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Rich James

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Student of metaphysics, music & design 🧘📝🎶

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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 14h
What has been given you? The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out of love. Nor have you left your Source, remaining as you were created. This was given you as knowledge which you cannot lose.
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To use the power God has given you as He would have it used is natural It isn't arrogant to be as He created you or make use of what He gave to answer all His Sons mistakes & set him free But it is arrogant to lay aside the power that He gave & choose a little senseless wish instead of what He wills
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who is the light of the world except God’s Child? This, then, is merely a statement of the truth about yourself. It is the opposite of a statement of pride, of arrogance, or of self-deception. It does not describe the self-concept you have made.
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The miracle returns the cause of fear to you who made it But it also shows that having no effects, it is not cause because the function of causation is to have effects & where effects are gone there is no cause Thus is the body healed by miracles because they show the mind made sickness & employed..
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Salvation comes from my one Self. Although you are one Self, you experience yourself as two; as both good and evil, loving and hating, mind and body. This sense of being split into opposites induces feelings of acute and constant conflict, and leads to frantic attempts to reconcile the contradictory
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In quiet I receive God’s Word today. acim W125
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Could you try to make God homeless and know that you are at home? Can the Son deny the Father without believing that the Father has denied him? God’s laws hold only for your protection, and they never hold in vain. What you experience when you deny your Father is still for your protection..
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As often as you can, remind yourself you have a goal today; an aim which makes this day of special value to yourself & all your brothers. Do not let your mind forget this goal for long, but tell yourself: All that I give is given to myself. The Help I need to learn that this is true is with me now.
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Miracles are seen in light Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances It keeps its steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them It unites with light of which it's a part It sees itself It brings the light in which your Self appears In darkness you perceive a self that isn't there
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The ego’s way is not mine, but it is also not yours. The Holy Spirit has one direction for all minds, and the one He taught me is yours. Let us not lose sight of His direction through illusions, for only illusions of another direction can obscure the one for which God’s Voice speaks in all of us.
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nothing is ever lost but time, which in the end is meaningless For it is but a little hindrance to eternity, quite meaningless to the real Teacher of the world. Yet since you do believe in it, why should you waste it going nowhere, when it can be used to reach a goal as high as learning can achieve?
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy. He is the Call to return with which God blessed the minds of His separated Sons. This is the vocation of the mind. The mind had no calling until the separation, because before that it had only being, and would not have understood the Call to right thinking.
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a day of stillness and of peace. acim W291
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The offer of Atonement is universal. It is equally applicable to all individuals in all circumstances. And in it is the power to heal all individuals of all forms of sickness. Not to believe this is to be unfair to God & thus unfaithful to Him. A sick person perceives himself as separate from God..
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Let me not forget my function. acim W64
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sin is not an error, for sin entails an arrogance which the idea of error lacks. To sin would be to violate reality, and to succeed. Sin is the proclamation that attack is real and guilt is justified. It assumes the Son of God is guilty, and has thus succeeded in losing his innocence..
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Creation's freedom promises my own. I will accept Your promises today, and give my faith to them. My Father loves the Son Whom He created as His Own. Would You withhold the gifts You gave to me? acim W279
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My holiness blesses the world. There is no other way in which the idea of sacrifice can be removed from the world’s thinking. Any other way of seeing will inevitably demand payment of someone or something. As a result, the perceiver will lose. Nor will he have any idea why he is losing.
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You taught yourself the most unnatural habit of not communicating with your Creator. Yet you remain in close communication with Him, And with everything that is within Him, as it is within yourself.
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I seek a future different from the past. Father, we were mistaken in the past & choose to use the present to be free. Now do we leave the future in Your Hands, leaving behind our past mistakes, and sure that You will keep Your present promises, and guide the future in their holy light. acim W314
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You & your brother stand together in the holy presence of truth itself. Here is the goal, together with you. Think you not the goal itself will gladly arrange the means for its accomplishment? It is just this same discrepancy between the purpose that has been accepted & the means as they stand now
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I will not hurt myself again today. Father, Your Son can not be hurt. And if we think we suffer, we but fail to know our one Identity we share with You. We would return to It today, to be made free forever from all our mistakes, and to be saved from what we thought we were. acim W330
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have no cause for anger or for fear, for You surround me. And in every need that I perceive, Your grace suffices me. acim W348
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There are no laws except the laws of God. This needs repeating, over and over, until you realize it applies to everything that you have made in opposition to God’s Will. Your magic has no meaning. What it is meant to save does not exist. Only what it is meant to hide will save you. acim W76
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The quiet of today will bless our hearts, and through them peace will come to everyone. Christ is our eyes today. And through His sight we offer healing to the world through Him, the holy Son whom God created whole; the holy Son whom God created one. acim W270
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
How can you who are so holy suffer? All your past except its beauty is gone & nothing is left but a blessing. I have saved all your kindnesses & every loving thought you ever had. I have purified them of the errors that hid their light & kept them for you in their own perfect radiance. They are..
