We continue today with chapter 12, the same curriculum only love is strong
because it is undivided strong do not attack because they see no need to do so
for the idea of attack and enter your mind you must have perceived yourself as
week because you attacked yourself and believe that the attack was effective
you behold yourself as weekend no longer perceiving yourself and your brother's
is equal and regarding yourself as weaker you attempt to quote equalize the
situation you made you use attack to do so because you believe that attack was
successful in weakening you that is why the recognition of your home in
vulnerability is so important to the restoration of your sanity for if you
accept your invulnerability you are recognizing that attack has no effect
although you have attacked yourself you will be demonstrating that nothing
really happened
therefore by attacking you have not done anything once you realize this you will
no longer see any sense an attack for it manifestly does not work and cannot
protect you get the recognition of your invulnerability has more than negative
value if your attacks on yourself have failed to weaken you
you are still strong you therefore have no need to quote equalize the situation
to establish your strength you will never realize the other uselessness of
attack except by recognizing that your attack on yourself has no effects for
others do react to attack if they perceive it and if you are trying to
attack them you will be unable to avoid interpreting this as reinforcement the
only place you can cancel out all reinforcement is in yourself
for you are always the first point of your attack and if this has never been
it has no consequences the Holy Spirit's love is your strength for yours is
divided and therefore not real you cannot trust your own love when you
attack it you cannot learn of perfect love with a split mind because the split
mind has made itself a poor learner you tried to make the separation eternal
because you wanted to retain the characteristics of creation of with your
own content it creation is not of you and poor learners to need special
teaching you have learning handicaps in a very literal sense there are areas in
your learning skills that are so impaired that you can progress only
under constant clear-cut direction provided by a teacher who can transcend
your limited resources he becomes your resource because of yourself you cannot
learn the learning situation in which you place yourself is impossible and in
this situation you clearly require a special teacher and a curriculum special
curriculum poor learners are not good choices as teachers either for
themselves or for anyone else you would hardly turn to them to establish the
curriculum by which they can escape from the limitations if they understood what
is beyond them they would not be handicapped you do not know the meaning
of love and that is your handicap
do not attempt to teach yourself what you do not understand and do not to try
to set up curriculum goals where yours have clearly failed your learning goal
has been not to learn and this cannot lead to successful learning you
cannot transfer what you have not learned and the impairment of the
ability to generalize is a crucial learning failure would you ask those who
have failed to learn what learning aids or for they do not know if they could
interpret the AIDS correctly they would have learned from them i have said that
the egos rule is seek and do not find translate into curricular terms this
means try to learn but do not succeed the result of this curriculum goal is
obvious every legitimate teaching aid every real instruction and every
sensible guide to learning will be misinterpreted as they are all for
facilitating the learning this strange curriculum is against it you are trying
to learn how not to learn and the aim of your teaching is to defeat itself
what can you expect but confusion such a curriculum does not make sense this
attempt at quote learning has so we can your mind that you cannot love for the
curriculum you have chosen is against love and amounts to a course in how to
attack yourself a supplementary goal in this your curriculum is learning how not
to overcome the split it makes its primary aim believable and you will not
overcome the split in this curriculum for all your learning will be on its
behalf
yet your mind speaks against your learning as you're learning speaks
against your mind and so you fight against all learning and succeed for
that is what you want but perhaps you do not realize even yet that there is
something you want to learn and that you can learn it because it is your choice
to do so
you have tried to learn what you do not want should take heart for all the
curriculum you set yourself is depressing indeed it is merely
ridiculous if you look at it is it possible that the way to achieve a goal
is not to attain it
resign now is your own teacher this resignation will not lead to depression
it is merely the result of an honest appraisal of what you have taught
yourself and have the learning outcomes i have resulted under the proper
learning conditions which you can either provide more understand you will become
an excellent learner and an excellent teacher but it is not so yet and will
not be so until the whole learning situations you have set it up is
reversed you're learning potential properly understood his limitless
because it will leave you to god you can teach the way to him and learn it if you
follow the teacher who knows the way to him and understands his curriculum for
learning it the curriculum is totally unambiguous because the goal is not
divided and the means and the end are in complete Accord you need offer only
undivided attention
everything else will be giving you for you really want to learn the right and
nothing can oppose the decision of God son his learning is as unlimited as he
is and from the workbook lesson 94 this review we will use these ideas let me
recognize the problem so it can be solved
let me realize today that the problem is always some form of grievance that I
would cherish let me also understand that the solution is always a miracle
with which I let the grievance be replaced
today I would remember the simplicity of salvation by reinforcing the lesson that
there is one problem and one solution
the problem is a grievance the solution is a miracle and I invite the solution
to come to me through my forgiveness of the grievance and my welcome of the
miracle that takes his place specific applications of this idea might be in
these forms this presents a problem to me which I would have resolved the
miracle behind this grievance will resolve it for me the answer to this
problem is the miracle that it conceals let me recognize my problems have been
solved
I seem to have problems only because i am misusing time I believe that the
problems comes first and time must elapse before it can be worked out
I do not see the problem in the answer as simultaneous in their occurrence that
is because i do not yet realize that God has placed the answer together with the
problem so that they cannot be separated by time the Holy Spirit will teach me
this if I will let him and I will understand it is impossible that I could
have a problem which has not been solved already these forms of the idea will be
useful for specific applications i need not wait for this to be resolved the
answer to this problem has already given me if I will accept it
time cannot separate this problem from his solution
let me recognize the problem so it can be solved
let me recognize my problems have been solved.
Today we open our hearts and minds to the same curriculum.
A curriculum of strength, unification, consistency, peace,love, joy and happiness.
Today we believe, we see that attack is impossible, that is impossible to attack oneself or God,
that attack has no effects. Attack has never had any effects.
In accepting our invulnerabililty we recognize that attack has never had an effect.
We are thus demonstrating that nothing really happened.
We are accepting the atonement, the awareness that the separation from God never happened.
The Holy Spirit's love is our strength.
The only way I can experience perfect love is to forgive.
Today I will follow The Teacher, the Holy Spirit who transcends all limited resources.
The Holy Spirit becomes my resource, the Holy Spirit's curriculum cannot fail.
God's plan for my salvation cannot fail. Today I accept the fact,
today I resign now as my own teacher and vow to follow the guide who knows the way,
the way to the kingdom of heaven within.
Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.
Let me recognize my problems have been solved. Amen