The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk about Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and the Miracles of Forgiveness

You should remember that no matter how large it may appear to be, the ego is just a thought — and thoughts can be changed.

Any kind of an upset, from a mild discomfort to outright anger, is a warning sign. It tells you that your hidden guilt is rising up from the recesses of your unconscious mind and coming to the surface. Think of that discomfort as the guilt that needs to be released by forgiving the symbol you associate with it. The ego is trying to get you to see t

Your special loves are simply idols in which you seek to get what you feel is lacking in yourself. Romance is a vain attempt to fill an imagined emptiness — a hole that doesn’t really exist, but that you experience as a result of the separation.

Of course you’re really already in Heaven, but you don’t know it. Your mind is not aware of it. You never really left God or Heaven. If the separation from God never occurred, then that would have to be true, wouldn’t it? That’s why J said about the Kingdom of Heaven, as recorded in my Gospel, “It will not come by watching for it. It will not be sa

Although it appears to you to be very real and often terrible, your universe is nothing but idle, miscreated thought — and energy is nothing but projected thought. I believe we have also made it clear that matter is just a different form of energy. Being without the power of God, all your mind can do is seemingly divide and subdivide and then attem

To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind and to condemn the body to death.

A lot of Christians ask nowadays, “What would Jesus do?” There’s only one correct answer to that question, and it would always be the same. He’d forgive. Forgiveness has to do with what you think. What you do isn’t the important thing, even though it’s a result of what you think. It’s what you think that will either keep you dreaming or help get yo

But as J asks you in his Course: Would God have left the meaning of the world to your interpretation? 9