LESSON ONE HUNDRED-TWENTY ONE

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

L e s s o n  121

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

For only in the willingness to Be Love instead of hate can One be happy.

You see, forgiveness is not human will saying: ‘I will overlook My sinful Brother’s actions.  I’ll be bigger than He!’  It surely isn’t!  For this view sees a ‘sinner’ that by Your largess You are ‘good’ enough to forgive.  This is pure ego.

True forgiveness realizes God never made a ‘sinner’ so then it must be Your misperception.  Forgive Yourself and ask God for the true view of Your Brother.

¹ Here is the answer to your search for peace.

It is correction of Your own thinking!  How very simple.  So much easier than trying to fix Your sinful Brother!

Here is the key to meaning in a world which seems to make no sense. – Indeed, it doesn’t! – Here is the way to safety in apparent dangers which appear to threaten you at every turn and bring uncertainty to all your hopes of ever finding quietness and peace.

Freedom is “closer than breathing”₁ for it lives in consciousness.

Here are all questions answered; here the end of all uncertainty ensured at last.

God always wills for You to be at peace; for His Will for You is but happiness.  Will You accept it?  How about right now?

² The unforgiving mind is full of fear and offers love no room to be itself, no place where it can spread its wings in peace and soar above the turmoil of the world.

The unforgiving mind keeps You glued to earth, stuck here away from Heaven.  Yet Heaven is not a place, but a state of Mind. (And ditto earth.)

The unforgiving mind is sad, without the hope of respite and release from pain. It suffers and abides in misery, peering about in darkness, seeing not, yet certain of the danger lurking there.

Treasuring Your Brothers’ sins is completely overwhelming, keeping both of You very stuck in hell.  Would You be there and keep Your Brother there when Heaven sweetly calls to both of You?

“Belovèd Sons, forget Your grievances and rise up from these troubled, angry dreams.  God does Love You both!

³ The unforgiving mind is torn with doubt, – for the only surety can be found within forgiveness, which is found by Love; yet the ego is – confused about itself and all it sees, afraid and angry, weak and blustering, afraid to go ahead, afraid to stay, afraid to waken or to go to sleep, afraid of every sound, yet more afraid of stillness; terrified of darkness, yet more terrified at the approach of light.

The darkness where the ego dwells brings it only pain; yet it must choose this pain for to the ego the Light of God is but annihilation.  And it knows that in the stillness the Voice for Love is heard. And to succumb to Its gentle ways would also end the ego.

⁴ What can the unforgiving mind perceive but its damnation? – which seems to be its only choice for sureness of survival; what a dilemma! – What can it behold except the proof that all its sins are real? – otherwise the jig is up and in comes the Holy Spirit! – The unforgiving mind sees no mistakes, but only sins. It looks upon the world with sightless eyes and shrieks as it beholds its own projections rising to attack its miserable parody of life. – This is pretty harsh, ‘life’ as an ego. – It wants to live, yet wishes it were dead. It wants forgiveness, yet it sees no hope. It wants escape, yet can conceive of none because it sees the sinful everywhere.

Such unforgiveness sticks One in a miserable delusion.

⁵ The unforgiving mind is in despair, without the prospect of a future which can offer anything but more despair. – And more depression. – Yet it regards its judgment of the world as irreversible and does not see it has condemned itself to this despair. It thinks it cannot change, for what it sees bears witness that its judgment is correct.

Not realizing that it has projected such a world for that very reason.

It does not ask because it thinks it knows. It does not question, certain it is right.

And being ‘right’ is the most important thing for the ego.  Nothing can top it.  Having imprisoned itself, now must it be its own jailer.

⁶ Forgiveness is acquired. It is not inherent in the mind, which cannot sin.

Reality, being Love and Goodness, ‘sin’ was unknown and meaningless to You.  Incomprehensible to perfect Happiness and Goodness.  God knows not of it.

As sin was an idea you taught yourself, forgiveness must be learned by you as well, but from a Teacher other than yourself, who represents the other Self in you.

You need another Teacher for sin still seems to have reality for You, and true forgiveness knows the sin never really happened.  This teaching is about more than forgiveness for it is based on the unreality of dreaming.  That’s a hard pill to swallow, deep in a dream that seems so very real.  And yet, it isn’t.

This is how it’s done:

Through Him you learn how to forgive the self you think you made and let it disappear.

His Love for You does make this so easy.  The Holy Spirit just adores You for You and S/He are One.  As this Oneness it feels safe to let the imaginary self You thought You made just fade and disappear, as the Son of God You are steps forth in all Your radiant holy beauty.

Thus you return your mind as one to Him Who is your Self and Who can never sin.

