Tuesday, October 8, 2013

A Course in Miracles Topic- Body

The body is a thought made manifest, and thus does not do anything on its own, only doing what mind tells it. 
Freedom must be impossible as long as you perceive a body as yourself. The body is a limit. Who would seek for freedom in a body looks for it where it can not be found. The mind can be made free when it no longer sees itself as in a body, firmly tied to it and sheltered by its presence.                    W-199.1:1-4. (Lesson #19- "I am not a body I am free.")
The body is the ego's home by its own election.  It is the only identification with which the ego feels safe, since the body's vulnerability is its own best argument that you cannot be of God.      T-4.V.4:1,2.  (see also: WB Lesson 201: “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.”) 
The body is merely part of your experience in the physical world. Its abilities can be and frequently are over evaluated.   T-2.IV.3:8,9.
 The body is endangered by the mind that hurts itself. The body suffers just in order that the mind will fail to see it is the victim of itself. The body's suffering is a mask the mind holds up to hide what really suffers.      W-76.5.
Learning must lead beyond the body to the re-establishment of the power of the mind in it.                     T-8.VII.12:6.



Monday, October 7, 2013

A Course in Miracles Topic - No Order of Difficulty

   The concept of no order of difficulties becomes easier to understand without the limits of time and space.
There is no order of difficulty in miracles. One is not "harder" or "bigger" than another. They are all the same. All expressions of love are maximal.         T-1.I.1,1-3. (Principles of Miracles)
   Within conventional reality:
The belief in order of difficulties is the basis for the world's perception. It rests on differences … M-8.1,1,2.
The body's eyes will continue to see differences. But the mind that has let itself be healed will no longer acknowledge them. ... understanding that only two categories are meaningful in sorting out the messages the mind receives from what appears to be the outside world. And of these two, but one is real. Just as reality is wholly real, apart from size and shape and time and place–for differences cannot exist within it–so too are illusions without distinctions. ... The one answer to all illusions is truth.         M-8.6,1,2,5-7,9.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Protection

 Protection is a favorite ego device to proclaim that God's Love is not real. Every reaction to a "threat " makes it real in your mind, and denies Truth.
 Light cannot enter darkness when a mind believes in darkness, and will not let it go. Truth does not struggle against ignorance, and love does not attack fear. What needs no protection does not defend itself. Defense is of your making. God knows it not.      T-14.VII.5:1-5.
Forget not, when you feel the need arise to be defensive about anything, you have identified yourself with an illusion. And therefore feel that you are weak because you are alone. This is the cost of all illusions. Not one but rests on the belief that you are separate.                          T-22.V.6:1-4.
Because their hearts are pure, the innocent defend true perception instead of defending themselves against it. Understanding the lesson of the Atonement they are without the wish to attack, and therefore they see truly.         T-3.II.5:8,9. 



Sunday, October 6, 2013

A Course in Miracles Topic - Joy


  Joy is the experience of Truth.

 The light that belongs to you is the light of joy. Radiance is not associated with sorrow. Joy calls forth an integrated willingness to share it, and promotes the mind's natural impulse to respond as one.    T-5.in.1:4-6.
You do not know your joy because you do not know your own Self-fullness. Exclude any part of the Kingdom from yourself and you are not whole. A split mind cannot perceive its fullness, and needs the miracle of its wholeness to dawn upon it and heal it.     T-7.IX.4:2-4.
Truth is the opposite of illusions because it offers joy. What else but joy could be the opposite of misery?... The search for joy in misery is senseless, ...All that is possible in the dark world of misery is to select some aspects out of it, see them as different, and define the difference as joy.
    Joy is eternal. You can be sure indeed that any seeming happiness that does not last is really fear. Joy does not turn to sorrow, for the eternal cannot change.  T-22.II.2:1,5,6/3:4-6.
[from a question in A Manual for Teachers: HOW SHOULD A TEACHER OF GOD SPEND HIS DAY.]There is one thought in particular that should be remembered throughout the day. It is a thought of pure joy; a thought of peace, a thought of limitless release, limitless because all things are freed within it. M-16.6:1,2.

