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Comment by Lloyd on June 5, 2012 at 6:46am

Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists,herein lies the Peace of  God. Love & Blessings  Lloyd

Comment by Kurt Kopf on June 5, 2012 at 12:07am

"What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?" 

This was my first introduction to the course (indirectly of course) that melted my closed mindedness...

Comment by Kurt Kopf on June 5, 2012 at 12:02am

Thanks Dean, no coincidence I am reading the Guiltless World Chapter 13 right now. But My Real Favorite (how could I have just one) is:

"Ideational preoccupations with conceptual problems set up to be incapable of solution are another favorite ego device for impeding the strong-willed from real progress in learning".

This really shows me that the ego in all extremely over complicates as a purpose for distracting us from truth. And the no real solution can ever be found within the drama.

Comment by Dean Jackson on June 4, 2012 at 11:04pm

My favorite ACIM quote is: "Guilt is always, totally insane."  Here is something that I always share with audiences...

Einstein said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.  If that's insanity, what is it when you re-live something over and over again in your mind as if it will cause a different result?  I'd call that double insanity.  Well, if that's double insanity, what is it when you re-live something over and over again in your mind as if it will cause a different result, and you feel guilty about the result that's already been caused and you can do nothing about?  I'd call that totally insane.  Yes, guilt is always totally insane...

Comment by Christy Eller on June 4, 2012 at 10:08pm

Thank you Joe- this was obviously a needed group!!

Comment by Christy Eller on June 4, 2012 at 10:07pm

Saying #108 in The Gospel of Thomas grabbed me like lightning! Jesus says:

 "Whoever drinks from my mouth will become as I am; I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to him."

Comment by Joe Wolfe on June 4, 2012 at 8:49pm

"To everyone you meet during the day...strangers who pass you on the walkway, those seemingly suspicious whose glance is purposely redirected, to those of whom you care not to acknowledge,...to the downtrodden and the hopeless...to everyone, ...silently say I Love You."

Spirit hears, even if they don't. And you will have changed the world with you gift of authentic Love.

From Letter To A Prisoner by Joe Wolfe

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Comment by Patri on June 4, 2012 at 6:50pm

Favourite quotes: these very exact words from Song of Prayer, because they are so clear about the death of the body:

There is a kind of seeming death that has a different source. [...] It merely signifies the end has come for usefulness of body functioning[...] It is discarded as a choice, as one lays by a garment now outworn.

 

This is what death should be; a quiet choice, made joyfully and with a sense of peace, [...] the body has been kindly used to help the Son of God along the way he goes to God. We thank the body, [...] for all the service it has given us. [...]we are thankful, [...] the need is done to walk the world of limits, and to reach the Christ in hidden forms [...] clearly seen at most in lovely flashes. Now we can behold Him without blinders, in the light that we have learned to look upon again.

 

We call it death, but it is liberty[...] A gentle welcome to release. If there has been true healing, this can be the form in which death comes when it is time to rest a while from labor gladly done and gladly ended. Now we go in peace to freer air and gentler climate, where it is not hard to see the gifts we gave were saved for us.

 

[...]ready to depart in peace, the journey over and the lessons learned. This is not death according to the world, for death is cruel in its frightened eyes and takes the form of punishment for sin. [...] Death si reward and not a punishment. [...]such a viewpoint must be fostered by the healing that the world cannot conceive."

Comment by Shelagh Cosgrove on June 4, 2012 at 5:49pm

This quote seems to be at the very core of what ACIM means to me:

"How can you who are so holy suffer?  All your past except its beauty is gone, and nothing is left but a blessing.  I have saved all your kindnesses and every loving thought you ever had.  I have purified them of the errors that hid their light, and kept them for you in their own perfect radiance.  They are beyond destruction and beyond guilt.  They came from the Holy Spirit within you, and we know what God creates is eternal.  Hold it and share it, that it may always be ours.  I place the peace of God in your heart and in your hands, to hold and share.  The heart is pure to hold it and the hands are strong to give it. We cannot lose.  My judgment is as strong as the wisdom of God, in Whose Heart and Hands we have our being.  His quiet children are His blessed Sons.  The Thoughts of God are with you."

(T-5. IV.8)

Comment by Janine Cantin on June 4, 2012 at 4:44pm

Here is a single thought that, I believe, could change our life, our world:

What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?

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