Perhaps you think that different kinds of love are possible. Perhaps you think
there is a kind of love for this, a kind for that; a way of loving one, another
way of loving still another. Love is one. It has no separate parts and no
degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergencies and no distinctions. It is like
itself, unchanged throughout. It never alters with a person or a circumstance.
It is the heart of God, and also of His Son.
Love's meaning is obscure to anyone who thinks that love can change. He does
not see that changing love must be impossible. And thus he thinks that he can
love at times and hate at other times. He also thinks that love can be bestowed
on one and yet remain itself although it is withheld from others. To believe
these things of love is not to understand it. If it could make such distinctions
it would have to judge between the righteous and the sinner, and perceive the
Son of God in separate parts.
Love cannot judge. As it is one itself, it looks on all as one. Its meaning lies
in oneness. And it must elude the mind that thinks of it as partial or in part.
There is no love but God's, and all of love is His. There is no principle
which rules where love is not. Love is a law without an opposite. Its wholeness
is the power holding everything as one, the link between the Father and the Son
which holds them both forever as the same.
No course whose purpose is to teach you what you really are could fail to
emphasize there is no difference in what you are and what love is. Love's
meaning is your own, and shared by God Himself. For what you are is what He is.
There is no love but His, and what He is is everything there is. There is no
limit placed upon Himself, and so are you unlimited as well.
No laws the world obeys can help you grasp love's meaning. What the world
believes was made to hide love's meaning and to keep it dark and secret. There
is not one principle the world upholds but violates the truth of what love is,
and what you are as well. Seek not within the world to find your Self. Love is
not found in darkness and in death. Yet it is perfectly apparent to the eyes
that see and ears that hear its Voice.
Today we practice making free our mind of all the laws you think you must obey;
of all the limits under which you live, and all the changes which you think are
part of human destiny. Today we take the largest single step this course
requests in your advance toward its established goal. If you achieve the
faintest glimmering of what love means today, you have advanced in distance
without measure and in time beyond the count of years to your release.
Let us together, then, be glad to give some time to God today, and understand
there is no better use for time than this. For fifteen minutes twice today
escape from every law in which you now believe. Open your mind and rest. The
world that seems to hold you prisoner can be escaped by anyone who does not hold
it dear. Withdraw all value you have placed upon its meager offerings and senseless
gifts, and let the Gift of God replace them all.
Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. He Himself has promised
this. And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you
give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality and what love means.
He will shine through your idle thoughts today, and help you understand the
truth of love. In loving gentleness He will abide with you as you allow His
Voice to teach love's meaning to your clean and open mind. And He will bless
the lesson with His Love.
Today the legion of the future years of waiting for salvation disappears before
the timelessness of what you learn. Let us give thanks today that we are spared
a future like the past. Today we leave the past behind us, never more to be
remembered. And we raise our eyes upon a different present, where a future
shines unlike the past in every attribute.
The world in infancy is newly born. And we will watch it grow in strength and
health to shed its blessing upon all who come to learn to cast aside the world
they thought was made in hate to be love's enemy. Now are they all made free
along with us. Now are they all our brothers in God's Love.
We will remember them throughout the day because we cannot leave a part of us
outside our love if we would know our Self. At least three times an hour think
of one who makes the journey with you, and who came to learn what you must
learn. And as he comes to mind, give him this message from your Self:
"I bless you, brother, with the Love of God Which I would share with you. For I would learn The joyous lesson that there is no love But God's and yours and mine and everyone's."
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