 in Miracles Live. Beautiful day, sparkly, sparkly. Oh my gosh, everything is so vast in this experience. And we're going through the workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles and feeling the joy and the love and the happiness and laughter of our Christ's mind shining through. It's unstoppable. I think that was a Kim Walker Smith song, Unstoppable Love. That's what it feels like. It is just raining down love, love, love and the joy of that is unspeakable. So today we're going to look at our Course in Miracles review lessons. And we're up to 85. So we have two more review lessons. This is part of the workbook part one review two. And it is this, today's review will cover these ideas. My grievances hide the light of the world in me. My grievances show me what is not there and hide from me what I would see. Recognizing this, what do I want my grievances for? They keep me in darkness and hide the light. Grievances and light cannot go together, but light and vision must be joined for me to see. To see, I must lay grievances aside. I want to see and this will be the means by which I succeed. Specific applications for this idea might be made in these forms. Let me not use this as a block to sight. The light of the world will shine all this away. I have no need for this. I want to see. My salvation comes from me. Today I will recognize where my salvation is. It is in me because its source is there. It has not left its source. And so it cannot have left my mind. I will not look for it outside myself. It is not found outside and then brought in. But from within me it will reach beyond and everything I see will but reflect the light that shines in me and in itself. These forms of the idea are suitable for more specific applications. Let this not tempt me to look away from me for my salvation. I will not let this interfere with my awareness of the source of my salvation. This has no power to remove salvation from me. So again, beautiful are two review lessons for today. My grievances hide the light of the world in me. My salvation comes from me. And time to go into the mystic. Deep, deep, deep, deep today. The associated reading that Jesus has given us for these beautiful review lessons today. We're going to chapter 18, the passing of the dream. Section 6. Are you ready? Beyond the body. There is nothing outside you. That is what you must ultimately learn. For it is the realization that the kingdom of heaven is restored to you. For God created only this and he did not depart from it nor leave it separate from himself. The kingdom of heaven is the dwelling place of the Son of God who left not his Father and dwells not apart from him. Heaven is not a place nor a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect oneness and the knowledge that there is nothing else, nothing outside this oneness and nothing else within. What could God give you but knowledge of himself? What else is there to give? The belief that you could give and get something else, something outside yourself has caused you the awareness of heaven and of your identity. And you have done a stranger thing than you yet realize. You have displaced your guilt to your body from your mind. Yet a body cannot be guilty for it can do nothing of itself. You who think you hate your body deceive yourself. You hate your mind for guilt has entered into it and it would remain separate from your brothers which it cannot do. Minds are joined. Bodies are not. Only by assigning to the mind the properties of the body does the separation seem to be possible. And it is mind that seems to be fragmented and private and alone. It's guilt which keeps it separate is projected to the body which suffers and dies because it is attacked to hold the separation in the mind and let it know, not know its identity, its Christ identity. Mind cannot attack but it can make fantasies and direct the body to act them out. Yet it is never what the body does that seems to satisfy. Unless the mind believes the body is actually acting out its fantasies it will attack the body by increasing the projection of its guilt upon it. In this the mind is clearly delusional. It cannot attack but it maintains it can and uses what it does to hurt the body to prove it can. The mind cannot attack but it can deceive itself and this is all it does when it believes it has attacked the body. It can project its guilt but it will not lose it through projection. And though it clearly can misperceive the function of the body it cannot change its function from what the Holy Spirit establishes it to be. The body was not made by love yet love does not condemn it and can use it lovingly respecting what the Son of God has made and using it to save him from illusions. Would you not have the instruments of separation reinterpreted as a means for salvation and used for purposes of love? Would you not welcome and support the shift from fantasies of vengeance to release from them? Your perception of the body can clearly be sick but project not this upon the body for your wish to make destructive what cannot destroy can have no real effect at all. What God created is only what He would have it be being His will. You cannot make His will destructive. You can make fantasies in which your will conflicts with His but that is all. It is insane to use the body as the scapegoat for guilt directing its attack and blaming it for what you wished it to do. It is impossible to act out fantasies where it is still the fantasies you want and they have nothing to do with what the body does. It does not dream of them and they but make it a liability where it could be an asset for fantasies have made your body your enemy weak vulnerable treacherous worthy of hate the hate that you invest in it. How has this served you? You have identified with this thing that you hate the instrument of vengeance and the perceived source of guilt. You have done this to a thing that has no meaning proclaiming it to be the dwelling place of God's son and turning it against him. This is the host of God that you have made and neither God nor his most holy son can enter in a boat that harbors hate and where you have sown the seeds