Love's Beginning

There is no need to defend a self that doesn't exist, and the Self you are needs no defense. When you find a defense, you don't have to force it away or to try to turn it into its opposite. Simply look. And then keep looking. Each time you look, you can find one thought that is part of its structure. Isolate that one thought, and then set it down gently. Turn toward what you remember to be true--the gentle truth, the loving truth. And rest and allow the flow of life to go.

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Tension or stress is an indicator of the belief that evil is real, and that the illusion of evil has not already been fully addressed by what is here, eternal, and real.

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I’m continuing to share Brent Haskell’s Journey Beyond Words, an edited transcript of channelings he received from Jeshua to go along with the lessons in A Course in Miracles. This section, “You Are Invulnerable,” is intended to go with Lessons 22 to 28. It's a great read whether or not you're interested in ACIM.

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The ego’s scale of highs and lows seems to be internal, but it is really fear projected outward. Go further in, and you find what is truly here to be relied upon. What is here to be relied upon is utterly stable. It cannot move about underneath you. It is you. Resting upon what you actually are, you can be offered guidance. Be patient with yourself as you learn how to rest in what is still, in what doesn’t come from what you see as your own movement and autonomy.

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Everyone you call else can either point you toward what is real in a very clear way or point you toward the pain you're clutching 💚

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It doesn't matter whether you seem to be hero or villain of the dream 💚

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If you believe the small self is real, then you believe that there are many things that can intrude upon it, and you have to protect it from intrusions. You believe that each of these things that can intrude upon the small self are real, and therefore very difficult to change. You can see, then, how you would be very invested in protecting what you see as the separate peace of this small self--its separate territory where it seems to have its own peace, its own territory that it can protect.

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Guilt built a house, and it called it love 💚

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I'm continuing to share Brent Haskell’s Journey Beyond Words, an edited transcript of channelings he received from Jeshua to go along with the lessons in A Course in Miracles. This section, “What Is Meaning?” is intended to go with Lessons 15 to 21. Even if you’re not interested in A Course in Miracles, this can offer a helpful perspective.

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You do not have to force your behavior out of alignment with a thought while it still seems protective. All things come in good time. You do not have to act in alignment with a role the ego has invented, no matter how good or helpful the role seems. It is more important to look at your resistance than to try to force your way past it with the idea of being good or helpful. Things that are not actually there melt when you take the time to look at them. This always opens up the way for inspiration. Use time for looking rather than role playing, and you won't tire yourself out with acting.

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