still be accepted? It is the ego that  deems honesty a game; the ego that you let decide upon your truth.

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C:8.7 say to you, but masks the language of the heart and buries stillness  deep beneath an ever-changing milieu of life lived on the surface, as
C:8.9 you remember it not. Yet it is to this reality we head as we travel  deep within you to the center of your Self.
C:12.7 little that you think you know you would strive to keep, and yet  deep down you realize that you know nothing with the certainty you
C:19.21 needs review can arise as if it were a reflection arising from a  deep pool. Here what is in need of healing will but briefly come to
C:20.41 gifts are expressions of your Father’s perfect love for you. Look  deep inside and feel your heart’s gladness. Your construction was no

deeper (3)

C:1.17 All the symbols of your physical life reflect a  deeper meaning that, while hidden to you, you still know exists. The
C:31.36 expect. Thus, as you move from acquaintances to relationships of a  deeper nature, you quickly determine the nature of those
D:Day38.10 Being in relationship and union means just that. It means a love  deeper than any love you have known, for in not owning and

deepest (6)

C:3.5 but symbols of what is really there before you, in glory beyond your  deepest imaginings. Yet you persist in wanting only what your eyes
C:3.15 such concept, given up and not replaced, will free you beyond your  deepest imaginings and free your sisters and brothers as well. Once
C:8.4 but of remembering who you really are. It comes forth from the  deepest part of you, from the center in which you are joined with
C:9.1 you to walk through paths full of danger and treachery into the  deepest darkness instead of toward the light. It is your emotions
C:9.39 you have not found what you have sought, you will not leave in  deepest peace but in dark despair and fear. You will have no hope for
C:19.19 Out of the  deepest, darkest chaos of your mind comes the possibility of light.

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C:20.41 other than you are except when you give in to making judgments. Look  deeply and you will see that what you would call your imperfections
T1:4.25 have surmised, we are getting at your final fears here, those most  deeply buried and kept in secret from you. Some of you who would
T1:4.25 count yourselves least fearful are those of you whose fears are most  deeply buried. So whether you count yourself among the fearful or
T1:4.27 to assure you that this confusion is nothing new, but a confusion so  deeply ingrained in you that it has become an aspect of yourself as
T3:8.3 been a source of resistance as strong as that of the ego and more  deeply felt. As I have said, bitterness is to your heart what the ego
T3:19.11 be. Thus those continuing to express themselves in harmful ways are  deeply entrenched in false beliefs about themselves. Because they are
T3:21.11 or American, black or white or Indian. Your personal self may be  deeply affected by these things you call yourself or may be minimally
D:Day6.28 you are experiencing for other areas of the life you still seem so  deeply involved in is disturbing to you. Yet why should this be
A.27 to discover are the patterns of thoughts and behavior that are most  deeply entrenched in them. They feel in need of assistance!

default (1)

T4:1.7 and if they do not learn what is taught in school, they will, by  default, learn what is not taught in school. If you can consider this

defeat (4)

C:2.19 works for your final abdication, the day that you give up and admit  defeat. It challenges your right to happiness and love and miracles,
C:2.23 you do not want. Freedom to return home, away from cries of agony,  defeat, and vainglory is all that now is sought. A state of
D:3.1 a path upon which joy triumphs over sorrow and victory triumphs over  defeat. All that it requires is the acceptance of the new and the
D:Day39.31 only a meager and hopeless life? Then your god has been the god of  defeat.

defend (1)

T2:11.15 You will be prone to calling upon the Christ as your higher self to  defend you against the ego-self. This is highly akin to your former

defended (1)

C:16.21 against them. What kind of power is it that needs to be constantly  defended? What is it about the powerless that frightens you, except

defender (2)

T2:11.15 in a good self and a bad self with Christ acting as conscience and  defender of good and the ego acting as devil and defender of evil.
T2:11.15 as conscience and defender of good and the ego acting as devil and  defender of evil. This is nonsense, or but a form of the insanity

defense (4)

C:9.2 than the language of your heart. They are the forward guard of your  defense system, always on the lookout for what might hurt or slight
C:11.13 will is the last bastion of your separate army, the final line of  defense, the site where the final battle will take place. Before this
T2:11.15 of prayer and assumes that there is something real that you need  defense against or saving from. This is how the notion of Christ as
D:Day5.22 means. There is no cause for such effort. Effort is only a layer of  defense, a stop gap between what you would receive and what you would

defenses (3)

C:4.26 life, the reality unseen and unprepared for by all your strategy and  defenses. You prepare for everything that goes on outside yourself
C:5.7 you realize this is not love at all. You then begin your building of  defenses, your evidence to cite to say, “Yes indeed, this is love and
D:Day5.22 No longer will what enters you get stopped by layers of  defenses. No longer will it meet the road-block of your thinking,

defiance (3)

C:16.16 God, and like a child who has dared to defy his parents, the act of  defiance fills the defiant one with boldness. Something dangerous has
T3:2.5 —in which you believed you chose to separate from God out of  defiance and a desire to be one with God no longer. This could not be
T3:2.11 being able to take steps “back” to the God you believe you left in  defiance, or the Self you believe you abandoned there. Be truthful

defiant (2)

C:16.16 who has dared to defy his parents, the act of defiance fills the  defiant one with boldness. Something dangerous has been tried and has
C:16.16 God has become the enemy to those who judge just as the parent of a  defiant child becomes the enemy in the child’s perception.

deficiency (1)

C:16.11 has made of this memory what will serve its purpose. What it calls a  deficiency is your saving grace. Letting go of what your mind would

define (13)

C:1.1 Every living being has a heart. Let us  define heart as the center of being, that place from which all
C:5.8 went on to set yourself apart and all else that you could find to  define as valuable. You build your banks as well as your museums as
C:10.25 experiment, you will realize anew that your thoughts more accurately  define who you are than your body does. Whether they wander aimlessly
C:16.20 The strong survive and the weak perish. The mighty prevail, and so  define what is right for all those over whom they prevail. Those in
C:26.11 finding it, rejoice. It is not lost. It does not require you to  define it or put a name to it before it can be yours. Is this not
T2:9.16 about your needs, thus allowing them to be met. Then the need to  define or to identify them ceases. Your needs only continue to be
D:5.13 will cease to be, just as the ego has ceased to be. To outline and  define the differences between what was created and what was made
D:7.27 It is not a circle that can be drawn around where you exist so as to  define, perhaps, a mile of space and say that this is all you. No,
D:Day37.2 God is that God is being. Yet the fact that you are being does not  define who you are any better than the earlier example of your
D:Day37.2 are any better than the earlier example of your experiences would  define who you are, because being, by itself, does not differentiate
D:Day37.3 as it does in union. Separation and the contrast of the separate  define every relationship with either/or rather than both/and
D:Day40.16 have had many “separate” relationships that in their totality would  define your life, so have I, as God, had many “separate”
D:Day40.16 with you and your brothers and sisters, relationships that  define who you have thought me to be. Because these relationships are

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C:P.15 this lopsided battle, the ego will win out. The spirit as you have  defined it is too amorphous, too lacking in definition and
C:2.4 choose it as a means to buy your safety and security. You thus have  defined love as a reaction to fear. This is why you can understand
C:2.11 instructs you to be compassionate as God is compassionate. You have  defined it unlike the compassion of God. To believe God looks upon
C:8.1 The thoughts of your heart you have  defined as your emotions. These thoughts stand apart from the wisdom
C:13.4 is to show you that they cannot be differentiated or compared or  defined in the same way you have defined their bodies in the past.
C:13.4 be differentiated or compared or defined in the same way you have  defined their bodies in the past.
C:16.19 on justice, and justice to include the punishment of those you have  defined as evil. You have thus made justice one with vengeance, and
C:17.5 your estimation of it. Why is it not wholly good? Because you have  defined it as lacking much of what you have judged to be good in the
T1:4.19 interpretation of situations and the feelings they have aroused have  defined who you are, think again. Be willing to apply the art of
T1:5.9 and the aspect of your existence that is real. Your heart as we have  defined it many times within this Course, must exist in the thought
T2:1.3 is, first and foremost, something that you believe exists and have  defined as being of value. As this Treatise is not concerned with
T2:7.4 of “others” with the idea of “relationship” that has been so often  defined and repeated within this Course. In order to believe in
D:6.12 laws, but these “natural” laws are not the sets of facts you have  defined them to be, but rather a staggering series of relationships,
D:7.7 Now you are called to discover how to exist in form without being  defined by this time-bound particularity.
D:7.8 That you are living form does not require you to be  defined by particularity. You can accept the body now as what it is
D:9.3 been with you, and you have thought it is the very desire that, once  defined and acted upon, would fulfill you, allow you to be who you
D:Day3.47 other words, comes from somewhere else. This somewhere else we have  defined as your true reality, the reality of union. Living in this
D:Day13.5 Where there is no love there is a lack of godliness or what you have  defined as evil. A complete lack of love creates formidable
D:Day16.4 Sickness has been  defined as rejected feelings, feelings about which consciousness was
D:Day28.16 has been a main theme of this dialogue and was revisited and  defined as acceptance of internal rather external conditions. It
D:Day37.5 You have thus experienced relationship in a very  defined and separate way—a way that does not represent the truth of
D:Day37.13 you have “known” or perceived yourself to be—the self you were  defined as at birth—a human being—something you have seen as

defines (1)

C:5.23 to have. This is your definition of life, and while it remains it  defines the life you see as real. It presents you with a thousand

defining (3)

C:16.19 Judgment does not make you safe, and  defining evil does not abolish it, but only makes it real to you. Yet
T3:1.11 a parent in one role and a friend in another, than you did in  defining a past self, a present self and a future self. The greatest
T3:13.2 We proceed by further  defining the temptations of the human experience. In “A Treatise on

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C:P.15 The spirit as you have defined it is too amorphous, too lacking in  definition and believability to win this battle against what you
C:5.17 without that causes such a world to remain. This is because your  definition of relationship is not one of joining. What you join with
C:5.23 keep you from having what you think you want to have. This is your  definition of life, and while it remains it defines the life you see
C:9.13 allowing them to be what they are. This could be used as a capsule  definition of your entire problem: You do not allow anything that
C:9.37 it do. Its purpose, simply stated, is to supply a lack. This is your  definition of completion. What is missing in you is found in another
C:22.18 truth. The second is what we are talking of here, the finding of a  definition, a personal meaning. Can you see the difference?
C:22.22 the consciousness of unity, a first step in going beyond meaning as  definition to meaning as truth. As odd and impersonal as it will seem
C:29.2 who would be served. Few of you have as yet integrated this Course’s  definition of service into your lives. But now you shall. For you
C:29.22 afraid to claim your smallest gifts, look again at claiming with the  definition I have provided. Claiming is also contrary to how you have
C:29.25 this: an unbroken chain of giving and receiving. Thus is this a  definition of unity as well.
T1:2.22 the Creator. This creating like unto the Creator may be used as a  definition for the art of thought.
T1:3.22 not know what miracles are and thus cannot perform them. You want a  definition first. What is an appropriate miracle? For whom should
T1:4.3 began with an injunction to pray. A Course in Miracles began with a  definition of miracles. Both are the same. Prayer and the art of
T1:4.12 You may answer that there are many, even within this Course’s  definition of gift, the most obvious of which might be your children.
T1:4.18 a conclusion. The truth is the truth and not dependent upon your  definition of it. A response is not an interpretation. A response is
T1:6.3 be redefined as the act of consciously choosing union. With this  definition, you can see how your life can become a prayer. This does
T1:8.5 rather than upon my birth. This will seem confusing given your  definition of incarnation as the Word made flesh. You took this to
T1:8.5 as the Word made flesh. You took this to mean that flesh took on the  definition of the Word or the almighty when I became flesh and bone
T4:2.10 If you think you can observe in judgment you do not understand the  definition of observation provided in “A Treatise on the Personal
T4:8.16 and to call that learning complete, is an error. If you rethink this  definition you will see that even in regards to the learning of one
D:2.1 is a willingness to receive. Obviously, when you consider this  definition of acceptance, you will see that this is not the way of
D:7.14 Being in love is a  definition of what you now are as you accept the unconditional,
D:9.3 to think about who you are and in that thinking to come up with a  definition of who you are, a truth of who you are, a certainty about
D:12.9 distinction, while it will not be consistent with your dictionary’s  definition of these words, is still a useful distinction, as
D:12.9 as “thinking” is seen as what you “do.” Even in your dictionary  definition, being “thoughtful” is seen as a condition of mindfulness,

deflect (1)

C:22.12 forces from piercing your heart, the center of yourself. You instead  deflect them, using your mind, which might be considered another

deflected (3)

D:Day12.8 within the space. The solidity of the perceiver is, in this manner,  deflected from the One Self, becoming not an obstacle. The open space
D:Day12.8 and holds not his or her boundaries solid, is joined rather than  deflected. The open perceiver may or may not know of this enfolding,
D:Day12.9 Non-human obstacles have no need of being  deflected for their boundaries have not been made solid by

defy (3)

C:I.4 sees not transformation, or creation, or the new horizon that would  defy its reality.
C:4.14 It is synonymous with passion and an overflow of feelings that  defy all common sense. To be in love is to be vulnerable, for once
C:16.16 from God is an act against God, and like a child who has dared to  defy his parents, the act of defiance fills the defiant one with

degenerate (1)

D:Day7.6 than life-degenerating. Your bodies will thus regenerate rather than  degenerate. Love is, of course, not a condition, as it is not an

degenerated (1)

D:Day7.2 fear is life giving. You thus were given life only to have it become  degenerated by fear.

degenerating (3)

D:Day7.2 and all the ills that came from the base emotion of fear. Fear is  degenerating. Nothing about fear is life giving. You thus were given
D:Day7.3 Love is life giving and life supporting. There is thus nothing now  degenerating about life.
D:Day7.5 that the pattern of learning is now all that is left that can be  degenerating to you. While you always were supported, the idea of

degree (14)

C:31.26 has nothing to do with the truth about who you are, except in the  degree to which it has or has not helped you to remember who you are.
T1:2.6 you no longer trust in it. It confused the smallest issues to such a  degree that it left you unable to respond purely to anything. The
T3:21.12 you have, however, added to the few ideas that you hold certain. A  degree earned or talent developed is seen as part of your identity,
D:Day3.14 far as you have come, these ideas are still with most of you to one  degree or another. Even though you know these are false ideas, and in
D:Day3.19 The  degree of your discomfort with this issue is something you only
D:Day3.21 much complaining and general fretting are done, but only to the  degree in which you feel you are in the same circumstances of those
D:Day3.26 that you have not learned these things. They were learned, to the  degree that you could learn them within the teachings of A Course of
D:Day18.9 a functioning state of life or consciousness. Thus there was only a  degree of separation that was able to occur to allow for a certain
D:Day18.9 able to occur to allow for a certain type of experience. Now a new  degree of union is occurring to allow for a new type of experience.
D:Day27.12 The  degree of your separation from wholeness can be seen much as the
D:Day27.12 The degree of your separation from wholeness can be seen much as the  degree of separation between hot and cold. If you were to perceive of
D:Day27.12 it. You were, in other words, separate from it because of the  degree of separation that you chose. Because you never chose union,
A.18 this difficulty as much as possible, but each will feel it to some  degree, the precise degree to which they are capable of giving up
A.18 much as possible, but each will feel it to some degree, the precise  degree to which they are capable of giving up reliance on what they

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C:3.3 always been true and is endlessly true. Truth is truth. There are no  degrees of truth.
C:31.27 separation that created the illusion of separate minds and varying  degrees of truth.
T1:2.7 ego-mind worldly rewards have long been given. These people attain  degrees and skills and then further apply the discipline that they
T3:11.15 changed dwelling places. There is a reason for this time of varying  degrees of awareness. As the old continues to help you to learn
T3:20.2 terms of knowing the truth that you have always known, but there are  degrees of remembering and since this is what we work to have occur,
D:15.11 true. What is true is eternal life, not temporal life. There are no  degrees of life. One form is not more alive than another. All that
D:Day2.13 of examples here, but the point is that we are not looking for  degrees of wrong-actions, or wrongdoing. You all have moments you
D:Day27.11 same continuum, you can now see that they are only distinguished by  degrees of separation. So too have you been.
D:Day27.12 experience of separation always taking place at a certain number of  degrees away from the ideal. The “temperature” was thus never
D:Day27.12 of weather, but it is as if you denied your body the ideal 98.6  degrees internally and 78 degrees externally. There is no living body
D:Day27.12 as if you denied your body the ideal 98.6 degrees internally and 78  degrees externally. There is no living body that does not exhibit a
D:Day28.4 As the self matures beyond school age, the choices become those of  degrees of independence, moving away, moving into one’s own sphere of
A.34 of the past, achievements that awarded credentials, certificates and  degrees, admiration, respect, and status, are now a thing of the

deities (1)

T2:6.10 the original creation and are not to be mistaken for heavenly  deities separate from you. The Christ is your Self as you were

dejected (1)

D:Day3.26 Do not feel  dejected that you have not learned these things. They were learned,

delay (7)

C:P.24 in your ego’s armor, a strength that grows, and grows impatient with  delay. It is not your ego that grows impatient for change, for your
D:Day4.49 again and again until you are ready. You cannot fail but can only  delay. For some the time of delay has passed. For those who linger in
D:Day4.49 are ready. You cannot fail but can only delay. For some the time of  delay has passed. For those who linger in the time of acceptance,
D:Day4.54 —perfect is but a label, and all labels of any type cause is  delay. You only have to be accepting. Accepting of all that you are.
D:Day6.3 this time so that any confusion it seems to be causing will not  delay your progress.
D:Day6.31 There is, thus, no call to be discouraged. This is not  delay, but what you might think of as trial by fire. Be encouraged
A.23 it within him- or her-self to accept union. There is no cause to  delay the movement of the group or to feel anything but gentleness

delayed (2)

T4:8.9 being able to express itself in form, never realizing that this just  delayed the learning that had to occur to release you from the limits
D:Day4.44 truly, here is where this new life either begins or is once again  delayed. Here is where you say, I want it all, desire it all, accept

delight (5)

C:2.11 real than could God. There is no magic here of turning misery into  delight and pain into joy. These acts would indeed be magic, an
C:4.17 work will produce results, the dinner you prepared be eaten with  delight, your ideas greeted as inspired. But this you do not expect.
C:20.6 heart. Here we live as one body, experiencing communion, the soul’s  delight, rather than otherness. It is a seamless world, a tapestry
T4:12.6 Take  delight in these surprises. Laugh and be joyous. You no longer have a
D:8.6 awaited you and that you greeted these discoveries with surprise and  delight. As was written in “A Treatise on the New”, these surprises

deliver (1)

D:12.15 have been frustrated by an inability to share these thoughts, or to  deliver them with the authority of the truth simply because you have

delusional (3)

C:P.36 the old and hope to transport it from one place to another would be  delusional. The new world does not have to do with form, but with
C:6.21 do you expect happy thoughts to do to you? At best you see them as  delusional. But what you fear is disappointment. All that you have
C:10.12 that you do not understand makes you feel peculiar at the least and  delusional at the worst. You want to believe and so you believe. But

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C:1.9 as well. The only way that you can fail to learn the truth is to  demand to learn it on your own. For on your own it is impossible to
C:4.22 accept of others or themselves. These are the angry ones who would  demand that others bring what love they have into the madness to take
C:7.15 you have to offer, something must be given in return. What you  demand can range from admiration to money, but it is all the same and
C:7.15 can range from admiration to money, but it is all the same and the  demand is always there. It is the ransom that you insist be paid, the
C:7.15 you have. And you are thankful for these things with which you can  demand ransom of the world, for without them you would be the one
C:9.43 for so much. It is no secret that you live in a world of supply and  demand. From the simple concept of individuals needing to be in
T1:3.23 of many miracles. What a media circus that would be. You would be in  demand to end so much suffering in so many places. Surely you
T1:4.11 that would usurp the power of God. What kind of gift arrives with a  demand for the receiver to be responsible for it?
T2:5.6 in the form of a sign and the call that comes in the form of a  demand, are about specifics in a way that the call that comes as an

demanded (3)

C:14.10 of love is that it set you apart and make you special. Much more is  demanded of those you love than of any of your other brothers and
C:21.5 set aside when the actions needed in a certain circumstance have  demanded cooperation. You see this in times of emergency or crisis of
T1:4.13 is a natural act of giving and receiving as one. Responsibility is a  demanded response, a necessary response, an obligation. Response

demanding (6)

C:4.15 who prizes independence seeks a partner in good health, not too  demanding, a companion and a lover who will be convenient within a
T1:2.20 its application to all areas of life will at first seem quite  demanding. But what is elementary remains elementary once it is
T4:1.24 All across the world, people of the world have been  demanding to learn directly, through experience, and saying “no more”
T4:1.24 you has grown in your children and they are not only ready, but also  demanding to learn through observation and direct communication or
D:Day37.8 that you would deny in your quest for separation! This would be like  demanding to be a body and not a mind! Your reliance on God can only
D:Day37.8 that you would deny in your quest for separation! This would be like  demanding that the mind send the body the signals it needs while

demands (7)

C:1.9 things on your own is a trick of the ego, your pride a gift the ego  demands. These are the magic thoughts that oppose miracle-mindedness.
C:1.10 effort brings you is pride to offer to your ego. This gift your ego  demands is not worth the price you pay. The price of this gift is
C:9.42 you would call your home? What freedom would you have without the  demands your body places upon you? The same question can be asked of
T2:5.1 Other calls will come as announcements, signs, or even as seeming  demands. All call you to the present where response is able to be
T2:5.5 Calls that seem to come in the form of  demands are often calls that come to you from within the teaching and
T2:5.7 Thus, all the calls that come to you in the form of signs or  demands will be calls that assist you in integrating this learning
T2:8.3 mockery of relationship. The calls that come to you now as signs and  demands will not only aid you in your realization of who you are and

demarcation (1)

T2:1.5 This resting place is indeed hallowed ground and an earned respite, a  demarcation even between the old way and the new way of living. But

dematerialize (1)

T4:5.4 variety of forms. It is thus one Energy endlessly able to  dematerialize and rematerialize in an inexhaustible variety of form.

dematerialized (1)

T4:8.5 These universes grew and changed, ebbed and flowed, materialized and  dematerialized in natural cycles of the creation process that once

demise (2)

C:I.12 expression. The new is the true replacement of the false, illusion’s  demise, joy birthed amongst sorrow. The new is yet to be created, One
C:10.20 There might be many practical reasons to cite for your happiness’  demise, but in the loneliness that comes with its loss you will

democrat (1)

T3:21.13 identities. You may call yourself Christian or doctor or  Democrat. You may have beliefs you hold strongly, such as a stance

demons (2)

C:3.7 to everything, and thus you populate your world with angels and with  demons, their status determined by who would help you and who would
C:8.7 as if your own skin were the playground for all the angels and  demons that would dance there. What you would remember is replaced by

demonstrate (16)

T3:15.14 of your former ideas about new beginnings have simply been used to  demonstrate why you cannot approach this new beginning as you have
T4:2.11 Being first does not mean being better. That I was the first to  demonstrate what you can be does not mean I am better than you. Just
D:3.18 any division between the Self and the elevated Self of form, but to  demonstrate that there is a difference in form between the Self and
D:Day2.23 cross of time and space, bury it, so that it need be no more, and  demonstrate that new life follows the choice to end suffering.
D:Day2.24 has been repeated as “I died for your sins.” My death was meant to  demonstrate that the end of suffering had come, and with it, eternal
D:Day3.25 we have begun to use examples of what you did not learn in order to  demonstrate that what you learned is not true. What you learned is
D:Day3.29 You think abundance is the most difficult thing to  demonstrate, when it is actually the easiest. You think you could
D:Day4.19 was taught to them—but to live in a new world and, by so doing, to  demonstrate a new way.
D:Day4.46 will live from love rather than from fear. It means that you will  demonstrate what living from love is. It means that you will
D:Day18.7 of the invisible. This is what you are now called to do. Whether you  demonstrate the myth of duality or the truth of union, you are
D:Day18.10 of the body, or elevation of the self of form. You are called to  demonstrate this pattern. The choice is to demonstrate this pattern
D:Day18.10 form. You are called to demonstrate this pattern. The choice is to  demonstrate this pattern through interaction with the world, or
D:Day18.11 You are called to  demonstrate this new visual pattern. What is meant here by the word
D:Day18.11 demonstrate this new visual pattern. What is meant here by the word  demonstrate, is to show your feelings, to make them visible. They are
D:Day19.8 ultimate function. Together, the way of Mary and the way of Jesus  demonstrate the truth of as within, so without and the relationship
D:Day19.11 be no more. But at this time of transition, both ways are needed to  demonstrate the means of coming to know, which are what all true

demonstrated (16)

C:P.27 you can understand. Jesus is simply the example life, the life that  demonstrated what it means to be God’s child.
C:30.8 concept of now. This is the key concept that I not only knew but  demonstrated. This is the legacy, the inheritance, I left to you.
T2:11.15 This battle of good and evil, while you believe in it still, will be  demonstrated before you just as it has been from time immemorial. Is
T4:4.6 What my life  demonstrated was a capacity for inheritance not based upon death. My
D:Day2.26 Willingness is now upon humankind. What my life  demonstrated but needs to be demonstrated anew. But this will not
D:Day2.26 is now upon humankind. What my life demonstrated but needs to be  demonstrated anew. But this will not happen if you cling to
D:Day17.10 Both ways were necessary. Both ways were necessarily represented or  demonstrated. Both ways were represented and demonstrated by many
D:Day17.10 represented or demonstrated. Both ways were represented and  demonstrated by many other individuals as well. The way was a choice.
D:Day17.12 What Jesus represented or  demonstrated has now been realized, which is why this is called the
D:Day19.8 this belief as are those who thought of Jesus in such a way. Neither  demonstrated intermediary functions but demonstrated direct union
D:Day19.8 Jesus in such a way. Neither demonstrated intermediary functions but  demonstrated direct union with God. Each demonstrated the creative
D:Day19.8 intermediary functions but demonstrated direct union with God. Each  demonstrated the creative aspect of that function in different ways.
D:Day32.13 God from man. The example lives in which the power of God was  demonstrated in the lives of men and women are seen as little more
D:Day37.22 This “link” is very powerful. Where willingness is  demonstrated, this link can be moved to be, rather than “just” a
A.22 Time of Christ brings with it a new kind of evidence, an evidence  demonstrated clearly and plainly with every willingness to end
A.22 and to leave the hell of the separate self behind. What will be  demonstrated and shared is the perfect logic of the heart, and that

demonstrates (6)

C:P.13 and a struggle to be good and to do good, a belief that clearly  demonstrates that you have rejected who you are.
C:4.13 your image of love is based upon comparison. You have chosen one who  demonstrates that which in you is most lacking and you use that image
C:6.8 things you do not see what the relationship would show you. Contrast  demonstrates, which is why it is a favorite teaching device of the
C:6.8 is why it is a favorite teaching device of the Holy Spirit. Contrast  demonstrates only to reveal the relationship that exists between
C:9.42 you live each day? This is all that anything larger than yourself  demonstrates to you. All society, groups, teams, and organizations
T1:3.6 of faith. You think the quest for miracles is a quest for proof that  demonstrates a lack of faith but the reverse is true. What kind of

demonstrating (4)

C:P.15 By rejecting who you are, you are  demonstrating that you think you can believe in some of the truth but
D:Day17.10 The way of Jesus represented full-scale interaction with the world,  demonstrating the myth of duality, the death of form, the
D:Day17.10 The way of Mary represented incarnation through relationship,  demonstrating the truth of union, the birth of form, and the
D:Day18.7 you demonstrate the myth of duality or the truth of union, you are  demonstrating the same thing. The way in which you do this must be

demonstration (16)

C:9.42 What is this but a  demonstration, on a larger scale, of what you live each day? This is
C:30.9 is finite in nature. Love has no beginning and no end. Love is a  demonstration and a description of universal consciousness, of being
T1:8.16 that aides your understanding of the invisible. It is one more  demonstration of the union that returns you to your natural state. It
T1:8.16 of the union that returns you to your natural state. It is one more  demonstration of cause and effect being one in truth. It is one more
T1:8.16 demonstration of cause and effect being one in truth. It is one more  demonstration of what needs to occur now, in this time, in order for
T4:2.4 of man wandering in the wilderness. I came as a representation or  demonstration of The Way. This is why I have been called “The Way,
D:6.12 a harmony and cooperation that might one day extend to the sun and a  demonstration that the sun need not rise—or perhaps need not set—
D:7.17 Desire is an acknowledgment of the uniqueness of each Self, and is a  demonstration of means and end being the same. Desire keeps you
D:Day15.25 in dialogue with some and entering the dialogue with all. This is a  demonstration of levels of consciousness at work. It is important to
D:Day18.10 Both are contained within the other. But the way of discovery and  demonstration is different.
D:Day19.12 the self. They fear losing the known to the unknown. The two ways of  demonstration make the unknown known. One makes the unknown known
D:Day40.29 This is the power of differentiation in union and relationship, the  demonstration of oneness that was heralded in the time of Jesus
D:Day40.34 carry it with you to level ground—to the place of completion and  demonstration of who you are being?
A.23 Facilitators can rely on this  demonstration even when many in a group may remain attached to the
A.23 in a group may remain attached to the ways of the thinking mind. The  demonstration will work for those who observe from a place of unity
A.23 this time accept the new way. No harm will come to anyone from the  demonstration that will be provided of just how little gain comes to

demonstrations (2)

C:9.44 like the larger examples of your daily life gone awry, are but  demonstrations of internal desires taken to a greater extreme; only
D:Day19.8 the way of Jesus. Both ways arose from Christ-consciousness as  demonstrations of ways. Those who have thought of Mary as an

denial (25)

C:6.21 It is your  denial of all your happy thoughts that has led you to a life of such
C:7.21 instability in time as well as place, and so you live with constant  denial that even what is known to you is not known at all. You thus
C:9.14 and bad, some worthy of acknowledgment and the rest worthy only of  denial or contempt. It is your language that gives emotion its place,
C:22.12 protect your heart, and a great percentage of them are involved with  denial, with creating places where things enter and simply sit. These
T2:12.11 you are, it still would thwart you being who you are through its  denial of the relationships essential to that which you truly are.
T4:2.23 Think of this  denial now, for it is still evident in the pattern of your thinking.
D:2.2 true or right that which you know is not true or right. This is the  denial of insanity in favor of the acceptance of sanity, the denial
D:2.2 is the denial of insanity in favor of the acceptance of sanity, the  denial of the false for the acceptance of the true. Although you are
D:2.2 actions simultaneously—the action of acceptance and the action of  denial—it can thus be seen that they are, in truth, one and the
D:2.3 and you will know, as soon as the patterns of old have been denied.  Denial is the correct word here, for I do not want you combating or
D:2.23 of your own promise? Do you not see that acceptance of the new and  denial of the old is the necessary forerunner of our work together in
D:3.1 defeat. All that it requires is the acceptance of the new and the  denial of the old that will allow for the sustainability of
D:3.7 began quite truthfully and simply with an acceptance of the new and  denial of the old. This is as far as acceptance and denial need go.
D:3.7 of the new and denial of the old. This is as far as acceptance and  denial need go. For if you give credence to the ideas of contrast,
D:4.20 doors, begins, as we said earlier, with acceptance of the new and  denial of the old. Turn your back on the prison of your former
D:Day3.1 surrender, there are stages through which one moves. The first is  denial, the second is anger. We have already spoken of denial, albeit
D:Day3.1 The first is denial, the second is anger. We have already spoken of  denial, albeit in a new way. Now we will speak of anger, in both an
D:Day3.20 wrong. We will return to this, but first let’s continue with the  denial of money’s effect.
D:Day3.56 You do not believe this, however, and the functions of  denial, anger, bargaining, and depression are to lead you to this
D:Day4.52 have more to learn because you are angry, depressed, in a state of  denial contrary to the denial asked of you, or because you still feel
D:Day4.52 you are angry, depressed, in a state of denial contrary to the  denial asked of you, or because you still feel like bargaining with
D:Day7.1 unaccepting? And what does being unaccepting imply but the very  denial of yourself that you have come to see as your former state?
D:Day7.2  Denial of yourself was the precondition that set the stage for the
D:Day19.2 The key here is discernment between true contentment and  denial. Although this is overly simplified, you might think of this
D:Day31.8 of the Self which is God. To negate is to deny what is. The  denial of what is is the source of separation. The acceptance of what

denied (21)

C:4.9 the law of God in your world. All else assumes that what one has is  denied another. While love cannot be learned nor practiced, there is
C:7.9 a powerful wind sweeps through your heart, and all the love you have  denied the world will be released. It will flow in every direction,
C:14.13 begin with what is obvious, a simple point that some of you have  denied and that some of you could not. What makes this relationship
C:26.5 heroes. Your story is one of glory. Your greatness can no longer be  denied, unless you deny it.
T1:1.8 You are a thinking being. This cannot be  denied nor should it be. Thus a Course that left you with an
T2:7.17 and feelings unworthy of your real Self. You may have increasingly  denied thoughts and feelings you would judge as negative or bad. Or
T2:7.18 Who you are cannot be  denied in favor of who you “will be.” Needs cannot be denied as a
T2:7.18 are cannot be denied in favor of who you “will be.” Needs cannot be  denied as a means of having them cease to be. You who are beginning
T2:10.18 not go as you have planned, you feel as if your chosen path has been  denied to you. You often feel a sense of loss and rarely one of gain.
T3:6.5 cheek.” While this may seem like the very idea of evil which I have  denied the existence of, it is not evil but bitterness. You may
T3:11.10 or wrong, the difference between truth and illusion can no longer be  denied. To realize the difference between truth and illusion is not
T3:19.14 what is observable is so widely evident that it can no longer be  denied that changes of a large scale will begin to be seen.
T3:21.8 to deny other truths. There is only one truth. Untruth must now be  denied.
T4:2.22 and perhaps in some concept of unity or oneness, but you have also  denied even the possibility of experiencing your own direct
D:2.3 do know, and you will know, as soon as the patterns of old have been  denied. Denial is the correct word here, for I do not want you
D:3.4 them as I use together the words accept and deny. As the old must be  denied for the new to come into being, the old must be vanquished in
D:Day3.20 The power of money to affect you is a power that is  denied, rarely acknowledged, seldom spoken of. Think you not that the
D:Day5.8 the same. It exists. It is there for you. It is given. It cannot be  denied unless you deny it. It is only because you have not known this
D:Day7.2 The time of learning would not have been needed had you not  denied your Self. When you saw yourself as separate and alone, you
D:Day8.23 the Self of union with the self of form. The self of form cannot be  denied now. This is a continuation of the reversal of some of the
D:Day27.12 of body temperature or the effects of weather, but it is as if you  denied your body the ideal 98.6 degrees internally and 78 degrees

denigrate (1)

T3:2.5 of the ego, you have believed in a need to both glorify the self and  denigrate the self. These beliefs have shaped your dualistic view of

denigrates (1)

C:3.7 and another enthralls, one champions your cause and another  denigrates you. In all scenarios you remain the maker of your world,

denigration (1)

T3:2.5 cost that was, in essence, a cost that came at the expense or  denigration of the self. You believed that for every gain there was

denominate (2)

D:Day30.3 A denominator is a named entity. To  denominate is to name. “In the beginning” the separate expressions of
D:Day30.3 denominator of wholeness. In our act of saying it is so, we name or  denominate the Self as what is common to wholeness. Despite unlimited

denominated (1)

D:Day30.3 act of creation, stating simply the existence of what was named or  denominated. Existence and wholeness are the same. Thus your

denominator (15)

C:28.5 The dawn of innocence is but a recognition of the most common  denominator of existence. As such, it is a beginning only, a true
D:Day29.7 has needed to find a place in which it could become the common  denominator between wholeness and separation. Once you experience
D:Day29.7 and find yourself in union, you have made of yourself the common  denominator upon which experience can find anchor in wholeness and
D:Day30.1 fractions can be added together to achieve wholeness once a common  denominator is found, your own fractiousness can yield to wholeness
D:Day30.1 your own fractiousness can yield to wholeness through the common  denominator of the self. A common denominator is simply that which
D:Day30.1 to wholeness through the common denominator of the self. A common  denominator is simply that which yields to wholeness. This yielding
D:Day30.2 be seen as the process, much like in math, through which the common  denominator is found. The common denominator is not by itself the
D:Day30.2 in math, through which the common denominator is found. The common  denominator is not by itself the whole, but is, in combination, the
D:Day30.2 the whole, but is, in combination, the whole. In order for a common  denominator to be found, more than one (fraction, part, or variable)
D:Day30.2 part, or variable) must exist. The purpose of finding a common  denominator is to translate what is more than one into one. An
D:Day30.2 than one into one. An assumption of wholeness is “common” in every  denominator.
D:Day30.3 A  denominator is a named entity. To denominate is to name. “In the
D:Day30.3 your existence, the existence of the self, is, or can be, a common  denominator of wholeness. In our act of saying it is so, we name or
D:Day31.4 are one in being with your Father, your Creator, the originator and  denominator of life.
D:Day31.7 the realm of the many. In each of the many is the One—the common  denominator. By knowing the One in the many, experience can be

denotes (1)

D:15.8 introduction of a being and the continuation of movement. Speaking  denotes not only a speaker, the being, but the movement of sound.

density (1)

D:Day13.7 completely fearless and totally spacious, for fear is part of the  density of form, being a lack of love.

deny (49)

C:5.22 this you are correct, for as you make of yourself an individual, you  deny yourself your union with all others.
C:6.5 make for you and that your mind is finding increasingly difficult to  deny. When you choose unity over separation, you choose reality over
C:6.8 that exists between truth and illusion. When you chose to  deny relationship, you chose a thought system based on the opposite
C:6.8 system based on the opposite of your reality. Thus each choice to  deny union reveals its opposite. What is separate from peace is
C:6.20 is but part of your awareness of who you are, an awareness you would  deny in favor of thoughts of death so grim they make of life a
C:6.21 have not acquired within your life is the evidence you would use to  deny yourself hope of any kind. You do not understand the difference
C:7.23 of no other outcomes than your happiness, and when happiness comes  deny it not, nor its source. Remind yourself that when love comes to
C:7.23 Remind yourself that when love comes to fill your heart, you will  deny it not, nor its source. You do not need to believe that this
C:9.21 of one of those you have identified as living the life of fear you  deny yourself. And imagine that you could bring this one in from that
C:10.21 it, they will block it out. Some, at this threshold, turn back. They  deny themselves the joy or the pain or the oblivion that would make
C:10.32 has been reached, a threshold crossed. What your mind still would  deny your heart cannot. A tiny glimmering of memory has returned to
C:14.20 with official commitments, pledges and promises made. Others may  deny their fear, and say they trust in what they have and the
C:18.6 been taught that you are not your body, it is impossible for you to  deny the body here. Yet you can change the function you have ascribed
C:25.4 know it, imitations of love are immediately felt. You may choose to  deny the feeling, but you cannot prevent it from occurring. You can
C:26.5 is one of glory. Your greatness can no longer be denied, unless you  deny it.
T1:4.4 Love. It does not negate your existence as a human being nor does it  deny your existence as being a gift of the Creator. Recall the
T1:4.25 your fears became clear to you. There are a few of you who would  deny these fears. Fewer still are unafraid of miracles and eager to
T2:7.14 that your needs will be provided for, thus ceasing to be needs. To  deny that you are a being with needs is not the aim of this Course.
T2:7.19 place within your heart that has been prepared for them. You do not  deny them. You bring them first to your Self, to the Self joined in
T2:9.10 The extent to which you  deny your needs or are honest about your needs makes the difference
T3:18.8 It will seem at first as if you are asked to  deny the facts that you see before you in order to observe something
T3:19.14 who observe the new from the house of illusion will still be able to  deny what they see. Just think of how many saints and miracles you
T3:20.6 long war with little chance of being won. You chide yourself not to  deny the facts, and you begin, along with the one whom you observe,
T3:20.10 thinking. I am calling you to live by the truth and to never  deny it. To see no circumstance as cause to abandon it. Yes, I am
T3:21.8 is antithetical to you. You think that to believe in one truth is to  deny other truths. There is only one truth. Untruth must now be
T4:2.25 becoming aware of its existence. You will increasingly be unable to  deny it and you will not want to. As you allow awareness of this
D:2.1 now asked to do two things simultaneously: To accept the new and to  deny the old. Acceptance is a willingness to receive. Obviously, when
D:2.2 To  deny is to refuse to accept as true or right that which you know is
D:2.3 The patterns of the new will begin to arise naturally when you  deny the patterns of the old. As you have been told, you now “know
D:2.9 times provided you with a false certainty that they are difficult to  deny. When we speak of denying here, we speak of denying yourself the
D:2.10 It is proper now to  deny the modes of learning, even when they seemed to work for you in
D:2.10 That they seemed to work is the illusion that will give way as you  deny yourself access to the old so that the new can come.
D:3.3 new. Your work, as will be often repeated, is to accept the new, and  deny or refuse to accept the old. Only in this way will the new
D:3.4 in this dialogue. I use them as I use together the words accept and  deny. As the old must be denied for the new to come into being, the
D:3.6 learning. This does not mean, however, that you accept goodness and  deny evil or even that you accept love and deny fear. How can this be?
D:3.6 you accept goodness and deny evil or even that you accept love and  deny fear. How can this be?
D:4.11 and that you are part of it. Remember that our goal here is to  deny the old and accept the new. In this case, the old you would deny
D:4.11 to deny the old and accept the new. In this case, the old you would  deny is the idea of a purposeless existence, a universe with no
D:4.23 has this to do with structure and parameters? Everything. You cannot  deny the old and remain in the prison of the old. You have asked, and
D:5.17 what is. This is crucial as you learn to accept what is and to  deny what is not. While the question of what is not has been answered
D:Day4.43 feel the lack that you would pray for? Surely this you can do, for I  deny no one the journey to the mountain top, not once or many times.
D:Day5.8 It is there for you. It is given. It cannot be denied unless you  deny it. It is only because you have not known this that we speak of
D:Day8.18 Another error can occur if you  deny your feelings in favor of the perceived higher path to
D:Day8.18 to enlightenment. In denying your own feelings you will tend also to  deny the feelings of others. You will think that you know the real
D:Day8.18 they do not matter. This will only happen if you allow yourself to  deny and thus become distanced from your own feelings.
D:Day10.17 “learned” within this Course. As you “learned” to remove the ego and  deny the personal self, you transferred your reliance to me and to
D:Day31.8 purpose of the experience of the Self which is God. To negate is to  deny what is. The denial of what is is the source of separation. The
D:Day37.8 God can only come through the relationship and unity that you would  deny in your quest for separation! This would be like demanding to be
D:Day37.8 God can only come through the relationship and unity that you would  deny in your quest for separation! This would be like demanding that

denying (7)

T3:11.10 many times, and we have adhered to the precept of not judging by  denying any right or wrong, the difference between truth and illusion
D:2.9 a false certainty that they are difficult to deny. When we speak of  denying here, we speak of denying yourself the use of the old so that
D:2.9 are difficult to deny. When we speak of denying here, we speak of  denying yourself the use of the old so that the new can serve you. We
D:2.9 the use of the old so that the new can serve you. We speak of  denying modes of learning in favor of simple acceptance of what is.
D:Day7.3 is the precondition for the time of acceptance. You are no longer  denying your Self. You are no longer denying unity. You have replaced
D:Day7.3 acceptance. You are no longer denying your Self. You are no longer  denying unity. You have replaced fear with love. Love is life giving
D:Day8.18 feelings in favor of the perceived higher path to enlightenment. In  denying your own feelings you will tend also to deny the feelings of

depart (2)

T2:1.6 and death reigns. It is not a point at which you arrive, never to  depart. Rest, when truly learned, is a state of being in which
D:Day20.1 Now we begin preparation for your transition to level ground. We  depart even farther here from the guidance you have relied upon so

departed (1)

C:29.9 this gate to you, but you by your own hand pulled it shut as you  departed your heavenly home, and you do not remember that your own

departure (3)

T3:15.2 that things cannot be different than they once were. The only true  departure from this idea has concerned the occasions of birth and
D:Day21.9 He joined you on the mountain top in order to prepare you for his  departure, a departure from reliance upon him that would allow you to
D:Day21.9 you on the mountain top in order to prepare you for his departure, a  departure from reliance upon him that would allow you to arrive at

departures (1)

D:5.1 memory and how you acted upon it, distortions that created major  departures from the nature of creation.

depend (4)

C:7.21 must be continuously in relationship. Thus, relationship must not  depend on interaction as you understand it. It is easy to see the
C:10.30 nor hear with your body’s eyes or ears, these feelings too will not  depend upon your body’s senses.
C:14.17 be unique. Everything that would happen within the universe would  depend upon it.
C:27.21 remaining source of such unwillingness. Your willingness will now  depend on whether or not you trust. Do you trust these words? Do you

depended (3)

C:20.38 use for things. The inanimate as well as the animate is called upon,  depended upon for service. All use is replaced with service, and
T4:8.7 to “do” anything, and then becoming a form where expressing yourself  depended upon what you could “do” with the human body, you can
D:2.22 find the answers of the personal self of old, the separated self who  depended on learned wisdom for answers. Looking within is turning to

dependence (3)

T2:7.1 only on yourself. Thus the connotation of reliance on others, or  dependence, has taken on a negative meaning specifically in contrast
T2:7.6 to prove to you that independence is a far better state than that of  dependence. It will work diligently to convince you that any course
T2:7.13 as long as you believe in your independence you will not accept your  dependence. You will not accept giving and receiving as one if you

dependencies (1)

