Welcome to Active Meditation.
A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 68.
Love holds no grievances.
You who were created by love,
Like itself,
Can hold no grievances and know yourself.
To hold a grievance is to forget who you are.
To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body.
To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind,
And to condemn the body to death.
Perhaps you do not yet realize just what holding grievances does to your mind.
It seems to slit you off from your source,
And make you unlike your source.
It makes you believe that your source is like what you think you have become.
For no one can conceive of their creator as unlike themselves.
You shut off from yourself,
Which remains aware of its likeness to its creator.
Death seems to sleep,
While the part of your mind that weaves illusions in its sleep appears to be awake.
Can all this arise from holding grievances?
Oh,
Yes.
For one who holds grievances denies they were created by love.
And their creator has become fearful to them in their dream of hate.
Who can dream of hatred and not fear God?
It is as sure that those who hold grievances will redefine God in their own image.
As it is certain that God created them in God's image,
And defined them as part of God.
It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt,
As it is certain that those who forgive will find peace.
It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are,
As it is certain that those who forgive will remember who they are.
Would you not be willing to relinquish your grievances if you believed all this for so?
Perhaps you do not think you can let your grievances go.
That,
However,
Is simply a matter of motivation.
Today,
We will try to find out how you would feel without grievances.
If you succeed,
Even by ever so little,
There will never be a problem in motivation ever again.
Begin today's extended practice period by searching your mind.
For those against whom you hold what you regard as major grievances.
Some of these will be quite easy to find.
Then,
Think of the seemingly minor grievances.
You hold against those you like,
And even think you love.
It will quickly become apparent that there is no one against whom you do not cherish grievances of some sort.
This has left you alone,
In all the universe,
In your perception of yourself.
Determine now to see all these people as friends.
Say to them all,
Thinking of each one,
In turn,
As you do so,
I would see you as my friend,
That I may remember you are a part of me,
And come to know myself.
Spend the remainder of the practice period trying to think of yourself as completely at peace with everyone and everything.
Stay safe,
In a world that protects you,
And loves you,
And that you love in return.
Try to feel safety surrounding you,
Hovering over you,
And holding you up.
Try to believe,
However briefly,
That nothing can harm you in any way.
At the end of the practice period,
Tell yourself,
Love holds no grievances.
When I let all my grievances go,
I will know I am perfectly safe.
Let's practice.
Search your mind for a person against whom you hold what you regard as major grievances.
Now be quiet while you do this.
Now,
See this person as a friend,
Picture them in your mind,
And say to them,
I would see you as my friend,
That I may remember you are a part of me,
And come to know myself.
Search your mind again.
Locate someone you like or love.
Think of the seemingly minor grievances you hold against this person.
I'll be silent.
Picture this person.
Say to them.
Repeat after me,
I would see you as my friend,
That I may remember you are a part of me,
And come to know myself.
Now,
Think of yourself as completely at peace with everyone and everything.
Safe in a world that protects you and loves you,
And that you love in return.
Feel the safety surrounding you,
Hovering over you,
And holding you up.
You are beginning to know that nothing can harm you in any way.
Love holds no grievances.
Can I let all my grievances go,
I will know I am perfectly safe.
Thunder on this.
Love holds no grievances.
When I let all my grievances go,
I will know I am perfectly safe.
The short practice periods should include a quick application of today's idea.
In this form,
Whenever any thought of grievance arises against anyone physically present or now.
Say,
Love holds no grievances.
Let me not betray myself.
Spend a few moments reflecting on grievances.
In addition,
Repeat the idea several times an hour in this form.
Love holds no grievances.
I would wake to myself by laying all my grievances aside and wakening in God.
Love holds no grievances.
Let me not betray myself.
Love holds no grievances.
I would wake to myself by laying all my grievances aside and wakening in God.
Love holds no grievances.
Let me not betray myself.
Love holds no grievances.
I would wake to myself by laying all my grievances aside and wakening in God.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
