Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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1 Today’s idea identifies you with your One Self. It accepts
no split identity, nor tries to weave opposing factors into unity. It
simply states the truth. Practice this truth today as often as you can,
for it will bring your mind from conflict to the quiet fields of peace.
No chill of fear can enter, for your mind has been absolved from
madness, letting go illusions of a split identity.
2 We state again the truth about your Self, the holy Son of
God who rests in you whose mind has been restored to sanity. You are the
Spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father’s love and peace and joy.
You are the Spirit which completes Himself and shares His function as
Creator. He is with you always, as you are with Him.
3 Today we try to bring reality still closer to your mind.
Each time you practice, awareness is brought a little nearer at least;
sometimes a thousand years or more are saved. The minutes which you give
are multiplied over and over, for the miracle makes use of time but is
not ruled by it. Salvation is a miracle, the first and last; the first
that is the last, for it is one.
4 You are the Spirit in whose mind abides the miracle in
which all time stands still; the miracle in which a minute spent in
using these ideas becomes a time which has no length and which has no
end. Give, then, these minutes willingly, and count on Him Who promised
to lay timelessness beside them. He will offer all His strength to every
little effort which you make.
5 Give Him the minutes which He needs today to help you
understand with Him you are the Spirit that abides in Him, and Which
calls through His Voice to every living thing; offers His sight to
everyone who asks; replaces error with the simple truth.
6 The Holy Spirit will be glad to take five minutes of each
hour from your hands and carry them around this aching world, where pain
and misery appear to rule. He will not overlook one open mind that will
accept the healing gift they bring, and He will lay them everywhere He
knows they will be welcome. And they will increase in healing power each
time someone accepts them as his thoughts and uses them to heal.
7 Thus will your gift to Him be multiplied a thousand-fold
and tens of thousands more. And when it is returned to you, it will
surpass in might the little gift you gave as much as does the radiance
of the sun outshine the tiny gleam a firefly makes an uncertain moment,
and goes out. Yet will the steady brilliance of this light remain, and
leads you out of darkness, nor will you be able to forget the way again.
8 Begin these happy exercises with the words the Holy Spirit
speaks to you, and let them echo round the world through Him:
9 Spirit am I, a holy Son of God,
free of all limits, safe and healed and whole,
free to forgive, and free to save the world.
10 Expressed through you, the Holy Spirit will accept this
gift which you received of Him, increase its power, and give it back to
you.
11 Offer each practice period today gladly to Him. And He
will speak to you, reminding you that you are Spirit, one with Him and
God, your brothers and your Self. Listen for His assurance every time
you speak the words He offers you today, and let Him tell your mind that
they are true.
12 Use them against temptation, and escape its sorry
consequences if you yield to the belief that you are something else. The
Holy Spirit gives you peace today. Receive His words, and offer them to
Him.