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with your very life. Is not this picture fearful? Can you be at peace with such a concept of your home? Yet what endowed the bod ...

can not impede its progress to accomplishment of any goal which serves the greater plan established for the good of everyone. A ...

your defenses would attack, obscure, and take apart and crucify. What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything whic ...

indeed the answers to the problems which you thought confronted you. But they are answers to another kind of question, which rem ...

lesson 136 “Sickness is a defense against the truth.” No-one can heal unless he understands what purpose sickness seems to serve ...

They aim at doing this, and this they seem to do. Every defense takes fragments of the whole, assembles them without regard to a ...

remains unheeding of the laws by which you thought to govern it. And Heaven has not bowed to hell, nor life to death. You can bu ...

wishes that it tried to authorize the body to obey. Now is the body healed because the source of sickness has been opened to rel ...

lesson 137 “When I am healed I am not healed alone.” Today’s idea remains the central thought on which salvation rests. For heal ...

the world is real. The body seems to be more solid and more stable than the mind. And love becomes a dream, while fear remains t ...

Self to be at home, and can this invitation be refused? Ask the inevitable to occur and you will never fail.The other choice is ...

lesson 138 “Heaven is the decision I must make.” In this world Heaven is a choice, because here we believe there are alternative ...

what your needs must be. In this insanely complicated world Heaven appears to take the form of choice, rather than merely being ...

minutes making sure that we have made the one decision that is sane. We recognize we make a conscious choice between what has ex ...

lesson 139 “I will accept Atonement for myself.” Here is the end of choice. For here we come to a decision to accept ourselves a ...

madness.Yet it is the universal question of the world. What does this prove except the world is mad? Why share its madness in th ...

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 it ...

lesson 140 “Only salvation can be said to cure.” Cure is a word that cannot be applied to any remedy the world accepts as benefi ...

and sickness can abide. This is the thought that cures. It does not make distinctions among unrealities. Nor does it seek to hea ...

before we go to sleep. Our only preparation is to let our interfering thoughts be laid aside, not separately, but all of them as ...