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		<description><![CDATA[OK the actual title of today&#8217;s ACIM workbook exercise is:
I will step back and let Him lead the way
As far as I&#8217;m concerned the Ultimate Reality (God, Tao, The One) is beyond all words and concepts. As the Tao Te Ching says:
The Ultimate Reality which is described in words is not the true Ultimate Reality&#8230;.
Even [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK the actual title of today&#8217;s ACIM workbook exercise is:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I will step back and let Him lead the way</strong></p>
<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned the Ultimate Reality (God, Tao, The One) is beyond all words and concepts. As the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061142662?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webpromotools&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061142662" >Tao Te Ching</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=webpromotools&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061142662" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> says:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Ultimate Reality which is described in words is not the true Ultimate Reality&#8230;.</p>
<p>Even so or especially so I do not like the fact that A Course in Miracles keeps using the pronoun him, his etc.</p>
<p>From today&#8217;s ACIM workbook:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>There is a way of living in the world</strong> that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though <strong>you smile more frequently</strong>. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you, and them through you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they may follow you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>All roads will lead to this one in the end</strong>. (A Course In Miracles starts with the idea that it is a required course &#8211; the only choice we have is when we take it). For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that will remain impossible. All this steps back as truth comes forth in you, to lead your brothers from the ways of death, and set them on the way to happiness. Their suffering is but illusion. Yet they need a guide to lead them out of it, for they mistake illusion for the truth.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Such is salvation&#8217;s call, and nothing more. It asks that you accept the truth, and let it go before you, lighting up the path of ransom from illusion. It is not a ransom with a price. There is no cost, but only gain. Illusion can but seem to hold in chains the holy Son of God. It is but from illusions he is saved. As they step back, he finds himself again.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you. And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Yet at the journey&#8217;s ending there will be no gap, no distance between truth and you. And all illusions walking in the way you traveled will be gone from you as well, with nothing left to keep the truth apart from God&#8217;s completion, holy as Himself. Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys. There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way. For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God&#8217;s Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">I will step back and let Him lead the way,<br />
For I would walk along the road to Him.</p>
<p>If only you knew who walked by your side&#8230;</p>
<p>I typically edit the thoughts for the day but today&#8217;s piece was so beautiful that I didn&#8217;t feel cutting a single word.</p>
<p>Another way of saying the above is:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Be still and know that I&#8217;m God</strong>.<br />
When we are still, when we quieten the monkey mind, when we get out of the way, the truth shines forth.</p>
<p>When you allow the Truth to be, when you are present, you can gladly smile and know that everything is a gift from the Creator. You can face each thing while smiling knowing that She leads the way.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to concentrate on the first paragraph of the ACIM workbook for today:
Let us today be neither arrogant nor falsely humble. We have gone beyond such foolishness. We cannot judge ourselves, nor need we do so. These are but attempts to hold decision off, and to delay commitment to our function. It is not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK the actual title of today&#8217;s ACIM workbook exercise is:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I will step back and let Him lead the way</strong></p>
<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned the Ultimate Reality (God, Tao, The One) is beyond all words and concepts. As the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061142662?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webpromotools&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061142662" >Tao Te Ching</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=webpromotools&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061142662" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> says:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Ultimate Reality which is described in words is not the true Ultimate Reality&#8230;.</p>
<p>Even so or especially so I do not like the fact that A Course in Miracles keeps using the pronoun him, his etc.</p>
<p>From today&#8217;s ACIM workbook:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>There is a way of living in the world</strong> that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though <strong>you smile more frequently</strong>. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you, and them through you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they may follow you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>All roads will lead to this one in the end</strong>. (A Course In Miracles starts with the idea that it is a required course &#8211; the only choice we have is when we take it). For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that will remain impossible. All this steps back as truth comes forth in you, to lead your brothers from the ways of death, and set them on the way to happiness. Their suffering is but illusion. Yet they need a guide to lead them out of it, for they mistake illusion for the truth.