 Hi, everyone. Welcome again to our ACIM, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson of the Day live. And today we're going to go through Workbook Lesson 131. No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. Failure is all about you while you seek for goals that cannot be achieved. You look for permanence in the impermanent, or love where there is none, or safety in the midst of danger, immortality within the darkness of the dream of death. Who could succeed where contradiction is the setting of his searching and the place to which he comes to find stability? Goals that are meaningless are not attained. There is no way to reach them for the means by which you strive for them are meaningless as they are. Who can use such senseless means and hope through them to gain in anything? Where can they lead? And what could they achieve that offers any hope of being real? Pursuit of the imagined leads to death because it is the search for nothingness. And while you seek for life, you ask for death. You look for safety and security while in your heart you pray for danger and protection with a little dream you made. Yet searching is inevitable here. You search for what you came and you will surely do the thing you came for. But the world cannot dictate the goal for which you search unless you give it the power to do so. Otherwise, you still are free to choose a goal that lies beyond the world and every worldly thought and one that comes to you from an idea relinquished yet remembered, yet new, an echo of heritage forgot yet holding everything you really want. Be glad that search you must. Be glad as well to learn you search for heaven and must find the goal you really want. No one can fail to want this goal and reach it in the end. God's son cannot seek vainly, though he tried to force delay to see himself and think that it is hell that he seeks. When he is wrong, he finds correction. When he wanders off, he is led back to his appointed task. No one remains in hell for no one can abandon his creator nor affect his perfect timeless and unchanging love. You will find heaven. Everything you seek but this will fall away. Yet not because it has been taken from you. It will go because you do not want it. You will reach the goal you really want as certainly as God created you in sinlessness. Why wait for heaven? It is here today. Time is the great illusion. It is past or in the future. Yet this cannot be if it is where God wills his son to be. How could the will of God be in the past or yet to happen? What he wills is now without the past and holy futureless. It is far removed from time as is a tiny candle from a distant star or what you chose from what you really want. Heaven remains your one alternative to this strange world you made in all its ways. It's shifting patterns and uncertain goals. It's painful pleasures and it's tragic joys. God made no contradictions. What denies its own existence and attacks itself is not of him. He did not make two minds with heaven as the glad effect of one and earth as the other story outcome which is heaven's opposite in every way. God does not suffer conflict nor is his creation split in two. How could it be his son could be in hell and God himself to establish him in heaven? Could he lose what the eternal will has given him to be his home forever? Let us not try longer to impose an alien will upon God's single purpose. He is here because he wills to be and what he wills is present now beyond the reach of time. Today we will not choose a paradox in place of truth. How could the son of God make time to take away the will of God? He thus denies himself and contradicts what has no opposite. He thinks he made a hell opposing heaven and believes that he abides in what does not exist while heaven is the place he cannot find. Leave foolish thoughts like these behind today and turn your mind to true ideas instead. No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth and it is truth we seek to reach today. We will devote 10 minutes to this goal three times today and we will ask to see the rising of the real world to replace the foolish images that we hold dear. With true ideas arising in the place of thoughts that have no meaning, no effect and neither source nor substance in the truth. This we acknowledge as we start upon our practice periods. Begin with this. I ask to see a different world and think a different kind of thought from those I made. The world I seek, I did not make alone, the thoughts I want to think are not my own. For several minutes, watch your mind and see, although your eyes are closed, the senseless world you think is real. Review the thoughts as well which are compatible with such a world and which you think are true. Then, let them go and think below them to the holy place where they can enter not. There is a door beneath them in your mind, which you could not completely lock to hide what lies beyond. Now seek for that door and find it. But before you try to open it, remind yourself no one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. And it is this request you make today. Nothing but this has any meaning now. No other goal is valued now nor thought. Nothing before this door you really want and only why what lies past it do you seek. Put out your hand and see how easily the door swings open with your one intent to go beyond it. Angels light the way so that all darkness vanishes and you are standing in a light so bright and clear that you can understand all things you see. A tiny moment of surprise perhaps will make you pause before you realize the world you see before you in the light reflects the truth you knew and did not quite forget in wandering away in dreams. You cannot fail today. There walks with you the spirit heaven sent you that you might approach this door someday and through his aid slipped effortlessly past it to the light. Today that day has come. Today God keeps his ancient promise to his holy son and does his son remember his to him. This is a day of gladness for we come to the appointed time and place where you will find the goal of all your searching here. And all the seeking of the world, which end together as you pass beyond the door. Remember often that today should be a time of special gladness and refrain from dismal thoughts and meaningless laments salvation's time has come. Today is set by heaven itself to be a time of grace for you and for the world. If you forget this happy fact, remind yourself with this today I seek and find all that I want. Every single purpose offers it to me. No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. So today all tiny thoughts dissolve and disappear. And in certainty and sureness. We relax into no one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. I thought I would add to this beautiful lesson. I would add a little text message from the text chapter nine. And this section of the text also addresses the, the concept of failure. So here we have Jesus in our workbook lesson 131 saying no one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. In other words, if you truly seek to know God, you cannot fail, it is