Saturday, October 5, 2013

A Course in Miracles Topic - Quiet


The willingness to be quiet is a sign of an openness to receive.

You do not have to seek reality. It will seek you and find you when you meet its conditions.          T-8.IX.2:4,5. 
Learn to be quiet, for His Voice is heard in stillness.      M-15.2:12. 
The Voice for God is always quiet, because It speaks of peace.    T-5.II.7:7.
Learn to be quiet in the midst of turmoil, for quietness is the end of strife and this is the journey to peace.                T-12.II.5:5.
truth extends inward, where the idea of loss is meaningless and only increase is conceivable. Do you really think it strange that a world in which everything is backwards and upside down arose from this projection of error? It was inevitable. For truth brought to this could only remain within in quiet, and take no part in all the mad projection by which this world was made.                T-18.I.6:3-6.
The quiet light in which the Holy Spirit dwells within you is merely perfect openness, in which nothing is hidden and therefore nothing is fearful.    T-14.VI.2:1.


A Course in Miracles Topic - Enlightenment

   Trying to be aware of Truth, which is what you are, makes sense only to the deluded. Yet the person who believes himself to imprisoned needs help understanding that the door is open.
If they ask for enlightenment and accept it, their fears vanish.                      T-12.II.4:2.
If you want understanding and enlightenment you will learn it, because your decision to learn it is the decision to listen to the Teacher Who knows of light, and can therefore teach it to you. There is no limit on your learning because there is no limit on your mind. There is no limit on His teaching because He was created to teach. Understanding His function perfectly He fulfills it perfectly, because that is His joy and yours. T-8.III.1:4-7.
Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. W-188.1:1-4.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Effort

 A Course in Miracles is an actual course of study.  It uses a structured program to gently lead us to a willingness to fulfill the conditions of Truth and thus awaken. 

 You have exerted great effort to preserve what you made because it was not true. Therefore, you must now turn your effort against it. Only this can cancel out the need for effort. .. .       T-6.V.C.10:5,6.
The Holy Spirit teaches you to use what the ego has made, to teach the opposite of what the ego has "learned." The kind of learning is as irrelevant as is the particular ability that was applied to the learning. All you need do is make the effort to learn, for the Holy Spirit has a unified goal for the effort.     T-7.IV.3:3-5. 
The children of God are entitled to the perfect comfort that comes from perfect trust. ... the real means are already provided, and do not involve any effort at all on their part.   T-2.III.5:1,3. 

Friday, October 4, 2013

A Course in Miracles Topic - Faith

Truth calls for faith, and faith makes room for truth.    T-17.VII.9:4.
     Faith is like going down a ladder and trusting that the next step will hold you. Until you actually stand on it, you don't really know, and yet you can't get anywhere without trusting.         Faith is what allows the trust to be confirmed.


faith can be rewarded only in terms of the belief in which the faith was placed. Faith makes the power of belief, and where it is invested determines its reward. For faith is always given what is treasured, and what is treasured is returned to you.The world can give you only what you gave it, for being nothing but your own projection, it has no meaning apart from what you found in it and placed your faith in. Be faithful unto darkness and you will not see, because your faith will be rewarded as you gave it. You will accept your treasure ... Whatever you hold dear you think is yours. The power of your valuing will make it so.                   T-13.IX.2:4-6/3:1-5.
Have faith in only this one thing, and it will be sufficient: God wills you be in Heaven, and nothing can keep you from it, or it from you.   T-13.XI.7:1.
He asks for faith a little longer, even in bewilderment. For this will go, and you will see the justification for your faith emerge, to bring you shining conviction.                                    T-17.V.7.11,12.
Let truth be what it is. Do not intrude upon it, do not attack it, do not interrupt its coming. Let it encompass every situation and bring you peace. Not even faith is asked of you, for truth asks nothing. Let it enter, and it will call forth and secure for you the faith you need for peace. But rise you not against it, for against your opposition it cannot come.... What has been demonstrated has called for faith, and has been given it. ... The strain of refusing faith to truth is enormous, and far greater than you realize. But to answer truth with faith entails no strain at all.   T-17.VIII.2:2-7/3:5,7,8.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Need