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Such is salvation&#8217;s call, and nothing more. It asks that you accept the truth, and let it go before you, lighting up the path of ransom from illusion. It is not a ransom with a price. There is no cost, but only gain. Illusion can but seem to hold in chains the holy Son of God. It is but from illusions he is saved. As they step back, he finds himself again.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you. And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Yet at the journey&#8217;s ending there will be no gap, no distance between truth and you. And all illusions walking in the way you traveled will be gone from you as well, with nothing left to keep the truth apart from God&#8217;s completion, holy as Himself. Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys. There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way. For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God&#8217;s Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">I will step back and let Him lead the way,<br />
For I would walk along the road to Him.</p>
<p>If only you knew who walked by your side&#8230;</p>
<p>I typically edit the thoughts for the day but today&#8217;s piece was so beautiful that I didn&#8217;t feel cutting a single word.</p>
<p>Another way of saying the above is:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Be still and know that I&#8217;m God</strong>.<br />
When we are still, when we quieten the monkey mind, when we get out of the way, the truth shines forth.</p>
<p>When you allow the Truth to be, when you are present, you can gladly smile and know that everything is a gift from the Creator. You can face each thing while smiling knowing that She leads the way.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had a thought which allows me continue A Course In Miracles workbook. Today&#8217;s thought of the day is:
In my defenselessness my safety lies
The workbook says about today&#8217;s thought (my comments in parenthesis):
You who feel threatened by this changing world, its twists of fortune and its bitter jests, its brief relationships and all the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK the actual title of today&#8217;s ACIM workbook exercise is:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I will step back and let Him lead the way</strong></p>
<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned the Ultimate Reality (God, Tao, The One) is beyond all words and concepts. As the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061142662?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webpromotools&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061142662" >Tao Te Ching</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=webpromotools&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061142662" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> says:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Ultimate Reality which is described in words is not the true Ultimate Reality&#8230;.</p>
<p>Even so or especially so I do not like the fact that A Course in Miracles keeps using the pronoun him, his etc.</p>
<p>From today&#8217;s ACIM workbook:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>There is a way of living in the world</strong> that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though <strong>you smile more frequently</strong>. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you, and them through you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they may follow you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>All roads will lead to this one in the end</strong>. (A Course In Miracles starts with the idea that it is a required course &#8211; the only choice we have is when we take it). For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that will remain impossible. All this steps back as truth comes forth in you, to lead your brothers from the ways of death, and set them on the way to happiness. Their suffering is but illusion. Yet they need a guide to lead them out of it, for they mistake illusion for the truth.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Such is salvation&#8217;s call, and nothing more. It asks that you accept the truth, and let it go before you, lighting up the path of ransom from illusion. It is not a ransom with a price. There is no cost, but only gain. Illusion can but seem to hold in chains the holy Son of God. It is but from illusions he is saved. As they step back, he finds himself again.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you. And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Yet at the journey&#8217;s ending there will be no gap, no distance between truth and you. And all illusions walking in the way you traveled will be gone from you as well, with nothing left to keep the truth apart from God&#8217;s completion, holy as Himself. Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys. There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way. For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God&#8217;s Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">I will step back and let Him lead the way,<br />
For I would walk along the road to Him.</p>
<p>If only you knew who walked by your side&#8230;</p>
<p>I typically edit the thoughts for the day but today&#8217;s piece was so beautiful that I didn&#8217;t feel cutting a single word.</p>
<p>Another way of saying the above is:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Be still and know that I&#8217;m God</strong>.<br />
When we are still, when we quieten the monkey mind, when we get out of the way, the truth shines forth.</p>
<p>When you allow the Truth to be, when you are present, you can gladly smile and know that everything is a gift from the Creator. You can face each thing while smiling knowing that She leads the way.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just heard the idea,  &#8220;Anything that God produces is good,&#8221; on an audio as a belief of many mystics. In fact it is a belief that I have when in deep, deep meditation and a state of union with God.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK the actual title of today&#8217;s ACIM workbook exercise is:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I will step back and let Him lead the way</strong></p>
