ACIM
Manual For Teachers
Does
Jesus Have a Special Place in Healing?
Jesus has led
the way.
Why would you not be grateful
to him?
He has asked
for love, but only that he might give it to you.
You do not
love yourself.
But
in his eyes your loveliness is so complete and flawless that he
sees in it an image of his Father.
You become the
symbol of his Father here on earth.
To you he looks
for hope, because in you he sees no limit and no stain to mar
your beautiful perfection.
In his eyes
Christ's vision shines in perfect constancy.
He has remained
with you.
Would
you not learn the lesson of salvation through his learning?
Why
would you choose to start again, when he has made the journey
for you?
No one on earth can grasp
what Heaven is, or what its one Creator really means.
Yet we have
witnesses.
It is to them
that wisdom should appeal.
There have been those whose
learning far exceeds what we can learn. Nor would we teach the
limitations we have laid on us.
No one who has become a
true and dedicated teacher of God forgets his brothers.
Yet what he can offer them
is limited by what he learns himself.
Then turn to
one who laid all limits by, and went beyond the farthest reach of
learning.
He will take you with
him, for he did not go alone.
And you were with him
then, as you are now.
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You
are not guiltless in time, but in eternity. You have "sinned"
(acted without love) in the past, but there is no past.
Always has no direction. Time
seems to go in one direction, but when you reach its end
it will roll up like a long carpet... and will disappear.
As long as you believe the Son of God is guilty you will
walk along this carpet, believing that it leads to death.
And the journey will seem long and cruel and senseless,
for so it is. ACIM
Chap 11 Guiltlessness and Invulnerability
Some
bitter idols have been made of him who would be only brother
to the world. Forgive him your illusions, and behold how
dear a brother he would be to you. For he will set your
mind at rest at last and carry it with you unto your God...
Walking with him is just as natural as walking with a
brother whom you knew since you were born, for such indeed
he is. Jesus
It
is extremely difficult to reach Atonement by fighting
against sin. Nor is a lifetime of contemplation and long
periods of meditation aimed at detachment from the body
necessary. All such attempts will ultimately succeed because
of their purpose. Yet the means are tedious and very time
consuming, for all of them look to the future for release
from a state of present unworthiness and inadequacy. Your
way will be different, not in purpose, but in means.
ACIM Chap 18 I Need Do Nothing
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