Let Me Recognize That My Problems Have Been Solved.
1. If you are willing to recognize your problems, you will recognize that you have none.
²Your one great problem has already been solved, and you have no other.
³Therefore, you must be at peace.
⁴Salvation, then, depends on recognizing that this is the one problem and understanding that it has already been resolved.
⁵One problem, one solution. I
⁶Salvation is accomplished.
⁷Release from conflict has been given you.
⁸Accept this fact, and you are ready to take your rightful place in God’s plan for salvation.
2. Your only problem has been solved!
²Repeat this within yourself today, again and again, with gratitude and conviction.
³You have recognized your one problem, opening the way for the Holy Spirit to give you God’s answer.
⁴You have set aside deception and seen the light of truth.
⁵You have accepted salvation for yourself by bringing the problem to the answer.
⁶And you can recognize the solution because you have identified the problem. II
3. Today you are entitled to peace.
²A problem that has been resolved cannot trouble you.
³Just be certain you do not forget that all problems are the same.
⁴Their many forms will not deceive you if you remember this.
⁵One problem, one solution.
⁶Accept the peace this simple statement brings.
4. In our longer practice periods today, we will claim the peace that rightfully belongs to us when problem and answer are brought together.
²The problem must vanish, for God’s Answer cannot fail.
³Having recognized the problem, you have recognized the solution.
⁴The solution is inherent in the problem.
⁵You have been answered, and you have accepted the answer.
⁶You are saved.
5. Now let the peace that comes from your acceptance be given you.
²Close your eyes and receive your reward.
³Acknowledge that your problems have been solved.
⁴Acknowledge that you are out of conflict, free and at peace.
⁵But above all, remember that you have only one problem, and that problem has one solution.
⁶In this lies the simplicity of salvation.
⁷This is the reason it is guaranteed to work.
6. State often today that all your problems have been solved.
²Repeat the idea with absolute conviction as often as possible.
³And especially remember to apply today’s idea to any specific problem that may arise.
⁴Say quickly:
⁵Let me recognize that this problem has been solved.
7. Today, let us choose not to accumulate grievances.
²Let us choose to free ourselves from problems that do not exist.
³The key to this is simple honesty.
⁴Do not deceive yourself about what the problem is, and you will recognize that it has been solved.
I Jesus tells us:
THE PROBLEM:
“Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh.” (T-27.X.6:1)
The problem is you. The problem is your self—the ego in you. Problems will continue to haunt you as long as you insist on wanting to be you.
The problem is that you believe you are a person living in a world with other persons—bodies, like you. The problem is that you believe you have a mind for your own private use, with thoughts that are always appropriate and true. The problem is that you believe you are separate from God, from your brothers, and from all the things that populate your world—and that all of this is something distinct from you.
The problem is that you feel alone, helpless, and powerless before the things that happen to you; that you are fragile, subject to all kinds of harm, and destined, in the end, to die.
The problem is that your mind is constantly absorbed in things you think happened in something you call the past, and you fear what you think may occur in a time yet to come that you call the future.
The problem is that in your mind there arise incessantly and uncontrollably stories you tell yourself—stories that, though you know to some extent are not true, you cannot help but consider important, because you, who also consider yourself important, are the protagonist of them all.
The problem is that, although you are beginning to realize that all this is nothing but madness, you do not know how to bring it to an end.
THE SOLUTION:
“The Holy Spirit was God’s Answer to the separation; the means by which the Atonement could heal the mind until the whole of it returned to creating.” (T-5.II.10:5)
The problem is not real. None of it is true. What is real is not in danger, and what you think is in danger is not real. In this lies the Peace of God.
And Jesus tells us:
“Do not be afraid, beloved brother. It is only a dream. I know you are dreaming; you do not yet. I now take your hand and accompany you in your nightmare. That is all I can do—but it is enough.
I cannot awaken you from your dream because you do not yet wish to wake, but I do know that with all your soul you long for a better dream, and that I can help you to attain.
Listen to me. Do as I say and trust. My voice accompanies you always, for your mind is also mine, and I have already awakened—but I still behold your dream, and that is why I can guide you. I always speak to you of what I did, for thus I awakened. You and I are the same, and therefore there is nothing in me that you cannot achieve.
The dream is already over, and with it, the world and time. We are together, as we have always been—together in the Heart of God. Have faith, open your eyes, and you will see.”
II Perhaps it will help you to ask yourself these questions: Is there any problem outside myself? Who really has a problem?
Problems have no existence of their own outside the mind that perceives them; they possess no real ontological being. We might even say they are illusions in the highest degree, for they cannot even be perceived objectively.
Problems are, in essence, opinions, beliefs, or attacks directed against the idea one holds of oneself. If you abandon or diminish this idea, lessening the sense of personal importance—which is the ego’s nourishment—you will see how the problem naturally fades away.
You will experience problems to the same extent that you remain identified with your ego: the stronger the ego, the greater and more numerous the problems you will perceive. To regain peace of mind and cease suffering from painful interpretations of reality does not necessarily require a lofty spiritual vision; it requires only a little genuine humility.