<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned the Ultimate Reality (God, Tao, The One) is beyond all words and concepts. As the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061142662?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webpromotools&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061142662" >Tao Te Ching</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=webpromotools&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061142662" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> says:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Ultimate Reality which is described in words is not the true Ultimate Reality&#8230;.</p>
<p>Even so or especially so I do not like the fact that A Course in Miracles keeps using the pronoun him, his etc.</p>
<p>From today&#8217;s ACIM workbook:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>There is a way of living in the world</strong> that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though <strong>you smile more frequently</strong>. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you, and them through you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they may follow you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>All roads will lead to this one in the end</strong>. (A Course In Miracles starts with the idea that it is a required course &#8211; the only choice we have is when we take it). For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that will remain impossible. All this steps back as truth comes forth in you, to lead your brothers from the ways of death, and set them on the way to happiness. Their suffering is but illusion. Yet they need a guide to lead them out of it, for they mistake illusion for the truth.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Such is salvation&#8217;s call, and nothing more. It asks that you accept the truth, and let it go before you, lighting up the path of ransom from illusion. It is not a ransom with a price. There is no cost, but only gain. Illusion can but seem to hold in chains the holy Son of God. It is but from illusions he is saved. As they step back, he finds himself again.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you. And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Yet at the journey&#8217;s ending there will be no gap, no distance between truth and you. And all illusions walking in the way you traveled will be gone from you as well, with nothing left to keep the truth apart from God&#8217;s completion, holy as Himself. Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys. There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way. For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God&#8217;s Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">I will step back and let Him lead the way,<br />
For I would walk along the road to Him.</p>
<p>If only you knew who walked by your side&#8230;</p>
<p>I typically edit the thoughts for the day but today&#8217;s piece was so beautiful that I didn&#8217;t feel cutting a single word.</p>
<p>Another way of saying the above is:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Be still and know that I&#8217;m God</strong>.<br />
When we are still, when we quieten the monkey mind, when we get out of the way, the truth shines forth.</p>
<p>When you allow the Truth to be, when you are present, you can gladly smile and know that everything is a gift from the Creator. You can face each thing while smiling knowing that She leads the way.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is dedicated to fundamentalists of all religions:
May the Creator grant you some intelligence
I&#8217;ll write about Christian fundamentalists since I know more about the Bible than other holy books. The main thrust of this article applies to others as well.
Points about the old testament:

It was written in Hebrew without any vowels, spaces between words and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK the actual title of today&#8217;s ACIM workbook exercise is:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I will step back and let Him lead the way</strong></p>
<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned the Ultimate Reality (God, Tao, The One) is beyond all words and concepts. As the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061142662?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webpromotools&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061142662" >Tao Te Ching</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=webpromotools&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061142662" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> says:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Ultimate Reality which is described in words is not the true Ultimate Reality&#8230;.</p>
<p>Even so or especially so I do not like the fact that A Course in Miracles keeps using the pronoun him, his etc.</p>
<p>From today&#8217;s ACIM workbook:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>There is a way of living in the world</strong> that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though <strong>you smile more frequently</strong>. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you, and them through you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they may follow you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>All roads will lead to this one in the end</strong>. (A Course In Miracles starts with the idea that it is a required course &#8211; the only choice we have is when we take it). For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that will remain impossible. All this steps back as truth comes forth in you, to lead your brothers from the ways of death, and set them on the way to happiness. Their suffering is but illusion. Yet they need a guide to lead them out of it, for they mistake illusion for the truth.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Such is salvation&#8217;s call, and nothing more. It asks that you accept the truth, and let it go before you, lighting up the path of ransom from illusion. It is not a ransom with a price. There is no cost, but only gain. Illusion can but seem to hold in chains the holy Son of God. It is but from illusions he is saved. As they step back, he finds himself again.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you. And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Yet at the journey&#8217;s ending there will be no gap, no distance between truth and you. And all illusions walking in the way you traveled will be gone from you as well, with nothing left to keep the truth apart from God&#8217;s completion, holy as Himself. Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys. There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way. For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God&#8217;s Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">I will step back and let Him lead the way,<br />
