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“Be you perfect.The kingdom of Heaven is within.

The things which are seen aretemporal; but the things which are notseen are eternal. Blessed are the purein heart, for they shall see God. Askand it will be given to you; seek and

you will find; knock and the door willbe open to you.”

T H E F O U N D A T I O N F O R T H E

A w a k e n i n g M i n d

Inner Peace is a present moment State of Mind. TheFoundation reflects the peace and stillness of a Single Mindwhich is incapable of judgment. Awakening is acceptance ofWhat Is. And forgiveness is the doorway to Peace Eternal.Value no scrap of illusion and the experience of freedom leapsinto awareness. Why wait for Heaven? It is here now! Inextending God’s Love we are truly One Being. To extend OneSelf is to remain aware of the I Am. Giving all to all is whathaving means, and our Heavenly Kingdom is what One Mindhas and what One Mind is. Miracles seem to cascade andcollapse time, as water might cascade down a multi-layeredfountain, until it is seen that the first and last miracle (the alphaand omega) are One.. Thank You God for creating All as One.

“Peace and be still. The Grace of God extends forever.Awareness of God’s Grace begins with forgiveness of illusions.A mind emptied of idols is made ready to accept the awarenessof the Eternal Nature of Being One with God. What else couldthere ever be? For Thy Will is perfect happiness forever!”

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The Foundation for the AwakeningMind is established for thepurpose of teaching and learningtrue forgiveness, laying aside allgrievances, and living andextending inner peace. First andforemost, we shall encourageprayer and meditation and thelaying aside of judgment as themeans of achieving the learninggoal. We are a nonprofitcorporation organized for religiousand educational purposes,recognizing that true forgivenessis Divinely inspired and must bethoroughly taught and learned andaccepted to be experienced.

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David at Bryce Canyon, Utah. This backdrop was revealed by the Holy Spirit to be theplace for the filming of the video “The Sinlessness Within.” David’s descent into thecanyon is symbolic of descending into the mind. The Foundation for The AwakeningMind offers materials as aids to teaching and learning true forgiveness.

Welcome to all seekers of truth!

Enlightenment; constant peace, happiness, joy, love and freedom, is Life andis Reality! Seeing past all deception and coming to clarity and understanding isrealistic, for such is the truth. Forgiveness, laying aside all judgment, is the keyto clarity and understanding. Can you faintly imagine how freeing andwonderful is the State of Mind devoid of petty judgments? Such a Mind rests inIt’s Source, in Perfection, and in Innocence! Such is Reality! True Mysticism is dedicated to remembering the Source of Life. It requiresemptying the contents of consciousness of all illusory thoughts and beliefs, thatWhat Is forever true may be remembered. It is a joyful life, for love holds nogrievances.. It is a tranquil life, for love makes no comparisons. It is a peacefullife, for conflict is gone when love comes into awareness! Our Being resides in the Mind of God. All seeking arrives at finding our Selfin God. In God we are Home Now! The name “Messengers of Peace” has been given to a collection of journals,audiocassette tapes, videotapes, MP3‘s, CD‘s and DVD‘s, all of which shedlight on the true meaning of forgiveness. The Foundation for the AwakeningMind makes these materials available without charge to those who requestthem. Love offering gifts and donations are gratefully accepted. We welcomeall inquiries from anyone with a deep and sincere desire to awaken to peace, joyand eternal love. Send us a letter or an e-mail or feel free to call. What is mysticism? I invite you to read my thoughts, which I share in thearticle entitled The life of Mysticism (p.3). Perhaps Mysticism has called toyou. I pray for peace and happiness and joy and freedom for everyone, for weare One Mind. Please write us and share your stories, experiences and questions onawakening to the truth. We do experience great delight in receiving yourletters, emails and phone calls. We all share One Mind and I am so very grateful that Love has no opposite!Love is the State of All Being and through which Love extends Love.

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The life of Mysticism is one of devotion and reverenceto God and therefore to all. It is a discipline of mind, oftraining the mind to hear and follow only the Voice forGod. The goal is everlasting peace of mind and thehumor, gentleness, happiness, freedom, and joy that flowfrom such a State of Mind.

The life of Mysticism is as spontaneous and playful as itis serene and tranquil. Alive and energized by the livingmoment, the need for rituals and rules and structuresfalls away from the mind. Mysticism learns masterythrough love and compassion and kindness; everyday islike a painting full of opportunities to extend the Love ofGod.

