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<center>'''Today I learn to give as I receive.'''</center>
Today I learn to give as I receive.
What has been given you? The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and
purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out
of love. Nor have you left your Source, remaining as you were created. This
was given you as knowledge which you cannot lose. It was given as well to
every living thing, for by that knowledge only does it live.
You have received all this. No one who walks the world but has received it.
It is not this knowledge which you give, for that is what creation gave. All
this cannot be learned. What, then, are you to learn to give today? Our
lesson yesterday evoked a theme found early in the text. Experience cannot
be shared directly, in the way that vision can. The revelation that the Father
and the Son are one will come in time to every mind. Yet is that time
determined by the mind itself, not taught.
The time is set already. It appears to be quite arbitrary. Yet there is no step
along the road that anyone takes but by chance. It has already been taken by
him, although he has not yet embarked on it. For time but seems to go in
one direction. We but undertake a journey that is over. Yet it seems to have
a future still unknown to us.
Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and
go as if by magic. Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not
change. The script is written. When experience will come to end your
doubting has been set. For we but see the journey from the point at which it
ended, looking back on it, imagining we make it once again; reviewing
mentally what has gone by.
A teacher does not give experience, because he did not learn it. It revealed
itself to him at its appointed time. But vision is his gift. This he can give
directly, for Christ's knowledge is not lost, because He has a vision He can
give to anyone who asks. The Father's Will and His are joined in
knowledge. Yet there is a vision which the Holy Spirit sees because the
Mind of Christ beholds it too.
Here is the joining of the world of doubt and shadows made with the
intangible. Here is a quiet place within the world made holy by forgiveness
and by love. Here are all contradictions reconciled, for here the journey
ends. Experience--unlearned, untaught, unseen--is merely there. This is
beyond our goal, for it transcends what needs to be accomplished. Our
concern is with Christ's vision. This we can attain.
Christ's vision has one law. It does not look upon a body, and mistake it for
the Son whom God created. It beholds a light beyond the body; an idea
beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes,
and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. It sees no separation. And
it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events,
without the slightest fading of the light it sees.
This can be taught; and must be taught by all who would achieve it. It
requires but the recognition that the world can not give anything that faintly
can compare with this in value; nor set up a goal that does not merely
disappear when this has been perceived. And this you give today: See no
one as a body. Greet him as the Son of God he is, acknowledging that he is
one with you in holiness.
Thus are his sins forgiven him, for Christ has vision that has power to
overlook them all. In His forgiveness are they gone. Unseen by One they
merely disappear, because a vision of the holiness that lies beyond them
comes to take their place. It matters not what form they took, nor how
enormous they appeared to be, nor who seemed to be hurt by them. They
are no more. And all effects they seemed to have are gone with them,
undone and never to be done.
Thus do you learn to give as you receive. And thus Christ's vision looks on
you as well. This lesson is not difficult to learn, if you remember in your
brother you but see yourself. If he be lost in sin, so must you be; if you see
light in him, your sins have been forgiven by yourself. Each brother whom
you meet today provides another chance to let Christ's vision shine on you,
and offer you the peace of God.
It matters not when revelation comes, for that is not of time. Yet time has
still one gift to give, in which true knowledge is reflected in a way so
accurate its image shares its unseen holiness; its likeness shines with its
immortal love. We practice seeing with the eyes of Christ today. And by the
holy gifts we give, Christ's vision looks upon ourselves as well.
[[Category: Workbook I]]
<center>'''Today I learn to give as I receive.'''</center>
Today I learn to give as I receive.
What has been given you? The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and
purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out
of love. Nor have you left your Source, remaining as you were created. This
was given you as knowledge which you cannot lose. It was given as well to
every living thing, for by that knowledge only does it live.
You have received all this. No one who walks the world but has received it.
It is not this knowledge which you give, for that is what creation gave. All
this cannot be learned. What, then, are you to learn to give today? Our
lesson yesterday evoked a theme found early in the text. Experience cannot
be shared directly, in the way that vision can. The revelation that the Father
and the Son are one will come in time to every mind. Yet is that time
determined by the mind itself, not taught.
The time is set already. It appears to be quite arbitrary. Yet there is no step
along the road that anyone takes but by chance. It has already been taken by
him, although he has not yet embarked on it. For time but seems to go in
one direction. We but undertake a journey that is over. Yet it seems to have
a future still unknown to us.
Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and
go as if by magic. Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not
change. The script is written. When experience will come to end your
doubting has been set. For we but see the journey from the point at which it
ended, looking back on it, imagining we make it once again; reviewing
mentally what has gone by.
A teacher does not give experience, because he did not learn it. It revealed
itself to him at its appointed time. But vision is his gift. This he can give
directly, for Christ's knowledge is not lost, because He has a vision He can
give to anyone who asks. The Father's Will and His are joined in
knowledge. Yet there is a vision which the Holy Spirit sees because the
Mind of Christ beholds it too.
Here is the joining of the world of doubt and shadows made with the
intangible. Here is a quiet place within the world made holy by forgiveness
and by love. Here are all contradictions reconciled, for here the journey
ends. Experience--unlearned, untaught, unseen--is merely there. This is
beyond our goal, for it transcends what needs to be accomplished. Our
concern is with Christ's vision. This we can attain.
Christ's vision has one law. It does not look upon a body, and mistake it for
the Son whom God created. It beholds a light beyond the body; an idea
beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes,
and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. It sees no separation. And
it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events,
without the slightest fading of the light it sees.
This can be taught; and must be taught by all who would achieve it. It
requires but the recognition that the world can not give anything that faintly
can compare with this in value; nor set up a goal that does not merely
disappear when this has been perceived. And this you give today: See no
one as a body. Greet him as the Son of God he is, acknowledging that he is
one with you in holiness.
Thus are his sins forgiven him, for Christ has vision that has power to
overlook them all. In His forgiveness are they gone. Unseen by One they
merely disappear, because a vision of the holiness that lies beyond them
comes to take their place. It matters not what form they took, nor how
enormous they appeared to be, nor who seemed to be hurt by them. They
are no more. And all effects they seemed to have are gone with them,
undone and never to be done.
Thus do you learn to give as you receive. And thus Christ's vision looks on
you as well. This lesson is not difficult to learn, if you remember in your
brother you but see yourself. If he be lost in sin, so must you be; if you see
light in him, your sins have been forgiven by yourself. Each brother whom
you meet today provides another chance to let Christ's vision shine on you,
and offer you the peace of God.
It matters not when revelation comes, for that is not of time. Yet time has
still one gift to give, in which true knowledge is reflected in a way so
accurate its image shares its unseen holiness; its likeness shines with its
immortal love. We practice seeing with the eyes of Christ today. And by the
holy gifts we give, Christ's vision looks upon ourselves as well.
[[Category: Workbook I]]