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In my defenselessness my safety lies. acim W153
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Holy Spirit undoes illusions without attacking them because He can not perceive them at all. They therefore do not exist for Him He resolves the apparent conflict they engender by perceiving conflict as meaningless I have said before that the Holy Spirit perceives the conflict exactly as it is..
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My sinlessness protects me from all harm. acim W337
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nothing & everything can't coexist To believe in one is to deny the other. Fear is really nothing & love is everything Whenever light enters darkness darkness is abolished What you believe is true for you In this sense the separation has occurred & to deny it is merely to use denial inappropriately.
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You've made many ideas that you placed between yourself & your Creator & these beliefs are the world as you perceive it Truth isn't absent here but it is obscure You don't know the difference between what you've made & what God created So you don't know the difference between what you've made & what
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I have given what I see all the meaning it has for me I have judged everything I look upon & it is this & only this I see This is not vision It is merely an illusion of reality because my judgments have been made quite apart from reality I am willing to recognize the lack of validity in my judgments
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Holy Spirit can use all that you give to Him for your salvation. But He can't use what you withhold for He can't take it from you without your willingness For if He did you'd believe He wrested it from you against your will & so you wouldn't learn it is your will to be without it. You need not..
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You may not realize that the ego has set up a plan for salvation in opposition to God’s. It is this plan in which you believe. Since it is the opposite of God’s, you also believe that to accept God’s plan in place of the ego’s is to be damned.
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You Who remember what I really am alone remember what I really want. You speak for God, and so You speak for me. And what You give me comes from God Himself. Your Voice, my Father, then is mine as well, and all I want is what You offer me, in just the form You choose that it be mine.
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I thank You, Father, for the many gifts that come to me today and every day from every Son of God. My brothers are unlimited in all their gifts to me. Now may I offer them my thankfulness, that gratitude to them may lead me on to my Creator and His memory. acim W315
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
And now the reason why you are afraid of this course should be apparent For this is a course on love because it is about you You have been told that your function in this world is healing & your function in Heaven is creating The ego teaches that your function on earth is destruction & you have no..
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Above all else I want to see things differently. acim W28
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Look calmly at the logical conclusion of the ego’s thought system and judge whether its offering is really what you want, for this is what it offers you. To obtain this you are willing to attack the Divinity of your brothers, and thus lose sight of yours.
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I can obscure my holy sight if I intrude my world upon it Nor can I behold the holy sights Christ looks upon unless it is His vision that I use Perception is a mirror not a fact & what I look on is my state of mind reflected outward I would bless the world by looking on it through the eyes of Christ
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today we list the real criteria by which to test all things you think you want Unless they meet these sound requirements they're not worth desiring at all for they can but replace what offers more The laws that govern choice you can't make, no more than you can make alternatives from which to choose
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What would you see without the fear of death? What would you feel and think if death held no attraction for you? Very simply, you would remember your Father. The Creator of life, the Source of everything that lives, the Father of the universe and of the universe of universes..
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My oneness with Christ establishes me as Your Son Beyond the reach of time & wholly free of every law but Yours I have no self except the Christ in me I have no purpose but His Thus must I be one with You as well as Him For who is Christ except Your Son & what am I except the Christ in me acim W354
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When a brother acts insanely, he is offering you an opportunity to bless him. His need is yours. You need the blessing you can offer him. There is no way for you to have it except by giving it. This is the law of God & it has no exceptions. What you deny you lack, not because it is lacking..
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Let me remember I am one with God. acim W-142
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Forgive us our illusions, Father, and help us to accept our true relationship with You, in which there are no illusions, and where none can ever enter. Our holiness is Yours. What can there be in us that needs forgiveness when Yours is perfect? The sleep of forgetfulness is only the..
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Reality is never frightening It is impossible that it could upset me. Reality brings only perfect peace. When I am upset it is always because I have replaced reality with illusions I made up. The illusions are upsetting because I have given them reality & thus regard reality as an illusion. acim W52
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The children of Heaven live in the light of the blessing of their Father because they know they are sinless The Atonement was established as the means of restoring guiltlessness to minds that have denied it & thus denied Heaven to themselves Atonement teaches you the true condition of the Son of God
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I am spirit. I am the Son of God. No body can contain my spirit, nor impose on me a limitation God created not. acim W114
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Rich James @rich167.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Forgiveness is the end of specialness. Only illusions can be forgiven & then they disappear. Forgiveness is release from all illusions & that is why it is impossible but partly to forgive. No one who clings to one illusion can see himself as sinless, for he holds one error to himself as lovely still
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