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Honesty

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The peace of mind which the advanced teachers of God experience is largely due to their perfect honesty.

It is only the wish to deceive that makes for war. No one at one with himself can even conceive of conflict.

Conflict is the inevitable result of self-deception, and self-deception is dishonesty.

There is no challenge to a teacher of God. Challenge implies doubt, and the trust on which God's teachers rest secure makes doubt impossible. Therefore they can only succeed.

In this as in all things they are honest.

They can only succeed because they never do their will alone. They choose

• for all mankind,
• for all the world and all things in it,
• for the unchanging and unchangeable beyond appearances; and
• for the Son of God and his Creator.

How could they not succeed?

They choose in perfect honesty, sure of their choice as of themselves.

When the “lies of the serpent” were introduced, they were specifically called “lies” because they are not true. When man listened, all he heard was untruth. He does not have to continue to believe what is not true unless he chooses to do so. Chap 2 Illusion of Separation

Be speeded on your way by honesty, and let not your experiences here deceive in retrospect. They were not free from bitter cost and joyless consequence. What happiness have you sought here that did not bring you pain? What moment of content has not been bought at fearful price in coins of suffering? Joy has no cost. It is your sacred right...Chap 30 The Only Purpose

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