Welcome to Active Meditation.
A Course in Miracles Lesson 108 To Give and To Receive Are One in Truth Meditation depends upon today's idea.
The light is in it.
For today's idea reconciles all seeming opposites.
What is light except the resolution born of peace of all your conflicts and mistaken thoughts into one concept which is wholly true.
Even that concept will disappear because the thought behind it will appear instead to take its place.
And now you are at peace forever for the dream is over then.
True light that makes true vision possible is not the light the body's eyes behold.
True light is a state of mind that has become so unified that darkness cannot be perceived at all.
Thus what is the same is seen as one.
While what is not the same remains unnoticed for it is not there.
This is the light that shows no opposite and vision being healed has power to heal.
This is the light that brings your peace of mind to other minds to share it and be glad that all other minds are one with you and with themselves.
This is the light that heals because it brings single perception based upon one frame of reference from which one meaning comes.
Here are both giving and receiving seen as different aspects of one thought whose truth does not depend on which is seen as first nor which appears to be in second place.
Here it is understood that both giving and receiving occur together that the thought remains complete and in this understanding is the base on which all opposites are reconciled because opposites are perceived from the same frame of reference which unifies this thought.
One thought completely unified will serve to unify all thought.
This is the same as saying one correction will suffice for all correction or that to forgive one person wholly is enough to bring salvation to all minds.
For these are but some special cases of one law which holds for every kind of learning if it be directed by the one who knows the truth.
Let's practice.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
To give and to receive are one in truth.
To learn that giving and receiving are the same as special usefulness because it can be tried so easily and seen as true when this special case has proved it always works in every circumstance where it is tried.
The thought behind it can be generalized to other areas of doubt and double vision.
From there it will extend and finally arrive at the one thought which underlies them all.
Today we practice with the special case of giving and receiving.
We will use this simple lesson in the obvious because it has results we cannot miss.
To give is to receive.
Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone and see how quickly peace returns to us.
Light is tranquility and in that peace is vision given us and we can see.
So we begin the practice periods with the instruction for today and today.
To give and to receive are one in truth.
I will receive what I am giving now.
Keeping your eyes closed and for the next few minutes think of what you would hold out to everyone to have it yours.
You might for instance say to everyone I offer quietness.
To everyone I offer peace of mind.
To everyone I offer gentleness.
Say each one slowly and then pause a while expecting to receive the gift you gave.
It will come to you in the amount in which you gave it.
Let's practice again.
Repeat after me.
To everyone I offer quietness.
To everyone I offer peace of mind.
To everyone I offer gentleness.
You will find you have exact return for that is what you asked.
It might be helpful too to think of one to whom to give you gifts.
This person represents the others and through them you give to all.
Think of this person now.
Say to this person I offer you quietness.
Say to this person I offer you peace of mind.
Now say to this person I offer you gentleness.
To give and to receive are one in truth.
Ponder on this.
To give and to receive are one in truth.
To everyone I offer quietness.
I offer you peace of mind.
To give and to receive are one in truth.
Our very simple lesson for today will teach you much.
Effect and cause will be far better understood from this time on.
And we will make much faster progress now.
Think of the exercises for today as quick advances in your learning.
Made still faster and more sure each time you say to give and to receive are one in truth.
To give and to receive are one in truth.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