C:14.19 Like two countries, one rich in oil, another in grain, you set up  dependencies that will keep you linked. Some of you do this quite

dependency (5)

T2:5.7 truth that giving and receiving are one, you will not realize that  dependency is a matter of the interdependency of all that exists in
T2:7.1 of your desire to be independent without looking at the condition of  dependency that you consider its opposite. To be independent, you
T2:7.2 of others that makes your own independence seem so important to you.  Dependency is not consistent with your notions of a healthy self.
T2:9.15 difficult to accept. How does the identification of needs or the  dependency inherent in relationships bypass the ego-mind? They
T2:9.18 This phase of coming to accept need and  dependency is necessary only as a learning ground of experience on

dependent (7)

C:3.11 a warm blanket is comforting, you subject it to a thousand tests  dependent on your senses and your judgment. While you believe you
C:14.19 It is no small wonder that you live in fear when so much is  dependent upon you. And no wonder that when you find a respite, a
T1:4.18 to prevent just such a conclusion. The truth is the truth and not  dependent upon your definition of it. A response is not an
T2:7.1 of your greatest fears is thus of a condition that causes you to be  dependent or to rely on others.
T2:7.5 you must remember that relationship is based on trust. If you are  dependent, or supported by others with whom you share a trusting
T2:7.14 only thing that keeps you, in this new pattern, from being needy and  dependent in an unhealthy way, is that you believe in giving and

depending (6)

C:3.22 a dozen answers now, more for some and less for others, your answers  depending on the tenacity of your thoughts, which, led by your ego,
C:9.15 you to observe and you will find fear lurking there. The next level,  depending on your disposition, is either the desire to control or the
C:15.5 to maintain your specialness and that of the others within it.  Depending on your culture what is necessary may mean few things, or
T4:7.1 Christ-consciousness will be temporary or sustainable  depending on your ability to refrain from judgment. What is flows
D:Day6.7 easily, in a way that the artist might describe as flowing.  Depending on the disposition of the artist, the piece of music might
D:Day28.13  Depending on the circumstances of your life, one of these two

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C:14.18 only what you know is part of your universe, do you not see that it  depends on you, and if it depends on you that it is you? Only what
C:14.18 of your universe, do you not see that it depends on you, and if it  depends on you that it is you? Only what you are aware of exists in
C:20.39 All service is cooperative and  depends on a belief in mutuality. All fear that what is good for one
C:23.17 Still you find it difficult to believe that what is possible  depends upon what you can imagine being possible. You must cease to
C:25.11 because they are given validity. The holy relationship of unity  depends on the release of the beliefs that foster special
T1:3.5 its own survival but it has you convinced it is your survival that  depends on it. How can you be convinced to live as if the truth were
T4:11.2 The future  depends on you who are willing to leave learning behind and who are

depersonalizing (1)

C:22.20 the use of the “I” pronoun. This will seem, at first, as if it is  depersonalizing the world and making it less intimate. It will seem

deplete (1)

C:4.17 your days. For spend your days you do, and soon that spending will  deplete the limited number of days in store for you and you will die.

depressed (2)

D:Day4.50 here because you think you are still angry, or think you are still  depressed. When you hesitate you have not accepted but dwell with the
D:Day4.52 You will still think you have more to learn because you are angry,  depressed, in a state of denial contrary to the denial asked of you,

depression (8)

C:31.13 with a split mind is impossible. Impossible learning goals lead to  depression. This is why we must learn anew with a mind and heart
T3:3.4 come over you without cause. You did not understand when illness or  depression stood in the way of your desires or the plans of others
T3:3.5 accidents caused lawsuits where blame could be rightly placed. Your  depression was blamed on the past. Even your successes were often
T3:4.1 good. It gives no credence and no blame to any past cause for your  depression, anxiety, meanness, illness or insanity. It merely calls
T3:5.3 You have been emptied by a loss of self due to illness or addiction,  depression, or even physical exhaustion. All these things you have
D:Day3.51 The final stage in this process, this movement toward acceptance, is  depression, a lowering of spirits and energy, a lack of desire, a
D:Day3.56 this, however, and the functions of denial, anger, bargaining, and  depression are to lead you to this belief and, finally, to this
D:Day4.58 that cause some of you to continue to feel sadness, anger,  depression, or nostalgia for the way things were. These things will

deprivation (1)

T2:7.5 for fear? What is the hidden source of your feelings of lack or  deprivation? What is the hidden source of your desire to control?

deprive (1)

C:29.23 talent cause another to be less talented? How can one’s service  deprive anyone else of the right to serve? No two are alike. Only in

deprived (2)

C:26.25 to control what you do not believe you created, and what you feel  deprived of creating. As a being birthed by a thought of God, you
T3:7.5 truth was the ego. The only thing within the human experience that  deprived the human experience of meaning was the ego. Thus, with the

depriving (1)

D:Day15.22 have boundaries have a need for those boundaries. Thus you are not  depriving them of anything when you slip into observable states of

depths (3)

C:19.21 of healing will but briefly come to the surface and leave the hidden  depths where light could not reach it and healing could not come.
D:Day2.8 height you have attained that causes your fear of falling. It is the  depths to which you feel you once descended that calls forth your
D:Day3.51 of activity, a sinking feeling of going under, of going into the  depths of sadness and despair.

derived (1)

T3:7.1 existence derives from this idea and this truth. The ego’s existence  derived from your idea of a separated self, a thought, or idea, of

derives (1)

T3:7.1 God’s thought of you is an idea of absolute truth. Your existence  derives from this idea and this truth. The ego’s existence derived

descended (3)

C:P.26 has many members but it is called one family. All of its members are  descended from the same ancestors, the same bloodline. Within that
D:15.9 that the wind first swept across and upon which the light first  descended, is an interesting omission, made by many. What were the
D:Day2.8 your fear of falling. It is the depths to which you feel you once  descended that calls forth your fear here.

descending (2)

T1:2.13 the surrounding area, perhaps to see the play of clouds among the  descending rays, perhaps to feel the warmth or chill of an evening.
D:13.4 a sense, a humorous metaphor for the idea of a divine “ray” of light  descending and granting enlightenment. Take another look at your

descends (1)

D:8.13 Do not be surprised, however, if no shaft of light  descends upon you, if you feel as if you have taken that step and yet

descent (3)

D:Day26.5 tending your garden you will develop this trust and prepare for your  descent to level ground.
D:Day27.7 a perspective from level ground and a mountain top perspective. Your  descent from the mountain top will not mean that you no longer have
D:Day28.1 directed experience are what you must begin to face as we begin our  descent from the mountain top. To wait until level ground is reached

describable (1)

C:27.1 identify yourself, you simply narrowed yourself to the visible and  describable. Thus you have identified death as the only means by

describe (5)

C:12.19 As near as words can  describe the separation, this is what occurred: An idea of separation
C:13.4 exercise is not about putting words on feelings or using them to  describe spirit. It is best to leave words off this experience as, if
T1:10.14 it, in whatever expression it takes, no matter what words you use to  describe it, is your answer to God and God’s answer to you. Peace is
D:1.22 for none is needed. And yet many of you still feel what you would  describe as a need for continued learning and a continuing
D:Day6.7 piece may find its expression easily, in a way that the artist might  describe as flowing. Depending on the disposition of the artist, the

described (23)

C:8.19 This moment without awareness of the body was beautifully  described in A Course in Miracles as the Holy Instant. You may not
C:18.1 Many of you believe God’s creation included the fall from paradise as  described in the biblical story of Adam and Eve and in the creation
C:18.5 This chain I have  described helps you to imagine the place I hold for you, as you held
C:19.22 be quite accurate. It is like unto the final judgment as it has been  described, a sorting of the real from the unreal, of truth from
C:24.1 it to come, it will reward you constantly with what can best be  described as tenderness.
C:26.7 And, as stated before, the quest for meaning is how you have  described your purpose here. To have no meaning to attach to your
C:30.8 In matter, being must be attached to form. In the sense of time  described by the word present, there is no infinitude, but only a
T1:3.15 would seem to violate one of the rules of miracle-readiness as  described in A Course in Miracles, the extreme need of your return to
T1:5.4 the eternal or the void. While your thought system here has been  described often as insanity, this is the insanity you would fear that
T3:15.16 help of the new thought system, change the very nature of the self  described by the words human being. This calls for still more
D:6.9 that there are reasons Noah’s flood could not have occurred as  described, or that it would have been impossible to repopulate the
D:6.9 to repopulate the earth afterwards even if it had taken place as  described.
D:8.5 “given” Self as the Self that exists beyond the boundary we have  described as the dot of the body.
D:11.2 by which you were created as the same type of thought I have just  described would be insane. Are you willing any longer to see me as a
D:11.17 the individual, separated self, but only illusion. Illusion can be  described in many different ways that lead to many paths of seeking,
D:16.17 your separated self, come to reclaim you. This is why we have also  described this as an after-image. This is but a photograph that
D:Day3.33 that money spent on the more lasting pleasures such as the things  described above is the secret.
D:Day4.44 you know you have longed for all your life. This unknown has been  described to you in terms both specific and obscure. It has been
D:Day4.44 described to you in terms both specific and obscure. It has been  described as all you have desired and more. It has been described as
D:Day4.44 It has been described as all you have desired and more. It has been  described as the end to the life of misery you have known and the
D:Day14.7 pass through for the self to be the fully invisible or spacious Self  described earlier. What you once stopped and held in a “holding
D:Day14.11 of invisibility, the creator of the spacious Self. God has been  described as the “all knowing” for God is the relationship.
D:Day28.19 levels of “time.” Our “time” on the mountain would be more rightly  described as “time outside of time.”

describes (3)

C:5.6 is not an injunction for bodies to unite. It is a statement that  describes the truly real, the only reality that exists. It is the
C:18.1 This story is, rather than a story of an actual event, a story that  describes the problem. It is but the story of perception’s birth. And
D:3.14 receiving is not occurring. Giving and receiving as one thus simply  describes the nature of the new, the nature of shared consciousness.

describing (3)

D:12.13 patterns of thinking behind is the idea that thought as we are  describing it, the thought that is not really thought but the way of
D:Day36.3 back on your life and see its form. You could write an autobiography  describing every experience you encountered between your earliest
D:Day37.17 Perception and knowing have been used together here in  describing the conditions of being because you must be able to

description (9)

C:14.17 Is this not a  description of a universe? What is a universe but itself and
C:19.22 Despite the similarity between what this will call forth and the  description of the final judgment, judgment is not the means or end
C:30.9 Love has no beginning and no end. Love is a demonstration and a  description of universal consciousness, of being in relationship.
T1:4.23 Revelation is a proper  description of the mode by which the art of thought teaches and helps
T1:10.14 of the wholehearted, the prerequisite to the art of thought, the  description of heaven, the abode of Christ. Peace has come to you and
T4:4.2 Inherent within the extreme is the balance. Even in the biblical  description of creation was a day of rest spoken of. Creation
D:11.3 I think that they are incomparable. But thinking is not an accurate  description of what I do, or of what occurs in unity. I am and I
D:16.4 of being and yet not express the wholeness of being. This is a  description of the state of becoming. It is a perceived state. It is
D:16.7 animates all form. Love is spirit, is God, is creation. Love is a  description of the All of All because it is whole and rests in

descriptions (1)

D:Day9.10 Your image of an ideal self may have sprung from your reading, from  descriptions of those the world has come to see as enlightened ones.

descriptive (2)

D:12.11 Thinking is more  descriptive of the ego mind; thoughts are more descriptive of the
D:12.11 Thinking is more descriptive of the ego mind; thoughts are more  descriptive of the true mind. I am not saying that your ego is still

desert (2)

C:12.11 them be, the mountains stand in all their majesty, rivers flow and  desert sands countless in number are blown endlessly about.
T3:9.7 as real as those who in the time of Moses journeyed through the  desert to the Promised Land. That journey remained metaphorical

deserve (4)

C:11.9 A God such as this would seem to have little faith in you and to  deserve little of your faith in return.
C:31.18 forgiveness, believing forgiveness is something that they do not  deserve. Few truly believe in atonement or undoing. Few truly believe
D:4.5 the moment, disregard any idea you may have of there being those who  deserve the prison system you have developed and any arguments you
D:Day6.8 commitment may come because the artist knows it is “good enough” to  deserve the time and attention, or the commitment may come as a

deserving (2)

C:P.19 have earned, the designation of a person of such worth that you are  deserving of all that God would freely give. Give up this notion.
D:7.11 love to it now. It is what it is, and nothing that it is, is  deserving of anything other than love. This call to love all of your

design (41)

C:14.19 quite obviously, and over years and years create a web of intricate  design, a snare or trap that seems impossible to dismantle because of
C:14.19 opportunity to put into place. Still others are more coy in their  design, and dress it up to look like sacrifice and gifts given, but
C:22.23 a grand purpose, and have a wonderful part to play in a grand  design. You will not feel cheated by losing your separated self. You
T4:8.11 way of God’s original intent, you rebelled against God’s original  design, the design that is the pattern of creation. Yet your
T4:8.11 original intent, you rebelled against God’s original design, the  design that is the pattern of creation. Yet your rebellion was not
T4:12.27 for each, but the pattern was the same. There was an overall  design that ensured optimal learning and that design was known to you
T4:12.27 There was an overall design that ensured optimal learning and that  design was known to you in the pattern of that design, a pattern that
T4:12.27 learning and that design was known to you in the pattern of that  design, a pattern that was part of the pattern of your thoughts, even
T4:12.27 succeeded in becoming the ruler of the personal self. Part of this  design and pattern was the freedom of free will.
T4:12.30 able to sustain Christ-consciousness, is coming to know the new  design, and the new patterns that reveal the design. This new design,
T4:12.30 coming to know the new design, and the new patterns that reveal the  design. This new design, and the new patterns that will be helpful to
T4:12.30 new design, and the new patterns that reveal the design. This new  design, and the new patterns that will be helpful to you in its
T4:12.33 Yet time and space no longer separate us, and the creation of the  design or pattern that reveals our lack of separation is part of the
D:2.4 Patterns are both learned systems and systems of  design. The pattern of learning was a pattern of divine design,
D:2.4 systems of design. The pattern of learning was a pattern of divine  design, created in unity and cooperation to enable the return to
D:2.4 no longer needed nor appropriate. While it was once a pattern whose  design was perfect for the desired end, continuation of this pattern
D:2.5 An example of a pattern whose  design was perfect for the desired end is that of formal education.
D:2.18 Any system that is not foolproof is based on a faulty  design, a faulty pattern. Your misperceptions of the world have
D:3.9 all, are the ideas that will allow new patterns to emerge and the  design of the future to be created. These are the ideas that replace
D:4.9 the patterns contained within. Patterns are both of learning and of  design.
D:4.11 Let us begin by coming to agreement about the idea of divine  design. This divine design could also be called creation, and where
D:4.11 by coming to agreement about the idea of divine design. This divine  design could also be called creation, and where we have spoken of
D:4.11 creation, and where we have spoken of creation previously, divine  design was also spoken of. Here I am quite confident that you have
D:4.11 during your time as a learning being that you accept that a divine  design created the universe and all that is in it, or that you trust
D:4.11 know that this is so. Either way, you may still believe in a divine  design without accepting that a divine design exists and that you are
D:4.11 may still believe in a divine design without accepting that a divine  design exists and that you are part of it. Remember that our goal
D:4.11 exists in divine order, and that your life is part of that divine  design.
D:4.18 Just as obviously, all we are left with is divine  design. All we are left with is what was given: A divine universe, a
D:4.28 What is one, or in union with all, draws from the well of divine  design. You need not turn to old patterns or systems to accomplish
D:4.29 of the new is restoration of the original order, or original  design. As you have been returned to your Self, now your life must be
D:4.29 now your life must be returned to where it fits within the divine  design, to where it is a life of meaning and purpose. This return is
D:4.29 magnanimous. It returns wholeness to you and wholeness to the divine  design. It returns creation to what it is.
D:5.9 first step as it is the step necessary for the restoration of divine  design. True seeing facilitates the return to what is and we but
D:6.22 laws you gave the body in the time of learning, knowing not what the  design of the body represented? What might the bodily design now
D:6.22 not what the design of the body represented? What might the bodily  design now represent?
D:6.23 first example of the body we presented newly was that of the perfect  design of the joining provided through sexual intercourse—a design
D:6.23 design of the joining provided through sexual intercourse—a  design given to lead the way to desire for oneness and completion.
D:Day3.28 The condition of want was a learning device—not one of divine  design, but one of the thought system of the ego. It was a trick to
D:Day4.5 yesterday’s dialogue, learning has not been a choice. Both as divine  design and as a pattern of the thought system of the ego, learning
D:Day4.5 ego, learning has been with you and within you. Although the divine  design of the time of learning is being recreated, the ceaseless
D:Day4.6 The divine  design of learning was a given and a natural part of you, much like

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C:P.18 know God until you have decided you are worthy or until some other  designated time, such as at death.
C:29.14 will be possible for you while you compartmentalize your life into  designated pieces giving yourself time for work and time for leisure

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C:P.19 You cannot earn, and will not ever feel as if you have earned, the  designation of a person of such worth that you are deserving of all

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C:P.11 The further teachings of the original Course were  designed to turn fear into love. When you think you can go only so
C:23.29 become your teacher, and you its devoted pupil. Here is a curriculum  designed specifically for you, a curriculum only you can master. Only
C:32.1 of life is your teacher. There is not one aspect of it that is not  designed to help you to remember who you are. As we have stated
T4:12.21 new work is that of new patterns. The patterns of old were patterns  designed for the optimal benefit of learning. These patterns were
D:4.16 divinely inspired thought systems to provide the learning they were  designed to impart. Such is the case with the system of learning
D:7.4 Experiences of form take place in time because experience, too, was  designed for learning. Now experience is needed in time to aid your
D:Day4.8 not sound odd, foreign to you? And yet this is the way learning was  designed to be. Learning was given as a natural means of access to
D:Day4.8 available to you, but not through effort any more than breathing was  designed to be effortful. Learning was designed, like the intake of
D:Day4.8 any more than breathing was designed to be effortful. Learning was  designed, like the intake of breath, to be taken in and given out.

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C:1.14 a world of chaos. To not engage in the chaos at all is seen not as  desirable, but as a sort of abdication, a loss through failure to
C:6.10 heaven. Only you can stoke those fires, and this is what makes them  desirable to you. A warmth not of this world, given freely, with no
C:7.1 of those whose ideas do come to fruition and succeed in getting  desirable things within this world. “I had that idea,” you lament
D:2.19 become so entrenched that no new learning is seen as possible or  desirable even though the systems and patterns are known not to work.
D:4.7 to prison life, that life on the “outside” is no longer seen as  desirable. How can this be?
D:Day6.18 point being made is simply that removal from life is not possible or  desirable.
D:Day28.4 marriage, and family seen as an almost inescapable as well as  desirable norm. Others pursue dreams or adventures.

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C:I.6 The heart is needed to guide the mind in a way that it does not  desire to be guided, a way that is one of joining, a way that does
C:P.9 because the ego is not yet and finally gone. You are right not to  desire to glorify the ego in any way. You know that the ego cannot be
C:P.10 Many of you  desire to be “foot soldiers,” to just live the good life without
C:1.9 the teacher in all things but only in certain things. It is the  desire to find your way on your own so that you can take pride in
C:1.11 not diminish the student’s achievement. You must realize it is your  desire to make of yourself your own creator that has caused all your
C:1.13 have you believe that only when you need no one to achieve all you  desire, only when you are satisfied with what you are and with what
C:1.14 and on duty, thus counting this action as a noble one. This  desire to engage in struggle has nothing to do with what you are
C:3.2 love cannot be learned and you cannot be learned. All that you  desire and cannot learn is already accomplished. It is accomplished
C:5.13 mean many things, but always lurking behind it is an overwhelming  desire for peace. Peace may mean destruction of the old, and love can
C:5.17 It is your continuing  desire to have a relationship only with the world without that causes
C:5.22 Your  desire to be separate is the most insane desire of which you have
C:5.22 Your desire to be separate is the most insane  desire of which you have conceived. Over all your longing for union
C:5.22 you have conceived. Over all your longing for union you place this  desire to be separate and alone. Your entire resistance to God is
C:6.2 be, but they do make it impossible for you to be separate. You can  desire what is impossible until the end of your days but you cannot
C:6.17 is achieved in the only place where it makes any sense to  desire it. With your accomplishment comes the freedom and the
C:7.14 image of yourself and your efforts to reinforce it. This is your  desire not to be intelligent, but to be more intelligent than your
C:7.14 but to be more intelligent than your colleague. This is your  desire not to be generous, but to be more generous than your
C:7.14 generous, but to be more generous than your relative. This is your  desire for wealth that is greater than your neighbors, attractiveness
C:7.14 religions and neighbors and family members. This is the  desire to be right, or in control, or to have more or be more. This
C:8.11 from lies, fact from fiction. You do not even see that what you  desire is further separation, and that separation cannot bring about
C:8.17 is the home you feel as if you have left and the home you feel the  desire to return to. Yet it is where you are, and you could not be
C:8.24 is based on your memory of the truth of God’s creation and your  desire to create like your Father. It is the best, in your
C:9.3 The  desire to protect is a desire that arises from distrust and is based
C:9.3 The desire to protect is a  desire that arises from distrust and is based totally on fear. If
C:9.7 and self-effacement, pleasure and pain, violence and gentleness. A  desire to know everything but only through its own effort, a desire
C:9.7 A desire to know everything but only through its own effort, a  desire to see everything but only through its own eyes, a desire to
C:9.7 effort, a desire to see everything but only through its own eyes, a  desire to be known but only through what it would choose to share.
C:9.7 to see how a world such as that of the body developed. Alongside the  desire to know was the desire not to know. Alongside the desire to
C:9.7 as that of the body developed. Alongside the desire to know was the  desire not to know. Alongside the desire to see was the desire not to
C:9.7 the desire to know was the desire not to know. Alongside the  desire to see was the desire not to see. Alongside the desire to
C:9.7 know was the desire not to know. Alongside the desire to see was the  desire not to see. Alongside the desire to share was the desire to be
C:9.7 Alongside the desire to see was the desire not to see. Alongside the  desire to share was the desire to be hidden. Alongside the desire to
C:9.7 see was the desire not to see. Alongside the desire to share was the  desire to be hidden. Alongside the desire to live was the desire to
C:9.7 the desire to share was the desire to be hidden. Alongside the  desire to live was the desire to live no more.
C:9.7 was the desire to be hidden. Alongside the desire to live was the  desire to live no more.
C:9.15 there. The next level, depending on your disposition, is either the  desire to control or the desire to protect. They are really the same
C:9.15 on your disposition, is either the desire to control or the  desire to protect. They are really the same but they wear different
C:9.15 all the rest proceeds. Surely it is easy to see that neither the  desire to control nor to protect would exist without the layer of
C:9.24 replacement will be the one that succeeds in bringing you what you  desire, or you can choose instead the only replacement that will work.
C:9.28 so impossible to imagine that what God created was distorted by your  desire to have your reality be other than what it is? Have you not
C:9.35 truth to this big change that you believe you have undergone, your  desire to be forgiven is a first step away from your belief that you
C:9.42 and organizations are but a collective portrayal of individual  desire. Slaves and masters but use one another and the same laws bind
C:9.48 are. All that you desired will be revealed as only two desires, the  desire to love and the desire to be loved. Why wait to see that these
C:9.48 will be revealed as only two desires, the desire to love and the  desire to be loved. Why wait to see that these desires are all that
C:10.5 to think the body away and to think miracles into existence. This  desire merely shows you know not the source of healing and are not
C:10.9 Be aware also of your  desire for reward. As you feel yourself becoming closer to God and
C:10.26 for taking part in this silly experiment, but you will realize the  desire to laugh at yourself is quite genuine and not conceived from
C:11.1 attitude toward instruction, and the fact that you do not really  desire it. What you desire is what cannot be given from anywhere but
C:11.1 instruction, and the fact that you do not really desire it. What you  desire is what cannot be given from anywhere but your own Source.
C:11.1 it has helped to solidify your stance against union and your lack of  desire for instruction. This is due to your confusion about your
C:11.14 the shift of cause and quit worrying about effect. For now what you  desire are effects, without realizing cause must shift to change the
C:12.7 Admit now your  desire to rest, a desire that could make you weep and make you wish
C:12.7 Admit now your desire to rest, a  desire that could make you weep and make you wish to sleep an endless
C:12.7 the rest that will simply come of giving up your need to do so. Your  desire for certainty is part of your resistance to any ideas that
C:12.20 as an extension of the original idea. Just as we discussed your  desire to protect or to control proceeding from the concept of fear,
C:13.4 While you may  desire to put what you feel into words, this exercise is not about
C:14.15 consider valuable you could not wait to share. Perhaps you think the  desire to keep things for yourself stems from something other than
C:14.15 yourself stems from something other than fear. You might call this  desire pride or security, or even accept that it is vanity, before
C:14.31 joy in its coming. But this is what you must begin to imagine if you  desire to accept love’s coming instead of to reject it once again.
C:15.1 now of your special love for others, but what of the specialness you  desire for yourself? Do you not see how intricately linked these two
C:15.1 Do you not see how intricately linked these two desires are? The  desire to give and receive specialness is the driving desire of your
C:15.1 are? The desire to give and receive specialness is the driving  desire of your life, and the world you see but reflects this desire.
C:15.1 driving desire of your life, and the world you see but reflects this  desire. Love’s opposite would not exist but for your invitation of
C:15.1 would be transportation rather than a status symbol. Without a  desire for specialness, a person would have no need for status at
C:15.1 would be what it is and not what products would make it. Without a  desire for specialness, a person would have no need for products at
C:15.1 to feed, there would be neither want nor hunger. Without a  desire for specialness there would be no war, for there would be no
C:15.3 While you  desire specialness for yourself, your true Self will remain hidden
C:15.3 identity, specialness must be seen for what it is so that you will  desire it no longer. You can have specialness or your true Self, but
C:15.3 You can have specialness or your true Self, but never both. The  desire for specialness is what calls your little self into being.
C:15.4 It is more difficult to see that this  desire for specialness does not stop with what would bring misery to
C:15.4 leader of some impoverished country brings misery to others with his  desire for specialness, but not you. Yes, taken on a grand scale, you
C:15.4 but not you. Yes, taken on a grand scale, you can see that this  desire can wreak havoc; but still you would not believe that your own
C:15.4 can wreak havoc; but still you would not believe that your own  desire for specialness or to make another special could make a
C:15.7 Your  desire for specialness makes of you a slave to others and others to
C:16.16 The more the individual, society, and culture indulge in the  desire to judge, the more godlike they think they make themselves.
C:17.4 itself. It will change your perception of it. This is both what you  desire and what you fear just as you both desire and fear knowing
C:17.4 it. This is both what you desire and what you fear just as you both  desire and fear knowing yourself.
C:18.13 it. You need only to experience this idea in your own way, from the  desire to know from which all ideas are born, in order to give it
C:18.14 Self to be the creator, and loved all that you created. You did not  desire and fear something at the same time, and your desires did not
C:19.7 can be found and experienced, and thus from these that you fuel your  desire for union with all and for knowledge of your Creator. This
C:19.7 fulfilled. It is not the means that are lacking but the wholehearted  desire.
C:19.24 and the only light in which you can truly see. You will not truly  desire to unite your mind and heart in wholeheartedness until you see
C:20.1 stretching outward, straining heavenward, near to bursting with its  desire for union, a desire you do not understand but can surely feel.
C:20.1 straining heavenward, near to bursting with its desire for union, a  desire you do not understand but can surely feel.
C:22.23 available. As the universal becomes available, you will have no  desire for the personal. Even so, you will find that what you
C:23.6 true of your relationship with God. As in any love relationship, the  desire to know God can be all consuming. Yet, while God transcends
C:23.27 was stated in A Course in Miracles: Resign as your own teacher. The  desire to control is the desire to remain your own teacher and/or to
C:23.27 Miracles: Resign as your own teacher. The desire to control is the  desire to remain your own teacher and/or to choose your teachers and
C:25.4 occurring. You can attempt to earn the love of those from whom you  desire it, you can attempt to buy it, change for it, or capture it.
C:25.20 You may also notice a growth in your  desire to take credit for what you have created, and a desire to
C:25.20 in your desire to take credit for what you have created, and a  desire to create anew. At this stage, this desire will come from a
C:25.20 you have created, and a desire to create anew. At this stage, this  desire will come from a feeling of needing to reassert the self. This
C:25.20 life. Wanting to take credit is of the ego, and at this stage the  desire to create may be linked with ego as well. Your personal self
C:27.12 waiting to be revealed. Your heart knows of unity and knows not any  desire to be alone and separate. Your heart understands relationship
C:28.11 to act and yet awkward in your actions. We have spoken before of the  desire to create that may arise as you begin to enter this stage of
C:29.21 Can you have faith that your true inheritance is what you truly  desire, even knowing not exactly what that inheritance is? Can you
T1:1.1 as one. Any state other than that of peace is conflicted by the  desire for peace and the ways in which peace is seen as being
T1:2.16 to your survival needs. It may signal many things ranging from a  desire to get safely home before it is dark, to a desire to eat an
T1:2.16 ranging from a desire to get safely home before it is dark, to a  desire to eat an evening meal. It signals change in the natural world
T1:4.22 gives you a feeling of open-mindedness and growth. Lay aside your  desire for reasons for self-congratulation in favor of
T1:7.1 to be who you are in terms of not being able to do as you would  desire to do, live as you would desire to live, achieve what you
T1:7.1 of not being able to do as you would desire to do, live as you would  desire to live, achieve what you would choose to achieve. The true
T1:7.1 has been unable to bring you the satisfaction and the peace you  desire.
T1:10.2 in a way that peace does not. It will seem so human that a wave of  desire to be fully human will wash over you. You will think that this
T2:1.4 feed the ego. Despite many observations within this Course regarding  desire, you may still fear your desire. Despite many exhortations
T2:1.4 within this Course regarding desire, you may still fear your  desire. Despite many exhortations that your purpose here is to be who
T2:1.4 learned much about the need to leave judgment behind, you judge your  desire to be other than you are now, including any desires related to
T2:1.9 are given a structure and form in your thinking of them. A  desire to paint, in your thoughts becomes a completed painting that
T2:3.2 There would be no need for form if there had been no  desire for expression. Life is the desire to express outwardly what
T2:3.2 for form if there had been no desire for expression. Life is the  desire to express outwardly what exists within. What I refer to so
T2:6.5 from you and beyond you in time. That your mind projects what you  desire to accomplish onto an unknown future time is what would seem
T2:7.1 We have talked much in this Course of your  desire to be independent without looking at the condition of
T2:7.1 has taken on a negative meaning specifically in contrast to your  desire to be independent. One of your greatest fears is thus of a
T2:7.5 feelings of lack or deprivation? What is the hidden source of your  desire to control?
T2:7.10 Here is an idea not heretofore given much attention, the idea of the  desire for change. Certainly there will continue to be things within
T2:7.10 following the patterns of old as you go out into the world with your  desire to effect change?
T2:7.11 truth in a very concrete way. For to go out into the world with the  desire to give, either expecting to receive in certain measure or to
T2:7.13 the early teachings of A Course of Love, teachings concerning your  desire to be good and to do good. This is not about doing good works.
T2:7.17 and feelings since taking this Course. You have done so out of a  desire to be truthful, a desire to not express thoughts and feelings
T2:7.17 this Course. You have done so out of a desire to be truthful, a  desire to not express thoughts and feelings unworthy of your real
T2:7.17 you would judge as negative or bad. Or you may have, in your  desire not to judge others, kept yourself from speaking up in
T2:9.1 I ask you now to remember a time when you felt from another the  desire to help or to meet your needs. Do not think that this desire
T2:9.1 the desire to help or to meet your needs. Do not think that this  desire is not present in all relationships. It is only the ego that
T2:9.1 present in all relationships. It is only the ego that stands between  desire and the meeting of desire, needs and the meeting of needs.
T2:9.1 It is only the ego that stands between desire and the meeting of  desire, needs and the meeting of needs.
T2:9.5 best seen in the contrast implied by the intent to hang on. The  desire to hang on to anything assumes that what you have is in need
T2:9.11 or self-satisfied, or, in other words, feel your needs are met, the  desire to hang on to what you have arises. This is true of knowledge,
T2:9.12 As soon as the  desire to hang on arises, both learning and unlearning cease to
T2:9.12 to hang on arises, both learning and unlearning cease to occur. The  desire to maintain a state you believe you have achieved and have
T2:9.14 unity where creation is continuous and ongoing. You should have no  desire to reach such a state and the awareness that you are in such a
T2:10.16 Again your  desire for a static state would make you rather listen to your ego as
T3:2.5 you believed you chose to separate from God out of defiance and a  desire to be one with God no longer. This could not be further from
T3:2.11 abandoned you, but you who abandoned your Self and God. Give up your  desire to think that if you did such a thing there was a reason for
T3:2.12 stuck in an adolescent phase of development. The ego-self’s only  desire was for you to “grow up” into its version of an independent
T3:3.3 for yourself and let this fear keep you from much you would  desire, you fear as much or more your ability to disappoint others or
T3:6.1 Can you give up your  desire for reward? To give up your desire for reward is to give up a
T3:6.1 Can you give up your desire for reward? To give up your  desire for reward is to give up a childish desire that has become
T3:6.1 reward? To give up your desire for reward is to give up a childish  desire that has become like unto a plague among you. While many of
T3:6.1 you. While many of you see it not, everything you do is based upon  desire for reward. This is your desire to be given to in return for
T3:6.1 not, everything you do is based upon desire for reward. This is your  desire to be given to in return for what you give. This stems from
T3:6.1 of yourself as less than what your parents are. While you may still  desire recognition and affirmation from them, this is not the same as
T3:6.1 think is in charge of rewarding you, the attitude that causes you to  desire reward is what must be done without.
T3:6.6 and made you ready for this choice. Choose now to leave your  desire for reward, as well as all of your reasons for bitterness, and
T3:10.14 if you will, of the new thought system, for you will have no  desire to communicate with anything less.
T3:10.15 the common language of the mind and heart joined in unity. You will  desire more than anything for everyone you encounter to share this
T3:13.1 by any doubt you might have had concerning whether or not you would  desire the new goal toward which we work.
T3:14.1 as thought alone will not bring about the changes you would so  desire to have come about within your physical experience. You may
T3:14.5 but those who will be visited by great change are but those who  desire it. Yet even those who desire great change will find these
T3:14.5 by great change are but those who desire it. Yet even those who  desire great change will find these great changes will not cause them
T3:19.7 to sexual union may be called for. While some of you may have less  desire for physical joining as you become more aware of unity, some
T3:19.7 joining as you become more aware of unity, some may have more  desire for physical joining as an expression of that union. Neither
T3:20.11 to be lived by as the truth is meant to be lived by. Not because you  desire an outcome, but because it is who you are and because you
T3:20.14 I thank you for your strong  desire to be saviors of the world and to end her suffering. I thank
T3:20.14 to end her suffering. I thank you for your compassion and for your  desire to be of service to the world. But I call to you from peace
T3:21.11 to doubt circumstances of their birth are often consumed with a  desire to discover these unknown circumstances. For your birth, your
T3:22.13 Observation, both of yourself and of what you  desire, is an act that takes place in the here and now that is and
T3:22.14 Observation of what you  desire, what we have referred to as “closed eyes” observation, can be
T3:22.14 your effort, create the desired outcome. Observation of what you  desire is observation of what is, for your desire is of God and what
T3:22.14 Observation of what you desire is observation of what is, for your  desire is of God and what you desire now, contrary to what you would
T3:22.14 is observation of what is, for your desire is of God and what you  desire now, contrary to what you would have desired in the early
T3:22.14 in the early stages of this Course, is the Will of God. What you  desire now is the Will of God because it is your true desire, your
T3:22.14 God. What you desire now is the Will of God because it is your true  desire, your will and God’s joined as one.
T3:22.15 also as a product of distrust. It was a tension that existed between  desire and accomplishment, the tension that told you that you might
T3:22.15 the tension that told you that you might be able to achieve what you  desire but that you also might not. Realize that this game of chance
T4:1.22 the Holy Spirit. This limit acted upon you as a catalyst to create  desire for the new. It is what has caused your growing impatience
T4:1.22 technology but seemed to offer. It is what has caused your growing  desire for meaning and purpose. It is what has caused you to finally
T4:2.11 a way of calling all others to know what they can achieve. One may  desire to best a sporting record and another to follow the first man
T4:2.11 space and the one who desires to best a sporting record may feel no  desire to follow the first man into space and vice versa, and yet,
T4:2.11 the door for others and this is known to you. Even those who did not  desire to fly in a plane when this feat was first accomplished have
T4:2.12 goal was not to be better than anyone but themselves. Surely many  desire to be “the best” as a means to glorify the ego, but few of
T4:4.18 of expressing your Self in form because this goal but reflected the  desire for a temporary experience. The temporary experience has been
T4:6.1 both historically and currently. What you envision, imagine,  desire, hold as being possible, is possible, because you make it so.
T4:6.4 and direct sharing, the probable future you imagine, envision,  desire, will be what you create. This is the power of the devotion of
T4:6.4 the state natural to all is what I ask you to imagine, envision and  desire.
T4:6.7 affect much with what you envision, imagine and  desire, in love, without changing the world and the nature of the
T4:7.1 from Love and knows not judgment. All that you envision, imagine,  desire with love must be without judgment or it will be false
T4:7.1 judgment or it will be false envisioning, false imagining, false  desire. This simply means false, or not consistent with the truth. It
T4:7.4 will be revealed to them through what they can envision, imagine and  desire without judgment. It will not take the effort of their bodies,
T4:7.4 joined in unity, a consciousness able to envision, imagine and  desire without judgment and without fear.
T4:8.13 it would add to His being? What purpose is behind your own  desire to do thus?
T4:8.14 It was only the ego that made this  desire seem to be for anything other than the purpose of expansion
T4:8.16 to learn that it could master. Yet all that this was, was a  desire to be done with learning, which is a true desire consistent
T4:8.16 this was, was a desire to be done with learning, which is a true  desire consistent with your true nature and your purpose here. To
T4:9.4 is the time to leave behind study for imagining, envisioning, and  desire. Now is the time to move out of the time of becoming who you
T4:12.13 only doubt that it can be continual but with doubt that you would  desire it to be? These questions relate to our earlier discussion of
T4:12.34 to our responses. Will respond to what we envision, imagine and  desire. Creation of the new could not begin without you. Your
D:1.21 that could not be taught but only accessed through your longing and  desire.
D:2.18 these systems are based upon misperceptions or illusion. Your  desire to cling to systems that are not foolproof is insane, for
D:2.19 All systems have been based upon your  desire to understand the world around you rather than the world
D:2.20 The seeming difficulty with this new beginning stems from your  desire to learn anew. You would say, “If the justice system doesn’t
D:4.21 air of freedom. Be aware constantly of the sky above your head and  desire no more ceilings to shield you from it.
D:4.26 else. It is up to you to accept that your release is possible, to  desire it without fear, to call it into being.
D:5.6 to show—to teach—that joining is the way. Think of the word  desire and its association with sex. To desire someone is to desire
D:5.6 the way. Think of the word desire and its association with sex. To  desire someone is to desire joining. This desire was created to
D:5.6 word desire and its association with sex. To desire someone is to  desire joining. This desire was created to remind you—to point the
D:5.6 association with sex. To desire someone is to desire joining. This  desire was created to remind you—to point the way—to your true
D:5.6 desire was created to remind you—to point the way—to your true  desire for your true identity as a being joined in oneness. This
D:5.7 you did not lose yourself and experience completion, you would not  desire it. Sex, experienced for this pleasure and completion,
D:5.7 non-attachment, still would produce the desired effect of creating  desire for oneness if you truly saw and understood the body and its
D:5.13 be to create a tome of information, and this is not needed now. The  desire for such is a desire to think through once again the meaning
D:5.13 of information, and this is not needed now. The desire for such is a  desire to think through once again the meaning of everything and to
D:6.13 facts.” I mean no disrespect to scientists and bless them for their  desire to find the “truth,” as you should bless them for the
D:6.23 through sexual intercourse—a design given to lead the way to  desire for oneness and completion.
D:7.15 The observation, envisioning, and  desire you have been practicing in order to be ready to accept
D:7.17  Desire is an acknowledgment of the uniqueness of each Self, and is a
D:7.17 each Self, and is a demonstration of means and end being the same.  Desire keeps you focused on your own path and leaves you
D:7.17 own path and leaves you nonjudgmental of the paths of others. Yet  desire, like observation and vision, is still related to the self of
D:7.18 Revelation is of God. Observation, vision, and  desire are steps leading you beyond what the individual, separated
D:8.11 dot of the separated self and into the circle of unity where all you  desire is already accomplished in the fullness and wholeness of the
D:9.1 why you do not see what is and are the reason that you continue to  desire to be provided with set answers.
D:9.3 You continue to think that your  desire to know who you are calls you to think about who you are and
D:9.3 a certainty about who you are. You have been led to see that this  desire has always been with you, and you have thought it is the very
D:9.3 desire has always been with you, and you have thought it is the very  desire that, once defined and acted upon, would fulfill you, allow
D:9.4 But you have thought about this  desire to know who you are in one way or another all of your life
D:11.5 that you believe you are still on your own, and that you still  desire to be, for only here, in this area of your individuality, do
D:11.5 do you believe you make your contributions to the world. Your  desire to make a contribution—to help to make new the world that
D:11.5 of in the beginning of this Dialogue? What was spoken of as your  desire to prepare?
D:11.6 Let me ask you a question. Do you think  desire will still be with you when you have achieved what you have
D:11.6 you have desired? Is it not possible to conceive of a time in which  desire will no longer serve you, just as learning now no longer
D:11.6 that state, fully accept that your contribution is being made, will  desire still be with you?
D:11.9 and the elevation of the self of form? How might this relate to your  desire to make a contribution and answer your calling? How does this
D:11.9 a contribution and answer your calling? How does this relate to your  desire to know what to do?
D:11.10 you, at the heart or center of your Self, as do all answers. Your  desire to make of me a teacher is the same as your desire to make
D:11.10 all answers. Your desire to make of me a teacher is the same as your  desire to make your thoughts into answers that will provide you with
D:11.15 through the elevated Self of form. Why would you retain your  desire to make an individual contribution, when you can now make a
D:13.1 than in being adamant in the proclamation of what you know. But this  desire to proclaim what you know will grow in you, and while you will
D:15.19 This is, as with all maintenance, a temporary measure, but one you  desire to have discussed, just as we discussed parameters to your
D:17.3 secret of succession is simple. It is but a matter of wholehearted  desire. Do you wholeheartedly desire to follow me to your true
D:17.3 It is but a matter of wholehearted desire. Do you wholeheartedly  desire to follow me to your true inheritance? To come after me and be
D:17.3 be as I was? To be the inheritor of the gifts that are ours? Do you  desire this? Are you willing to claim it? Are you willing to claim it
D:17.5 Little can be had without  desire. Desire, unlike want, asks for a response rather than a
D:17.5 Little can be had without desire.  Desire, unlike want, asks for a response rather than a provision.
D:17.5 Desire, unlike want, asks for a response rather than a provision.  Desire is a longing for, a stretching out for. Imagine yourself at
D:17.5 rather than toward the earth below. This is the stance of both  desire and fulfillment. Of longing and attainment. Of having asked
D:17.5 the embrace of homecoming, and what comes before the passing of  desire and the reverence that replaces it. It acknowledges a certain
D:17.5 it. It acknowledges a certain “taking over” of the spirit of  desire. Having “arrived,” the desire to “get there” has not been
D:17.5 certain “taking over” of the spirit of desire. Having “arrived,” the  desire to “get there” has not been satiated but only has grown into
D:17.6 But the  desire, the desire is stronger than ever before. The influx of
D:17.6 But the desire, the  desire is stronger than ever before. The influx of attainment has
D:17.6 of achievement has been reached. Your glory is realized. But the  desire, the desire is stronger than ever before.
D:17.6 has been reached. Your glory is realized. But the desire, the  desire is stronger than ever before.
D:17.7 whole world. From the top of the mountain, arms outstretched, this  desire too has caused your arms to raise as if of their own accord.
D:17.8 But the  desire, the desire is stronger than ever before.
D:17.8 But the desire, the  desire is stronger than ever before.
D:17.9 You know instinctively that this  desire is not a desire to hold on to what you have. That this moment
D:17.9 You know instinctively that this desire is not a  desire to hold on to what you have. That this moment of achievement
D:17.9 to best. It simply is what it is: A moment of presence full of both  desire and fulfillment.
D:17.10 of initiation. You are no longer hopeful for what will come. Hope is  desire accompanied by expectation. To expect is to await, and you are
D:17.12 That response is wholehearted  desire, which is the power that A Course of Love came to return to
D:17.12 to return to you. You were told within this Course that wholehearted  desire for union would return union to you and return you to your
D:17.12 This is the moment of realization of that accomplishment. But your  desire has not left you. Your desire is stronger than ever before.
D:17.12 of that accomplishment. But your desire has not left you. Your  desire is stronger than ever before.
D:17.13 What is different now is that your wholeheartedness, as well as your  desire, has moved beyond the pattern of thought.
D:17.14 of you earlier, for they are even more pertinent now. Do you think  desire will still be with you when you have achieved what you have
D:17.14 you have desired? Is it not possible to conceive of a time in which  desire will no longer serve you, just as learning now no longer
D:17.14 that state, fully accept that your contribution is being made, will  desire still be with you?
D:17.15 instead of to your thinking, that you feel both fulfillment and  desire. But my earlier questions seemed to indicate that once
D:17.15 questions seemed to indicate that once fulfillment was reached,  desire would no longer be with you. But your desire is still with
D:17.15 was reached, desire would no longer be with you. But your  desire is still with you. It is stronger than ever before.
D:17.17  Desire asks for a response. Earlier it was said that desire asks for
D:17.17 Desire asks for a response. Earlier it was said that  desire asks for a response while want asks for provision. What is the
D:17.18 appropriate response to want, but it is an inappropriate response to  desire. It is an assumption of needs unfulfilled. You now stand in
D:17.19  Desire asks for a response. From where is this response sought? You
D:17.19 the fullness of the well of your heart, the interrelationship of  desire and fulfillment. The interrelationship of desire and
D:17.19 of desire and fulfillment. The interrelationship of  desire and fulfillment is what occurs at the threshold. Beyond the
D:17.19 occurs at the threshold. Beyond the threshold is the state in which  desire has passed and been replaced by reverence. To revere is to
D:17.19 has been stated, is due nothing and no one but God. To move beyond  desire to reverence is to move into the state of communion with God,
D:17.21 to the site you have traveled so far to reach. You are here and  desire fills you, even while you know the glory of having arrived.
D:17.24  Desire calls here, louder and stronger than ever before, because of
D:17.26 at the top of the mountain, fasting from want, becoming aware of  desire, responding to desire. This is the final stage of becoming.
D:17.26 mountain, fasting from want, becoming aware of desire, responding to  desire. This is the final stage of becoming. Herein lies the secret
D:Day1.9 akin to non-acceptance of the way that has been given to bring your  desire to fruition. The spacecraft could be seen as a response to
D:Day1.9 to fruition. The spacecraft could be seen as a response to your  desire. So too can I.
D:Day1.17 Your  desire to know me has grown as you have read these words and grown
D:Day1.27 You can only fast from wanting by realizing what it is you  desire. My forty days and forty nights on the mountain succeeded my
D:Day1.27 as my Self in the world. So too does it with you. You long for and  desire me because our story is the same. You are living my story as I
D:Day2.2 Self. But still, in unguarded moments, in moments in which you would  desire peace, memories of your life continue to play within your
D:Day2.4 what was always envisioned. This is the moment of fulfillment and  desire coming together, the time in which to realize “it was all
D:Day3.27 been told time and time again. I do not ask you to give up what you  desire, but to expect and accept a response to what you desire.
D:Day3.27 up what you desire, but to expect and accept a response to what you  desire. Remember that we are headed even beyond desire, and know that
D:Day3.27 response to what you desire. Remember that we are headed even beyond  desire, and know that desire must first be met before you can be
D:Day3.27 Remember that we are headed even beyond desire, and know that  desire must first be met before you can be taken beyond it.
D:Day3.51 is depression, a lowering of spirits and energy, a lack of  desire, a lack of activity, a sinking feeling of going under, of
D:Day4.13 this place. It is like being told that all of the treasure you might  desire is locked away behind a gate to which you have no key.
D:Day4.26 key to the treasure. Union is both access and the place to which you  desire access. As all that exists in truth, union is means and end.
D:Day4.29 can be purchased through your right-actions or even your longing and  desire. For this access is not a tool but a function of who you are.
D:Day4.36 We talked earlier of this as a time of fulfillment and  desire. We acknowledged that your desire is stronger than ever
D:Day4.36 this as a time of fulfillment and desire. We acknowledged that your  desire is stronger than ever before. Now is the time to focus on this
D:Day4.36 is stronger than ever before. Now is the time to focus on this  desire and fulfillment, to stretch this desire to its limits, all the
D:Day4.36 is the time to focus on this desire and fulfillment, to stretch this  desire to its limits, all the while realizing that its fulfillment
D:Day4.37 This is a longing that carries with it the  desire to go beyond thinking, the desire to go beyond words, the
D:Day4.37 a longing that carries with it the desire to go beyond thinking, the  desire to go beyond words, the desire to go beyond where your
D:Day4.37 the desire to go beyond thinking, the desire to go beyond words, the  desire to go beyond where your imagination is capable of taking you.
D:Day4.37 go beyond where your imagination is capable of taking you. It is a  desire for true discovery, a desire to access the previously unknown.
D:Day4.37 is capable of taking you. It is a desire for true discovery, a  desire to access the previously unknown.
D:Day4.38 where the portal of access will take you, you will not go. Thus your  desire needs to be greater than your fear. Love needs to reign. Love
D:Day4.44 or is once again delayed. Here is where you say, I want it all,  desire it all, accept it all—for you cannot have of this in parts.
D:Day4.45 choices. There is only one requirement for this choice: Wholehearted  desire. Wholehearted desire is what A Course of Love taught you so
D:Day4.45 one requirement for this choice: Wholehearted desire. Wholehearted  desire is what A Course of Love taught you so that you could be taken
D:Day4.48 Your  desire and your access are one and the same. If you desire this
D:Day4.48 Your desire and your access are one and the same. If you  desire this transformation wholeheartedly, if you make this choice
D:Day4.48 wholeheartedly, if you make this choice with wholehearted  desire, it will be done, and we will continue our dialogue so that
D:Day4.49 will not transform you. If you do not truly and wholeheartedly  desire this choice, if you do not truly and wholeheartedly meet the
D:Day4.54 You but think that you can wholeheartedly  desire to move forward with love and without fear and that there is
D:Day5.12 may have and another may not. While this remains the case, you may  desire to give others what you have and feel unable to do so. Yet,
D:Day5.15 and its expression, will not look the same way twice. What you each  desire from union most will be what finds the greatest expression
D:Day5.17 your talents have been recognized, are as given as the goal you now  desire to realize. Again I remind you that the sameness of union is
D:Day5.19 than when specifics are being dealt with. Yet you continue to  desire specifics. This is because you are still entrenched in the
D:Day5.20 is to come to you to come. If you could indeed give in to this  desire fully, it would speed the transformation along quite nicely.
D:Day5.20 nicely. So please, listen to your weariness and to your heart’s  desire to rest. Listen to the call to peace and let yourself recline
D:Day6.14 It may take on many forms, but its main source is almost surely a  desire to focus on the relationship developing between us, and a
D:Day6.14 focus on the relationship developing between us, and a corresponding  desire not to have to focus on the details of daily life. You may be
D:Day6.24 has stepped aside as a teacher and become a companion. Would you  desire to prolong your time as an apprentice by being removed from
D:Day6.28 many of you are currently experiencing in one way or another. Your  desire is where it belongs—here—in the passionate acceptance of
D:Day6.28 the passionate acceptance of our work together. And so the lack of  desire you are experiencing for other areas of the life you still
D:Day6.28 you. Yet why should this be disturbing? Why should you continue to  desire the life you have had?
D:Day6.30 Do you need to feel  desire for what you do in order to do it peacefully? Do you need to
D:Day8.2 moment is what will cause the transformation that will end your  desire to remove yourself from life. All those frustrations you
D:Day8.4 Realize that your  desire for your life to be different, your desire for your
D:Day8.4 Realize that your desire for your life to be different, your  desire for your unhappiness to be gone, is very unlikely, in truth,
D:Day9.21 leader or guru. True spiritual leaders or gurus have no need nor  desire to be seen as such and are often made into images such as
D:Day9.21 the minds of those who would seek to follow their teachings. This  desire of “followers” to accept an image is less prevalent now but
D:Day9.26 What might happen if you change what you  desire? You might just realize your freedom.
D:Day9.30 return to you the freedom and the will to fan the flames of your  desire to be, and to express, who you are in truth.
D:Day9.32 freedom. It begins with the simple realization that you do still  desire, or think you desire, learning challenges of this type and
D:Day9.32 with the simple realization that you do still desire, or think you  desire, learning challenges of this type and with the realization
D:Day10.38 feelings of love flowing through you now find their expression. I  desire, more than anything, your happiness, your peace, and your
D:Day10.38 that have been used to “address” your feelings in the way you might  desire have worked. This will work.
D:Day18.1 Still others will participate in both, following their innate  desire to facilitate the creation of change through a specific
D:Day18.4 can true service become true action. It is the way for those who  desire to bring expression to a calling they feel within to “do”
D:Day22.7 reality of separation. You realize that you know the unknown and you  desire to make the unknown knowable. You realize that you have known
D:Day29.3 as you let go of judgment and relearned or remembered wholehearted  desire—the source of your power. Now this power is available to
D:Day33.15 with everything and everyone all of the time and retain the  desire to use your power. This is impossible. The realization that
D:Day34.4 The wholehearted  desire that is upon you now is the desire to know and experience this
D:Day34.4 The wholehearted desire that is upon you now is the  desire to know and experience this oneness of being in relationship
D:Day34.5 This wholehearted  desire can be fulfilled in you—it is being fulfilled in you. As it
D:Day34.5 differences behind. Now you need only realize that your wholehearted  desire has made it so and begin to see and create this change in the
D:Day35.11 accepting of yourself rather than in a quest for self or with a  desire to know a higher self. You return knowing you are one in being
D:Day35.16 produced the idea of separation, while at the same time, humankind’s  desire for separation produced unawareness of union and relationship.
D:Day35.16 produced unawareness of union and relationship. Now humankind’s  desire for union and relationship has led to awareness of union and
D:Day35.16 while at the same time union and relationship has led to this  desire. Creation itself, which stands apart from particulars but
E.3 now only with love, and so nothing will be hard for you.  Desire an old pattern to be gone and it will be gone. This little
E.9 non-being and in a similar fashion, drift as gently and as your own  desire arises, into all-being. Mainly you will enjoy being—being
E.23 you have begun to realize that everything is different, you will not  desire to turn back, not even for the familiar thought processes
A.10 Often you will find a  desire to read the Course again—to read it aloud—to hear it
A.10 again—to read it aloud—to hear it spoken. This is a natural  desire to let the words of the Course enter you in yet another way—
A.26 Readers who have not moved away from their  desire to learn something that will feed their minds or egos will
A.26 guidance provided by their reading may seem to come and go and their  desire to rely on what they have “learned” will grow. They may desire
A.26 their desire to rely on what they have “learned” will grow. They may  desire to backtrack, review, or begin to highlight passages to return
A.26 passages to return to again and again. New questions may arise and a  desire for feedback or discussion grow stronger. This may also be