Mysticism is not ruled by fear of consequences. TheLaw of Love reigns supreme in the Divine Mind, andthere is no other. Love is without opposite, and thisspiritual fact is finally approached and accepted withoutexception or compromise. In the Awakening it becomesclear that doubt is impossible.

Willingness to humbly accept oneself as a Child of God,created perfect in the likeness of God, grows and growswith each Holy Instant. The world of idols loses all of itsformer attraction as the heavenly light enfolds the heartof the mystic. When such vastness and magnitudebecome apparent, there is need of nothing else.

Meditation on the Divine is at first a practice, then acontinuous living experience, until it finally yields to aneternally blissful and completely unalterable State ofBeing. Such is the State of Grace.

To move in the direction of this State of Absolute Being,the desires of the world of multiplicity must fall away.

Miracles lead the way, for the way of the true mystic isapproach to God through attraction, not throughavoidance or opposition. As error is seen as false andwithout a real cause, its foundation disappears in thelight of truth. Perfect love casts out fear, for belief hasbeen withdrawn and replaced by the Knowledge of Lifein God. There is no battle to be fought, only a gentleawakening to the truth of what always was and alwayswill be so.

All things are accepted exactly as they are, for thatwhich is eternal is unchanged, unchanging, andunchangeable. It is understood that no arrangement ofcircumstances (no sense of controlling persons, events,and situations) and no amount of gain or personalimprovement is necessary to "attain" the peace andhappiness that is available now. Only a yielding to truth,a surrender of the belief in illusions, a stepping back andputting full trust in God is required. This is no sacrifice.Can the giving up of nothing for the remembrance ofEverything be a sacrifice? Joy has no cost, for Love iswithout an opposite.

Mysticism is finally yielding to Absolute Happiness inGod and Self. Only the Mind which knows "I and theFather are One" knows Absolute Happiness.

Thank you God, for leading us all Home to You. YourWay is certain, for your Plan cannot fail. Hallowed beyour Name O God of Eternity, and hallowed be theName of your Beloved Child.

My heart is beating in the joy of God. My mind isresting in the peace of God. My soul is invulnerable inthe strength of God. Mine eye is single in the light ofGod. W

We are One. God is One. All is One. Amen.

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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, itdoes not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, itis not ego-seeking, it is not angered, it keeps norecord of wrongs. Love rejoices with the truth.It always trusts, always hopes, alwaysperseveres… Love can only be love and extenditself forever and ever. Thank you God forcreating love perfect, eternal, and as infinite asyour Being.

What is Enlightenment?

Enlightenment is a recognition of Reality. Acceptance of the Correction to faultyperception…opens the way. Forgiveness, seeing the false as false, is the door toEnlightenment. The eternal/changeless is true. The ephemeral/transitory is false..Who you are, as God created you, is eternal/changeless. What was made tosubstitute for Reality, is false. Enlightenment is awakening from the dream offear. It requires laying aside all concepts of what you are and what God is. Itrequires emptying the mind of the temporal, and thus remembering the eternalnature of Self and God. Reality is Oneness. Duality is illusion. You are blessedas a Child of God. Love is what you are. Love is all there is!


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Experiencing Enlightenment:Changing Your Mind About Your Mind

If you're feeling frustrated about your life, and at timeswonder what purpose it has, perhaps you'd like to readsome thoughts on how to uncover the blocks to the truthwithin: your True Identity which God created perfectand loving. This Identity has nothing in common withthe way you see yourself in this world, for this is a worldof changing images, and your True Identity ischangeless. Your concept of yourself in this linear (past-future) dualistic world is limited and little. This conceptincludes a private mind, with private thoughts aboutyourself and the world, and a body which senses itselfand a world external to itself through the five senses. Incontrast, your True Identity is eternal and infinite, likethe Creator from which It is created. Eternal Spirit isOneness and transcends all concepts and images and thetime-space cosmos of duality.

In your current condition your True Identity is obviouslyunrecognized, and therefore it should not be surprisingthat at times you feel alone, afraid, anxious, depressed,or helplessly adrift. The good news is that your currentstate of mind is always a matter of choice, and you canlearn to allow mistakes to be corrected by making betterchoices. It is possible to learn to choose to be happy,free, and at peace regardless of circumstances. It ispossible to reach Enlightenment, awakening from thedream of fear and death to the Reality of Eternal Life!

