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20 Mind, Body, and Ego

20 Mind, Body, and Ego

Published by Normand Bourque on 27/03/2013

ℑ “You made neither yourself nor your function. You made only the decision to be unworthy of both. Yet you cannot make yourself unworthy because you are the treasure of God, and what He values is valuable… Your function is to add to God’s treasure by creating yours.” ACIM VIII-149 ℑ

ℑ God said:“You have been scammed. You have been led to believe that you can’t live without your body. You appear in the world as a body. Your body is like a bottle that holds the perfume. The bottle is not the perfume. It is the container of it. It is only a bottle. Ah, but what the body encloses, the essence of you is far, far more than a body.” HL 3748 ℑ

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18 The Laws of Illusions II: The Memory of the Present

18 The Laws of Illusions II: The Memory of the Present

Published by Normand Bourque on 12/03/2013

ℑ God said:“Let’s have it out. You are an incredible Being Who hides under a mask of his own making. You transfer roles. You transferred your Heritage to Me. I am a projection of you – or, are you a projection of Me? It does get confusing, talking about Our Oneness in terms of two.” HL ℑ

“Why is the word I capitalized? There is One I, and yet a fringe of the One I babbles on the periphery.”

ℑ “Yet truth can never be forgotten by itself, and you have not forgotten what you are. Only a strange illusion of yourself, a wish to triumph over what you are, remembers not.” ACIM 21-1

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17 The Laws of Illusions I: “Consciousness is not a science nor is it an art.”

17 The Laws of Illusions I: “Consciousness is not a science nor is it an art.”

Published by Normand Bourque on 07/03/2013

ℑ God said:“What is it that has been named by the word consciousness?
Cannot consciousness describe itself? And if it cannot, why not? How can it be known or unknown and not be identified?” HL 3242 ℑ

Consciousness has the power to become unconscious of itself. This means that it can virtually forget or lose its identity but without really losing it. We could almost say that the necessity for consciousness to be perfectly One, self-conscious, indivisible contains the possibility of virtually becoming a random phenomenon, a self unconscious of itself in a seeming random world. 

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15 Object Versus Symbol II: About Symmetry

15 Object Versus Symbol II: About Symmetry

Published by Normand Bourque on 19/02/2013

ℑ God said:“And so in life. Life does not have to be symmetrical to be wonderful, nor does an asymmetry have to be off-balance. Is someone who doesn’t know you supposed to set standards for your life? Do you consider that authors know more than you about your life and where your happiness lies?” HL 4567 ℑ

The principle of duality: one is produced by two, it takes two to make one, but the premise is “two halves to start with”. But what is a ½ (half) by itself? Is ½ composed itself of 2 halves? Then the ultimate constituent of matter would be ½ -> ¼ -> 1/8 -> 1/16 -> … -> 1/∞ which, in mathematics, is equal to 0 (zero). One would then ask if there are such things as opposites or halves?  We could go even further and ask if two ultimate halves will yield 0+0=1.

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13 Beyond the Realm of Causality

13 Beyond the Realm of Causality

Published by Normand Bourque on 12/02/2013

ℑ God said:” It is not understandable to you that there is no cause. There are reasons why and even proof given for everything, and yet I maintain that there is no cause. There is no cause.

Remembering that there is no cause will prevent you from seeking a cause. It will prevent you from demanding justice. …” HL 3231 ℑ

We absolutely live in the present but, in our relative existence, we live in the past. It is like we are spending our life in a cinema, thinking that it is the real-life going on on the screen, ignoring that the “real life” is waiting for us when the movie is over.

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1 Is It All in Our Mind?

1 Is It All in Our Mind?

Published by Normand Bourque on 01/01/2013

ℑ God said: “Inasmuch as We are One, what can be made of Our One Self? Who is speaking now, and Who is listening and writing down what I say?
It would seem that I AM, and you, the thought of you, are My fingers, and so My fingers type.” HL 4387 ℑ

The part of our mind that tries to teach us that we are not what we are is called ego. It is the part that is always uncertain, always doubting…This is the “insane” part of the mind. The other part of the Mind — the sane, healthy, happy part of it — that does not ask any question about its own identity is absolutely stable, calm, certain…

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