A definitive statement is an idea in the Course that’s so clear it
defines what the Course is teaching, and it encapsulates what the Course
is saying. ~
Your Immortal Reality
For those who haven't already checked it out, I highly recommend Gary
Renard’s
The Disappearance of the Universe as it
reads like one big frickin’ definitive statement for A Course in
Miracles, put in the everyday vernacular. By reading it multiple times,
you "get" the message on deeper level, thus making it that much easier
to remember to apply it when the stuff hits the fan, as it always does,
if not sooner, then later. Of course, as the saying goes, "simple but
not always easy."
A Course in Miracles is a presentation of the absolute truth, with
Jesus (not to be confused with the fictional religious figure, but the
REAL Jesus) speaking the word of God, though written with a heavy dose
of metaphorical statements, statements that should not to be taken
literally. However, there are the aforementioned definitive statements,
which ARE meant to be taken literally. The following passages are some
of those definitive statements, although, in the end, everything except
God is metaphor:
There is nothing about me that you cannot attain. I have nothing that
does not come from God. The difference between us now is that I have
nothing else.
Projection makes perception.
Whatever is true is eternal, and cannot change or be changed.
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.
Anger is NEVER justified.
The secret of salvation is but this: That you are doing this unto yourself.
Time and eternity are both in your mind, and will conflict until you
perceive time solely as a means to regain eternity. You cannot do this
as long as you believe that anything happening to you is caused by
factors outside yourself. You must learn that time is solely at your
disposal, and that nothing in the world can take this responsibility
from you.
Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has
not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees
there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven.
Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.
You who want peace can find it only by complete forgiveness.
The way to God is through forgiveness here. There is no other way.
Forgiveness is the only function meaningful in time.
As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself.
Only forgiveness heals an unforgiveness, and only an unforgiveness can possibly give rise to sickness of any kind.
When you forgive the world your guilt, you will be free of it.
Those whom you see as guilty become the witnesses to guilt in you,
and you will see it there, for it IS there until it is undone. Guilt is
always in your mind, which has condemned itself. Project it not, for
while you do, it cannot be undone.
Perhaps you do not think you can let your grievances go. That, however, is simply a matter of motivation.
The “reality” of death is firmly rooted in the belief that God’s Son
is a body. And if God created bodies, death would indeed be real. But
God would not be loving.
Anything in this world that you believe is good and valuable and
worth striving for can hurt you, and will do so. Not because it has the
power to hurt, but just because you have denied it is but an illusion,
and made it real.
The world you see holds nothing that you need to offer you; nothing
that you can use in any way, nor anything at all that serves to give you
joy. Believe this thought, and you are saved from years of misery, from
countless disappointments, and from hopes that turn to bitter ashes of
despair.
The world as you perceive it cannot have been created by the Father;
for the world is not as you see it. God created only the eternal, and
everything you see is perishable.
If this were the real world, God WOULD be cruel. For no Father could
subject His children to this as the price of salvation and BE
loving.
The world you see is an illusion of a world. God did not create it,
for what He creates must be eternal as Himself. Yet there is nothing in
the world you see that will endure forever. Some things will last in
time a little while longer than others. But the time will come when all
things visible will have an end.
There is no world! This is the central thought this course attempts to teach.
What if you recognized this world is an hallucination? What if you really understood you made it up?
The world you seem to live in is not home to you. And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true.
You dwell not here but in eternity.
You are at home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality.
Heaven asks nothing. It is hell that makes extravagant demands for sacrifice.
The world is not left by death but by truth.
You cannot behold the world and know God. Only one is true.
The truth about you is so lofty that nothing unworthy of God is worthy of you.
You can defend your specialness, but never will you hear the Voice for God beside it.
You do not belong in time. Your place is only in eternity, where God Himself placed you forever.
Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God
created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real. In
this one sentence is our course explained.
God is (and nothing else is.)
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