Everyone who seems to inhabit a body on earth holds anerroneous or false thought system in mind and organizeshis/her "earthlife" by it. This false, fear-based thoughtsystem is the ego, or Satan, in Biblical terms. The mindseems split or ununified in the "condition" of separation.Yet though it believes in falsity, the split mind alsocontains the Correction to error, which is alwaysavailable. This spark of Light can never go out, it canonly grow vast and bright as the flame of Remembrance.This Correction, or true thought system, is one's

Intuition, or the Holy Spirit, in Biblical terms. ThisGuide, when followed, leads to a unified Mind, a

forgiven world, and is the gateway to remembrance ofGod, Truth, and one's True Identity as the Eternal Childof an infinitely loving God.

Everyone in the world experiences the emotional rollercoaster ride of unstable thoughts and perceptions. Again,this should not be surprising, considering the attempt tohold in mind two completely contradictory thoughtsystems. What is love cannot also be fear. Fearfulconcepts are not true, but you can seem to believe inthem. And when you do you seem to vacillate betweenthe thoughts of love and the thoughts of fear and thusexperience confusion and conflict. But fear and love cannever co-exist, and the presence of one in awarenessmeans the other is absent.

So what is the way out of this seeming conflict? What isthe escape from the "human condition?" Give up whatyou do not want and what does not serve you (fear), andwhat you are (love) will return to your awareness. Thisis inevitable, for what you are has never changed andexists forever in the Mind of God. Allow your falsebeliefs and concepts and thoughts to be raised toawareness and release them. Since false beliefs limityour awareness, it must be clear that you must changeyour mind about your Mind (accept It as Changeless andEternal) to recognize Your True Self as Spirit andremember God. Just remember, Help is given you fromGod and you are not alone in the task of learning toaccept the Correction of error made for you.

I am joined with you in this task, for we share in thePurpose of healing. This joining is very powerful, as youwill discover, because God is the Source and Power bywhich all healing is already accomplished. Healingrequires only acceptance, for in truth Love is all there isand ever will be. Joyful is the adventure of acceptingGod's Correction to the erroneous belief in separation.Perfect love casts out fear! W


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Come and See

Now is the time!

There is nothing left to seek for inthis world when it can be exchangedfor another one. What a wonderfulworld there is to behold inforgiveness! No thought of gain orloss, winning or losing, success orfailure ever had any meaning. Fantasyis not real and dreaming is not BeingOne. You are ready to Awaken toOneness. And as you awaken thewhole world awakens as well. For theworld was never more than amisperception. As perceptionbecomes whole, the single mind seesonly wholeness. At last you are readyto see with Inner Vision, and yourealize that "physical sight" wasnothing but the illusion of being inthe dark. The Light has come and it istime to rejoice! It is time!

Teaching/learning materials such asjournals, pamphlets, and videosegments are offered freely and anytalks or gatherings we sponsor aremade available to the public for free.We accept donations to help extendour Internet ministry and to helpsponsor public talks and gatherings.The work of our Foundation ischaritable in that everything we offer,from talks and discussions tounlearning materials, are offered freeof charge as a gift to those whoexpress an interest in learning trueforgiveness (unlearning the ego) andextending inner peace. The teachingsand methods of learning provided byour Foundation are religious in thatthey are inspired by and based on theteachings of Jesus Christ and his

messages of "turn the other cheek,""love thine enemy," and "love thyneighbor as thyself." The work of theFoundation is educational in that webelieve forgiveness needs to be taughtand learned and practiced repeatedlyand consistently for real inner peaceto be experienced. All the sponsoredtalks and discussions and learningmaterials are viewed asteaching/learning aids in theeducational process of teaching andlearning true forgiveness.

Teaching and learning trueforgiveness is being aware that one isnever upset by anything buterroneous thoughts, and that thoseerroneous thoughts can be released.True forgiveness is the release of allhurts and grievances and grudges thatblock the awareness of the DivineLove that is God-given and exists ineveryone andeverything. Trueforgiveness isreleasing all angerand hatred and guiltand fear by seeingthat they camefrom an error ormistaken belief thatwas only anattempt to forgetthe Love of God.Living andextending innerpeace is the natural result of trueforgiveness, for when error has beenlaid aside and a healing correctionaccepted in its place, peace prevails.To extend peace, one must bepeaceful. To teach peace, one mustlearn for oneself. No one can offer a

gift they do not already possess.Likewise, peace of mind cannot befound outside one's own mind, for itdepends not on the world. Peacecomes from God and is a naturalextension of God. Therefore prayerand meditation are advocated asmeans to inner peace and harmony.Religion is the experience of innerpeace and education (which is theunlearning of falsity) is but a meansof coming to the experience of innerpeace.

