Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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1 Today’s idea but states the simple truth that makes the
thought of sin impossible. It promises there is no cause for guilt, and
being causeless it does not exist. It follows surely from the basic
thought so often mentioned in the text—ideas leave not their source. If
this be true, how can you be apart from God? How could you walk the
world alone and separate from your Source?
2 We are not inconsistent in the thoughts that we present in
our curriculum. Truth must be true throughout if it be true. It cannot
contradict itself nor be in parts uncertain and in others sure. You
cannot walk the world apart from God because you could not be without
Him. He is what your life is. Where you are, He is. There is one Life.
That Life you share with Him. Nothing can be apart from Him and live.
3 Yet where He is there must be holiness as well as life. No
attribute of His remains unshared by everything that lives. What lives
is holy as Himself because what shares His life is part of Holiness and
could no more be sinful than the sun could choose to be of ice, the sea
elect to be apart from water, or the grass to grow with roots suspended
in the air.
4 There is a Light in you Which cannot die, Whose Presence is
so holy that the world is sanctified because of you. All things that
live bring gifts to you and offer them in gratitude and gladness at your
feet. The scent of flowers is their gift to you. The waves bow down
before you, and the trees extend their arms to shield you from the heat
and lay their leaves before you on the ground that you may walk in
softness, while the wind sinks to a whisper round your holy head.
5 The Light in you is what the universe longs to behold. All
living things are still before you, for they recognize Who walks with
you. The light you carry is their own, and thus they see in you their
holiness, saluting you as savior and as God. Accept their reverence, for
it is due to Holiness itself Which walks with you, transforming in Its
gentle Light all things into Its likeness and Its purity.
6 This is the way salvation works. As you step back, the
Light in you steps forward and encompasses the world. It heralds not the
end of sin in punishment and death. In lightness and in laughter is it
gone, because its quaint absurdity is seen. It is a foolish thought, a
silly dream, not frightening, ridiculous perhaps, but who would waste an
instant in approach to God Himself for such a senseless whim?
7 Yet you have wasted many, many years on just this foolish
thought. The past is gone with all its fantasies. They keep you bound no
longer. The approach to God is near. And in the little interval of doubt
which still remains, you may perhaps lose sight of your Companion, and
mistake Him for the senseless, ancient dream that now is past.
8 “Who walks with me?” This question should be asked a
thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and established
peace. Today let doubting cease. God speaks for you in answering your
question with these words:
9 I walk with God in perfect holiness.
I light the world, I light my mind and all
The minds which God created one with me.