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D:17.5 rather than toward the earth below. This is the stance of both  desire and fulfillment. Of longing and attainment. Of having asked
D:17.9 to best. It simply is what it is: A moment of presence full of both  desire and fulfillment.
D:17.19 the fullness of the well of your heart, the interrelationship of  desire and fulfillment. The interrelationship of desire and
D:17.19 of desire and fulfillment. The interrelationship of  desire and fulfillment is what occurs at the threshold. Beyond the
D:Day4.36 is stronger than ever before. Now is the time to focus on this  desire and fulfillment, to stretch this desire to its limits, all the

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C:9.46 and false remembering of the separated self. As much as you have  desired anonymity and autonomy from God, still you blame God for
C:9.48 All your vast wanderings will be seen for what they are. All that you  desired will be revealed as only two desires, the desire to love and
C:11.13 to change your mind about its need to be fought is what is  desired by your Father and this Course.
C:18.14 remains now is a choice of participation. In unity, all that you  desired was participated in fully by a mind and heart combined in
C:18.14 and your desires did not change from moment to moment. What you  desired you experienced fully with your whole being, making it one
C:19.2 love, as all of creation was, it was also created to provide the  desired experience. Thus was fear born, for a separate self is a
C:19.9 to mine? You have not been able to do this thus far because you have  desired specialness for yourself and a few others rather than
C:25.7 of tenderness, a true practice that, like vigilance, is a means to a  desired end. You must practice recognizing your feelings of lack of
T1:6.6 to ask from an unreal state of lack for what is seen as missing or  desired. In contrast, true prayer, formed in union, is a means of
T3:2.3 was a choice for separation but not because separation itself was  desired as you have assumed. This is the assumption you have accepted
T3:17.5 than” and separate from the self. While it was important to the  desired experience to learn the lessons of what was observable within
T3:18.3 you have made for a new purpose. It is the perfect ending for the  desired experience, as it was the goal of the desired experience.
T3:18.3 perfect ending for the desired experience, as it was the goal of the  desired experience.
T3:22.14 the time that it will take you to, through your effort, create the  desired outcome. Observation of what you desire is observation of
T3:22.14 is of God and what you desire now, contrary to what you would have  desired in the early stages of this Course, is the Will of God. What
T4:2.4 But I also came to provide an intermediary, for this is what was  desired, a bridge between the human or forgotten self and the divine
T4:2.12 the necessity for a confidence that has led them to achieve their  desired end, most who so achieve and become the first to set records,
T4:7.8 has occurred. The student no longer needs to attend school once the  desired curriculum is learned, except through their own choice. Again
T4:10.11 Learning was what was necessary in order to allow you to fulfill the  desired experience of expressing the Self of love in form. No longer
D:2.4 to enable the return to unity. This pattern has achieved its  desired end and so is no longer needed nor appropriate. While it was
D:2.4 While it was once a pattern whose design was perfect for the  desired end, continuation of this pattern will but interfere with
D:2.5 An example of a pattern whose design was perfect for the  desired end is that of formal education. Education has a natural
D:2.11 a game of chance. You give it a try, and if the outcome is as you  desired it to be you call it a success, and if the outcome is not as
D:2.11 it to be you call it a success, and if the outcome is not as you  desired it to be you call it a failure. You admit that what you
D:2.14 such as that of government, the more likely you are to experience  desired outcomes. Either way, control is seen as a powerful pattern.
D:2.17 believe works most of the time, and are happy to use to acquire a  desired end, but which, when it does not provide the solutions you
D:2.17 but which, when it does not provide the solutions you might have  desired, becomes a system you would rail against. You might consider
D:3.3 asks you to invest your life with the very purpose you have always  desired. You are not purposeless now. Your life is not meaningless.
D:4.22 the prison were gifts indeed. So too are the gifts many of you have  desired and still feel as if you need. If you have imprisoned
D:5.7 of emotional attachment or non-attachment, still would produce the  desired effect of creating desire for oneness if you truly saw and
D:5.19 acceptance of form as what it is. This is the new reality you have  desired. To live as who you are in form. To not wait for death’s
D:8.10 true Self and the true expression of the Self. Thus where you have  desired to express yourself in the past is very likely linked to the
D:11.6 desire will still be with you when you have achieved what you have  desired? Is it not possible to conceive of a time in which desire
D:12.15 You may have been amazed at this new authority, and you may have  desired more than anything to have others realize that you really
D:15.18 Thus we look at maintenance as the work, or relationship, with the  desired service. In this example, maintenance is what you give in
D:17.14 desire will still be with you when you have achieved what you have  desired? Is it not possible to conceive of a time in which desire
D:17.16 this might be so is that it is meant to be so. Something is still  desired.
D:17.24 than ever before, because of your proximity to what you have  desired. Every hero’s journey returns him home. To where he started
D:Day3.39 the responsiveness of the relationship that is unity. You perhaps  desired an answer that “came to you” through no process you had known
D:Day4.44 both specific and obscure. It has been described as all you have  desired and more. It has been described as the end to the life of
D:Day5.20 what is given. All that is being given is the helpful hints you have  desired from an older brother who has experienced what you, as yet,
D:Day9.25 create the wholeness and the holiness of who you are. A creator who  desired only sameness would not have created a world of such
D:Day9.25 And you do. You just have not realized that you do. You have not  desired to do so but desired to do something else! Desired to wait,
D:Day9.25 have not realized that you do. You have not desired to do so but  desired to do something else! Desired to wait, desired to learn,
D:Day9.25 do. You have not desired to do so but desired to do something else!  Desired to wait, desired to learn, desired to imitate.
D:Day9.25 desired to do so but desired to do something else! Desired to wait,  desired to learn, desired to imitate.
D:Day9.25 but desired to do something else! Desired to wait, desired to learn,  desired to imitate.
D:Day19.11 Many called to the way of Mary will “do” much that is greatly  desired in the world but what they do will be a byproduct of their
D:Day28.25 Separation is  desired no longer, but experience is. Your will and God’s are one and
D:Day37.10 has sounded and that it is a call to the difference you have always  desired while not requiring you to remain separate!

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C:I.4 to be confused, to be open, to remain open, and to not know. It  desires anchors to hold it in one spot, and held there suffers the
C:3.18 I say to you again: take heart. Such foolishness as your heart’s  desires will save you now. Remember it is your heart that yearns for
C:8.12 Even your loftiest  desires are fraught with righteousness that is still righteousness no
C:9.7 but only through what it would choose to share. Alongside these  desires it is easy to see how a world such as that of the body
C:9.9 for you with a single purpose instead of alongside the conflicting  desires you chose to let lead you to this strange world. You travel
C:9.44 of your daily life gone awry, are but demonstrations of internal  desires taken to a greater extreme; only these, rather than being
C:9.48 for what they are. All that you desired will be revealed as only two  desires, the desire to love and the desire to be loved. Why wait to
C:9.48 to love and the desire to be loved. Why wait to see that these  desires are all that call you to the strange behavior you display?
C:10.9 this time and smile and laugh out loud at the innocence of these  desires that but reveal that you stand merely at the beginning of the
C:10.9 harder, for being closer to God than your brother or sister, are all  desires of your separated self wanting something for itself and all
C:10.10 encouraged rather than discouraged that God does not grant all your  desires here. For these are not yet your true desires, and the
C:10.10 not grant all your desires here. For these are not yet your true  desires, and the rewards you would choose here are as dust to those
C:15.1 desire for yourself? Do you not see how intricately linked these two  desires are? The desire to give and receive specialness is the
C:18.14 You did not desire and fear something at the same time, and your  desires did not change from moment to moment. What you desired you
C:20.39 replaced by an understanding that each one is worthy of his or her  desires. Eachness replaces thingness but not oneness. All fear that
T2:1.4 you judge your desire to be other than you are now, including any  desires related to those internal treasures you had once hoped to
T2:1.9 Even the  desires you may have once identified as hoping to develop into
T2:1.13 Ego  desires cause one to think of a grand piano. Thoughts joined in unity
T2:1.13 to think of a grand piano. Thoughts joined in unity hear music. Ego  desires cause one to think of an elaborately framed painting.
T2:5.1 you are listening to a new voice that would reveal your talents and  desires to you. This type of calling comes as a light shone into the
T3:2.1 being to share the Self in a new way. Expressions you call art are  desires to share the Self in a new way. These expressions you call
T3:3.2 of your traits have been chosen either in accordance with the ego’s  desires or in opposition to them. Whether they be in accord or in
T3:3.4 not understand when illness or depression stood in the way of your  desires or the plans of others and let such circumstances fill you
T3:16.10 may still hold concerning others having more than you have, or to  desires that you may feel have gone unfulfilled. While you may think
T3:16.14 issues that you consider to be issues of relationship. All of your  desires, fears, hopes and expectations of others are temptations that
T3:19.9 the truth is a thought system that is not split by varying goals and  desires. It is a thought system of unity. It is a thought system of
T4:2.11 and another to follow the first man into space and the one who  desires to best a sporting record may feel no desire to follow the
D:Day3.42 It is the world of unity, the true reality, through which your  desires are responded to. This does not mean that the place of unity
D:Day5.17 Who you are now, what your  desires are, and where your talents have been recognized, are as
D:Day22.3 available) is channeled through the expression of (the individual)  desires.
D:Day22.4 of experiences or information available and channeling only what one  desires to know. Thus, it is prudent to repeat once again, that you

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C:3.22 without the other and so they live in fear of love, all the while  desiring it above all else.
C:11.3 do, are at risk of trying too hard to be earnest rather than simply  desiring to learn.
C:18.14 whole being, making it one with you. That you keep yourself from  desiring anything fully here is what makes this existence so chaotic
C:18.14 and erratic. A mind and heart in conflict is what keeps you from  desiring anything fully, and thus from creating.
C:19.1 a free will operating in an external world, as well as a spirit self  desiring the experience of separation, would naturally lead to a
C:20.42 are. You may know that this is true or you may dwell in fantasies,  desiring what another has or some success, fame, or riches that seem
C:27.18 the power of details and the information of which you think when  desiring or fearing a fate of prophecy. The power we speak of is the
T3:14.2 If you are not financially secure, you may congratulate yourself on  desiring less and be more content living a simple life. If you have
T3:22.12 tension, the tension that exists between accepting what is and  desiring what will be. Linking the words creative and tension is
D:Day9.32 You might ask here what is wrong with  desiring to have the freedom to strive to be more and to do more. You

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T4:12.15 long journey that brought you here is over. Grow not impatient or  desirous of a return to journeying before you begin to experience the

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C:10.27 and six more crossing the street. There is your body sitting at a  desk in a building with many others. You will realize how seldom

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C:P.17 deeds without the world changing from a place of misery and  despair. What is more arrogant? To believe that you alone can do what
C:2.10 any decent human being to look on a loveless world, on misery and  despair, and not be moved? Think not that those who seem to add to
C:2.10 of love. The difference is the eyes of love see not the misery or  despair. They are not there! This is the miracle. The miracle is true
C:2.12 daunting sun, you still cannot believe in the reality of misery and  despair. If you do, you believe this is the state of God as well. And
C:8.28 and one day you feel sad, one day you feel hope and one day you feel  despair? How can it be that what was created so like to God’s
C:9.39 you have sought, you will not leave in deepest peace but in dark  despair and fear. You will have no hope for what lies beyond life,
C:10.21 that once you have experienced it you say, “I will take this  despair no more.” For others this threshold is the opposite, an
C:12.11 despite your wars, and happiness remains happiness despite your  despair.
C:16.15 future. You have nothing but evidence of a life of unhappiness and  despair, where occasional moments of joy or the few people that you
D:Day3.51 feeling of going under, of going into the depths of sadness and  despair.
D:Day16.8 What happens when feelings of loneliness or  despair, anger or grief join with the spacious Self? This joining
D:Day39.43 that I love all that you are, and that as you snarl in anger, cry in  despair, hang your head in weariness, howl with laughter, I am with
A.32 old pattern or situation that seems fraught with peril, a cloud of  despair will lift, a little more of darkness recedes, and a little

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C:5.8 whether they are of ideas or money or things to look at, are your  desperate attempts to keep something for yourself away from all the
C:9.19 surface, and behind each alternative label you would give it, in a  desperate attempt to see it not. To live in fear is, indeed, a curse,
T4:1.25 truth directly, but only to experience experience. They are in the  desperate throes of wanting to experience everything before they

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C:11.10 this was but God’s curse on you, a thing to tempt you to the life of  desperation that you live. But your strongest perception of your free

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C:6.6 of the original error—the choice to believe that you are separate  despite the fact that this is not so and cannot ever be. What loving
C:7.1 not based on the world of your mind or of physical circumstance.  Despite disappointments most severe, your heart knows that what you
C:9.49 way God created for you, a way that is completely free of conflict?  Despite your bravest attempts to remain separate, you must use your
C:10.10 A willingness to believe that you have everything you need  despite the “fact” that it does not seem so. Your willingness is all
C:10.20 it chose being right over being happy, it will congratulate itself  despite its unhappiness and say, “I did the right thing.” It will see
C:10.31 at times that seem to be “against your will,” participating in it  despite your determination not to do so. Once you begin to feel the
C:12.11 for, perhaps, the mark of man upon it. Yet the moon remains the moon  despite man’s landing on it. The earth remains the earth despite your
C:12.11 the moon despite man’s landing on it. The earth remains the earth  despite your highways, roads and bridges. And somewhere you know not,
C:12.11 roads and bridges. And somewhere you know not, peace remains peace  despite your wars, and happiness remains happiness despite your
C:12.11 remains peace despite your wars, and happiness remains happiness  despite your despair.
C:14.20 to voice their faith and trust, for their feelings remain strong  despite their fear. For even those who fear no deception must remain
C:14.21 fear, and those who would not, would still believe that love exists  despite fear’s claim upon it, and think that they are lucky to have
C:15.9 done, you are loyal not only to your group but to humanity itself.  Despite the many ills that have made you and those you love suffer,
C:17.7 Each day is an unknown you enter into,  despite your every attempt to anticipate what it might hold. And yet,
C:17.16 forgiveness. This many of you will give, even to deciding to forgive  despite your better judgment. See you not how little sense this
C:18.23 the pain experienced from love and your willingness to cling to it  despite the pain you are experiencing. Yet the pain comes not from
C:19.22 a sorting of the real from the unreal, of truth from illusion.  Despite the similarity between what this will call forth and the
C:32.2 experience relationship with each aspect of the Trinity is different  despite the oneness of the Trinity. The same is true of all
C:32.2 experience relationship with each aspect of creation is different  despite the oneness of creation. It is in the different relationship
T2:1.4 treasures that you believe, when realized, might feed the ego.  Despite many observations within this Course regarding desire, you
T2:1.4 within this Course regarding desire, you may still fear your desire.  Despite many exhortations that your purpose here is to be who you
T2:1.4 peaceful resting place to dwell in for a time. You may find that  despite having learned much about the need to leave judgment behind,
T2:4.8  Despite whatever way you currently have of identifying calling as it
T3:3.3 or others you hold dear. Some of you have seemed to do the opposite,  despite your best intentions calling disappointment to yourself and
T3:8.2 entire course of study. Realize how often you have forgotten this,  despite the many repetitions of our aim, and you will be more aware
T3:13.6 to start because each of you are tempted to hang on to this idea  despite all that it has cost you. To replace this idea with the idea
T3:14.5 behind patterns of behavior based on the old thought system of fear.  Despite the foundation of fear upon which your old thought system was
T3:15.5 is unwarranted. The criminal is not expected to be rehabilitated  despite the efforts of the system and the hopes of their loved ones.
T3:15.13 learned. Learning was needed in order to return you to your Self.  Despite whatever method you feel you used to learn what you have
T3:16.6 What is, is,  despite the lag in time that would seem to make all that we speak of
T3:20.6 but “sorry” for the one suffering. Yet you are always drawn,  despite these feelings of the “badness” of the situation, to offer
T3:20.6 are surely seen as being worse than others—encouragement is given  despite the “fact” that it is unwarranted. Yet even while you offer
T4:1.23 may not outwardly seem much changed from the world of your ancestors  despite the advances of learning that have taken place, it is a
T4:2.12 those who do will be bitterly disappointed as their moment passes.  Despite the necessity for a confidence that has led them to achieve
T4:3.5 within you and caused you to attempt to express a Self of love  despite your fear, fear has thwarted your every effort and caused the
T4:7.5 all fear, including the fear of death, needs to be removed from you  despite the radical sounding nature of life-everlasting. You cannot
D:4.12 a divine pattern is evident and should not be beyond your belief.  Despite the differences in what you see, think, and feel, there is
D:8.2 many of you have been discouraged by not being able to be the “best”  despite your natural talent or ability, and have given up “working
D:8.4 a “given.” That you are gifted—given to—and able to receive. And  despite what science might have to say to you about the source of
D:Day2.15 But just as you are called here to accept me  despite possible misgivings such as religious beliefs, you are called
D:Day4.7 what it means to think. In evolutionary terms this was true as well.  Despite the creation story that symbolizes man’s journey, early man
D:Day4.7 childhood can thus be linked as examples of a kind of learning that,  despite evolution, has not left any of you. You all begin life
D:Day4.18 a new system. But nowhere in my example life is such a system found  despite all attempts to make it so.
D:Day4.42 of yourself in this elevated place. You are still the self of form  despite the truth that you are literally with me in a place of high
D:Day6.4 and pass-through. Can you see the similarities between these actions  despite the difference in language used?
D:Day24.2 as well as the way of creation. What is unaltered remains unaltered  despite its many manifestations. Wholeness exists in every cell, in
D:Day30.3 so, we name or denominate the Self as what is common to wholeness.  Despite unlimited variations being available, commonality is also
D:Day33.15 But again,  despite that we each hold the power of creation within us, it is only
D:Day36.13  Despite all of this, you have always had some remembrance of yourself
D:Day36.13 this, you have always had some remembrance of yourself as a creator.  Despite all of this, you have loved and feared, grown and evolved,
D:Day37.18 you have felt only as a being in separation can feel. You know that  despite how often someone says they “know how you feel” that they
A.31 Now,  despite the rapidity of movement or lack thereof, to read the

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T2:11.3 angels. The ego is the dragon that must be slain, the evil of the  despot to be toppled, the one-on-one conflict of all heroes who would

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C:30.2 they as they search? Where is their being? If reaching a particular  destination is all that is sought, the journey becomes but the means

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C:12.18 some may see that one idea took root and changed what seemed to be a  destiny already written.
C:12.22 of separation seemed to bring about a completely reshaped life, a  destiny different than that which had already been written. Yet this
C:22.13 heart, grief, poverty, war, the events that seemed to alter your  destiny, the search for God. By using the word sit, I mean to imply
C:27.18 of this world? Will you see the future and the past, be cognizant of  destiny and of fate? You do have power that is not of this world, but

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C:8.26 to help. The memories of situations you deemed meant to embarrass or  destroy you that were in truth meant to teach you what you needed to

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D:Day2.11 were what they were. I ask you not to forget. If your home had been  destroyed by a tornado or a flood rather than adultery and divorce,
D:Day37.11 is what is left when parts have been taken away. It is what was not  destroyed by the removal of the parts. You “remain” one in being. You

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C:5.11 your response to them is what is guided by fear. Even feelings of  destruction and violence come from love. You are not bad, and you
C:5.13 behind it is an overwhelming desire for peace. Peace may mean  destruction of the old, and love can facilitate the rise and fall of
C:5.13 love can facilitate the rise and fall of many armies. What armies of  destruction will rock the world when they are brought to love?
C:8.25 rebirth and renewal. The ego’s thought system is one of continuous  destruction and disassembly, of decay and death. And yet how like
T4:3.14 form has seemed a curse to some, a miracle to others. Death comes as  destruction to some, as new life to others. Either way is but your
D:Day2.12 of an adulterous mate, a mate whose actions led to divorce and the  destruction of your home, can you not accept that this is something
D:Day34.1 Power is of creation, not of  destruction. Yet creation and destruction are two sides of the same
D:Day34.1 Power is of creation, not of destruction. Yet creation and  destruction are two sides of the same continuum as are hot and cold,
D:Day34.1 opposite of creation? How does this new way of seeing relate to  destruction? Does creation of the new have to include destruction of
D:Day34.1 relate to destruction? Does creation of the new have to include  destruction of the old?
D:Day34.2 Creation simply does include  destruction in much the same way all includes nothing. Without
D:Day34.2 all and nothing is everything. So too is it with creation and  destruction. Without relationship, creation and destruction are the
D:Day34.2 it with creation and destruction. Without relationship, creation and  destruction are the same. In relationship, the difference between
D:Day34.2 are the same. In relationship, the difference between creation and  destruction is everything.
D:Day36.14 been yours. The power to create—everything from weapons of mass  destruction to cathedrals of towering majesty—has always been
D:Day36.15 by the god-like and the god-less, so near to replacing creation with  destruction, so joyous and loving, and so hate- and pain-filled, that

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C:9.45 would use for the benefit of the separated self. When magnified, the  destructive force of such abuse is easily apparent. Again you would
C:9.45 and label drugs, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and even food as  destructive forces. Like the automobile you would blame for an
C:9.46 allow all this suffering, you ask? Why does He tempt you with such  destructive forces? Forces beyond your control? Why did not God
T3:6.5 introduce an idea of such fallacy that it rivals only the ego in its  destructive potential. Bitterness is to your heart what the ego has

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C:10.25 constantly, and never more so than as you conduct your experiment in  detachment from the body. This is why we conduct this experiment.

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C:8.26 like to memory it is to think a thing remembered in every smallest  detail and yet to have no idea what the memory is about! All memory
C:8.27 your memory of God’s creation is a memory you retain to the smallest  detail, and yet the details mask the truth so thoroughly that all
C:9.41 Here is your notion of use displayed in all its most horrific  detail.
C:21.2 of what is in-between is found. This will be discussed in more  detail later, but for now, I return you, through the embrace, to the
D:Day15.13 This cannot be explained in great  detail, which is why it must be practiced. It is to your own

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C:5.5 because truth is not concerned with any of the specific  details or forms of your world. You think relationship exists between
C:8.27 creation is a memory you retain to the smallest detail, and yet the  details mask the truth so thoroughly that all truth is given over to
C:27.18 world, but this does not mean power as you see it here, the power of  details and the information of which you think when desiring or
C:27.19 How often have you known the “right” thing to do without knowing the  details of what came before and what was to come? Sometimes you have
T3:6.3 deeds of merit, and taking care of, or surviving, the many  details that seem to make it possible for you to live within your
D:2.14 Many of you have believed that the more  details of life you have within your control, the more likely you are
D:2.14 are to control outcome. Others of you have believed that the more  details of your life that are kept under the control of a benevolent
D:13.5 of wholeness. You have previously learned of everything in parts and  details and particulars. While you are perfectly capable of coming to
D:Day4.31 practical terms, you might think of this as a disengagement from the  details. Thinking is about details. I am imparting to you the key to
D:Day4.31 think of this as a disengagement from the details. Thinking is about  details. I am imparting to you the key to abundance and all the
D:Day4.31 You, on the other hand, are thinking, yearning, grasping for the  details. You would like to know how, what, when, and where. While you
D:Day6.14 between us, and a corresponding desire not to have to focus on the  details of daily life. You may be thinking that the ease so often
D:Day8.4 unhappiness to be gone, is very unlikely, in truth, to stem from the  details of your life. Even so, you are not called to accept what you

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D:Day39.11 Inescapable. Acceptance that our relationship is and that it is a  determinant of who we both are, is all that is required. The

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C:1.10 is impossible. It is impossible to learn anything on your own. Your  determination to do so only blocks your learning. It is only through
C:5.23 You thus narrow what you want and go after it with single-minded  determination, believing the only choice within your control is what
C:10.31 seem to be “against your will,” participating in it despite your  determination not to do so. Once you begin to feel the effects of the
C:11.1 This is due to your confusion about your source. All of your fierce  determination to hang on to your individuality stems from this
C:18.23  Determination of pleasure and pain is made with the judgment of the

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C:3.7 by who would help you and who would thwart you. Thus do you  determine your friends and your enemies, and thus you have friends
C:11.9 all away, and in the end He surely will. He then will judge you and  determine if you should be rewarded for a life of goodness or
C:21.8 things, and that there is nothing and no one external to you who can  determine meaning for you.
C:21.9 must understand is that meaning does not change. While only you can  determine meaning, and while only a wholehearted approach will
C:21.9 can determine meaning, and while only a wholehearted approach will  determine true meaning, the truth is the truth and does not change.
C:31.36 of behavior, deviations from that usual mode concern you. You may  determine someone is in a “mood,” and see that the effects of that
C:31.36 from acquaintances to relationships of a deeper nature, you quickly  determine the nature of those relationships and have an investment in
T1:4.19 —think again. Their meaning exists already and is not up to you to  determine. This is not your responsibility. You who have thought that
D:6.13 Now if this were to happen, scientists would quickly  determine the existence of a natural law that allowed this event to
D:Day10.10 but even so, it is your feelings about such thoughts that will often  determine how you act upon them. Do you trust in your intuition or do
D:Day16.11 When you feel uneasy or uncomfortable about a situation, you  determine that you already know that the situation is bad or is most

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C:3.7 you populate your world with angels and with demons, their status  determined by who would help you and who would thwart you. Thus do
C:3.7 judgment, at least as long as it has all the qualities that you have  determined that a pencil should have, few people can exhibit the
C:7.4 me uniquely who I am.” Without this piece of yourself that you have  determined to be unique, your existence would seem to serve even less
C:7.4 does now. Thus that which is most separate, or that which you have  determined separates you the most, is that which you value most
C:7.12 in exchange for the resentments you carry, and if the exchange is  determined to be of equal value you might let them go. A response of
C:9.49 you are whole and complete because you are joined with all, you have  determined to stand separate and use the rest to support your
C:10.19 like a general atmosphere, an ambiance, a mood—and this setting is  determined with your heart. The thoughts of your separated self care
C:16.6 separating from Him, and based on this choice alone is how you see  determined.
C:16.21 history has shown you—that who is powerful and who is not is not  determined by might or any authority that can be given and taken
C:17.10 This is how the impossible has become possible. If you were not so  determined to believe correction cannot be made, correction would
C:21.7 although this conflict has at its root the problem of language as  determined by perception. This is a problem of meaning. Mind and
C:22.12 dictionary, and all that is sitting as that to which you have  determined you will, at some later date, get around to assigning
C:31.36 that you will come to know what to expect from them. Once you have  determined a brother’s or sister’s usual mode of behavior, deviations
T2:1.4 that your purpose here is to be who you are, you may have  determined that exploring your internal treasure is now unnecessary.
D:5.2 to things, truly believing in your ability to do so. You thus  determined what the world around you was meant to represent. It was
D:5.7 You have  determined sex to be the ultimate fulfillment of love and called it
D:6.6 created in your perception of what they are or what you have  determined their use to be. There is thus truth, or what we might
D:Day3.45 likened to an argument, a debate, in which you are on one side and  determined to be the one who is right, the one whose side will win.
D:Day6.7 the artist to doubt her instincts, to make changes, or to be more  determined than ever to see the piece through to the point where it

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C:15.8 Loyalty stems from faith, and where you set your faith is as much a  determiner of your perception as is your concept of separation. All
T1:5.10 When released from the ego thought system, the heart becomes the  determiner of what you experience since you know it as the cause.

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C:22.10 everything within your world passes and your awareness of it that  determines the meaning you give it. You are much more like unto the
T4:5.13 and your ability to believe in the glory that is yours, that  determines the way in which your life will continue. The same is true

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T3:17.2 help but have upon the other. Science still has a long way to go in  determining, through its processes, what this says about the nature
D:Day6.8 the artist feeling no certainty about the value of the piece, but  determining to see the project through, knowing that it will make the
D:Day28.14 the attitude you will have greater need of reversing is that of God  determining the circumstances of your life, you have probably been

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T3:14.1 a pattern of behaving fearfully may still remain and as such be a  deterrent to new ideas and to action. As long as these patterns of
D:4.7 upon with dread. For most, the prison system is a very successful  deterrent. The thought of time in prison fills the mind with fear.

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T3:14.1 new ideas and to action. As long as these patterns of fear remain as  deterrents to action, you will not experience the freedom of living

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T3:16.12 very strongly to your ideas of change and as such is the greatest  detriment to your new beginning. These temptations relate to
D:6.2 properties of the false that aided your learning may now work as a  detriment to your acceptance as you cling to ideas concerning false

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C:11.4 them out. Realize that the ideas of both success and failure are  detrimental here. To feel you have achieved success in learning what
D:6.4 While the false representation of the body as the self was almost as  detrimental to your learning as the false representation of the ego

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T4:12.16 pushing against limits been called progress? Have not even the most  devastating misuses of power attained through this rebellion been

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C:10.27 You will soon  develop an ability to see without your body’s eyes. This, too, will
T1:4.8 to the ego-mind is what led to the ego-mind being able to  develop the “laws of man.” These laws of man are the laws of the
T2:1.9 Even the desires you may have once identified as hoping to  develop into abilities, are given a structure and form in your
T2:7.19 place of your heart. Then, with truth and illusion separated, you  develop the discipline to express your true Self, as you are now.
T4:2.23 and co-workers, occasionally acknowledging brief relationships that  develop with acquaintances or strangers, connections that feel real
D:2.19 help you learn to deal fairly with a hostile environment and then to  develop a pattern based on what was learned so that learning would
D:15.12 was contained within this Course. The Course sought to teach you to  develop a relationship with all that passes through you. Now is the
D:Day3.35 and God, is gone. You have been invited to know God directly, and to  develop a relationship with God. It is only in knowing God that the
D:Day8.20 When you  develop a false sense of certainty, you see not the true Self and the
D:Day26.5 You can trust in your Self. Will you? By tending your garden you will  develop this trust and prepare for your descent to level ground.

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C:7.21 you have relied upon to make sense of your world. Those who have  developed reliance on ways of knowing not governed by the acceptable
C:9.7 these desires it is easy to see how a world such as that of the body  developed. Alongside the desire to know was the desire not to know.
C:22.14 would seem to imply an entry and exit point, the relationship  developed during the pass-through continues. Just as wind or water
T1:4.8 at the center of its thought system and from this central position  developed all of its ideas of glorifying the separated self as well
T3:1.6 there is a “you” who has been playing the part, a part that, while  developed under the ego’s direction, still allowed for bits and
T3:2.12 discussion may have seemed to accept the idea of a self as highly  developed as an adolescent child, a self who would willingly choose
T3:4.7 or in cases of great abuse when a second ego personality is  developed to save the first. The ego has also been dismantled and
T3:21.12 to the few ideas that you hold certain. A degree earned or talent  developed is seen as part of your identity, as part of who you are.
D:2.19 the nature of both to be hostile. From this faulty conclusion you  developed a faulty system based upon faulty judgment. This system was
D:3.20 system. Can this be said of any of the systems you have  developed as a learning being? Are your systems life-giving and
D:4.5 may have of there being those who deserve the prison system you have  developed and any arguments you would cite about the heinous crimes
D:4.6 is as much of your own making as are the actual prison systems that  developed when shape and form was given to what you fear and what you
D:4.15 foundation of this and other thought systems that your perception  developed. Through contrast, you identified and classified the world
D:6.11 then that” world, then the same laws will naturally not apply. You  developed an “if this, then that” world because it was the easiest
D:Day2.3 review have brought you here. But I realize that you have not as yet  developed the capacity to accept this fully. For most of you, much of
D:Day3.32 instrument, the equipment that enabled a hobby or talent to be  developed, a well-loved book, dinner with a friend, a new car, a new
D:Day4.20 of teaching were devised. From these methods of teaching, rules  developed. The teaching was externalized and institutionalized.
D:Day6.8 commitment may come as a recognition that a relationship of love has  developed, and “good enough” or not, completion is necessary. It may
D:Day6.11 that will create oneness between Creator and created. You have  developed the creative relationship that is union. You are in and
D:Day27.3 for signposts to guide you, the self-guidance of inner-sight was not  developed.

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T2:1.1 was once regarded as treasure, such as a talent that was in need of  developing, when realized, is often disregarded thereafter as a
T3:1.5 previous work, the first step in advancing toward this goal is in  developing an awareness of what is not the truth. While the ability
D:Day6.14 main source is almost surely a desire to focus on the relationship  developing between us, and a corresponding desire not to have to
D:Day6.19 Earth that can accomplish this. It is only the relationship we are  developing in this elevated place within that will bring to your full
D:Day10.12 than the confidence in the self of form that must accompany it. In  developing the confidence of the self of form, we work with what has

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T3:2.12 ego-self, a self-concept seemingly stuck in an adolescent phase of  development. The ego-self’s only desire was for you to “grow up” into
T3:13.11 this Course would not provide, they are but aides to help you in the  development of your own ideas. If you remember that all of your ideas
D:2.18 pattern. Your misperceptions of the world have allowed for the  development of no foolproof systems because these systems are based
D:Day6.7 shared with others at each step of the process, or only late in its  development. But at some point, the sharing will take place, and the
D:Day15.17 Realize how necessary dialogue is. Many resist this stage of  development because they feel they have achieved inner knowing. They

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T4:2.23 brief encounters you have with others. You have watched the news and  developments in parts of the world far away from you and at times are

develops (1)

D:Day33.13 the power of its cry within moments of being born. Many a teenager  develops full realization of the power of their independence. In

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C:16.3 child grows up with behavior that remains unchanged you call him  deviant or criminal, and claim that it is not love he seeks, and that

deviate (1)

T3:15.3 considered poor behavior can come to be an expectation difficult to  deviate from within the special relationship. But whether the

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C:31.36 you have determined a brother’s or sister’s usual mode of behavior,  deviations from that usual mode concern you. You may determine

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C:6.8 you. Contrast demonstrates, which is why it is a favorite teaching  device of the Holy Spirit. Contrast demonstrates only to reveal the
C:18.6 you separate, then you can begin to see it as what it is, a learning  device given you by a loving creator. Before the idea of separation,
C:18.7 because there was no external world to be perceived. A learning  device, when not perceived as such, holds not much hope of fulfilling
C:18.22 so, we must clarify further the function of the body as a learning  device. Your body seems to experience both pleasure and pain, yet as
C:18.22 body seems to experience both pleasure and pain, yet as a learning  device, it is neutral. It does not experience, but only conveys that
C:18.22 have misperceived the body as your home rather than as a learning  device. Because you have misperceived the body as your home, there
C:18.23 body has no mercy to offer the separated self. It is only a learning  device. But you have not recognized this and have failed to learn
C:19.1 There was no evil intent in the creation of the body as a learning  device, and as a learning device it was perfectly created. The
C:19.1 in the creation of the body as a learning device, and as a learning  device it was perfectly created. The problem lies in what you have,
C:19.1 did ideas of glorifying the body arise. To glorify a learning  device makes no sense. And yet in creating the perfect device from
C:19.1 a learning device makes no sense. And yet in creating the perfect  device from which you could experience separation, all such problems
C:31.19 that has ever happened in your life has happened as a learning  device to help you remember who you are. Those things about which you
T1:7.2 the choice to suffer. This belief may accept suffering as a learning  device rather than a punishment, but it still, in its acceptance of a
T1:7.4 Yes, I have said that contrast is a favored teaching  device of the Holy Spirit. But I have not yet said that the time of
T2:12.7 come to see calling as a gift and a treasure as well as a learning  device, so you must come to see your own ability to call forth
T3:20.4 Art of Thought,” you were asked to request a miracle as a learning  device. This learning device had two aspects. The first was to reveal
T3:20.4 were asked to request a miracle as a learning device. This learning  device had two aspects. The first was to reveal to you your fears
D:6.5 created for the time of learning, the body was the perfect learning  device. Seeing it as such assisted us in bringing about the end of
D:6.21 now called to accept that you no longer need this type of learning  device and to realize that it will no longer serve you.
D:Day3.28 ended with the end of learning. The condition of want was a learning  device—not one of divine design, but one of the thought system of

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C:19.1 separation, all such problems were anticipated and corrective  devices created alongside them. You could not fully experience
C:22.2 We will be letting images serve as learning  devices. They will enhance our use of language so that our language
T1:3.15 are. As was said in A Course in Miracles, miracles are timesaving  devices. Although asking you to choose a miracle would seem to
T1:10.6 These extremes of the human experience have been learning  devices. They have cracked open hearts and minds to the divine
T1:10.11 experiences from experiences of extremes that served as learning  devices. Peak experiences often follow occasions of happiness or

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T2:11.15 acting as conscience and defender of good and the ego acting as  devil and defender of evil. This is nonsense, or but a form of the

devised (1)

D:Day4.20 represented to those who did not know me, methods of teaching were  devised. From these methods of teaching, rules developed. The

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C:20.19 A mass of flesh and bone? Or are you, like the world you cry for,  devoid of thingness and a personal self? And when you have leapt for
C:20.33 rest of the universe, existing in a state of compassionate free will  devoid of fear, knows what it does. There are no opposing forces that
C:26.7 You are thus caught in a double bind, living a life you feel is  devoid of meaning and letting fear keep you from seeking the meaning
T3:2.10 Thus you stand at the beginning, with a Self now  devoid of the meaninglessness you but attempted to assign to it. You
T3:3.9 your thoughts might tell you that if you were in another job,  devoid of certain familial responsibilities, or the need to provide
T4:4.18 be eternally yours. It will be a choice of your creation, a creation  devoid of fear. It will be a new choice.
D:Day13.5 contain no spaciousness. Solid form is actually a void, a substance  devoid of spaciousness, a form that is form only. These forms are
D:Day27.3 life led you, but your life was not inner-directed because it was  devoid of inner-sight. While you looked outwardly for signposts to

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C:25.1 To  devote oneself to an objective is a vow to accomplish. To be devoted

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C:4.12 of you might imagine a couple long married in which each person is  devoted to the other’s happiness, or a father whose love is
C:23.29 would select? Your life must become your teacher, and you its  devoted pupil. Here is a curriculum designed specifically for you, a
C:25.1 To devote oneself to an objective is a vow to accomplish. To be  devoted is to be prayerful. As we said in the beginning, to pray is
C:25.8 Devotion is inclusive. It implies a subject and an object: One who is  devoted and one who is an object of devotion. While we are moving
C:25.8 relationships to the relationship of unity, the idea of one who is  devoted, and of those for whom devotion is practiced, is useful
C:28.13 decisions for you to make. There is only a call for a dedicated and  devoted will, a will dedicated to the present moment, to those who
C:31.13 split and must be total to be at all. Thus while you believe you are  devoted to the thoughts of a split mind you are devoted to nothing.
C:31.13 you believe you are devoted to the thoughts of a split mind you are  devoted to nothing. This is why so many attempts at understanding
T2:12.7 same power of intercession that is the miracle. This is why we also  devoted a fair amount of this Treatise to a discussion of calling.