Divine Providence is our Source ofSustenance while serving the Plan ofAwakening to Joy. We see that thetravels and gatherings and work withbrothers and sisters from all over thecountry have been orchestrated by theHoly Spirit as part of His Plan ofAwakening. We attribute all oursupport to Him, though the forms of

support have beenmany and varied. Themeditations, video-gatherings, counselingsessions, and Internetministry have alwaysbeen offered entirelyon a donation basis. Noone has ever beenturned away for lack offunds and everythinghas always beenoffered and freelygiven without any

expectation of compensation. Ourministry continues today as it has inthe past. Freely Christ has given HisGospel to us to live and to give andfreely we have given and extendedthe gift. It is an honor and a joy toshare the Love of God, and as Jesus

True forgivenessis the release of all

hurts and grievancesand grudges that

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once said: "The messenger is worthhis keep." Everything we have everthought we needed in serving God'sPlan has been provided. Holy Spiritwatches over all of us as we serve HisPlan, and we are always assured thatthis Watchful Care continues. He hasbeen with us always as we carry onour simple mission. Whatever wehave seemed to need, be it a car, ameal, a place to stay, or a calm,gentle reminder, all our needs havebeen met by Him. There is acalmness of heart in turning allperceived problems and needs over toHim and listening for His sureguidance.

We were brought together by God toserve His Plan, to treat each otherwith dignity, respect, kindness,holiness and to awaken to our DivineLove. We approach our Purpose forcoming together with great reverenceand devotion. It is the core of our Lifein God. Our relationship is ourRelationship with everything andeveryone, for we live and love as Godlives and loves, unconditionally, all-inclusively, and free of specialness.There is no jealousy or exclusion inlove. We join with all in experiencingthe all-inclusiveness of the family ofGod, where no brother or sister isseen as separate or apart from theWhole of God. Our hearts are filledwith love and gratitude for ourRelationship in God. We are glad thatthis joy is not dependent on wherebodies seem to be or whether or notthey seem to be "together." We arecreated by a Pure Idea, and we arelike our Source. We are Spirit as Godis Spirit, and we are overflowing withthankfulness that this truth is dawningin the Mind we share. Our walktogether has been for the Purpose ofaccepting our Divine Source andlaying aside all thought of the worldas the source of anything.

This is a time of prayer and devotionand reflection on All that is of God.Our hearts know that love andkindness are the truth. We offer each

other and God our willingness thatwe may remember to love and let goof any unloving thought that arises inmind. Our Relationship in God is afact. Let us remember to laughtogether at false ideas, for they haveno place in our Holy Mind. There areno private thoughts that are real, andin gentleness and meekness is theStrength given us to overlook allillusions that would attempt to veillove. This is a time of praying andreflecting upon and experiencingUnion. Let us join in love first andtrust that all else will be subtracted."By their fruits you will know them."Joy and happiness and peace andlaughter are undeniable, for theycome from our Source. Our focusalways is releasing erroneousthinking and learning to think withGod all the time. God's Will for All isPerfect Happiness.

Fairness is the realization that givingand receiving are the same. In thisawareness there is no loss, no gain,no scarcity, no greed, no lack, noaccumulation, and no "giving to get."Trust in God and fairness go hand inhand. There is no way to attempt toleave God out of awareness andexperience fairness, for since God isAll in All, fairness is as obvious asGod is. The "bottom line" is trust inGod, not money. The "price" of peaceis not assets, for peace comes withhumility, trust, surrender, and non-judgment. Security and stability donot come from "owning," but fromreleasing all attack thoughts andgrievances. A Mind free of judgmentis secure and stable in the Knowledgeof its Self. "I cannot be unfairlytreated" is a statement of fairness inaction, for true fairness isInvulnerable. That Which is of Godneeds no protection or defense.

