Reflections 309 to 322

309/ Nothing and Everything

30^th August 2025

“I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.” Venerable Bede.

If God created His Son perfect, that is how you must learn to see him to learn of his reality. (ACIM, T-10.V.12:5)

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Lesson 309. I will not fear to look within today (ACIM, W-309). Yesterday: The lesson was all about coming back to now (“this instant is the only time there is”). Whenever I sat with it, or just read it, it was always a good reminder to come back to the present moment. Where we are is the only place to be, although my thoughts enjoy disputing otherwise. Today: This feels a great lesson to practise. I have just been reading in the Manual for Teachers how God placed the Answer into the mind of His Son (what we are) the instant that the thought of separation arose. This makes sense to me and puts into perspective all the nonsense that my fearful mind is thinking.

An ancient hate is passing from the world. And with it goes all hatred and all fear. Look back no longer, for what lies ahead is all you ever wanted in your heat. Give up the world! But not to sacrifice. You never wanted it. 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? (ACIM, T-30.V.9:1-8)

Forgiveness, then, is the key to happiness. It brings us the real world and, beyond the real world, it serves no purpose. There is none, for A Course in Miracles tells us that we are one with God.

The antidote to guilt is always forgiveness. Guilt shows us the false world - one of pain and suffering - and aspects of that world are probably what we are looking at now. Therefore, forgiveness is the antidote to pain of any kind.

What we need to do is undo. We have to remove all the layers of the onion until there are no more left to peel away. And then we will find that it is not nothing we find but everything.

We are afraid of one single thought. It is a thought that has become magnified into billions of different thoughts but, ultimately, the thought is ephemeral and lifeless.

One single thought of fear appears to block us off from everything. Forgiveness exposes it so that we have no choice but to look at it. And all we do is find it is not there.

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310/ When Time Stops

31^st August 2025

“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” William Arthur Ward.

In the holy instant, you will see the smile of Heaven shining on both you and your brother. (ACIM, T-19.III.10:1)

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Lesson 310. In fearlessness and love I spend today (ACIM, W-310). Yesterday: The lesson was pleasantly straightforward - it was about removing the fear to look within. A line from the lesson stated: “I fear to look within because I think I made another will that is not true, and made it real.” I appreciated that. It is so obvious that a lot of my thinking is mindless gibberish and yet I place so much importance on it. Today: A slight tummy ache negated the effect of my first sitting with this lesson. My mind would float off into flights of self-absorption and I would have to keep returning to the theme of the lesson, which is fearlessness and love.

Look on your brother with the willingness to see him as he is. And do not keep a part of him outside your willingness that he be healed. To heal is to make whole. And what is whole can have no missing parts that have been kept outside. Forgiveness rests on recognizing this, and being glad there cannot be some forms of sickness which the miracle must lack the power to heal. (ACIM, T-30.VI.8:1-5)

A Course in Miracles tells us that God’s Son is perfect because, if he wasn’t perfect, he wouldn’t be God’s Son.

What we see is a symbol of life or death; we either see the ego or the Holy Spirit; we either judge with a passion or we love unconditionally.

There are no half-measures within two thought systems that are polar opposites. One has love at its core and the other has fear.

And it is fear that has to be the motivation for applying ourselves to A Course in Miracles. Fear has led us down dark alleyways and on to nowhere. It taunts us with promises it can never keep.

Love is the inevitable consequence of practising A Course in Miracles. This is not dependent on time.

Therefore, time is symbolic to a mind that is fearful. Time only stops when the mind is at peace.

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311/ Ease and Spontaneity

1^st September 2025

“Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.” Pramoedyer Ananta Toer.

The knowledge that illuminates not only sets you free, but also shows you clearly that you are free. (ACIM, T-2.I.4:9)

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Lesson 311. I judge all things as I would have them be (ACIM, W-311). Yesterday: The lesson pointed to fearlessness and love. Several satisfying things happened during the day. I cleaned all of the windows and cut the grass. I completed some online training and so all the little jobs that I have been deflecting seemed to get done. As the day went on, I felt fearless and full of love. Today: This lesson asks us to release all judgement because we only know the tiniest part of what totality is. Judgement arises through the ego and the ego is an illusion. God’s Judgement is that we are perfect and this is all that matters.

What do your scripts reflect except your plans for what the day should be? And thus you judge disaster and success, advance, retreat, and gain and loss. These judgments all are made according to the roles the script assigns. The fact they have no meaning in themselves is demonstrated by the ease with which these labels change with other judgments, made on different aspects of experience. (ACIM, T-30.VII.2:1-4)

A Course in Miracle tells us that only a constant purpose can give any event that unfolds during the day a stable meaning. The ego puts different meanings onto everything; the Holy Spirit sees one meaning in everything.

Fear is never satisfied; love, by definition, always is and relationships are the actual proof of this. It means we either see the other person with the ego or the Holy Spirit, and only the latter involves absolutely no judgement at all.

A Course in Miracles also tells us that we need a dream of “pardon” if we want a constant purpose within the “dream”. What we see stabilizes and symbolizes everything that is is good. We breathe in love instead of hate.

And, as A Course in Miracles reminds us, our days are not at random. We are completely and utterly responsible for what we see. Discipline our thoughts and we see with the right mind; this is when life becomes perfect and flows with ease and spontaneity.

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