For I would walk along the road to Him.</p>
<p>If only you knew who walked by your side&#8230;</p>
<p>I typically edit the thoughts for the day but today&#8217;s piece was so beautiful that I didn&#8217;t feel cutting a single word.</p>
<p>Another way of saying the above is:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Be still and know that I&#8217;m God</strong>.<br />
When we are still, when we quieten the monkey mind, when we get out of the way, the truth shines forth.</p>
<p>When you allow the Truth to be, when you are present, you can gladly smile and know that everything is a gift from the Creator. You can face each thing while smiling knowing that She leads the way.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the fundamentalist lost the battle about cretin nonsense (they call it creation science &#8211; it is not science and is sacrilegious to tellthe Ultimate Reality, God, Tao, the Creator how it/she should have created the universe) against evolution they tried to come back through the back door with a nearly as stupid idea as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK the actual title of today&#8217;s ACIM workbook exercise is:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I will step back and let Him lead the way</strong></p>
<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned the Ultimate Reality (God, Tao, The One) is beyond all words and concepts. As the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061142662?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webpromotools&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061142662" >Tao Te Ching</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=webpromotools&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061142662" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> says:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Ultimate Reality which is described in words is not the true Ultimate Reality&#8230;.</p>
<p>Even so or especially so I do not like the fact that A Course in Miracles keeps using the pronoun him, his etc.</p>
<p>From today&#8217;s ACIM workbook:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>There is a way of living in the world</strong> that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though <strong>you smile more frequently</strong>. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you, and them through you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they may follow you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>All roads will lead to this one in the end</strong>. (A Course In Miracles starts with the idea that it is a required course &#8211; the only choice we have is when we take it). For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that will remain impossible. All this steps back as truth comes forth in you, to lead your brothers from the ways of death, and set them on the way to happiness. Their suffering is but illusion. Yet they need a guide to lead them out of it, for they mistake illusion for the truth.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Such is salvation&#8217;s call, and nothing more. It asks that you accept the truth, and let it go before you, lighting up the path of ransom from illusion. It is not a ransom with a price. There is no cost, but only gain. Illusion can but seem to hold in chains the holy Son of God. It is but from illusions he is saved. As they step back, he finds himself again.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you. And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Yet at the journey&#8217;s ending there will be no gap, no distance between truth and you. And all illusions walking in the way you traveled will be gone from you as well, with nothing left to keep the truth apart from God&#8217;s completion, holy as Himself. Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys. There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way. For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God&#8217;s Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">I will step back and let Him lead the way,<br />
For I would walk along the road to Him.</p>
<p>If only you knew who walked by your side&#8230;</p>
<p>I typically edit the thoughts for the day but today&#8217;s piece was so beautiful that I didn&#8217;t feel cutting a single word.</p>
<p>Another way of saying the above is:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Be still and know that I&#8217;m God</strong>.<br />
When we are still, when we quieten the monkey mind, when we get out of the way, the truth shines forth.</p>
<p>When you allow the Truth to be, when you are present, you can gladly smile and know that everything is a gift from the Creator. You can face each thing while smiling knowing that She leads the way.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I read the thought for today I liked it very much for it reminded me of responsibility if by that we mean response-ability. That is to say we, and we alone can face up to the vicissitudes of life and respond to whatever happens. In fact from an existentialist philosophy point of view, we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK the actual title of today&#8217;s ACIM workbook exercise is:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I will step back and let Him lead the way</strong></p>
<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned the Ultimate Reality (God, Tao, The One) is beyond all words and concepts. As the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061142662?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webpromotools&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061142662" >Tao Te Ching</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=webpromotools&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061142662" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> says:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Ultimate Reality which is described in words is not the true Ultimate Reality&#8230;.</p>
<p>Even so or especially so I do not like the fact that A Course in Miracles keeps using the pronoun him, his etc.</p>
