 Beautiful. Hi everyone. Welcome again to A Course in Miracles' Workbook Lessons Live. We're here in Holy Week and we've reached Thursday in Holy Week, so we're just basking in the love that Jesus is shining on us and feeling that love. And so we have a workbook lesson number 96 today to jump into and to literally lift us up and carry us throughout the whole day. Salvation comes from my one self. Although you are one self, you experience yourself as two. Both as both good and evil, loving and hating, mind and body. This sense of being split into opposites induces feelings of acute and constant conflict and leads to frantic attempts to reconcile the contradictory aspects of this self perception. You have sought many such solutions and none of them has worked. The opposites you see in you will never be compatible, but one exists. The fact that truth and illusion cannot be reconciled no matter how you try, what means you use and where you see the problem must be accepted if you would be saved. Until you have accepted this, you will attempt an endless list of goals you cannot reach a senseless series of expenditures of time and effort. Hopefulness and doubt, each one as futile as the one before and failing as the next one surely will. Problems that have no meaning cannot be resolved within the framework they are set. Two selves in conflict could not be resolved and good and evil have no meaning place. The self you made can never be your capital self, your real self, your Christ self, nor can the Christ self be split in two and still be what it is and must forever be. A mind and body cannot both exist. Make no attempt to reconcile the two. Or one denies the other can be real. If you are physical, your mind is gone from your self concept, or it has no place in which it could really be part of you. If you are spirit, then the body must be meaningless to your reality. Okay, this is so good from Jesus because most of us have grown up with with concepts of the self, even mind body spirit is still trying to mix the real with the unreal. So it's saying you can't make a composite self because you are spirit. God created you as spirit as the Christ. You are eternal. And in terms of mind you are a divine mind you are an idea in the mind of God, Christ is a perfect idea in the mind of God. And there's no reconciling it. You know, we're back to what the Bible said. Jesus said that which is born to the flesh is flesh that which is born of the spirit is spirit. I now am born again. There it is again, except in this lesson, lesson 96. Jesus is emphasizing that there's no reconciling between good and evil between spirit and the body or spirit and matter. He says a mind and body cannot both exist. Make no attempt to reconcile the two. Okay. We'll go to paragraph four now. Spirit makes use of mind as a means to find its self expression. That's capital self. It's Christ expression. The mind which serves the spirit is at peace and fill the joy. Its power comes from spirit. And it is fulfilling happily its function here. Yet mine can also see itself divorced from spirit and perceive itself within a body. It confuses with itself. It has no function then it has no peace and happiness is alien to its thoughts. So Jesus is using the word divorced, divorced from spirit. Isn't that different from the way we think about divorce in this world. Some people say divorce is bad. It's terrible. Some people are glad when they get divorced. It's a different thing. When you perceive yourself as divorced from spirit is something other than the eternal Christ. Something other than the I am presence. Something other than pure spirit. If you perceive yourself as divorced from spirit. That is the belief in separation. And what that does is it generates a self concept that seems to be perceived within a body looking out through five senses. But that's a trick. That's the trick of personhood. That's the trick of taking things too personally. That's the trick of taking anything personally at all. That's the trick of believing you're divorced from spirit. That's mind apart from spirit cannot think. That's a good sentence. So all those thoughts you think about the past and the future. All those thoughts you think about memories of what happened or, or feelings and ideas and concepts of what will happen in the future are all not really thinking. You're thinking about the past and the future than the mind is literally blank. And it's because it's thinking of nothing is trying to think without God. Everything we think with the Holy Spirit. I am. I am as God created me. I am spirit. I am one with God. I am the same situation where yesterday's lesson. I am one self United with my creator all those are real thoughts that that are with God that are, you might say spirit extending in terms of thoughts those are real thoughts and then everything else in the past and future, is unreal. You know, it could be anything could be a thought like, oh, I'm wearing a pink shirt today. No. It's Thursday. No. Every thought, you know, tomorrow I will enjoy Good Friday. No, Good Friday is the future thought. Anything that's in the past and the future is just blankness. So that's what he's saying in the first sentence here of paragraph five. Yet, mind apart from spirit cannot think. It has denied its source of strength and it sees itself as helpless, limited, and weak. Dissociated from its function now, it thinks it is alone and separate, attacked by armies massed against itself and hiding in the body's frail support. Now must it reconcile unlike with