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C:4.12 self-sacrifice is something to be gained at too high a price, that  devotion you might think is fine for one whose partner is more loving
C:25.1 beginning, to pray is to ask for all to be included in what you do.  Devotion is thus our first lesson in learning how to be engaged in
C:25.2  Devotion is the outcome of love and in this instance is an action
C:25.2 an action word, a verb, a means of serving and being served by love.  Devotion is a particular type of participation. It cannot be faked.
C:25.3 those who have tried to fake love cannot do it. The same is true of  devotion, because there is no real devotion without love.
C:25.3 cannot do it. The same is true of devotion, because there is no real  devotion without love.
C:25.6 fear onto them. Only when you cease to do this will you feel true  devotion.
C:25.7 lack of ability to receive that causes this feeling. The practice of  devotion is a means by which you can purify your engagement with life
C:25.7 purify your engagement with life and all you encounter within it.  Devotion is synonymous with true service. True service does not look
C:25.7 recognizes God’s law of giving and receiving, and the practice of  devotion is, in effect, the practice of allowing giving and receiving
C:25.8  Devotion is inclusive. It implies a subject and an object: One who is
C:25.8 and an object: One who is devoted and one who is an object of  devotion. While we are moving away from subject/object relationships
C:25.8 of unity, the idea of one who is devoted, and of those for whom  devotion is practiced, is useful during the time of tenderness. It
C:25.9  Devotion leads to harmony through action. This is possible for you
C:25.12 the time of tenderness, you will learn, through the practice of  devotion, to identify and reject all such attitudes and to adopt an
C:28.11 Witnesses are for the mind and fall short of  devotion, which is the natural response of those who know and worry
C:29.3 You who would cry, God make use of me, only need to give to God your  devotion and your willingness to serve instead of use.
C:31.12 becomes dislodged matters not. What matters is where you place your  devotion.
C:31.13  Devotion cannot be split and must be total to be at all. Thus while
C:31.27 This altar is not a thing, but a  devotion to the one truth, the whole truth. Being of one mind is
T2:8.2 by what you will imagine to be loss. Remember too the practice of  devotion for in this practice is the truth separated from illusion.
T2:11.9 of work and the final evidence of means and end being the same. Your  devotion to this learning must now be complete, your willingness
T2:12.2 an ability to distinguish between service and use. Service, or  devotion, leads to harmony through right action. Until you were able
T3:5.2 have emptied a space for love to fill. Each time you have felt true  devotion you have emptied a space for love to fill. You have been
T3:18.2 The word observance has rightly been linked with divine worship and  devotion. Minds that have been unwilling to accept or learn an
T3:18.8 remember that your observance is now an act of worship and of  devotion and that you are called to observe the truth rather than
T3:22.17 Observe the personal self with one last act of love and  devotion, and in so doing transform the personal self into a
T4:2.15 are now was not present in the past, but you can truly now, with the  devotion of the observant, see that the Self you are now was indeed
T4:2.16 even though it might seem not to be? This is the power of the  devotion of the observant that you are called to, the power of cause
T4:2.24 must come a new understanding of relationship and the ability of the  devotion of the observant to affect those relationships.
T4:3.3 to its original nature—by its original nature or intent. The  devotion of the observant will return you to your original purpose.
T4:6.4 envision, desire, will be what you create. This is the power of the  devotion of the observant. A shared vision of unity and a return of
D:Day1.15 you call that love. You all are equally beloved. That you give your  devotion to one religious tradition or another matters not. That you
D:Day6.26 or you would not be here. You know this or you would not feel the  devotion to me and to what we do here that you do. And what’s more,
D:Day6.26 only a few and leave all others behind, you would not feel this  devotion. You know our task is holy and incomparable. You know there
D:Day6.26 in. All other areas where you might previously have placed your  devotion pale in comparison to our task.
D:Day6.27 together our given task, you are almost surely feeling this  devotion extend to others, particularly those who, along with us,
D:Day6.27 doing so you are not creating new special relationships but the true  devotion that will replace special relationships forever.
D:Day7.12 such as the replacement of special relationship with the  devotion of holy relationship that we have already spoken of. Another

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D:14.5 as balancing the checkbook, or as momentous as a doctor’s  diagnosis of a disease. These questions could be asked when

dialogue (126)

T1:2.12 is the relationship between Creator and Created. Creation is but a  dialogue to which you have not responded. The art of thought will
T1:6.3 This does not negate the fact that a prayer is also a constant  dialogue of asking, being answered, and responding. This is the
T4:12.2 this time on, I will respond to you through direct communication or  dialogue rather than through teaching. As with all new means of doing
T4:12.2 than through teaching. As with all new means of doing anything, this  dialogue must have a starting point. This is it.
T4:12.4 you individually and as part of the collectivity of the whole. This  dialogue will, however, be ongoing, and this is your invitation to
T4:12.4 be ongoing, and this is your invitation to participate in this  dialogue. No matter where you are, no matter what concerns you still
T4:12.8 and complete explanation of the non-intermediary nature of this  dialogue is that it exists in unity. It is given and received in
T4:12.34 part of this creative act of a loving Creator. Creation is a  dialogue. Creation—which is God and us in unity—will respond to
D:1.19 As you begin this  Dialogue, questions naturally arise. You might think that for the
D:1.19 You might think that for the receiver, or transcriber, of this  Dialogue, this Dialogue may, in truth, feel like a dialogue, an
D:1.19 think that for the receiver, or transcriber, of this Dialogue, this  Dialogue may, in truth, feel like a dialogue, an exchange, a
D:1.19 of this Dialogue, this Dialogue may, in truth, feel like a  dialogue, an exchange, a conversation, and wonder how you, as a
D:1.19 that you are, as you read these words, as much a “receiver” of this  Dialogue as she who first hears these words and transfers them to
D:1.20 Does it matter who is first to hear the music? This is, in truth, a  dialogue between me and you. Wish not that the “way” of the
D:3.2 now. It is within you as we speak, the tone and timbre of this  dialogue.
D:3.4 but words that will become usual in our normal conversation in this  dialogue. I use them as I use together the words accept and deny. As
D:3.12 of the elevated Self of form, and what we work toward through this  dialogue is your full awareness of what this means.
D:3.13 you know what you need to know. What we seek to achieve through this  dialogue is acceptance and awareness of what you know. Acceptance is
D:3.15 What might this mean to the elevated Self of form? Using this  dialogue as an example will serve to explain. This dialogue is
D:3.15 form? Using this dialogue as an example will serve to explain. This  dialogue is continuous and ongoing. It is giving and receiving as
D:3.15 being shared. You are a representation, for instance, of this  dialogue. You are a representation of all of your brothers and
D:3.16 you are giver and receiver. Your Self is a full participant in this  dialogue. You as the Self are the truth. You as the Self are the
D:3.23 What this portion of the  dialogue attempts to do is to give you a language to support what you
D:5.16 what then are you to do? You are to create in community, in  dialogue, in commitment and togetherness. You are to be the living
D:5.17 am merely answering the questions that remain and that occur as this  dialogue proceeds. What I am attempting to answer now is your
D:5.22 So let today’s  dialogue serve as a final call, a most emphatic call, to acceptance.
D:11.2 You might even consider this  Dialogue the written notes of my thoughts. In this one example can
D:11.3 I do, or of what occurs in unity. I am and I extend what I am. This  dialogue is that extension. God’s idea of you extended and became you
D:11.4 In the opening page of this  Dialogue I said that you give and you receive from the well of
D:11.5 mind. Again, is this not what we spoke of in the beginning of this  Dialogue? What was spoken of as your desire to prepare?
D:11.13 in your heart. We are the sacred heart. As was said as we began this  Dialogue, we, together, are the well of spirit. We, together, are the
D:12.4 This work is called a  dialogue. A dialogue is most often thought of as a discourse between
D:12.4 This work is called a dialogue. A  dialogue is most often thought of as a discourse between two or more
D:12.4 and as such is associated with the spoken word. When you enter into  dialogue with another person, you listen, you hear, and you respond.
D:12.4 This is exactly what occurs here. You have “entered into” this  dialogue. While you think these words come to you through the written
D:12.8 We have spoken already of “entering into”  dialogue. When you enter into dialogue with another person you “hear”
D:12.8 have spoken already of “entering into” dialogue. When you enter into  dialogue with another person you “hear” what it is they have to say.
D:12.9 it to be the “thinking” of another that is shared with you in  dialogue, but the thoughts. Thus this distinction will suffice for
D:Day1.7 as you must accept your ascension to this mountain peak and this  dialogue that is occurring here. If you believe this mountain peak is
D:Day3.19 not feel this, and if you are among those few, do not skip past this  dialogue, but join in so that you understand, as do those for whom
D:Day3.19 but join in so that you understand, as do those for whom this  dialogue is meant, the power of this aspect of your brothers and
D:Day3.25 use would you have of learning if such were not the case? In our  dialogue, we have begun to use examples of what you did not learn in
D:Day3.36 To teach is to convey the known. To speak of a way is to invite  dialogue and a journey. This is what all master “teachers” taught,
D:Day4.1 While we will broaden the focus of today’s  dialogue beyond that of money or abundance, we will still be
D:Day4.1 will be and as such are actually appropriate to this stage of our  dialogue. We can argue here before we go on. We face together here
D:Day4.5 As we discussed in yesterday’s  dialogue, learning has not been a choice. Both as divine design and
D:Day4.48 with wholehearted desire, it will be done, and we will continue our  dialogue so that you know more of the difference you have chosen.
D:Day4.56 is the beginning. This is the choice that allows us to continue our  dialogue as one. To talk heart to heart. To have the kind of
D:Day6.16 by facilitating the acceptance of life as it is. This is why this  dialogue is occurring on the holy mountain without taking you away
D:Day6.17 wait for some convenient time. Quite the contrary. We are having our  dialogue on the holy mountain while you remain within your life for
D:Day6.22 done! Think not that I cannot arrange the ideal environment for our  dialogue. This is it!
D:Day6.26 Our  dialogue is not without purpose. You know this or you would not be
D:Day6.31 encouraged rather than discouraged that you are able to embrace this  dialogue and remain in your life. Realize that this is just what we
D:Day7.21 you may be experiencing. Thus these will be the subject of our next  dialogue.
D:Day8.1 again, a bit of disappointment or resignation as a result of our  dialogue concerning not removing yourself from life. Your whole
D:Day8.1 from life. Your whole purpose in pursuing the course of this  dialogue may have been, at least subconsciously, the idea of removing
D:Day10.13 of your personal self that was discussed at the beginning of our  dialogue. While you still hold an image of your personal self, you
D:Day10.15 I have removed myself from the role of teacher and entered this  dialogue with you as an equal, you still hold an image of me as
D:Day10.20 however, ask you to give up your identification of the voice of this  dialogue as that belonging to the man Jesus who lived two thousand
D:Day10.21 of the man Jesus. As you join with Christ-consciousness in this  dialogue, you will realize you have not lost your Self but will only
D:Day10.23 source, if you can hear it and feel it and think of it as a true  dialogue, a true sharing in relationship in which an exchange is
D:Day10.24 it is a key to your understanding of your Self and your power. This  dialogue, as one-sided as it may seem when presented in this way, is
D:Day10.24 you have forgotten. I am not having a monologue, but we are having a  dialogue in which you are a full participant. As much of what you
D:Day14.12 know. These words are only one means, which is why this is called a  dialogue. Realize now that this is but one voice of the many. You
D:Day14.12 that this is but one voice of the many. You have entered into the  dialogue with the many as well as the one. This dialogue is going on
D:Day14.12 entered into the dialogue with the many as well as the one. This  dialogue is going on all around you. Have you been listening to but
D:Day14.13 You must now own this  dialogue—own it as you own the power that is yours. This one voice
D:Day14.14 Entering the  dialogue is the means of sustaining the one voice within the many,
D:Day15.1 fully realize that sharing is necessary you will have entered the  dialogue. When you have fully surrendered to the fact that you can’t
D:Day15.1 that you can’t come to know on your own you will have entered the  dialogue. When you fully accept that the voice of the one can be
D:Day15.1 one can be heard in the voice of the many you will have entered the  dialogue. When you fully realize that you are in-formed by everything
D:Day15.1 by everything and everyone in creation, you will have entered the  dialogue.
D:Day15.11 Engaging in  dialogue with those who join you on the mountain top is necessary to
D:Day15.11 with those with whom you are engaged in this specific mountain top  dialogue. It is not an acceptable state for full-scale interaction
D:Day15.14 If so, enter the  dialogue with the purpose of your final preparations in mind. Bring
D:Day15.17 Realize how necessary  dialogue is. Many resist this stage of development because they feel
D:Day15.18 Entering the  dialogue keeps you in constant contact with the unknown and with
D:Day15.19 thus are not to come together as the known but as the unknown. You  dialogue about the unknown, not the known. By keeping in constant
D:Day15.19 By keeping in constant contact with the unknown you stay in constant  dialogue for you have not claimed a knowing that disallows coming to
D:Day15.19 have not claimed a knowing that disallows coming to know. You are in  dialogue because in dialogue, coming to know is a fluid exchange.
D:Day15.19 that disallows coming to know. You are in dialogue because in  dialogue, coming to know is a fluid exchange.
D:Day15.21 To be engaged in  dialogue with certain others is different than entering the dialogue,
D:Day15.21 in dialogue with certain others is different than entering the  dialogue, but entering the dialogue is not different than engaging in
D:Day15.21 others is different than entering the dialogue, but entering the  dialogue is not different than engaging in specific dialogues. This
D:Day15.21 than engaging in specific dialogues. This is so because entering the  dialogue is an all-encompassing state in which everything and
D:Day15.21 everything and everyone interacts with you through the exchange of  dialogue. While you are asked to promote wholeness and the
D:Day15.21 than you see those with whom you are engaged in this specific  dialogue for this specific purpose or practice.
D:Day15.22 However, knowing that you have entered the  dialogue does not mean that you will not have an awareness of those
D:Day15.25 the practical aspects has just been discussed—that of engaging in  dialogue with some and entering the dialogue with all. This is a
D:Day15.25 discussed—that of engaging in dialogue with some and entering the  dialogue with all. This is a demonstration of levels of consciousness
D:Day15.26 As you engage in  dialogue as the spacious Self and are made known, your purpose here
D:Day15.26 you thought it would be. You will be shown that you can enter the  dialogue with all and still focus, or place your attention, on areas
D:Day17.4 drive that kept you reading this Course, caused you to enter this  dialogue, kept you examining, kept you attempting to move beyond
D:Day20.1 so that you begin to rely more and more fully on the truth of this  dialogue.
D:Day20.4 you have within your minds and hearts and have been sharing in this  dialogue. The way of saying this perhaps is new, but the way of
D:Day21.9 upon yourself. This reliance upon yourself has been expressed as a  dialogue taking place within Christ-consciousness, the consciousness
D:Day21.9 union and relationship with all. You have now been told to own this  dialogue and to realize that its wisdom is your own. Are you
D:Day23.1 this. The Treatises gave you a way to apply this understanding. This  dialogue is meant to give you the means to carry what you have been
D:Day26.2 and leaders of all kinds, through words spoken and read, through  dialogue, through example. If you had known, you would not have
D:Day28.16 Acceptance has been a main theme of this  dialogue and was revisited and defined as acceptance of internal
D:Day28.27 This is what we will continue to speak of as we conclude this  dialogue.
D:Day39.34 Am is who I am and who you are? What memory has this Course and this  Dialogue returned to you? What memory is without attributes because
D:Day39.42 that has taken place under the tutelage of Jesus, within the  dialogue with Christ-consciousness, within the recesses of your heart
D:Day40.32 You are my beloved. We have just shared a  dialogue. Your heart has spoken to me, and I have responded. Love has
D:Day40.33 When you turn the last page, will you cry tears of sadness that our  dialogue is complete, that you will hear my voice no more? Or will
D:Day40.34 Will you continue this  dialogue with me and with each other? Will you carry it with you to
E.17 yet think you know how to just be, and this is why, in a sense, this  dialogue, in this form, must come to an end. The dialogue you will
E.17 in a sense, this dialogue, in this form, must come to an end. The  dialogue you will carry forward with you, with your realization of
E.17 with you, with your realization of being, will be a different  dialogue.
E.18 This  dialogue has been your final quest. It is the final quest in the
E.19 Leave these words behind now, and bring only the  dialogue with you. You will unerringly find those who can engage in
E.19 with you. You will unerringly find those who can engage in the new  dialogue, those who have chosen the new, those who seek to share and
A.35 lies direct relationship—direct relationship with me. Entering the  dialogue is the way this is expressed; yet this is not merely about
A.35 way this is expressed; yet this is not merely about entering spoken  dialogue. As was said in “A Treatise on the Art of Thought,”
A.35 was said in “A Treatise on the Art of Thought,” “Creation is but a  dialogue to which you have not responded.”
A.36 Creation is a  dialogue.
A.37 Creation is an unending act of giving and receiving as one. So too is  dialogue.
A.38 and you will hear.” But to what are you listening? Entering the  dialogue is akin to residing in the present moment and to hearing all
A.40 This is what  dialogue, particularly the dialogue that is an exchange between “two
A.40 This is what dialogue, particularly the  dialogue that is an exchange between “two or more gathered together”
A.41 Other, Self and Life, Self and God, Humanity and Divinity, is the  dialogue of which we speak. It may seem to suggest duality but it
A.42 participation in the world as Who You Are is part of an on-going  dialogue, and that it is an on-going aspect of creation by which the
A.45 love, the way of living, the new way. It will be with you in every  dialogue and will not leave you comfortless. It has no end point in
A.46 What continues of this Course is its  dialogue. It is on-going.
A.47 grew and became new, but gather in ever-wider configurations. This  dialogue is going on all around you. I am with you and will never
A.49 Bring your voice to this continuing  dialogue. This is all that is asked of you. This is the gift you have

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T4:12.7 Once these  dialogues are sustainable without need of the written word, the
T4:12.10 to continue to think of yourself as a learning being. While these  dialogues continue to address these same questions and concerns, you
T4:12.10 and concerns, you will be prone to think of them as teaching  dialogues and to consider yourself still a student. Considering
T4:12.30 our sharing in unity and be communicated through our continuing  dialogues with one another.
T4:12.31 This is a prelude to but one form of these  dialogues. Sharing in unity is automatic. It is the nature of
T4:12.31 this nature you will realize that what is communicated through our  dialogues and those you share with your brothers and sisters, is
D:1.15 These  Dialogues are for everyone because we exist in unity with everyone.
D:1.21 These  Dialogues begin with prayer to remind you of what you have learned in
D:8.9 to do is to open the mind to the wisdom of the heart with these  dialogues. As the mind opens and accepts the new, the art of thought
D:11.2 not see the fallacy inherent in all the others? To think of these  Dialogues in this way, dear brothers and sisters, is insane. To think
D:15.22 like the final step after your ascent of the highest mountain. These  dialogues might be seen as taking place there, with the guide and the
D:Day6.15 daily life will have to come first. These are what these continuing  dialogues will facilitate.
D:Day10.24 which you are a full participant. As much of what you read in these  dialogues comes from your own heart and those of your brothers and
D:Day15.21 but entering the dialogue is not different than engaging in specific  dialogues. This is so because entering the dialogue is an
A.42 You are not a “student” of The  Dialogues but a full participant in The Dialogues. You have entered
A.42 are not a “student” of The Dialogues but a full participant in The  Dialogues. You have entered the final stages of revelation of Who You

diametrically (1)

T1:3.2 thought is from the thinking of the ego-mind! The art of thought is  diametrically opposed to the thinking of the ego-mind.

diamond (1)

E.1 The pressure is off. The alchemy has occurred. The coal has become a  diamond. Ah, imagine now being able to forget all ideas of

dichotomy (1)

C:26.3 the tragedy in the life of a person, except in instances of great  dichotomy, perhaps best expressed in the life of the tragic hero.

dictated (3)

C:31.2 made in many religions and philosophies that separate thought—as  dictated by the body—from thought of a higher order, or spiritual
T1:5.11 The “here” that you experience is the experience  dictated by the ego-mind, and this experience is all that makes you
D:Day36.5 experience rather than as experience itself. Even experiences  dictated by “fate” were of consequence only in your response after

dictates (1)

C:27.15 might mean to your future. It is not the individual “you” that  dictates your responses to situations based on surface

dictionary (2)

C:22.12 sits. You might imagine yourself as the creator of an unfinished  dictionary, and all that is sitting as that to which you have
D:12.9 distinction, as “thinking” is seen as what you “do.” Even in your  dictionary definition, being “thoughtful” is seen as a condition of

dictionary’s (1)

D:12.9 thought. This distinction, while it will not be consistent with your  dictionary’s definition of these words, is still a useful

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didn’t (5)

C:29.26 might have changed your life? What should you have done that you  didn’t? What might you do in the future if not for your fear of where
T4:1.13 What could possibly make you believe it could come to be now when it  didn’t come to be before?
D:6.8 the things that you have made to represent what is real since you  didn’t understand what it was you were making things to represent.
D:Day4.15 through the mind. We have spoken of thoughts that arise that you  didn’t think. We have spoken of talents that were not learned. We
E.6 as if it is the only path in the world and you will wonder why you  didn’t see it all along. Expect this. And it will be. So be it.

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C:2.2 is. Nothing unreal exists. Think for yourself: If you were going to  die tomorrow what would you today find meaningful? Only love. This is
C:4.17 deplete the limited number of days in store for you and you will  die. Life is not fair, nor meant to be, you claim. But love is
C:6.12 Heaven is not for the young, you say. How unfair that those who  die young have not had a chance at life, a chance to face the
C:10.21 the opposite, an experience of pain so great that they would rather  die than continue on in such a way. Addicts too but choose a
C:31.6 to consciously cause these functions to take place, you would surely  die, for managing the workings of the body would be more than your
T1:9.9 the simplest of terms. I tried to make it known that while I would  die and resurrect into a new form, you would also; that this new form
T3:5.8 in time extending both forward and back. Each father’s son will  die. This means not what you have taken it to mean, an endless series
T3:5.8 of generations passing. What this means is that in each the ego will  die and the Self be reborn to life eternal. Without rebirth of the
T3:8.8 when you and all of those you love will surely suffer and eventually  die? Why should you not be bitter when you believe you are powerless?
T4:1.25 spirit numbing activities in order to block it out, having chosen to  die within the state of consciousness in which they have lived.
T4:3.13 separate and alone; not realizing that what lives does not have to  die. That the nature of form can change. That the nature of matter is
T4:4.16 To believe that you are mortal is to believe that you must  die to the personal self of form in order to be reborn as a true
T4:4.17 serve if it were just another preview of what to expect after you  die? What difference would this make to your way of living or the
T4:5.11 in human form or even upon the death of your human form. When you  die, you do not die to who you are or who you think you are. You do
T4:5.11 or even upon the death of your human form. When you die, you do not  die to who you are or who you think you are. You do not die to
T4:5.11 you do not die to who you are or who you think you are. You do not  die to choice. At the time of death you are assisted in ways not
D:1.10 has floundered from this lack of identity. A person could literally  die during this time from lack of identity, lack of cause. To die to
D:1.10 die during this time from lack of identity, lack of cause. To  die to the personal self is not what is required any longer as we
D:Day24.7 stage in the becoming of the spirit. Without release, it must  die to its present form in order to begin again. Thus spirit is
D:Day24.7 to begin again. Thus spirit is always becoming, even when it must  die to begin again.

died (12)

C:P.26 the child of another distant relative or a relative who lived and  died many years previously. You see nothing odd or foreign in this.
C:P.27 coming of God’s son, Jesus Christ, who was born, grew into a man,  died and rose again to live on in some form other than that of a man.
C:P.27 son before he was born, while he walked the earth, and after he  died and resurrected. Whether this is your belief or not, it comes
C:10.12 here. If you are wrong, you will merely rot away after you have  died and no one will know how wrong you were! If you are wrong, at
C:10.14 would seem to prove this fact as you look back and say even Jesus  died before he could rise again as spirit.
C:10.15 rose again? This is rightly called the mystery of faith: Christ has  died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again. What is missing from
T1:8.2 As a man, I suffered,  died and was buried. As who I Am, I resurrected. “I am the
T1:9.4 What was once part of the mother and father, what would have  died without the joining that occurred within, becomes new life.
D:5.18 is the answer. Release through resurrection is the answer. You have  died to the old. But surely it would seem easier in some ways to have
D:5.18 old. But surely it would seem easier in some ways to have literally  died and been released from the prison of the body, the prison of the
D:Day2.24 This is what is meant by the idea that has been repeated as “I  died for your sins.” My death was meant to demonstrate that the end
D:Day10.27 body. Yet if you were to think now of a person whom you know who has  died, you would not be likely to think of them much differently than

dies (6)

C:2.19 ego can exist and, banished from the home you made for it, it slowly  dies. Until this happens, the ego takes pride in what the mind has
C:9.6 nature. It is as capable of violence as gentleness. It is born and  dies in a state of helplessness.
C:26.1 friends. We have talked before of the tragedy you feel when anyone  dies young. You each have some notion of what you believe a full life
C:30.6 in all its glorious relationship with life. All matter is born and  dies. All life is forever. The known Self realizes this and begins to
T3:17.3 Thus each self of form is born into time and each self of form  dies out of time. Both birth and death have always existed as
D:15.14 knows the wind is fickle. But any sailor also knows the wind never  dies.

diet (3)

T3:3.9 Like a person who believes she has a weight problem and knows a  diet would be “good” for her, the diet is often rejected because
T3:3.9 has a weight problem and knows a diet would be “good” for her, the  diet is often rejected because failure is deemed a certainty. While
T3:4.1 It will not tell you to leave behind your addictions or to go on a  diet or a fast. It will not even tell you to be kind. It does not

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D:Day40.17 You would perhaps beg to  differ now, and ask of me, “Are you not who you are ‘separately’ from
D:Day40.18 You would perhaps beg to  differ here, and say that regardless of what I say, you are who you
A.29 what will be revealed through sharing is that while experiences may  differ greatly and seem to be offering diverse “learning” situations,

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C:P.6 world of the ego’s dominion and that of spirit? What recognizes the  difference? The Christ in you.
C:P.16 even made with every good intention of going back and making a  difference, is still a choice for hell when you could instead have
C:P.18 What is the  difference between your good intentions and willing with God? The
C:P.18 difference between your good intentions and willing with God? The  difference is in who you think you are and who God knows you to be.
C:P.18 is in who you think you are and who God knows you to be. While this  difference remains you cannot share your will with God or do what God
C:P.18 have, or a choice to know your Self as God created you. It is the  difference between wanting to know God now, and wanting to wait to
C:2.8 to purposeless lives, convinced one person among billions makes no  difference and is of no consequence. Still others put on blinders to
C:2.10 you does not weep, for the Christ in you sees with eyes of love. The  difference is the eyes of love see not the misery or despair. They
C:4.23 Everywhere you look is proof of love’s  difference found. This difference is your salvation. Love is not like
C:4.23 Everywhere you look is proof of love’s difference found. This  difference is your salvation. Love is not like anything or everything
C:4.25 apart that you have made and extend them outside love’s doors. What  difference would a world of love make to those who lock their doors
C:5.10 is a celebration. Love collected is but a mockery of love. This  difference must be recognized and understood, as must the urge to set
C:5.14 reigns. No nightmares rule the night. Let me give you once again the  difference between what is within and what is without: Within is all
C:5.28 comes about. There must be some secret you do not know. What is the  difference, you ask, between setting a goal and achieving it and
C:5.29 the choice to achieve what you will on your own. This is all the  difference there is between union and separation. Separation is all
C:6.20 do you not still think of them as who they were in life? What is the  difference, in your mind, between who they were and who they are
C:6.21 use to deny yourself hope of any kind. You do not understand the  difference between wishing for what can never be and accepting what
C:7.18 split mind. Even your language and images reflect this truth, this  difference between the wisdom of your heart and that of your mind.
C:8.10 of you whose perceptions remain quite faulty know that there is a  difference between what lies on the surface and what lies beneath.
C:9.49 and use the rest to support your separate stance. See you the  difference in these two positions? In what way is your way better
C:10.17 might lead to happiness instead of this, you will begin to see a  difference in your body’s response to what appear to be external
C:10.18 within it. These instructions to your heart will begin to make a  difference to your state of mind.
C:10.24 the same kind of thoughts you might have of someone else’s body. The  difference will be that these thoughts will not seem to have
C:14.1 but a minute of this, and you will begin to see the enormity of the  difference in these two purposes.
C:15.4 own desire for specialness or to make another special could make a  difference to many—or possibly even to anyone. You just want to
C:16.6 Without judgment there would be no separation, for you would see no  difference between yourself and your brothers and sisters. Your
C:21.3 feel. When your heart can feel, you need no judgment to tell you the  difference between one thing and another. You thus can begin to quit
C:22.18 the finding of a definition, a personal meaning. Can you see the  difference?
C:28.13 to respond to them. One will be a teacher, another a student. The  difference will be clear if you listen with your heart.
C:29.2 Others think of it in terms of charity, and continue to see a  difference between those who would serve and those who would be
C:30.7 a dualistic position with God, but in a monistic state with Him. The  difference is in realizing relationship with the infinite instead of
C:30.8 This huge  difference is easily overlooked and rarely seen as the key that
C:31.22 are, but about who you truly are, and yet it is the way to learn the  difference while learning is still necessary.
C:32.1 also reflects the content of who you are not. It is in telling the  difference between the two that you need guidance. You have
C:32.1 guidance. You have previously looked to those who do not know the  difference for your answers. Now you can see that you need to look to
C:32.2 will eventually return you to the Source, which is Love. The  difference between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is but the same
C:32.2 The difference between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is but the same  difference of which we speak when we assure you that you are of one
C:32.2 relationship of one aspect of creation with all the rest that the  difference you so prize as your uniqueness exists. And only there.
T1:2.5 of Love as new learning has begun and continues here as well. The  difference is that you are now ready to learn a new means of response
T1:4.13 in the same or similar actions does not negate the need for the  difference to be realized. Charity is a responsibility. Love is a
T1:4.13 Charity is a responsibility. Love is a response. See you not the  difference? Can a father not be guided by responsibility and still
T1:4.20 that this will concern you while you continue to not realize the  difference between response and interpretation. The only way for this
T1:4.20 to begin to practice the art of thought and thus begin to learn the  difference.
T2:3.1 or imagined is and is reflected in the world you see. The only  difference between the life you are living and the life you want lies
T2:4.12 yourself to be, not with who you are. They do not recognize the  difference between thinking and knowing.
T2:9.10 which you deny your needs or are honest about your needs makes the  difference in your connection or separation within relationship. The
T2:10.17 What  difference does it make to your concepts of learning when you think
T3:1.2 While still a representation, there is a huge  difference between a true representation and a false representation.
T3:8.1 move beyond representations to the truth. Realize here the subtle  difference between a symbol that represents the truth, and the truth,
T3:8.8 of the belief that one person, and surely not you, can make a  difference. If you could relieve the world of suffering you would,
T3:11.10 to the precept of not judging by denying any right or wrong, the  difference between truth and illusion can no longer be denied. To
T3:11.10 between truth and illusion can no longer be denied. To realize the  difference between truth and illusion is not to call one right and
T3:14.2 Let me attempt to make the  difference between having a new thought system and living by a new
T3:15.9 you have offered or attempted, will take place in relationship. The  difference is that this new beginning will take place in holy, rather
T3:19.13 with a benevolent universe than it once did because of the  difference between one reality and the other, a difference that
T3:19.13 did because of the difference between one reality and the other, a  difference that couldn’t be seen until it was represented in an
T4:1.9 There but seems to be a  difference in the “educated” choice and the “uneducated” choice. Many
T4:1.17 The  difference between this time and the time that has but seemed to have
T4:1.17 has but seemed to have gone before has already been stated as the  difference between the time of the Holy Spirit and the time of
T4:1.17 Spirit and the time of Christ. This has also been restated as the  difference between the time of learning through contrast and the time
T4:1.17 of learning through observation. It is further stated here as the  difference between learning by contrast and indirect communication
T4:4.17 it were just another preview of what to expect after you die? What  difference would this make to your way of living or the world in
T4:7.5 is one free of fear and judgment. This is all that makes up the  difference between your natural state and your unnatural state. As
T4:12.10 You will be again surprised, however, to find what an enormous  difference the release of this idea will make in your capacity to
T4:12.26 being of service to you. That is how new this is—and more. But the  difference is that you are not alone and that you are not in a
D:3.18 and the elevated Self of form, but to demonstrate that there is a  difference in form between the Self and the elevated Self of form.
D:3.19 It is this  difference that exists between the Self and the elevated Self of form
D:3.19 One of the major things we will be seeing as we proceed is the  difference between form and content and the difference in the way
D:3.19 as we proceed is the difference between form and content and the  difference in the way separate forms express content. It will be
D:5.3 As was said in “A Treatise on the Personal Self”, there is a huge  difference between a true representation and a false representation.
D:13.1 know the truth and then discover that you were wrong. You know the  difference between certainty and uncertainty and are far more likely
D:15.17 is not often thought of as a lasting measure, which is the primary  difference between the idea of maintenance and the idea of sustenance.
D:16.9 The  difference between the way that is and what is lies in choice. While
D:17.17 asks for a response while want asks for provision. What is the  difference we speak of here?
D:Day2.2 re-viewed your life, unlearned previous patterns, and now see the  difference between the image you hold of yourself and your present
D:Day2.11 than a tornado or a flood. Yes, this was different, but this  difference does not place these actions beyond the idea of acceptance.
D:Day3.14 set forth in this Course, when practiced, are capable of making a  difference, especially in terms of monetary abundance. This is one of
D:Day3.36 Learning is no longer the way for good reason. It exemplifies the  difference between information and wisdom, between finding an answer
D:Day3.57 Do you see the  difference, even here, in belief and acceptance? Can you begin to see
D:Day4.45 This is real choice. What is a choice that leads not to  difference of any kind? These are the only choices you have made in a
D:Day4.48 done, and we will continue our dialogue so that you know more of the  difference you have chosen. Once this difference is wholly known to
D:Day4.48 so that you know more of the difference you have chosen. Once this  difference is wholly known to you, we will begin true discussion of
D:Day5.11 There would seem to be one major  difference between unity and love and that difference would seem to
D:Day5.11 seem to be one major difference between unity and love and that  difference would seem to be love’s ability to be given away.
D:Day6.3 Before we can continue to expand on your awareness of the  difference you have chosen, we thus must address this time so that
D:Day6.4 Can you see the similarities between these actions despite the  difference in language used?
D:Day9.22 same and not realizing sameness, they fail to celebrate their own  difference and do not bring the gift of their sameness, or of their
D:Day9.22 difference and do not bring the gift of their sameness, or of their  difference, to the world, but hold it in waiting for such a time as
D:Day10.3 to sustainability today, I am merely making you aware of this  difference, just as I made you aware of the difference between the
D:Day10.3 making you aware of this difference, just as I made you aware of the  difference between the states of maintenance and sustainability. As
D:Day15.7 The  difference between simply bringing spirit into form and making spirit
D:Day15.7 spirit into form and making spirit known through form is the  difference for which the time has come. The observation you have
D:Day17.1 the human and the divine into observable form. Thus there must be a  difference between life-consciousness and Christ-consciousness, since
D:Day18.4 or individuated from the rest. It is full acceptance of  difference as well as sameness and of the necessity of each. It is a
D:Day18.4 It is a choice many will be called to so that sameness is seen in  difference, the one is seen in the many, and the many seen in the
D:Day22.1 noted that you realize that all of life is a channel. There is a big  difference between seeing a teacher as a channel, all of life as a
D:Day28.1 to view the choices available would be to put off coming to know the  difference between externally and internally directed life
D:Day32.20 a state of limited relationship, you have limited power. This is the  difference between God and man. This difference, however, can be
D:Day32.20 have limited power. This is the difference between God and man. This  difference, however, can be diminished as you embrace holy
D:Day34.2 relationship, all and nothing are the same. In relationship, the  difference between all and nothing is everything. So too is it with
D:Day34.2 creation and destruction are the same. In relationship, the  difference between creation and destruction is everything.
D:Day34.3 Relationship is needed to create  difference. However, relationship with everything creates sameness—
D:Day34.4 and experience this oneness of being in relationship rather than the  difference of being in relationship—the wholeness of being in
D:Day34.5 you will create a new world—a world based on sameness rather than  difference. You have faced and admitted your willingness to leave
D:Day35.18 you know it is what you have made. You will only fully realize the  difference between what you have made and what you can create when
D:Day36.8 you can create a new reality—a new world? Can you not see the  difference between creating as a separate self in response to a
D:Day36.10 The  difference here is all the difference in the world. It is the
D:Day36.10 The difference here is all the  difference in the world. It is the difference between all and nothing
D:Day36.10 The difference here is all the difference in the world. It is the  difference between all and nothing in relationship to one another.
D:Day36.10 to one another. Recall the example used earlier. There is no  difference between all and nothing without relationship. In
D:Day36.10 between all and nothing without relationship. In relationship, the  difference is everything. This same difference is what is meant when
D:Day36.10 In relationship, the difference is everything. This same  difference is what is meant when it is said that you are one in being
D:Day36.10 and God was nothing. But just as with all and nothing, there was no  difference between your being and God’s being without relationship.
D:Day36.10 of self and God in different ways, but you could not truly create  difference but only perceive of difference. You thus always remained
D:Day36.10 ways, but you could not truly create difference but only perceive of  difference. You thus always remained one in being with God, yet
D:Day36.11 There is only  difference between your being and God in relationship. This is the
D:Day36.12 the choices in the world save this one before you now, have made no  difference to your state of being. You have just kept being, kept
D:Day37.10 the second coming of Christ has sounded and that it is a call to the  difference you have always desired while not requiring you to remain
D:Day37.26 The only real  difference that exists or has ever existed between God and man is
D:Day37.26 that exists or has ever existed between God and man is that man sees  difference in a way that makes no sense. Like the faulty ideas of
D:Day38.11 There is a subtle and loving  difference between I Am and who I Am. Who is an acknowledgment of
D:Day40.14 The  difference between you and me is that I am being God and also love,
E.20 only if you allow and will yourself to realize and make real this  difference. It is a difference between becoming and being. It is all
E.20 and will yourself to realize and make real this difference. It is a  difference between becoming and being. It is all the difference in
E.20 It is a difference between becoming and being. It is all the  difference in the world. It is the difference between separation and
E.20 becoming and being. It is all the difference in the world. It is the  difference between separation and differentiation in union and
E.21 This  difference, if you will allow it to come, will take away all worry,
A.1 A major  difference between A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love has to

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C:7.3 Comparison of one thing to another—a comparison that seeks out  differences and magnifies them and names one thing this and one thing
C:10.3 you will and leave the rest. Thus we will continue to point out the  differences in the two thought systems so that your ideas can begin
C:16.6 began with your own self, and from it was all conflict born. Without  differences there is no cause for conflict. Judgment makes different.
C:19.12 as you see your brothers and sisters, and place your belief not in  differences but in sameness.
C:21.8 between mind and heart is the perception of internal and external  differences in meaning. In extreme instances this is considered moral
T1:7.6 we must speak now of being human in a new way. We must reconcile the  differences between the human and divine. We must, in other words,
T3:21.20 becoming certain of your true identity. The second is that the very  differences that you seem to have will be seen as sameness by some
T3:21.22 herself that is seen reflected there. What I am saying is that your  differences can serve our purpose until differences are no longer
T3:21.22 I am saying is that your differences can serve our purpose until  differences are no longer seen. What I am saying is that you can
T3:21.23 remain blind to the unity that exists beyond all barriers of seeming  differences such as those of race and religion. It is simply being
T3:22.11 one Self. No comparison will be possible. You will realize that  differences but lie in expression and representation of the truth,
D:3.19 become aware that different expressions do not make different. These  differences were spoken of within this Course as unique expressions
D:4.2 While not the same, you also are not different. The  differences you saw during the time of learning, differences that
D:4.2 not different. The differences you saw during the time of learning,  differences that made you feel as if each being stood separate and
D:4.12 pattern is evident and should not be beyond your belief. Despite the  differences in what you see, think, and feel, there is but one
D:4.15 you identified and classified the world around you based upon the  differences, or contrast that you saw.
D:5.13 to be, just as the ego has ceased to be. To outline and define the  differences between what was created and what was made would be to
D:Day9.25 imperfections but your “differences?” Have we not spoken of these  differences as givens, as gifts? These are not just the givens of
D:Day9.27 you by learning practices that sought for sameness, and saw not your  differences as the gifts they are.
D:Day34.5 and admitted your willingness to leave striving for specialness and  differences behind. Now you need only realize that your wholehearted
D:Day40.8 who you are. Both beings and thus both extensions are the same. The  differences have arisen through becoming. For with the birth of I Am
E.5 to move more fully back into your life, you will realize where the  differences between this natural Self and your former self lie. You
A.28 shared. This sharing can offer a rich and rewarding opportunity for  differences to be revealed and for the welcome realization that
A.28 for differences to be revealed and for the welcome realization that  differences do not make separate.
A.29 movement away from learning and toward acceptance of what is. While  differences may be highlighted in this time, what will be revealed

