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The special relationship is a strange and unnatural ego device for joining hell and Heaven, and making them indistinguishable.An ...

If you perceived the special relationship as a triumph over God, would you WANTit? Let us not think of its fearful nature, nor o ...

delights you, can bring death to the eternal. Nor can your chosen substitute for the Wholeness of God have any influence at all ...

has value ONLYto the ego. To the ego UNLESSa relationship has special value it has NOmeaning, and it perceives ALLlove as specia ...

Across the bridge, it is so different! For a time the body is still seen, but not exclusively, as it is seen here. For the littl ...

yourself, and you could not enter into a relationship where it could not go with you, for you would not BEapart from it. Be glad ...

the special relationship, which becomes a way in which you seek to restore your wounded self-esteem. What basis would you have f ...

of vengeance which you seek. And even when the hatred and the savagery break briefly through into awareness, the illusion of lov ...

reality HASno past, and only illusions can BEforgiven. God holds nothing against anyone, for He is incapable of illusions of ANY ...

seventeen Forgiveness and Healing The betrayal of the Son of God lies only in illusions, and all his “sins” are but his own imag ...

only because you would KEEPthem from truth. Very simply, your lack of faith in the power that heals all pain arises from your wi ...

THE FORGIVEN WORLD Can you imagine how beautiful those you forgive will look to you? In no fantasy have you ever seen anything s ...

possible will occur.The perception of the real world will be so short that you will barely have time to thank God for it. For Go ...

gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten. Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based n ...

perception of him, is not the central focus as it is, or in entirety.What can be used for fantasies of vengeance, and what can b ...

which is the SOURCEof separation, and where it must be undone. For separation must be corrected where it was MADE.The ego seeks ...

witnesses for its reality, while what is kept but witnesses to the reality of dreams. It is still up to you to choose to be will ...

them. And by that all that is meant is that He will restore to them the function given them by God.The function you have given t ...

You have but little difficulty now in realizing that the thought system which the special relationship protects is but a system ...

That is why the holy instant is so important in the defense of truth. The truth itself NEEDSno defense, but you DOneed defense a ...