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What Are The Characteristics of God's Teachers?

Defenselessness

God's teachers have learned how to be simple. They have no dreams that need defense against the truth.

They do not try to make themselves.

Their joy comes from their understanding Who created them.

And does what God created need defense?

No one can become an advanced teacher of God until he fully understands that defenses are but the foolish guardians of mad illusions.

The more grotesque the dream, the fiercer and more powerful its defenses seem to be.

Yet when the teacher of God finally agrees to look past them, he finds nothing was there.

Slowly at first he lets himself be undeceived. But he learns faster as his trust increases.

It is not danger that comes when defenses are laid down.

    • It is safety.
    • It is peace.
    • It is joy.
    • And it is God.
 

A Course in Miracles Original Edition

The world provides no safety. It is rooted in attack and all its "gifts" of seeming safety are illusory deceptions. It attacks, and then attacks again. No peace of mind is possible where danger threatens thus...Attack, defense; defense, attack, become the circles of the hours and the days...Lesson 153 - In my defenselessness my safety lies

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