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C:P.27 Obviously the nature of God is  different than the nature of man. God does not have physical form and
C:3.7 A form is but a representation. You see a thousand forms a day with  different names and different functions and you think not that they
C:3.7 You see a thousand forms a day with different names and  different functions and you think not that they are all the same. You
C:6.1 you would want to have. You have to forgive this reality for being  different than you have always imagined it to be. You have to forgive
C:6.1 Forgive God. Then you will be ready to begin learning just how  different it really is to live in the reality of relationship.
C:6.4 and lived in the same town. This was because they knew I was not  different from them, and they could not accept that they were the
C:6.4 that they were the same as me. They were then, and you are now, no  different than I. We are all the same because we are not separate.
C:7.17 to help you recognize relationship itself, relationship as something  different from the objects, persons, or situations related to. Now we
C:7.21 of the truth most predominate in your society. Thus the truth is  different in one place than it is in another and it even appears to
C:9.15 or the desire to protect. They are really the same but they wear  different faces to the world. If, for the purposes of our discussion,
C:9.38 a diversified investment portfolio, you think this parceling out of  different aspects of yourself protects your assets. You fear “putting
C:9.50 How  different would the world be if you would but attempt for one day to
C:10.14 are not your body while you walk around within it is something quite  different than believing in God. Here all the proof available would
C:10.21 rather die than continue on in such a way. Addicts too but choose a  different threshold wherein after experiencing the oblivion of the
C:10.24 originated in your head. You may realize for the first time or in a  different way that you have always heard your thoughts without the
C:11.7 together and while they are the same, their application is quite  different.
C:11.10 use your free will to rebel and to make your own choices, choices  different than those your Creator would make for you. This right to
C:12.12 ages. Perhaps you believe that long ago you evolved from a form  different than that which you inhabit now; but certainly within the
C:12.22 seemed to bring about a completely reshaped life, a destiny  different than that which had already been written. Yet this
C:14.2 it? If not, you have made yourself creation’s enemy. You seek to be  different from all the rest, and in this seeking proclaim that one
C:14.2 ends. And since your end or goal is that of separation and being  different from all the rest, this is the goal you ask creation to bow
C:14.9 of Heaven, your true home, is love. The same world based upon these  different foundations could not help but look quite different.
C:14.9 based upon these different foundations could not help but look quite  different.
C:14.13 in your memory of it is that it was quite real in a way that is  different from your relationships before or since. No other
C:14.16 you would influence, would behave quite differently and bring about  different results than are somehow meant to occur. Although you know
C:14.18 happens to you affects your universe. Your universe is completely  different than anyone else’s and completely self-contained. The laws
C:15.5 on your culture what is necessary may mean few things, or many and  different things for each one. From this sphere of influence comes
C:16.3 were the same as he. What is the same does not change and become  different. Innocence is not replaced by sin.
C:16.5 does to all of you who believe that what is the same can be made  different. This is as true of the love you reserve for special ones
C:16.6 Without differences there is no cause for conflict. Judgment makes  different. It looks past what is the same and sees it not and sees
C:16.24 a barbaric time that was, and yet you repeat the same history but in  different form. If a talented physician were to give up his power to
C:17.15 in sin and still held onto your belief in judgment, thinking one is  different from the other. They are not different, and while you do
C:17.15 in judgment, thinking one is different from the other. They are not  different, and while you do not see this your thoughts remain based
C:17.17 the way you see them, and because it has allowed me to address the  different functions you have given them.
C:17.18 What is the same cannot have  different functions. And now your mind and heart must work together
C:18.3 keeps a universal order, part of a whole that would be a completely  different whole without your presence, just as the universe would be
C:18.3 without your presence, just as the universe would be a completely  different universe without the presence of the Earth.
C:19.11 and see that this is so. I did not proclaim myself to be above or  different from the rest, but called each of you brother and sister
C:19.12 achieve this state during my lifetime, for they looked at me as  different and looked to me for power. Only after my resurrection did
C:20.1 longing now has reached a fever pitch, a burning in your heart quite  different from that which you have felt before. Your heart may even
C:20.31 the results of your actions in a universe of love will naturally be  different from your actions and the results of your actions in a
C:20.45 To serve is  different from your ideas of service, however. Your ideas of service
C:20.48 Your heart has a  different scope, a different view. It is the view from within the
C:20.48 Your heart has a different scope, a  different view. It is the view from within the embrace, the view from
C:21.5 contrary to the language of your heart, and so, like two people from  different countries speaking different languages, there has been
C:21.5 heart, and so, like two people from different countries speaking  different languages, there has been little communication and much
C:21.5 of emergency or crisis of every kind. And like the two people from  different countries who do not understand each other, working
C:21.7 This is a problem of meaning. Mind and heart interpret meaning in  different ways. You do not even begin to understand the enormity of
C:21.7 but I assure you that as long as mind and heart interpret meaning in  different ways you will not find peace. You have, in the past,
C:21.7 ways you will not find peace. You have, in the past, accepted these  different interpretations as natural. You see that there are two ways
C:21.7 You act without unity. And, just as if you were two people acting on  different truths in the same situation, conflict cannot help but
C:21.8 and internal meanings of the same situation are considered to be  different. This is fairly easy to see in extreme circumstances, but
C:22.4 passed through the eye of the needle, it can bind many parts in many  different configurations.
C:22.23 your individuality or uniqueness is very much intact, but that it is  different than you have always imagined it to be. You will find that
C:25.9 This makes you angry. This anger is re-enacted in thousands of  different scenarios in your life day after day and year after year
C:29.21 and your power to make choices is an act that comes from an entirely  different place than decision-making. Claiming is akin to prayer and
C:30.1 How is being present  different than being? Are they not the same thing? Should they not
C:31.4 if you are to be a miracle worker. What is inseparable cannot be  different, but this does not mean it must be the same. Inseparable
C:31.4 wine water, yet each are from the same source, and so they are not  different even while they are not the same.
C:31.5 understandable given your concept of what is the same and what is  different. Yet, as your forms so readily illustrate, while all bodies
C:31.5 so readily illustrate, while all bodies are the same, they are also  different. Form but imitates content.
C:31.8 well. You live on one world, one planet, one Earth. You may live on  different continents, different countries, various cities, but all of
C:31.8 world, one planet, one Earth. You may live on different continents,  different countries, various cities, but all of you rely on the one
C:31.31 not change. And if who you truly are is the truth, how can you be  different? Thus it can be said that the truth and the mind are one in
C:31.35 in which experience can occur. Your ego has made of this something  different than it is. Rather than extension of mind, your experience
C:32.1 for your answers. Now you can see that you need to look to a  different source.
C:32.2 which you experience relationship with each aspect of the Trinity is  different despite the oneness of the Trinity. The same is true of all
C:32.2 in which you experience relationship with each aspect of creation is  different despite the oneness of creation. It is in the different
C:32.2 creation is different despite the oneness of creation. It is in the  different relationship of one aspect of creation with all the rest
T1:3.2 Seeing how  different from the experience of illusion is the experience of truth
T1:3.2 of illusion is the experience of truth is the same as seeing how  different the art of thought is from the thinking of the ego-mind!
T1:4.8 This is quite a  different you than the self of the ego-mind. The ego-mind, in its
T1:4.17 similarly and this would but lead to a continuation of the belief in  different forms of the truth.
T1:5.14 Mindfulness and wholeheartedness are but  different expressions of the union of mind and heart. Mindfulness
T1:6.7 the way experience is related to, through memory, which shapes the  different personalities, paths, and thus future experiences of each
T1:6.8 under the all-encompassing umbrella of a new way of thought? The  different personalities become one, the different paths become one
T1:6.8 of a new way of thought? The different personalities become one, the  different paths become one path, the future experiences become one.
T1:8.1 manifestation of the Will of God. I have told you that you are no  different than I was. Now I call you to be no different than I am.
T1:8.1 you that you are no different than I was. Now I call you to be no  different than I am.
T1:9.14 as your initial reaction and your response will likely have taken on  different forms. You may for instance, have reacted by being hurt or
T1:9.16 Male and female are labels laden with attributes. When the  different attributes are merged, male and female will be no more and
T2:2.7 This list of  different callings could be endless, and each could be considered
T2:5.2 many unlearning and learning opportunities. Thus recognition of the  different calls that may now be heard is necessary.
T2:7.10 turn your attention to others and to situations you would have be  different than they are. You will want to be a change-agent. You will
T2:13.3 laughs and loves and cries and shares with friends in a world now  different than the one you once perceived. I know of this world and I
T2:13.4 because I lived among you as a thinking being. Think not that I was  different than you and you will realize that we are truly one in
T3:1.11 existed as the self you presented to others in the past is quite a  different statement and has a totally different meaning. The personal
T3:1.11 others in the past is quite a different statement and has a totally  different meaning. The personal self you once presented to others as
T3:1.11 and who you presented yourself to be could be two completely  different selves. Even within the illusion in which you existed there
T3:7.6 chosen many doors to the same house and but thought them to offer  different things, only to find that the house you entered was still
T3:10.8 change. While much the same as forgetting it will seem to have a  different process in practice. This is the practice of ceasing to
T3:10.8 process of forgetting these thought patterns will be only slightly  different from forgetting your former reactions to people and
T3:11.12 If I can tell you in truth that you are no  different than I am, then you must see that you cannot begin to think
T3:11.12 am, then you must see that you cannot begin to think of yourself as  different than your brothers and sisters. All exist in the House of
T3:15.2 kinds within the human experience are ideas that things cannot be  different than they once were. The only true departure from this idea
T3:15.7 by the past. You must forget the idea that the future cannot be  different than the past.
T3:19.10 responded. The body’s response to the new thought system will be  different in many ways, none of which will lead you to feel that you
T3:20.19 Thus, the circumstance of suffering or illness is not  different but the same as every other circumstance you will
T3:21.15 was the same world as all other human beings were born into, is also  different than that of all other human beings. And what’s more, your
T3:21.15 beings. And what’s more, your experiences within that world are also  different than the experiences of all other human beings.
T3:21.16 those whose personal selves and world view cannot help but be  different than your own—those whose thoughts are surely as distinct
T3:21.17 new light. No matter what you believe, while you have a body that is  different from all the rest, a name that distinguishes you from some
T3:21.22 matter that someone will look at you and see that you are not so  different than he or she. It will matter that someone will look at
T4:1.6 specifically because of the precedent of its use historically. Many  different groups believe they are the chosen people of God, or
T4:1.13 And yet, as many of you have come instinctively to feel, something is  different now. You are beginning to become excited by the feeling
T4:1.13 You are beginning to become excited by the feeling that something  different is possible; that you might just be able to achieve what
T4:1.13 able to achieve what others have not; that this time might just be  different than any other time. Even as you begin to tentatively let
T4:1.14 in this time as the time to end all time. There must be something  different about this time, the capabilities of those existing within
T4:1.14 chosen time had been two thousand years ago, life would have been  different since then. If Jesus Christ were the chosen one, his life
T4:1.20 indirect means of communication left much open to interpretation.  Different interpretations of indirectly received truth resulted in
T4:1.20 Different interpretations of indirectly received truth resulted in  different religions and varying sets of beliefs that, in the way of
T4:1.23 despite the advances of learning that have taken place, it is a  different world. You have not known the secret yearning in the hearts
T4:2.15 the expressions of the self you are and have been. Although you are  different now than you were as a child, and different now than you
T4:2.15 been. Although you are different now than you were as a child, and  different now than you were a few years ago, and different now than
T4:2.15 as a child, and different now than you were a few years ago, and  different now than when you began your learning of this Course, you
T4:2.31 Have you suspected that you might see in ways literally  different? That you might see auras or halos, signs and clues
T4:4.13 Being fully aware that you have life everlasting is totally  different than having faith in an afterlife. Faith is based upon the
T4:5.13 thought of it as a time of judgment. But I tell you truly; it is no  different than the time that is upon you right now. The afterlife has
T4:6.3 that unites us all will but continue life as it has been but in  different form. The realization of unity is the binding realization
T4:8.11 come to see that you cannot fight a child’s nature, no matter how  different it might be from your own—just as in extreme cases you
T4:9.5 to see that all messages of the truth say the same thing but in  different ways. There seems to be nothing new to be said, nothing to
T4:10.2 see that you merely think of experience as learning through a  different means than studying.
T4:12.27 shared by all learners and inherent to your natures. The means were  different for each, but the pattern was the same. There was an
D:1.6 the reality of this truth, knows that this new reality is real and  different from the reality of old. Ideally, mind and heart in union
D:1.20 everyone, and think not that to hear “directly” from the Source is  different than what you do here. This is thinking with the mindset of
D:1.21 you of what you have learned in unity, a learning that has been  different from all learning you but thought you accomplished as a
D:2.7 but simply the truth. To learn the truth and not accept it is  different from learning what is necessary for a career. To learn the
D:3.13 Helping you to achieve full awareness of who you are is  different than helping you to learn. As was said before, you know
D:3.19 forms express content. It will be challenging to become aware that  different expressions do not make different. These differences were
D:3.19 challenging to become aware that different expressions do not make  different. These differences were spoken of within this Course as
D:3.20 As the system of nature supports the life of many  different trees, the trees are all still of one life-giving and
D:4.2 While not the same, you also are not  different. The differences you saw during the time of learning,
D:4.4 what becomes of all of those who see not what it means to be neither  different nor the same but to be one.
D:4.31 the New, are one and the same, these reasons will disappear. All the  different reasons you would cite become what they are—one reason,
D:4.31 reason—and you will see that what is one is neither the same nor  different. You will see that there is one answer, an answer different
D:4.31 same nor different. You will see that there is one answer, an answer  different for everyone and yet the same for everyone. That answer is
D:9.8 be taught? You must continually remember your newness and the  different aim toward which we now work. The aims we clearly embraced
D:9.9 What was taught in order to aid your “recognition” will clearly be  different from what is revealed once that recognition has been
D:11.3 You might imagine that the way you think is so  different from the way I think that they are incomparable. But
D:11.17 separated self, but only illusion. Illusion can be described in many  different ways that lead to many paths of seeking, but illusion can
D:12.5 read the words of other books. While you may be aware that something  different is going on here, you might also say that your body has
D:12.7 Let your reception of these words, a reception  different from the reading of the words of most and maybe all other
D:13.8 of Christ, and you will begin to see the evidence that things are  different now. Join with others who are coming to know through the
D:15.23 you return to the level ground from which you climbed, you will be  different as a result of having made your ascent. The hard work is
D:17.5 “get there” has not been satiated but only has grown into something  different. With having arrived comes the “presence” of Self so long
D:17.13 What is  different now is that your wholeheartedness, as well as your desire,
D:Day1.14 which I now would like to lead you beyond, the world would be a  different place. Have I not called you to a new time in which the
D:Day2.11 if you had been the adulterer, the cause of the divorce, this was  different than a tornado or a flood. Yes, this was different, but
D:Day2.11 divorce, this was different than a tornado or a flood. Yes, this was  different, but this difference does not place these actions beyond
D:Day3.14 rather not even attempt an understanding of how things might be  different. As far as you have come, these ideas are still with most
D:Day3.33 might think here too that money made from what you love to do has a  different quality than money earned from toil. You might think that
D:Day4.33 Many, however, have applied a  different kind of focus upon breathing as a form of meditation. In
D:Day4.44 has been revealed, what is yours is everything. But you will be  different.
D:Day5.2 you this access point will in truth be the same, but perhaps quite  different in the action which you use in order to enter it. For those
D:Day7.7 acceptance that will be of great service to you now is that of the  different relationship that you will have with time. This is a time
D:Day8.4 Realize that your desire for your life to be  different, your desire for your unhappiness to be gone, is very
D:Day9.5 of the self of form. The certainty that arises from unity is  different from this confidence in the self of form and they must be
D:Day9.22 are the same as the one they idolize, but realize only that they are  different. In “wanting” to be the same and not realizing sameness,
D:Day10.11 you have trusted in the most is rational thought, and intuition is  different than rational thought, as are feelings of all kinds. You
D:Day10.12 is often more difficult to become adept in doing something in a way  different than you have done it before than to do something
D:Day10.27 give you of how to imagine the elevated Self of form, as not much  different than you are now, but peaceful and free of the constraints
D:Day15.21 To be engaged in dialogue with certain others is  different than entering the dialogue, but entering the dialogue is
D:Day15.21 than entering the dialogue, but entering the dialogue is not  different than engaging in specific dialogues. This is so because
D:Day15.26 own path will be made visible and you will see that it may be quite  different from the others with whom you are coming to know, and
D:Day15.26 from the others with whom you are coming to know, and perhaps quite  different than you thought it would be. You will be shown that you
D:Day17.1 been missing. What is Christ? What is Christ-consciousness? Are they  different or the same?
D:Day17.3 are has been discussed in many ways, many of you still await being  different than who you are. This is because you realize that being
D:Day18.10 within the other. But the way of discovery and demonstration is  different.
D:Day19.8 with God. Each demonstrated the creative aspect of that function in  different ways. But the function remained one of direct union with
D:Day22.3 The means of expression is there for everyone. What is expressed is  different because it is a combination of the universal (what is
D:Day22.9 have been expressed here, that say so many similar things in so many  different ways, are words that are simply calling you to realization
D:Day24.7 butterfly have always been one and remain one. Each form is but a  different stage in the becoming of the spirit. Without release, it
D:Day27.9 All that is now seen as dualistic in nature can be experienced as  different levels of experience of one whole. You might consider this
D:Day27.9 another, you might see the dawning of light. Opposites exist only as  different aspects of one whole. Different aspects exist only as
D:Day27.9 of light. Opposites exist only as different aspects of one whole.  Different aspects exist only as different levels of experience.
D:Day27.9 as different aspects of one whole. Different aspects exist only as  different levels of experience.
D:Day28.6 that feels like a choice that will move their lives in such a  different direction that it is both exciting and at times
D:Day28.6 made choices within that career path, but never really consider a  different career path. Many simply reach a state of reasonable
D:Day28.8 Now something new awaits you. It is a choice so  different and a means so revolutionary that it will take some getting
D:Day29.1 simultaneously and that duality is really just a matter of  different levels of experience. If you can be having the experience
D:Day29.2 longer be divided into a spirit Self and a human self, living under  different conditions, at times complementing and at times opposing
D:Day32.7 Himself. This concept may be quite amorphous and not tremendously  different than scientific notions of the source of life. Whether it
D:Day32.17 that of Father to Son but also as one in being. One in being, but  different in relationship.
D:Day32.18 Could God be one in being, but  different in relationship, to each of us? Could not God’s oneness of
D:Day32.18 God from us and us from God? So that we are both one in being and  different? Could it be that while we are one in being with God we can
D:Day32.19 Would this answer your questions concerning how God is both  different and the same? Would this answer your questions concerning
D:Day33.7 Yet if relationship and being are one, and you are one in being and  different in relationship, what is being said is that being and
D:Day33.9 Yet the response of love can look as  different as the events, situations, people, and places that populate
D:Day33.12 In other words, relationship is the expression of power—all the  different expressions of power. In the time of Jesus, the powerful
D:Day35.3 This fullness of being is  different for each one of you because it is the cause and effect, the
D:Day35.3 your being. But while it has been said that you are one in being and  different in relationship, relationship is also God. God is the
D:Day35.7 and fundamental idea—the idea that you are one in being and  different in relationship. The idea that you return to your humanity
D:Day35.8 caused life to be as it has been, this shift will cause life to be  different, or in other words, new.
D:Day35.13 Unity is oneness of being. Relationship is  different expressions of oneness of being.
D:Day35.18 Being a creator, and creating anew, is  different than being affected by the ongoing nature of creation.
D:Day35.19 the power you have always retained. But creating in separation is as  different from creating in unity as has been your concept of God and
D:Day36.7 is everything, your creatorship of your experience is a totally  different exercise. You realize that your life is not you but that
D:Day36.7 are one. You are one in being with the power of creation and  different in your relationship to and expression of that power.
D:Day36.10 is what is meant when it is said that you are one in being and  different in relationship. Without your awareness of unity and
D:Day36.10 being without relationship. You could conceive of self and God in  different ways, but you could not truly create difference but only
D:Day36.16 When you realize that you are one in being with God and  different in relationship you accept the power of being, or
D:Day36.19 the truth. It is the same truth that has been stated here in many  different ways to allow you to become accustomed to the idea of a
D:Day37.2 should it be difficult to see that God is being? This is not much  different than saying that the most basic truth about you is that you
D:Day37.25 all of God and God was all of Jesus while at the same time each was  different or individuated by being in union and relationship.
D:Day38.9 that have become faulty ideas in separation. They mean an entirely  different thing in union and relationship. They mean union and
D:Day38.13 own being. We are one and we are many. We are the same and we are  different. In “own”-ership we are full of one another’s own being. We
D:Day39.17 projection. This is what projection does. It projects outward. It is  different from extension in that extension is like a projection that
D:Day40.6 you have taken on distinguishers through which you became a  different or distinct being, a being different or distinct from who I
D:Day40.6 through which you became a different or distinct being, a being  different or distinct from who I am, and who others are. These are
D:Day40.16 who you have thought me to be. Because these relationships are so  different, many of you have gone on quests to find the “one, true,
E.17 carry forward with you, with your realization of being, will be a  different dialogue.
E.20 afraid now to be who you are. Do not think you need to be something  different, something other than you have been. Leave all thinking
E.20 not have the chance to realize and make real its being. You will be  different, only if you allow and will yourself to realize and make
E.23 to overcome, for once you have begun to realize that everything is  different, you will not desire to turn back, not even for the
E.26 as you re-read it, in your quickly passing times of doubt, how  different you are. You will recall with poignancy who you once were,

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C:13.4 ascribing some attributes to one spirit and not to another, just to  differentiate between them. The purpose here is to show you that they
C:18.21 We talked briefly here of emotions, doing so only to  differentiate your feelings of love from your feelings of lack of
D:11.2 taking notes? You think it is only the content of your thoughts that  differentiate you from others. Do you think the same is true of you
D:Day37.2 would define who you are, because being, by itself, does not  differentiate or individuate you.
D:Day37.3 relationship. But relationship, like being and experience, does not  differentiate or individuate you in separation as it does in union.
D:Day37.26 has been caused by your faulty memory of creation. To  differentiate in union and relationship is to be God in form—to
D:Day40.8 the birth of I Am came the birth of all I am not and the need to  differentiate. In separation you have striven against the “opposing”

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C:13.4 between them. The purpose here is to show you that they cannot be  differentiated or compared or defined in the same way you have
T4:2.28 This state of union is what  differentiated me from my brothers and sisters at the time of my life
D:Day31.7 Joining is  differentiated from union only by experience. Union is the realm of
D:Day36.17 being with all, and God also is given form, or is, in other words,  differentiated. God is All in All. And God is also All in One and All
D:Day37.23 and is all of God. In union and relationship, God is all and God is  differentiated.
D:Day38.11 I Am and who I Am. Who is an acknowledgment of individuated or  differentiated being in union and relationship.

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T2:9.7 All needs are shared. This is what  differentiates needs from wants. This is true in two senses. It is
T3:11.12 the awareness of the power of choice that exists within is all that  differentiates one from the other.
D:11.2 you think the same is true of you and me? It is that you think that  differentiates you from me, not our content, which is one and the
D:Day11.7 It is that without which God would not know God. It is that which  differentiates all from nothing. Because it is that which
D:Day11.7 that which differentiates all from nothing. Because it is that which  differentiates, it is that which has taken form as well as that from
D:Day32.13 endless, just as one could make an endless list of what they believe  differentiates God from man. The example lives in which the power of
D:Day32.18 we all share? Could not God’s relationship to everything be what  differentiates God from us and us from God? So that we are both one
D:Day40.13 It is that without which God would not know God. It is that which  differentiates All from nothing. Because it is that which
D:Day40.13 that which differentiates All from nothing. Because it is that which  differentiates, it is that which has taken form as well as that from

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D:Day39.37 and who I Am are the same being in the constant creative tension of  differentiating from one another.

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D:Day36.17 or many lives, the experience and the experiencer of life. Through  differentiation, God is you as you are God. God retains oneness of
D:Day37.5 what relationship is—a way that represents separation rather than  differentiation or individuation.
D:Day37.8 You keep striving for  differentiation in a way that simply will not work—through
D:Day37.8 work—through separation! And what’s more, you keep striving for  differentiation while wanting to continue a certain reliance. Your
D:Day37.8 differentiation while wanting to continue a certain reliance. Your  differentiation from the being of God can only come through the
D:Day37.11 being divisible from that which is your Source, but division, like  differentiation or individuation, is only possible in union and
D:Day37.26 your separate world spoken of early in this Course, your quest for  differentiation has been caused by your faulty memory of creation. To
D:Day40.6 being, failed only because you experienced separation rather than  differentiation, and fear rather than love.
D:Day40.8 is the tension of individuation or the individuation and  differentiation process.
D:Day40.29 relationship with me, is me, as well as you. This is the power of  differentiation in union and relationship, the demonstration of
E.20 difference in the world. It is the difference between separation and  differentiation in union and relationship.

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C:P.39 are eternally one with Christ. The only way you can identify Jesus  differently is to relate to the Jesus who was a man, the Jesus who
C:8.28 the same sun rising and setting, and yet can experience each day so  differently that one day you feel happy and one day you feel sad, one
C:9.18 end your loneliness can do so if you but learn to see relationship  differently. As with all your problems in perception, fear is what
C:14.16 people and the events that you would influence, would behave quite  differently and bring about different results than are somehow meant
T1:1.4 that you will receive the blessing of being able to respond  differently to love.
T1:4.17 each of you interprets what you see, read, hear, smell, and touch  differently must mean something. What you have decided that this
T1:7.5 steps, climbed to a new level, and acquired an ability to perceive  differently, in order to make this new learning possible. If you do
T4:1.9 may look back on choices that you made and say, “I would have chosen  differently if I had but known” this or that. The choice is the way
D:Day2.10 these actions? Have you not expressed your wish that you had acted  differently? Can you see a way to change the past or to “make up for”
D:Day10.27 you know who has died, you would not be likely to think of them much  differently than they were in life, even while you are able to
D:Day15.21 to disregard any other means of coming to know or to see any others  differently than you see those with whom you are engaged in this
D:Day16.12 When you feel an “intuition” you respond  differently than you do to unwanted feelings that you are quick to

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T4:6.1 the consciousness that is Christ-consciousness. This is why you hear  differing reports of the afterlife from those who have experienced
T4:6.1 from those who have experienced temporary death. It is why you hear  differing words and scenarios attributed to me and other life-giving
D:Day27.3 external life. Life itself showed you the way, pointed you in  differing directions, taught you what you needed to know. This was

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C:P.7 It is easy to imagine how the Christ in you  differs from your ego but not as easy to recognize how the Christ in
C:P.7 from your ego but not as easy to recognize how the Christ in you  differs from spirit. The Christ in you is that which is capable of
D:Day19.10 with the end of the way of Jesus in that an example is provided. It  differs only in that the example is not an example of an individuated

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C:6.5 yearns to make for you and that your mind is finding increasingly  difficult to deny. When you choose unity over separation, you choose
C:7.18 your view from the specific to the general is one of the most  difficult tasks of the curriculum. It is easy to see why this is so
C:10.13 of not being separate, however. The only thing you find really  difficult to believe is that you are in union with your brothers and
C:12.10 about, and it is but a separation from your Self. This is the most  difficult point to get across, because in it lies a contradiction,
C:13.12 Each of you will initially find it  difficult to accept the innocence and sinlessness of others and
C:15.4 It is more  difficult to see that this desire for specialness does not stop with
C:15.5 if you did not do so. To make one small change in this culture is  difficult to impossible, because if you were to go your own way and
C:15.9 Your concept of loyalty is what makes it  difficult for you to entertain withdrawing your effort to manifest
C:15.12 saved much suffering and put an end to hell. But it also is not a  difficult choice, nor one that is in truth yours alone to make. This
C:18.17 although it is recognized that a split mind makes decision making  difficult. You were already told that the only exercise for your mind
C:19.15 and that is why philosophy becomes such a muddle of words. It is  difficult for you to accept that what you most need to know cannot be
C:23.17 the link between researcher and research findings. Still you find it  difficult to believe that what is possible depends upon what you can
C:25.22 will make decision-making and choices of all kinds appear to be  difficult during this time. You must realize decisions and choices
C:26.10 strive to find the clues to what they ask you to do, will find it  difficult to cease your struggle and your striving. You find it
C:28.11 response of those who know and worry not of what to do. This is a  difficult stage as you feel obligated and inspired to act and yet
C:29.16 but accentuated this manner of functioning and made of it something  difficult and challenging, something to be changed. The separation
T1:1.11 change in time, without guidance, this change would be seen as quite  difficult no matter how grand its outcome and even in spite of your
T1:9.14 These may be  difficult questions to answer as your initial reaction and your
T2:5.6 past, the final breaking of old patterns. They may seem to signal  difficult times, but they are times that must be gotten through and
T2:7.7 This is the most  difficult belief of all to integrate into the living of your life.
T2:7.21 While as stated previously, this belief will at times seem  difficult to put into practice, and while your recognition of
T2:9.3 find the idea of letting go of special relationships among the most  difficult of ideas contained in this course of study, the ability to
T2:9.15 the others mentioned here, this adjustment in your thinking may seem  difficult to accept. How does the identification of needs or the
T2:11.2 of who you are, you will find living as who you are in the world  difficult as long as you perceive of others as living under the old
T2:11.10 total reversal of thought concerning yourself and your world will be  difficult you are listening to your ego. The Christ in you knows not
T3:8.8 Why should you not be bitter when you believe you are powerless? How  difficult it is to believe that you need not change the world but
T3:8.8 that you need not change the world but only your own self. How  difficult to imagine that this one change could bring about all the
T3:10.6 that have come before. They will not be lessons that you find  difficult or distressing if you accept them as lessons and realize
T3:15.3 what is considered poor behavior can come to be an expectation  difficult to deviate from within the special relationship. But
T3:16.12 If it were not for this fear of loss, you would not find it  difficult to live by the thought system of the truth. This fear
T3:20.8 You will see it as quite  difficult at first to respond to such situations in a new way, but
T4:2.14 It is  difficult for you, because of the patterns of the past, to believe
T4:8.7 The expression of your true nature should never have been  difficult, joyless, or fearful; but you cannot imagine what a
T4:9.9 learning and your study and your sharing of the same may find it  difficult to leave it behind. A choice made by you to stay with
D:2.9 old have at times provided you with a false certainty that they are  difficult to deny. When we speak of denying here, we speak of denying
D:3.21 and not only that, but as if I have presented you with a concept  difficult to learn. What you need remember now is that your separated
D:4.16 thought pattern came most of your false ideas, ideas that made it  difficult even for the divinely inspired thought systems to provide
D:7.1 of form. To “enter” into the experience of unity is something more  difficult to imagine, and something for which you have little
D:Day2.17 constant companion of all those who have lived since my time. It is  difficult for you to believe that by following me you will not walk
D:Day3.29 You think abundance is the most  difficult thing to demonstrate, when it is actually the easiest. You
D:Day3.29 the easiest. You think you could learn what is for you the most  difficult type of learning, be it philosophy, math, or foreign
D:Day3.57 an active function. It is something given you to do. You think it is  difficult, but it is only difficult until it becomes easy.
D:Day3.57 something given you to do. You think it is difficult, but it is only  difficult until it becomes easy.
D:Day7.21 There is an acceptance of the present that some of you are finding  difficult and a false sense of certainty that some of you may be
D:Day10.6 While you think it is your access to unity that will be the more  difficult to achieve and sustain, this will not be the case for most
D:Day10.12 said that the certainty that comes from access to unity may be less  difficult for you to become aware of and accept than the confidence
D:Day10.12 way, and as you all know from the time of learning, it is often more  difficult to become adept in doing something in a way different than
D:Day10.38 As you can see, it is  difficult for me, even now, even in this final address to you as the
D:Day15.15 one another known and in so doing to know oneness. It will be less  difficult to know this voice as the voice of oneness once you have
D:Day19.17 way of Jesus, those pursuing the way of Mary would have a much more  difficult task. There would be little space in which to anchor the
D:Day28.6 direction that it is both exciting and at times excruciatingly  difficult. Others reach a plateau of sorts and just keep following
D:Day32.9 we refer to as our conscience? What kind of life would this be? A  difficult to imagine life at the very least.
D:Day37.2 believe in God as a supreme and separate being, why should it be  difficult to see that God is being? This is not much different than
D:Day37.7 a separate being. If this were all this idea was, it would not be so  difficult to dislodge, but the difficulty lies in that you think of
D:Day39.4 You may find it  difficult to give yourself an answer to who I Am to you in words, and
D:Day39.11 Establishing this relationship with me may sound lofty and  difficult, but it is simple. It is as simple as relationship is
D:Day40.3 Although this is a  difficult concept to get across with the words that are available, I
D:Day40.27 Is this really so  difficult, so improbable, so discomfiting to accept? Does it become
D:Day40.27 so improbable, so discomfiting to accept? Does it become less  difficult if you remember who I Am? That I Am everything being love?
A.13 Through receptivity, what your mind finds  difficult to accept, your heart accepts with ease. Now you are ready
A.18 for receptivity is more than some can accept. Why? Because it is too  difficult. It goes against all you have learned and the nature of the
A.25 there is left to strive for and in doing so reach again the very  difficult transition away from striving. In unity, perfection is the
A.32 group members can provide. The entrenched patterns of the past are  difficult to dislodge even when they have been recognized.

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E.3 to help you realize and accept that this will be so. Do not expect  difficulties and they will not arise.
E.24 When you meet what you would have before seen as  difficulties, as you encounter a world where love still does not seem

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C:9.14 truth to you. They call to you from a place that you know not. The  difficulty is that the only self that is listening to this call is
C:23.17 upon what you can imagine being possible. You must cease to see the  difficulty and begin to see the ease with which what you can imagine
C:28.13 that is shown to you, all uncertainty will end. Uncertainty is where  difficulty lies. Certainty and ease as surely go together. There are
C:31.6 This is the  difficulty with studying the mind. The mind is your being and so you
T1:5.9 ego’s thought system has kept you from this freedom is the seeming  difficulty you experience in learning this course of study and the
T1:5.13 first be a learned activity, and as such have its moments of seeming  difficulty, it is learned only in the sense of practicing the
T2:11.10 you are listening to your ego. The Christ in you knows not of  difficulty.
D:1.21 even though you could not learn how to do so. This has been the  difficulty with every curriculum that has sought to teach the truth.
D:2.20 The seeming  difficulty with this new beginning stems from your desire to learn
D:13.1 and while you will not be “wrong” in what you know, you may have  difficulty in understanding exactly what it is you have discovered;
D:13.1 exactly what it is you have discovered; and you may have  difficulty in the expression of what you know, especially as what you
D:Day6.13 while remaining embroiled in daily life—I want to acknowledge the  difficulty some of you will seem to be experiencing even while
D:Day6.14 Let’s begin with the seeming  difficulty. It may take on many forms, but its main source is almost
D:Day6.28 sanctity and incomparability of our task is what seems to create the  difficulty so many of you are currently experiencing in one way or
D:Day6.30 you do not. What you are going to realize from this time of seeming  difficulty is an end to difficulty and the growth of your ability to
D:Day6.30 going to realize from this time of seeming difficulty is an end to  difficulty and the growth of your ability to do whatever you do
D:Day6.31 in your life. Realize that this is just what we work toward! This  difficulty will pass through you as you allow for and accept where
D:Day6.32 of the time of learning, and so you will soon see that the  difficulty of the time of learning truly is behind you.
D:Day10.17 Part of the  difficulty you find in accepting reliance on your Self is what you
D:Day37.7 all this idea was, it would not be so difficult to dislodge, but the  difficulty lies in that you think of God in your image, and the image
A.5 find this Course or the end of learning to be easy. Yet it is your  difficulty in giving up your attachment to learning through the
A.5 of thought and effort that creates the perception of this Course’s  difficulty. Thus it is said to you to take this Course with as little
A.8 to a second reading of the Course. In wholeheartedness you will find  difficulty falling away and understanding arising. You are beginning
A.18 Let me be clear. The seeming lack of  difficulty in this Course is where its difficulty lies. To give up
A.18 be clear. The seeming lack of difficulty in this Course is where its  difficulty lies. To give up difficulty for ease is more than some
A.18 difficulty in this Course is where its difficulty lies. To give up  difficulty for ease is more than some egos are willing to accept. To
A.18 mind has functioned. In turning to the heart we seek to bypass this  difficulty as much as possible, but each will feel it to some degree,

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D:Day28.13 “give.” This is most likely the attitude of those whose major life  dilemmas have been of a monetary or career nature, where success or

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C:15.10 and loyalty be placed in something new, something worthy of your  diligence and something that will not leave behind your brothers and
D:10.3 Such it is. But when you also think that it is your hard work and  diligence, your effort and struggle, that bring the expression of

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T2:7.6 is a far better state than that of dependence. It will work  diligently to convince you that any course that tries to take away

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C:P.36 world you will behold and take with you. To view a physical world of  dimension, shape, and scope like unto the old and hope to transport
D:Day31.5 half of any experience, to have seen every experience in only one  dimension—in short, to have seen experience as happening to you
D:Day32.9 living God. How might God live? Could He live in time and space in a  dimension we know not? Does He live as the spirit within us, and as

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C:18.17 that you dedicate all thought to union. This now must be seen in two  dimensions rather than one. In addition to dedicating thought to
T2:1.3 is not concerned with material treasure, we will not explore the  dimensions of physical treasure except to say that the feelings that

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C:1.11 always has a role in the learning of the student. This does not  diminish the student’s achievement. You must realize it is your
T3:10.14 with them. Yet the ease with which you communicate with them will  diminish over time. You will find yourself continuously teaching the
D:5.4 surrounds you, the boundaries between the inner and outer world will  diminish and eventually cease to be.

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C:1.9 another’s map the sense of accomplishment in your arrival would be  diminished. This wanting to do things on your own is a trick of the
C:1.12 Creator. This yearning exists naturally within you and cannot be  diminished or satiated.
C:27.10 exist as relationship? You think it is, and feel yourself further  diminished and lacking in identity just by contemplating such an
T1:2.17 its call for a response, it becomes a gift for you that is in no way  diminished by it being a gift for all.
T1:9.15 making oneself or another feel guilty, or of experiencing a sense of  diminished self-esteem or worthiness. The first will feel like an
D:Day9.29 You are, however, a self in whom the freedom of expression has been  diminished. Diminished, but not extinguished.
D:Day9.29 a self in whom the freedom of expression has been diminished.  Diminished, but not extinguished.
D:Day32.20 the difference between God and man. This difference, however, can be  diminished as you embrace holy relationship. As you embrace holy

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C:15.7 for specialness makes of you a slave to others and others to you. It  diminishes your freedom, and for no end. For what others think of you
C:21.5 who do not understand each other, working together momentarily  diminishes the boundaries of language, and a temporary solidarity is
T3:19.2 For ages man has thought that spiritual joy  diminishes physical joy. While there is no physical joy that is

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T3:7.6 For a moment, the floorboards shook, the walls quaked, the lights  dimmed. All those within the house became aware of something

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C:4.17 are given back. You hope your hard work will produce results, the  dinner you prepared be eaten with delight, your ideas greeted as
C:11.18 out an invitation to love and say you are welcome here. What is a  dinner party where love is not? It is merely a social obligation. But
C:11.18 party where love is not? It is merely a social obligation. But a  dinner party where love is welcomed to take its place becomes a
D:Day3.32 that enabled a hobby or talent to be developed, a well-loved book,  dinner with a friend, a new car, a new pet, the ability to provide a

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C:18.3 orbit. It is obvious that the Earth falling out of orbit would cause  dire consequences of a universal nature. It is simply less obvious
T3:13.10 in the morning, I will awake refreshed and ready for my day and no  dire consequences will befall me from this action.” Another act might
D:Day3.21 need to ask for money from others, even from a bank, is seen as a  dire situation indeed. This asking will likely be an ordeal of some

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C:P.44 This time we take a  direct approach, an approach that seems at first to leave behind
C:23.20 Spirit is your more  direct link with the one Source. Spirit is directly from the Source,
T1:4.24 Revelation is  direct communication with God in the sense that it is direct
T1:4.24 Revelation is direct communication with God in the sense that it is  direct communication from a Self you have known not, the Self that is
T4:1.22 finally be ready to still your fear, a fear that once prevented the  direct and observable learning that now is available to you.
T4:1.24 not only ready, but also demanding to learn through observation and  direct communication or experience. Many not yet grown to maturity
T4:1.27 means. Fewer were able to achieve a state of consciousness in which  direct communication was possible, to come to know themselves and God
T4:1.27 themselves and God directly, and to pass on this learning through  direct means. What I am saying is that it is not impossible for those
T4:1.27 learning will pass through them directly through observation and  direct communication or experience. It means that the last generation
T4:2.22 always existed. God always existed. But you separated yourself from  direct awareness of your relationship with unity, with oneness, and
T4:2.22 you have also denied even the possibility of experiencing your own  direct relationship with God, or the possibility that your life is a
T4:2.22 direct relationship with God, or the possibility that your life is a  direct experience of the pattern of unity or oneness that is creation.
T4:2.25 the physical and spiritual. It is not an indirect relationship but a  direct relationship. It exists and you are becoming aware of its
T4:5.12 your death. It was formerly only after your death that you chose  direct revelation by God. Think about this now and you will see that
T4:5.12 Himself to you and, in that revelation, transformed you. The  direct revelations that will come to you now will transform you as
T4:5.13 intermediary, the chosen means of attaining Christ-consciousness and  direct revelation. The elevation of the personal self in this time of
T4:6.4 In this time of Christ, this time of  direct revelation and direct sharing, the probable future you
T4:6.4 In this time of Christ, this time of direct revelation and  direct sharing, the probable future you imagine, envision, desire,
T4:7.2 understanding of your Self and God cannot help but grow through the  direct and observable means now available. Just as in the time of the
T4:12.2 From this time on, I will respond to you through  direct communication or dialogue rather than through teaching. As
T4:12.7 words are not the acts of an intermediary and why they represent  direct learning.
T4:12.8 of learning, are, during the time of sharing, naturally converted to  direct experiences of sharing.
T4:12.9 abandon not your churches, for you will find within them now,  direct experiences of sharing. If you have found guidance and comfort
T4:12.9 abandon not the written word, for the written word will now elicit  direct experiences of sharing. If you have enjoyed learning through
D:Day3.38 the time of learning had revealed to you, is a new way, the way of  direct relationship with God, the way of knowing through discovery.
D:Day19.8 a way. Neither demonstrated intermediary functions but demonstrated  direct union with God. Each demonstrated the creative aspect of that
D:Day19.8 of that function in different ways. But the function remained one of  direct union with God. This is quite literally the function of all in
D:Day22.5 the function you have known you are here to fulfill, the function of  direct union with God.
D:Day22.6 share the union that you touch when you fulfill your function of  direct union with God. How do you let it pass through you to the
D:Day22.7 The most simple,  direct, and uncomplicated answer is that of living love. The simple
D:Day39.10 this link, through relationship with me, within yourself. Christ is  direct relationship with me.
D:Day39.39 time of knowing you are not on your own but that you must come into  direct relationship with me on your own and of your own free will.
D:Day39.44 You will realize as you enter union by means of the bridge of our  direct relationship that you will not leave your humanity behind. You
D:Day39.44 will realize that as you enter union by means of the bridge of our  direct relationship that you will no longer see me as an inhuman God.
A.1 Love has to do with the movement into the Time of Christ, a time of  direct learning in union and relationship with God. The word learning
A.4 a way of thought and effort but a way of feeling, of ease, and of  direct relationship. Again I say to you, in the direct relationship
A.4 of ease, and of direct relationship. Again I say to you, in the  direct relationship achieved in union, no learning is required. Until
A.15 The task of facilitators of such meetings of open hearts is to  direct the reader away from ego mind and back to wholeheartedness or
A.35 Beyond the coursework of the Treatises lies  direct relationship—direct relationship with me. Entering the
A.35 Beyond the coursework of the Treatises lies direct relationship—  direct relationship with me. Entering the dialogue is the way this is
A.43 you this may mean continued involvement with this coursework and a  direct sharing of it with others. For many more of you it will not.