How do I explain the Holy Spirit – the Real You – to You, make Her more than words?  Think of a moment – even many – when pure joy washed You clean of all the angst of living in the dream.  It might have been a deep blue sky, a glorious sunrise or setting sun, a perfect rose, the Love on the face of a child, an unexpected kindness, a multitude of other possibilities when for that moment (a Holy Instant though You knew it not) the world was happier.  Now, let Us imagine that forever, the result of Your glad re-Union with the Holy Spirit.

⁷ Each unforgiving mind presents you with an opportunity to teach your own how to forgive itself. Each one awaits release from hell through you and turns to you imploringly for Heaven here and now.

An unforgiving mind is nothing but one full with despair.  This anger makes it feel so much more powerful than sadness.  For anger is quite invigorating.

It has no hope, but you become its hope. And as its hope, do you become your own.

Your caring for this Other makes Him feel like Your real Brother.  Kindness always heals.

The unforgiving mind must learn through your forgiveness that it has been saved from hell.

Dreaming is hell.  Wakening is Heaven.

And as you teach salvation, you will learn.

Giving and receiving being one and the same, as You give salvation, so then do You receive it.

⁸ Yet all your teaching and your learning will be not of you, but of the Teacher Who was given you to show the way to you. Today we practice learning to forgive.

And while We do this together, let Us remember the old axiom: Practice makes perfect.  For Our aim is perfect forgiveness

If you are willing, you can learn today to take the key to happiness and use it on your own behalf. We will devote ten minutes in the morning and at night another ten, to learning how to give forgiveness and receive forgiveness too.

Anger binds Us with heavy chains to the One who does raise Our ire. It must be obvious that when We really will forgiveness, how very free We do become.

⁹ The unforgiving mind does not believe that giving and receiving are the same.

In addition, the concept of separation – being ‘right’ instead of ‘wrong’ is crucial to the ego’s specious happiness.  A Brother must be wrong so number one (that’s You) can be right.

Yet we will try to learn today that they are one through practicing forgiving toward one whom you think of as an enemy and one whom you consider as a friend. And as you learn to see them both as one, we will extend the lesson to ourselves and see that their escape included ours.

And all three of You will gain a blessing.  How could You not want to Love Your Brother?  You don’t realize the high cost of anger.

¹⁰ Begin the longer practice periods by thinking of someone you do not like, who seems to irritate you or to cause regret in you if you should meet him; one you actively despise or merely try to overlook. It does not matter what the form your anger takes. You probably have chosen him already. He will do. 

Your glad willingness to do this exercise truly does bless the whole Universe.

¹¹ Now close your eyes and see him in your mind and look at him a while. Try to perceive some light in him somewhere-a little gleam which you had never noticed.

Don’t be bothered if the ego mutters ‘Possible? Hopeless!  He’s never done a good thing in His life!”  Sometime, somewhere, He picked up a piece of trash on the street and threw it in the bin, or helped an elder cross the street or said “Thank You” to the crossing guard when He was just a little child.

If You can’t find anything, then make it up!  This whole dream is nothing but a fantasy!  What’s one more?!

Try to find some little spark of brightness shining through the ugly picture which you hold of him. – Feel free to use Your imagination! – Look at this picture until you see a light somewhere within it, – Feel free to fake it! – and then try to let this light extend – Have some fun with this! – until it covers him and makes the picture beautiful and good. 

See Him picking papers everywhere as if it were Earth Day, or gently serving lunch at the Senior Citizen Center.

¹² Look at this changed perception for a while, and turn your mind to one you call a friend. Try to transfer the light you learned to see around your former “enemy” to him. Perceive him now as more than friend to you, for in that light his holiness shows you your savior, saved and saving, healed and whole. Then let him offer you the light you see in him and let your “enemy” and friend unite in blessing you with what you gave. Now are you one with them and they with you. Now have you been forgiven by yourself.

For a loving fantasy improves a bad ‘reality’.  And You have learned that vision is what makes ‘enemy’ or ‘friend’.

When You can see the Truth for just One Brother, then can You see It for All Others.  And Yourself included.  Don’t forget Yourself!

¹³ Do not forget throughout the day the role forgiveness plays in bringing happiness to every unforgiving mind, with yours among them. – For what is forgiveness but the gift of Love from You to All Your Brothers; this willingness to see them as They really are. (And Yourself as well!) – Every hour tell yourself:

¹⁴ Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

For full forgiveness is Awakening.

I will awaken from the dream that I
Am mortal, fallible, and full of sin, – for I am immortal, perfect, and very good and holy, just like Our belovèd Elder Brother. – To see this is to Awaken.

And know I am the perfect Son of God.

And so are All My belovèd Brothers.

[Thank you Dear Brother]

*Sun~Rose is the scribe of the recently published book, “YOU ARE LOVED AND SAFE: PREP NOTES FOR EXPERIENCING GOD’S LOVE“, Jesus’ Guidance on the Miracle Principles

She is also author of, “RADIANT LIFE: RAW FOOD AND THE PRESENCE OF LOVE”

BOTH now available on amazon.com