  The wholeness of God's creations have no needs, but within the dream, seeing clearly what is, and what is not, necessary leads towards awakening. 
A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct. This sense of separation would never have arisen if you had not distorted your perception of truth, and had thus perceived yourself as lacking. The idea of order of needs arose because, having made this fundamental error, you had already fragmented yourself into levels with different needs.        T-1.VI.2.
Appetites are "getting" mechanisms, representing the ego's need to confirm itself.      T-4.II.7:5.
 When you make something to fill a perceived lack, you are tacitly implying that you believe in separation.            T-3.V.2:4.

The ego can accept the idea that return is necessary because . ... you can make the idea of return both necessary and difficult. Yet it is surely clear that the perfect need nothing, and you cannot experience perfection as a difficult accomplishment, because that is what you are.     T-6.II.11:1-4.
Your Self does not need salvation, but your mind needs to learn what salvation is.      T-11.IV.1:3.
You will be told all you need to know.       T-1.I.4:3.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

A Course in Miracles Topic - The Great Rays


      A Course in Miracles refers to the inner manifestation of Truth as "the Great Rays" - which have been reduced to a spark, when obscured by a belief in a body.
In many only the spark remains, for the Great Rays are obscured. Yet God has kept the spark alive so that the Rays can never be completely forgotten. If you but see the little spark you will learn of the greater light, for the Rays are there unseen. Perceiving the spark will heal, but knowing the light will create. Yet in the returning the little light must be acknowledged first, for the separation was a descent from magnitude to littleness. But the spark is still as pure as the Great Light, because it is the remaining call of creation. Put all your faith in it, and God Himself will answer you. T-10.IV.8
The cornerstone of God's creation is you, for His thought system is light. Remember the Rays that are there unseen. The more you approach the center of His thought system, the clearer the light becomes. The closer you come to the foundation of the ego's thought system, the darker and more obscure becomes the way. Yet even the little spark in your mind is enough to lighten it. Bring this light fearlessly with you, and bravely hold it up to the foundation of the ego's thought system.   T-11.in.3:2-7.
As the ego would limit your perception of your brothers to the body, so would the Holy Spirit release your vision and let you see the Great Rays shining from them, so unlimited that they reach to God. It is this shift to vision that is accomplished in the holy instant.     T-15.IX.1:1,2.
The little spark that holds the Great Rays within it is also visible, and this spark cannot be limited long to littleness.       T-16.VI.6:3.
You have found your brother, and you will light each other's way. And from this light will the Great Rays extend back into darkness and forward unto God, to shine away the past and so make room for His eternal Presence, in which everything is radiant in the light. T-18.III.8:6,7.
God's Son … . Within himself he has no needs, for light needs nothing but to shine in peace, and from itself to let the rays extend in quiet to infinity.       T-13.VII.13:5,7.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Valuable


    The world strives for things that rust and rot away, while Spirit knows that the only real value lies in what that can be given away.
God, Who encompasses all being, created beings who have everything individually, but who want to share it to increase their joy. Nothing real can be increased except by sharing.         T-4.VII.5:1,2.
It takes great learning both to realize and to accept the fact that the world has nothing to give    M-13.2:1.
Anything in this world that you believe is good and valuable and worth striving for can hurt you, and will do so. Not because it has the power to hurt, but just because you have denied it is but an illusion, and made it real.     T-26.VI.1:1,2.
[Workbook lesson 133:] “I will not value the valueless.”All things are valuable or valueless, worthy or not of being sought at all, entirely desirable or not worth the slightest effort to obtain            W-133.13:1.
  Now must the teacher of God understand that he did not really know what was valuable and what was valueless. All that he really learned so far was that he did not want the valueless, and that he did want the valuable. ... He must learn to lay all judgment aside, and ask only what he really wants in every circumstance.                       M-4.1.A.7:2,3,8.
Recognize what does not matter, and if your brothers ask you for something "outrageous," do it because it does not matter. ...  No "outrageous" requests can be made of one who recognizes what is valuable and wants to accept nothing else.                      T-12.III.4:1,2,4-8.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Victim


