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<center>'''I feel the Love of God within me now.'''</center>
I feel the Love of God within me now.
There is a light in you the world can not perceive. And with its eyes you
will not see this light, for you are blinded by the world. Yet you have eyes
to see it. It is there for you to look upon. It was not placed in you to be kept
hidden from your sight. This light is a reflection of the thought we practice
now. To feel the Love of God within you is to see the world anew, shining
in innocence, alive with hope, and blessed with perfect charity and love.
Who could feel fear in such a world as this? It welcomes you, rejoices that
you came, and sings your praises as it keeps you safe from every form of
danger and of pain. It offers you a warm and gentle home in which to stay a
while. It blesses you throughout the day, and watches through the night as
silent guardian of your holy sleep. It sees salvation in you, and protects the
light in you, in which it sees its own. It offers you its flowers and its snow,
in thankfulness for your benevolence.
This is the world the Love of God reveals. It is so different from the world
you see through darkened eyes of malice and of fear, that one belies the
other. Only one can be perceived at all. The other one is wholly
meaningless. A world in which forgiveness shines on everything, and peace
offers its gentle light to everyone, is inconceivable to those who see a world
of hatred rising from attack, poised to avenge, to murder and destroy.
Yet is the world of hatred equally unseen and inconceivable to those who
feel God's Love in them. Their world reflects the quietness and peace that
shines in them; the gentleness and innocence they see surrounding them; the
joy with which they look out from the endless wells of joy within. What
they have felt in them they look upon, and see its sure reflection
everywhere.
What would you see? The choice is given you. But learn and do not let your
mind forget this law of seeing: You will look upon that which you feel
within. If hatred finds a place within your heart, you will perceive a fearful
world, held cruelly in death's sharp-pointed, bony fingers. If you feel the
Love of God within you, you will look out on a world of mercy and of love.
Today we pass illusions, as we seek to reach to what is true in us, and feel
its all-embracing tenderness, its Love which knows us perfect as itself, its
sight which is the gift its Love bestows on us. We learn the way today. It is
as sure as Love itself, to which it carries us. For its simplicity avoids the
snares the foolish convolutions of the world's apparent reasoning but serve
to hide.
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. Empty 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. Hold onto nothing. Do not bring with you one thought
the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything.
Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands
unto your God.
Is it not He Who knows the way to you? You need not know the way to
Him. Your part is simply to allow all obstacles that you have interposed
between the Son and God the Father to be quietly removed forever. God
will do His part in joyful and immediate response. Ask and receive. But do
not make demands, nor point the road to God by which He should appear to
you. The way to reach Him is merely to let Him be. For in that way is your
reality proclaimed as well.
And so today we do not choose the way in which we go to Him. But we do
choose to let Him come. And with this choice we rest. And in our quiet
hearts and open minds, His Love will blaze its pathway of itself. What has
not been denied is surely there, if it be true and can be surely reached. God
knows His Son, and knows the way to him. He does not need His Son to
show Him how to find His way. Through every opened door His Love
shines outward from its home within, and lightens up the world in
innocence.
<center>''Father, we do not know the way to You. But we have called,''</center>
<center>''and You have answered us. We will not interfere. Salvation's''</center>
<center>''ways are not our own, for they belong to You. And it is unto''</center>
<center>''You we look for them. Our hands are open to receive Your''</center>
<center>''gifts. We have no thoughts we think apart from You, and''</center>
<center>''cherish no beliefs of what we are, or Who created us. Yours is''</center>
<center>''the way that we would find and follow. And we ask but that''</center>
<center>''Your Will, which is our own as well, be done in us and in the''</center>
<center>''world, that it become a part of Heaven now. Amen.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
<center>'''I feel the Love of God within me now.'''</center>
I feel the Love of God within me now.
There is a light in you the world can not perceive. And with its eyes you
will not see this light, for you are blinded by the world. Yet you have eyes
to see it. It is there for you to look upon. It was not placed in you to be kept
hidden from your sight. This light is a reflection of the thought we practice
now. To feel the Love of God within you is to see the world anew, shining
in innocence, alive with hope, and blessed with perfect charity and love.
Who could feel fear in such a world as this? It welcomes you, rejoices that
you came, and sings your praises as it keeps you safe from every form of
danger and of pain. It offers you a warm and gentle home in which to stay a
while. It blesses you throughout the day, and watches through the night as
silent guardian of your holy sleep. It sees salvation in you, and protects the
light in you, in which it sees its own. It offers you its flowers and its snow,
in thankfulness for your benevolence.
This is the world the Love of God reveals. It is so different from the world
you see through darkened eyes of malice and of fear, that one belies the
other. Only one can be perceived at all. The other one is wholly
meaningless. A world in which forgiveness shines on everything, and peace
offers its gentle light to everyone, is inconceivable to those who see a world
of hatred rising from attack, poised to avenge, to murder and destroy.
Yet is the world of hatred equally unseen and inconceivable to those who
feel God's Love in them. Their world reflects the quietness and peace that
shines in them; the gentleness and innocence they see surrounding them; the
joy with which they look out from the endless wells of joy within. What
they have felt in them they look upon, and see its sure reflection
everywhere.
What would you see? The choice is given you. But learn and do not let your
mind forget this law of seeing: You will look upon that which you feel
within. If hatred finds a place within your heart, you will perceive a fearful
world, held cruelly in death's sharp-pointed, bony fingers. If you feel the
Love of God within you, you will look out on a world of mercy and of love.
Today we pass illusions, as we seek to reach to what is true in us, and feel
its all-embracing tenderness, its Love which knows us perfect as itself, its
sight which is the gift its Love bestows on us. We learn the way today. It is
as sure as Love itself, to which it carries us. For its simplicity avoids the
snares the foolish convolutions of the world's apparent reasoning but serve
to hide.
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. Empty 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. Hold onto nothing. Do not bring with you one thought
the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything.
Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands
unto your God.
Is it not He Who knows the way to you? You need not know the way to
Him. Your part is simply to allow all obstacles that you have interposed
between the Son and God the Father to be quietly removed forever. God
will do His part in joyful and immediate response. Ask and receive. But do
not make demands, nor point the road to God by which He should appear to
you. The way to reach Him is merely to let Him be. For in that way is your
reality proclaimed as well.
And so today we do not choose the way in which we go to Him. But we do
choose to let Him come. And with this choice we rest. And in our quiet
hearts and open minds, His Love will blaze its pathway of itself. What has
not been denied is surely there, if it be true and can be surely reached. God
knows His Son, and knows the way to him. He does not need His Son to
show Him how to find His way. Through every opened door His Love
shines outward from its home within, and lightens up the world in
innocence.
<center>''Father, we do not know the way to You. But we have called,''</center>
<center>''and You have answered us. We will not interfere. Salvation's''</center>
<center>''ways are not our own, for they belong to You. And it is unto''</center>
<center>''You we look for them. Our hands are open to receive Your''</center>
<center>''gifts. We have no thoughts we think apart from You, and''</center>
<center>''cherish no beliefs of what we are, or Who created us. Yours is''</center>
<center>''the way that we would find and follow. And we ask but that''</center>
<center>''Your Will, which is our own as well, be done in us and in the''</center>
<center>''world, that it become a part of Heaven now. Amen.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
