The Power of our
Belief
The Importance of Realizing Spiritual Unity Why Social Development is Dependent upon the Realization of Spiritual Unity and Divine Love An Introduction by Ali Ansari THE CAUSE AND THE END OF SUFFERING Why Self-Realization is Not an Attainment The Cause of our Suffering The Four Noble Truths On the Meaning of "Experience" More on the Significance of Progressive Development What in the World Are You Thinking About? The Unity of World Thought Discussions on the Use of a Universal Vocabulary Integrating the Teachings of Christ, Buddha and Muhammad The Expansion of Vocabulary as a Means to Furthering Self Realzation The More Words We Know, the More We Know about Ourselves The Concept of Salvation in World Religions and Spiritual Paths Practical Aspects of Salvation The Working out of Salvation is an Individual Responsibility Atonement as a Yogic Principle If You Want Salvation, Teach It. Salvation is based on Atonement This course (ACIM) is concerned only
with
atonement, or the correction of perception. The means of the atonement
is forgiveness, (the forgiveness that only God can give). The structure
of the "individual consciousness" is essentially irrelevant because it
is a concept representing the "original error" or the "original sin".
To study the error itself does not lead to correction, if you are
indeed to succeed in overlooking the error. and it is just this process
of overlooking at which the course aims.
*************************** PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT The Power of Belief as the Antidote to Fear We All Hear and Know that Fear is the Only Obstacle Fear Is Based In False Belief. The Antidote to it is Correct Belief How Do We Establish Correct Belief? - Scripture and Experience "And what is fear, except love's absence." ACIM-WII.3.2.3 "Now mistakes become quite possible, for certainty has gone." In The End, It's All About Belief. Faith is what you believe, but belief is the actual investiture of energy into what you believe which makes it real for you. A statement of belief is not really belief. It's only a statement. It's quite possible to state that you believe in something without really believing in it. You may even believe that you believe, but that too is not the real belief. Believing that you believe is the biggest self-deception, for you are in actuality only telling yourself a story about yourself. "This is my belief", the pundit says, hoping to intrigue you with his piety and wisdom, yet he is only self deceived. A real test might be to see if he is free of fear, for one power of belief is that it is the antidote to fear. God knows if you believe in Him or not. Faith has two meanings. One is as a noun, i.e. your faith is what you believe, and also a noun as in an investiture of faith, or how much faith do you have in a person or that something will occur. To have faith means to trust. Belief has similarly two meanings, maybe more. "It is my belief" means the same as, "it is my faith", although the latter tends to have a more religious connotation. We do not as a rule say, "it is my faith that Johnny will come to the party tonight", although we might more commonly say, "it is my belief…" However, 'belief' has another more powerful meaning as in scriptural quotations saying that "as you believe, so shall it be", and commanding us to believe, and telling us what to believe. That makes belief a choice of the free will and an investiture of energy into reality. It is something that you can choose to do or not to do, as well as choose your target for the investiture of the amount of energy you chose to invest in it. Now that's a powerful understanding and worthy of investigation. For it is our wasted investiture of belief in untruth that we want to reclaim so that our sincerity may be placed in Reality, that it may manifest and come to fruition. Fear of Our Power It Must Be There or We Would Not Fear It. Fear as an Inferiority Complex What to Do with Our Power and Positive Energy Liberate it in Others Living a Practical Life The Eleven Principles of Progressive Development The Path of Service as a Whole Way of Life ***************** PRACTICAL KEYS Surrender As the Key to Expanding our Capacity to Feel Love The Importance of the Feeling of Love in All Aspects of Life The Guidance of the Feeling of Love "What would Love do?" Practical Surrender Progress as the Felt Experience of Increased Love Deepening Your Surrender |
