Know that Life flows through you

Know that Life flows through you

Know that Life flows through you and cannot be hindered in Its expression. Know that the All Good is yours now. Act, think, believe, speak as though you were now all that you have ever dreamed. AND BE SURE THAT YOU BELIEVE THE SAME THING ABOUT ALL PEOPLE, FOR NONE OF US LIVES UNTO HIMSELF ALONE, BUT EACH LIVES UNTO ALL, WITHIN THE ONE LIFE.

Live constantly from this inner conviction, never stooping to anything less than the All Good; and you will soon discover that something is taking place that never took place before in your experience. DO NOT TRY TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN; SIMPLY KNOW THAT THEY ARE HAPPENING.

Daily realize your Unity with the Whole and the Unity of the Whole with you. YOU WILL SOON DEVELOP SUCH A POWERFUL PERSONALITY THAT ALL WHO COME IN CONTACT WITH YOU WILL WISH TO REMAIN IN YOUR PRESENCE.

The Science of Mind
Ernest Holmes

16-Point Summary of the Teaching of A Course in Miracles

16-Point Summary of the Teaching of A Course in Miracles

1. Our home is reality, Heaven, the Kingdom of God, a spiritual realm of pure oneness and boundless joy which can never be threatened.

• Since nothing real can be threatened, then the world is not real.
• Reality is formless, spaceless, timeless oneness, beyond all limitation, opposition and distinctions
• God is a Being of limitless, changeless Love Who is incapable of anger or attack.
• God extended Himself to create His Son, the Christ, Who is one with God and is the single Self of the Sonship.
• Extension is the dynamic of reality, in which reality timelessly extends itself and eternally increases.
• Reality is maximal; it is the supreme joy; it is absolute perfection.
• Reality is home, the longing of our hearts, the object of all our desires.
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2. We tried to attack reality, to separate from it, thus making a separate identity—the ego—and the world of space and time.

• We tried to separate, motivated by a desire to elevate ourselves above our brothers and above God.
• The ego is the belief behind the separation; it is our core self-concept which says we are separate, autonomous beings.
• When we tried to separate, we seemed to shatter reality into countless separate fragments.
• We made the world by selecting and organizing the fragments.
• The world we made is the diametric opposite of Heaven in every way.
• God did not make the world; we did.
• The ego has one need: to stay in business, to confirm itself, to reinforce its reality, to protect itself from God's Love.
• We made this world of separate places and different moments to confirm the ego by "proving" that separation is an objective reality.
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3. But the separation occurred only in our minds; in reality it never happened.

• The separation had no effect, for nothing can change the Will of God.
• We did not actually separate; we merely withdrew our awareness from reality into a private mental state.
• The world is not an objective reality; it is only a dream, a projection of our belief in separateness.
• We are not who we think we are; we are the Sons of God with amnesia.
• We are not here in this world or in these bodies. We are in Heaven dreaming that we are here.
• The instant the separation seemed to occur, God created the Holy Spirit, Who awakened us that same instant. We are now only reviewing a journey that is over.
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4. Yet we believed we had really done it. We thought we had sinned and had thereby thrown our happiness away forever.

• We thought that we had separated ourselves from all that we loved and consequently experienced a state of lack.
• We thought that we had sinned against God, that we had launched a real attack which caused real destruction.
• The result of sin was a massive sense of guilt, which we denied and so pushed into the unconscious.
• Guilt says that we deserve punishment. This belief is the source of all of our suffering.
• We project our belief that we deserve punishment onto God and so perceive a punitive, fearful God.
• Guilt, then, gives rise to fear, which really is the expectation of punishment. Fear is the dominant emotion of this world.
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5. We then projected the cause of our suffering onto the world, producing the illusion that it had sinned against us and had robbed us of our happiness.

• A law of mind is that mind causes its own experience.
• Projection is the dynamic whereby causation is thrown outward: what our mind has caused now seems thrust upon us from without.
• Projection is motivated by the desire to get rid of our guilt, but its deeper motivation is the desire to make us powerless to change our beliefs.
• Projection produces a world that seems to have enormous power over us.
• Through projection, our self-imposed pain appears to come from an attacking world.
• Our guilt, projected outward, has produced a punishing world.
• Our primary experience of this world is that it attacks us in manifold ways, that it has done us wrong, that it has taken our happiness from us.
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6. Our solution: acquire happiness by rearranging our external world.

