we find peace when we forgive the world…
We are a bunch of people practicing the forgiveness of A Course in Miracles.
We meet:
Every Tuesday night, 7pm–9pm at the Theosophical Society, 355 Wickham Tce., Spring HIll (entry up the stairs on the left of the building)
Every 2nd and 4th Sunday morning, 10.30am at the Lavalla Centre, 58 Fernberg Rd., Paddington. (entry through the door on the right of the building, up the stairs at the end of the corridor and first room on your left). We often go for lunch afterwards.
Saturdays, 12pm (AEST), Worldwide online via Zoom, Meeting ID: 810 8300 9641
About Us
Each day should be devoted to miracles. (ACIM, T-1.I.15:1)
It seems to you the world will utterly abandon you if you but raise your eyes. Yet all that will occur is you will leave the world forever. This is the re-establishment of your will. Look upon it, open-eyed, and you will nevermore believe that you are at the mercy of things beyond you, forces you cannot control, and thoughts that come to you against your will. (ACIM, T-19.IV-D.7:1–4)
The secret of salvation is but this: that you are doing this unto yourself. No matter what the form of the attack, this still is true. Whoever takes the role of enemy and of attacker, still is this the truth. Whatever seems to be the cause of any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true. For you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let them be as hateful and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to recognize it is your dream. (ACIM, T-27.VIII.10:1–6)
Is the ego the great imposter?
Learning of Christ is easy, for to perceive with Him involves no strain at all. His perceptions are your natural awareness, and it is only the distortions you introduce that tire you. (ACIM, T-11.VI.3:7–8)
Your mind can be possessed by illusions, but spirit is eternally free (ACIM, T-1.IV.2:8)
Christ waits for your acceptance of Him as yourself, and of His Wholeness as yours. (ACIM, T-11.IV.7:3)
Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires to see. (ACIM, M-19.5:2)
The sight of Christ is all there is to see. The song of Christ is all there is to hear. The hand of Christ is all there is to hold. There is no journey but to walk with Him. (ACIM, T-24.V.7:7–10)
Interview with Helen.
if God created you by extending Himself as you, you can only extend yourself as He did. Only joy increases forever, since joy and eternity are inseparable (ACIM, T-7.I.5:2–3)
But it is pride that argues you have come into a world quite separate from yourself, impervious to what you think, and quite apart from what you chance to think it is. There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts to teach. Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth. He will return and go still farther, or perhaps step back a while and then return again (ACIM, W-132.6:1–5)
Although you can perceive false associations, you can never make them real except to yourself. You believe in what you make (ACIM, T-1.VII.3:7–8)
The ego and the spirit do not know each other (ACIM, T-4.VI.4:1)
The reason this course is simple is that truth is simple. Complexity is of the ego, and is nothing more than the ego’s attempt to obscure the obvious (ACIM, T-15.IV.6:1–2)
And laughter will replace your sighs, because God’s Son remembered that he is God’s Son. (ACIM, T-27.II.8:9)
The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. ⁷It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance (ACIM, T-in.1:6-7)
I will not lead my life alone today. I do not understand the world, and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness. But there is One Who knows all that is best for me. And He is glad to make no choices for me but the ones that lead to God. I give this day to Him, for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the way to God. (W-242.1:1–5)
Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. ²Some of them you may actively resist. W-in.9:1-2
“I rest in God.” ²This thought will bring to you the rest and quiet, peace and stillness, and the safety and the happiness you seek. ³“I rest in God.” ⁴This thought has power to wake the sleeping truth in you, whose vision sees beyond appearances to that same truth in everyone and everything there is. ⁵Here is the end of suffering for all the world, and everyone who ever came and yet will come to linger for a while. ⁶Here is the thought in which the Son of God is born again, to recognize himself.
3. “I rest in God.” ²Completely undismayed, this thought will carry you through storms and strife, past misery and pain, past loss and death, and onward to the certainty of God. ³There is no suffering it cannot heal. ⁴There is no problem that it cannot solve. ⁵And no appearance but will turn to truth before the eyes of you who rest in God.