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C:22.12 layers—and are allowed no other access. These forces must then be  directed. Often great effort is expended keeping these forces from
D:Day28.1 to be little or no choice between staying engaged in an externally  directed life and removing oneself from life. This may have seemed to
D:Day28.1 proposition and thus one of limitation. Moving from an externally  directed to an internally directed experience of life creates
D:Day28.1 of limitation. Moving from an externally directed to an internally  directed experience of life creates unlimited choices. The unlimited
D:Day28.1 life creates unlimited choices. The unlimited choices of internally  directed experience are what you must begin to face as we begin our
D:Day28.1 off coming to know the difference between externally and internally  directed life experiences.
D:Day28.3 adults, have little experience other than this. Their lives are  directed almost totally by external forces, from parents, to
D:Day28.5 All of these choices are externally  directed. They may include a great deal of inner reflection in order
D:Day28.5 deal of inner reflection in order to be made, but they are still  directed at external outcome. By living the experiences of these
D:Day28.5 at external outcome. By living the experiences of these externally  directed life situations, growth occurs, changes happen, new avenues
D:Day28.7 help guide the choices, but the choices remain the same: Externally  directed choices.
D:Day28.22 To move to internally  directed experience is to make the move into wholeness that will

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C:4.10 you have, or a better place in Heaven. The mind, under the ego’s  direction, has thrived on winners and on losers, on striving for and
C:7.9 you have denied the world will be released. It will flow in every  direction, leaving not a corner of the universe untouched. In an
C:7.9 of life reunited with itself gathers from directions that are beyond  direction and breathes life back into what has so long been locked
C:18.20 or single-mindedness, although these are both steps in the right  direction. Unifying thought is also a matter of integrating the
C:29.26 What might you do in the future if not for your fear of where the  direction you choose might take you? What peace might you know if you
T2:5.4 a roadway, they alert you to turn your attention in a particular  direction.
T3:1.6 been playing the part, a part that, while developed under the ego’s  direction, still allowed for bits and pieces of who you are to be
T3:2.5 here, you could not keep yourself from attempts to advance in this  direction. And yet, neither could you keep from punishing yourself
T3:22.1 truth could not possibly be enough. You would like to know in what  direction living by the truth will take you, for surely your life
T4:1.17 and indirect communication and learning through observation and  direction communication or experience. The same truth has always
D:11.7 soon as your thoughts begin to accept this, many of you reverse the  direction of your thoughts and turn to ideas of what you still need
D:11.10 desire to make your thoughts into answers that will provide you with  direction. As was said earlier, you dare not, as yet, turn to your
D:15.15 time sitting still or seemingly bobbing along with no apparent  direction. You have attempted to build better sails to catch the
D:Day26.4 A guide shows the way, creates movement, gives  direction. These things too the Self can do if allowed to do so. The
D:Day27.3 well-examined external lives. You have looked for causes behind the  direction in which life led you, but your life was not inner-directed
D:Day27.9 consider this by again picturing the mountain-top. Looking in one  direction, you might see only darkness. Looking in another, you might
D:Day28.6 feels like a choice that will move their lives in such a different  direction that it is both exciting and at times excruciatingly

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C:7.9 be a dream as the wind of life reunited with itself gathers from  directions that are beyond direction and breathes life back into what
D:Day15.20 merges with the current of other clear pools it is able to change  directions, see new sights, gain new insights. While this is only an
D:Day27.3 life. Life itself showed you the way, pointed you in differing  directions, taught you what you needed to know. This was the external

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C:6.3 of your world have come to teach you, stated as simply and  directly as is possible. You are neither separate nor alone and never
C:23.20 Spirit is your more direct link with the one Source. Spirit is  directly from the Source, while form is a by-product of spirit. Thus
T2:4.7 This applies  directly to your reaction to all that occurs within your life. Let us
T3:20.9 compassion or even verbalize your new beliefs, you are being told  directly here that no circumstance should call you to abandon them.
T4:1.11 of time. Some have chosen to come to know themselves and God  directly. Others have chosen to come to know themselves and God
T4:1.21 to learn in a new way. The new way is here. If you are now to learn  directly, you are also now to share directly. This is the way of
T4:1.21 is here. If you are now to learn directly, you are also now to share  directly. This is the way of learning in relationship. Means and end
T4:1.24 across the world, people of the world have been demanding to learn  directly, through experience, and saying “no more” to the lessons of
T4:1.25 in which they have lived. Others do not wish to experience the truth  directly, but only to experience experience. They are in the
T4:1.25 of wanting to experience everything before they allow themselves to  directly experience the truth, thinking still that the experience of
T4:1.27 communication was possible, to come to know themselves and God  directly, and to pass on this learning through direct means. What I
T4:1.27 new state of consciousness and that learning will pass through them  directly through observation and direct communication or experience.
T4:5.12 to end the time of the intermediary and to begin to learn  directly, you are given the same opportunity that was formerly
T4:6.7 primarily because they were unable to share Christ-consciousness  directly due to individual and collective choice.
T4:6.8 opportunity now, because you exist in the Time of Christ, to  directly share Christ-consciousness and thus sustain
T4:12.9 through gatherings of students, gather still, and experience sharing  directly. If a time arrives when you no longer feel drawn to these
D:16.13 of Christ-consciousness or unity, in form. In your time of  directly experiencing the movement, being, and expression of unity,
D:16.14 In your time of  directly experiencing the movement, being, and expression of unity,
D:16.15 At times when you are not  directly experiencing the movement, being, and expression of unity,
D:Day3.35 between yourself and God, is gone. You have been invited to know God  directly, and to develop a relationship with God. It is only in
D:Day4.52 I have not so  directly linked fear and the time of learning before, but now you
D:Day5.5 body. Some could feel it in their hands and others as if it comes  directly from their mouths as speech is enabled that bypasses the
D:Day36.19 a truth that may seem heretical to some of you when it is stated as  directly as it is being stated here. But our time together is coming
A.39 this point. It is a time of realizing that “I” am speaking to “you”  directly in every moment of every day, in all that you encounter, in

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T3:18.3 Observance happens in relationship, the very relationship that  disallowed the making of a separate self. Observance is linked to

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D:Day15.19 stay in constant dialogue for you have not claimed a knowing that  disallows coming to know. You are in dialogue because in dialogue,

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C:3.3 and no outside, no dreams and no illusions that can escape or hide,  disappear, or cease to be. There is no human condition that does not
C:9.35 you to your natural state where true vision lies and error and sin  disappear.
D:4.31 to the Covenant of the New, are one and the same, these reasons will  disappear. All the different reasons you would cite become what they
D:Day36.18 Yet you do not  disappear or cease to be. You are not replaced by God whom you have

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C:9.39 missing, not gone. What you have lost is hidden to you but has not  disappeared nor ceased to be. What you have lost is valuable indeed,

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C:3.8 it for it encompasses all form. Love is the light in which form  disappears and all that is, is seen as it is.

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C:6.22 The world cannot fail to  disappoint you, for your conception of it is based upon deception.
T3:3.3 from much you would desire, you fear as much or more your ability to  disappoint others or to “let them down.” Some of you carefully

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C:25.13 you do feel these emotions as wounds. While you think you can remain  disappointed or disillusioned, you will not be invulnerable. There is
C:26.20 is no mold, no form, no stock answer. This is why all answers have  disappointed you in the past. Your answer is not the same as any
C:28.12 the thought of this you will be aghast and, what is more, bitterly  disappointed. Again, as in the beginning, you seek a task to
T3:3.3 to yourself and being constantly under the pall of having  disappointed others. Still others have always found their lives to be
T4:2.12 than” for a moment in time, but those who do will be bitterly  disappointed as their moment passes. Despite the necessity for a

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C:26.17 This is perhaps  disappointing to you, but it is all that is required. If you could

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C:6.21 do to you? At best you see them as delusional. But what you fear is  disappointment. All that you have wished for and have not acquired
C:25.13 that you can be attacked and hurt. You have not necessarily seen  disappointment as attack or hopelessness as hurt, but you do feel
C:25.13 you will not be invulnerable. There is always, behind every  disappointment or disillusion, every attack and every hurt, a person
C:26.18 You may experience  disappointment at these words, and feel as if you have been waiting
C:26.18 celebration. This is the invitation to greet this day with no worry,  disappointment, or planning. This is the invitation to greet your
T3:3.3 As much as you fear  disappointment for yourself and let this fear keep you from much you
T3:3.3 constructed your lives to leave as little room as possible for  disappointment to affect it or others you hold dear. Some of you have
T3:3.3 have seemed to do the opposite, despite your best intentions calling  disappointment to yourself and being constantly under the pall of
D:16.12 a learned state or process and it should not be seen as a cause for  disappointment. Perhaps you thought you were beyond this point of
D:17.20 You have realized now that you remain in a state of becoming, and any  disappointment you may have initially felt with this realization has
D:Day8.1 Some of you have felt, once again, a bit of  disappointment or resignation as a result of our dialogue concerning

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C:7.1 based on the world of your mind or of physical circumstance. Despite  disappointments most severe, your heart knows that what you give you
C:26.16 Can you let the worries of today leave your mind? Can you let the  disappointments of yesterday go and be no more? Can you let the

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C:3.7 that they should possess at all times and in all places. And so one  disappoints and another enthralls, one champions your cause and

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C:8.25 The ego’s thought system is one of continuous destruction and  disassembly, of decay and death. And yet how like they are one to the

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C:16.13 keep your guard up quite enough or secure a final guarantee against  disaster. And yet you cling to all attempts to do so even while

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D:Day28.14 loss or death of loved ones, by accidents, or illness, or “natural”  disasters, by the unexplainable forces that have affected you with

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D:Day35.14 to know that to create from anything but love could have  disastrous effects. This has been seen time and time again as you

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A.28 may need to become more flexible, meet less frequently, or even  disband in favor of former “classmates” meeting in more casual and

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C:1.10 in union with me that you are your Self. All your effort is based on  disbelief of this truth, and your attempts to prove that this truth
T1:3.11 all you have achieved thus far and send you back to a state of  disbelief? Better not to try at all than to risk trying and failing
D:11.12 and hearts to a new way of seeing, for those willing to suspend  disbelief, the answer to the giving and receiving of these words will
D:Day3.34 is a secret I will try to share with you here, if you can let your  disbelief and anger at this suggestion fall away. I know you expect a
D:Day10.4 overcome. Reliance is not tied to belief nor to the overcoming of  disbelief and thus releases you from the need for belief. Certainty

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C:14.27 is real, and in it are included all others. One does not  discard or replace the other. What is real is all-inclusive. What is
C:14.28 feelings seem unsustainable, is the result only of that which does  discard and replace. As we have said before, there are but two

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C:20.40 its ability to be of service. A gift one feels one cannot “use” is  discarded. Thus have many of your treasures lain fallow.

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C:14.28 is love, the other fear. Fear, through your own choice, replaces and  discards love. Fear is always strongest when you value something that

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C:25.21 This will be a time of  discernment. You may feel it as a time of decision making, but the
C:25.21 the quicker your unlearning will take place and the lessons of  discernment occur. Discernment is needed only until you are better
C:25.21 unlearning will take place and the lessons of discernment occur.  Discernment is needed only until you are better able to comprehend
C:25.21 to wholeness of the Self. Until wholeness of the Self is complete,  discernment is necessary.
C:25.22 Practice  discernment by being still and awaiting wisdom. Your feeling of being
C:25.23 is correct, you will soon learn to trust this quiet process of  discernment. You will know you have succeeded when you truly feel as
C:25.25 Being fully engaged with life while taking the time for  discernment is uncommon. Putting action before stillness, activity
D:Day19.2 The key here is  discernment between true contentment and denial. Although this is

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D:Day4.19 of my attraction of followers, my claiming of disciples. The term  disciple can be linked here with the idea of succession. What I asked

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D:Day4.19 of a system is that of my attraction of followers, my claiming of  disciples. The term disciple can be linked here with the idea of
D:Day4.19 can be linked here with the idea of succession. What I asked of my  disciples is not more than I ask of you. I asked them to follow in my
D:Day4.24 What many forgot, after the passing of the first of my  disciples, was that they had access to this treasure. They still knew

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T1:2.7 you accomplished much. You congratulated yourself on having the  discipline required to train your mind to focus and to learn, or
T1:2.7 These people attain degrees and skills and then further apply the  discipline that they have learned by using their skills and knowledge
T2:7.16 a trust that acts from who you truly are. Real trust requires the  discipline of being who you are in every circumstance and in every
T2:7.19 The  discipline required to be who you are is a discipline that requires
T2:7.19 The discipline required to be who you are is a  discipline that requires trust in Self and honesty in relationships.
T2:7.19 your heart. Then, with truth and illusion separated, you develop the  discipline to express your true Self, as you are now. This is the

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D:Day14.6 This is why, after learning to  disclaim all that you have called your “own,” you are now given the

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D:Day40.27 Is this really so difficult, so improbable, so  discomfiting to accept? Does it become less difficult if you remember

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C:5.30 far from you all that in relationship with you would add to your  discomfort and your pain. To think that any relationship can cause
C:5.30 and your pain. To think that any relationship can cause terror,  discomfort, or pain is where you err in thinking of relationship.
T3:14.2 within it. If you are not well, you may cope more easily with your  discomfort. If you are not financially secure, you may congratulate
T3:14.7 This is precisely why you must choose not to keep the life of  discomfort caused by perceived illness, the life of scarcity caused
T4:1.3 and failed to achieve. These are the types of ideas that will cause  discomfort to many of you as you still find it hard to believe in
D:Day3.19 The degree of your  discomfort with this issue is something you only imagine to be

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T4:8.6 which was of God. What happened in the case of human beings, was a  disconnect from your own true nature, which in turn caused a
T4:8.6 was a disconnect from your own true nature, which in turn caused a  disconnect in your ability to express love, which in turn caused a
T4:8.6 a disconnect in your ability to express love, which in turn caused a  disconnect in your ability to know God, because you did not know
T4:8.8 You might ask how, if what I’m saying is true, could God  disconnect from himself? What God could not disconnect from was the
T4:8.8 is true, could God disconnect from himself? What God could not  disconnect from was the true nature of the being of God, which is
T4:8.8 true nature of the being of God, which is love. What God could not  disconnect from was the true nature of creation, which is love. What
T4:8.8 to live in a nature inconsistent with that from which God could not  disconnect, was disconnect from God. Since God was the center of your
T4:8.8 inconsistent with that from which God could not disconnect, was  disconnect from God. Since God was the center of your being, it was
T4:8.8 God. Since God was the center of your being, it was impossible to  disconnect your heart and still live. What could be disconnected was

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T4:8.8 impossible to disconnect your heart and still live. What could be  disconnected was your will—or in other words, your mind. Just as it

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T2:9.13 already have or for what you consider progress? You need a means of  disconnecting this drive that has become instinctual to you. As a

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T3:14.5 to the learning stage you are at now is that you but think you are  discontent with much of your life. As you begin to dwell in the House
D:Day3.16 Thus must this source of your anger and  discontent, this source of your non-acceptance, be revealed in a new

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T4:4.7 that is an idea consistent with that of creation. There is no  discontinuity within creation. Like begets like. Life begets life.

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T1:3.5 to fear know love? All your reasons for fear-based living have been  discounted one by one. And yet you dare not try to live without it.
T1:3.23 of one miracle would be a fluke anyway. Proof of nothing and easily  discounted and explained away. Surely to believe that where one
T2:13.2 far from your personal self, and I, as your teacher, have all but  discounted the personal self I experience in relationship with you.

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D:13.1 and are far more likely to err, especially in the beginning, in  discounting what you know rather than in being adamant in the

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C:10.8 I tell you this not to  discourage you, but to encourage you not to give up. Your purpose now
T3:15.5 memories of past abuse or humiliation in the hopes that they will  discourage a repeat of the old behavior. The loved one of an

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C:10.10 you through this stage and to the next. Be encouraged rather than  discouraged that God does not grant all your desires here. For these
C:12.10 do is look about you to know that this is so—and, rather than be  discouraged by this news, you breathe a sigh of relief because you
T3:20.17 and you bring love to every circumstance. Be neither dismayed nor  discouraged by those who do not see and have no willingness to offer.
D:8.2 kind. But because you are prone to comparison, many of you have been  discouraged by not being able to be the “best” despite your natural
D:Day6.18 fabric of your daily life. Changes you feel called to make are not  discouraged here. The point being made is simply that removal from
D:Day6.31 There is, thus, no call to be  discouraged. This is not delay, but what you might think of as trial
D:Day6.31 what you might think of as trial by fire. Be encouraged rather than  discouraged that you are able to embrace this dialogue and remain in
A.24 ideas too are part of the unlearning of this Course and are to be  discouraged.
A.31 during this time, to “figure things out.” Problem solving is to be  discouraged. Trust is to be encouraged. Often a discussion can be

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C:10.28 Experiment, just for the fun of it, without allowing room for  discouragement. This is not a test and you cannot fail. You are

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C:30.9 This  discourse may seem to have traveled far from words of love, words
D:12.4 work is called a dialogue. A dialogue is most often thought of as a  discourse between two or more people and as such is associated with
D:Day4.56 our dialogue as one. To talk heart to heart. To have the kind of  discourse that can only be had without fear. To truly experience

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T3:21.11 circumstances of their birth are often consumed with a desire to  discover these unknown circumstances. For your birth, your name, the
T4:2.2 what you perceived without, now you turn inward and reflect what you  discover within outward. What you discover within is in a way that
T4:2.2 turn inward and reflect what you discover within outward. What you  discover within is in a way that what you perceive without is not.
T4:2.12 end, most who so achieve and become the first to set records,  discover, or invent the new, are not aware of themselves as “better
D:6.14 that will replace the “thought” systems we have spoken of. To  discover is simply to find out what you did not previously know.
D:6.28 being that can accept the shared consciousness of unity and begin to  discover what this means.
D:7.2 to represent the new and restate what was said earlier as “What you  discover in unity is shared.” Learning does not occur in unity, but
D:7.7 man or woman in a particular time in history. Now you are called to  discover how to exist in form without being defined by this
D:7.9 have not been aware of all that you are. You are thus now called to  discover and to become aware of all that you are. The body, rather
D:13.1 is no danger, in this time, that you will know the truth and then  discover that you were wrong. You know the difference between
D:14.4 earlier. You will need, in short, to set aside the known in order to  discover the unknown.
D:14.14 of your access to the state of unity, as well as by what you  discover there, and only becomes through the expression you give it.
D:Day4.10 all about, not to relearn or be taught the “way things are” but to  discover what life is all about and to discover the way to remake
D:Day4.10 the “way things are” but to discover what life is all about and to  discover the way to remake things as they are.
D:Day16.7 the universe. The reintegration is the process through which you  discover this proof, proof of the benevolence of your feelings and of
D:Day19.14 Those following the way of Mary become mirrors of the truth they  discover, reflecting the way to their brothers and sisters. This is
D:Day39.5 who I Am to you, and of the importance of being able to continually  discover who I Am to you. Of your embrace of knowing, and your
D:Day39.10 This is why you must  discover your own relationship with me. Discovering your own
A.27 What those who begin to experience life in a new way begin to  discover are the patterns of thoughts and behavior that are most

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D:8.6 of discovery, as your natural abilities or talents were  discovered and in that discovery, you realized that although you had
D:9.12 Like the natural abilities you  discovered existed within you prior to the time of learning, ideas
D:13.1 you may have difficulty in understanding exactly what it is you have  discovered; and you may have difficulty in the expression of what you
D:14.14 Thus, what is  discovered is discovered in the state of unity. It is discovered by
D:14.14 Thus, what is discovered is  discovered in the state of unity. It is discovered by means of your
D:14.14 Thus, what is discovered is discovered in the state of unity. It is  discovered by means of your awareness of your access to the state of
D:Day2.6 heavily on you now. It is as if, at this mountain peak, you have  discovered a lightness of being, and yet within it is this stone of
D:Day19.14 The truth of this way is not  discovered through the passing on of knowledge in form but through
D:Day29.5 Your access to union, so newly  discovered and yet always existing within you, has been a part of the
D:Day39.10 relationship with me is discovering the Christ in you. When you have  discovered your own relationship with me is when you have discovered
D:Day39.10 you have discovered your own relationship with me is when you have  discovered that you are who I Am because you realize—or make real—
D:Day39.10 you realize—or make real—your oneness with Christ. When you have  discovered your own relationship with me is when an intermediary is
D:Day39.11 union is no more than this, as we are one in being and when you have  discovered relationship, we are one in union as well.

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C:P.13 burst of energy may have followed your reading of the Course or your  discoveries of other forms of the truth, although you may even have
T4:2.1 Outward seeking is turning inward. Inward or internal  discoveries are turning outward. This is a reverse, a polar reversal
D:8.6 also have seen that in the expression of this talent or ability new  discoveries awaited you and that you greeted these discoveries with
D:8.6 or ability new discoveries awaited you and that you greeted these  discoveries with surprise and delight. As was written in “A Treatise
D:9.12 existed within you prior to the time of learning, ideas are also  discoveries that you make, discoveries that exist apart from
D:9.12 to the time of learning, ideas are also discoveries that you make,  discoveries that exist apart from learning. Ideas “come to you.” They
D:9.14 your natural talent or ability and your discovery of new ideas are  discoveries of something that already existed beyond the dot of the
D:Day3.2 are most willing to have new insight, new information, and even new  discoveries, enter through your mind—because this is known to you

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D:6.13 known “scientific facts,” but this would not prevent them from  discovering new “scientific facts.” I mean no disrespect to
D:13.3 The first is that what you will be  discovering, what you will be coming to know, will be coming to you
D:Day1.11 Many people now are  discovering the power of healing. Some think this power comes from
D:Day39.10 This is why you must discover your own relationship with me.  Discovering your own relationship with me is discovering the Christ
D:Day39.10 relationship with me. Discovering your own relationship with me is  discovering the Christ in you. When you have discovered your own
D:Day39.37 to paradox, to knowing who you are and who I Am and to constantly  discovering who you are and who I Am, because who you are and who I

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C:12.1 in the universe, and gave it some fancy name, you would say, “A new  discovery has been found and I am willing to believe it may be true,
C:21.9 unity, however, allows you to see the truth and to claim it as your  discovery and your truth as well as universal truth. Seeing the truth
T1:3.9 know that this cure is a miracle and not the result of scientific  discovery or the natural course an illness was bound to take? What
D:6.13 false certainty, it served a great purpose in the time of learning.  Discovery has been a grand facilitator of the human spirit’s quest
D:6.14 knows that it may not. I am speaking of a spirit that is open to the  discovery of something new and “unbelievable” and even
D:6.14 as to the creation of something new. For in this time of revelation,  discovery is the new divine pattern that will replace the “thought”
D:6.15 Creation of the new will be predicated on the  discovery of what you did not previously know. This will not happen
D:6.16 Be jubilant rather than hesitant about the time of  discovery that is before you. Calling what you think you know into
D:7.2 discover in unity is shared.” Learning does not occur in unity, but  discovery is an ongoing aspect of creation and thus of the state of
D:7.4 to experience the new you must answer the call to let revelation and  discovery, rather than learning, be what you gain from experience.
D:7.9 than aiding you in learning as it once did, will aid you now in this  discovery.
D:7.11 love. This nonjudgmental love is the condition upon which your  discovery of all you do not yet know awaits.
D:7.12  Discovery is not the same as remembrance. Remembrance was necessary
D:7.12 you knew but had forgotten. Memory has returned you to your Self.  Discovery will allow the new you to come into being by revealing what
D:7.13 This  discovery can only take place in the reality of love.
D:7.15 to accept revelation works hand in hand with the new pattern of  discovery, but discovery is less time bound. Let me explain.
D:7.15 revelation works hand in hand with the new pattern of discovery, but  discovery is less time bound. Let me explain.
D:7.19  Discovery is not bound by time as it is an ongoing aspect of
D:7.29 here, with the territory of your conscious awareness, knowing that  discovery and revelation will expand this territory, and realizing
D:8.6 This idea will aid you too in your understanding of  discovery, as your natural abilities or talents were discovered and
D:8.6 as your natural abilities or talents were discovered and in that  discovery, you realized that although you had not previously known
D:8.6 that this talent or ability existed, it was there awaiting but your  discovery. You may also have seen that in the expression of this
D:8.6 As was written in “A Treatise on the New”, these surprises of  discovery have, and will, cause you to laugh and be joyous. There was
D:8.7 While  discovery of the new will naturally include much that goes beyond
D:8.7 of what is available or given—of what is but awaiting your  discovery and conscious awareness. Thus, like the home in which you
D:9.4 of thought. This pattern is what the new patterns of acceptance and  discovery that we are beginning to lay out here are going to replace.
D:9.11 We thus return to  discovery and continue to expand the territory of your conscious
D:9.14 of the body as the dot in the wider circle and accept that your  discovery of your natural talent or ability and your discovery of new
D:9.14 that your discovery of your natural talent or ability and your  discovery of new ideas are discoveries of something that already
D:10.7 In this time of Christ,  discovery is about acceptance of your true way of knowing, a way that
D:10.7 practice and allowed to replace the pattern of learning, this way of  discovery will be a constant coming to know of what is as well as a
D:13.2 What you will be coming to know in this new way of  discovery will be coming to you from the state of unity, from a state
D:13.3 already known to you, it will still come in the form of a surprising  discovery, a joyous discovery of the previously known but long
D:13.3 it will still come in the form of a surprising discovery, a joyous  discovery of the previously known but long forgotten identity of the
D:14.1  Discovery is more, of course, than the acceptance of your
D:14.1 and these beginning steps into the real state of unity.  Discovery is also consistent with the way most of you have thought of
D:14.1 is, in other words, consistent with the action and the adventure of  discovery within the world around you.
D:14.2 source and cause of exploration as well as the source and cause of  discovery. And yet the Self is far more than you have experienced as
D:14.3 body can still be known to you. And this is why this exploration and  discovery needs to be invited and experienced before you become
D:14.4 in order to be a real explorer, and to fully participate in the  discovery that lies beyond the body and mind, form and time. You will
D:14.9 idea of acceptance you took to heart earlier, and paves the way for  discovery as a constant coming to know and coming to be.
D:14.10 you with a way to understand this, for learning is incremental and  discovery is not. Learning took place in parts in an effort to lead
D:14.10 not. Learning took place in parts in an effort to lead to wholeness.  Discovery comes to you in wholeness. So these steps are not about
D:14.11 to “discover” first became aware “within” of the possibility of the  discovery of something more. The awareness “within” thus became
D:14.13 thus elevating the self of form. It is awareness, acceptance, and  discovery of what is beyond form that allows the beginning of the
D:14.13 is beyond form into expression in form. Awareness, acceptance, and  discovery are, in short, what allow form to become the more it has so
D:15.21 of becoming has ended, the conditions that allow your acceptance and  discovery of all that is available within unity, or
D:16.12 yet, as you have begun your practice of awareness, acceptance, and  discovery, you have felt as if you still have a long way to go. You
D:Day3.38 the way of direct relationship with God, the way of knowing through  discovery. Remember always that knowing through discovery is knowing
D:Day3.38 of knowing through discovery. Remember always that knowing through  discovery is knowing what was not known before, and keep this in mind
D:Day4.9 things are,” where is the room for choice? Where is the room for  discovery? And to find out that you were “taught” incorrectly! Why
D:Day4.30 are the natural responses of its training. Thus, a major key to your  discovery of all that exists within you in the state of unity, is an
D:Day4.37 your imagination is capable of taking you. It is a desire for true  discovery, a desire to access the previously unknown.
D:Day6.19 and only calls this place elevated. Awareness, acceptance, and  discovery cannot occur in a place set apart from “normal” life.
D:Day18.10 is exclusive. Both are contained within the other. But the way of  discovery and demonstration is different.
D:Day19.13 and begin to weave it into the web of reality, anchoring it for  discovery by their brothers and sisters.
D:Day39.2 It is time now to come to your own  discovery of who I Am to you. No one can give you this answer, not
A.48 through all you encounter. Go forth joyously on this adventure of  discovery. Be ever new, ever one, ever the beloved.

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D:Day3.9 and to function in the insane way that it does largely due to this  discrepancy.

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T2:7.19 in unity at the place of your heart. From this place you learn to  discriminate, to separate the false from the true, for your ego

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C:31.11 and knows that these higher thoughts are your Self. Rather than  discriminating between higher and lower thoughts, you have

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C:30.14 the laws of God. Since perception arises from the mind, we must now  discuss the mind.
T3:2.4 only in the same terms that made it necessary to thoroughly  discuss the ego’s thought system. What you believe about yourself is
D:5.19 This is what we  discuss today. We discuss being what you represent in truth. We
D:5.19 This is what we discuss today. We  discuss being what you represent in truth. We discuss the elevation
D:5.19 we discuss today. We discuss being what you represent in truth. We  discuss the elevation of form. And what we have discussed thus far is
D:12.9 of the separated self. We might make this a simpler subject to  discuss by making a distinction between thinking and thought. This
D:16.12 has not quite been accomplished in you. This is precisely why we now  discuss this state of becoming, this movement from image to presence.
D:Day3.5 a great deal of this anger yet, but it is there, and here we will  discuss its function.
D:Day6.1 We now will  discuss being the true Self while becoming the true Self—the time
D:Day22.2 and the only means of the unknown becoming known, it is important to  discuss this in as many ways as possible to make this idea clear to
D:Day32.4 Let us  discuss, for a moment, the concept of God because everyone has at

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C:8.1 stand apart from the wisdom of your heart that we have already  discussed—the wisdom that knows to set love apart, as well as your
C:12.20 such thing except as an extension of the original idea. Just as we  discussed your desire to protect or to control proceeding from the
C:21.2 parts that the holiness of what is in-between is found. This will be  discussed in more detail later, but for now, I return you, through
C:22.2 establishes a partnership or relationship. While we have previously  discussed relationship as not being one thing or the other but a
C:22.2 one thing or the other but a third something, we have not as yet  discussed how this relationship is provided in form. Now we will do
C:23.7 Let me remind you of a key learning aid  discussed some pages back: You would not be other than you are. No
C:28.1 must your lives bear witness. Lest this too be distorted, it must be  discussed.
T2:9.3 in this course of study, the ability to let go must be further  discussed.
T3:1.5 to distinguish between the true and the untrue has been repeatedly  discussed as the ability to separate fear from love, further
T3:6.4 is mighty and held tightly to themselves, bitterness must still be  discussed. While bitterness remains, vengeance will remain. You have
T4:12.11 give you an example that relates to the state of rebellion that was  discussed within the text of this Treatise.
D:5.19 in truth. We discuss the elevation of form. And what we have  discussed thus far is the acceptance of form as what it is. This is
D:15.19 all maintenance, a temporary measure, but one you desire to have  discussed, just as we discussed parameters to your state of conscious
D:15.19 temporary measure, but one you desire to have discussed, just as we  discussed parameters to your state of conscious awareness.
D:Day2.14 forgiveness or even atonement here, for these have been thoroughly  discussed earlier. You have all been through the time of tenderness,
D:Day3.6 of you will feel excitement at the idea of this issue being finally  discussed; but be aware of your feelings as we proceed, for I tell
D:Day4.5 As we  discussed in yesterday’s dialogue, learning has not been a choice.
D:Day4.50 you have just been asked to accept your anger. Just think. Anger was  discussed rather casually alongside accepting me, your Self, and
D:Day5.1 sustain the state of unity. This point of access will thus now be  discussed, both as an initial entry point and as a continued entry
D:Day5.21 your chosen point of access lies, imagine now the needle that was  discussed as passing through the onion in the Course chapter “The
D:Day5.23 Let’s return to the image of the healer that was  discussed earlier. While many will heal, all attempts to teach or
D:Day6.4 Since we have often  discussed the similarity between the creation of art and the work we
D:Day10.13 versus presence and to the image of your personal self that was  discussed at the beginning of our dialogue. While you still hold an
D:Day10.22 this is the time of the second coming of Christ. What we have just  discussed is what both of these statements mean. This is the
D:Day15.25 One of the practical aspects has just been  discussed—that of engaging in dialogue with some and entering the
D:Day17.3 for you to claim your identity. Although being who you are has been  discussed in many ways, many of you still await being different than
D:Day28.2 adulthood, coming of age, or the age of reason. These have been  discussed before so this will be kept brief and illustrate only what
D:Day40.26 and today’s discussion of who you are to me, that one has not been  discussed without the other. This would be impossible. Because we are

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C:22.2 our language becomes one for both head and heart. We will begin by  discussing the concept of intersection and look at it as a
T1:5.4 another aspect that relates to the fear of union we spent much time  discussing within A Course of Love. It is a fear of the human mind
T2:1.1 through experience, it will become your identity. We will begin by  discussing the nature of treasure.
T3:2.4 While much time was spent within this Course,  discussing the choice you but think you made, this discussion was
T3:6.2 may seem a step back from the lofty heights we have just traveled,  discussing the reign of God and the meaning of life and death. But
D:4.10 of existence in the same way and speak the same language while  discussing it.
D:8.8 of what you needed to learn was put forth. What we are now doing is  discussing what was taught from the realm of wholeheartedness. What
D:9.11 to expand the territory of your conscious awareness. We do this by  discussing now the nature of ideas as opposed to the nature of
D:17.20 come because you recognize the signs of becoming that we have been  discussing. You recognize them because they are what you are feeling.

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C:9.15 they wear different faces to the world. If, for the purposes of our  discussion, the body is the surface aspect of your self, and if
C:9.44 to both the user and the usee, and so has its proper place in our  discussion here. Look at patterns of abuse, in everything from drugs
T1:4.17 it necessary to interpret everything on your own. Without further  discussion, you would see interpretation and response quite similarly
T2:6.5 into account the time that it will take? Relate this question to our  discussion of treasure and you will understand what it is of which I
T2:6.6 on the concept of something being what it is, must be part of this  discussion.
T2:10.6 Just as needs were shown to be distinguishable from wants by a  discussion of their shared nature, so too now must knowing be
T2:12.7 This is why we also devoted a fair amount of this Treatise to a  discussion of calling. Calling is not only something you receive but
T3:2.4 this Course, discussing the choice you but think you made, this  discussion was necessary only in the same terms that made it
T3:2.12 of the family of man to the family of God, as well as to our  discussion of the return of the prodigal sons and daughters of God.
T3:2.12 of the return of the prodigal sons and daughters of God. This  discussion may have seemed to accept the idea of a self as highly
T3:2.12 choose to explore independence, no matter what the cost. This  discussion merely examined the reality you chose to believe in, the
T3:19.8 but this is no more the case than it was the case in regards to our  discussion of extremes.
T4:4.16 Although this  discussion is likely to cause many of you serious doubts about the
T4:4.16 doubts about the truth and applicability of this Course, this  discussion is necessary to your awareness of Christ-consciousness. To
T4:12.13 you would desire it to be? These questions relate to our earlier  discussion of temptations of the human experience. Are you willing to
D:6.14 I am calling all of this to mind in order to begin our  discussion concerning the suspension of belief. If you continue into
D:11.9 might this relate to the giving and receiving of these words? To the  discussion we have been having about the body and the elevation of
D:12.9 but the thoughts. Thus this distinction will suffice for our further  discussion in this chapter.
D:12.11 same way as before. I am about to make the two main points of this  discussion: The first is that thinking, with or without the ego, is a
D:12.15 that this wasn’t your usual opinion or idea you were offering up for  discussion, but something you knew the truth about!
D:Day2.15 is necessary. I will give you one final example in order to make our  discussion as clear as possible.
D:Day3.5 So our first point of  discussion in the realm of anger is that no matter where anger seems
D:Day3.40 access, a new source of entry. But these points do not advance our  discussion now and can be returned to later. The point here is your
D:Day4.48 Once this difference is wholly known to you, we will begin true  discussion of creation of the new, for you will be done with becoming.
D:Day7.5 full awareness and the elevation of the self of form, but as in the  discussion of abundance, you may still feel unsupported in form.
D:Day8.1 fresh in your minds and hearts, let’s return to that earlier  discussion.
D:Day8.17 talked little of feelings here, and there has been a reason for this  discussion coming so late in our time together. To accept the
D:Day10.5 These needs are tied to your feelings and thus we will return to a  discussion of feelings in connection with the ideas of confidence,
D:Day10.13 This also relates to our  discussion of image versus presence and to the image of your personal
D:Day10.25 Before we move on to the all-important  discussion of unity and relationship, let me spend my final time with
D:Day28.2 this will be kept brief and illustrate only what is needed for our  discussion of the next stage.
D:Day40.26 Perhaps you have noticed that in yesterday’s  discussion of who I Am to you and today’s discussion of who you are
D:Day40.26 that in yesterday’s discussion of who I Am to you and today’s  discussion of who you are to me, that one has not been discussed
A.12 Am I telling you not to question? Not to enter  discussion? I am only telling you to receive before you seek to
A.13 ready to hear all the voices around you without judgment, to enter  discussion without an agenda to attend to, to not be so anxious to
A.26 and again. New questions may arise and a desire for feedback or  discussion grow stronger. This may also be precisely the time when
A.31 solving is to be discouraged. Trust is to be encouraged. Often a  discussion can be facilitated greatly by the question, “How might we

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T3:20.6 “bad” the illness or suffering is. You are likely to be drawn into  discussions concerning how the illness or suffering can be “fought.”
D:Day4.59 and continue our movement toward creation of the new. There are many  discussions still to be had. We are only at the beginning of our time
D:Day35.17 must have occurred in this way. We will not return to previous  discussions of original creation, but it must be thought of so that

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C:6.11 left to climb, why choose heaven? Surely it can be chosen later when  disease has taken your limbs’ use from your control and your mind no
C:10.1 to do? Learn this lesson well, for herein lies the cure to all  disease and the hope of all healing. While the body seems to tell you
T1:3.9 you to think otherwise about yourself. If you ask for a cure for a  disease, how will you know that this cure is a miracle and not the
T1:3.18 that person’s “time to die”? If you were to ask for the cure of a  disease, how would you know that disease was not meant to be to
T1:3.18 you were to ask for the cure of a disease, how would you know that  disease was not meant to be to further someone’s learning? If you
T1:7.2 at a given time, but never both. Thus the absence of good health is  disease; the absence of peace is conflict, the absence of truth
T3:8.11 entertainment that would seem to provide them? People suffering from  disease: Why not cures for those diseases?
T3:18.6 If you observe health rather than  disease, abundance rather than poverty, peace rather than conflict,
T3:18.6 poverty, peace rather than conflict, happiness rather than sadness—  disease, poverty, conflict and sadness will be no more real to your
D:14.5 the checkbook, or as momentous as a doctor’s diagnosis of a  disease. These questions could be asked when decision-making seems to
D:Day3.30 thankful for your good health while at the same time dreading the  disease that may at any point take it from you, those of you who have

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C:7.21 feelings, from variations in the weather to unseen and unverifiable  diseases. You have given others, whom you see as having more
T3:8.11 provide them? People suffering from disease: Why not cures for those  diseases?

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D:Day32.13 as the All Powerful. While God is seen as the All Powerful, man is  disenfranchised. Even while God is perhaps seen in all things, or as

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C:1.14 do with struggle. You think also that to leave struggle behind, to  disengage from the conflict of this world that causes it, is to turn
C:23.24 study of this Course may have led you to turn inward and attempt to  disengage from life. A period of engagement with life cannot be
T1:2.1 you to think no more. A break in time was needed for you to  disengage the ego-mind that produced the type of thinking that needs

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D:Day4.31 In practical terms, you might think of this as a  disengagement from the details. Thinking is about details. I am

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C:26.24 the end be like? Was one event a mistake and another a blessing in  disguise? You seek to know your story’s table of contents, or at

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T3:10.9 Thoughts of the Christ-mind will hold a certainty that cannot be  disguised. Remember that all doubt is doubt about yourself and that
D:Day4.53 chosen, by us, to move you through the layers of illusion that have  disguised your fear, to move you beyond false learning to the truth

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T3:10.9 will be gentle. The thoughts of the ego-mind will come as  disguises to certainty. Given just a little practice, these disguises
T3:10.9 come as disguises to certainty. Given just a little practice, these  disguises will be easily seen through and the uncertainty behind them

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D:Day8.13 to the love that will dispel it. You are not called to walk away in  disgust, showing your righteous contempt for the actions of others,

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D:Day13.6 in attempting to eject the loveless self from the Spacious self that  disharmony occurs. Thus holding the loveless self within the spacious
D:Day13.7 to eject the self of suffering from the spacious Self create  disharmony. It is only by this holding within that the loveless self

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C:31.16 you believe is the truth about yourself. While you continue to live  dishonestly, your notion of what your identity truly is cannot

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C:29.11 or ways to avoid doing it at all. Thus have your paper plates and  dishwashers taken the ritual from a meal, your mass-manufacturing the

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C:25.13 not be invulnerable. There is always, behind every disappointment or  disillusion, every attack and every hurt, a person you believe acted

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C:25.13 emotions as wounds. While you think you can remain disappointed or  disillusioned, you will not be invulnerable. There is always, behind

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T4:8.10 and mature gracefully? Do you withdraw your love? Never. Do you  disinherit? Rarely. What you do is realize the impossibility of

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C:12.10 This is the one  disjoining that your choice for separation brought about, and it is
T4:2.26 of what is can occur. The separated state was nothing more than the  disjoining of heart and mind, a state in which mind attempted to know
D:Day7.19 to your Self, to a mind and heart joined in union. It was the  disjoining of mind and heart, of the real Self from the ego-self,

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D:Day8.7 at least subconsciously—that your “real” Self has no feelings of  dislike, and in this confusion have been “trying” and even
D:Day8.14 do not accept the feelings generated by it. You may know that you  dislike gossip only because you have been both a participant and a
D:Day8.14 as in saying you do not like your job, you predetermine a continuing  dislike. Soon, you might see a group of people who often gossip and
D:Day10.26 why we have recently spoken of anger and of those things which you  dislike—why we have spoken, in short, of the feelings you would
D:Day10.29 bound to taking a stance against the many situations there are to  dislike in the world? Do they not feel for the suffering? Do they not
D:Day10.29 in the world? Do they not feel for the suffering? Do they not  dislike poverty? Are they not called upon at times to take unpopular

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D:Day8.12 Will knowing your  dislikes cause you to be intolerant? This is an important question.
D:Day8.12 Knowing this aspect of how you feel, what we are here calling your  dislikes, is but a first step in this beginning stage of acceptance
D:Day8.16 predetermined, just as you cannot predetermine either your likes or  dislikes. Being aware of how you feel in the present moment is the
D:Day8.19 will not be compassionate. This is why we talk specifically here of  dislikes. While you are prone to acceptance of that which you “like,”

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C:P.8 a course to point out the insanity of the identity crisis and  dislodge the ego’s hold, this is a course to establish your identity
C:3.10 it to be, it will be to you. While many teachings have attempted to  dislodge this concept that you hold so dear, because you use the mind
C:7.20 understand that relationship exists in wholeness. We have begun to  dislodge your idea that you stand separate and alone, a being broken
C:9.13 is useful because what you have named and classified is harder to  dislodge and bring to light. Even those feelings you attempt to name
C:10.7 been with you longer and more constantly. Vigilance is needed to  dislodge them.
T2:4.3 in Miracles was a change of thinking about yourself. It attempted to  dislodge the ego-mind that has provided you with an identity that you
T4:12.17 survive, the mighty prevail, the weak shall perish. I attempted to  dislodge much of this learned wisdom during my time on Earth and man
D:Day37.7 If this were all this idea was, it would not be so difficult to  dislodge, but the difficulty lies in that you think of God in your
A.32 can provide. The entrenched patterns of the past are difficult to  dislodge even when they have been recognized. Individuals can be

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C:31.12 to a better understanding of the heart, or love. How the ego becomes  dislodged matters not. What matters is where you place your devotion.

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C:31.11 thoughts and given them an identity we have called the ego. Without  dislodging your belief in your ego as yourself you will never realize
C:31.12 For some this  dislodging occurs by coming to a better understanding of the mind,

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C:15.9 you have undertaken, and a refusal to make special an act of  disloyalty. What’s more, when all is said and done, you are loyal not
C:15.9 question humanity’s right to specialness seems the ultimate act of  disloyalty to your own kind. To even think that you could change and

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C:14.19 a web of intricate design, a snare or trap that seems impossible to  dismantle because of its interconnections. Others experience this
T3:4.6 The only way to correct such an error is to  dismantle the structure and begin again with a foundation capable of
T3:4.7 You can  dismantle the ego and build another in its place and this has at

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T3:4.7 personality is developed to save the first. The ego has also been  dismantled and rebuilt over time and been seen as the rise and fall

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T3:8.1 been necessary and continues to be necessary. But to stop at this  dismantling power is not enough. To stop at this dismantling power
T3:8.1 But to stop at this dismantling power is not enough. To stop at this  dismantling power would be to leave the world in its present
D:Day4.25 yourself does no more good than blaming others, for without the  dismantling of the ego-self, without the dismantling of the self as
D:Day4.25 others, for without the dismantling of the ego-self, without the  dismantling of the self as separate and alone, you could not learn
D:Day18.1 the world, an interaction with the miracles that will aide in the  dismantling of the old and with preparing the way for the birth of

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T3:20.17 circumstance, and you bring love to every circumstance. Be neither  dismayed nor discouraged by those who do not see and have no

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T3:7.7 all of the excitement the matter of the source of the explosion was  dismissed.

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C:P.40 your own two eyes,” you would not believe that the two seemingly  disparate creatures were the same. Someone telling you this story of

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T3:19.14 You would think that this  disparity would be divisive and extremely uncomfortable and even

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C:P.41 You sit in darkness awaiting proof that only your own light will  dispel.
C:9.19 with practicality. While it makes sense to you to attempt to  dispel a child’s nightmare, you see no way to dispel your own. You
C:9.19 to you to attempt to dispel a child’s nightmare, you see no way to  dispel your own. You hide fear beneath the surface, and behind each
C:18.24 to pain of any kind with the love from your real Self that would  dispel it. The Self you have taken out of the learning loop is the
T1:2.7 the fallacy that the early teaching of A Course of Love sought to  dispel.
T1:4.2 Thus we must  dispel, along with the illusion of fear, the illusion of specificity.
T3:19.4 has been linked to temptations of the human experience. Let us now  dispel this link. The physical form has been blamed for choices made
T4:1.15 This confusion is what this Treatise will seek to  dispel so that you are left with no confusion and only certainty. The
T4:1.15 left with no confusion and only certainty. The only thing that will  dispel this confusion and bring you the certainty that is needed to
T4:2.7 But before we can proceed forward, I must return to and  dispel any illusion you may have of superiority over those who came
T4:2.14 you are special. This is one of the many reasons we have worked to  dispel your ideas of specialness. One of the best means for us to
D:Day8.13 to the fear that feeds it, and beyond the fear to the love that will  dispel it. You are not called to walk away in disgust, showing your

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T3:17.7 by many other names have represented the truth and in so doing  dispelled illusion within themselves and those who followed their

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C:22.19 The personal and individual is the “I” we are  dispelling. Think a moment of how you tell a story or report on

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T1:3.4 The experience of truth  dispels illusion and thus the ego-mind. The art of thought replaces
D:Day15.14 Bring your fears into the light of oneness and see how the light  dispels the darkness. This is what we are here for. There is no time

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C:5.9 that I was here.” Again you have the right idea, yet it is so sadly  displaced as to make a mockery of who you are. Love does mark your

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C:9.45 think your body would put you to. All such confusion stems from your  displacement of yourself and your abdication of your power to the
T4:3.4 of the personal self capable of being observed in relationship. The  displacement of the original intent, while it did not change the
T4:3.4 original cause, formed a false nature for the personal self. This  displacement of the original intent can be simply stated as the
T4:3.4 This displacement of the original intent can be simply stated as the  displacement of love with fear. It is as simple as that. Yet the way
T4:3.4 as that. Yet the way in which each of you have interpreted this  displacement has come to seem quite complex.
T4:3.5 You may not feel that you have ever intended to live in fear. But the  displacement of the original intent was so complete that each life
T4:3.5 to be who you are and to express who you are is the result of the  displacement of the nature of love with the nature of fear. What we
T4:3.5 with the nature of fear. What we now are about is reversing this  displacement and returning you to your true nature.