your destiny. You cannot escape who would want to escape perfect happiness. So the will of God, it cannot fail to know the will of God. And so the concept of failure seems to apply to the concepts of the world. And that's where success and failure are measured in terms of outcomes. And what Jesus is teaching us is no, come in to the kingdom of heaven and you will not have the need for an help come. Because you won't come out of your mind, you'll stay in your divine mind and recognize the truth. Chapter nine section two is titled the answer to prayer. And prayer is a good topic that relates to the workbook lesson because oftentimes when people pray, they do experience a sense of failure or a sense of not hearing an answer to their prayer. Or of not perceiving something in the world that seems to be an answer to the prayer. And then sometimes they feel like they have failed in the prayer or that God has failed in the prayer. But we are going to be told and shown God doesn't fail in prayer ever. The Holy Spirit never fails in prayer. And all deep true prayers to the Holy Spirit are answered, always answered. So this is a beautiful supplement to the workbook lesson. No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. From chapter nine section to the answer to prayer. Everyone who ever tried to use prayer to ask for something has experienced what appears to be failure. This is not only true in connection with specific things that might be harmful. But also in connection with requests that are strictly in line with this course. The latter in particular might be incorrectly interpreted as proof that the course does not mean what it says. You must remember, however, that the course states and repeatedly that his purpose is the escape from fear. And suppose then that what you ask of the Holy Spirit is what you really want, but you're still afraid of it. Should this be the case, your attainment of it would no longer be what you want. This is why certain specific forms of healing are not achieved. Even when the state of healing is. An individual may ask for physical healing because he is fearful of bodily harm. At the same time, if he were healed physically, the threat to his thought system might be considerably more fearful to him than its physical expression. In this case, he is not really asking for release from fear, but for the removal of a symptom that he himself selected. The request is therefore not for healing at all. The Bible emphasizes that all prayer is answered. And this is indeed true. The very fact that the Holy Spirit has been asked for anything will ensure a response. Yet it is equally certain that no response given by him will ever be one that would increase fear. It is possible that his answer will not be heard. It is impossible, however, that it will be lost. There are many answers that you have already received but have not heard. I assure you that they are waiting for you. If you would know your prayers are answered, never doubt a son of God. Do not question him and do not confound him. For your faith in him is your faith in yourself. If you would know God and his answer, believe in me whose faith in you cannot be shaken. Can you ask of the Holy Spirit truly and doubt your brother? His words are true because of the truth that is in him. You will unite with the truth in him and his words will be true. As you hear him, you will hear me. Listening to truth is the only way you can hear it now and finally know it. So if we go back to the beginning of the paragraph 4, that is just absolutely amazing. If you would know your prayers are answered, never doubt a son of God. Do not question him and do not confound him. For your faith in him is your faith in yourself. Without a sentence, that sentence is basically saying that if you would know that your prayers are answered and the prayers are ultimately for peace of mind, for inner peace. Never doubt a brother, never doubt a son of God. There's one of us, the Christ, and never ever doubt a brother, never doubt a sister. Never hold a thought that they are something that they are not. If we look at the body and the personality and the behaviors and the history, the personal history, we can't possibly know who we really are because our Christ self does not have anything to do with persons, places, things, bodies. Our true self is not a dream. Our true self is spirit. And we want to have faith in that spirit. We want to know without a doubt that spirit has identity as real, as true. So that is very important as we start to look at the answer of prayer. The true answer of prayer means we never doubt a son of God. And then it gets a little clear too with paragraph five. The message your brother gives you is up to you. What does he say to you? What would you have him say? Your decision about him determines the message you receive. Remember that the Holy Spirit is in him and his voice speaks to you through him. What can so holy a brother tell you except truth? But are you listening to it? Your brother may not know who he is, but there is a light in his mind that does know. This light can shine into yours giving truth to his words and making you able to hear them. His words are the Holy Spirit's answer to you. Is your faith in him strong enough to let you hear. So this is the courses way of helping us see that. That regardless of appearances, regardless of behaviors, and regardless of the perception that the subject and the object are different that the observer and the observed are different. So that, that distortion in perception of subject object split. We are given an opportunity to, to pray to see the truth in our brother and sister. And that just means to live from the truth within to live in true empathy to live in happiness to live in joy to, to no longer be willing to react and respond to the behavior When we react and respond to the behavior, then we are just interpreting independently of the Holy Spirit, and that never goes well when we try to interpret apart from the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit is our reminder of Christ's vision if the Holy Spirit is our instructor is our guide is our comforter, we have to put our faith in the in the light. And we have to trust that everything and everyone that seems to cross our mind that seems to cross our dreamscape is there for the only purpose of seeing the light of letting go of any meaning that was given from the past to this world of form. We have to be born again, we really have to be born again in Christ to feel joy to feel consistent joy. So, let's remember our beautiful lesson for the day 131. No one can fail, who seeks to reach the truth. And today, let's just say failure is not an option. That's not. That's a word that we're plucking from our mind, plucking from our vocabulary. Today, we seek the truth, we seek to remember the truth of joy and happiness and, and we will have that thought of failure plucked away from our awareness. Failure is no option. So thank you all. Thank you for joining me. Happy day. Go for the truth. And there's nothing that can stop you. I send you all my love and send you all my blessings.