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Consciousness is the receptive mechanism, receiving messages
from above or below; from the Holy Spirit or the ego. Consciousness has levels.
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C-1.7:3,4 |
Decisions are continuous.
You do not always know when you are making them.
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T-30.I.1:1,2 |
The Holy Spirit, like the ego, is a decision.
Together they constitute all the alternatives the mind can accept and obey.
The Holy Spirit and the ego are the only choices open to you.
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T-5.V.6:6,7,8 |
As part of [God's] Thought, you cannot think apart from Him. |
T-5.V.6:16 |
"My brother, choose again." |
T-31.VIII.3:2 |
Then try again to have the day you want. |
T-30I.1:9 |
Today I will make no decisions by myself. |
T-30.I.2(1):2 |
This means that you are choosing not to be the judge of what to do. |
T-30.I.2(1):3 |
At least I can decide I do not like what I feel now. |
T-30.I.8(4):2 |
And so I hope I have been wrong. |
T-30.I.9(5):2 |
I want another way to look at this. |
T-30.I.11(6):4 |
Perhaps there is another way to look at this.
What can I lose by asking?
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T-30.I.12(7):3,4 |
| For you will hear, and you will choose again. |
T-31.VIII.9:6 |
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The laws that govern choice you cannot make,
But it is wise to learn ….what alternatives you choose between. |
W-133.3:3,5 |
...as we are free to choose our joy instead of pain,
our holiness in place of sin,
the peace of God instead of conflict,
and the light of Heaven for the darkness of the world. |
W-190.11:2 |
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Each choice you make brings everything to you or nothing.
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W-133.5:3 |
| First, if you choose a thing that will not last forever, what you chose is valueless. |
W-133.6:1 |
| Next, if you choose to take a thing away from someone else, you will have nothing left. |
W-133.7:1 |
If you feel any guilt about your choice, you have allowed the ego's goals
to come between the real alternatives. |
W-133.11:2 |
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Whenever you are not wholly joyous,
it is because you have reacted with a lack of love to one of God's creations. |
T-5.VII.5:1 |
…first step in the undoing is to recognize that you actively decided wrongly, but can as
actively decide otherwise. Your part is merely to return your thinking to the point at which
the error was made, and give it over… |
T-5.VII.6:3,5 |
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…Holy Spirit will respond fully to your slightest invitation:
I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.
I made the decision myself, but I can also decide otherwise.
I want to decide otherwise, because I want to be at peace.
I do not feel guilty, because the Holy Spirit will undo all the
consequences of my wrong decision if I will let Him.
I choose to let Him, by allowing Him to decide for God for me. |
T-5.VII.6:6-11 |
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The way to undo an insane conclusion is to consider the sanity of the premises on which it rests. You cannot be attacked, attack has no justification, and you are responsible for what you believe. |
T-6.int.1.6,7 |
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