• Our conscious self-image is "the face of innocence," that of a good self trying to make its way through an unjust world.
• We respond to the world's attacks by defending ourselves.
• We attempt to fill our needs with external things, situations, and events, based on the belief that we are inherently lacking.
• A major need we seek to satisfy is the need to feel innocent.
• Another major need is the need to feel special.
• In our search for happiness, the body is both a means and an end.
• The crowning gift we seek, which incorporates all of the other gifts, is special love.
• All of our seeking attempts to get something from the world, for which we generally must pay something back.
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7. Our search for happiness is actually an expression of resentment and a quest for vengeance on the past.

• Underneath our conscious face of innocence is the victim level, a place in us where we are enraged over what we think the world has done to us.
• The victim's primary perception is that other people are sinful.
• In this place we believe that past injustices have given us the right to resentment, restitution, and revenge.
• Our attempt to rearrange the world is based on anger, resentment, grievances.
• In our giving and in our suffering we constantly send the message, "I suffered because of you. Therefore, you owe me."
• We seek vengeance through subtle attempts to re-enact the past and reverse past "injustices" against us.
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8. Our "solution" is an attack and so, like the original problem, is an attack on ourselves.

• Beneath the victim level is the ego proper, which is pure, unprovoked attack.
• The victim level is an excuse to attack, produced by projecting our own attack outward.
• The ego promises that attack will get us safety and happiness. This simply tricks us into accumulating guilt, to which it is attracted.
• The ego promises that getting will fulfill us and defending will protect us. This tricks us into accumulating lack and vulnerability.
• The ego promises us joy through bodily pleasure. This tricks us into making separation real.
• The special relationship is the biggest false promise of all, the one that motivates us to pursue all of the ego's false promises.
• Through our normal daily activities the ego is carrying out its ancient attack on God.
• All that the ego does is really designed to attack us, kill us and send us to hell.
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9. We have lost touch with reality and so need the Holy Spirit's help to be restored to sanity.

• God created the Holy Spirit to bridge the gap in communication between Him and His children.
• The Holy Spirit's function is to heal our minds by leading us into a thought system that reflects reality. This is how He guides us home.
• The Holy Spirit bridges the distance between reality and illusion. By seeing our illusions in light of reality, He places them in true perspective.
• All that we made for ego He takes and uses for our awakening.
• We accept Him as our Teacher by resigning as our own teacher.
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10. The Holy Spirit's message is that we never sinned, never changed ourselves. We need only change our minds.

• The guilt and pain produced by the ego is stored in an unconscious level of mind which also contains our call for God's Love and help.
• The Holy Spirit's answer to our guilt is that we did not do it, that we are still as God created us, because the separation never occurred.
• The journey home is an illusion. We need not purify ourselves or make sacrifices. Instead, we can wake up at any time we choose.
• The holy instant is a moment when this is realized, applied, a moment of doing nothing.
• The miracle is a free deliverance from the imprisonment of the human condition. It is our right, because we never sinned.
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11. Changing our minds means allowing the Holy Spirit to heal our perception.

• To awaken in Heaven all we need is a change of perception.
• Projection makes perception.
• Step one: Identify the cause of your pain as your own perception, and bring this illusion to the light of truth.
• Step two: Let go of your perception; have a little willingness for the Holy Spirit to remove it and replace it with truth.
• Step three: The Holy Spirit will replace your perception with His; He will give your mind a miracle.
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12. We heal our perception by forgiving the world for what it did not do.

• Forgiveness is the answer to our separated condition.
• Forgiveness is the Course's unique and original message, yet is also the heart of the Holy Spirit's message to humanity.
• Conventional forgiveness, in which we forgive another for his sin against us, is not real forgiveness.
• Real forgiveness is a shift in perception, in which we let go of the perception that a sin occurred.
• The Course's thought system is one big rationale for the idea that sin is unreal and that forgiveness is justified.
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13. Extending forgiveness to others reveals to us that we too are forgiven. This becomes our one function.

• Forgiveness releases us from our fixation on our separate self and allows our love to flow out to the world.
• We first allow forgiving perception into our minds and then extend this perception to others.
• Extending forgiveness to others heals them in mind and body. This is the main sense of the word "miracle."
• Extending forgiveness to others is a psychological device for convincing us of our own innocence.
• Extension will become our only function. The Holy Spirit will give us a special form of this called our special function.
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14. Forgiveness also undoes the blocks that separate us from others, allowing us to experience the fact that we are one.

