 reminder as we remember the truth of our being and we do that by forgiving the false which is just releasing all false beliefs, false thoughts, every false concept we've ever held in our mind we are ready to empty our mind of those things. All the mystics and saints have said you have to come to the present moment and you have to empty your mind. Empty your mind of everything you think you think and think you know. Empty your mind of every concept you have ever held of any one or anything. That means the whole cosmos of time and space. You empty your mind and make your altar clear for the remembrance of God's love. Why is it necessary to empty the mind? Well the mind that is filled up with concepts and beliefs of time and space has covered over its light and we are waking up to the light of truth. The I am presence. The I am presence prior to time so that's why we have to empty the mind of time to remember what is prior to time. I amness, beingness, joy, bliss, eternal bliss. This is the the experience of God. So we could say that in God I have my beginning. God is my source. In God I have my ending because in eternal love there is no ending. We can say we just want to come back to the source and the source is we could say spirit and spirit is all in all. There is no spot where God is not because there are no spots. That's the beauty of it is the all-encompassing nature of eternity cannot be shrunk down to a spot of time. A speck of time will never content our heart. So today I'd like to talk about going back to the beginning which I'm just going to say is God. God doesn't really have beginnings or endings but you could say that we'll just say that the beginning of our identity is God because God is the source. God is the Creator and everything that God creates lasts forever. I wouldn't even say lasts forever. It's eternal so it doesn't last. It just is forever. Spirit is forever. Love is forever. Joy is forever. Peace is forever. Happiness is forever. And I was listening to a YouTube video today from a Christian singer. The song was called Back to the Beginning and it was just going back bringing our faith and belief back to to God which is our source. So I thought today I would talk about coming back in the mind, back back back back back back back past the projections of the world. Back beyond before time and space. Coming back back back into our heart. Back into our mind. Back into our divine mind. Back into the heart of love. And as usual I will share some ideas from Jesus's beautiful teaching called A Course in Miracles and then in the end I will listen to a meditation from one of Slava's songs and the song that we're going to listen to today to to remember this is called Bring it Back. Bring your attention back. Go within. Bring it back. Bring your attention off of the world of images and go within. All the mystics and saints have gone deep within. There are reminders. There are witnesses of devotion to God and they go deep deep deep within. They're just reminding us to go deep within and remember the truth of our being. I'm also going to talk about humbleness today because the most humble state of mind is the state of mind where you accept yourself as God created you. So when you identify with spirit, that is humbleness. When you identify with anything of time and space, including the body, that is what I will call pride. And there's lots of things in the Bible about pride, idols, false idols. Hold no idols before the Lord thy God. What we can see is this is a world that was made by pride because pride is a synonym for the ego. So the ego and everything about the ego involves pride. The ego made the body and so everything that is perceived in terms of bodies and the goodness of bodies is really just taking a false construct something that God did not create. God did not create the body. The body is temporary. It's here and gone. It's very transitory. It's ephemeral. It will not last forever. It's born and seemingly born and dies. Those are just projections of time onto the image and it then comes out as the belief in birth, the belief in death. Not so. Actually, God is eternal and Christ is eternal and who I am is an eternal being. And because that's what happens when God creates a being, a being is eternal. In this world we get apples from apple trees. We get cherries from cherry trees. We get peaches from peach trees. We get pears from pear trees. Spirit comes from spirit and everything that's projected in time and space is a projection of the ego. So love accepts. The Holy Spirit accepts and the ego analyzes because the ego put all the pieces out there seemingly out there in the world. Not really out there, but it made a projected world in order to distract the mind from going within and knowing its reality as a perfect spirit creation of God. So pride always involves the ego because pride always involves the body. Even when you say, I'm proud of my skills and abilities, those skills and abilities are associated with a body. Even when you say, I'm proud of my children. Well, children in this world, of course, we know their bodies. I'm proud of my parents. I'm proud of my football team or baseball team. I'm proud of my history. I'm proud of my education. I'm proud of possessions. Proud about anything. Always, always, always involves the body. And the teachings of Jesus are really, I am not a body. I am free. I am as still as God created me. Nothing real can be threatened spirit. Nothing unreal exists. The body, the temporal world of time and space, herein lies the peace of God. It's a recognition of spirit. So when you open your heart and open your mind to wake up, you're really just praying to recognize the spirit. You're praying to recognize that I am presence prior to even the belief in time. Bring it back to the I am. Bring it