Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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59 Nothing beyond yourself can make you fearful or loving, because
nothing is beyond you. Time and eternity are both in your mind and
will conflict until you perceive time solely as a means to regain
eternity. You cannot do this as long as you believe that anything
which happens to you is caused by factors outside yourself. You must
learn that time is solely at your disposal, and that nothing in the
world can take this responsibility from you. You can violate God’s
laws in your imagination, but you cannot escape from them. They were
established for your protection and are as inviolate as your safety.
60 God created nothing beside you, and nothing beside you exists, for
you are part of Him. What except Him can exist? Nothing beyond Him
can happen, because nothing except Him is real. Your creations add to
Him as you do, but nothing is added that is different, because
everything has always been. What can upset you except the ephemeral,
and how can the ephemeral be real if you are God’s only creation, and
He created you eternal? Your holy will establishes everything that
happens to you. Every response you make to everything you perceive
is up to you, because your will determines your perception of it.
61 God does not change His Mind about you, for He is not uncertain of
Himself. And what He knows can be known because He does not know
only for Himself. He created you for Himself, but He gave you the power
to create for your self so you could be like Him. That is why your
will is holy. Can anything exceed the love of God? Can anything, then,
exceed your will? Nothing can reach you from beyond it because, being
in God, you encompass everything. Believe this, and you will realize
how much is up to you. When anything threatens your peace of mind, ask
yourself,
62 Has God changed His Mind about me?
63 Then accept His decision, for it is indeed changeless, and refuse
to change your mind about yourself. God will never decide against
you, or He would be deciding against Himself.
64 The reason you do not know your creations is simply that you would
decide against them as long as your minds are split, and to attack what
you have created is impossible. But remember that it is as impossible
for God. The law of creation is that you love your creations as
yourself because they are part of you. Everything that was created is
therefore perfectly safe, because the laws of God protect it by His
Love. Any part of your mind that does not know this has banished itself
from knowledge because it has not met its conditions.
65 Who could have done this but you? Recognize this gladly, for in this
recognition lies the realization that your banishment is not of God
and therefore does not exist. You are at home in God, dreaming of exile
but perfectly capable of awakening to reality. Is it your will to do so?
You know from your own experience that what you see in dreams you think
is real as long as you are asleep. Yet the instant you waken, you know
that everything that seemed to happen did not happen at all. You do
not think this mysterious, even though all the laws of what you awakened
to were violated while you slept. Is it not possible that you merely
shifted from one dream to another, without really wakening?
66 Would you bother to reconcile what happened in conflicting dreams, or
would you dismiss both together if you discovered that reality is in
accord with neither? You do not remember being awake. When you hear the
Holy Spirit, you merely feel better because loving seems possible to
you, but you do not remember yet that it once was so. And it is in
this remembering that you will know it can be so again. What is possible
has not yet been accomplished. Yet what has once been is so now if it
is eternal. When you remember, you will know what you remember is
eternal and therefore is now.
67 You will remember everything the instant you desire it wholly, for
if to desire wholly is to create, you will have willed away the
separation, returning your mind simultaneously to your Creator and your
creations. Knowing them, you will have no wish to sleep but only the
will to waken and be glad. Dreams will be impossible, because you will
want only truth, and being at last your will, it will be yours.