Voice From Heaven

LESSON 198 Only My Condemnation Injures Me. Injury is impossible. And yet illusion makes illusion. If you can condemn, you can be injured. For you have believed that you can injure, and the right you have established for yourself can be now used against you, till you lay it down as valueless, unwanted and unreal. Then does illusion cease to have effects, and those it seemed to have will be undone....

LESSON 197 It Can Be But My Gratitude I Earn. Here is the second step we take to free your mind from the belief in outside force pitted against your own. You make attempts at kindness and forgiveness. Yet you turn them to attack again, unless you find external gratitude and lavish thanks. Your gifts must be received with honor, lest they be withdrawn. And so you think God’s gifts are loans at best...

LESSON 196 It Can Be But Myself I Crucify. When this is firmly understood and kept in full awareness, you will not attempt to harm yourself, nor make your body slave to vengeance. You will not attack yourself, and you will realize that to attack another is but to attack yourself. You will be free of the insane belief that to attack a brother saves yourself. And you will understand his safety is yo...

LESSON 195 Love Is The Way I Walk In Gratitude. Gratitude is a lesson hard to learn for those who look upon the world amiss. The most that they can do is see themselves as better off than others. And they try to be content because another seems to suffer more than they. How pitiful and deprecating are such thoughts! For who has cause for thanks while others have less cause? And who could suffer le...

LESSON 194 I Place The Future In The Hands Of God. Today’s idea takes another step toward quick salvation, and a giant stride it is indeed! So great the distance is that it encompasses, it sets you down just short of Heaven, with the goal in sight and obstacles behind. Your foot has reached the lawns that welcome you to Heaven’s gate; the quiet place of peace, where you await with certainty the fi...

LESSON 193 All Things Are Lessons God Would Have Me Learn. God does not know of learning. Yet His Will extends to what He does not understand, in that He wills the happiness His Son inherited of Him be undisturbed; eternal and forever gaining scope, eternally expanding in the joy of full creation, and eternally open and wholly limitless in Him. That is His Will. And thus His Will provides the mean...

LESSON 191 I Am The Holy Son Of God Himself. Here is your declaration of release from bondage of the world. And here as well is all the world released. You do not see what you have done by giving to the world the role of jailer to the Son of God. What could it be but vicious and afraid, fearful of shadows, punitive and wild, lacking all reason, blind, insane with hate? What have you done that this...

LESSON 192 I Have A Function God Would Have Me Fill . It is your Father’s holy Will that you complete Himself, and that your Self shall be His sacred Son, forever pure as He, of Love created and in love preserved, extending love, creating in its Name, forever one with God and with your Self. Yet what can such a function mean within a world of envy, hatred and attack? Therefore, you have a function...

LESSON 190 I Choose The Joy Of God Instead Of Pain. Pain is a wrong perspective. When it is experienced in any form, it is a proof of self-deception. It is not a fact at all. There is no form it takes that will not disappear if seen aright. For pain proclaims God cruel. How could it be real in any form? It witnesses to God the Father’s hatred of His Son, the sinfulness He sees in him, and His insa...

LESSON 189 I Feel The Love Of God Within Me Now. There is a light in you the world cannot perceive. And with its eyes you will not see this light, for you are blinded by the world. Yet you have eyes to see it. It is there for you to look upon. It was not placed in you to be kept hidden from your sight. This light is a reflection of the thought we practice now. To feel the Love of God within you is...

LESSON 188 The Peace Of God Is Shining In Me Now. Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. It is the onl...

LESSON 187 I Bless The World Because I Bless Myself. No one can give unless he has. In fact, giving is proof of having. We have made this point before. What seems to make it hard to credit is not this. No one can doubt that you must first possess what you would give. It is the second phase on which the world and true perception differ. Having had and given, then the world asserts that you have los...

LESSON 186 Salvation Of The World Depends On Me. Here is the statement that will one day take all arrogance away from every mind. Here is the thought of true humility, which holds no function as your own but that which has been given you. It offers your acceptance of a part assigned to you, without insisting on another role. It does not judge your proper role. It but acknowledges the Will of God i...

LESSON 185 I Want The Peace Of God . To say these words is nothing. But to mean these words is everything. If you could but mean them for just an instant, there would be no further sorrow possible for you in any form; in any place or time. Heaven would be completely given back to full awareness, memory of God entirely restored, the resurrection of all creation fully recognized. No one can mean the...

LESSON 184 The Name Of God Is My Inheritance. You live by symbols. You have made up names for everything you see. Each one becomes a separate entity, identified by its own name. By this you carve it out of unity. By this you designate its special attributes, and set it off from other things by emphasizing space surrounding it. This space you lay between all things to which you give a different nam...

LESSON 183 I Call Upon God’s Name And On My Own. God’s Name is holy, but no holier than yours. To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own. A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him. His brothers share his name, and thus are they united in a bond to which they turn for their identity. Your Father’s Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not k...

LESSON 182 I Will Be Still An Instant And Go Home. This world you seem to live in is not home to you. And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true. A memory of home keeps haunting you, as if there were a place that called you to return, although you do not recognize the voice, nor what it is the voice reminds you of. Yet still you feel an alien here, from somewhere all unknown. Nothing so...

Introduction to Lessons 181-200 Our next few lessons make a special point of firming up your willingness to make your weak commitment strong; your scattered goals blend into one intent. You are not asked for total dedication all the time as yet. But you are asked to practice now in order to attain the sense of peace such unified commitment will bestow, if only intermittently. It is experiencing th...

Lesson 180 Review of Lessons 169 - 170 God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (169) By grace I live. By grace I am released. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (170) There is no cruelty in God and none in me. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. - Jesus Christ in ACIM

Lesson 179 Review of Lessons 167 - 168 God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (167) There is one life, and that I share with God. God is but Love, a nd therefore so am I. (168) Your grace is given me. I claim it now. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. - Jesus Christ in ACIM

Lesson 178 Review of Lessons 165 - 166 God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (165) Let not my mind deny the Thought of God. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (166) I am entrusted with the gifts of God God is but Love, and therefore so am I. - Jesus Christ in ACIM

Lesson 177 Review of Lessons 163 - 164 God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (163) There is no death. The Son of God is free. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (164) Now are we one with Him Who is our Source. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. - Jesus Christ in ACIM

Lesson 176 Review of Lessons 161 - 162 God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (161) Give me your blessing, holy Son of God. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (162) I am as God created me. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. - Jesus Christ in ACIM

Lesson 175 Review of Lessons 159 - 160 God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (159) I give the miracles I have received. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (160) I am at home. Fear is the stranger here. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. - Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 174 Review of Lessons 157 - 158 God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (157) Into His Presence would I enter now. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (158) Today I learn to give as I receive. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. - Jesus Christ in ACIM