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God's Will is your salvation. Would He not have given you the means to find it? If He wills you to
have it, He must have made it possible and very easy to obtain it. Your brothers are everywhere. You do not have to seek far for salvation. Every minute and every second gives you a chance to save
yourself. Do not lose these chances, not because they will not return, but because delay of joy is needless. God wills you perfect happiness
now. Is it possible that this is not also
your will? And is it possible that this is not
also the will of your brothers?
Par 38
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Lesson 106
Let me be still and
listen to the truth.
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1 If you will lay aside the ego's voice, however loudly it may seem to call; if you will not accept its petty gifts which give you nothing that you really want; if you will listen with an open mind, which has not told you what salvation is; then you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in its messages.
2 Listen, and hear your Father speak to you through His appointed Voice, Which silences the thunder of the meaningless and shows the way to peace to those who cannot see. Be still today and listen to the truth. Be not deceived by voices of the dead which tell you they have found the source of life and offer it to you for your belief. Attend them not, but listen to the truth.
3 Be not afraid today to circumvent the voices of the world; walk lightly past their meaningless persuasion. Hear them not. Be still today, and listen to the truth. Go past all things which do not speak of Him Who holds your happiness within His hand, held out to you in welcome and in love. Hear only Him today, and do not wait to reach Him longer. Hear one Voice today.
4 Today the promise of God's Word is kept. Hear and be silent. He would speak to you. He comes with miracles a thousand times as happy and as wonderful as those you ever dreamt or wished for in your dreams. His miracles are true. They will not fade when dreaming ends. They end the dream instead and last forever, for they come from God to His dear Son, whose other name is you.
5 Prepare yourself for miracles today. Today allow your Father's ancient pledge to you and all your brothers to be kept. Hear Him today, and listen to the Word which lifts the veil which lies upon the earth and wakes all those who sleep and cannot see. God calls to them through you. He needs your voice to speak to them, for who could reach God's Son except his Father calling through your Self?
6 Hear Him today, and offer Him your voice to speak to all the multitudes who wait to hear the Word that He will speak today. Be ready for salvation. It is here and will today be given unto you. And you will learn your function from the One Who chose it in your Father's Name for you.
7 Listen today, and you will hear a Voice Which will resound throughout the world through you. The Bringer of all miracles has need that you receive them first and thus become the joyous giver of what you received. Thus does salvation start and thus it ends; when everything is yours, and everything is given away, it will remain with you forever. And the L e s s o n has been learned.
8 Today we practice giving, not the way you understand it now, but as it is. The longer exercises should begin with this request for your enlightenment:
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I will be still and listen to the truth. What does it mean to give and to receive?
10 Ask and expect an answer. Your request is one whose answer has been waiting long to be received by you. It will begin the ministry for which you came and which will free the world from thinking giving is a way to lose. And so the world becomes ready to understand and to receive.
11 Be still and listen to the truth today. For each five minutes spent in listening, a thousand minds are opened to the truth. And they will hear the holy Word you hear. And when the hour is past, you will again release a thousand more who pause to ask that truth be given them along with you.
12 Today the holy Word of God is kept through your receiving it to give away, so you can teach the world what giving means by listening and learning it of Him. Do not forget today to reinforce your choice to hear and to receive the Word by this reminder, given to yourself as often as is possible today:
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Let me be still and listen to the truth. I am the messenger of God today. My voice is His, to give what I receive.
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Chapter 9
The Correction of Error
VI. Salvation and God's Will
Par 38-47
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38 God's Will is your salvation. Would He not have given you the means to find it? If He wills you to
have it, He must have made it possible and very easy to obtain it. Your brothers are everywhere. You do not have to seek far for salvation. Every minute and every second gives you a chance to save
yourself. Do not lose these chances, not because they will not return, but because delay of joy is needless. God wills you perfect happiness
now. Is it possible that this is not also
your will? And is it possible that this is not
also the will of your brothers?
