Living is joy, but death can only weep.

You see in death escape from what you made, but this you do not see;

that you made death, and it is but illusion of an end.

Death cannot be escape, because it is not life in which the problem lies.

Life has no opposite, for it is God.

Life and death seem to be opposites because you have decided death ends life.

Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real.

In this one sentence is our course explained.

In this one senstence is our praticing given its one direction.

And in this one sentence is the Holy Spirit's whole curriculum specified exactly as it is.

What is the peace of God? No more than this;

the simple understanding that His Will is wholly without opposite.

There is no thought that contradicts His Will, yet can be true. The contrast between His Will and yours but seemed to be reality.

In truth there was no conflict, for His Will is yours.

Now is the mighty Will of God Himself His gift to you. He does not seek to keep it for Himself.

Why would you seek to keep your tiny frail imaginings apart from Him?

The Will of God is One and all there is. This is your heritage. The universe beyond the sun and stars, and all the thoughts of which you can conceive, belong to you.

God's peace is the condition for His Will.

Attain His peace, and you remember Him.

The body will remain guilt's messenger...as long as you believe that guilt is real. For the reality of guilt is the illusion which seems to make it... impenetrable, and a real foundation for the ego’s thought system. Chap 18 Delusional Thought System

The ego...is arrogant. It attributes to God a punishing intent, and then takes over this intent as its own prerogative. It tries to usurp all the functions of God as it perceives them...Chap 5
The Two Decisions

The ego speaks in judgment and the Holy Spirit reverses its decisions, much as the Supreme Court has the power to reverse the lower courts’ decisions...The ego’s decisions are always wrong because they are based on a complete fallacy which they were made to uphold. Nothing the ego perceives is interpreted correctly. Chap 5
Time & Eternity