Integrity is of the Mind. Integrity isbased entirely on trust in God. Whenfaith is placed in the laws ofeconomics, the laws of nutrition, thelaws of medicine or other falsebeliefs, the awareness and experience

of Integrity has been denied. Integrityrests on opening to our God-givenfunction and not being ashamed orembarrassed to express our faith andtrust in God in all aspects of living. Ifwe have been in a closet of worldlybeliefs and associations, IntegrityCalls us "out of the closet" andbeckons us to walk in Light. Integrityis open and has nothing to hide, for Itis an open invitation to everyone toawaken to the Love of God. Honestyand Integrity go hand in hand.Honesty is the relinquishment ofjudgment, attack, and blame, forInnocence is what is true and cannever be found in blame and guilt.Happiness, joy, and peace are honest,for honesty is always based in truth.Honesty comes from the Acceptanceof God's eternal Law of Love and therealization that God's Law of Love isthe only Law there is. Integrity isnon-compromising for It makes nobargains, seeks no middle ground orgray areas, and is not concerned withappearances or opinions. Integrityand listening to the Voice for God aresynonymous, and therefore Integrityseeks no "external" support orvalidation. The Support of God is Itssole requirement.

Holy Relationship is Content and notform of any kind. Holy Relationshipis based on trust in God and cannotbe experienced apart from this trust.Holy Relationship is Inclusive, foreveryone is welcome in Its Sight.Divine Love is giving as God gives,freely and willingly and openly,without demands or limits orexpectations. Holy Relationship is areflection of our Divine union withGod and as such is sacred. HolyRelationship is a State of Mind,which gives of Itself to everythingand everyone, radiating to all creationforever and ever. Devoid ofcategorization, comparison, and the"personal," Holy Relationship aspiresto the State of God's Grace in whichthere is only Wholeness, Completion,and Perfection. W


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Finding Eternal Peace, Happiness, and Freedom:

Finding God Within Your Mind

Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going?These were the questions that wouldn't go away. Theseemed to underlie my search for meaning and purpose ina world of shifting, changing images and pursuits. Whoam I? I seemed to be answering this question every daywith a slightly different definition, a different variation ofthought, and with fluctuating emotions. Yet could therebe a constant, stable, sane, consistent identity in suchfluctuation?

Might I be more than an evolving personality, tossedabout within a world of conflict and chaos and limited bythe body? Might I be a Spirit Child who somehowgot lost, who somehow forgot my Loving OriginalCreation by God? Deep down inside I longed forsomething more than the streams of thought thatoccupied my consciousness and the ever-changingemotions that filled my daily experience. I knew therehad to be more to life than meets the eye. There is a saying, "You get what you ask for." It has beenstated many ways, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap," "givingand receiving are the same," and "the mind gets exactlywhat it wants." The One Basic Law of mind indicates thateverything that I experience I have requested, I havedesired; and that there are no exceptions to this Law. ThisLaw applies to everything I believe, think, feel, andperceive. Once this Law has been even faintly grasped,chance and luck are seen as meaningless, and the naturaldirection of consciousness, towards a unified wholenessof peace and love, becomes apparent. This expansion ofconsciousness comes to complete fruition in the forgivenworld, in which the blanket of peace spreads across allperception. And remembrance of the True Self, the TrueIdentity in God, must follow, as the noon sun follows thedawn in this world. We shall find our Self as One Being, united with theLoving Creator. I join you my brothers and sisters, forweshare the same Loving Mind. I thank God for creatingthis Mind perfect and eternal and infinite. Our task isforgiveness of illusions, that we may remember, that wemay recognize the Truth. We shall know the Truth, andin Truth we are free! W

The Messengers ofP E A C E

OUR INTENTION: To daily live the gospel message,not merely write about it or speak of it.

OUR FOCUS: To seek first the Kingdom of Heaven, ourReality. This focus insures peace of mind and is possiblethrough ongoing inward attentiveness. This attentivenesswelcomes the Spirit to uncover all that preventscomplete focus on the Kingdom. Our work follows fromthis focus and is supported entirely by donation. All thatis necessary has been, and continues to be, provided.

OUR MESSAGE: It is possible NOW to embrace thepeace of mind that is our natural state and inheritance.With true peace comes constant joy, intimacy, freedom,and gratitude.

OBSTACLES TO EMBRACING PEACE NOW:Valuing idols or substitutes for God (anything noteternal) and believing them to be the source of peace,happiness, intimacy, and freedom.

REQUIREMENT FOR EMBRACING PEACE NOW:Willingness to forgive and have a change in perception -- to remove the beam in one's own eye, not focus on thespeck in another's eye.