• Forgiveness wipes away that which maintains our sense of separateness from others.
• Forgiveness looks past differences and reveals our underlying sameness.
• The holy relationship is a gradual reversal of the special relationship, in which two people slowly realize their sameness.
• When two or more people join in a truly common goal, holiness enters the relationship at a deep level and makes it a holy relationship.
• The relationship will go on a journey, as the holiness that entered it slowly rises and transforms the relationship.
• As the relationship's holiness rises to the surface, it will then reach out beyond the two people. They will be given a joint special function.
• The journey to God is not a lonely journey. Through joining with others we discover our own wholeness and clear the way for uniting with God.
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15. With forgiveness as our practice, we journey toward the goal of true perception.

• True perception is a different mode of perception which looks past bodies to the light of Christ in everyone and everything.
• True perception looks on the real world, which is composed of the holiness in all minds and the loving thoughts in those minds.
• Looking with true perception on the real world is the happiest experience we can have here. It is the goal of the spiritual journey.
• The spiritual journey is the gradual making of a single choice, which slowly restores us to our right mind.
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16. When we and the entire world have attained true perception, God Himself will take the final step and lift us home.

• Eventually, we will collectively devote ourselves to applying forgiveness and returning home.
• The Second Coming of Christ is when the world collectively awakens to the Christ, the Self we share.
• The Last Judgment is a process by which we judge all past thoughts and retain only the pure.
• When we are perfectly healed we are ready for God to take the final step. In that step we remember God and our true Identity. 
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 Robert Perry

I Am He, Three

I Am He, Three

Take your attention from your present conception of yourself and place it on that ideal of yours, the ideal you had heretofore thought beyond your reach. Claim yourself to be your ideal, not as something that you will be in time but as that which you are in the immediate present. Do this, and your present world of limitations will disintegrate as your claim rises like the phoenix from its ashes.

“Be not afraid, nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.” You do not fight against your problem; your problem will only live as long as you are conscious of it. Take your attention away your problem and the multitude of reasons why you cannot achieve your ideal. Concentrate your attention entirely upon the thing desired.

“I AM the lord.” I AM (your consciousness) is the lord. The consciousness that the thing is done, that the work is finished, is the Lord of any situation. Listen carefully to the promise, “Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: Set yourself, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord within you.”

Remember the reward is to the one who endures. Stand still. Standing still is the deep conviction that all is well; it is done. No matter what is heard or seen, you remain unmoved, conscious of being victorious in the end. All things are made by such agreements, and without such an agreement there is not anything made that is made. “I AM that I AM.”

All that is required of you who seek a change is to rise to a level of that which you desire; without dwelling upon the manner of expression, record that it is done by feeling the naturalness of being it.

Go to the end of that which you seek; witness the happy end of it by consciously feeling you express and possess that which you desire to express and possess; and you, through faith, already understanding the end, will have confidence born of this knowledge.


Your Faith is your Fortune
Neville Goddard

I Am He, Two

I Am He, Two

Be still and know that you are. This stillness is attained by observing the observer. Repeat quietly but with feeling, “I AM – I AM,” until you have lost all consciousness of the world and know yourself just as being. Awareness, the knowing that you are, is Almighty God; I AM. After this is accomplished define yourself as that which you desire to be by feeling yourself to be the thing desired: I AM that. This understanding that you are the thing desired will cause a thrill to course through your entire being.

It does not matter what the appearances round about you are like. All things make way for the coming of the Lord. I AM the lord coming in the appearance of that which I am conscious of being.

“I AM the light of the world,” crystallizing into the form of my conception of myself. Consciousness is the eternal light which crystallizes only through the medium of your conception of yourself. Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.

Now you will realize why Jesus sanctified Himself instead of others, why to the pure all things are pure, why in Christ Jesus (the awakened consciousness) there is no condemnation. Awake from the sleep of condemnation and prove the principle of life. Stop not only your judgement of others but your condemnation of yourself.

You do not need to work out anything. The works are finished. The principle by which all things are made and without which there is not anything made that is made is eternal. You are this principle. Your awareness of being is this everlasting law. You have never expressed anything that you were not aware of being and you never will. Assume the consciousness of that which you desire to express. Claim it until it becomes a natural manifestation. Feel it and live within that feeling until you make it uour nature.

Stop asking yourself whether or not you are worthy or unworthy to claim yourself to be that which you desire to be. You will be condemned by the world only as long as you condemn yourself.


