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<center>'''I will accept Atonement for myself.'''</center>
I will accept Atonement for myself.
Here is the end of choice. For here we come to a decision to accept
ourselves as God created us. And what is choice except uncertainty of what
we are? There is no doubt that is not rooted here. There is no question but
reflects this one. There is no conflict that does not entail the single, simple
question, "What am I?"
Yet who could ask this question except one who has refused to recognize
himself? Only refusal to accept yourself could make the question seem to be
sincere. The only thing that can be surely known by any living thing is what
it is. From this one point of certainty, it looks on other things as certain as
itself.
Uncertainty about what you must be is self-deception on a scale so vast, its
magnitude can hardly be conceived. To be alive and not to know yourself is
to believe that you are really dead. For what is life except to be yourself,
and what but you can be alive instead? Who is the doubter? What is it he
doubts? Whom does he question? Who can answer him?
He merely states that he is not himself, and therefore, being something else,
becomes a questioner of what that something is. Yet he could never be alive
at all unless he knew the answer. If he asks as if he does not know, it merely
shows he does not want to be the thing he is. He has accepted it because he
lives; has judged against it and denied its worth, and has decided that he
does not know the only certainty by which he lives.
Thus he becomes uncertain of his life, for what it is has been denied by him.
It is for this denial that you need Atonement. Your denial made no change
in what you are. But you have split your mind into what knows and does not
know the truth. You are yourself. There is no doubt of this. And yet you
doubt it. But you do not ask what part of you can really doubt yourself. It
cannot really be a part of you that asks this question. For it asks of one who
knows the answer. Were it part of you, then certainty would be impossible.
Atonement remedies the strange idea that it is possible to doubt yourself,
and be unsure of what you really are. This is the depth of madness. Yet it is
the universal question of the world. What does this mean except the world is
mad? Why share its madness in the sad belief that what is universal here is
true?
Nothing the world believes is true. It is a place whose purpose is to be a
home where those who claim they do not know themselves can come to
question what it is they are. And they will come again until the time
Atonement is accepted, and they learn it is impossible to doubt yourself,
and not to be aware of what you are.
Only acceptance can be asked of you, for what you are is certain. It is set
forever in the holy Mind of God, and in your own. It is so far beyond all
doubt and question that to ask what it must be is all the proof you need to
show that you believe the contradiction that you know not what you cannot
fail to know. Is this a question, or a statement which denies itself in
statement? Let us not allow our holy minds to occupy themselves with
senseless musings such as this.
We have a mission here. We did not come to reinforce the madness that we
once believed in. Let us not forget the goal that we accepted. It is more than
just our happiness alone we came to gain. What we accept as what we are
proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. Fail not your brothers, or
you fail yourself. Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are
part of you, and you of them.
This does Atonement teach, and demonstrates the Oneness of God's Son is
unassailed by his belief he knows not what he is. Today accept Atonement,
not to change reality, but merely to accept the truth about yourself, and go
your way rejoicing in the endless Love of God. It is but this that we are
asked to do. It is but this that we will do today.
Five minutes in the morning and at night we will devote to dedicate our
minds to our assignment for today. We start with this review of what our
mission is:
<center>''I will accept Atonement for myself,For I remain as God created me.''</center>
We have not lost the knowledge that God gave to us when He created us
like Him. We can remember it for everyone, for in creation are all minds as
one. And in our memory is the recall how dear our brothers are to us in
truth, how much a part of us is every mind, how faithful they have really
been to us, and how our Father's Love contains them all.
In thanks for all creation, in the Name of its Creator and His Oneness with
all aspects of creation, we repeat our dedication to our cause today each
hour, as we lay aside all thoughts that would distract us from our holy aim.
For several minutes let your mind be cleared of all the foolish cobwebs
which the world would weave around the holy Son of God. And learn the
fragile nature of the chains that seem to keep the knowledge of yourself
apart from your awareness, as you say:
<center>''I will accept Atonement for myself,''</center>
<center>''For I remain as God created me.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
<center>'''I will accept Atonement for myself.'''</center>
I will accept Atonement for myself.