WHAT FORGIVENESS IS: Laying aside all judgment,all that we think we know is so, including all self-concept ideas and opening up to what is far moresatisfying than what this world has to offer. It is arecognition that all experiences of separation (scarcity,guilt, fear, etc.) occur only because there is a hiddenbelief that there is something valuable about the idea ofseparation from God.

WHAT THE VALUE OF FORGIVENESS IS: With theSpirit's help, the hidden and insane belief in separationcomes into awareness and is seen as false; no longervalued, the belief dissolves. Since the world merelyrepresents the thinking of the mind, as that thinkingchanges, the need to repeatedly find evidence in theworld in order to be "right" about the mistaken belief inseparation falls away. What remains is a new and joyousexperience of the world. W


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There is an experience that brings an end to alluncertainty and an end to all questions. The experienceof Love is Divinely Inspired and changelessly Eternal.Love does not come and go or arise and fall like the sun,nor does it shine brightly only to fade and disappear fora time. Love is not personal or specific. It is impossibleto Love something specific, for Love is Whole andknows no parts. Love is without an opposite, beingEverything God creates forever. Divine Mind is God, isLove, is You, is All.

You can never leave behind or be separate from Love.Illusions will inevitably fall away, but Love remainsEternal and extends on and on forever. Love is all-encompassing and cannot be limited. Love can seem tobe temporarily forgotten or covered over in awarenessby the belief in linear time, yet the Holy Instant of Loveis always now and is ever present.

God is Love. God, Being Love, is One and Abstract.God, Being Love, does not take different forms or comein a variety of degrees and gradations. In this world thereappear to be many thoughts, emotions, and perceptionsthat conceal awareness of Love. Yet they are merelytemptations to forget that Love is All there Is. Wheneverthe temptation to deny Love arises, remind yourself thatYou are Love and God is Love and nothing can separatethe Oneness of God's Love.

God, Being Love, has no opposite. God is All-Knowing,All-Powerful, and All-Loving. Illusions brought to Lovemust disappear, as darkness vanishes in the Presence ofLight. Love is All since God is All. God, Being Love,has nothing to do with fear. God, Being Love, hasnothing to do with disease, depression, pain, sadness orany of the forms that fear seems to take. Illusions of timemay seem to veil the Face of Love, but Love remainsuntouched. Love can be but Itself and knows only Itself.

Love and fear, God and the world, have no meetingpoint. The awareness of One implies the nonexistence ofthe other. The five senses of the body seem to deceivefor a time, but Love is revealed as One and All throughInner Vision the world knows not. Pray sincerely and letyour prayer be a unified desire for Love, for God. InnerVision will lead to the remembrance of the Love thatYou Are and God Is, a Love without opposite.

Ego is make believe. Can make believe be real if onlyLove is real? Ego is opinion. Can eternal, unconditionalLove know of opinion? Ego is falsehood. Can Love,being true, have awareness of falsehood? Love is trueand real and only love is true and real. Love is One andis therefore beyond the "possibility" of comparison orcompromise. What can the belief in duality, in past andfuture, have to do with Eternal Love? And what couldbreak apart Love, which is forever One?

Love extends Itself, Being What It Is. Love is All-extending. In extending, Love remains loving, for Loveremains Itself. There is no loss or gain in Love, for Loveis completely without lack or limits. To know Love is toknow completion and fulfillment. How could Wholenessever understand anything but Itself? And what couldLove "need," already Being Everything forever?

Do not question Love. If you believe in questions,question everything, which seems to be "not Love" andbe willing to accept only That Which Is True Forever.End the wait now! Accept now the Eternal Love of God.What else could be more worthy of your acceptance?There is nothing to seek and nothing to find, onlyEverything to accept right now. I am Love. Such is theTruth. Thank You God for the simplicity of Oneness!Thank You God for Being Love and extending Loveforever! W

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I n s t r u m e n t f o r P e a c eworking through upsets & healing your mind

The mind at peace is healed. The mind at peace has whole-heartedly welcomed peace. In this world, lack ofpeace appears in many forms. For permanent healing to occur, lack of peace must be traced back to its singularcause in the mind. Use of this instrument for that tracing back can help a willing mind let go of what it thinks itknows, see the world differently, and experience a present state of peace and joy.