   The identity of being-a-victim is a favorite ego device for hiding responsibility for what is done within dreams. How could you be Co-Creator with God and yet have all these bad things happen to you? Who could blame you for what you have done compared with all the other sin within the World?
As long as you perceive the body as your reality, so long will you perceive yourself as lonely and deprived. And so long will you also perceive yourself as a victim of sacrifice, justified in sacrificing others.                                  T-15.XI.5:1,2.
Justice demands no sacrifice, for any sacrifice is made that sin may be preserved and kept. It is a payment offered for the cost of sin, but not the total cost. The rest is taken from another, to be laid beside your little payment, to "atone" for all that you would keep, and not give up. So is the victim seen as partly you, with someone else by far the greater part. And in the total cost, the greater his the less is yours. And justice, being blind, is satisfied by being paid, it matters not by whom.                   T-25.VIII.4:5-10.
[From Workbook lesson #32:]I have invented the world I see.” the theme of cause and effect. You are not the victim of the world you see because you invented it. You can give it up as easily as you made it up.                           W-32.1:1-3.
 ... He gives himself the consequences that he dreams he gave his brother. ... Thus does he fear his own attack, but sees it at another's hands. As victim, he is suffering from its effects, but not their cause. T-28.II.7:5,7,8.
[Workbook lesson #153:]In my defenselessness my safety lies.” you behold the Son of God as but a victim to attack by fantasies, by dreams, and by illusions he has made; yet helpless in their presence, needful only of defense by still more fantasies, and dreams by which illusions of his safety comfort him. W.153.5:5.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Vigilance

It is only because you have exerted so much effort in trying to make illusions true, that effort and vigilance are necessary to free yourself. 
It is only your awareness that needs protection, since being cannot be assailed. Yet a real sense of being cannot be yours while you are doubtful of what you are. This is why vigilance is essential. Doubts about being must not enter your mind, or you cannot know what you are with certainty. Certainty is of God for you. Vigilance is not necessary for truth, but it is necessary against illusions.            T-6.V.C.8:4-9.
Belief does not require vigilance unless it is conflicted. If it is, there are conflicting components within it that have led to a state of war, and vigilance has therefore become essential. Vigilance has no place in peace. It is necessary against beliefs that are not true, …                                         T-7.VI.7:3-6.
When you strive for anything in this world in the belief that it will bring you peace, you are belittling yourself and blinding yourself to glory. Littleness and glory are the choices open to your striving and your vigilance. You will always choose one at the expense of the other.                 T-15.III.1:6-8. 
Now you are merely asked that you pursue another goal with far less vigilance; with little effort and with little time, and with the power of God maintaining it, and promising success.    T-24.VI.12:1. 

A Course in Miracles Topic - Witness

What you witness is your interpretation of what you perceive. It is a choice which demonstrates what you believe to be true.
The world you see is but the idle witness that you were right. This witness is insane. You trained it in its testimony, and as it gave it back to you, you listened and convinced yourself that what it saw was true. You did this to yourself.     T-21.II.5:1-4.
 Perception is a choice and not a fact. ... For on the voice you choose to hear, and on the sights you choose to see, depends entirely your whole belief in what you are. Perception is a witness but to this, and never to reality. ...   Reality needs no cooperation from you to be itself. But your awareness of it needs your help, because it is your choice. Listen to what the ego says, and see what it directs you see, and it is sure that you will see yourself as tiny, vulnerable and afraid.    T-21.V.1:7,9-11/2:1-3.
Every brother you meet becomes a witness for Christ or for the ego, depending on what you perceive in him. Everyone convinces you of what you want to perceive, and of the reality of the kingdom you have chosen for your vigilance. Everything you perceive is a witness to the thought system you want to be true. Every brother has the power to release you, if you choose to be free. You cannot accept false witness of him unless you have evoked false witnesses against him. If he speaks not of Christ to you, you spoke not of Christ to him. You hear but your own voice, and if Christ speaks through you, you will hear Him. T-11.V.18:1-7.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Misperception

