1. How bitterly does everyone tied to this world defend the specialness he wants to be the truth! His wish is law to him, and he obeys. Nothing his specialness demands does he withhold. Nothing it needs does he deny to what he loves. And while it calls to him, he hears no other Voice. Continue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS VII. The Meeting Place”
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ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS VI Salvation From Fear
1. Before your brother’s holiness the world is still, and peace descends on it in gentleness and blessing so complete that not one trace of conflict still remains to haunt you in the darkness of the night. He is your savior from the dreams of fear. He is the healing of your sense of sacrificeContinue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS VI Salvation From Fear”
ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS V. The Christ in You
1. The Christ in you is very still. He looks on what He loves and knows it as Himself. And thus does He rejoice at what He sees, because He knows that it is one with Him and with His Father. Specialness, too, takes joy in what it sees, although it is not true. YetContinue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS V. The Christ in You”
ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS IV. Specialness vs. Sinlessness
1. Specialness is a lack of trust in anyone except yourself. Faith is invested in yourself alone. Everything else becomes your enemy, feared and attacked, deadly and dangerous, hated and worthy only of destruction. Whatever gentleness it offers is but deception, but its hate is real. In danger of destruction it must kill, and youContinue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS IV. Specialness vs. Sinlessness”
ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS III. The Forgiveness of Specialness
1. Forgiveness is the end of specialness. Only illusions can be forgiven, and then they disappear. Forgiveness is release from all illusions, and that is why it is impossible but partly to forgive. No one who clings to one illusion can see himself as sinless, for he holds one error to himself as lovely still.Continue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS III. The Forgiveness of Specialness”
ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS II. The Treachery of Specialness
1. Comparison must be an ego device, for love makes none. Specialness always makes comparisons. it is established by a lack seen in another, and maintained by searching for, and keeping clear in sight, all lacks it can perceive. This does it see, and this it looks upon. And always whom it thus diminishes wouldContinue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS II. The Treachery of Specialness”
ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS I. Specialness as a Substitute for Love
1. Love is extension. To withhold the smallest gift is not to know Love’s purpose. Love offers everything forever. Hold back but one belief, one offering, and love is gone, because you asked a substitute to take its place. And now must war, the substitute for peace, come with the one alternative that you canContinue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS I. Specialness as a Substitute for Love”
ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS Introduction
1. Forget not that the motivation for this course is the attainment and the keeping of the state of peace. Given this state the mind is quiet, and the condition in which God is remembered is attained. It is not necessary to tell Him what to do. He will not fail. Where He can enter,Continue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 24 THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS Introduction”
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