<p>From today&#8217;s ACIM workbook:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>There is a way of living in the world</strong> that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though <strong>you smile more frequently</strong>. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you, and them through you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they may follow you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>All roads will lead to this one in the end</strong>. (A Course In Miracles starts with the idea that it is a required course &#8211; the only choice we have is when we take it). For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that will remain impossible. All this steps back as truth comes forth in you, to lead your brothers from the ways of death, and set them on the way to happiness. Their suffering is but illusion. Yet they need a guide to lead them out of it, for they mistake illusion for the truth.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Such is salvation&#8217;s call, and nothing more. It asks that you accept the truth, and let it go before you, lighting up the path of ransom from illusion. It is not a ransom with a price. There is no cost, but only gain. Illusion can but seem to hold in chains the holy Son of God. It is but from illusions he is saved. As they step back, he finds himself again.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you. And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Yet at the journey&#8217;s ending there will be no gap, no distance between truth and you. And all illusions walking in the way you traveled will be gone from you as well, with nothing left to keep the truth apart from God&#8217;s completion, holy as Himself. Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys. There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way. For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God&#8217;s Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">I will step back and let Him lead the way,<br />
For I would walk along the road to Him.</p>
<p>If only you knew who walked by your side&#8230;</p>
<p>I typically edit the thoughts for the day but today&#8217;s piece was so beautiful that I didn&#8217;t feel cutting a single word.</p>
<p>Another way of saying the above is:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Be still and know that I&#8217;m God</strong>.<br />
When we are still, when we quieten the monkey mind, when we get out of the way, the truth shines forth.</p>
<p>When you allow the Truth to be, when you are present, you can gladly smile and know that everything is a gift from the Creator. You can face each thing while smiling knowing that She leads the way.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK the actual title of today&#8217;s ACIM workbook exercise is:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I will step back and let Him lead the way</strong></p>
<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned the Ultimate Reality (God, Tao, The One) is beyond all words and concepts. As the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061142662?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webpromotools&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061142662" >Tao Te Ching</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=webpromotools&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061142662" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> says:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Ultimate Reality which is described in words is not the true Ultimate Reality&#8230;.</p>
<p>Even so or especially so I do not like the fact that A Course in Miracles keeps using the pronoun him, his etc.</p>
<p>From today&#8217;s ACIM workbook:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>There is a way of living in the world</strong> that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though <strong>you smile more frequently</strong>. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you, and them through you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they may follow you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>All roads will lead to this one in the end</strong>. (A Course In Miracles starts with the idea that it is a required course &#8211; the only choice we have is when we take it). For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that will remain impossible. All this steps back as truth comes forth in you, to lead your brothers from the ways of death, and set them on the way to happiness. Their suffering is but illusion. Yet they need a guide to lead them out of it, for they mistake illusion for the truth.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Such is salvation&#8217;s call, and nothing more. It asks that you accept the truth, and let it go before you, lighting up the path of ransom from illusion. It is not a ransom with a price. There is no cost, but only gain. Illusion can but seem to hold in chains the holy Son of God. It is but from illusions he is saved. As they step back, he finds himself again.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you. And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Yet at the journey&#8217;s ending there will be no gap, no distance between truth and you. And all illusions walking in the way you traveled will be gone from you as well, with nothing left to keep the truth apart from God&#8217;s completion, holy as Himself. Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys. There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way. For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God&#8217;s Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">I will step back and let Him lead the way,<br />
For I would walk along the road to Him.</p>
<p>If only you knew who walked by your side&#8230;</p>
<p>I typically edit the thoughts for the day but today&#8217;s piece was so beautiful that I didn&#8217;t feel cutting a single word.</p>
<p>Another way of saying the above is:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Be still and know that I&#8217;m God</strong>.<br />
When we are still, when we quieten the monkey mind, when we get out of the way, the truth shines forth.</p>
<p>When you allow the Truth to be, when you are present, you can gladly smile and know that everything is a gift from the Creator. You can face each thing while smiling knowing that She leads the way.</p>
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		<title>Who is it who knows the ego is an illusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Course in Miracles and all other mystical systems I know of talks about the ego (normal conscious awareness that we associate with &#8211; that&#8217;s to say &#8220;I&#8221;).