back to the I am, meaning I am is sufficient. You don't have to put a concept or a false image or false identity after those words. I am is sufficient. If you want to put something else after I am, you say, please, let me have a few more words. I am as God created me. Okay, that's good. That single idea releases the mind from all guilt, from all shame, from all pain, from all suffering, from all pleasure. It really, it takes you back into pure presence. Pure presence. Pure I am presence. So today we're going to come back deep deep within and we're going to turn our attention inward to spirit, to the light of the world. We're going to let go of the pride. Pride is false humility. Pride is not true humbleness. True humility or true humbleness would be to accept yourself as God created you. Pride always involves the body and the associations with the body, including time and space, the environment that the body seems to live in and actually the whole thing is a construct that has nothing to do with anything. Shakespeare called this world much a do about nothing. Thank you Shakespeare. Thank you William Shakespeare for blessing us with that. Much a do about nothing. So let's start off today and I was going to start off with chapter three and in chapter three Jesus tells us your creation by God is the only foundation that cannot be shaken because the light is in it. Your starting point is truth and you must return to your beginning. Capital B, he's talking about God. Much has been seen since then but nothing has really happened. Your Christ self is still in peace even though your mind is in conflict. You have not yet gone back far enough and that is why you become so fearful. As you approach the beginning Capital B, you feel the fear of the destruction of your thought system upon you as if it were the fear of death. There is no death but there is a belief in death. So there it is you have not yet gone back far enough. We want to bring it back. Let's go all the way back to the Christ today. Let's go all the way back to the I am presence. Let's go all the way back to God. You can think of your mind as just having layers and layers and layers of false beliefs and false concepts and false thoughts and then you just let them all be peeled away by the Holy Spirit and then what you're left with is who you really are. Okay let's jump to let's jump to lesson one of these six in the workbook. It is pride that would deny the call for God himself. All false humility we lay aside today that we may listen to God's voice reveal to us what he would have us do. We do not doubt our adequacy for the function he will offer us. We will be certain only that he knows our strengths, our wisdom and our holiness and if he deems us worthy so we are. It is but arrogance that judges otherwise. And he says there is only one way and only one to be released from imprisonment. Your plan to prove the false is true has brought to you except the plan you did not make instead. So he's just saying accept the Holy Spirit's plan for you which is complete forgiveness or atonement and and be happy. Basically what he's saying. Okay then we'll jump to lesson 61 in the workbook. I am the light of the world. Who is the light of the world except God's Son? This then is merely a statement of the truth about yourself. It is the opposite of a statement of pride of arrogance or of self-deception. It does not describe the self concept you have made. It does not refer to any of the characteristics with which you have endowed your idols. It refers to you as you were created by God. It simply states the truth. Okay I am the light of the world means spirit is the light of the world. Means Christ is the light of the world. It means the I am presence is the light of the world and it doesn't involve the body. It doesn't involve pride. It doesn't involve any kind of arrogance of that's related to a self concept of time and space and bodies. I am the light of the world. That's bringing it back. Okay from chapter six the Holy Spirit who leads to God translates communication into being just as he ultimately translates perception into knowledge and to know who you truly are no God. You do not lose what you communicate. The ego uses the body for attack for pleasure and for pride. The insanity of this perception makes it a fearful one indeed. The Holy Spirit sees the body only as a means of communication and because communicating is sharing it becomes communion. So communion is communion with God. Communion in spirit. Communion is what Jesus was saying when he said the father and I are one. When Jesus says and of course the miracles I am as God created me that's the state of communion and we could say that communication leads to to communion. Basically communicating is sharing. It becomes communion as you share and share and share the love of God. You merge with that love and you see that you are that love and that actually love is all there is and that there is nothing else. The Beatles said all you need is love and and Jesus would say all I am is love. All I am is love. All I am is love. All I am is love. Love is all I am. Okay that's Jesus giving us a little retranslation of the Beatles which is wonderful actually. So let's go back now and let's let all this really sink in. Let's let this joy and happiness just be what it is because this is the I am presence. Yes we are going back back back back back back into our divine mind. We are going back into the heart of love. We are we are going back back into the memory of spirit the memory of spirit and the song from Spava today that will help us remember this through the day is called Bring It Back. So here we go. Go forth. Shine the light of the world. Shine the spirit today. Yeah. I am. I join you in this. I rejoice with you in this. God bless you. God loves you so.