God calls you and you do not hear, for you are preoccupied with your own voice (ACIM, T-13.V.6:6)
Calligraphy by Mark
Guilt is a sure sign that your thinking is unnatural (ACIM, T-5.V.4:8)
Here is your innocence, waiting to clothe you and protect you, and make you ready for the final step in the journey inward. Here are the dark and heavy garments of guilt laid by, and gently replaced by purity and love. (ACIM, T-18.IX.9:6–7)
Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself. (ACIM, W-264.1:1–4)
You have probably reacted for years as if you were being crucified. This is a marked tendency of the separated, who always refuse to consider what they have done to themselves. (ACIM, T-6.I.3:1–2)
Nothing you give is lost to you or anyone, but cherished and preserved in Heaven, where all of the treasures given to God’s Son are kept for him, and offered anyone who but holds out his hand in willingness they be received. (ACIM, T-25.IX.2:4)
The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ in all his brothers and remembered God. So he became identified with Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God. The man was an illusion, for he seemed to be a separate being, walking by himself, within a body that appeared to hold his self from Self, as all illusions do. Yet who can save unless he sees illusions and then identifies them as what they are? Jesus remains a Savior because he saw the false without accepting it as true. And Christ needed his form that He might appear to men and save them from their own illusions. (ACIM, C-5.2:1–6)
You have the vision that enables you to see the body not. ⁴And as you look upon your brother, you will see an altar to your Father, holy as Heaven, glowing with radiant purity and sparkling with the shining lilies you laid upon it. ⁵What can you value more than this? ⁶Why do you think the body is a better home, a safer shelter for God’s Son? ⁷Why would you rather look on it than on the truth? ⁸How can the engine of destruction be preferred, and chosen to replace the holy home the Holy Spirit offers, where He will dwell with you? (ACIM, T-20.VIII.4:3-8)
Perception is a choice and not a fact. But on this choice depends far more than you may realize as yet. For on the voice you choose to hear, and on the sights you choose to see, depends entirely your whole belief in what you are. Perception is a witness but to this, and never to reality. (ACIM, T-21.V.1:7–10)
All the effects of guilt are here no more. For guilt is over. In its passing went its consequences, left without a cause. Why would you cling to it in memory if you did not desire its effects? Remembering is as selective as perception, being its past tense. It is perception of the past as if it were occurring now, and still were there to see. Memory, like perception, is a skill made up by you to take the place of what God gave in your creation (ACIM, T-28.I.2:1–7)
Handy little mud map of ACIM ideas
Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if it is not there? Do you prefer that you be right or happy? (ACIM, T-29.VII.1:7–9)
This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace (ACIM, W-361–365)
Your creation by God is the only Foundation that cannot be shaken, because the light is in it. Your starting point is truth, and you must return to your Beginning. Much has been seen since then, but nothing has really happened. Your Self is still in peace, even though your mind is in conflict. You have not yet gone back far enough, and that is why you become so fearful. As you approach the Beginning, you feel the fear of the destruction of your thought system upon you as if it were the fear of death. There is no death, but there is a belief in death. (ACIM, T-3.VII.5:5–11)
Your mind can be possessed by illusions, but spirit is eternally free. If a mind perceives without love, it perceives an empty shell and is unaware of the spirit within. (ACIM, T-1.IV.2:8–9)
Father, we would return our minds to You. We have betrayed them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them with thoughts of violence and death. Now would we rest again in You, as You created us (ACIM, W-249.2:1–3)
The Second Coming of Christ means nothing more than the end of the ego’s rule and the healing of the mind. ³I was created like you in the First, and I have called you to join with me in the Second. ⁴I am in charge of the Second Coming, and my judgment, which is used only for protection, cannot be wrong because it never attacks. (ACIM, T-4.IV.10:2-4)
Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. ²Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. ³Hold onto nothing. ⁴Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. ⁵Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God. W-189.7:1-5
God holds your future as He holds your past and present. ²They are one to Him, and so they should be one to you. ³Yet in this world, the temporal progression still seems real. ⁴And so you are not asked to understand the lack of sequence really found in time. ⁵You are but asked to let the future go, and place it in God’s Hands. ⁶And you will see by your experience that you have laid the past and present in His Hands as well, because the past will punish you no more, and future dread will now be meaningless. W-194.4:1-6
Everyone experiences fear.
²Yet it would take very little right thinking to realize why fear occurs.
³Few appreciate the real power of the mind, and no one remains fully aware of it all the time.
⁴However, if you hope to spare yourself from fear there are some things you must realize, and realize fully.
⁵The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force.
⁶It never sleeps.
⁷Every instant it is creating.
⁸It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains.
⁹It appears at first glance that to believe such power about yourself is arrogant, but that is not the real reason you do not believe it.
¹⁰You prefer to believe that your thoughts cannot exert real influence because you are actually afraid of them.
¹¹This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent.
¹²If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it.
¹³There are no idle thoughts.
¹⁴All thinking produces form at some level. T-2.VI.9:1-14