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Monday, July 6, 2026

Eternal Quiet

 Weekly meditation for contemplation

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Eternal quiet

Our natural state of beingness is always~

"A quiet mind"


A Course in Miracles

1. The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. ²It cannot come where there is conflict, for a mind at war against itself remembers not eternal gentleness. ³The means of war are not the means of peace, and what the warlike would remember is not love. 

(ACIM, T-23.I.1:1-3)

https://acim.org/acim/chapter-23/the-irreconcilable-beliefs/en/s/270

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Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Sacred Breath

 

Weekly meditation for contemplation

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Sacred Breath


Be aware in this moment of the Sacred Breath breathing you.

Surrender to its embrace of eternal peace.


A Course in Miracles

³The changelessness of Heaven is in you, so deep within that nothing in this world but passes by, unnoticed and unseen.⁴The still infinity of endless peace surrounds you gently in its soft embrace, so strong and quiet, tranquil in the might of its Creator, nothing can intrude upon the sacred Son of God within. 

ACIM, T-29.V.2:3-4)

https://acim.org/acim/chapter-29/the-changeless-dwelling-place/en/s/327

Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd-3 0 6 Novato, CA 94949, https://www.acim.org and info@acim.org, copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.”



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Sunday, February 15, 2026

One Source "not two"

 Weekly meditation for contemplation

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One Source "not two"

Truth is simple and is always Unity.

One truth, One Source

Eternal

"I AM"


A Course in Miracles

Lesson 43

God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.

1. Perception is not an attribute of God. ²His is the realm of knowledge. ³Yet He has created the Holy Spirit as the Mediator between perception and knowledge. ⁴Without this link with God, perception would have replaced knowledge forever in your mind. ⁵With this link with God, perception will become so changed and purified that it will lead to knowledge. ⁶That is its function as the Holy Spirit sees it. ⁷Therefore, that is its function in truth.

2. In God you cannot see. ²Perception has no function in God, and does not exist. ³Yet in salvation, which is the undoing of what never was, perception has a mighty purpose. ⁴Made by the Son of God for an unholy purpose, it must become the means for the restoration of his holiness to his awareness. ⁵Perception has no meaning. ⁶Yet does the Holy Spirit give it a meaning very close to God’s. ⁷Healed perception becomes the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother, and thus forgives himself.

(ACIM, W-43)

https://acim.org/acim/lesson-43/god-is-my-source-i-cannot-see-apart-from-him/en/s/445

Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd-3 0 6 Novato, CA 94949, https://www.acim.org and info@acim.org, copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.”



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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Changeless

 Weekly meditation for contemplation

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Changeless

The deep sacred stillness that rests within the heart of us all is unchanging, changeless forever. 

God is not entity but eternity. 

In truth, it cannot be spoken for it is the ineffable

It is only through direct experience that we know our home is 

untouchable and untouched. 

Be still and know,

Be still,

Be.

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“That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein


A Course in Miracles

12. God does not teach. ²To teach is to imply a lack, which God knows is not there. ³God is not conflicted. ⁴Teaching aims at change, but God created only the changeless. ⁵The separation was not a loss of perfection, but a failure in communication. ⁶A harsh and strident form of communication arose as the ego’s voice. ⁷It could not shatter the peace of God, but it could shatter yours. ⁸God did not blot it out, because to eradicate it would be to attack it. ⁹Being questioned, He did not question. ¹⁰He merely gave the Answer. ¹¹His Answer is your Teacher. 

(ACIM, T-6.IV.12:1-11)

https://acim.org/acim/chapter-6/the-only-answer/en/s/101


Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd-3 0 6 Novato, CA 94949, https://www.acim.organd info@acim.org, copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.”



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Monday, December 1, 2025

Resting in Patience

 Weekly meditation for contemplation

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Resting in patience

Resting in patience is not something we do, it is something we rest in through the act of willingness, trust, and surrender. 

It is the application of simple nonjudgmental awareness. When there is a resting in that nonjudgmental awareness as we gaze outward, we are free from resisting or grasping. This is the resting place that patience is graced.

Be still!


A Course in Miracles

(8th Characteristic of a Teacher of God)

VIII. Patience

1. Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety. ²Patience is natural to the teacher of God. ³All he sees is certain outcome, at a time perhaps unknown to him as yet, but not in doubt. ⁴The time will be as right as is the answer. ⁵And this is true for everything that happens now or in the future. ⁶The past as well held no mistakes; nothing that did not serve to benefit the world, as well as him to whom it seemed to happen. ⁷Perhaps it was not understood at the time. ⁸Even so, the teacher of God is willing to reconsider all his past decisions, if they are causing pain to anyone. ⁹Patience is natural to those who trust. ¹⁰Sure of the ultimate interpretation of all things in time, no outcome already seen or yet to come can cause them fear.

