Welcome to Active Meditation,
A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 106 Let me be still and listen to the truth.
If you will lay aside the ego's voice,
However loudly it may seem to call.
If you will not accept the ego's petty gifts that give you nothing that you really want.
If you will listen with an open mind that has not told you what salvation is.
Then you will hear the mighty voice of truth,
Quiet in power,
Strong in stillness,
And completely certain in its messages.
Listen and hear God speak to you through God's appointed voice,
Which silences the thunder of the meaningless,
And shows the way to peace to those who cannot see.
Be still today and listen to the truth.
Be not deceived by the voices of the dead,
Which tell you they have found the source of life and offer it to you for your belief.
Attend the voice of the dead not,
But listen to the truth.
Be not afraid today to circumvent the voices of the world.
Walk lightly past their meaningless persuasion.
Hear them not.
Be still today and listen to the truth.
Go past all things which do not speak of the one who holds your happiness within their hand,
Held out to you in welcome and in love.
Hear only God today,
And do not wait to reach God any longer.
Hear one voice today.
Today,
The promise of God's Word is kept.
Listen and be silent.
God would speak to you.
God comes with miracles,
A thousand times as happy and as wonderful as those miracles you ever dreamed of or wished for in your dreams.
God's miracles are true.
They will not fade when dreaming ends.
God's miracles end the dream instead and last forever.
For these miracles come from God to God's dear child,
Whose other name is you.
Prepare yourself for miracles today.
Today,
Allow God's ancient pledge to you and all your brothers and sisters to be kept.
Hear God today and listen to the Word which lifts the veil that lies upon the earth and wakes all those who sleep and cannot see.
God calls to those who sleep through you.
God needs your voice to speak to those who cannot see.
For who could reach God's child except God calling through yourself?
Hear God today and offer God your voice to speak to all the multitude who wait to hear the Word that God will speak today.
Be ready for salvation.
It is here and will today be given unto you.
And you will learn your function from the one who chose it in God's name for you.
Listen today and you will hear a voice which will resound throughout the world through you.
The bringer of all miracles has need that you receive the miracles first.
And thus become the joyous giver of the miracles you receive.
Thus does salvation start.
And thus it ends.
When everything is yours and everything is given away,
It will remain with you forever.
And the lesson has been learned.
Today we practice giving,
Not the way you understand it now,
But as it is.
Each hour's exercises should begin with this request for your enlightenment.
I will be still and listen to the truth.
What does it mean to give and to receive?
So now say to yourself,
Repeat after me,
I will be still and listen to the truth.
What does it mean to give and to receive?
Ask and expect an answer.
Your request is one whose answer has been waiting a long time to be received by you.
It will begin the ministry for which you came and which will free the world from thinking.
Giving is a way to lose.
And so the world becomes ready to understand and to receive.
I will be still and listen to the truth.
What does it mean to give and to receive?
Ask this now.
What does it mean to give and to receive?
I will be still and listen to the truth.
Be still and listen to the truth today.
I will be still and listen to the truth today.
For each five minutes spent in listening,
A thousand minds are open to the truth.
They will hear the Holy Word you hear,
And when the hour is past,
You will again release a thousand more.
You pause to ask that the truth be given them along with you.
Today,
The Holy Word of God is kept.
Through,
You're receiving it to give away.
So you can teach the world what giving means by listening and learning it of God.
Do not forget today to reinforce your choice to hear and to receive the Word.
By this reminder given to yourself as often as possible today.
I am the messenger of God today.
My voice is God's to give what I receive.
Let me be still and listen to the truth.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