of vengeance violence and death. This thing you made to serve your guilt stands between you and other minds. The minds are joined but you do not identify with them. You see yourself locked in a separate prison removed and unreachable incapable of reaching out as being reached. You hate this prison you have made and would destroy it but you would not escape from it leaving it unharmed without your guilt upon it. Yet only thus can you escape. The home of vengeance is not yours. The place you set aside to house your hate is not a prison but an illusion of yourself. The body is a limit imposed on the universal communication that is an internal property of mind but the communication is internal. Mind reaches to itself. It is not made up of different parts which reach to each other. It does not go out. Within itself it has no limits and there is nothing outside it. It encompasses everything. It encompasses you entirely, you within it and it within you. There is nothing else anywhere or ever. The body is outside you and but seems to surround you shutting you off from others and keeping you apart from them and them from you. It is not there. There is no barrier between God and his Son nor can his Son be separated from himself except in illusions. This is not his reality though he believes it is. Yet this could only be if God were wrong. God would have had to create differently and to have separated himself from his Son to make this possible. He would have had to create different things and to establish different orders of reality only some of which were love. Yet love must be forever like itself, changeless forever and forever without alternative and so it is. You cannot put a barrier around yourself because God placed none between himself and you. You can stretch out your hand and reach to heaven. You whose hand is joined with your brothers have begun to reach beyond the body but not outside yourself to reach your shared identity together. Could this be outside you where God is not? Is he a body and did he create you as he is not and where he cannot be? You are surrounded only by him. What limits can there be on you who he encompasses? Everyone has experienced what he would call a sense of being transported beyond himself. This feeling of liberation far exceeds the dream of freedom sometimes hoped for in special relationships. It is a sense of actual escape from limitations. If you will consider what this transportation really is, you will realize that it is a sudden unawareness of the body and a joining of yourself and something else in which your mind enlarges to encompass it. It becomes part of you as you unite with it and both become whole as neither is perceived as separate. What really happens is that you have given up the illusion of a limited awareness and lost your fear of union. The love that instantly replaces it extends to what has freed you and unites with it. And while this lasts you are not uncertain of your identity and would not limit it. You have escaped from fear to peace asking no questions of reality but merely accepting it. You have accepted this instead of the body and had let yourself be one with something beyond it. Something by simply by not letting your mind be limited by it. This can occur regardless of the physical distance that seems to be between you and what you join. Of all your respective positions in space and of your differences in size and seeming quality. Time is not relevant. It can occur with something past, present or anticipated. The something can be anything and anywhere. A sound, a sight, a thought, a memory and even a general idea without specific reference. Yet in every case you join with it. You join it without reservation because you love it and would be with it. And so you rush to meet it, letting your limits melt away, suspending all the laws your body obeys and gently setting them aside. There is no violence at all in this escape. The body is not attacked but simply properly perceived. It does not limit you merely because you would not have it so. You are not really lifted out of it. It cannot contain you. You go where you would be gaining not losing a sense of the Christ self. In these instances of release from physical restrictions you experience much of what happens in the Holy Instant. The lifting of the barriers of time and space, the sudden experience of peace and joy and above all the lack of awareness of the body and of the questioning whether or not all this is possible. It is possible because you want it. The sudden expansion of awareness that takes place with your desire for it is the irresistible appeal the Holy Instant holds. It calls you to be yourself within its safe embrace. There are the laws of limit lifted for you to welcome you to openness of mind and freedom. Come to this place of refuge where you can be yourself in peace. Not through destruction, not through a breaking out, but merely by a quiet melting in. For peace will join you there simply because you have been willing to let go the limits you have placed upon love and joined it where it is and where it led you in answer to its gentle call to be at peace. And now we see my grievance inside the light of the world in me. Anything that I believe is external to my mind is a grievance. It's not just a memory of a behavior or of a person or of an event or of a situation. It's anything that I believe is outside my mind. Remember there's only one of us. Mind reaches to itself. It does not go out. But then itself is everything you within it and it within you. It's just Jesus's way of teaching us that mind is one and mind is unified. But to perceive something external to the mind outside it like a body or a world or a cosmos that's a grievance. To perceive the world as external to your mind is a grievance. And basically that's what also is a hallucination as he reminds us my grievances show me what is not there and hide from me what I would see. What is not there are the images of the world because God didn't create them and hide from me what I would see. The vision of Christ is to seeing. It's the only way to see. It's to seeing with not with the physical eyes and the not with the