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Lesson 140: ”Only salvation can be said to cure.”
AI Reframe: True healing comes from remembering truth.
Suggested Practice:
From the Lesson:
“We waken hearing Him, and let Him speak to us five minutes as the day begins, and end the day by listening again five minutes more before we go to sleep. ²Our only preparation is to let our interfering thoughts be laid aside, not separately, but all of them as one. ³They are the same. ⁴We have no need to make them different, and thus delay the time when we can hear our Father* speak to us. ⁵We hear Him now. ⁶We come to Him today.”
“With nothing in our hands to which we cling, with lifted hearts and listening minds we pray:”
²Only salvation** can be said to cure.
³Speak to us, Father, that we may be healed.
“And we will feel salvation cover us with soft protection, and with peace so deep that no illusion can disturb our minds, nor offer proof to us that it is real. ⁵This will we learn today. ⁶And we will say our prayer for healing hourly, and take a minute as the hour strikes, to hear the answer to our prayer be given us as we attend in silence and in joy. ⁷This is the day when healing comes to us. ⁸This is the day when separation ends, and we remember Who we really are.” (ACIM, W-140.11:1–12:8)
*Father/God: an impersonal, formless, and infinite principle of pure Love. Substitute whatever term that resonates best and allows you to receive the message. The Will of God is our happiness.
**Salvation is simply the choice to let go of guilt and see the world—and everyone in it—through the eyes of love, thereby waking up from the dream of separation.
Message
The cure for all our suffering is salvation: aligning with the truth of who we are—love personified. There is no separation. We are all the same Light, united as One with the Divine in peace, love, and joy. Without salvation, any cure is just rearranging illusions—illusions created by the ego to protect itself, using fear, grievances, and limiting beliefs as its tools of choice. Because we have free will, we get to decide which way we want to go. That pretty much sums up the whole Course.
It’s like The Matrix. Do we take the blue pill—stay in the illusion—or the red pill—wake up? Only the reality of waking up, in the Course’s view, isn’t some dark dystopian world of bots trying to kill you. Instead, the Holy Spirit guides us to live from a higher vibrational dimension where we are the Light and see the Light in everyone and everything, creating a world that manifests peace, love, and joy.
That’s the ideal. That’s what we’re aiming for. With each passing day, as we continue to practice these lessons, we inch closer to our Truth. It’s a process where baby steps are encouraged.
“According to Lesson 140…to really know myself is to go deep, beyond the chatter of my mind, beyond the thoughts that run like warnings on the bottom of a pharmaceutical ad.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout
Blessings & Peace,
Maureen,
The Mandala Lady
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