1. When I think about(A)__________________________________________________________________________(past or futureaction, situation, or event), I feel (B) ______________________________(specific upsetting emotions) becauseI think that (C)__________________________(name) is to blame AND/OR I'm afraid (C)_______________________________________ will occur in the future.

2. (A), (B), (C) prove that I am right about(D)__________________________________________________________________ (my belief in lack, takingthe form of an image of self/other/the world). I do not like how I feel now, so I am ready to consider thepossibility that the way I am perceiving this is not the way it really is. As part of the healing process, I amwilling to look beyond my perception of this upset (the meaning I have given it) and look within my mind.

3. I want to learn that there is a way that I can, without guilt, see the part I play in thinking(A)_____________________________________________ in feeling (B)__________________________________________ and in blaming (C)________________________________ and/or in fearing(C)____________________________________________________________.

4. I release my wanting to be right about my perception of all of this: (A),(B),(C),(D). I want instead to behappy. Through the ego (distorted thinking/seeing), I perceive the cause of my upset and its resolution asoutside my mind. This projection seems very real; its purpose is to distract my mind from looking inward.

5. If the cause of my upset and its resolution were outside my mind, I would, in fact, be powerless to change mystate of mind. My use of projection (seeing outside what I don't want to see within) is why I seem powerless,why (C)__________________________________________________ seems to be the cause of my upset.

6. Thinking (A) ________________________________ feeling(B)_____________________________________________and blaming (C)_______________________________ and/or fearing (C) ______________________________ result from mybelief in lack (taking the form of an image of self/other/the world) (D)________________________________________________.

7. I am only upset at someone or something when they/it mirror(s) back to my mind a belief, which I havedenied from awareness. When I blame/fear something in the world, it is to avoid seeing the upset and resolutionas they really are (a decision in my mind) and to instead maintain an image of self/other/the world as I wish.This mind trick seems to displace guilt and fear, but actually maintains feelings of upset. To blame or fear animage of self/other/the world requires that I believe I am limited to a body and world of bodies, and denies thespiritual abstract reality of my being. As a first step in letting go of all upset, I want to see in my mind what Ithought was outside it. Being upset about (A) ____________________________________ is only anotherattempt to make (C)_____________________________________ the cause of my guilt and fear.


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8. Upset seems valuable and justifiable when (A) runs counter to what I want(ed). What I want(ed) andexpect(ed) is (E)___________________________________________________________________ (action,situation, or event). I still believe in some form of lack (D) ___________________________________so I thinkI need (E) to be happy, complete, and at peace. Is this belief in lack and the resulting expectation moreimportant to me than peace of mind?

9. Everything in the world works together for my good. What I think is the cause of my upset is not the cause atall. The choice to be upset is a choice not to see the cause, my belief in separation/lack, as a present decision inmy mind. It's an attempt to see the cause in the past/future and the present as its effect.

10. What I want RIGHT NOW, above all else, is peace. I question (D)______________________________ andI voluntarily let go of (E)______________________________________________in order to reconnect with myone goal: peace.

11. Peace of mind is a present decision, which I gratefully choose RIGHT NOW! Guilt and fear ofconsequences only seemed possible because I was determined to hold on to a belief in past/future cause. I let goof the meaning I gave to the past/future and open my mind to the present, absolved and innocent.

12. I am grateful for the realization that the cause of my upset, which I thought was in the world, was actuallyonly an unquestioned belief and decision in my mind; I have decided anew for my PEACE OF MIND.

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Movie Watchers Guide to EnlightenmentWelcome to seekers of truth who use movies on your innerjourney. This Guide to Enlightenment or Salvation will listmovies that can be helpful in Awakening to Truth.Metaphysical and forgiveness themes will be the focus.True forgiveness is completely laying aside the ego, thebelief in linear time/space. Movies can be used as a way ofexpanding consciousness and, ultimately, experiencing thedepth and meaning of the Inner Self. They can be a meansto get in touch with and release limiting beliefs and cometo a resolution of inner conflict. They need not be used as ameans of escapism, distraction, or fantasy fulfillment, allof which are ego reinforcement. Movies are like modern-day parables. They offer a backdrop for experiencingdeeper awareness and purpose, the detached, fearlessPerspective from which it is apparent "all things worktogether for good." For those who have the ears to hear andeyes to see, movie watching can offer insights a plenty intothe very heart of the Soul. This guide is a list of moviesthat can help uncover the Innocence and Beauty that is theReal Self as God created It. This wonderful resource isavailable online at our web site:

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