ACIM Lesson 179a Review 167

This Self alone knows Love. This Self alone is perfectly consistent in Its Thoughts; knows Its Creator, understands Itself, is perfect in Its knowledge and Its Love, and never changes from Its constant state of union with Its Father and Itself. It is this that waits to meet us at the journey’s ending. Every step we take brings us a little nearer. This review will shorten time immeasurably if we keep in mind that this remains our goal, and as we practice it is this to which we are approaching. This course was sent to open up the path of light to us, and teach us, step by step, how to return to the eternal Self we thought we lost.

All quotes are from A Course in Miracles, copyright ©2007, Third Edition used with permission from the publisher and copyright holder, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd., #306, Novato, CA 94949, acim org.

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Welcome,

To Active Meditation,

A Course in Miracles,

Lesson 179,

Review,

Lesson 167.

There is one life,

And that,

I share with God.

Steady our feet,

Father.

Let our doubts be quiet.

Let our holy minds be still,

And speak to us.

Lead our practicing.

We will listen to your word,

And make it ours.

We accept the word you offer us,

To unify our practicing,

As we review the thoughts that you have given us in these lessons.

God is love,

Therefore,

So am I.

There are not different kinds of life.

Life is like the truth.

Life does not have degrees.

Life is the one condition in which all that God created share.

Like all of God's thoughts,

Life has no opposite.

There is no death,

Because what God created shares his life.

There is no death,

Because an opposite to God does not exist.

There is no death,

Because the Father and the Child are one.

All sorrow,

Loss,

Anxiety,

Suffering,

And pain,

All of these,

In some way,

Acknowledge death,

And thus deny you live.

You think that death is of the body,

Yet death is but an idea,

Irrelevant to what is seen as physical.

We will not ask for death in any form today.

Say to yourself,

Say,

In your mind,

There is one life,

And that I share with God.

Remember,

Ideas leave not their source.

The emphasis this course has placed upon that idea is due to its centrality in our attempts to change your mind about yourself.

The idea that ideas leave not their source is the cause of healing.

That ideas leave not their source is why you cannot die.

The truth of this idea has established you as one with God.

Repeat in your mind after me,

There is one life,

And that I share with God.

Ideas leave not their source.

Ponder on this.

There is one life,

And that I share with God.

Ideas leave not their source.

We share one life because we have one source,

A source from which perfection comes to us.

Remaining always in the holy minds which God created perfect.

As we were,

So are we now,

And will be forever.

A sleeping mind must awaken as it sees its own perfection,

And now it sleeps no more,

A mere reflection.

There is one life,

And that I share with God.

The wakened mind is a mind that knows its source.

The wakened mind knows itself.

The wakened mind knows its holiness.

Ideas leave not their source.

There is one life,

And that I share with God.

Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God.