Review instructions: Spend at least 15 minutes in the morning and evening contemplating today’s lesson. Repeat today’s idea at least hourly. Use today’s idea throughout the day.

Today’s review idea:

I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
The peace of God is shining in me now.

I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me. And in that stillness we will find the peace of God.
It is within my heart, which witnesses to God Himself.

The peace of God is shining in me now. It is. It does what the peace of God does. It naturally extends to all that is. It is not a goal to be achieved, a state of mind to be brought about, it is “but a recognition, not a change at all.”

This is why we practice awareness watching awareness. As Michael Langford tells us, we are only now turning within to know ourselves. We do this not by mastering some new technique but by employing what we are—awareness—to observe what we are—awareness-life-presence.

The peace of God is shining in me now. The peace of God is shining all about me. We recognize it for what it is as we practice turning away from the circus of the world and focusing on the meadow of our own nature. The “circus” merely distracts us from the looking and thus the recognition of that which we always have been and always will be.

As you repeat the words of the lesson today (the “mantra,” ‘The peace of God is shining in me now’), do so with a devoted heart and feel the power that waits within you, as you, to be discovered by you.

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Review instructions: Spend at least 15 minutes in the morning and at least 15 minutes in the evening contemplating the lesson for the day. Repeat today’s idea to yourself at least hourly. In addition, use today’s idea throughout the day.

Today’s review idea:

I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
I bless the world because I bless myself.

Have you ever done something and when someone asked you why you did it, your only explanation was because it was just the natural thing to do.  Let’s say someone asked, “Why did you feed that stray dog?”  You might reply, “I was feeding our dogs and I saw the stray one so I fed him too.” Or, “Why did you cut that strip of grass between our yard and our neighbor’s yard when that strip is obviously the neighbor’s?”  “Because I had the mower out and it needed cutting so I cut that portion of the neighbor’s yard.  I was already in the act of doing it for myself and it just seemed natural and helpful.”

It is natural, and reasonable, and loving, and kind, and helpful to bless the world because I bless myself.  Most of us have been reading, and learning, and studying what separation means our whole lives.  Now is the time to take the practical steps, the easy steps, the natural steps.  You don’t have to go out of your way, just bless the world as you bless yourself.  When we believe the world is important, letting go of the value we have assigned the world is perceived as a sacrifice.  When we are awake or aware that the world lacks value then the idea of sacrifice isn’t believed.  Sacrifice is only a relevant idea if you think you can lose something of value.

We bless ourselves when we stop clinging to these old, familiar and comfortable thought patterns.  Isn’t peace, salvation and the blessings they bring worth the risk?  Wake up and be enlightened now.  Awakening is the spreading of the light in the one mind (and in the world).  There is nothing real here for you.  You sacrifice nothing when you give up what you don’t want.  Jacquelyn said, “As you draw knowledge and strength from the truth, you increase the strength of recognition of truth in all minds.”  Trust that there is another way of being.  It is like mowing that strip of grass in your neighbor’s yard.  Demonstrate what you have learned and be enlightened now.

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Review instructions: Spend at least 15 minutes in the morning and at least 15 minutes in the evening contemplating the lesson for the day. Also, repeat today’s idea to yourself at least once hourly. In addition, use today’s idea as much as needed as a transition from ego thinking to spiritual intuition.

Today’s review idea:

I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
Salvation of the world depends on me.

Lesson 186 suggests we might reject this idea outright because we believe it to be arrogant or because we believe in our own unworthiness. The lesson assures us that we are up to the task. We each know this to be true or we would not be spending any time in study, review, contemplation or meditation. Ask your heart what you want. You will find that awakening is your heart’s desire.

Your heart’s desire was placed there as a call to return. Though the thinking mind would convince you that another will is yours to pursue, you cannot change either the call or the desire to follow it. Today, take the time to contemplate the call of your heart as soon as possible upon awakening and visit it at least briefly each hour. When you find yourself caught up in thought or emotion, remind yourself of your heart’s desire.

Your salvation is awakening. Let your desire for awakening guide you today. The salvation of the world depends on it.

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