Here is the end of choice. For here we come to a decision to accept
ourselves as God created us. And what is choice except uncertainty of what
we are? There is no doubt that is not rooted here. There is no question but
reflects this one. There is no conflict that does not entail the single, simple
question, "What am I?"
Yet who could ask this question except one who has refused to recognize
himself? Only refusal to accept yourself could make the question seem to be
sincere. The only thing that can be surely known by any living thing is what
it is. From this one point of certainty, it looks on other things as certain as
itself.
Uncertainty about what you must be is self-deception on a scale so vast, its
magnitude can hardly be conceived. To be alive and not to know yourself is
to believe that you are really dead. For what is life except to be yourself,
and what but you can be alive instead? Who is the doubter? What is it he
doubts? Whom does he question? Who can answer him?
He merely states that he is not himself, and therefore, being something else,
becomes a questioner of what that something is. Yet he could never be alive
at all unless he knew the answer. If he asks as if he does not know, it merely
shows he does not want to be the thing he is. He has accepted it because he
lives; has judged against it and denied its worth, and has decided that he
does not know the only certainty by which he lives.
Thus he becomes uncertain of his life, for what it is has been denied by him.
It is for this denial that you need Atonement. Your denial made no change
in what you are. But you have split your mind into what knows and does not
know the truth. You are yourself. There is no doubt of this. And yet you
doubt it. But you do not ask what part of you can really doubt yourself. It
cannot really be a part of you that asks this question. For it asks of one who
knows the answer. Were it part of you, then certainty would be impossible.
Atonement remedies the strange idea that it is possible to doubt yourself,
and be unsure of what you really are. This is the depth of madness. Yet it is
the universal question of the world. What does this mean except the world is
mad? Why share its madness in the sad belief that what is universal here is
true?
Nothing the world believes is true. It is a place whose purpose is to be a
home where those who claim they do not know themselves can come to
question what it is they are. And they will come again until the time
Atonement is accepted, and they learn it is impossible to doubt yourself,
and not to be aware of what you are.
Only acceptance can be asked of you, for what you are is certain. It is set
forever in the holy Mind of God, and in your own. It is so far beyond all
doubt and question that to ask what it must be is all the proof you need to
show that you believe the contradiction that you know not what you cannot
fail to know. Is this a question, or a statement which denies itself in
statement? Let us not allow our holy minds to occupy themselves with
senseless musings such as this.
We have a mission here. We did not come to reinforce the madness that we
once believed in. Let us not forget the goal that we accepted. It is more than
just our happiness alone we came to gain. What we accept as what we are
proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. Fail not your brothers, or
you fail yourself. Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are
part of you, and you of them.
This does Atonement teach, and demonstrates the Oneness of God's Son is
unassailed by his belief he knows not what he is. Today accept Atonement,
not to change reality, but merely to accept the truth about yourself, and go
your way rejoicing in the endless Love of God. It is but this that we are
asked to do. It is but this that we will do today.
Five minutes in the morning and at night we will devote to dedicate our
minds to our assignment for today. We start with this review of what our
mission is:
<center>''I will accept Atonement for myself,For I remain as God created me.''</center>
We have not lost the knowledge that God gave to us when He created us
like Him. We can remember it for everyone, for in creation are all minds as
one. And in our memory is the recall how dear our brothers are to us in
truth, how much a part of us is every mind, how faithful they have really
been to us, and how our Father's Love contains them all.
In thanks for all creation, in the Name of its Creator and His Oneness with
all aspects of creation, we repeat our dedication to our cause today each
hour, as we lay aside all thoughts that would distract us from our holy aim.
For several minutes let your mind be cleared of all the foolish cobwebs
which the world would weave around the holy Son of God. And learn the
fragile nature of the chains that seem to keep the knowledge of yourself
apart from your awareness, as you say:
<center>''I will accept Atonement for myself,''</center>
<center>''For I remain as God created me.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
