ACIM Lesson 200 Exercise

"There is no peace except the peace of God" underscores the central importance of seeking divine peace above all else. It emphasizes that all attempts to find peace through worldly means are ultimately futile and fleeting. By recognizing and embracing the peace of God as our true source of tranquility, we can experience enduring fulfillment and harmony in our lives.

All quoted material is from A Course in Miracles, copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007 by the Foundation for Inner Peace, publisher, and the copyright holder. This material is used with permission. (Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306 Novato, CA 94949 US)

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A Course in Miracles Lesson 200 There is no peace except the peace of God.

Seek you no further.

There is nothing else for you to find except the peace of God.

Unless you seek for misery,

Unless you seek for pain,

This is the final point to which each one of us must come at last.

To lay aside all hope of finding happiness where there is none.

To lay aside all hope of being saved by what can only hurt.

To lay aside all hope of making peace of chaos.

To lay aside all hope of making joy of pain.

To lay aside all hope of making heaven out of hell.

Accept no more to win through losing.

Accept no more to die in order to live.

You cannot but be asking for defeat,

Yet you can ask as easily for love,

For happiness.

You can ask as easily for eternal life in peace that has no ending.

Ask for love,

And you can only win.

To ask for what you have already must succeed.

To ask that what is false be true can only fail.

Forgive yourself for vain imaginings.

Seek no longer for what you cannot find.

What could be more foolish than to seek,

And seek,

And seek again for hell,

When you have but to look with open eyes to find that heaven lies before you through a door that opens easily to welcome you.

Come home.

This world is not where you belong.

You are a stranger here,

But it has given you to find the means whereby the world no longer seems to be a prison house or a jail for anyone.

You must change your mind about the purpose of the world if you would find escape.

There is no peace except the peace of God.

What does forgiveness do?

In truth,

Forgiveness has no function.

Forgiveness does nothing.

Forgiveness is unknown in heaven.

It is only hell where forgiveness is needed.

It is only hell where forgiveness must serve a mighty function.

Let us not lose our way again today.

We go to heaven,

And the path is straight.

The father calls,

The child will hear.

And that is all there is to what appears to be a world apart from God where bodies have reality.

There is no peace except the peace of God.

We seek no further.

We are close to home.

We draw still nearer to home every time we say,

There is no peace except the peace of God.

I am glad and thankful it is so.

Ponder on this.

There is no peace except the peace of God.

I am glad and thankful it is so.

Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross to leave this world behind.

There is no peace except the peace of God.

I am glad and thankful it is so.

Peace begins with the world perceived as different.

Lead us to the gate of heaven and the way beyond.

There is no peace except the peace of God.

Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God.

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