Your Faith is your Fortune
Neville Goddard

I Am He

I Am He

Man, not knowing that his world is his individual consciousness out pictured, vainly strives to conform to the opinion of others rather than to conform to the one and only opinion existent, namely, his own judgement of himself.

When Jesus discovered His consciousness to be this wonderful law of self-government He declared, “And now I sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified through the truth.” He knew that consciousness was the only reality, that things objectified were nothing more than different states of consciousness. Jesus knew that man’ consciousness was the truth or cause of all that man saw his world to be.

He realized that the world was made in the likeness of man. He knew that man saw his world to be what it was because man was what he was. In short, man’s conception of himself determines that which he sees his world to be.

Not only are all things made by God, all things are made of God (energy, from the Maya of Science, or if you will…consciousness). God is one. Things or divisions are the projections of the one. God being one, He must command Himself to be the seeming other for there is no other. The absolute cannot contain something within itself that is  not itself. If it did, then it would not be absolute, the only one. Commands to be effective must be to oneself. “I AM that I AM” is the only effective command. “I AM the lord and beside me there is none else.” You cannot command that which is not. And there is no other, you must command yourself to be that which you would have appear.


Your Faith is your Fortune
Neville Goddard

Who Am I? Three

Who Am I? Three

To be conscious of being or possessing anything is to be or have that which you are conscious of being or possessing. Therefore, lift yourself to the consciousness of your desire and you will see it automatically outpicture itself.

To do this you must deny your present identity.”Let him deny himself.” You deny a thing by taking your attention away from it. To drop a thing, problem or ego from consciousness you dwell upon God – God being I AM.

Be still and know that I AM is God. Believe, feel that I AM; know that this knowing one within you, your awareness of being, is God. Close your eyes and feel yourself to be faceless, formless and without figure. Approach this stillness as though it were the easiest thing in the world to accomplish.

When all thought of problem or self is dropped from consciousness because you are now absorbed or lost in the feeling of just being I AM, then begin in this formless state to feel yourself to be that which you desire to be, “I AM that I AM.”

The moment you reach a certain degree of intensity so that you actually feel yourself to be a new conception, this new feeling or consciousness is established and in due time will personify itself in the world of form. This new perception will express itself as naturally as you now express your present identity. To express the qualities of a consciousness naturally you must dwell or live within that consciousness. Appropriate it by becoming one with it. To feel a thing, and then rest confidently that it is, makes the thing felt appear within your world.

Remember heaven is your consciousness; the Kingdom of Heaven is within you...Your consciousness is the Father of all that you are.

Go within secretly and appropriate the new consciousness. Feel yourself to be it, and the former limitations shall pass away...This is new consciousness is nothing more than moving from one state of consciousness to another.


Your Faith is your Fortune
Neville Goddard

Who Am I? Two

Who Am I? Two

The I AM (your consciousness) is the only door through which anything can pass into your world. Stop looking for signs. Signs follow; they do not precede. Begin to reverse the statement, “Seeing is believing,” to “Believing is seeing.” Start now to believe, not with the wavering confidence based on deceptive external evidence but with an undaunted confidence based on the immutable law that you can be that which you desire to be. You will find that you are not a victim of fate but a victim of faith (your own).

Only through one door can that which you seek pass into the world of manifestation. I AM the door, Your consciousness is the door, so you must become conscious of being and having that which you desire to be and to have…Before anything appears, God, I AM, feels itself to be the thing desired; and then the thing felt appears. It is resurrected, lifted out of the nothingness.

I AM wealthy, poor, healthy, sick, free, confined were first of all impressions or conditions felt before they became visible expressions. Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself.

I AM he. Right now I am overshadowing you, the reader, my living temple, with my presence, urging upon you a new expression. Your desires are my spoken words. My words are spirit and they are true and they shall not return unto me void but shall accomplish where unto they are sent…

Just how my words, your desires, will be fulfilled is not your concern. My words have a way ye know not of. Their ways are past finding out. All that is required of you is to believe...All things are possible to him who believes. Make the impossible possible through your belief; and the impossible (to others) will embody itself in your world.

All men have had proof of the power of faith. The faith that moves mountains is faith in yourself. No man has faith in God who lacks confidence in himself. Your faith in God is measured by your confidence in yourself. I and my Father are one, man and his God are one, consciousness and manifestation are one.


Your Faith is your Fortune
Neville Goddard