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Stepping Stones to Awakening

Stepping Stones which ACIM provides for Awakening to Our True Identity.

Stepping Stones to Awakening

1. My Only Purpose is to AWAKEN from the dream of forgetfulness.

Salvation is your happiest accomplishment. It is also the only one that has any meaning, because it is the only one that has any real use to you at all. WB 44.8.2

Our Shared Purpose is to Awaken and Know Our True Self.
Only our Purpose remains Constant. Only this is consistent. Only in Purpose can we JOYn
My sole responsibility in this world is to accept The Atonement.. Text Ch
The sole responsibility of God's teacher is to accept the Atonement for himself. (M.18.4.5)
Purpose is meaning. WB 25.1 / T. Ch.29 VI.3 Nothing survives its purpose.

2. I am Cause. I am not a victim of the world. I invented the world I see. WB 31 & 32
This is a course in cause and not effect. Text 21.VII.6.8

Text Page 448. "Responsibility for Sight."
T-21.This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:

I am responsible for what I see. I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve. And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked. Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear.
Let all things be exactly as they are. WB 268

3. Nothing in this world will satisfy the Eternal Son of God and nothing
can hurt the SON unless He choose to "believe it can"
WB 128 "The world I see holds nothing that I want"
WB 132 "I loose the world from all that I thought it was." "There is no world" This is the central thought this course attempts to teach" Para 6.2
WB 133 "I will not value what is valueless, What Is Valuable belongs to me"
WB 199-220: I am not a body, I am free, I am still as God Created me.
WB 70 My Salvation comes from me.
WB 34 I could see peace instead of this.

4 WB Lesson 25 "I do not know what anything is for."
WB Lesson 24 "I do not perceive my own best interest"

If I do know, then I am invested, and it is this that makes me slave to the dream.

Illusions are investments. They will last as long as you value them. Values are relative, but they are powerful because they are mental judgments. The only way to dispel illusions is to withdraw all investment from them, and they will have no life for you because you will have put them out of your mind. While you include them in it, you are giving life to them. Except there is nothing there to receive your gift. Text 7.7.4

It is my reaction to what I see, my interpretation of what I see that hurts me. If I do not know what anything is for, if not invested in being right, I can accept it and let it go, without making a judgment on it or myself, for making the judgment. Only the ego mind is invested here.
Ask of all things, what is it for? T Ch4.V.6.7

ACCEPTANCE. Spirit Accepts, ego resists.

5. Do I want to be right or Happy? Choose one, you can't have both.
I can choose to HEAL. To Heal is to make Happy. Text Ch 4. Intro.1
Healing is another Name for God. WB 356.
God Established His Relationship with You to make You Happy, and nothing that you do that does not share His Purpose can be real. ~ACIM T.17 IV.1
The "root of all evil" is the Authority Problem. Text Ch3. VI.7

6. It's ALL in the mind. IYSIYGI ...If You Spot It You Got It, NO exceptions. It takes one to know one.

Projection makes perception. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause. And that is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. Text Ch 26 Intro.

Within & without are the same.

What I think apart from God is a reminder of the guilt of separation. When I see my Brother as different or having different interests, it tells me which teacher in my mind I am listening to. Awareness of this allows me to change my teacher and mind" In this perception, My Brother is my Savior ~Holy Spirit

"Our only relationship is with God" Ideas leave not their source. Text 26.VII.4.4
There is no order of difficulty in miracles. ACIM Principle #1

7. Text, Ch. 9, The Correction of Error. "The alertness of the ego to the errors of other egos is not the kind of vigilance the Holy Spirit would have you maintain. When you correct a Brother, you are telling him that he is wrong. The cosmic joke is, we are always speaking about our self. Nobody needs fixing! I need do nothing. There is nothing to learn.

8. WB Lesson 198, "Only my condemnation injures me. Only my own forgiveness sets me free. Do not forget today that there can be no form of suffering that fails to hide an unforgiving thought. Nor can there be a form of pain forgiveness cannot heal.

9. WB Lesson 135 . "What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good? Spirit Accepts Always, Knowing All is Perfect.

Love is the way I walk in Gratitude. WB Lesson 195

10. Teachers Manual, Sec. 4 Trust "It takes great learning to understand that all things, events, encounters and circumstances are helpful. It is only to the extent to which they are helpful that any degree of reality should be accorded them in this world of illusion.

All things are lessons God would have me learn. WB 193

11. WB Lesson 121 "Forgiveness is the key to Happiness" No one is excluded from our Circle of Forgiveness, Our Circle of Innocence, or we are leaving our self out. If we are not WHOLLY JOYOUS, we are withholding Love from one of God's Creations, and that is always us.

12 The Law of Love, The Law of Mind, The Law of God. What We Give, We Give To Our Self. Love Knows Only Itself & Gives to Itself by Extending without limit. ONLY the LOVE IS REAL!

Above all else I want to see. WB 27

A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary. It is this experience toward which the course is directed. Here alone consistency becomes possible because here alone uncertainty ends. TM C.Intro.

I do not know the thing I am,
and therefore do not know what I am doing,
where I am, or how to look upon the world or on myself.
Yet in this learning is salvation born.
And What you are will tell you of Itself.
Text Ch 31.V.17.7


There is a light in you the world can not 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 to see the world anew, shining in innocence, alive with hope, and blessed with perfect charity and love. WB 189.1


Hold onto nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God. WB 189.7.3

TO KNOW YOUR PERFECT GOD SELF, SEE THE PERFECT GOD SELF IN ALL YOU MEET

If this is not possible right now, stay open...
I need only step back...
and invite The Holy Spirit to Lead and show me His Vision.
His Voice Calls Gently speaks to me of my Sameness,
my Oneness with my Brother and Love of God.
Our True Identity is Constant and Eternal
This is Truth, We Are ONE.
The Truth Frees The Son.

Laughter Now saves lifetimes later.


The Simple Themes above are taken from the 3 Books of A Course in Miracles

The Course offers us concepts and symbols to use as stepping stones
to the Experience the Course leads us to.

12 Stepping Stones of ACIM by David Fishman & Linda Card
david@acimgather.org / linda@acimgather.org


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