like, where this is what it thinks that it is for? And you can see once you've dissociated from the spirit, once you've dissociated even from your one function, which is atonement or forgiveness, then it's a conundrum. Then you're concerned about whether people like you or don't like you. You're concerned whether you're accepted or not accepted. You're concerned whether you're popular, not popular. All those things are trying to reconcile unlike with like. And basically Jesus is saying, as long as you're identified with the person or the mask or the veil that was drawn over the face of Christ, which is all of time and space, the veil, as long as you're identified with that, then you're going to try to reconcile unlike with like. And it's a very difficult thing to do. In fact, it's actually impossible, but all of us know when we're concerned about whether we're liked, whether we're accepted, whether we are in the crowd or we're embraced by people or rejected by people. That seems like a big difference. Embraced by people or rejected. And Jesus is saying, people, people, people. These are the constructs that make up the false self. And the Bible says God is no respecter of persons because God creates his spirit. God created Christ his spirit, and that's who we are. That's our one self. So as we go on, we say, waste no more time on this. Don't you love it? Thank you, Jesus. Waste no more time on this. Who can resolve the senseless conflicts which a dream presents? What could the resolution mean in truth? What purpose could it serve? What is it for? Salvation cannot make illusions real nor solve a problem that does not exist. Perhaps you hope it can, yet would you have God's plan for the release of his dear son, bring pain to him and fail to set him free? So Jesus is saying, when you think about God's plan for salvation, come to the present moment because that's where the plan is accomplished. You might say that's where it starts and ends. And Jesus said, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. It all comes back to the present moment and basically accepting your true self as God created you. So there's no way to reconcile competing images. All the comparison, one person with another person, one place versus another place, one age or one time versus another time. All of these false self concepts are really nothing. They're all much ado about nothing and the present moment is the gateway to eternity. So Jesus with this lesson is just encouraging us to come inside, come inside to the light, come inside to the Christ and humbly accept yourself as spirit as God created you. Humbly accept yourself as one self, not multiple selves. No, you don't have multiple personality disorder. You don't have any kind of dissociative disorder. You don't have different personalities, different altars. You don't have this identity dissociative disorder. You don't have DID, you are oneness. You are not multiple, you are one and God is one. So what we're saying is you are one in spirit. That is the truth, that's the I am presence. Your capital self or your Christ self retains its thoughts and they remain within your mind and in the mind of God. So these are real thoughts. God thought you as the Christ, God thought me as the Christ and who we are, we were thought by the mind of God and God extended the love of God as the thought of Christ as a creation, as an extension and that's real and true. And these thoughts remain within your mind and in the mind of God forever and ever and ever. They can't be touched. They can't be disturbed. They can't be changed. They're eternal thoughts. What a beautiful idea. I am an idea in the mind of God and I remain as God created me and nothing can change my true self as Christ as God created me. That's a high thought, that is a timeless thought. The Holy spirit holds salvation in your mind and offers it the way to peace. Salvation is a thought you share with God because his voice accepted it for you and answered in your name that it was done. Thus is salvation kept among the thoughts, your capital self, your Christ self holds dear and cherishes for you. So basically we're now hearing and hear about the Holy spirit because God's voice which is the Holy spirit accepted it and answered in your name. So salvation is like a memory that the Holy spirit holds in mind for us. And even while we're sleeping and dreaming of exile from God, the Holy spirit is like our eternal insurance policy. The Holy spirit is saying, well, salvation, I'm holding it for you. And when you're ready to accept it, it's yours. And when you're not ready to accept it, I'm holding it for you. So the Holy spirit in this sense is like the remembrance of God. That's why Jesus said, when I go away, I'll send a comforter, capital C and a comforter. The Holy Ghost of the Holy spirit is our remembrance of what could never be forgotten, which is our Christ self. We can only seem to forget it, but ultimately that's just a matter of time. And the present moment is like saying, don't waste time on anything else. Don't try to reconcile self concepts. Basically Jesus is telling us, don't even try to be a better person because you never were a worse person or a better person because God is no respecter of persons. God didn't create the body. God creates his spirit. God creates Christ. And Christ is forever there. All we have to do is remember our self as Christ. What a wonderful idea on Holy week. Why not now? Why not during Holy week? Right now. You know, is there a better time than now? We will attempt today to