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Lesson 196 ~ A Course in Miracles ~ Zoom Call Video: It can be but myself I crucify.
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Subjects Discussed: 1 – You are responsible for how you define your experience and thus the thoughts you think and focus on. You can thus heal yourself or punish yourself. 2 – You “crucify” yourself when you are using the ego’s tools and mindset. Judgment, anger, vengance are all ego tools. 3 – Being all One , what you do to another you will experience yourself. 4 – See all your brothers through the lens of mercy and grace, this will protect you from poisoning yourself. Even those who have passed away. 5 – Relationships don’t end, they just change forms. 6 – Stop supporting thoughts that don’t support your peace of mind and joy. 7 – If you can’t not forgive someone, don’t punish yourself for this, simply ask God to forgive them for you. 8 – Forgive another so that you can be set free. 9 – If you deny love to another you withhold it from yourself. 10 – Judgment holds you in bondage to the ego’s rules, mindset and world. 11 – Remind yourself in any situation: “I can choose peace instead of this.” 12 – Look past the body, see and focus on only on the eternal in everyone/their soul. Practice focusing on the eternal, not the temporal. 13 – When in doubt or lacking peace: Ask for help. Invite the Holy Spirit in and ask for help and guidance. 14 – Stop fueling thoughts with your time, focus and energy that don’t support you or your peace of mind and joy. 15 – All you need is a little willingness. 16 – No matter what the ego’s story/level of drama is, remember: “I can choose peace instead of this.” 17 – In each moment you, through free will, can choose and lead yourself to heaven or hell, to the heavenly mindset or to the hellish mindset. 18 – The ego says that because others have separate bodies, therefore you can judge them and not hurt yourself – this is, because we are all One, just another of the ego’s lies. 19 – The ego tries to make hell seem natural and normal. 20 – In each moment and interaction you were created by God to be a light in the world. 21 – Always do the opposite of what the ego demands, for the ego’s “advise” is always just a doorway that leads you to the hellish mindset. 22 – God does not forgive because He has never judged. 23 – Practice taking personal responsibility for how you are defining your experience. It is the thoughts you choose to think that leads you to heaven or hell, peace or pain. 24 – Never despair, for you can always undo what you have done. 25 – When your thoughts are align with your true loving nature it is the truth in you who is in control of your thoughts, and thus mind and life. 26 – You can only be hurt by your own thoughts. This is good news cause the power resides within you, not “out there”. 27 – If you choose with the ego you are choosing against God. 28 – When you blame the outer world you give your power away to it. 29 – “Your” thoughts do not come from “nowhere”, they are inspired by the darkness or the Light. 30 – Proclamations for healing verses in the Bible. 31 – God/Perfection only creates perfect, and you and all your brothers and sister are His creation. 32 – Salvation is available in each moment and interaction, just choose in alignment with the mind of God. 33 – Your stories/the ego’s stories will not/never save you. 34 – Return to the Holy Instant, where the peace and joy of God forever reside.
Lesson 196
It can be but myself I crucify.
1. When this is firmly understood and kept in full awareness, you will not attempt to harm yourself, nor make your body slave to vengeance…
2. Perhaps at first you will not understand how mercy, limitless and with all things held in its sure protection, can be found in the idea we practice for today…
3. Thus do you also teach your mind that you are not an ego…
4. Today’s idea is one step we take in leading us from bondage to the state of perfect freedom…
5. The dreary, hopeless thought that you can make attacks on others and escape yourself has nailed you to the cross…
6. Such is the form of madness you believe, if you accept the fearful thought you can attack another and be free yourself…
7. To question it at all, its form must first be changed at least as much as will permit fear of retaliation to abate, and the responsibility returned to some extent to you…
8. Our next steps will be easy, if you take this one today…
9. Salvation’s song can certainly be heard in the idea we practice for today…
10. There is an instant in which terror seems to grip your mind so wholly that escape appears quite hopeless…
11. Now, for an instant, is a murderer perceived within you, eager for your death, intent on plotting punishment for you until the time when it can kill at last…
12. There is no Thought of God that does not go with you to help you reach that instant, and to go beyond it quickly, surely and forever…