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C:9.48 that these desires are all that call you to the strange behavior you  display? Those who give in to abuse are merely calling louder for the

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C:9.41 kill one another for your amusement. Here is your notion of use  displayed in all its most horrific detail.
T1:2.13 the sun. It is also to see the sky, to see the variety of colors  displayed, to see the horizon. It is to see the surrounding area,

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C:P.21 Your good intentions neither please nor  displease God. God simply waits for your return to heaven, for your

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C:8.12 Whatever you might come to know you would deem your property and its  disposition your purview. How dangerous would you be if union were
C:9.15 you will find fear lurking there. The next level, depending on your  disposition, is either the desire to control or the desire to
D:Day6.7 in a way that the artist might describe as flowing. Depending on the  disposition of the artist, the piece of music might be shared with

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T3:21.10 certainty of your own identity, the very identity this Course has  disproved. This identity has been seen as your personal self. Thus
D:6.11 if science teaches anything, it teaches that what is proven can be  disproved—and often is. Thus the prayer of the Native Americans who

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C:P.9 and His creations. That you are among the creations of God cannot be  disputed. Thus all glory is due you. All glory is yours, and your
C:6.4 whole. That the universe is an interrelated whole is no longer  disputed even by science. What you have made to hide your reality has

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C:14.8 You are not asked to believe the unbelievable, or to  disregard all that reason would say to you. Only the opposite is
T1:4.2 will put your instruction fully under my guidance and allow you to  disregard the instruction of the ego-mind.
D:4.5 For the moment,  disregard any idea you may have of there being those who deserve the
D:Day8.18 you know the real from the unreal, truth from illusion, and so will  disregard the feelings of others as if they do not matter. This will
D:Day8.19 anyone—not those living in truth, or those living in illusion—in  disregard. This disregard is a temptation of those who live in peace,
D:Day8.19 living in truth, or those living in illusion—in disregard. This  disregard is a temptation of those who live in peace, a temptation
D:Day15.21 this specific means of coming to know with you, you are not asked to  disregard any other means of coming to know or to see any others

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C:1.8 realizing the truth ask yourself what else you had been told and  disregarded. You might try one more thing and then another that you
T2:1.1 as a talent that was in need of developing, when realized, is often  disregarded thereafter as a treasure and becomes instead something
D:14.5 would tell me this or that is true, I wonder what would happen if I  disregarded the facts and was open to this being something else?”

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T3:14.7 caused by perceived lack, the lack of stature caused by perceived  disrespect. It is only by your choice that you will keep these things
D:6.13 not prevent them from discovering new “scientific facts.” I mean no  disrespect to scientists and bless them for their desire to find the

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T3:16.8 in many forms, all of which will be related to an old pattern of  dissatisfaction with yourself. These temptations will be related to
T3:16.10 from some “other.” Again, this will be related to old patterns of  dissatisfaction with the self. It has to do with any ideas you may

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T4:1.20 —the way of learning through contrast—provided contrast through  dissent. The good in which one believed became the evil that another

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C:19.21 of compassion, the merest moment of reflection, before it will  dissipate and show a new reflection.

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C:14.16 you are required to maintain, and that without your effort would  dissolve. This universe is yourself and you are everything in it. Do

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D:5.8 No. The ego is gone. Because it was a lie its exposure to the truth  dissolved it.

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C:4.6 your knowledge of your Self, all threat of time and space and place  dissolves. You may still walk an alien land, but not in a fog of
T2:4.18 of the “time” it takes for learning to occur. As this notion of time  dissolves, the state of miracle-readiness becomes your natural state.
D:Day16.6 became “real” is returned to the Self, the physical manifestation  dissolves, because the source, which was separation, is no more. In

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T3:22.2 and do not call for leaders to amass followers, I do not mean to  dissuade any of you who feel a call to represent this Course and the

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A.17 of “right” and “wrong” answers will be strong. Many will not be  dissuaded from the logic that tells them they must work hard to

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C:P.16 glittering with all the beauty of heaven set off at just a little  distance in a golden light. When you could have seen this sight you
C:P.20 you provides the bridge that you need only walk across to bridge the  distance between heaven and hell, between your separated self and
C:19.21 This going back is the journey without  distance. You need not go in search of it, and in truth, cannot, for
C:23.4 The loved one may be on the other side of the country, separated by  distance, or previous choices, or past hurts, and yet a relationship
D:Day27.4 you saw clearly, if only for an instant. You saw as if from a great  distance, and because of that great distance, your view was expanded.
D:Day27.4 You saw as if from a great distance, and because of that great  distance, your view was expanded.
D:Day39.7 a bridge. When you relate to anyone, Christ is there, bridging the  distance that would keep you separate and holding you in
D:Day39.30 can be a tough task master, or a fair friend, loving or unloving,  distance you from yourself and others or bring you closer to yourself
D:Day39.46 and the emptiness of nothing and our relationship will bridge the  distance and become cause and effect, means and end.

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D:Day8.18 This will only happen if you allow yourself to deny and thus become  distanced from your own feelings.

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D:Day8.19 stems from one thing only—from not living in the present.  Distancing, or non-acceptance of your own feelings, is not living in

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C:P.13 that lightened your heart would have begun to recede and to seem as  distant and unreal as a mirage. All that you retain is a belief in
C:P.26 A child of one family may resemble the child of another  distant relative or a relative who lived and died many years
C:1.7 all your possessions in hand. But as you glimpse what was once a  distant shore and now is near, you realize none of what you formerly
D:14.7 now that God is not “other than” and that the God who seemed so  distant from you when you abided in separation can now be heard and
D:Day39.23 Have I been a  distant God who does not show his love for you or others? Then you
D:Day39.23 God who does not show his love for you or others? Then you have been  distant from yourself and those you love.

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T2:10.4 come to mind from this illustration. While this illustration may be  distasteful to some and intriguing to others, how many of you would

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C:3.14 through your eyes and take up residence in your brain, there to be  distilled into a language that you can understand. As you read, be

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C:6.19 now—for how could heaven be a separate place? A piece of geography  distinct from all the rest? How could it not encompass everything and
C:7.3 on separating into groups and species. Not only is each individual  distinct and separate, but so too are groups of individuals, pieces
C:8.21 that come to pass move many other bodies such as yours. Each one is  distinct—and there are so many! As you become an observer you may
T1:2.2 the pages of A Course of Love. These many things which seemed so  distinct and separate and which ranged from fear, to struggle, to
T2:11.1 responsible for this truth. This forgiveness has now extended in two  distinct ways. First in forgiving your Creator for creating you in
T3:10.9 able to forget such thoughts is in recognizing them as separate and  distinct from the thoughts of your right mind or Christ-mind. This
T3:21.16 but be different than your own—those whose thoughts are surely as  distinct and separate as are your own.
D:6.6 with what is. And so even the creations you have made are only  distinct from what was originally created in your perception of what
D:Day1.1 Why cannot the truth be accepted? Why cannot everyone hold their  distinct beliefs as long as they are beliefs in the truth?
D:Day10.9 make connections between point A and point B, be point A and point B  distinct points in a scientific puzzle or murky points about
D:Day37.7 How then, you might ask, are you  distinct from God? Is your body distinct from your aliveness? You
D:Day37.7 How then, you might ask, are you distinct from God? Is your body  distinct from your aliveness? You keep looking for distinction from
D:Day37.13 —a human being—something you have seen as separate rather than  distinct from the divine being who is God. Because you are being,
D:Day37.16 You may see yourself as a separate human being having a separate and  distinct relationship with God, by which you mean a relationship like
D:Day40.6 have taken on distinguishers through which you became a different or  distinct being, a being different or distinct from who I am, and who
D:Day40.6 which you became a different or distinct being, a being different or  distinct from who I am, and who others are. These are the attributes
D:Day40.6 you saw these attributes of being as making you separate rather than  distinct from who I am being and who others are being. Your attempt

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C:9.45 that you have made in ways that benefit the whole, and this is the  distinction between proper and improper use, or use and abuse. You
C:20.10 It thunders in your ears and moves through you until there is no  distinction. We are the heartbeat of the world.
C:20.45 more and some having less. Thus, you must remain cognizant of this  distinction between serving and service. It will be helpful if you
T1:4.22 This is a sticky  distinction, for you are used to congratulating yourself on the
T1:5.9 of the illusion in which you now exist seem real. I must make a  distinction here, between the seemingly real, and the aspect of your
T1:8.11 was reality or myth matters not as myth and reality have no concrete  distinction in the illusion within which you live. In other words you
T2:3.4 life you currently move through. Now you must fully recognize the  distinction between the ego-self that previously was the self of
T2:8.6 subject to change, as are your expressions of who you are. This  distinction must be fully realized here in order for you to accept
T3:1.11 defining a past self, a present self and a future self. The greatest  distinction of all was that between the private self and the public
T3:11.10 wrong but to simply recognize what they are. This is an important  distinction that must be kept in mind as we proceed so that you are
T3:19.8 There is only one  distinction that need be made: what comes of love and what comes of
D:6.6 in fact, living. It exists as living form. And so we begin with a  distinction between what exists as living form, and what exists as
D:6.6 or non-living form. While you might think this is an easily drawn  distinction—and it is—it is not perhaps as you have previously
D:12.9 self. We might make this a simpler subject to discuss by making a  distinction between thinking and thought. This distinction, while it
D:12.9 discuss by making a distinction between thinking and thought. This  distinction, while it will not be consistent with your dictionary’s
D:12.9 with your dictionary’s definition of these words, is still a useful  distinction, as “thinking” is seen as what you “do.” Even in your
D:12.9 that is shared with you in dialogue, but the thoughts. Thus this  distinction will suffice for our further discussion in this chapter.
D:Day6.11 in and within the movement of the creative process where there is no  distinction between Creator and created. You are being who you are
D:Day10.15 Pause a moment here and consider our need for a  distinction between the certainty you feel from unity and the
D:Day10.18 You have “learned” the  distinction between Christ-consciousness and the man Jesus. You have
D:Day10.18 Christ-consciousness and the man Jesus. You have “learned” the  distinction between your Self and the man or woman you are. Now you
D:Day15.10 that informs and is informed. In other words, in union there is no  distinction between the Self and the creative force of the universe,
D:Day35.19 Because you are a creator, you could, however, not create. The word  distinction between made and create thus does not fully do justice to
D:Day37.7 God? Is your body distinct from your aliveness? You keep looking for  distinction from God as if distinction means separation—as if God
D:Day37.7 from your aliveness? You keep looking for distinction from God as if  distinction means separation—as if God is a separate being. If this

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C:4.10 striving for and earning a better place. The heart knows not these  distinctions, and those who think their hearts have learned them by
C:19.24 heart in wholeheartedness until you see clearly. One purpose of the  distinctions you have made between mind and heart are their ability
C:31.2 regarded thoughts are what A Course in Miracles calls body thoughts.  Distinctions are made in many religions and philosophies that
T3:17.2 as being other than itself, through this beginning of making  distinctions between the self and all other things in creation that
T4:1.23 to see the contrast between good and evil and feel now as if these  distinctions have become more and more obscure. Some have yearned for
T4:1.23 have yearned for a return to days not long past, days during which  distinctions between right and wrong did seem to be more certain. But
D:Day10.18 Now you are called to forget what you have “learned” and to let all  distinctions slip away. You are called to forget what you have

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D:Day15.26 in being here, will begin a new process of individuation. The  distinctness of your own path will be made visible and you will see

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C:21.3 another. You thus can begin to quit relying on your body’s eyes to  distinguish the true from the false, the real from the unreal.
C:31.15 you are. I say who you think you are because it is important to  distinguish who you think you are from who you truly are. On the one
T2:12.2 cannot be used, and so your learning needed to include an ability to  distinguish between service and use. Service, or devotion, leads to
T2:12.2 leads to harmony through right action. Until you were able to  distinguish the false from the true, you were not able to receive the
T3:1.5 an awareness of what is not the truth. While the ability to  distinguish between the true and the untrue has been repeatedly
T3:1.13 you would have been unable, without the lessons of this Course, to  distinguish the personal self from the ego-self. There is a danger
T3:13.4 where it is not and to not see fear where it is. But your ability to  distinguish between love and fear as cause is all that is important

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T2:10.6 by all, so too is true knowing. Just as needs were shown to be  distinguishable from wants by a discussion of their shared nature, so

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C:1.14 have nothing and to end up with nothing. Striving, however, must be  distinguished from struggle. To strive for that which has value is
T2:10.6 by a discussion of their shared nature, so too now must knowing be  distinguished from what you consider intelligence.
D:Day18.4 the many. It is full acceptance of the Self in a form that can be  distinguished, or individuated from the rest. It is full acceptance
D:Day27.11 ends of the same continuum, you can now see that they are only  distinguished by degrees of separation. So too have you been.

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D:Day40.6 the application of your being to relationship you have taken on  distinguishers through which you became a different or distinct

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T3:13.13 be birthed without the need for action, but one of the factors that  distinguishes an idea from a belief is a requirement of action. That
T3:21.17 you have a body that is different from all the rest, a name that  distinguishes you from some and yet links you with some, a

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C:8.26 to have no idea what the memory is about! All memory is twisted and  distorted by what you would have it be. Everyone can think of at
C:9.3 to use love here. This is a real memory of creation that you have  distorted. Your faulty memory has caused you to believe love can be
C:9.4 This is how you have  distorted all relationship as well, making of it something that only
C:9.14 self to interpret what feelings would say that they become as  distorted as all the rest. It is the separated self that feels
C:9.28 acceptance? Is it so impossible to imagine that what God created was  distorted by your desire to have your reality be other than what it
C:19.11 the scriptures witnessed to mine. Even while some of my words were  distorted or misinterpreted, you can still revisit them and see that
C:28.1 to the truth, thus must your lives bear witness. Lest this too be  distorted, it must be discussed.

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C:9.28 all the gifts he or she possesses by seeing them not or by sadly  distorting what they might be useful for?

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C:9.28 reality be other than what it is? Have you not seen this kind of  distortion take place within the reality you do see? Is this not the
C:9.38 Again this is but a  distortion of creation. You remember that wholeness is achieved

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D:5.1 in a non-cognitive, intuitive way. It was also about the minor  distortions that occurred between this non-cognitive memory and how
D:5.1 between this non-cognitive memory and how you acted upon it,  distortions that created major departures from the nature of creation.
D:5.2 These  distortions occurred as you assigned meaning or “truth” to things,

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D:Day6.20 world, of the normal, daily life of my time. They were attempts to  distract me from my purpose, to change my focus, to engage me in

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C:13.8 exists that is not part of you, or you of it. If you find yourself  distracted by these memories, do not push them aside as interruptions
C:30.2 How can one be  distracted from oneself? And yet you are. Many go through life

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C:1.14 responsible for. It is merely your ego’s attempt to involve you in  distractions that keep you from your real responsibility. Think again
C:8.22 too. Both are like companions who for a little while are welcome  distractions but are loathe to leave you when you would have them
C:9.25 yourself and those within your care? You do not see all that these  distractions of meeting needs would keep you from.

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C:13.8 them aside as interruptions in your day, but know that anything that  distracts you from the little self you think you are is worth the

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C:18.24 of pain and replace them with feelings of love causes all your  distress. Think not that you react to pain of any kind with the love

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C:P.29 love, and in between these many frightful occurrences is the equally  distressing life of the purposeless, where hours pass endlessly in
T3:10.6 come before. They will not be lessons that you find difficult or  distressing if you accept them as lessons and realize that all

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C:20.40 on the good and evil alike. All gifts of God are given equally and  distributed equally. It is your belief that this is not so that

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C:9.3 The desire to protect is a desire that arises from  distrust and is based totally on fear. If there were no fear, what
C:24.1 you learned to fear, you will learn safety. Where you learned to  distrust, you will learn trust. And each learning experience will be
C:28.4 as the validation sought through bearing witness is a symptom of  distrust. Few are chosen to be prophets, and the plethora of
C:29.16 means of having needs met. The idea of use created all notions of  distrust, starting with—as we have stated before—your ideas of
T3:22.15 only as a product of the duality of time, but also as a product of  distrust. It was a tension that existed between desire and
D:Day10.11 what you have called intuitive knowledge or insights and your  distrust of this knowledge and insight will need to be overcome.

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T2:7.16 is one of waiting, as if an active stance toward trust would be  distrustful. You thus will often say that you trust when what you are
T3:6.4 your Self is not vengeful. The ego has given you many reasons to be  distrustful of your Self, beginning with the idea of your abandonment

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T1:10.1 not affect that core of peace at all. While you may find this almost  disturbing, you will not go to extremes to break this peace.
D:Day6.28 for other areas of the life you still seem so deeply involved in is  disturbing to you. Yet why should this be disturbing? Why should you
D:Day6.28 so deeply involved in is disturbing to you. Yet why should this be  disturbing? Why should you continue to desire the life you have had?

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T4:6.6 a crucial as long as—you do not give in to ideas of separation and  disunity.

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A.29 is that while experiences may differ greatly and seem to be offering  diverse “learning” situations, the individuals will actually be

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C:9.38 express your creativity and in another your prayerfulness. Like a  diversified investment portfolio, you think this parceling out of

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D:Day9.25 who desired only sameness would not have created a world of such  diversity. You are a creator who created this diversity. It was and
D:Day9.25 a world of such diversity. You are a creator who created this  diversity. It was and is a choice meant to release the beauty of

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C:P.15 of this conflict-inducing situation. The truth unites. It does not  divide. The truth invites peace, not conflict. Partial truth is not
C:29.24 This is the great  divide, the separation, between the visible and the invisible, the

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C:19.24 to keep one part of yourself blameless. Whatever happens, your  divided notion of yourself allows you to both protect and conceal.
C:22.6 upon an idea of division, and they help to show that even what is  divided by intersection remains whole.
D:8.12 The  divided self is the small self of separation that is constantly
D:8.12 that is constantly yearning for union with that from which it is  divided. Enter the place of no division, the place of shared
D:Day12.4 The space of the One Self is everything. Space is neither  divided nor separated nor occupied by form. Space is all that is.
D:Day15.24 it, your consciousness has been in two places at once without being  divided. As you re-enter life on level-ground, this ability to carry
D:Day29.2 Your “self” will no longer be  divided into a spirit Self and a human self, living under different

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T3:21.17 that separates you from other nationalities and a sex that  divides you from those “opposite” you, unity will seem like a belief

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C:P.11 reject the laws of God. You claim your human nature and reject your  divine nature.
C:5.1 The Christ in you is wholly human and wholly  divine. As the wholly divine, nothing is unknown. As the wholly
C:5.1 The Christ in you is wholly human and wholly divine. As the wholly  divine, nothing is unknown. As the wholly human, everything has been
C:5.1 One who already possesses all. It is this joining of the human and  divine that ushers in love’s presence, as all that caused you fear
C:5.1 recognize again what love is. It is this joining of the human and  divine that is your purpose here, the only purpose worthy of your
C:5.29 awareness of this presence. As I once was, you are both human and  divine. What your human self has forgotten, your real Self retains
C:7.3 the natural world and the mechanistic world, heaven and earth,  divine and human.
C:19.14 have not been able to decipher the riddle, the mystery, of the  divine, and why they conclude that God is unknowable. God is knowable
C:20.21 can quit thinking even of holy things, holy men and women, and even  divine beings, even the one God. Is not the embrace itself holy? Is
C:27.2 being. There is no being alive and being dead, being human or being  divine. There is only being. Being is.
C:27.5 time like a function of the ego, and at another as a function of the  divine. You become confused between the personal self and a true Self
C:27.7 is a matter of relationship. Life is not a matter of human versus  divine, but a matter of relationship between the human and the
C:27.7 divine, but a matter of relationship between the human and the  divine. Life is not a matter of one living thing versus another, but
T1:2.21 to acknowledge what is as being a gift of God is to be present as a  divine being having a human experience. No part of being is negated.
T1:5.2 fear has to do with the human experience, the other aspect with the  divine experience.
T1:5.4 The second aspect of this fear is fear of the  divine. A part of this fear of the divine is related to the fear of
T1:5.4 of this fear is fear of the divine. A part of this fear of the  divine is related to the fear of the human condition. How can you not
T1:6.2 as acts of creation. Prayer is but reproducing and recollecting a  divine memory and divine memory cannot help but produce a divine
T1:6.2 Prayer is but reproducing and recollecting a divine memory and  divine memory cannot help but produce a divine outcome. Said in
T1:6.2 a divine memory and divine memory cannot help but produce a  divine outcome. Said in another way, prayer reproduces the truth and
T1:6.6 in union, is a means of creating, recollecting, or recalling a  divine memory and transforming that divine memory into a present
T1:6.6 recollecting, or recalling a divine memory and transforming that  divine memory into a present moment experience.
T1:6.9 What happens when this oneness is accomplished is that  divine memories arise to replace perception. This is
T1:7.6 a new way. We must reconcile the differences between the human and  divine. We must, in other words, speak of incarnation.
T1:8.1 proclaimed to be the Word incarnate, the union of the human and the  divine, the manifestation of the Will of God. I have told you that
T1:8.6 resurrection is the cause and effect of the union of the human and  divine. This is accomplished. This is in effect the way in which the
T1:8.11 of creation, the bringing forth of the new through union with the  divine Self. Whether you believe the virgin birth was reality or myth
T1:10.5 hell as well as heaven and will continue the separation between the  divine and the human. Is heaven worth enough to you to give up hell?
T1:10.6 learning devices. They have cracked open hearts and minds to the  divine presence within. You have chosen them for just this reason.
T1:10.6 way again. You no longer need these experiences to alert you to the  divine presence. Once you have learned to read you do not return to
T2:11.11 be that we have spoken of Christ being both wholly human and wholly  divine? These statements can only be true if there is no division
T2:11.11 and relationship, if there is no division between the human and the  divine.
T3:6.5 places, this abode of Christ, this bridge between the human and the  divine. It exists not in some but in all, as the ego has existed not
T3:18.2 for physical form. The word observance has rightly been linked with  divine worship and devotion. Minds that have been unwilling to accept
T4:2.4 was desired, a bridge between the human or forgotten self and the  divine or remembered Self. Jesus the man was the intermediary who
T4:2.4 Spirit to possess the human or forgotten self with the spirit of the  divine or remembered Self. Although God never abandoned the humans
T4:3.2 has to do with what cannot be elevated. Vision has to do with the  divine pattern, the unity that binds all living things. Observation
T4:4.14 relationship save that of intermediaries between the human and the  divine, there was no choice but to end the separated state in order
T4:4.15 not of matter. It is only in the relationship of matter to the  divine that matter can become divine and thus eternal. If you can
T4:4.15 in the relationship of matter to the divine that matter can become  divine and thus eternal. If you can abide in unity while in human
T4:4.18 Christ-consciousness, and thus create the union of the human and the  divine as a new state of being. This union will take you beyond the
T4:4.18 appeals to you, and if you create the union of the human and the  divine as a new state of being, this choice will be eternally yours.
D:1.2 you today not as a personal self who is “other” than you, but as a  divine Self who is the same as you. In our union we bear the sameness
D:1.3 not “see” the new, the new Self of elevated form or the true Self of  divine union. You “see” the separated self still “trying,” still
D:2.4 and systems of design. The pattern of learning was a pattern of  divine design, created in unity and cooperation to enable the return
D:4.11 Let us begin by coming to agreement about the idea of  divine design. This divine design could also be called creation, and
D:4.11 begin by coming to agreement about the idea of divine design. This  divine design could also be called creation, and where we have spoken
D:4.11 be called creation, and where we have spoken of creation previously,  divine design was also spoken of. Here I am quite confident that you
D:4.11 enough during your time as a learning being that you accept that a  divine design created the universe and all that is in it, or that you
D:4.11 you know that this is so. Either way, you may still believe in a  divine design without accepting that a divine design exists and that
D:4.11 you may still believe in a divine design without accepting that a  divine design exists and that you are part of it. Remember that our
D:4.11 deny is the idea of a purposeless existence, a universe with no  divine order, a life in which you are at the mercy of fate. The new
D:4.11 accept is that existence is purposeful, that the universe exists in  divine order, and that your life is part of that divine design.
D:4.11 universe exists in divine order, and that your life is part of that  divine design.
D:4.12  Divine patterns are the patterns that made your existence in form
D:4.12 possible. These patterns are both external and internal. External  divine patterns include the observable forms that make up your world,
D:4.12 to the stem of a plant to the workings of the human brain, a  divine pattern is evident and should not be beyond your belief.
D:4.12 in what you see, think, and feel, there is but one external  divine pattern that created the observable world, and only one
D:4.12 pattern that created the observable world, and only one internal  divine pattern that created the internal world. The internal divine
D:4.12 divine pattern that created the internal world. The internal  divine pattern was that of learning.
D:4.13 created together to exist in a complementary fashion. Both of these  divine patterns are being newly recreated and we will talk much more
D:4.15 as the truth. Some of these systems of thought were part of the  divine pattern. Contrast is one such system. As a learning being, you
D:4.16 Other systems of thought were not part of the  divine pattern. The ego is one such system. It may seem peculiar to
D:4.18 Just as obviously, all we are left with is  divine design. All we are left with is what was given: A divine
D:4.18 with is divine design. All we are left with is what was given: A  divine universe, a divine existence. That divine universe, our divine
D:4.18 design. All we are left with is what was given: A divine universe, a  divine existence. That divine universe, our divine existence, is now
D:4.18 with is what was given: A divine universe, a divine existence. That  divine universe, our divine existence, is now recreating the patterns
D:4.18 A divine universe, a divine existence. That divine universe, our  divine existence, is now recreating the patterns that served the time
D:4.28 What is one, or in union with all, draws from the well of  divine design. You need not turn to old patterns or systems to
D:4.29 Self, now your life must be returned to where it fits within the  divine design, to where it is a life of meaning and purpose. This
D:4.29 but magnanimous. It returns wholeness to you and wholeness to the  divine design. It returns creation to what it is.
D:5.9 is the first step as it is the step necessary for the restoration of  divine design. True seeing facilitates the return to what is and we
D:6.14 something new. For in this time of revelation, discovery is the new  divine pattern that will replace the “thought” systems we have spoken
D:13.4 a flash, and is, in a sense, a humorous metaphor for the idea of a  divine “ray” of light descending and granting enlightenment. Take
D:Day3.28 learning. The condition of want was a learning device—not one of  divine design, but one of the thought system of the ego. It was a
D:Day3.44 to open the self of form to the place of unity, thus allowing this  divine flow of union into the elevated Self of form.
D:Day3.45 Being open to the  divine flow of union is the exact opposite of the condition of anger.
D:Day4.5 in yesterday’s dialogue, learning has not been a choice. Both as  divine design and as a pattern of the thought system of the ego,
D:Day4.5 of the ego, learning has been with you and within you. Although the  divine design of the time of learning is being recreated, the
D:Day4.6 The  divine design of learning was a given and a natural part of you, much
D:Day11.8 Life is the connecting tissue of the web of form with the  divine All. Life is consciousness. Christ-consciousness is awareness
D:Day17.1 and Christ-consciousness as the merging of the human and the  divine into observable form. Thus there must be a difference between
D:Day18.6 The joining of mind and heart provided reunion of the human and  divine and thus accomplished the resurrection of the eternal in form.
D:Day21.6 or information that you receive in union as a channel of the  divine life force that exists in everything and everyone. There is
D:Day23.5 hold within yourself a will to know and to make known. This will is  divine will, your will, Christ-consciousness. It is alive within you.
D:Day25.2 If there is nothing new to record, nothing new to learn, no new  divine inspiration, a part of your mind will attempt to create from
D:Day27.10 and the external, the form and the content, the human and the  divine, is to elevate the self of form, or, in other words, to be
D:Day33.3 exist without the other and thus both are one in truth. This is the  divine marriage, the divine relationship of form and being.
D:Day33.3 and thus both are one in truth. This is the divine marriage, the  divine relationship of form and being.
D:Day37.3 is, you are a woman and not a man, you are a human being and not a  divine being, you are a person and not a tree. As a separate being,
D:Day37.13 —something you have seen as separate rather than distinct from the  divine being who is God. Because you are being, however, (and note
D:Day37.31 join, you move the particular self aside and sometimes glimpse the  divine being in relationship. But because you have so clung to

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D:2.4 and systems of design. The pattern of learning was a pattern of  divine design, created in unity and cooperation to enable the return
D:4.11 Let us begin by coming to agreement about the idea of  divine design. This divine design could also be called creation, and
D:4.11 begin by coming to agreement about the idea of divine design. This  divine design could also be called creation, and where we have spoken
D:4.11 be called creation, and where we have spoken of creation previously,  divine design was also spoken of. Here I am quite confident that you
D:4.11 enough during your time as a learning being that you accept that a  divine design created the universe and all that is in it, or that you
D:4.11 you know that this is so. Either way, you may still believe in a  divine design without accepting that a divine design exists and that
D:4.11 you may still believe in a divine design without accepting that a  divine design exists and that you are part of it. Remember that our
D:4.11 universe exists in divine order, and that your life is part of that  divine design.
D:4.18 Just as obviously, all we are left with is  divine design. All we are left with is what was given: A divine
D:4.28 What is one, or in union with all, draws from the well of  divine design. You need not turn to old patterns or systems to
D:4.29 Self, now your life must be returned to where it fits within the  divine design, to where it is a life of meaning and purpose. This
D:4.29 but magnanimous. It returns wholeness to you and wholeness to the  divine design. It returns creation to what it is.
D:5.9 is the first step as it is the step necessary for the restoration of  divine design. True seeing facilitates the return to what is and we
D:Day3.28 learning. The condition of want was a learning device—not one of  divine design, but one of the thought system of the ego. It was a
D:Day4.5 in yesterday’s dialogue, learning has not been a choice. Both as  divine design and as a pattern of the thought system of the ego,
D:Day4.5 of the ego, learning has been with you and within you. Although the  divine design of the time of learning is being recreated, the
D:Day4.6 The  divine design of learning was a given and a natural part of you, much

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D:4.14 Systems of thought are both  divinely inspired and products of the separated self. The idea of
D:4.14 The idea of giving and receiving as one might be thought of as a  divinely inspired system of thought. In such a way of thinking, one
D:4.16 most of your false ideas, ideas that made it difficult even for the  divinely inspired thought systems to provide the learning they were

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D:Day37.31 The  divineness of your being is most revealed in relationship. The
D:Day37.31 The divineness of your being is most revealed in relationship. The  divineness of your being is most revealed when you cooperatively join

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C:9.36 returns a little of the memory of union to you. This memory of your  divinity is what you seek in truth from each special relationship you
C:29.7 of this goal’s accomplishment is your realization of your  divinity, a state unaltered and yet in need of your recognition and
D:6.26 of the true Self, the embodiment of love, the embodiment of  divinity. Its existence is given as it was always given. But now the
D:Day35.11 why you return to the ground-level of humanity with the heights of  divinity fresh in your minds and hearts. This is why you return
A.25 presented in the call to reside in unity and to express the  divinity of their nature through sharing in union and relationship.
A.41 between Self and Other, Self and Life, Self and God, Humanity and  Divinity, is the dialogue of which we speak. It may seem to suggest

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C:29.24 between the visible and the invisible, the indivisible and the  divisible. Only those reunited with God achieve the state of unity.
D:Day37.11 one with the whole. You have seen yourself as capable of being  divisible from that which is your Source, but division, like

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C:12.25 idea of separation only seems to have made God’s son susceptible to  division, and these word symbols are all that seem to separate
C:21.5 There has been a  division between the language of your mind and heart. Your mind
C:21.5 place” with two people—as with mind and heart—is the place of no  division. The unification of mind and heart that produces right
C:22.6 Intersection is often seen as a  division between rather than as a relationship among. The
C:22.6 concentrate upon a passing through rather than upon an idea of  division, and they help to show that even what is divided by
T2:2.9 think what prevents you from being who you are is far broader than a  division between mind and heart. Some of you would say you feel no
T2:4.13 the birds of the air. You are asked to live a life where there is no  division between who you are and what you do. This place of no
T2:4.13 is no division between who you are and what you do. This place of no  division is the place of unity.
T2:11.11 and wholly divine? These statements can only be true if there is no  division between you and relationship, if there is no division
T2:11.11 if there is no division between you and relationship, if there is no  division between the human and the divine.
T3:10.12 no fear or judgment, no uncertainty or doubt, no contrast and no  division. It is the thought system of unity. It is your true thought
D:3.18 This is not meant to convey any  division between the Self and the elevated Self of form, but to
D:7.6 being are one, or in other words from the state in which there is no  division between who you are and what you do. “Right” action comes
D:8.12 for union with that from which it is divided. Enter the place of no  division, the place of shared consciousness, the place of wholeness.
D:Day15.11 force long enough to realize their oneness with it. While there is  division remaining between the self and the spacious Self, the self
D:Day31.4 has already been stated, wholeness could not be experienced without  division. Wholeness and oneness are the same. You are one in being
D:Day37.11 returns it to its original value. Think further of a problem in  division that results in something left undivided, something called a
D:Day37.11 as capable of being divisible from that which is your Source, but  division, like differentiation or individuation, is only possible in
D:Day37.11 Two separate numbers, with no relationship, no interaction, no  division and no subtraction, simply remain what they are.

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C:3.3 It is a shared universe with no  divisions. There are no sections, no parts, no inside and no outside,

divisive (2)

T3:19.14 You would think that this disparity would be  divisive and extremely uncomfortable and even rage-producing for
T3:19.14 still living in illusion. But it will be much more tempting to be  divisive, uncomfortable and rage-producing for those living in the

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D:Day2.11 had been destroyed by a tornado or a flood rather than adultery and  divorce, would you not see the benefit of accepting what had occurred
D:Day2.11 this by saying that if you had been the adulterer, the cause of the  divorce, this was different than a tornado or a flood. Yes, this was
D:Day2.12 innocent “victim” of an adulterous mate, a mate whose actions led to  divorce and the destruction of your home, can you not accept that

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D:Day18.8 over what tells the brain what to do, over the organizing factor of  DNA, of tissues and cells that do know exactly how to interact. Where

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T3:21.13 or philosophical identities. You may call yourself Christian or  doctor or Democrat. You may have beliefs you hold strongly, such as a
D:2.5 education. Education has a natural endpoint. When the education of a  doctor, teacher, scientist, priest, or engineer is completed, it is
D:2.5 it is time for the student to claim a new identity—that of  doctor, teacher, scientist, priest or engineer—and to begin to live
D:Day1.11 of healing calls it, be the practitioner a faith healer or a medical  doctor. You may make one exclusive choice to attend to your needs of

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D:14.5 as commonplace as balancing the checkbook, or as momentous as a  doctor’s diagnosis of a disease. These questions could be asked when

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C:16.2 You may ask now why it  doesn’t seem so, and the only answer is that you do not want it to.
D:2.20 your desire to learn anew. You would say, “If the justice system  doesn’t work, let’s fix it.” You would say, “If the old way doesn’t
D:2.20 system doesn’t work, let’s fix it.” You would say, “If the old way  doesn’t work, teach me a new way.” You would say, “I will work hard
D:Day6.20 I know it  doesn’t always seem so. Give your attention for a moment to the
D:Day20.5 The truth is the truth. It  doesn’t change. It is the same for everyone.
D:Day40.20 self, as well as its God, must be separate from what it is being. It  doesn’t understand, until joining with the Christ Self, before

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C:21.10 Knowing the one truth is not about knowing a certain  dogma or a set of facts. Those who know the truth do not see
T2:10.1 not tire of this work until you succeed. This is how truths become  dogma and dogma becomes tyranny. This happens by accepting a static
T2:10.1 of this work until you succeed. This is how truths become dogma and  dogma becomes tyranny. This happens by accepting a static state. A
A.45 giver of new life. It offers no walls to confine you. It becomes not  dogma to restrict you. It is new life come to extend the way of

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C:P.11 a better place but you are not abolishing it. In your acceptance of  doing good works and being a good person, you are accepting ministry
C:P.22 in self can be as damaging as the selflessness of those intent on  doing good works. Rather than leading to knowledge of God, prolonged
C:2.8 the status of humankind. This is the most you have any hope of  doing, and few of you believe you will succeed. Others refuse to
C:4.12 Love is not being nice when you are feeling surly. Love is not  doing good deeds of charity and service. Love is not throwing logic
C:5.32 This awaits you as you place no judgment on the world, and in so  doing join with everything and extend your holiness across a world of
C:6.1 make it on your own, because you have realized the impossibility of  doing so. You have to forgive yourself for being what you are, a
C:6.22 your deception has not changed what is nor will it ever succeed in  doing so. Only God and His appointed helpers can lead you from this
C:9.33 power to that which you have made! It matters little now that in so  doing you once again imitated what your faulty memory would tell you
C:9.35 away from your belief that you can fix things by yourself and in so  doing earn your way back into your Father’s home. Being willing to be
C:9.38 the things you label drudgery and the things you label exciting. In  doing so you see yourself as “spending your time” wisely, and you
C:11.2 Self, and yet you make of life a recreation of yourself and in so  doing try to prove that “you” are your own source.
C:11.14 willingness will be enough to begin to effect cause and in so  doing bring some sanity to your restless mind and heart.
C:12.18 its own and compel you to do things you might have never dreamed of  doing. People often look back upon their lives and wonder how they
C:15.5 feel special in the way in which they have become accustomed to your  doing so.
C:16.19 as evil. You have thus made justice one with vengeance, and in  doing so have robbed justice of its meaning.
C:18.21 We talked briefly here of emotions,  doing so only to differentiate your feelings of love from your
C:19.18 what you know not. This is not the problem. The problem is in who is  doing the asking. The separated self, while capable of asking, is
C:19.23 goal is to move beyond perception to knowledge, a first step in  doing this is changing your means of perception to that of
C:20.35 you do. You hope to have moments of clarity concerning what you are  doing in a given moment, what you have done, what you hope to do in
C:23.28 to that of atonement. It is an undoing accompanied by a new means of  doing. In the process of unlearning, both forgiveness and atonement
C:26.12 that you have not been living, and wondered what it is you have been  doing? Have you not grown weary of what passes for life in your
C:26.17 you, but it is all that is required. If you could truly succeed at  doing this for one instant, you would experience all that is holy and
C:26.27 my pattern, the idea of me that came from the thought of God. In  doing so, I restored unity, oneness with God. I ushered in the new
C:28.9 you know. While you continue to think of a separation in terms of  doing and of knowing, it is obvious this cannot be the case.
C:29.10 cannot imagine God toiling, so you should cease to imagine your Self  doing thus.
C:29.11 against it and to seek for ease in getting it done or ways to avoid  doing it at all. Thus have your paper plates and dishwashers taken
C:31.30 At certain times of your life you state this seeking you are  doing quite clearly, and it is always specific. You are looking for a
T1:3.9 agree to choose a miracle at all, which many of you will balk at  doing, you want to choose the “right” miracle. Some of you may think
T1:3.16 Let us consider your objections to miracles one-by-one for in so  doing we will uncover the source of all your fears as well as the
T2:2.9 or that you feel many. Others would cite practical reasons for  doing other than what they feel called to do. All of these ideas
T2:7.13 concerning your desire to be good and to do good. This is not about  doing good works. This is about being who you are and seeing the
T2:7.16 You thus will often say that you trust when what you are  doing is hoping for a specific outcome. Real trust is not a trust
T2:9.7 you on this planet are not concerned with needs or need fulfillment.  Doing what needs to be done in order to survive is hardly the same as
T2:11.3  Doing battle with the ego has become the preoccupation of many gifted
T2:11.15 is from these two separate ideas of relationship that the concept of  doing battle has emerged. This concept of doing battle can only
T2:11.15 that the concept of doing battle has emerged. This concept of  doing battle can only remain if you remain convinced that the ego is
T2:11.15 two identities that exist within you and you will see yourself as  doing battle in countless ways and forms. There will never actually
T3:1.13 what we have, a form fully able to represent the truth and, in so  doing, we bring the truth to life and life to the truth.
T3:10.14 What we are  doing now is much like translating the learned thought system of the
T3:17.7 Many others by many other names have represented the truth and in so  doing dispelled illusion within themselves and those who followed
T3:20.3 learning how to live by the truth. This will benefit you and in so  doing benefit all others.
T3:20.8 loving to believe in suffering? Do you not begin to see that in so  doing you but reinforce it? What you might even call the “fact” of
T3:22.3 to what you currently do or to something you have always dreamt of  doing. Wherever you go, whatever you do, the truth will go with you.
T3:22.15 you have enjoyed the game of chance, play a real game and have fun  doing it. Do not bring this attitude into your new thought system or
T3:22.17 the personal self with one last act of love and devotion, and in so  doing transform the personal self into a representation of the truth.
T4:1.3 In  doing so, it may seem to you as if some will be left out and as if
T4:10.3 lessons contained therein. So how, you might ask, do you quit now,  doing what you have so long done?
T4:12.2 or dialogue rather than through teaching. As with all new means of  doing anything, this dialogue must have a starting point. This is it.
T4:12.18 your enrichment, than throwing out the old and beginning again? And  doing so without effort, without struggle. What could be more looked
D:4.6 tell you truthfully that until you are living as who you are and are  doing what you love, you are in prison. This prison is as much of
D:4.22 need. If you have imprisoned yourself in order to earn a living by  doing work that brings you no joy and allows you not to be who you
D:4.22 are lured away from who you are by a drive to succeed, if you fear  doing what you want to do because you might fail, if you follow
D:5.3 What we are  doing now is returning the world to its true representation. As was
D:7.5 and places you outside of time. In this state, no duality exists.  Doing and being are one.
D:7.6 of the self in form. “Right” action comes from the unity in which  doing and being are one, or in other words from the state in which
D:8.2 or studied to take advantage of your natural ability and in  doing so may have found a continued ability to learn faster or
D:8.8 all of what you needed to learn was put forth. What we are now  doing is discussing what was taught from the realm of
D:12.5 Now you may not “think” that you have been  doing this, yet few of you would argue that you have been simply
D:Day4.19 that was taught to them—but to live in a new world and, by so  doing, to demonstrate a new way.
D:Day4.33 a different kind of focus upon breathing as a form of meditation. In  doing so, they let the natural serve the natural. Some might “go
D:Day4.33 and become one with it. Others might become the observer and in so  doing remove themselves from the body entirely.
D:Day6.4 the similarity between the creation of art and the work we are  doing here, we will return to this example. We have spoken of
D:Day6.23 certainty. Even learning is accelerated by hands-on activities, by  doing what one has previously only learned.
D:Day6.27 those who, along with us, work toward its accomplishment. In  doing so you are not creating new special relationships but the true
D:Day6.29 paradox. You have been told to do only what you can feel peaceful  doing, to do only what allows you to be yourself, and yet here are
D:Day7.10 now and beginning to find manifestation through the sharing we are  doing here.
D:Day8.17 to acceptance of yourself—in the present, as you are—for only by  doing so will you come to full acceptance of who you are and be able
D:Day9.20 predetermined ideal state, we will not succeed in the work we are  doing here together. For if you believe this, you will not accept
D:Day9.31 Thus you can see that a key step in  doing this is the debunking of the myth of an ideal self. An ideal
D:Day10.12 the time of learning, it is often more difficult to become adept in  doing something in a way different than you have done it before than
D:Day10.31 took a stand for the powerless and called them to power. I am still  doing so. Not because any of you are powerless but because you do not
D:Day14.11 All, all you are  doing here is accepting your relationship to the unexplainable.
D:Day15.15 You are here to make one another known and in so  doing to know oneness. It will be less difficult to know this voice
D:Day18.11 with the Christ-consciousness that abides within you. One way of  doing this is through individuation and becoming known. One way of
D:Day18.11 doing this is through individuation and becoming known. One way of  doing this is incarnation through relationship in which the
D:Day19.10 a pattern of what can be imagined being made real, not through  doing, but through the creative act of incarnating in union with
D:Day19.13 through unity and imagination, create the new by means other than  doing, open a way previously unknown, and as all forerunners do,
D:Day24.4 To struggle against your nature is what you have spent a lifetime  doing. Stop. If you allow your potential to be released, your true
D:Day27.6 of being through the experience of life. You have already been  doing this. You are, in fact, becoming well-practiced.
D:Day36.12 being. Is this not how you have seen yourself? As a simple being  doing your best to live the life you’ve been given? All the choices
D:Day37.22 of a God you can feel close to, appeal to, thank and praise. But  doing so can also be confusing if it leads to thoughts of God as a
A.25 then naturally may wonder what there is left to strive for and in  doing so reach again the very difficult transition away from
A.27 what the reader who is now experiencing life in a new way is  doing is attempting to reinforce what he or she already knows and has

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T2:9.7 is hardly the same as feeling that one has a need. Needs are the  domain of the thinking being only. Thinking beings share needs

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C:20.33 their opposing force. No atoms do battle. No molecules compete for  dominance. The universe is a dance of cooperation. You are but asked

dominion (1)

C:P.6 is it in you that hovers between two worlds, the world of the ego’s  dominion and that of spirit? What recognizes the difference? The

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D:Day7.13 It is easy to see from here how the  dominoes fall and each condition of learning is replaced, always by a

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D:Day1.23 scripture unfulfilled, the promise of inheritance or the threat of  doom. Myth too stops short of fulfillment, of return to paradise.

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D:Day37.18 if” someone knows how you feel and who you are. But you have felt  doomed to never being known and to never really sharing how you feel.