You may be surprised to hear how very different is reality from what you see.      T-18.I.5:1
 A Course in Miracles uses three terms to describe how we think we understand Truth: misperception, accurate perception and knowledge. Only knowledge is is congruent with Truth, which is outside the access of dreaming minds.                           Misperception keeps us stuck within the dream because we see a reason for attack where there is none. Accurate perception brings our vision into alignment with Truth, which allows awakening to be the next step.
perception must be straightened out before you can know anything. To know is to be certain. ... certainty is strength. Perception is temporary. As an attribute of the belief in space and time, it is subject to either fear or love. Misperceptions produce fear and true perceptions foster love, but neither brings certainty because all perception varies. That is why it is not knowledge. True perception is the basis for knowledge, but knowing is the affirmation of truth and beyond all perceptions.                       T-3.III.1:2-10.

I [Jesus] cannot unite your will with God's for you, but I can erase all misperceptions from your mind if you will bring it under my guidance. Only your misperceptions stand in your way. Without them your choice is certain. Sane perception induces sane choosing. I cannot choose for you, but I can help you make your own right choice.    T-3.IV.77-11.
[From Workbook for Students lesson #72:] “Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation.”
Holding grievances is an attempt to prove that God's plan for salvation will not work. Yet only His plan will work. By holding grievances, I am therefore excluding my only hope of salvation from my awareness. ...
I am choosing between misperception and salvation as I look on this.
If I see grounds for grievances in this, I will not see the grounds for my salvation.
This calls for salvation, not attack.
It cannot be emphasized too often that correcting perception is merely a temporary expedient. It is necessary only because misperception is a block to knowledge, while accurate perception is a steppingstone towards it. The whole value of right perception lies in the inevitable realization that all perception is unnecessary.    T-4.II.11:1-3.            [You may ask how this is possible as long as you appear to be living in this world. That is a reasonable question. You must be careful, however, that you really understand it. Who is the "you" who are living in this world?      T-4.II.11:5-8.]

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

A Course in Miracles Topic - Purification

The ego fears that the result of  purification, which is joy, means the end of its control.
   The ego is afraid of the spirit's joy, because once you have experienced it you will withdraw all protection from the ego, and become totally without investment in fear.          T-4.I.10:1.
    Purification is needed when loving thoughts (the only thing that can be shared), show the confusion of a split mind and include both loving and unloving thoughts. The Holy Spirit teaches us to how to remove the unloving part and thus be able to share them. 
Miracles are everyone's right, but purification is necessary first.    T1.I.7. (Principles of Miracles)
 Every loving thought held in any part of the Sonship belongs to every part. It is shared because it is loving. Sharing is God's way of creating, and also yours. ... Ideas of the spirit do not leave the mind that thinks them, nor can they conflict with each other. However, ideas of the ego can conflict because they occur at different levels and also include opposite thoughts at the same level. It is impossible to share opposing thoughts. You can share only the thoughts that are of God and that He keeps for you. And of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. The rest remains with you until the Holy Spirit has reinterpreted them in the light of the Kingdom, making them, too, worthy of being shared. When they have been sufficiently purified He lets you give them away. The decision to share them is their purification.                           T-5.IV.3:1-3,5-12.
In preparing for the holy instant, do not attempt to make yourself holy to be ready to receive it. That is but to confuse your role with God's. Atonement cannot come to those who think that they must first atone, but only to those who offer it nothing more than simple willingness to make way for it. Purification is of God alone, and therefore for you. Rather than seek to prepare yourself for Him, try to think thus:
I who am host to God am worthy of Him.
He Who established His dwelling place in me created it as He would have it be.
It is not needful that I make it ready for Him, but only that I do not interfere with His plan to restore to me my own awareness of my readiness, which is eternal.
I need add nothing to His plan. But to receive it, I must be willing not to substitute my own in place of it.              T-18.IV.5:4-13.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Patience