So then I write, &#8220;I know that I do not exist.&#8221;
The sentence is nonsensical in English as is the phrase, &#8220;Life after death.&#8221;
Yet we understand the latter and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK the actual title of today&#8217;s ACIM workbook exercise is:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I will step back and let Him lead the way</strong></p>
<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned the Ultimate Reality (God, Tao, The One) is beyond all words and concepts. As the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061142662?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webpromotools&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061142662" >Tao Te Ching</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=webpromotools&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061142662" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> says:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Ultimate Reality which is described in words is not the true Ultimate Reality&#8230;.</p>
<p>Even so or especially so I do not like the fact that A Course in Miracles keeps using the pronoun him, his etc.</p>
<p>From today&#8217;s ACIM workbook:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>There is a way of living in the world</strong> that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though <strong>you smile more frequently</strong>. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you, and them through you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they may follow you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>All roads will lead to this one in the end</strong>. (A Course In Miracles starts with the idea that it is a required course &#8211; the only choice we have is when we take it). For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that will remain impossible. All this steps back as truth comes forth in you, to lead your brothers from the ways of death, and set them on the way to happiness. Their suffering is but illusion. Yet they need a guide to lead them out of it, for they mistake illusion for the truth.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Such is salvation&#8217;s call, and nothing more. It asks that you accept the truth, and let it go before you, lighting up the path of ransom from illusion. It is not a ransom with a price. There is no cost, but only gain. Illusion can but seem to hold in chains the holy Son of God. It is but from illusions he is saved. As they step back, he finds himself again.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you. And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Yet at the journey&#8217;s ending there will be no gap, no distance between truth and you. And all illusions walking in the way you traveled will be gone from you as well, with nothing left to keep the truth apart from God&#8217;s completion, holy as Himself. Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys. There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way. For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God&#8217;s Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">I will step back and let Him lead the way,<br />
For I would walk along the road to Him.</p>
<p>If only you knew who walked by your side&#8230;</p>
<p>I typically edit the thoughts for the day but today&#8217;s piece was so beautiful that I didn&#8217;t feel cutting a single word.</p>
<p>Another way of saying the above is:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Be still and know that I&#8217;m God</strong>.<br />
When we are still, when we quieten the monkey mind, when we get out of the way, the truth shines forth.</p>
<p>When you allow the Truth to be, when you are present, you can gladly smile and know that everything is a gift from the Creator. You can face each thing while smiling knowing that She leads the way.</p>
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		<title>Plato and the world of ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago I was taking a class in Persian mystical love poetry (Rumi and Hafiz). I left after a couple of years as I thought (rightly or wrongly) the teacher was influencing the students too much and it was becoming more like a cult.
Anyway, as I had noticed that the main thrust of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK the actual title of today&#8217;s ACIM workbook exercise is:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I will step back and let Him lead the way</strong></p>
<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned the Ultimate Reality (God, Tao, The One) is beyond all words and concepts. As the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061142662?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webpromotools&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061142662" >Tao Te Ching</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=webpromotools&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061142662" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> says:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Ultimate Reality which is described in words is not the true Ultimate Reality&#8230;.</p>
<p>Even so or especially so I do not like the fact that A Course in Miracles keeps using the pronoun him, his etc.</p>
<p>From today&#8217;s ACIM workbook:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>There is a way of living in the world</strong> that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though <strong>you smile more frequently</strong>. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you, and them through you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they may follow you.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>All roads will lead to this one in the end</strong>. (A Course In Miracles starts with the idea that it is a required course &#8211; the only choice we have is when we take it). For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that will remain impossible. All this steps back as truth comes forth in you, to lead your brothers from the ways of death, and set them on the way to happiness. Their suffering is but illusion. Yet they need a guide to lead them out of it, for they mistake illusion for the truth.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Such is salvation&#8217;s call, and nothing more. It asks that you accept the truth, and let it go before you, lighting up the path of ransom from illusion. It is not a ransom with a price. There is no cost, but only gain. Illusion can but seem to hold in chains the holy Son of God. It is but from illusions he is saved. As they step back, he finds himself again.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you. And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Yet at the journey&#8217;s ending there will be no gap, no distance between truth and you. And all illusions walking in the way you traveled will be gone from you as well, with nothing left to keep the truth apart from God&#8217;s completion, holy as Himself. Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys. There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way. For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God&#8217;s Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">I will step back and let Him lead the way,<br />
For I would walk along the road to Him.</p>
<p>If only you knew who walked by your side&#8230;</p>
<p>I typically edit the thoughts for the day but today&#8217;s piece was so beautiful that I didn&#8217;t feel cutting a single word.</p>
<p>Another way of saying the above is:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Be still and know that I&#8217;m God</strong>.<br />
When we are still, when we quieten the monkey mind, when we get out of the way, the truth shines forth.</p>
<p>When you allow the Truth to be, when you are present, you can gladly smile and know that everything is a gift from the Creator. You can face each thing while smiling knowing that She leads the way.</p>
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