review: Recognition,Accept,Condition

A Course in Miracles Topic - Sickness

  Sickness is the ego's proof that you are a body and cannot be like God

Miracles enable you to heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness and death yourself, and can therefore abolish both. T-1.I.24:2. 

The ego has a profound investment in sickness. If you are sick, how can you object to the ego's firm belief that you are not invulnerable?
   It is hard to perceive sickness as a false witness, ... .  ...those who want the ego are predisposed to defend it.    T-8.VIII.3:2,3/4:1,4.

A sick body does not make any sense. It could not make sense because sickness is not what the body is for. Sickness is meaningful only if ... the body is for attack, and that you are a body. Without these premises sickness is inconceivable.    Sickness is a way of demonstrating that you can be hurt. It is a witness to your frailty, your vulnerability, … .              T-8.VIII.5:5-8/6:1,2.

Perceive in sickness but another call for love, and offer your brother what he believes he cannot offer himself. Whatever the sickness, there is but one remedy. You will be made whole as you make whole, for to perceive in sickness the appeal for health is to recognize in hatred the call for love.       T-12.II.3:1-3.

All sickness comes from separation. When the separation is denied, it goes.     T-26.VIII.2:1.

Sickness is a defense against the truth. W-136.15:6.

Healing is accomplished the instant the sufferer no longer sees any value in pain. ... For sickness is an election; a decision. M-5.I.1:1,4.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Knowledge

"There is nothing partial about knowledge. Every aspect is whole, and therefore no aspect is separate."



 Knowledge is the complete oneness with Truth and God.

Knowledge is the result of revelation and induces only thought.   T-3.III.5:10

Knowledge comes from the altar within … .  T-3.III.5:12

… perception must be straightened out before you can know anything. To know is to be certain. ... Knowledge is power because it is certain, and certainty is strength. Perception is temporary. ... True perception is the basis for knowledge, but knowing is the affirmation of truth and beyond all perceptions.       T-3.III.1:2,5,6,10

Knowing is not open to interpretation. You may try to "interpret" meaning, but this is always open to error because it refers to the perception of meaning.                     T-3.V.5:1,2.

The end of the world is not its destruction, but its translation into Heaven. The reinterpretation of the world is the transfer of all perception to knowledge.                T-11.VIII.1:8,9

This course will lead to knowledge, but knowledge itself is still beyond the scope of our curriculum. Nor is there any need for us to try to speak of what must forever lie beyond words. T-18.IX.11:1,2

The very real difference between perception and knowledge becomes quite apparent if you consider this: There is nothing partial about knowledge. Every aspect is whole, and therefore no aspect is separate.                       T-13.VIII.2:1-3.

A Course in Miracles Topic - True

“The truth is true”. T-14.II.3,3

[the next line in ACIM is: Nothing else matters, nothing else is real, and everything beside it is not there.       T-14.II.3,4]

... the truth is very simple: All power is of God. What is not of Him has no power to do anything. T-11.V.3:5-7. 

The reason this course is simple is that truth is simple. Complexity is of the ego, and is nothing more than the ego's attempt to obscure the obvious. T-15.IV.6:1,2.

Complexity is not of God. How could it be, when all He knows is One? He knows of one creation, one reality, one truth and but one Son. Nothing conflicts with oneness. ...  The truth is simple; it is one, without an opposite. ... The truth makes no decisions, for there is nothing to decide between. T-26.III.1:1-4,8,10.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Defenses

In A Course in Miracles, defenses are but one part of attack, and a means by which the ego keeps the dream of separation in place.

God's teachers have learned how to be simple. They have no dreams that need defense against the truth. ... defenses are but foolish guardians of mad illusions. The more grotesque the dream, the fiercer and more powerful its defenses seem to be. Yet when the teacher of God finally agrees to look past them, he finds that nothing was there.... It is not danger that comes when defenses are laid down. It is safety. It is peace. It is joy. And it is God. M-4.VI.1:1,2,6,7,11-15. (Manuel for Teacher's – WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD'S TEACHERS? # VI. is Defenselessness)

Every response to the ego is a call to war, and war does deprive you of peace. Yet in this war there is no opponent. ... Those whom you perceive as opponents are part of your peace, which you are giving up by attacking them.          T-8.I.3:12,4.

Peace is the ego's greatest enemy because, according to its interpretation of reality, war is the guarantee of its survival. The ego becomes strong in strife.                             T-5.III.8:7,8.

The Holy Spirit undoes illusions without attacking them, because He cannot perceive them at all. They therefore do not exist for Him. He resolves the apparent conflict they engender by perceiving conflict as meaningless. ... The Holy Spirit does not want you to understand conflict; He wants you to realize that, because conflict is meaningless, it is not understandable.        T-7.VI.6:1-3,5.

...when you feel the need arise to be defensive about anything, you have identified yourself with an illusion.     T-22.V.6:1.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Judgment

   Maybe the hardest concept to understand is the idea that judgment, as the world sees it, is part of the problem; the solution is to give it up completely.

The choice to judge rather than to know is the cause of the loss of peace. Judgment is the process on which perception but not knowledge rests.... In the end it does not matter whether your judgment is right or wrong. Either way you are placing your belief in the unreal. This cannot be avoided in any type of judgment, because it implies the belief that reality is yours to select from.   T-3.VI.2:1,2,10-12.

God's teachers do not judge. To judge is to be dishonest, for to judge is to assume a position you do not have. Judgment without self-deception is impossible. ... Judgment implies a lack of trust, ...  No teacher of God can judge and hope to learn.           M-4.III.1:1-3,6,11.

It is possible to look on reality without judgment and merely know that it is there.               T-3.VI.9:6.

The holy instant is not an instant of creation, but of recognition. For recognition comes of vision and suspended judgment.   T-21.II.8:2,3.

Judgment is symbolic because beyond perception there is no judgment. ... The choice to judge rather than to know is the cause of the loss of peace.      T-3.VI.1:3/2:1.

The giving up of judgment, the ... prerequisite for hearing God's Voice ... Our curriculum trains for the relinquishment of judgment as the necessary condition of salvation.     M-9.2:4,7.

A Course in Miracles Topic - Giving,

Nothing real can be increased except by sharing T-4.VII.5:2.

   Giving, as seen by A Course in Miracles, is a means to keep something; and is seen by the world, as a way that something is lost.

God's laws are always fair and perfectly consistent. By giving you receive. But to receive is to accept, not to get. It is impossible not to have, but it is possible not to know you have. The recognition of having is the willingness for giving, and only by this willingness can you recognize what you have.          T-9.II.11,3-7.

LESSON 108: To give and to receive are one in truth ...Here are both giving and receiving seen as different aspects of one Thought whose truth does not depend on which is seen as first, nor which appears to be in second place. Here it is understood that both occur together, that the Thought remain complete. W.108.4:1,2.

To learn that giving and receiving are the same has special usefulness, because it can be tried so easily and seen as true.   W-108,6.1.

To spirit getting is meaningless and giving is all. Having everything, spirit holds everything by giving it, and thus creates as the Father created.    T-5.1.1:7,9.