A Course In Miracles

V. The Lessons of the Holy Spirit

To Have, Give All to All

To Have Peace, Teach Peace to Learn It

Be vigilant only for God and His Kingdom.

By teaching what to choose, the Holy Spirit will ultimately teach you that you need not choose at all. This will finally liberate your mind from choice, and direct it towards creation within the Kingdom.

The Holy Spirit will teach you to perceive beyond your belief, because truth is beyond belief and His perception is true.

The Kingdom is forever extending because it is in the Mind of God. You do not know your joy because you do not know your own Self-fullness.

The Holy Spirit will always guide you truly, because your joy is His. This is His Will for everyone because He speaks for the Kingdom of God, which is joy.

When a mind has only light, it knows only light. Its own radiance shines all around it, and extends out into the darkness of other minds, transforming them into majesty.

The Kingdom of God includes all His Sons and their children, who are as like the Sons as they are like the Father.

Ask and it shall be given you, because it has already been given. Ask for light and learn that you are light.

Perceiving only the real world will lead you to the real Heaven, because it will make you capable of understanding it.

The journey that we undertake together is the exchange of dark for light, of ignorance for understanding.

Healed perception becomes the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother, and thus forgives himself.

Try to think of light, formless and without limit, as you pass by the thoughts of this world. And do not forget that they cannot hold you to the world unless you give them the power to do so.

God’s plan for salvation works simply because by following His direction, you seek for salvation where it is. But if you are to succeed, as God promises you will, you must be willing to seek there only.

It is God’s strength in you that is the light in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think.

Today the lights of Heaven bend to you, to shine upon your eyelids as you rest beyond the world of darkness. Here is light your eyes cannot behold. And yet your mind can see it plainly, and can understand.

Perception is consistent. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see.

Put out your hand, and see how easily the door swings open with your one intent to go beyond it. Angels light the way, so that all darkness vanishes, and you are standing in a light so bright and clear that you can understand all things you see.

A vision reaches everyone you meet, and everyone you think of, or who thinks of you. For your experience today will so transform your mind that it becomes the touchstone for the holy Thoughts of God.

Perception has a focus. It is this that gives consistency to what you see. Change but this focus, and what you behold will change accordingly. Your vision now will shift, to give support to the intent which has replaced the one you held before.

Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all.

Now is the time of prophecy fulfilled. Now are all ancient promises upheld and fully kept. No step remains for time to separate from its accomplishment. For now we cannot fail.

Steady our feet, our Father. Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. We have no words to give to You. We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.
        So do we bring our practicing to You. And if we stumble, You will raise us up. If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. And we accept the Word You offer us to unify our practicing, as we review the thoughts that You have given us.