Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well...It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. ACIM-W-188: 1:4-7
Lesson 186
We may think it arrogant to say, Salvation of the world depends on me, but we are taught in this lesson that it is true humility to utter those words and mean them. It is arrogant to think that we can have a Will other than God's. God entrusts us the ability to help save the world through our forgiveness. Arrogance is when we listen to the image of us that we created that is not real, an image that shifts in emotion constantly, that is fearful and helpless. This is not what God created us to be. We are assigned a very important role in His service to set the world free with Love and forgiveness.
Lesson 187
Here we are reminded that if we are to save the world, we must first accept salvation for ourselves. We do not lose when we give, we gain. Giving is proof of having. 187:1:2 Giving will increase what we possess. We must learn to decide what is illusion and what is real and protect that which is real. If we accept suffering for ourselves, others will suffer. If we seek freedom from suffering for ourselves , others will be free. when we offer forgiveness to another, we give it to ourselves,
Lesson 188
There is light in us that comes from our Source and it can not be lost...even though we do not believe it is there or that we lost or we seek it in the future when it is in us already. The peace of God is shining in you now, and from the heart extends around the world...what it gives must be eternal. 188:3:1,3 Once we recognize this peace within ourselves...and it is a recognizing and remembering...not a change. ...we cannot help but give it. Enlightenment is simply bringing our wandering thoughts that convince us we are something we are not back to this light within us, that is us.
Lesson 189
Once we feel the Love of God in us, we see the world differently: shining in innocence, alive in hope, and blessed with perfect charity and love. 189:1:6. It becomes a peace filled world in which forgiveness shines on everything. We have a choice to continue seeing teh world ego creates full of illusion, defense, attack and fear or the world the Love of God allows us to see. To see the world of Love we need to be still, empty our minds of preconceived ideas, notions, concepts...hold onto nothing...just fall back into that emptiness and spaciousness. The way to reach God is to simply let him be. We do not choose the way we go to Him but we chose the way we let Him come. We ask for God's Will. We ask and we receive.
Lesson 190
Pain is the wrong perspective. We are asked in a sense in this lesson to take on "right view" and to understand God is love not pain. Pain is a sign illusions reign in place of truth....If God is real, there is no pain. If pain is real, there is no God. 190:3:1-4 It is not the world or God that causes us pain...it is simply our thoughts.
Thoughts to close with:
It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in any way.190:5:1-2
Pain is illusion; joy, reality. Pain is but sleep; joy is awakening. Pain is deception; joy alone is truth. 190:10:4-6
All is well!
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