[From Manual for Teachers- What Are The Characteristics of God's Teachers, #VIII.] Patience: Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety. Patience is natural to the teacher of God. All he sees is certain outcome, at a time perhaps unknown to him as yet, but not in doubt. The time will be as right as is the answer. ... Patience is natural to those who trust. Sure of the ultimate interpretation of all things in time, no outcome already seen or yet to come can cause them fear.                   M-4.VIII.1:1-4,9,10.
Your patience with your brother is your patience with yourself. Is not a child of God worth patience?                    T-5.VI.11:4,5.
Now you must learn that only infinite patience produces immediate effects. This is the way in which time is exchanged for eternity. Infinite patience calls upon infinite love, and by producing results now it renders time unnecessary.                          T-5.VI.5:1-3.
One Teacher is in all minds and He teaches the same lesson to all. He always teaches you the inestimable worth of every Son of God, teaching it with infinite patience born of the infinite Love for which He speaks. Every attack is a call for His patience, since His patience can translate attack into blessing.                    T-VII.7:2-4.

Faith in the eternal is always justified, for the eternal is forever kind, infinite in its patience and wholly loving. It will accept you wholly, and give you peace. Yet it can unite only with what already is at peace in you, immortal as itself.       T-19.IV.B.10:1-3.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Guidance

   A Course in Miracles  assures us that we have an inner guide, The Holy Spirit, who knows our part in the Plan of Atonement:
His Voice will direct you very specifically. You will be told all you need to know. T-1.I.4:2,3.
 You do not understand how to overlook errors, or you would not make them. It would merely be further error to believe either that you do not make them, or that you can correct them without a Guide to correction. And if you do not follow this Guide, your errors will not be corrected. The plan is not yours because of your limited ideas about what you are. ... The way to undo them, therefore, is not of you but for you.    T-9.IV.2:2-4,6.
You have set up this strange situation so that it is impossible to escape from it without a Guide Who does know what your reality is. The purpose of this Guide is merely to remind you of what you want.                              T-9.I.3:5,6.
A guide does not control but he does direct, leaving it up to you to follow. T-1.III.4:6.  
The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. He is in the part of your mind that always speaks for the right choice, because He speaks for God.  T-5.II.8:1,2.
When your peace is threatened or disturbed in any way, say to yourself:    I do not know what anything, including this, means. And so I do not know how to respond to it. And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now.   By this refusal to attempt to teach yourself what you do not know, the Guide Whom God has given you will speak to you. He will take His rightful place in your awareness the instant you abandon it, and offer it to Him.                 T-14.XI.6:6-11.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

A Course in Miracles Topic - Hell

A Course in Miracles uses the metaphors of heaven and hell to contrast how the ego uses  fear to keep us imprisoned, compared with how Truth is experienced.   
The Holy Spirit teaches thus: There is no hell. Hell is only what the ego has made of the present. The belief in hell is what prevents you from understanding the present, because you are afraid of it. The Holy Spirit leads as steadily to Heaven as the ego drives to hell.         T-15.I.7:1-4.
... hell and oblivion are ideas that you made up, and you are bent on demonstrating their reality to establish yours. If their reality is questioned, you believe that yours is. For you believe that attack is your reality, and that your destruction is the final proof that you were right.
T-13,IV.2:3-5.
The ego teaches that Heaven is here and now because the future is hell. ...But the belief in guilt must lead to the belief in hell, and always does. The only way in which the ego allows the fear of hell to be experienced is to bring hell here, but always as a foretaste of the future. For no one who considers himself as deserving of hell can believe that punishment will end in peace.                           T-15.I.5:1,/6:1.5-7.
To everyone Heaven is completion. ... The Holy Spirit knows that completion lies first in union, and then in the extension of union. To the ego completion lies in triumph, and in the extension of the "victory" even to the final triumph over God. ... And therefore union, which is a condition in which the ego cannot interfere, must be hell.     T-16.V.5:1,4,5,8.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Littleness, Grandiosity and Grandeur