five senses but with the inner light. The inner light is the truth, is the love, is the oneness. And my salvation comes from me. My salvation comes from the mind. Mind is all. Everything is mind. All the mystics and saints have pointed to the power of the mind. Mary Baker-Eddie helped us see there's no mind in matter. There's no life, truth, substance, intelligence in matter. She's saying the same thing. There is no external world. That's what Byron Katie is saying. There is no external world. Everything is unified in this instant. And you cannot find anything else. When Krishnamurti was saying I am the world and the world is me he was saying again the same thing. It's all in mind. There is no world apart from what you think. Jesus teaches us in work class in 132 and then there is no world period. Actually there is no world exclamation point is what he says in lesson 132. But he's basically saying what we just read. That my grievances show me what is not there. A world that's not there. And hide from me what I would see. Which is the vision of Christ. Pure vision of light. Abstract, eternal, oneness, light. And basically we can, you know, if you want to have another thing that reminds you that my grievances are the light of the world in me is just go back to lessons 5678. I'm never upset for the reason I think. I'm upset because I see something that is not there. We just read that. I see only the past. My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. These past thoughts are the grievances. All past associations block the mind from the present moment, the holy instant, from here and now. And so you can see that this is the answer for everything. My salvation comes from me meaning I can choose atonement. And if I do, I have no more grievances. I have no more judgments. I can let all things be exactly as they are. I can embrace the idea from the course and the Bible that all things work together for good. In the Bible all things work together for good for those who love the Lord. In the Course all things work together for good. There are no exceptions except in the ego's judgment. So this is a beautiful day to be filled up with love. Have your eyes be sparkling. Have your joy be radiant and evident to let nothing hide you from the being, the Christ being that you are. In the workbook it says we say God is and we cease to speak. Just stay with God is. Or as Byron Katie says, love what is. You can say it any way you want. Love is if you want to do it. One of the movies we use for Spiritual Awakening, Solaris, solar is light and is. Light is how absolutely delightful is the presence of God's love. It does shine through us. It does sparkle through us because we have our being. It is the light. We live and move and our have our being in light. We were created in light. We will forever be in light. It's a light, light, light day today. We're going to be skipping along happily as we go through the day. So what a beautiful opportunity we have to shine our light. It's just coming to me today too that this whole world is to the Holy Spirit it's just a call for love. It's a call to extend love. Because if we perceive a grievance, we perceive something that's not there and then that is a call for love in our mind. It's a call to remember the miracle. It's a call to remember the love, remember God, remember the all-inclusive nature of love that includes everything and everyone in mind and you start to realize that that's what Jesus means by minds or joined bodies do not. It's giving up personhood. Love is not personal. Love never was personal. The personal was a limit placed on trying to make a concept or definition of something that can't be held as a concept or can't be defined. Love is agape. Love is unconditional. Love is expansive, ever expansive. Love is beyond time and space. You might even say before time and space, before Abraham was I am. Before Abraham was I am love. That's the fact. Time and space are not. They are not the fact. So as we play this out then you know as I've gone along in my journey to God it's seeming through time and space it's been things that that that lit up my heart. You know it's like you know I remember growing up and hearing George Harrison's song. George was formerly a member of the Beatles but you know he had that song give me love give me love give me peace on earth give me life give me life keep me free as a bird and and give me hope to help me cope with this heavy love and I'm not through trying to reach you with heart and soul. You know oh my gosh George these songs have just come and it's a sense of to have give all to all is what Jesus calls it the first lesson of the Holy Spirit. When you get in the attitude of giving and really it's your you're being very giving with your your beatitudes with your attitude with your joy with your love your happiness you're just letting that joy love happiness light radiate from within you and it just radiates to you as well because there's just one of us so you're always just remembering who you are that's the point of teach only love for that is what you are. It's also the point of to teach us to demonstrate if your attitude is happy loving joyful and I mean consistently oh let's even use the word constantly then that means that you are just opening up to the will of God. God's love is constant happiness because it's eternal so if you open to that constancy of love then you're just in giving mode you're not in getting mode I think that the grievances arise from the ego obviously try to generate a world of falsity trying to put out exceptions to love as if they would exist when you're following the five senses and you believe in what the five senses are showing you then then you will experience grievances but but if you don't believe these things like Byron Katie always says don't believe your thoughts she said I don't believe my thoughts if you don't believe in these thought forms in these images if you don't give credence to the past and the future and the five senses and everything then naturally you are in a state of giving God only gives Christ only gives our identity is the Christ so therefore I can only give