ACIM Lesson 121 Exercise

"Forgiveness is the Key to Happiness" - Some of the ideas the workbook presents you will find hard to believe, and others may seem to be quite startling. This does not matter. You are merely asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you and will show you that they are true.

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Welcome to Active Meditation, A Course in Miracles, Lesson 121. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. Think of someone you do not like, Who seems to irritate you or to cause regret in you. If you should meet them, One you actively despise or merely try to overlook, It does not matter what form your anger takes. You probably have chosen them already. This one will do. Now be silent while you identify someone you do not like. Now see them in your mind. Look at them a while. Try to perceive some light in them, Somewhere, A little gleam, Which you never notice. Try to find a little spark of brightness, Shining through the ugly picture that you hold of them. Look at this picture till you see a light, Somewhere within it. Then try to let this light extend until it covers them and makes the picture beautiful and good. Look at this changed perception for a while. Now turn your mind to one you call a friend. Try to transfer the light you learned to see around your former enemy to this person. Perceive them now as more than a friend to you, For in that light their holiness shows you your Savior, Saved and saving, Healed and whole. Now let them offer you the light you see in them, And let your enemy and friend unite in blessing you with what you gave. Now you are one with them, And they with you. Now have you been forgiven by yourself. Repeat after me. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. I will awaken from the dream. I will awaken from the dream that I am mortal. I will awaken from the dream that I am fallible and full of sin. I will awaken from the dream and know I am the perfect child. Do not forget throughout the day the role forgiveness plays in bringing happiness to every unforgiving mind with yours among them. Every hour tell yourself I will awaken from the dream and know I am the perfect child of God. Ponder on this. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. I will awaken from the dream. I will awaken from the dream that I am fallible and full of sin. I will awaken from the dream that I am mortal. I will awaken from the dream and know I am the perfect child of God. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace.

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