(ACIM, M-4.VIII.1:1-10)

https://acim.org/acim/manual/patience/en/s/814



Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd-3 0 6 Novato, CA 94949, https://www.acim.organd info@acim.org, copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.”



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Saturday, November 8, 2025

Cultivating Inner Calm through gentleness

Weekly meditation for contemplation

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Cultivating Inner Calm through gentleness


A powerful truth in resting continually in an inner calmness, is gentleness. Not only the gentleness with others, the gentleness with ourselves as well. 


Can we rest in a gentle calmness, a gentle quietness, a gentle peace, that embraces our entire being? 


The truth is, non-judgment and total surrender in the moment cultivates inner calmness that is gentleness in every way, in all areas of our life.



A Course in Miracles

4th characteristic of a Teacher of God


IV. Gentleness

1. Harm is impossible for God’s teachers. ²They can neither harm nor be harmed. ³Harm is the outcome of judgment. ⁴It is the dishonest act that follows a dishonest thought. ⁵It is a verdict of guilt upon a brother, and therefore on oneself. ⁶It is the end of peace and the denial of learning. ⁷It demonstrates the absence of God’s curriculum, and its replacement by insanity. ⁸No teacher of God but must learn,—and fairly early in his training,—that harmfulness completely obliterates his function from his awareness. ⁹It will make him confused, fearful, angry and suspicious. ¹⁰It will make the Holy Spirit’s lessons impossible to learn. ¹¹Nor can God’s Teacher be heard at all, except by those who realize that harm can actually achieve nothing. ¹²No gain can come of it.

2. Therefore, God’s teachers are wholly gentle. ²They need the strength of gentleness, for it is in this that the function of salvation becomes easy. ³To those who would do harm, it is impossible. ⁴To those to whom harm has no meaning, it is merely natural. ⁵What choice but this has meaning to the sane? ⁶Who chooses hell when he perceives a way to Heaven?⁷And who would choose the weakness that must come from harm in place of the unfailing, all-encompassing and limitless strength of gentleness? ⁸The might of God’s teachers lies in their gentleness, for they have understood their evil thoughts came neither from God’s Son nor his Creator. ⁹Thus did they join their thoughts with Him Who is their Source. ¹⁰And so their will, which always was His Own, is free to be itself.

(ACIM, M-4.IV.1:1–2:10)

https://acim.org/acim/manual/gentleness/en/s/810


Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd-3 0 6 Novato, CA 94949, https://www.acim.org and info@acim.org, copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.”



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Sunday, August 17, 2025

Honesty abides in Trust

Weekly meditation for contemplation

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Honesty abides in Trust

In the teacher's manual in A Course in Miracles there is a section called "What are the characteristics of God's teachers. It then begins to go through those particular characteristics. The first one is called Trust. In that section called Trust it goes into six different stages of the development of trust. 

I'd like to share on that a little today because it's so powerfully true. 


The first stage of the development of trust is called a period of undoing. The second is called a period of sorting out. The third is called a period of relinquishment. The fourth is called a period of settling down. The fifth is called a period of unsettling. The sixth is called a period of achievement. All of these traits rest on one thing alone and that is Trust and so the next section is called honesty and that is what I will read from A Course in Miracles underneath the above scribing.


For direct reading on Characteristics click here

https://acim.org/acim/manual/what-are-the-characteristics-of-gods-teachers/en/s/805

II. Honesty

1. All other traits of God’s teachers rest on trust. ²Once that has been achieved, the others cannot fail to follow. ³Only the trusting can afford honesty, for only they can see its value. ⁴Honesty does not apply only to what you say. ⁵The term actually means consistency. ⁶There is nothing you say that contradicts what you think or do; no thought opposes any other thought; no act belies your word; and no word lacks agreement with another. ⁷Such are the truly honest. ⁸At no level are they in conflict with themselves. ⁹Therefore it is impossible for them to be in conflict with anyone or anything.

(ACIM, M-4.II.1:1-9)

Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd-306 Novato, CA 94949, https://www.acim.org and info@acim.org, copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.”



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Monday, June 23, 2025

Miracles point to Truth

Weekly meditation for contemplation

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Miracles point to Truth

It is not the Miracle it self to be looked upon as something special. 

It is the Truth that it reveals.

One might say the it is not the gift that we worship. 

It is the Giver of the gift.

The signs themselves are merely pointers to

Truth. 


A Course in Miracles

14. Miracles bear witness to truth. ²They are convincing because they arise from conviction. ³Without conviction they deteriorate into magic, which is mindless and therefore destructive; or rather, the uncreative use of mind. 

(ACIM, T-1.I.14:1-3)

https://acim.org/acim/chapter-1/principles-of-miracles/en/s/53



20. Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar of truth. ²This is the recognition that leads to the healing power of the miracle.

(ACIM, T-1.I.20:1-2)

https://acim.org/acim/chapter-1/principles-of-miracles/en/s/53


Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd-306 Novato, CA 94949, https://www.acim.org and info@acim.org, copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.”


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