Welcome to active meditation.
A Course in Miracles Lesson 95 I am oneself,
United with my Creator.
Today's idea accurately describes you as God created you.
You are one within yourself and one with God.
Yours is the unity of all creation.
Your perfect unity makes change in you impossible.
You do not accept this,
And you fail to realize it must be so,
Only because you believe that you have changed yourself already.
You see yourself as a ridiculous parody on God's creation,
Weak,
Vicious,
Ugly,
And sinful,
Miserable and beset with pain.
Such is your version of yourself,
A self divided into many warring parts separate from God,
A self tenuously held together by its erratic and capricious Maker,
To which you pray.
The Maker you have made does not hear your prayers,
For it is death.
The Maker you have made does not see the oneness in you,
For it is blind.
The Maker you have made does not understand you are the child of God.
For this Maker is senseless and understands nothing.
We will attempt today to be aware only of what we can hear and see and what makes perfect sense.
We will again direct our exercises towards reaching your one self,
Your Higher Self,
Which is united with its Creator.
In patience and in hope,
We try again today.
The use of the first five minutes of every waking hour for practicing the idea for the day has special advantages at the stage of learning in which you are at present.
It is difficult at this point not to allow your mind to wander if it undertakes extended practice.
You have surely realized this by now.
You have seen the extent of your lack of mental discipline and of your need for mind training.
It is necessary that you be aware of this.
It is indeed a hindrance to your advance.
Frequent but shorter practice periods have other advantages for you at this time.
In addition to recognizing your difficulties with sustained attention,
You must also have noticed that unless you are reminded of your purpose frequently,
You tend to forget about it for long periods of time.
You often fail to remember the short applications of the idea for the day,
And you have not yet formed the habit of using the idea as an automatic response to temptation.
Structure then is necessary for you at this time.
Plans do include frequent reminders of your goal and regular attempts to reach it.
Regularity,
In terms of time,
Is not the ideal requirement for the most beneficial form of practice in salvation.
Motivation is advantageous,
However,
For those whose motivation is inconsistent and who remain heavily defended against learning.
We will therefore keep to the five minutes an hour practice periods for a while,
And urge you to omit as few as possible.
Using the first five minutes of the hour will be particularly helpful,
Since it imposes firmer structure.
Do not,
However,
Use your lapses from this schedule as an excuse not to return to it again as soon as you can.
There may well be a temptation to regard the day as loss,
Because you have already failed to do what is required.
This should,
However,
Be merely recognized as what it is—a refusal to let your mistake be corrected and an unwillingness to try again.
The Holy Spirit is not delayed in the teachings by your mistakes.
The Holy Spirit can be held back only by your unwillingness to let your mistakes go.
Let us therefore be determined,
Particularly for the next week or so,
To be willing to forgive ourselves for our lapses and diligence,
To forgive ourselves for our failures,
To follow the instructions for practicing the day's idea.
This tolerance for weakness will enable us to overlook it,
Rather than give it power to delay our learning.
If we give it power to do this,
We are regarding it as strength.
We are confusing strength with weakness.
When you fail to comply with the requirements of this course,
You have merely made a mistake.
This calls for correction and for nothing else.
To allow a mistake to continue is to make additional mistakes based on the first mistake and reinforcing it.
It is this process that must be laid aside.
For it is but another way in which you would defend illusions against the truth.
Let all these errors go by recognizing them for what they are.
Disasters and mistakes are attempts to keep you unaware that you are oneself united with your Creator,
At one with every aspect of creation,
Limitless in power and in peace.
This is the truth,
And nothing else is true.
Today we will affirm this truth again and try to reach the place in you in which there is no doubt that only this is true.
Begin the practice periods today with this assurance,
Offered to your mind,
With all the certainty that you can give.
I am oneself,
United with my Creator,
At one with every aspect of creation,
And limitless in power and peace.
Then,
Close your eyes and tell yourself again,
Slowly and thoughtfully,
Attempting to allow the meaning of the words to sink into your mind,
Replacing false ideas.
Say I am oneself.
Repeat this several times,
And then attempt to feel the meaning that the words convey.
This practice,
Repeat after me,
I am oneself,
United with my Creator.
I am oneself,
At one with every aspect of creation.
I am oneself,
Limitless in power and in peace.
Ponder on this.
I KE expectation.
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You are oneself,
United and secure in light and joy and peace.
You are God's child,
Oneself,
With one creator and one goal.
To bring awareness of this oneness to all minds.
That true creation may extend the allness and the unity of God.
You are oneself,
Complete and healed and whole,
With power to lift the veil of darkness from the world.
And let the light in you come through to teach the world the truth about yourself.
You are oneself,
In perfect harmony with all there is and all that there will be.
You are oneself,
The holy child of God,
United with your brothers and sisters in that self.
United with God,
In God's will.
Feel this oneself in you and let it shine away all your illusions and your doubts.
This is your Higher Self,
The child of God.
As sinless as its creator,
With God's strength within you,
And God's love forever yours.
You are oneself,
And it is given you to feel this self within you,
And to cast all your illusions out of the one mind that is this self,
The holy truth in you.
This is your Higher Self,
The child of God.
Do not forget today,
We need your help.
Your little part in bringing happiness to all the world.
And Heaven looks to you in confidence that you will try today.
Share then Heaven's surety,
For it is yours.
Be vigilant,
Do not forget today.
Throughout the day,
Do not forget your goal.
Repeat today's idea,
I am oneself,
United with my Creator.
As frequently as possible.
And understand,
Each time you do so,
Someone hears the voice of hope.
Someone hears the snoring of the truth within their mind.
Someone hears the gentle rustling of the wings of peace.
Your own acknowledgement,
You are oneself,
United with God,
Is a call to all the world,
To be at one with you.
To everyone you meet today,
Be sure to give the promise of today's idea,
And tell them this.
You are oneself with me,
United with our Creator in this self.
I honor you,
Because of what I am,
And what God is,
Who loves us both as one.
I am oneself,
United with my Creator.
I am oneself,
At one with every aspect of creation.
I am oneself,
Limitless,
In power and in peace.
You are oneself,
United and secure in light and joy and peace.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
