"Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one."
A Course in Miracles- Workbook Lesson 92
"Each day should be devoted to miracles."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 1, Section 1
"You will recognize that you have learned there is no order of difficulty in miracles when you apply them to all situations. There is no situation to which miracles do not apply, and by applying them to all situations you will gain the real world."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 7
Note: the "real world" is the world of light within. You can see the real world
instead of the illusory world around you. You are never outside of your own mind.
The "real world," is the world that is but a step away from real God.
"'My thoughts are images that I have made.'
It is because the thoughts you think you think, appear as images, that you do not
recognize them as nothing. You think you think them, and so you think you see them. This is how your "seeing" was made. This is the function you have given your body's eyes. It is not seeing. It is image making. It takes the place of
seeing, replacing vision with illusions.
This introductory idea to the process of image making that you call seeing will not have much meaning for you. You will begin to understand it when you have seen
little edges of light around the same familiar objects which you see now. That is
the beginning of real vision. You can be certain that real vision will come quickly when this has occurred.
As we go along, you may have many "light episodes." They may take many different
forms, some of them quite unexpected. Do not be afraid of them. They are signs
that you are opening your eyes at last. They will not persist, because they merely symbolize true perception, and they are not related to knowledge. These exercises will not reveal knowledge to you. But they will prepare the way to it."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 15
And yet in spite of the point, that these "light episodes" "will not persist," the
whole point of the book, is apparently to find the world of light; as indicated in
the Lesson below:
"Practice your willingness... with this:
Beyond this world there is a world I want.
I choose to see that world instead of this,
for here is nothing that I really want.
Then close your eyes upon the world you see, and in the silent darkness watch the
lights that are not of this world light one by one, until where one begins another
ends loses all meaning as they blend in one.
Today the lights of Heaven bend to you, to shine upon your eyelids as you rest beyond the world of darkness. Here is light your eyes can not behold. And yet your mind can see it plainly, and can understand.
A day of grace is given you today, and we give thanks. This day we realize that
what you feared to lose was only loss.
Now do we understand there is no loss."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 129
As the below paragraph indicates "only the creations of light are real:"
"Miracles enable you to heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness
and death yourself, and can therefore abolish both. *You* are a miracle, capable
of creating in the likeness of your Creator. Everything else is your own nightmare, and does not exist. Only the creations of light are real."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 1, Section 1
"God is light and in him there is no darkness at all."
- St. John the Divine, 1 John 1:5, Holy Bible, New Testament
I think it is important to get a grip and a handle on what the whole point of the
book, A Course in Miracles, is. Apparently, it is to find the light in your mind,
to find yourself, to find peace, to transform special relationships into holy relationships, to repeatedly experience the holy instant, to hear the voice of the
Holy Spirit, and to realize you are a creation of light.
"There is a light that this world cannot give. Yet you can give it, as it was given you. And as you give it, it shines forth to call you from the world and follow it. For this light will attract you as nothing in this world can do. And
you will lay aside the world and find another. This other world is bright with love which you have given it. And here will everything remind you of your Father
and his holy Son. Light is unlimited, and spreads across this world in quiet joy.
All those you brought with you will shine on you, and you will shine on them in
gratitude because they brought you here. Your light will join with theirs in power so compelling, that it will draw the others out of darkness as you look on
them."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 13, Section 6 (7pdf)
"Christ's vision is the bridge between the worlds. And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness. Things which seem quite solid here are merely shadows there; transparent, faintly
seen, at times forgot, and never able to obscure the light that shines beyond them. Holiness has been restored to vision, and the blind can see."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 159
"Listen, and try to think if you remember what we will speak of now:
Listen, -perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar, like a song whose name is long forgotten, and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered. Not
the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, attached not
to a person or a place or anything particular. But you remember, from just this
little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who were there and listened with you.
The notes are nothing. Yet you have kept them with you, not for themselves, but
as a soft reminder of what would make you weep if you remembered how dear it was
to you. You could remember, yet you are afraid, believing you would lose the world you learned since then. And yet you know that nothing in the world you learned is half so dear as this. Listen, and see if you remember an ancient song
you knew so long ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to cherish since.
Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and yet somehow
familiar, is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look into a great and shining circle. And all the circle fills with light before your eyes. The edges
of the circle disappear, and what is in it is no longer contained at all. The light expands and covers everything, extending to infinity forever shining and with no break or limit anywhere. Within it everything is joined in perfect continuity. Nor is it possible to imagine that anything could be outside, for there is nowhere that this light is not.
This is the vision of the Son of God, whom you know well. Here is the sight of him who knows his Father. Here is the memory of what you are; a part of this, with all of it within, and joined to all as surely as all is joined in you. Accept
the vision that can show you this, and not the body. You know the ancient song,
and know it well. Nothing will ever be as dear to you as is this ancient hymn of
love the Son of God sings to his Father still.
And now the blind can see, for that same song they sing in honor of their Creator
gives praise to them as well. The blindness that they made will not withstand the
memory of this song. And they will look upon the vision of the Son of God, remembering who he is they sing of. What is a miracle but this remembering? And
who is there in whom this memory lies not? The light in one awakens it in all. And when you see it in your brother, you are remembering for everyone."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 21, Section 1 (2pdf)
"The world I see holds nothing that I want..." because I want me and you.
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