A Course in Miracles uses littleness and grandiosity to show alternate ways that the ego seeks to identify you. 
   It is like the wave thinking it is separate from the ocean; at one moment it is aware of the immensity of the ocean and its own "littleness", and at another, it is drunk with the idea of being equal to the ocean.
   A Course in Miracles reminds us that, as an extension of God, our true identity is one of magnitude and grandeur.

Be not content with littleness. ... Littleness is the offering you give yourself. You offer this in place of magnitude, and you accept it. ... When you strive for anything in this world in the belief that it will bring you peace, you are belittling yourself and blinding yourself to glory. Littleness and glory are the choices open to your striving and your vigilance. You will always choose one at the expense of the other.Yet what you do not realize, each time you choose, is that your choice is your evaluation of yourself. Choose littleness and you will not have peace, for you will have judged yourself unworthy of it. ... there is no form of littleness that can ever content you. For you will be content only in magnitude, which is your home.                     T-15.III.1:1,3,4,6-8/2:1,2,4,6.

    The ego depends solely on your willingness to tolerate it. If you are willing to look upon your grandeur you cannot despair, and therefore you cannot want the ego. Your grandeur is God's answer to the ego, because it is true. Littleness and grandeur cannot coexist, nor is it possible for them to alternate. Littleness and grandiosity can and must alternate, since both are untrue and are therefore on the same level.

    Truth and littleness are denials of each other because grandeur is truth.                        T-9.VIII.5:1-5/6:1.

A Course in Miracles Metaphor - Mirror


  The mirror represents what we see the in the world as being a reflection of our inner state.  
   A mirror is totally impartial - it does not judge what appears in it. It does not present Reality, as Reality has no image, but it does reflect a state of mind.
Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without. Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world. Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light.    W-73.5:1-4.
Teach no one that he is what you would not want to be. Your brother is the mirror in which you see the image of yourself as long as perception lasts. And perception will last until the Sonship knows itself as whole. You made perception and it must last as long as you want it.                    T-7.VII.3:8-11.
In this world you can become a spotless mirror, in which the Holiness of your Creator shines forth from you to all around you. You can reflect Heaven here. ... Earth can reflect Heaven or hell; God or the ego. You need but leave the mirror clean and clear of all the images of hidden darkness you have drawn upon it. God will shine upon it of Himself.   ... The reflection of God needs no interpretation. It is clear. Clean but the mirror, and the message that shines forth from what the mirror holds out for everyone to see, no one can fail to understand.                 T.14.IX.5:1,2,4-6/6:3-5.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Having and Being

 The world of the ego is concrete, while the world of Spirit is abstract. In one, giving is loss, or at least a kind of bargaining - giving something of a lesser value to get something deemed to better.
   To Spirit, giving is the only way that you get to have the experience.     

In the ego's language, "to have" and "to be" are different, but they are identical to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit knows that you both have everything and are everything. Any distinction in this respect is meaningful only when the idea of "getting," which implies a lack, has already been accepted. That is why we make no distinction between having the Kingdom of God and being the Kingdom of God.                                     T-4.III.9:4-7.
The first step in the reversal or undoing process is the undoing of the getting concept. Accordingly, the Holy Spirit's first lesson was "To have, give all to all." ... At this point, the equality of having and being is not yet perceived. Until it is, having appears to be the opposite of giving.            T-6.V.B.3:1,2,4,5.
To be in the Kingdom is merely to focus your full attention on it. As long as you believe you can attend to what is not true, you are accepting conflict as your choice. ... Reality is yours because you are reality. This is how having and being are ultimately reconciled, not in the Kingdom, but in your mind.       T-7.III.4:1,2,6,7.