find this thought whose presence in your mind is guaranteed by him who speaks to you from your one self. That's the Holy spirit speaks to us from our one self, remembers our one self and is basically guaranteeing that we will remain as God created us because that memory that the Holy spirit is holding out for us, that vision of Christ is always there for the acceptance. There's nothing to do or think or say or make just in opening to the acceptance that is everything. Our hourly five minute practicing will be a search for him within your mind, the Holy spirit. Salvation comes from this one self, this Christ self, through him who is the bridge between your mind and it. The one self is Christ and the bridge is the Holy spirit, the remembrance, the one who gives us all our guidance every day, the one who instructs us, the one who encourages us, the one who nurtures us, that's the Holy spirit. Wait patiently and let him speak to you about your Christ self and what your mind can do, restore to it and free to serve its well. Begin with saying this, salvation comes from my one self. Its thoughts are mine to use. I've been listening to this song by Amanda Cook called Miracle of the Mind and all your thoughts are precious. It's like your thoughts in that song is basically, I am what you think of me. So it's like singing to God. I am what you think of me. I am the spirit that you created. I am the holiness that you extended. I am the Christ self that is your Holy Son. That is an extension. That's a miracle of the mind. That's literally coming all the way back in the mind to remember the truth and let go of illusions completely. Then seek its thoughts and claim them as your own. These are your own real thoughts you have denied and let your mind go wandering in a world of dreams to find illusions in their place. Here are your thoughts, the only ones you have. Salvation is among them, find it there. On Holy Week, Jesus is saying salvation is among our thoughts, our real thoughts. Find it there. Salvation is among them, find it there. That's our task for the day. It's to find the salvation thought in among our real thoughts in our mind. Remember he told us that when we identify with the body we're not really thinking. So whatever we're thinking about the body in the past or thinking about future rising with it, we're denying that we're the Christ right now. So today we can really give ourselves the presence and find the thought of salvation. Isn't that exciting on Holy Week? Can you think of anything more important? What you'd like to do? Go for a walk. No, that's a body. Go have a coffee. No, that's a body too. Oh, I'm just gonna go inside and find salvation which is among my real thoughts. And I will find it there, as he says. If you succeed, the thoughts that come to you will tell you you are saved and that your mind has found the function that it sought to lose. Your self, your capital self, your Christ self will welcome it and give it peace. Restored in strength, it will again flow out from spirit to the spirit and all things created by the spirit as itself. That is so high. Let's just say that sentence one more time. It's like we're getting a light bath today. We're getting washed in light. One more time. Restored in strength, it will again flow out from the spirit to the spirit and all things created by the spirit as itself. Your mind will bless all things. Confusion done, you are restored for you have found your Christ self. Your Christ self knows that you cannot fail today. Perhaps your mind remains uncertain yet a little while. Be not dismayed by this. The joy of yourself, the joy of your Christ self experiences, it will save for you and it will be yours in full awareness. Every time you spend five minutes of the hour seeking him who joins your mind and your Christ self, you offer him another treasure to be kept for you. Every five minutes that you offer to the Holy Spirit and just say, I'm yours. I totally give it all over to you. I give you my full attention. You are my life, my joy, my happiness. You are my goal. You are my destination, Holy Spirit. It's all, I give it all to you that I may remember my true identity as God created me. Isn't that lovely? I give it all to you. I give away what you have shown me, the gift that you have given me that I may receive it for myself, that I may recognize the Christ that I am. Each time today you tell your frantic mind salvation comes from your Christ self, your one self. You lay another treasure in your growing store and all of it is given everyone who asks for it and will accept the gift. Think then how much is given unto you to give this day that it be given you. And Jesus puts an exclamation point. He doesn't usually end his lessons with an exclamation point. So I'm gonna have to read that sentence one last time because Jesus is putting an exclamation point. It's holy week. It's Thursday seemingly in the world of time and he's putting an exclamation point at the end of his work perplexing, very rare. It must be really important here for us. Think then how much is given unto you to give this day that it be given you exclamation mark. Okay. So yeah, I'm speechless after that. I will just leave you with the smile on my face after that last sentence because it's really saying just give it fully today that you may receive it fully yourself and may know yourself as one self. So here's our lesson again. Salvation comes from my one self, from my one Christ self. Okay, glory to God. I thank you for joining me today and I just love you so much. Bye.