Archives of Spiritual

12.  What Is the Ego? This is a question that perplexes most spiritual students and scientists:  What exactly is the ego?  As with all esoteric terms, it is not something that can be quantified, accurately tested, or even physically held in one’s hand, although we tend to carry it around with us always.  But to […]

Lesson 330 I will not hurt myself again today. “Father, Your Son can not be hurt.  And if we think we suffer, we but fail to know our one Identity we share with You.  We would return to It today, to be made free forever from all our mistakes, and to be saved from what […]

Lesson 329 I have already chosen what You will. “Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its laws, and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours.  Yet what I am in truth is but Your Will, extended and extending.  This am I, and this will never change.  As You are […]

Lesson 328 I choose the second place to gain the first. “There is no will but Yours.  And I am glad that nothing I imagine contradicts what You would have me be.  It is Your Will that I be wholly safe, eternally at peace.  And happily I share that Will which You, my Father, gave […]

Lesson 327 I need but call and You will answer me. Father, I thank You that Your promises will never fail in my experience, if I but test them out.  Let me attempt therefore to try them, and to judge them not.  Your Word is one with You.  You give the means whereby conviction comes, […]

Lesson 326 I am forever an Effect of God. Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left its home.  I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause.  As You created me I have remained.  Where You establish me I still abide.  And all Your attributes […]

Lesson 325 All things I think I see reflect ideas. “Our Father, Your ideas reflect the truth, and mine apart from Yours but make up dreams.  Let me behold what only Yours reflect, for Yours and Yours alone establish truth” (ACIM Lesson 325 2:1-2).   We are presented once more with the principle of cause […]

Lesson 324 I merely follow, for I would not lead. Father, You are the One Who gave the plan for my salvation to me.  You have set the way I am to go, the role to take, and every step in my appointed path.  I cannot lose the way.  I can but choose to wander […]

Lesson 323 I gladly make the “sacrifice” of fear. “Here is the only “sacrifice” You ask of Your beloved Son; You ask him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his awareness, healing him of pain, and giving […]

Lesson 322 I can give up but what was never real. Father, to You all sacrifice remains forever inconceivable.  And so I cannot sacrifice except in dreams.  As You created me, I can give up nothing You gave me.  What You did not give has no reality.  What loss can I anticipate except the loss […]