39 Consider, then, that in this joint will you
are all united, and in this
only. There will be disagreement on anything else, but
not on this. This, then, is where peace
abides. And
you abide in peace when you so decide. Yet you cannot abide in peace unless you accept the Atonement, because the Atonement
is the way to peace. The reason is very simple and so obvious that it is often overlooked. That is because the ego is
afraid of the obvious since obviousness is the essential characteristic of reality. Yet
you cannot overlook it unless you are
not looking.
40 It is
perfectly obvious that if the Holy Spirit looks with love on
all He perceives, He looks with love on
you. His evaluation of you is based on His knowledge of what you are, and so He evaluates you truly. And this evaluation
must be in your mind because
He is. The ego is also in your mind because you have
accepted it there.
Its evaluation of you, however, is the exact opposite of the Holy Spirit's because the ego does
not love you. It is unaware of what you are and wholly mistrustful of
everything it perceives because its own perceptions are so shifting. The ego is therefore capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst. That is its range. It cannot exceed it because of its uncertainty. And it can never go
beyond it because it can never
be certain.
41 You, then, have two
conflicting evaluations of yourself in your minds, and they
cannot both be true. You do not yet realize how
completely different these evaluations are because you do not understand how lofty the Holy Spirit's perception of you really is. He is not deceived by anything you do because He never forgets what you
are. The ego is deceived by everything you do, even when you respond to the Holy Spirit, because at such times its confusion
increases. The ego is, therefore, particularly likely to attack you when you react lovingly because it has evaluated you as
unloving, and you are going
against its judgment.
42 The ego will begin to
attack your motives as soon as they become clearly out of accord with its perception of you. This is when it will shift abruptly from suspiciousness to viciousness, since its uncertainty is increased. Yet it is surely pointless to attack in return. What can this mean except that you are
agreeing with the ego's evaluation of what you are? If you are willing to see yourself as unloving, you will
not be happy. You are condemning yourself and
must therefore regard yourself as inadequate. Would you look to the ego to help you escape from a sense of inadequacy it has
produced and must
maintain for its existence? Can you
escape from its evaluation of you by using its methods for keeping this picture
intact?
43 You cannot evaluate an insane belief system from
within it. Its own range precludes this. You can only go
beyond it, look back from a point where
sanity exists,
and see the contrast. Only
by this contrast can insanity be judged as insane. With the grandeur of God in you, you have chosen to be little and to lament your littleness.
Within the system which dictated this choice, the lament
is inevitable. Your littleness is taken for granted there, and you do
not ask, "Who granted it?" The question is meaningless within the ego's thought system because it opens the
whole thought system to question.
44 We said before that the ego does not know what a real question is. Lack of knowledge of any kind is always associated with
unwillingness to know and produces a total lack of knowledge simply because knowledge
is total.
Not to question your littleness, therefore, is to deny
all knowledge and keep the ego's
whole thought system intact. You cannot retain
part of a thought system because it can be questioned
only at its foundation. And this must be questioned from beyond it because,
within it, its foundation
does stand. The Holy Spirit judges against the reality of the ego's thought system merely because He knows its
foundation is not true. Therefore, nothing that arises from it means anything. The Holy Spirit judges every belief you hold in terms of where it comes from. If it comes from God, He knows it to be true. If it does not, He knows that it is meaningless.
45 Whenever you question your value, say:
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God Himself is incomplete without me.
47 Remember this when the ego speaks, and you will not hear it. The truth about you is so lofty that nothing unworthy of God is worthy of you. Choose, then, what you want in these terms and accept nothing that you would not offer to God as wholly fitting for Him, for you do not
want anything else. Return your part of Him, and He will give you all of Himself in exchange for your return of what belongs to Him and renders Him complete.
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Lesson 106
Let me be still and
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Sarah's Commentary:
The truth is in us, but the raucous voice of the ego must be stilled if we are to hear the Voice of truth.
"If you will lay aside the ego's voice, however loudly it may seem to call; if you will not accept its petty gifts that give you nothing that you really want; if you will listen with an open mind, that has not told you what salvation is; then you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its messages."
(W.106.1.1)
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