Miracles
The Manner and Method of Miracles
The miracle is useless if you learn but that the body can be healed, for this is not the lesson it was sent to teach. The lesson is the MIND was sick that thought the body could be sick; projecting out its guilt caused nothing, and had no effects. This world is full of miracles.They stand in shining silence next to every dream of pain and suffering, of sin and guilt. They are the glad effects of taking back the consequence of sickness to its cause.
The body is released because the mind acknowledges “this is not done to me, but I am doing this”. And thus the mind is free to make another choice instead. Beginning here, salvation will proceed to change the course of every step in the descent to separation, until
all the steps have been retraced, the ladder gone, and all the dreaming of the world undone. - Text Chapter 28
It is impossible the Son of God be merely driven by events outside of him. It is impossible that happenings that come to him were not his choice. His power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which he seems to find himself by chance or accident. No accident nor chance is possible within the universe as God created it, outside of which is nothing. Suffer, and you decided sin was your goal. Be happy, and you gave the power of decision to Him Who must decide for God for you. - Text Chapter 21
The secret of salvation is but this: That you are doing this unto yourself. No matter what the form of the attack, this still is true. Whoever takes the role of enemy and of attacker, still is this the truth. Whatever seems to be the cause of any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true. For you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let them be as hateful and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to recognize it is your dream.
This single lesson learned will set you free from suffering, whatever form it takes. The Holy Spirit will repeat this one inclusive lesson of deliverance until it has been learned, regardless of the form of
suffering that brings you pain. Whatever hurt you bring to Him He will make answer with this very simple truth. For this one answer takes away the cause of every form of sorrow and of pain. The form affects His answer not at all, for He would teach you but the single cause of all of them, no matter what their form. And you will understand that miracles reflect the simple statement, "I have done this thing, and it is this I would undo." - Text Chapter 27
No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision. No one suffers pain except his choice elects this state for him. No one can grieve nor fear nor think him sick unless these are the outcomes that he wants. And no one dies without his own consent. Nothing occurs but represents your wish, and nothing is omitted that you choose. -Workbook Lesson 152
I who remain as God created me would loose the world from all I thought it was. For I am real because the world is not, and I would know my own reality. I loose the world from all I thought it was, and choose my own reality instead. - Lesson132
Healing is Release From Fear
Remember, you are suffering from the disease of projected self-identification. Recognize that sickness is of the mind, and has nothing to do with the body. What does this recognition “cost”? It costs the whole world you see. All you need do is rise up and say “I have no use for this”. There is no form of sickness that would not be
cured at once.
As you let yourself be healed, you see all those around you, or who cross your mind, or whom you touch or those who seem to have no contact with you, healed along with you.
Could you but realize for a single instant the power of healing that the reflection of God, shining in you, can bring to all the world, you could not wait to make the mirror of your mind clean to receive the image of
the holiness that heals the world.
Sickness is a defense against the truth. I will accept the truth of what I am, and let my mind be wholly healed today.
I have forgotten what I really am, for I mistook my body for myself.
Sickness is a defense against the truth. But I am not a body. And my mind cannot attack. So I cannot be sick. - Lesson 136
When I am healed I am not healed alone. And I would share my healing with the world, that sickness may be banished from the mind of God’s one Son, Who is my only Self.
When I am healed I am not healed alone. And I would bless my brothers, for I would be healed with them, as they are healed with me. Lesson 137
Whatever Suffers Is Not Part Of Me. I have disowned the truth. Now let me be as faithful in disowning falsity. Whatever suffers is not part of me. What grieves is not myself. What is in pain is but illusion in my mind. What dies was never living in reality, and did but mock the truth
about myself. Now I disown self-concepts and deceits and lies about the holy Son of God. Now am I ready to accept him back as God created him, and as he is.
Father, my ancient love for You returns, and lets me love your Son again as well. Father, I am as You created me. Now is Your Love remembered, and my own. Now do I understand that they are one. -Workbook Lesson 248
All Things I Think I See Reflect Ideas
This is salvation's keynote: What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and
therefore seeks to find. These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one's own. From insane wishes comes an insane world. From judgment comes a world
condemned. And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God, to offer him a kindly home where he can rest a while before he journeys on, and help his brothers walk ahead with him, and find the way to Heaven and to God.
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. - Workbook Lesson 325