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D:6.11 a prayer that acknowledges that the sun may not rise. This is not a  doomsday attitude, but an attitude that accepts that scientific or

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C:P.5 for miracle-mindedness is upon it. A Course in Miracles opened a  door by threatening the ego. All those who, with egos weakened,
C:P.42 until you feel as if you are going in and out through a revolving  door.
C:4.21 and upon entering believe you leave the world’s madness outside your  door. Here you feel safe and gather those you love around you. Here
C:9.21 will provide fullness only until the next is needed. Your closed  door only keeps you safe while its boundary is respected. To replace
C:10.32 still resist realizing that you got more than you bargained for. A  door has been reached, a threshold crossed. What your mind still
C:22.20 from the broad to the specific. For example, when you walk out your  door in the morning you might generally think, “What a lovely day.”
C:30.8 is easily overlooked and rarely seen as the key that unlocks the  door to universal consciousness, being present. There is no being and
T3:20.6 along with the one whom you observe, the long walk toward death’s  door. All of these actions could be called your “observance” of the
T3:20.16 need ask for is a little willingness. All you need do is open the  door through which love can enter.
T3:22.14 and thus to the miracle. This is the very miracle that closes the  door of duality, and seals out the world where what is, is separated
T4:2.11 into space and vice versa, and yet, what one achieves but opens the  door for others and this is known to you. Even those who did not
D:4.5 Each of you who have entered Christ-consciousness has had the cell  door and the prison gate thrown open and a new world offered. If you
D:8.13 it is taken. What you will become aware of on the other side of that  door will require a new way of seeing, a new kind of awareness.
D:9.1 The  door that is being opened to you here is the door of awareness of
D:9.1 The door that is being opened to you here is the  door of awareness of what is, a door that swings open and closed on
D:9.1 is being opened to you here is the door of awareness of what is, a  door that swings open and closed on the hinges of your thoughts.
D:Day3.21 To speak of money with anyone who has less might open the  door for a request for what you do not feel you have to give. To
D:Day5.1 full entry is attained, just as a key is no longer needed once a  door has been unlocked and passed through. Even though it will not be
D:Day19.13 do, anchor that way within consciousness by holding open this  door to creation. They, in truth, create a new pattern and begin to

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C:I.5 The mind cannot hold open the  doors of the heart and yet we turn within, turn to the mind, and show
C:4.21 your world. It is where you keep love locked away behind closed  doors. It is where you return after your forays into the world that
C:4.21 rest, and here you gain the strength you need to walk outside those  doors again another day. You spend your life intent upon retiring to
C:4.21 the madness behind, and that you will still find love behind the  doors you have passed through so many times in a journey spent
C:4.25 of love set apart that you have made and extend them outside love’s  doors. What difference would a world of love make to those who lock
C:4.25 What difference would a world of love make to those who lock their  doors upon the world? How vast the reaches where their world of love
C:5.16 You look outside the  doors of your home and, whether you see suburban streets bathed in
C:5.16 outside yourself, as you picture the real world being beyond your  doors, but saying this cannot make it so.
C:7.9 you give away you will receive in truth, you will throw open the  doors to this safe house, and all the joy you have kept from yourself
C:9.21 a king. This one exists in the violence you would keep outside your  doors, and from your inner sanctum you give this one a respite from
C:11.2 as well as those creations of little hands you hang on refrigerator  doors or office walls. You did not create your Self, and yet you make
T1:6.5 to reach out to. Such ideas of prayer have long been opening  doors for those who are ready to walk through them to a real
T3:7.6 which you resided. Illusion has been to you like a house with many  doors. You have chosen many doors to the same house and but thought
T3:7.6 has been to you like a house with many doors. You have chosen many  doors to the same house and but thought them to offer different
T3:7.10 The home of truth is within you and we have just unlocked its  doors.
T3:9.3 thought system. Now you must imagine yourself walking outside of the  doors of this house of illusion and finding a completely new reality
T3:9.5 to grasp the hands of those you love and gently tug them through its  doors. You will be able to take note of the explosions happening
D:4.20 This place and this way begins at the prison  doors, begins, as we said earlier, with acceptance of the new and
D:4.20 within it. Do not look for a new structure with barred windows and  doors to keep you safe. Do not seek someone to tell you anew what to

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D:8.12 you recognize as a given and unlearned aspect of your Self is the  doorway. Step through that doorway. Take the first step outside of
D:8.12 and unlearned aspect of your Self is the doorway. Step through that  doorway. Take the first step outside of the known reality of your

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T1:9.13 to you as you have learned this Course? Has it not seemed to lie  dormant for periods of time and then to suddenly be called back to
T2:3.7 It is quite literally true that the seeds of much of creation lie  dormant within you, already accomplished but awaiting expression in
T4:1.13 have come before you as failures? Has the seed of the future lain  dormant in the past? Could it have been activated hundreds or

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D:7.26 your understanding, I call you now to imagine your body as a  dot in the center of a circle and the circle as representing all that
D:7.26 of a circle and the circle as representing all that you are. The  dot of your body is all that is bound by time. What transformation
D:8.1 Continuing to imagine your body as the  dot within the circle, I ask you to imagine now being able to take a
D:8.1 to imagine now being able to take a step outside of the area of this  dot, and into the area of the wider circle. In this area of the wider
D:8.4 the content of the wider circle of who you are to infiltrate the  dot of the body, or, conversely, as the body having taken a step
D:8.4 body, or, conversely, as the body having taken a step outside of the  dot of self to infiltrate the wider circle of the Self. When you have
D:8.5 as the Self that exists beyond the boundary we have described as the  dot of the body.
D:8.11 Expand your reach! Step outside of the  dot of the separated self and into the circle of unity where all you
D:9.1 hinges of your thoughts. Thoughts are a greater boundary than the  dot of your body and a greater means of imprisonment than bars and
D:9.14 If we return to the image of the body as the  dot in the wider circle and accept that your discovery of your
D:9.14 ideas are discoveries of something that already existed beyond the  dot of the body; and if you accept that these ideas that already
D:11.14 the elevated Self of form does not remain contained within the  dot of the body but draws its sustenance from the larger circle, the
D:12.4 began to enter the place of unity, to take the step outside of the  dot of the body.
D:12.12 a flash of light from above, but that it quietly infiltrates the  dot of the self in its unguarded moments. I am attempting to help you

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C:26.7 await you, at least in your imaginings. You are thus caught in a  double bind, living a life you feel is devoid of meaning and letting

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C:P.29 way of those who know this is not the way it is meant to be and then  doubt their knowing. This is the way it has always been, they cry.
C:4.5 who you are and who God is. How could you not have been fearful with  doubt as powerful as this? How can you not rejoice when doubt is gone
C:4.5 fearful with doubt as powerful as this? How can you not rejoice when  doubt is gone and love fills all the space that doubt once occupied?
C:4.5 you not rejoice when doubt is gone and love fills all the space that  doubt once occupied? No shadows linger when doubt is gone. Nothing
C:4.5 fills all the space that doubt once occupied? No shadows linger when  doubt is gone. Nothing stands between the child of God and the
C:9.47 Your innocence will stand out clearly here, and never again will you  doubt that the world that God created belongs to you and you to it.
C:12.8 Uncertainty of any kind is  doubt about your self. This is why this Course aims to establish your
C:25.19 with anxiety, anger, confusion, perplexity, even rage. You will  doubt that these are the proper feelings of a person living love. Yet
C:25.23 identity and express appreciation for it. While you will at times  doubt that you have received an answer or that the answer you have
C:27.17 act unimpeded by uncertainty. All uncertainty is fear. All fear is  doubt about one’s self. How can you not know how to respond when
C:27.17 is doubt about one’s self. How can you not know how to respond when  doubt is gone and certainty has come? How can certainty ever come
C:28.10 this stage and, not knowing what to do with what they know, begin to  doubt their knowing. This is a human response to a knowing that is
T1:3.9 to take? What miracle could be seen as only miracle and not leave  doubt as to its circumstances? Would you choose a miracle that would
T1:3.9 Would you choose a miracle that would leave no room for  doubt? Such a simple miracle might be the turning of water into wine.
T1:4.26 As was said within A Course of Love, all fear is  doubt about your self. Now we must expand upon this thought, for
T1:4.26 is doubt about your self. Now we must expand upon this thought, for  doubt about your Self is doubt about God. While God is nothing but
T1:4.26 Now we must expand upon this thought, for doubt about your Self is  doubt about God. While God is nothing but the Source of Love, you
T1:4.26 God. While God is nothing but the Source of Love, you have, in your  doubt, made of God the source of fear. Pause a moment here and let
T3:9.3 gently corrected and when this correction is given you will not  doubt it but will remember that it is the truth you had forgotten.
T3:10.9 will hold a certainty that cannot be disguised. Remember that all  doubt is doubt about yourself and that you are no longer called to
T3:10.9 a certainty that cannot be disguised. Remember that all doubt is  doubt about yourself and that you are no longer called to doubt
T3:10.9 doubt is doubt about yourself and that you are no longer called to  doubt yourself. Your Self is now your Christ-Self.
T3:10.12 thought system recognizes no fear or judgment, no uncertainty or  doubt, no contrast and no division. It is the thought system of
T3:13.1 as who you are in human form, we may proceed unencumbered by any  doubt you might have had concerning whether or not you would desire
T3:13.2 pleasure will end or that pain will not end. Once fear has entered,  doubt and guilt are never far behind.
T3:21.11 yourself that few of you have doubted. Those who have had cause to  doubt circumstances of their birth are often consumed with a desire
T4:12.13 raises? Do you not respond to the idea of continual contentment with  doubt? Not only doubt that it can be continual but with doubt that
T4:12.13 respond to the idea of continual contentment with doubt? Not only  doubt that it can be continual but with doubt that you would desire
T4:12.13 with doubt? Not only doubt that it can be continual but with  doubt that you would desire it to be? These questions relate to our
T4:12.20 hold you back from your ability to sustain Christ-consciousness is  doubt about yourself. You must constantly remember that doubt about
T4:12.20 is doubt about yourself. You must constantly remember that  doubt about yourself is fear, and reject the instinct, so engrained
T4:12.20 the instinct, so engrained into your singular consciousness, to let  doubt of yourself take hold of you. Even though you are abiding now
D:12.14 you are not used to—thoughts that you know, beyond a shadow of a  doubt, are true or right or accurate. They may be simple thoughts
D:12.16 to convey this truth, another’s reaction to this truth, or simple  doubt that arose within your thinking, but regardless of this fading
D:12.16 realization—the moment in which the truth was known to you without  doubt, known to you without uncertainty. And you may begin to realize
D:12.16 to realize that what has been said throughout this Course—that all  doubt is doubt about yourself—is true. If another challenges you,
D:12.16 that what has been said throughout this Course—that all doubt is  doubt about yourself—is true. If another challenges you, or if your
D:12.16 If another challenges you, or if your own thinking challenges you,  doubt is quick to arise simply because you do not expect yourself to
D:12.17 to go through life without knowing anything “beyond a shadow of a  doubt,” without knowing anything with certainty, when the reverse is
D:16.14 you are whole and complete, you feel no lack, no uncertainty, no  doubt. You are confident in what you know. You realize fully that you
D:Day3.9 will assist you in living abundantly will cause you to think, “I  doubt it.” Or, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” You might think
D:Day6.7 even more boldness. Negative reactions might cause the artist to  doubt her instincts, to make changes, or to be more determined than
D:Day7.20 sustaining your access to union will be that of the replacement of  doubt with certainty. Certainty is a condition of the present.
D:Day10.4 releases you from the need for belief. Certainty is complete lack of  doubt and any perceived need for doubt.
D:Day10.4 Certainty is complete lack of doubt and any perceived need for  doubt.
D:Day10.5 Realize that in the time of learning, you felt a need for your  doubt just as you felt a need for your beliefs and for the
D:Day10.10 how you act upon them. Do you trust in your intuition or do you  doubt it?
D:Day10.14 that your feelings have misled you in the past, you now still  doubt your feelings. Because you have doubted yourself in the past,
D:Day15.13 If doubts of your readiness continue to persist, remember that  doubt is caused by fear. Examine what you fear. Is it really the
D:Day36.13 made choices of integrity and courage, responded with nobility or  doubt, boldness or timidity, all within a frame of thought and
E.6 heaven on earth you were told. This is what it is. There will be no  doubt, no indecision. Your path will be so clear to you it will be as
E.25 is all you need return to, all you need keep in hand should  doubt arise. This one note is so full of love, so powerful, that it
E.26 just briefly, as you re-read it, in your quickly passing times of  doubt, how different you are. You will recall with poignancy who you

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T4:12.30 What will help you to remain  doubt-free and thus fear-free and continually able to sustain

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T3:21.11 for these are the things about yourself that few of you have  doubted. Those who have had cause to doubt circumstances of their
D:Day10.7 the correct thing to do but still felt as if it was. Or you may have  doubted your intuition and had something occur that made you think
D:Day10.7 something occur that made you think back and wish that you had not  doubted it.
D:Day10.14 you in the past, you now still doubt your feelings. Because you have  doubted yourself in the past, you now still look for reassurances and

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T2:2.8 you. All of you are just as capable of believing in that truth as of  doubting it. All that prevents you from believing in truth is a mind
D:Day10.14 ability to act. To “know” before you act is wise. But to think that  doubting your feelings or seeking outside assurances of what you know

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C:11.6 to place your faith elsewhere. You would like to, but you have your  doubts, and this is where you become confused on the issue of
T4:4.16 Although this discussion is likely to cause many of you serious  doubts about the truth and applicability of this Course, this
D:15.9 I repeat this story not as fact, or to still any  doubts about these principles of creation, but to give you an example
D:Day5.19 that movement is achieved, you will almost surely once again have  doubts. Doubts are never more pronounced than when specifics are
D:Day5.19 movement is achieved, you will almost surely once again have doubts.  Doubts are never more pronounced than when specifics are being dealt
D:Day15.13 away. Your willingness to have them gone is all that is required. If  doubts of your readiness continue to persist, remember that doubt is
D:Day40.31 known? Has this Course not addressed the questions, the longing, the  doubts that you would have, before now, called uniquely yours? Has it

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C:1.7 to the next. What a waste of time and energy to have been slowed  down by such a heavy burden. What a relief to realize that you need
C:3.19 cells. And then you call it illness and allow the body to let you  down, still and always holding love unto yourself.
C:5.6 exists between your hand and a pencil when you go to write something  down, but it is a relationship you take so completely for granted
C:5.9 here. These things I love are what I leave the world, what I pass  down; they declare that I was here.” Again you have the right idea,
C:7.6 This is the piece that screams never to that which would beat you  down. Life is seen as a constant taking away and this, you claim,
C:8.6 too many feelings are going on all at once or all feeling is shut  down all at once. As with everything else in this world, you strive
C:9.41 made. And at some point, when you can run the race no more, you bow  down to those who have achieved glory; they become your idols and you
C:10.27 realize how seldom before you were aware of the street you walked  down, of the buildings it traveled between, of the open sky above, of
C:12.6 And in the granting of this wish will come your rest and the laying  down of every heavy burden you have carried.
C:12.7 that you think you know you would strive to keep, and yet deep  down you realize that you know nothing with the certainty you seek.
C:14.2 from all the rest, this is the goal you ask creation to bow  down to, a goal that never can be achieved any more than can your
C:16.24 it is just the way life is. You give away your power and then bow  down to those whom you have given it to, for you are afraid of
C:23.3 in mood, finish each other’s sentences. You know the other would lay  down his or her life for you, rise to any occasion of your need,
T2:4.16 process of unmaking what you have made. The old structure is coming  down so that the new, what might be likened to a building with no
T2:13.5 that flows between us now. The light of heaven shines not  down upon you but is given and received in equal exchange by all who
T3:3.3 as much or more your ability to disappoint others or to “let them  down.” Some of you carefully constructed your lives to leave as
T3:9.5 the force of one more, maybe the walls will finally come tumbling  down and those inside be held within illusion no more. This was the
T4:12.16 becoming so consistent within you that it came, through the passing  down of the human experience, to be integral to your nature. Have you
D:17.7 of giving and receiving as one. You offer up your glory and call it  down from heaven, both at the same time.
D:Day3.23 a little bit ahead, a need arises. The roof leaks, the car breaks  down, and an endless series of needs arise. This “evidence” is
D:Day3.34 in an in-between tone, one that will not cause you to feel spoken  down to or incite your hostility. One that will not only be truthful,
D:Day23.3 of the means by which you will carry what you have been given  down from the mountain and onto level ground, the ground of the
D:Day26.4 Self will guide you if you will allow it to. Your Self will lead you  down from the mountain top and through the valleys of level ground.
A.33 that seemed to be working so well for a while now is letting them  down. They may wonder where and when the peace, ease, and abundance

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C:3.22 Your thoughts might lead you to a  dozen answers now, more for some and less for others, your answers

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C:7.11 You are unaware that you choose this form of withholding, sometimes  dozens or even hundreds of times a day. An unreturned phone call, a

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D:Day2.6 once were, that no matter how high you ascend, it will continue to  drag you back.

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T2:11.3 in your imaginings has extended even to the angels. The ego is the  dragon that must be slain, the evil of the despot to be toppled, the

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C:12.22 it. The idea of separation changed nothing in reality, but became a  drama acted out upon a stage so real that it seemed to be reality.
T3:11.5 The house of illusion is the stage on which the  drama of the human experience has been acted out.

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T2:13.6 the seriousness with which you once looked at life is of the ego.  Drape your persona in a mantle of peace and joy. Let who you are

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T3:3.9 to put the beliefs of this Course into practice. If not quite this  drastic, your thoughts might tell you that if you were in another

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C:P.35 the word made flesh, the incarnation, the only idea humankind could  draw of an all-powerful being was a being whose power resembled the
T3:13.2 to extremes of the human experience, saying that these things that  draw you from the peace of God draw you from the state in which you
T3:13.2 saying that these things that draw you from the peace of God  draw you from the state in which you are aware of who you are, and so
T3:21.11 experiences of your lifetime are the things upon which you  draw to feel the certainty you feel about your personal self. You
T4:7.1 itself no cause for judgment. It is simply an alternative that will  draw you out of Christ-consciousness and not allow it to be
D:11.10 heart is a full well, a wellspring from which you can continually  draw with no danger of ever drawing an empty bucket. You need never
D:11.13 was during life. You do not think your way through life, but instead  draw your knowing forth from the well of spirit, from the shared
D:Day4.7 Learning was not meant to be linked with thinking. Again I’ll  draw your attention to the learning of childhood. Learning begins
D:Day34.8 Thus we continue to  draw to the close of our time together by asking each other to

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D:11.10 from which you can continually draw with no danger of ever  drawing an empty bucket. You need never thirst again when you have

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C:5.16 decisions are made, your safety found. This comparison is not idly  drawn. Your home is within and it is real, as real as the home you
T3:5.1 you have never felt some sort of absence. All the lessons you have  drawn to yourself in your lifetime have worked toward this absence in
T3:20.6 how “bad” the illness or suffering is. You are likely to be  drawn into discussions concerning how the illness or suffering can be
T3:20.6 feel anything but “sorry” for the one suffering. Yet you are always  drawn, despite these feelings of the “badness” of the situation, to
T3:21.22 than he or she. It will matter that someone will look at you and be  drawn to the truth of him- or herself that is seen reflected there.
T4:12.9 sharing directly. If a time arrives when you no longer feel  drawn to these modes of sharing, share anew in ever-wider
D:6.6 or non-living form. While you might think this is an easily  drawn distinction—and it is—it is not perhaps as you have
D:7.27 is not a circle of time and space. It is not a circle that can be  drawn around where you exist so as to define, perhaps, a mile of
D:11.10 Yet your heart is the well of spirit from which true answers are  drawn. Your heart is a full well, a wellspring from which you can

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D:4.28 What is one, or in union with all,  draws from the well of divine design. You need not turn to old
D:10.5 of union is known even in the realm of separation, and thus what  draws others from separation to union.
D:10.6 relationship of the elevated Self of form is thus timeless, for it  draws from the realm of unity and returns to the realm of unity. This
D:11.14 of form does not remain contained within the dot of the body but  draws its sustenance from the larger circle, the circle of unity.

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D:4.7 this restriction on a grand scale for all to see and look upon with  dread. For most, the prison system is a very successful deterrent.

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T4:12.14 that it would bring you to the state in which you now abide! You  dreaded each learning challenge because you feared that it would not

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T4:12.13 with your idea of learning? That you were always both awaiting and  dreading your next learning challenge?
D:Day3.30 many of you are thankful for your good health while at the same time  dreading the disease that may at any point take it from you, those of

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C:4.7 Love alone has the power to turn this  dream of death into a waking awareness of life eternal.
C:4.22 such a life selfish and wonder how the occupants of this semi-happy  dream have earned the right to turn their backs upon the world even
C:7.9 In an instant the eternal will be upon you. Death will be a  dream as the wind of life reunited with itself gathers from
C:9.19 cause for fear. Age has not taken fear from any of you nor made your  dream of life any less of a nightmare. Yet you spare few moments of
C:20.10 From here your life becomes imaginal, a  dream that requires you not to leave your home, your place of safety
T2:10.3 memory. This may have been a memory of a name or address, of a  dream, or an attempt to recall a specific event. At such times, you
T3:12.7 you have not even dreamed of. This state you have not even dared to  dream of is a state in which only God’s laws of love exist even
T3:16.3 an end to suffering or strife, nor made of this illusion a happy  dream.
D:Day8.26 hiding the self of potential, the future self you think you can only  dream of being. The ego-self was the self you felt safe presenting to
A.19 It has stood between you and your own inner knowing, caught in a  dream of perception.

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C:12.18 a life of its own and compel you to do things you might have never  dreamed of doing. People often look back upon their lives and wonder
T2:4.12 that if you had but acted earlier you would have had the life you’ve  dreamed of and maybe it is not too late. This is not about examining
T3:12.7 to you here is something completely new, something you have not even  dreamed of. This state you have not even dared to dream of is a state

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C:17.6 consciousness that it brings. Each of you has had the experience of  dreaming during the time of sleep. Some may claim they know
C:17.6 Some may claim they know everything there is to know about sleep and  dreaming, being married, using drugs, or having children; but even
C:20.10 safety and of rest. You are cradled gently while your spirit soars,  dreaming happy dreams at last. With love surrounding you in arms that

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C:3.3 There are no sections, no parts, no inside and no outside, no  dreams and no illusions that can escape or hide, disappear, or cease
C:4.6 that obscures what would be a brief adventure and replaces it with  dreams of terror and confusion so rampant that no toehold of security
C:4.6 goes before you, illuminating every path and shining away the fog of  dreams from which you waken undisturbed.
C:7.22 the wind and ask for an alternative. An alternative exists. Not in  dreams of fantasy but in truth. Not in changing form and circumstance
C:10.20 did the right thing.” It will see itself as victor over the foolish  dreams of happiness and say how glad it is that it came to its senses
C:20.10 rest. You are cradled gently while your spirit soars, dreaming happy  dreams at last. With love surrounding you in arms that hold you
T2:10.18 What are your plans and  dreams but chosen lessons? While you do not think of them as such you
T4:8.7 became manifest, as perhaps you can envision from remembering your  dreams in which anything can happen without any need for you to “do”
T4:8.7 If your reality had been like unto the reality you experience in  dreams, can you not see that you would have to learn to breathe, to
T4:10.3 bring you. You have learned anew from your past. Learned from your  dreams. Learned from art and music. In all of these things you have
T4:10.3 You may not have studied your problems, illness, your past, your  dreams, or art and music as you studied the lessons that kept you
D:Day28.4 as an almost inescapable as well as desirable norm. Others pursue  dreams or adventures.

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T3:22.3 of life, to what you currently do or to something you have always  dreamt of doing. Wherever you go, whatever you do, the truth will go

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D:Day15.20 stones clean and washes others away. It changes the clear pool by  dredging up sediment that has settled on the bottom. As the clear

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C:14.19 to put into place. Still others are more coy in their design, and  dress it up to look like sacrifice and gifts given, but all with the

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E.9 will be for you. There is no one to turn out the lights but you.  Drift from knowing to unknowing, close your eyes, and you can
E.9 nothingness. You can experience non-being and in a similar fashion,  drift as gently and as your own desire arises, into all-being. Mainly
E.23 It will be possible for you, for a while, to  drift between being and becoming if you are not vigilant of your

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C:20.2 whose embrace you literally exist. Feel the gentleness and the love.  Drink in the safety and the rest. Close your eyes and begin to see

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T1:2.13 by this sight with one you love. It might be seen as you walk or  drive, rake leaves or gaze from an office window. It might be a
T2:9.13 what you consider progress? You need a means of disconnecting this  drive that has become instinctual to you. As a being existing in
T4:8.9 faster and faster—each being’s yearning, passionate, excessive  drive to fulfill its purpose, like a drive to explore the ocean
T4:8.9 yearning, passionate, excessive drive to fulfill its purpose, like a  drive to explore the ocean before knowing how to swim or the drive to
T4:8.9 like a drive to explore the ocean before knowing how to swim or the  drive to explore new lands while still believing the Earth to be flat
T4:12.23 The singular consciousness would act like a computer with a full  drive and reject the information or be overcome by it if such were
D:4.22 are called to turn away. If you are lured away from who you are by a  drive to succeed, if you fear doing what you want to do because you
D:Day3.29 covering over your fear of not having enough with an incessant  drive to prove it is not so.
D:Day17.4 What is the  drive that kept you reading this Course, caused you to enter this

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T4:1.23 matched your own. You may have seen the acts that this yearning has  driven them to and thought, incorrectly, that the new time that is

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C:5.24 This getting what you want that  drives your life is proven time and time again to not be what you
D:5.7 of truth. You have thought the things you do represent your  drives, but they simply represent what was given to help you remember

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C:4.8 acquiring, the need to own, the need to keep, the grasping call, the  driving force, the chosen passion—all these things that you have
C:5.24 happiness in what you seek! You continue living life as a test,  driving yourself to follow one accomplishment with another, sure that
C:15.1 two desires are? The desire to give and receive specialness is the  driving desire of your life, and the world you see but reflects this

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C:3.20 What else would you not let go when pain comes near, as a hand would  drop a burning ember? What other pain would you hold closely, a grief
C:5.32 part of everything. Every tree and every flower welcomed you. Every  drop of water seemed to refresh your soul, every breeze to carry you
D:Day37.27 separate, or at most as being “a” part of God—as if you are a  drop of water in the ocean—and in this example reemphasized the

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C:2.22 has not yet come. But the white flag of surrender has been waved and  dropped upon a hallowed ground where neutrality will for a short time

drudgery (2)

C:9.38 your eggs in one basket.” You seek to balance the things you label  drudgery and the things you label exciting. In doing so you see
C:28.7 of this as the time of work being done. This it is, but without the  drudgery of time spent. It is your time to shine, to be a light to

drugs (7)

C:9.44 our discussion here. Look at patterns of abuse, in everything from  drugs and alcohol to physical or emotional mistreatment. These, like
C:9.45 apparent. Again you would place the blame outside yourself and label  drugs, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and even food as destructive
C:10.21 after experiencing the oblivion of the separated self through  drugs, alcohol, or even constant work or shopping, they refuse to
C:17.6 Some of you have gotten married, had children, taken mind-altering  drugs, or attempted strenuous or even terrifying physical feats. But
C:17.6 there is to know about sleep and dreaming, being married, using  drugs, or having children; but even those of you who would listen to
T3:20.7 “thank God” for technology that would seem to offer hope, or for  drugs that would ease suffering, and you might pray that God spare
T4:9.3 go out in search of experiences of a mystical nature. You have tried  drugs or hypnosis, meditation or work with energy. You have read and

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C:9.7 The body could not help but be thus, as it was made with  dual purposes in mind. It was made to make real and then glorify a

dualism (1)

C:P.25 The way to overcome the  dualism that threatens even the most astute of learners is through

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C:30.7 the simplest truth of the identity of the Self no longer lives in a  dualistic position with God, but in a monistic state with Him. The
T2:4.10 a first step in our work with regard to calling is recognizing the  dualistic nature of your thoughts and feelings. A second step is
T3:2.5 the self and denigrate the self. These beliefs have shaped your  dualistic view of the world and all that exists with you within it.
T3:21.18 identity. This will cause your existence to seem to have more of a  dualistic nature for a short time while you carry observance forward
T3:22.12 will be. Linking the words creative and tension is caused by the  dualistic world in which you have lived, a world wherein a lag time
T3:22.13 place it in a separate category, a category that only exists in the  dualistic world of illusion where here and now is separate from what
D:7.10 who once could love spirit or mind, mind or body—because of the  dualistic nature associated with them—now can love all of your
D:Day27.8 it will become a trusted ability and, through practice, lose its  dualistic seeming nature and become as intrinsic to who you are as is
D:Day27.8 as intrinsic to who you are as is breathing. In this same way, the  dualistic seeming nature of all of life will be revealed to only seem
D:Day27.9 for the biggest revelations yet. All that is now seen as  dualistic in nature can be experienced as different levels of

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C:19.13 our reliance on the heart. Thought, as you know it, is an aspect of  duality. It cannot be otherwise in your separated state. You must
C:23.24 will only cause an increase in feelings generated by experiences of  duality. While you hold conflicting beliefs within you, you will be
T3:2.3 from and independent of God. Once this assumption was accepted, the  duality of your existence became paramount, became the only means you
T3:22.14 to the miracle. This is the very miracle that closes the door of  duality, and seals out the world where what is, is separated from
T3:22.15 any kind. The creative tension existed not only as a product of the  duality of time, but also as a product of distrust. It was a tension
D:3.5 could never do. You have it within your ability to mend the rift of  duality, a state that was necessary for the learning of the separated
D:3.5 you to your Self. In the same way, the mending of the rift of  duality will return the world to its Self. The mending of the rift of
D:3.5 will return the world to its Self. The mending of the rift of  duality was accomplished in you when you joined mind and heart and
D:3.6  Duality and contrast are synonymous. In the time of the Holy Spirit,
D:3.10 of these ideas have in common a quality of oneness. Oneness replaces  duality or contrast. You will be seeking now for replacements for
D:7.5 of unity and places you outside of time. In this state, no  duality exists. Doing and being are one.
D:Day15.24 to the practice of realizing and being able to accept a certain  duality. Without necessarily realizing it, your consciousness has
D:Day16.16 The expelled feelings that seemed to cause this  duality still exist in consciousness. Once these expelled feelings
D:Day17.10 full-scale interaction with the world, demonstrating the myth of  duality, the death of form, the resurrection of spirit. The way of
D:Day18.7 what you are now called to do. Whether you demonstrate the myth of  duality or the truth of union, you are demonstrating the same thing.
D:Day29.1 This is where we begin to really lose sight of concepts of  duality—where they cease to be real for us. Wholeness and
D:Day29.1 to participate in two levels of experience simultaneously and that  duality is really just a matter of different levels of experience. If
D:Day29.3 you in accomplishing the final joining, the joining that will end  duality and return you to wholeness—to who you truly are—in the
A.41 Divinity, is the dialogue of which we speak. It may seem to suggest  duality but it suggests relationship. The idea of unity and

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C:P.9 are among the creations of God cannot be disputed. Thus all glory is  due you. All glory is yours, and your efforts to protect it from the
C:3.10 to believe you are the effect and not the cause. This is partially  due to your concept of the mind. What you conceive it to be, it will
C:7.15 It is the ransom that you insist be paid, the homage you claim is  due, that without which you will withhold what you have. And you are
C:9.48 for the selfsame love that all are in search of. Judgment is not  due them, for all here are abusers—starting with their own selves.
C:11.1 against union and your lack of desire for instruction. This is  due to your confusion about your source. All of your fierce
C:17.9 is given. This willingness is what you do not offer. Yet this is  due to your lack of understanding about the nature of creation, and
C:19.17 only one of anything exists it is highly prized. God is thus “God”  due, at least in part, to what you view as His singularity. You view
C:26.9 Your mind can just not accept that happiness as well as meaning is  due you through no effort of your own. Scenes of your life play
T1:4.27 in Miracles told you that awe is the providence of God and not  due miracles or any other thing or being. I bring up this point to
T1:7.2 suffering rather than abolishing suffering. This acceptance is  due to the belief that spirit has chosen a form, and more accurately
T3:5.3 has led to a loss of self. You have been emptied by a loss of self  due to illness or addiction, depression, or even physical exhaustion.
T3:8.12 Could suffering really have gone on for countless ages simply  due to your inability to birth the idea of an end to suffering?
T3:16.15 heaven on earth, you can lay aside any fears that others will suffer  due to the changes your new Self will create. As you live with
T3:19.8 the love that is received following suffering, or that may arrive  due to the reason of some affliction, may be seen as lessons learned
T4:6.7 because they were unable to share Christ-consciousness directly  due to individual and collective choice.
T4:7.8 it is an educated choice, an enlightened choice, a free choice  due to the learning that has already occurred, the choice will be one
D:17.19 reverence. To revere is to feel awe, which, it has been stated, is  due nothing and no one but God. To move beyond desire to reverence is
D:Day3.9 and have nots and to function in the insane way that it does largely  due to this discrepancy.

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C:12.2 You feel a little  duped at being told love is the answer. You feel a little chastised
C:25.9 integrated the most basic teaching of this Course and no longer feel  duped by life. All of your contests of will are supported by your

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C:10.15 believe that I was the Son of God before I was born into human form,  during the time I existed in human form, and after I rose again? This
C:17.6 that it brings. Each of you has had the experience of dreaming  during the time of sleep. Some may claim they know everything there
C:19.12 left to you, the apostles did not, in fact, achieve this state  during my lifetime, for they looked at me as different and looked to
C:22.14 seem to imply an entry and exit point, the relationship developed  during the pass-through continues. Just as wind or water passing
C:24.4 ground before accomplishment is complete. The learning that occurs  during the time of tenderness is learning from love. No lessons
C:25.1 is thus our first lesson in learning how to be engaged in life  during the time of tenderness.
C:25.7 the practice of allowing giving and receiving to be one. It is,  during the time of tenderness, a true practice that, like vigilance,
C:25.8 is devoted, and of those for whom devotion is practiced, is useful  during the time of tenderness. It will lead to the understanding of
C:25.12 confirm a continuing belief in your separated and vulnerable state.  During the time of tenderness, you will learn, through the practice
C:25.13 by which to flirt with risk and danger. It is simply your reality.  During the time of tenderness you may feel vulnerable. But the time
C:25.20 sign, for it means the old identity is losing hold. Be patient  during this time, and your new identity will emerge. If the urge to
C:25.22 make decision-making and choices of all kinds appear to be difficult  during this time. You must realize decisions and choices are made by
T1:4.5 object to you, no effect is possible from the sunset. The sun, even  during the most blazing sunset, has at times remained no more than
T2:4.1 It is life beyond death as well as life before birth and life  during your time here. It is all one because it is all from the same
T3:11.6  During the time I spent on earth I did not dwell in the house of
T3:13.2 or a personal self. While you may still feel a connection to God  during such times, you will not be dwelling within the peace of God.
T3:17.5 the untrue can be learned, but this is exactly what has been learned  during the time of your experience in physical form. Since your true
T4:1.23 obscure. Some have yearned for a return to days not long past, days  during which distinctions between right and wrong did seem to be more
T4:1.25 For a short time, an overlap is occurring  during which those unable to allow themselves to become aware of the
T4:1.27 Let me repeat that  during the time of the Holy Spirit, some were able to come to know
T4:4.9 why this time is spoken of as the time of fullness. It is the time  during which you have within your awareness the ability to come into
T4:5.1 that I was the Son of God and more than a man before my birth,  during my lifetime and after my death and resurrection, so are you.
T4:7.2 consciousness of the spirit that was your intermediary. But just as  during the time of the Holy Spirit, your understanding of your Self
T4:7.2 and God grew through the indirect means that were available to you,  during the time of Christ, your understanding of your Self and God
T4:7.2 of the Holy Spirit the spirit was available to all as intermediary,  during the time of Christ, Christ-consciousness is available to all.
T4:7.3 things will now be as close to the surface of consciousness as was,  during the time of the Holy Spirit, the understanding that man is
T4:12.8 the separate state. All conditions that were intermediary in nature  during the time of learning, are, during the time of sharing,
T4:12.8 that were intermediary in nature during the time of learning, are,  during the time of sharing, naturally converted to direct experiences
T4:12.12 of learning was over and that it was time to move on to the next.  During the time of learning, this statement was consistent with
T4:12.12 time of learning, this statement was consistent with learned wisdom.  During the new time of sharing, there is no “next phase” of learning
T4:12.17 shall perish. I attempted to dislodge much of this learned wisdom  during my time on Earth and man is still puzzling over the meaning of
D:1.2 of God. In going forth with the vision of unity you become as I was  during life. You “receive” and you “give” from the well of the
D:1.10 floundered from this lack of identity. A person could literally die  during this time from lack of identity, lack of cause. To die to the
D:1.10 not through being identity-less. The reign of the ego began  during just such a time of identity-less-ness. You cannot go on in
D:4.2 not the same, you also are not different. The differences you saw  during the time of learning, differences that made you feel as if
D:4.11 I am quite confident that you have either seen and learned enough  during your time as a learning being that you accept that a divine
D:4.18 on why this has taken so long or on the suffering that occurred  during the time of learning. This would be like dwelling on the
D:6.2 thought reversal of which we recently spoke is why I bring this up.  During your time of learning, I used a method of comparison—I
D:11.13 of God. In going forth with the vision of unity you become as I was  during life. You do not think your way through life, but instead draw
D:14.5 would suggest beginning this exploration with simple questions posed  during the course of your normal life. Questions such as, “What might
D:17.2 The series build to a climax, to what,  during the time of evolution, might have been called evolutionary
D:Day2.21 with the appearance of my form in the world, but that mainly occur  during my time of maturity. These accounts do not stress the time of
D:Day3.12 that is behind all ideas of lack, an idea you so thoroughly learned  during the time of learning that letting it go, even now, still
D:Day4.34 this all about? Why have we gathered together here? It is said that  during my forty days and forty nights I meditated or prayed. It is
D:Day7.5 you always were supported, the idea of learning that you accepted  during the time of learning was not one of support but one of effort.
D:Day10.12 perfect vehicle for the realization of the elevated Self of form.  During this transformation, we work with what is as well as with the
D:Day10.32 measure called for now is the same extreme measure that I called for  during my life. It is the call to embrace your power.
D:Day15.24 While you have not been asked to remove yourself from life  during this time on the mountain, you have been asked to be here and
D:Day22.1 regards to channeling. Yesterday we spoke of teachers being channels  during the time of learning. It was also noted that you realize that
D:Day27.5 now will carry with you to level ground because you have practiced  during our mountain top time together the ability to experience on
D:Day28.2 stages of awareness, and we will speak here of those experienced  during the years of what is called adulthood, coming of age, or the
D:Day32.18 been used—such as the two levels of experience you have achieved  during the days and nights of our time together, be attempts to show
D:Day35.20 do so by simply being who you are being, just as you have “created”  during the time of your separation by being who you have thought
D:Day35.21 that you will create in unity and relationship much as you “created”  during the separation, your creation in unity and relationship will
A.28 and group members to be available to one another if at all possible  during this time, for what is being gained through experience is
A.31 individual group members away from inclinations, which may be strong  during this time, to “figure things out.” Problem solving is to be

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C:28.6 of celebration that comes before the quiet and the settling of the  dusk.

dust (5)

C:P.29 their teaching sit idly by while they earn their living until the  dust that has collected upon it obscures it from their sight. This is
C:10.10 yet your true desires, and the rewards you would choose here are as  dust to those you will become aware of as you proceed.
T3:7.7 of the explosion, the representation of the true Self settled like  dust, and all the attention fell upon it. A great scrambling ensued
T3:8.1 present condition and your brothers and sisters scrambling in the  dust. The work that is upon you now is that of replacing the house of
T3:16.16 one part go and soon all the remaining parts will crumble into the  dust from which they came. The cement that was used to hold together

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C:1.14 thinking that to do so you turn your back on responsibility and on  duty, thus counting this action as a noble one. This desire to engage
C:29.3 to this, as the idea of service in your society is one of enforced  duty, as exemplified by your military service. You have no notion, as
D:7.28 perhaps a school or library, certain restaurants or places of civic  duty or social engagement. You may expand this small territory you

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C:I.11 the heaven of the world. We replace bitterness with sweetness. We  dwell in the reality of the One Heart, creation’s birthplace,
C:11.4 your understanding as long as you remain willing for the ideas to  dwell within you, and you do not try to shut them out. Realize that
C:20.42 be other than who you are. You may know that this is true or you may  dwell in fantasies, desiring what another has or some success, fame,
T2:1.4 and you may find in this a somewhat peaceful resting place to  dwell in for a time. You may find that despite having learned much
T3:9.7 ideas. The Israelites believed in a Promised Land but they did not  dwell in it. You are called to dwell in the Promised Land, the House
T3:9.7 in a Promised Land but they did not dwell in it. You are called to  dwell in the Promised Land, the House of Truth.
T3:10.12 the House of Truth. You will not need to learn a foreign language to  dwell in this new house, but you will need to learn what will at
T3:10.14 of the Christ-Self that you but think you have forgotten. As you  dwell in the House of Truth, if you do not resist unlearning the ego
T3:11.6 During the time I spent on earth I did not  dwell in the house of illusion but in the House of Truth. What this
T3:14.3 It should be becoming clear to you by now that, although you  dwell in the house of the truth, you are capable of bringing with you
T3:14.5 but think you are discontent with much of your life. As you begin to  dwell in the House of Truth and see with the eyes of love, you will
T4:8.4 Let us  dwell again, for just a moment before we let this dwelling in the
T4:12.20 have no cause for self-doubt because you have no cause for fear. To  dwell in fear will end your ability to dwell within the love that is
T4:12.20 have no cause for fear. To dwell in fear will end your ability to  dwell within the love that is Christ-consciousness. As there is no
D:1.6 this new reality and, with this acceptance, the heart is freed to  dwell in the house of the Lord, the new world, the Kingdom that has
D:1.10 in. The ego is gone but the true Self has not been allowed as yet to  dwell within the personal self, thus elevating the personal self. You
D:1.14 the personal self who was separate and alone. I am my Christ Self. I  dwell in unity. My identity is certain. This is the truth. I am not
D:1.14 I was empty, I now am full. Where once I dwelt in darkness I now  dwell in the light. Where once I had forgotten Now I remember who I
D:4.18 you came to know your Self is all that learning was for. Let us not  dwell any longer on why this has taken so long or on the suffering
D:4.19 of structure here not as a thing—not as a building in which to  dwell or as a set of rules or instructions to follow in order to
D:7.28 home; or you may never travel far from the building in which you  dwell. What I ask you to do is to think of these areas as the
D:11.13 you something of the nature of who you are if you but let this idea  dwell within you and take up residence in your heart. We are the
D:Day4.50 of anger. You are called to accept and not look back, not to  dwell in any of the states through which you arrive at acceptance,
D:Day4.50 you are still depressed. When you hesitate you have not accepted but  dwell with the cause of your hesitation. When you accept you move on.
D:Day4.51 acceptance answer now as to what is stopping you. Do you choose to  dwell or to accept? All, all you cannot bring forward with you is

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C:6.19 everything and still be what it is: home to God’s beloved son and  dwelling place of God Himself? It is because God is not separate from
C:18.6 of a fall, as a curse, as a punishment from God, or as your home, a  dwelling place that keeps you separate, then you can begin to see it
T3:6.6 and bitterness itself behind. Bring bitterness no longer to the  dwelling place of Christ and we will seal the place of its entrance
T3:10.13 your Spanish to be forgotten. However, if you were to return to a  dwelling where those within it spoke only Spanish, soon your
T3:10.16 of the body as well. While your human form remains, you will be  dwelling among those in human form. While the house of illusion still
T3:11.3 words House of Truth represent an awareness of a new reality, a new  dwelling place.
T3:11.4 as used in the House of Truth does not represent a structure but a  dwelling place. The word house as used in the house of illusion does
T3:11.4 personal self from all that it would fear. The House of Truth is the  dwelling place of those who no longer live in fear and thus have no
T3:11.15 some time, be striving to remain aware even that you have changed  dwelling places. There is a reason for this time of varying degrees
T3:13.2 still feel a connection to God during such times, you will not be  dwelling within the peace of God. Your Self and God will be but
T3:14.2 be placed. A return to equanimity would soon prevail, for those  dwelling in the House of Truth would not long abide with such
T4:8.4 Let us dwell again, for just a moment before we let this  dwelling in the past go forever, on what has “gone wrong” with God’s
D:1.11 Help is here. Be what you have been called to be. Open your  dwelling place to your true Self, your true identity. Imagine this
D:4.18 that occurred during the time of learning. This would be like  dwelling on the inmate’s life as an inmate once he has been freed.

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C:4.10 reviewed and reviewed again all the pain that love has brought. It  dwells on those occasions when love has failed because it does not
C:7.1 person is if not for the unfairness of life,” you wail. Your mind  dwells in a world of its own made up largely of if onlys. Your heart,
D:1.13 Open your heart, for the one who  dwells there in union with all will emerge from this opening. What

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D:1.14 was, but more. Where once I was empty, I now am full. Where once I  dwelt in darkness I now dwell in the light. Where once I had
D:Day4.50 your Self, and abundance. But none of these things are meant to be  dwelt upon. The acceptance of abundance no more so than the
D:Day4.51 fear could not have separated you from truth and you would not have  dwelt in illusion. The relationship of union is what you are here

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C:6.12 the struggle and the challenge, the coming of the new day and the  dying of the old. How sad they have not had the opportunity to stand
C:6.17 to rest, too interested in living still to welcome the peace of  dying. Those who could not change the world one iota through their
C:20.48 the embrace, the view from love’s angle. It is the view of the  dying who realize nothing matters but love. This realization is not
C:30.7 from the belief in finite life, in being born into a body and  dying to the body. The person who knows, truly knows, the simplest
D:Day3.1 next step in the continuum upon which we travel. When a person is  dying, just as when a person is undergoing this final surrender,

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T3:4.5 only way for such an error to be seen as an error was through its  dysfunction.