Today’s review covers these ideas: W-67 and W-68
1. W-67. “Love created me like Itself.”
2. I am like my Creator. I
²I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss, and I cannot die. II
³I am not a body. III
⁴Today I want to recognize my reality.
⁵I will not worship idols, nor raise the self-made images I have of myself to replace my Self. IV
⁶I am like my Creator.
⁷Love created me like Itself.
3. These specific forms may be helpful in applying the idea:
²Let me not see in this an illusion of myself.
³Let me remember my Creator as I look upon this.
⁴My Creator did not create this as I see it.
4. W-68. “Love holds no grievances.”
5. Grievances are entirely foreign to Love. V
²Grievances attack Love and veil Its light.
³If I hold grievances, I am attacking Love and therefore attacking my Self.
⁴In doing so, my Self becomes something unknown to me.
⁵I am determined not to attack my Self today, so that I may remember who I am. VI
6. These specific forms of applying this idea may be helpful:
²This does not justify denying my Self.
³I will not use this to attack Love.
⁴I will not let this tempt me to attack myself.
I Genesis 1:26 “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…’”
Rather, God said, “I make My Son in My image and likeness,” and thus God created His Son. And then the ego said, “Let us make man in our image and likeness…” and man appeared in the sleeping mind of the Son of God.
II Suffering, loss, and death are but ideas that my real Self has never experienced in Reality. My awareness of being has always been the same and has never changed, though it is true that upon that pure awareness of being myself I have superimposed ideas of suffering, loss, and death; yet even in those moments, my awareness of being has remained unaltered.
III Throughout my personal life my body has changed dramatically, but my awareness of being has not. What does not change in me must be real, and what changes must be illusion. The only plausible explanation is that my fragmented mind conceives these ideas of suffering, loss, death, and body; yet they are nothing but that—changing ideas that I imagine and take to be real, but which are merely illusions.
IV All the ideas my personal mind conceives change: first they appear in my mind; then, with time, they evolve and change; finally, I no longer regard them as “existing” and call them “memories.” But while they are in my mind I consider them real, true, and of great value—so why do I constantly deceive myself in this way?
Why do I call that living? Could it not be that I am merely absorbed in a story I tell myself?
V Resentments are entirely foreign to what I am: the Love of God. Why else, do you think, do resentments make you uneasy and cause you to feel bad? Simply because they are unnatural—ideas incompatible with what you are.
Do not tolerate discomfort. Be sensitive to every disturbance and uncompromising with it. Do not allow it into your mind; if it has already entered, expel it quickly, and above all, do not welcome or nourish it, for you will be harboring a stranger who has settled in your home for the sole purpose of embittering your life.
You do not deserve that. You were created in Happiness and for happiness. Anything less than genuine happiness is unworthy of your glorious condition, and you do not deserve it.
Make no compromise with this. The worst thing that can happen to a human being is to grow familiar with suffering and to accept it without protest.
Learn to be outraged by all those mental positions that do not belong to a Son of God. Learn to live as your Father lives; learn to live as God.
VI The image I have of myself—which I accept as true with a mixture of astonishing credulity and arrogance—is so distorted that it is almost impossible for me to recognize myself as Love and Light. Yet I understand perfectly well that resentments are forms of attack and that they make me feel profoundly miserable. It is evident that when I hold resentments, I am attacking myself, for I am the only one who suffers.
If harboring resentments is my decision, and if they harm me so much, why do I keep them? For what purpose do I maintain them? Perhaps it is because my mind is not functioning correctly. It is urgent to put an end to this madness. I do not want to keep suffering.