Gently 'Readying Myself'....Forgiveness

by constantly looking at all the things i put before the love and peace of god, i.e., recognizing the purpose of what I am doing.. not to judge my choices, but to realize that these are choices I am making.. so as my fear gently subsides, i am able to gently take the hand of the new teacher and accept that love that really "IS" the only alternative (i.e., there really is no choice, only the belief that there is a choice)...


and also remember the even the slightest inkling/twinge of fear/annoyance/discontentness is just another opportunity 'to look without judgment' at what my mind is choosing (ever be it so "minor") it either serves my choice either for: love or separateness...  

Forgiveness: Remembering that conflict is MY choice

remembering that any 'conflict' is REALLY a choice that I have made...




even though I may not be able to see that it is a choice 'right in this moment'... when I can quiet my mind and come from a place of love and compassion for myself.(rare, but it DOES happen).. i can see that it 'is a choice' which logically means: that I can make another choice.. so...just to know...to have the little willingness, followed by the glimmer of hope that i can make another choice..gives me peace.. i don't even have to change my choice.. but just knowing that it comes from 'MY' choice and no one else...gives me this peace I cannot describe... except to say that when I'm in experiencing it...'NO-THING' can take my peace away......

The Forgiving Mind???

I'm becoming more aware of when i'm "not at peace".. i can start to see that it is ALWAYS because I am identifying with the body and not the mind.... i'm just trying to gently 'notice' that... i wonder if that 'gentle noticing' (not actually doing anything to change it).. and if that is really the beginning of the forgiving mind???... when i think of it in these terms.. my fear of shifting to the mind isn't as scary...i mean it's a 'gentler' fear, that has less power to take away my peace

I have no fear around [______] anymore

hey my brain was just spinning as usual and I was thinking "hey why am I able to watch/do things today that I used to avoid like the plague?..."

 

Take this example:

 

Anyone with strong opinions on religion (documentaries or conversations around this area).  I used to avoid anything around this area and turned the channel or avoided the conversation/changed the subject..it was just too fearful.

 

Reason I can watch watch/talk about this subject now?

 

I have no fear around it anymore.. because I understand that all paths/no paths lead to the same place, (all paths are illusions anyway), so I don't have the fear about being 'wrong' and what that would mean if I was wrong?  i.e., would i end up in 'hell' if I was wrong and 'they' were right?  I can't be wrong about an illusion  It's that simple:

 

Now that my fear has been removed around this issue, i am at peace; and it cannot be shaken.

 

Now I can let people say/believe what they want because I realize it's all illusion anyway, that only common/shared interests are real, and any feeling that I need to 'be right" is just FEAR disguised as the ego..(so I can blame the ego, instead of just acknowledging "I have fear around __________").

 

When I am certain there are no consequences, fear disappears.

 

I'm going to explore this topic more and let you know what I find.. but I'm pretty sure it's going to be peace. 

Forgiveness realization

ACIM is really about a person,
who cannot forgive anything, 
who then reads a book,
and after awhile
realizes they are not a person,
but a mind,
that can forgive everything

Life: Prison or Classroom?

I become a Happy Learner in this life when I ask to see this world as a classroom instead of a prison and all i need to do is ask; and when I forget to ask (which i will do most of the time as I am learning to become a happy learner), I must remain vigilant to forgive my mistaken choice for prison and, in that instant, I will be at peace because all I will see is a classroom.

Regardless, whether I learn my lessons or not; it doesn't matter, what matters is I keep in mind that this life is a classroom; this is the ONLY purpose my life has

Peace Defined

Peace can be defined as:

the total forgiveness of our belief in sin and guilt 

our belief can be defined as the thought in our mind that we are doing this (i.e., forgiving) alone and that's the problem

Forgiveness: A Choice

Nothing in my perception has the power to take away my peace unless I choose to give that power away -- it is always a choice (whether I realize it or not) and because it is a choice, I can change that choice in my mind