Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real.
In this one sentence is our course explained. In this one sentence is our practicing given its one direction. And in this one sentence is the Holy Spirit’s whole curriculum specified exactly as it is.
~ Jesus, A Course in Miracles
God does not forgive because He has never condemned. And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary.
Forgiveness is the great need of this world, but that is because it is a world of illusions. Those who forgive are thus releasing themselves from illusions, while those who withhold forgiveness are binding themselves to them. As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself.
Yet although God does not forgive, His Love is nevertheless the basis of forgiveness.
~ Jesus, A Course in Miracles
Those who commit suicide, in any manner, seek to end the intolerable psychological pain of their guilt and suffering. Since their unconscious guilt remains intact, they merely end up reincarnating and keeping the problem unresolved. Death is not a way out. True forgiveness is the way out.
~ Arten, The Disappearance of the Universe
Laughter is definitely of the Holy Spirit, as long as it is not at someone else’s expense. Laughter helps you feel and experience that this world cannot be taken seriously. It’s too crazy! It’s worthy of laughter, not tears. Tears make it real and keep you stuck here.
Arten, Love Has Forgotten No One
Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want. And everything I give I give myself. This is Salvation’s simple formula. And I, who would be saved, would make it mine, to be the way I live within a world that needs salvation, and that will be saved as I accept Attonement for myself.
~ Jesus, A Course in Miracles L.297
The past is over. It can touch me not.
Let me not look upon a past that is not there. For you have offered me Your Own replacement, in a present world the past has left untouched and free of sin. Here is the end of guilt. And here am I made ready for Your Final step. Shall I demand that You wait longer for Your Child to find the loveliness You planned to be the end of all dreams and pain?
~ Jesus, A Course in Miracles
The state of sinlessness is merely this: The whole desire to attack is gone, and so there is no reason to perceive the Son of God as other than he is.
The need for guilt is gone because it has no purpose, and is meaningless without the goal of sin.
~ Jesus, A Course in Miracles 25.5
Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense. Attack is gone, and madness has an end. What suffering is now conceivable? What loss can be sustained? The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving. It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light it reflects. And so the journey which the Child of God began has ended in the light from which it came.
Father, we would return our minds to You. We have betrayed them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them with thoughts of violence and death. Now would we rest again in You, as You created us.
~ Jesus, A Course in Miracles
You who were created by love like itself can hold no grievances. To hold a grievance is to forget who you are.