but this undoes the belief in lack and does the belief in scarcity because lack and scarcity were never real God didn't create them it also really ends this this back and forth of bargaining reciprocity of loss and gain of belief that there's a head someone ahead someone behind you know a hierarchy of illusions no none of it exists we are one we are the same self and that is the fact of it that's the truth of it that's the reality of it and it's good to just feel it with everything in your being because it is your being it is reality so over the years you know that's been the practice it's not so much that the images are wrong or or right because the mind is either lined up and forgiving and seeing the falsity of the images or it seems to believe in an ego which is just a grievance an ego is a grievance it's sometimes the acronym for ego has been called ego edging God out and of course anything that would try to edge God out since God is all in all and and there is nothing but God's love then the belief in edging God out is the belief in deceptions lies hallucinations these are not true it's a joyful state of mind when you start to realize that that it's only the ego accuses and the divine Christ self is purely innocent always has been always will be and there is no accusation in in the Christ because Christ is all that there is this this ego belief in in people places things the ego is always trying to get something it's trying to you know is trying to control something is trying to be the mind police it's like the mind police trying to control something trying to impose order whereas Jesus says it's trying to force continuity on past present future when the ego invented past present future eternity doesn't know about past present future but the ego Jesus says tries to force continuity on its own construct trying to force the mind to believe something that's not true to block the light of Christ so once you start to realize that you can only give and you get into give all to all you realize that everything's actually a blessing it was Albert Einstein the great scientist and physicist and quantum physicist who said I love this line coming from a scientist he said there's just two ways to look at the world one is this is if everything is a miracle Einstein said and the other is as if nothing is a miracle and there it is Einstein's describing what Jesus calls the right mind where everything is a miracle and the wrong mind where nothing is a miracle because the ego lives in the wrong mind the ego is the wrong mind edging God out is not a miracle it's actually impossible though that's where you start to get into the joy you start to see if God is love and love is real and nothing real can be threatened and nothing unreal exists then then that's all that there is it's you can just soar and soar and soar in the kingdom of heaven in the light that is real and true so this whole thing of of believing in personhood is is egoic the person or the persona is the mask and I did a talk recently where it's like when you try to make the mask wrong or right you're like throwing another mask a wrong or a right description onto the mask or to accuse the person of doing something or to compliment the person compliment is the flip side of a criticism but what Jesus is showing us is the person's not real the body's not real and when you try to judge it positively or negatively through compliments or criticisms you're still missing the mark of it's still the ego holding sway over over the mind in the sense that trying to make what is the same different you know it's a beautiful teaching in a course of miracles what is the same cannot be different and what is one cannot have separate parts what is the same spirit's the same mind's the same you know that's your heart your heart of love is the same you know it cannot be different and what is one cannot have separate parts it's just fragmented perception that breaks the world into pieces versus places things events situations circumstances you know that's just fragmented perception and that's what is healed in this unified awareness I heard Byron Katie say one time it's just unified awareness with no name yeah you know it doesn't have a name in a course of miracles we could say it's it's forgiveness but it's not a it's not a personal kind of forgiveness it's a unified mind forgiveness it's a happy dream forgiveness it's a it's a happy dance forgiveness where everything's absolutely unified and in the present moment and Jesus says you know the body's eyes will still report differences but the healed mind will put them into one category they are unreal that's just seeing illusions for what they are and that's just seeing the false as the false how absolutely glorious it is so as a song maybe a couple songs for us to carry us on today too one will be a song by my friend Donna Marie Kerry from her real love album and basically it's called give you back to love I was traveling with Donna many years ago probably around 1992 when when she received this song and and took it down and it related to a personal experience she was having but what it was really was Jesus saying you know give the person idea back to love give it back to the Holy Spirit give the belief in in a something a separate self back to the Holy Spirit and it will disappear when I give you to love when I give this personal perception of of someone which is very much body and personality related when I give that to love when I give that to the Holy Spirit it disappears and then the joy of the present moment springs forth because it's always been there it just was covered over by this belief in separation separate people places things just covering things up so we've got two beautiful lessons to review and two beautiful songs again our lessons for today my grievance has had the light of the world in me my salvation comes from me and here is our song give you back to love since we're drifting into the mystic here's the song from Svaba titled into the mystic thank you thank you for joining in this glorious moment may you radiate and shine this instant forever and ever and always and I say amen have a beautiful day