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Non-judgment –the entire mind-training is directed towards the undoing of the judgmental mind of the ego-self-construct. Learned perception is inherently judgmental, therefore a new perception of everyone and everything is required if we are to see truly and learn to appreciate our brothers as the holy and beloved Sons of God they are.

• “You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep peace that comes from meeting yourself and your brothers totally without judgment. When you recognize what you are and what your brothers are, you will realize that judging them in any way is without meaning. In fact, their meaning is lost to you precisely because you are judging them.”  T-3.VI.3
  
  
• “How can you estimate the worth of him who offers peace to you? What would you want except his offering?.. What is in him will shine so brightly in your grateful vision that you will merely love him and be glad. You will not think to judge him, for who would see the face of Christ and yet insist that judgment still has meaning? For this insistence is of those who do not see. Vision or judgment is your choice, but never both of these.” T-20.V.4
  
  
• “Without judgment are all things equally acceptable, for who could judge otherwise? Without judgment are all men brothers, for who is there who stands apart?”  M-4.III.1
  
  
• “It is necessary for the teacher of God to realize, not that he should not judge, but that he cannot. In giving up judgment, he is merely giving up what he did not have… This is no sacrifice. On the contrary, he puts himself in a position where judgment through him rather than by him can occur. And this judgment is neither “good” nor “bad.” It is the only judgment there is, and it is only one: “God’s Son is guiltless, and sin does not exist.” M-10.2

Tolerance – “the attitude of someone who is willing to accept someone else’s beliefs, way of life etc without criticizing them even if they disagree with them.” Macmillan Dictionary.

God’s teachers have learnt to be tolerant of all who they meet, regardless of any differences in ideas, culture, religion, politics or sexuality, age difference etc. They have accepted the lesson that judgment is tremendously harmful to the appreciation of others and completely destroys our ability to discern the truth.

• “Judgment without self-deception is impossible… Without judgment are all things equally acceptable, for who could judge otherwise? Without judgment are all men brothers, for who is there who stands apart? Judgment destroys honesty and shatters trust. No teacher of God can judge and hope to learn.”   M-4.III.1
  
  
• “He [gives] himself to Him Whose judgment he has chosen now to trust, instead of his own. Now he makes no mistakes. His Guide is sure. And where he came to judge, he comes to bless.”  M-10.5

Charitable living and purity of purpose comes through faith and trust in our relationship with Jesus and His goodness. Jesus is reminding the student throughout the books of this Course, that He is with us; He understands the spiritual journey along with its trials and tribulations, its challenges and its rewards. And if we would take His hand he can help us and save us time in overcoming the obstacles to the awareness of Love’s Presence, the Love that comes through Him from God. Through our relationship with Him this Love enters into all our relationships and through us it also goes out into the world.

• “If I am with you in the loneliness of the world, the loneliness is gone. My purpose, then, is still to overcome the world… If my light goes with you everywhere, you shine it away with me. The light becomes ours, and you cannot abide in darkness any more than darkness can abide wherever you go. The remembrance of me is the remembrance of yourself, and of Him Who sent me to you.”   T – 8.IV.2

• “By uniting my will with that of my Creator, I naturally remembered spirit and its real purpose. I cannot unite your will with God’s for you, but I can erase all misperceptions from your mind if you will bring it under my guidance. Only your misperceptions stand in your way. Without them your choice is certain… I cannot choose for you, but I can help you make your own right choice.” T – 3.IV.7.
  
  
• “Jesus is for you the bearer of Christ’s single message of the Love of God. You need no other. It is possible to read his words and benefit from them without accepting him into your life. Yet he would help you yet a little more if you will share your pains and joys with him, and leave them both to find the peace of God.”
  C – 5.6

The love of the brotherhood of Christ implies respect for the fundamental nature of the ‘social contract’, a responsibility for those who are in need and dignity and honour for the inherent equality of every member of society.

• “Pray that the Second Coming will be soon, but do not rest with that. It needs your eyes and ears and hands and feet. It needs your voice. And most of all it needs your willingness. Let us rejoice that we can do God’s Will, and join together in its holy light. Behold, the Son of God is one in us, and we can reach our Father’s Love through Him. “ W – part II.9.5
  
  
• “If you will accept the fact that I am with you, you are denying the world and accepting God. My will is His, and your decision to hear me is the decision to hear His Voice and abide in His Will. As God sent me to you so will I send you to others. And I will go to them with you, so we can teach them peace and union. “   T – 8.IV.3
  
  
• “Do you not think the world needs peace as much as you do? Do you not want to give it to the world as much as you want to receive it? For unless you do, you will not receive it. If you want to have it of me, you must give it.”   T – 8.IV.4.

The self-less or ego-less individual does not pursue self-interested goals; they have no such selfish desires. They pursue instead, only those interests that benefit others and the whole. And this is how a disciple of Jesus in A Course in Miracles learns to live their lives, by turning to God’s Voice as the Teacher who directs and guides us through our daily undertakings. His guidance in decision-making brings about solutions where everyone gains as opposed to the selfish individual who struggles just to have their own needs met.

Those who practice the teachings of Jesus in A Course in Miracles undergo a complete spiritual metamorphosis, renewal or rebirth. Strangers, other human beings, are no longer strangers but friends and brothers. They are now ourselves not apart from us, and our sensitivity to and identification with their distress compels us to act to help them. We are one family under God and to love God is to love our brothers and ourselves. This is a basis for charitable efforts of all kinds in the home, in the family, in the neighbourhood and in the greater community. The recognition of suffering obliges us to take action to alleviate it, to send relief overseas or to find shelter for the homeless. We cannot love God without caring for His Son who lives in everyone.

• “And to see me is to see me in everyone, and offer everyone the gift you offer me.”
  T – 15.X.2
  
  
• “I am your resurrection and your life. You live in me because you live in God. And everyone lives in you, as you live in everyone. Can you, then, perceive unworthiness in a brother and not perceive it in yourself?”  T – 11.VI.4
  
  
• “The Christ as revealed to you now has no past, for He is changeless, and in His changelessness lies your release. For if He is as He was created, there is no guilt in Him. No cloud of guilt has risen to obscure Him, and He stands revealed in everyone you meet because you see Him through Himself.”  T – 13.VI.3

God only gives and therefore so do we: A Course in Miracles sets out firstly the absolute value of Truth, God’s unchanging Truth, which is also Love. This Truth is undivided, all-encompassing and has no opposite. God only gives, extending Himself and His Truth and this is Life, this is Creation. His Son is like God the Father in every way, excepting the Son was created by the Father. Secondly, A Course in Miracles shows that to awaken and remember God’s Truth, and that we are His holy Son, we must once again, learn to give as God gives. To give as God gives is to become like Him and be restored to Wholeness. In the world this means that to give and receive are one, therefore to have and to know the truth one must re-learn to give. Forgiveness is the means by which we re-learn to give on earth, as a counterpart in time for the way God gives, or creates, in eternity.

• “In the creation, God extended Himself to His creations and imbued them with the same loving Will to create. You have not only been fully created, but have also been created perfect. There is no emptiness in you. Because of your likeness to your Creator you are creative.”  T- 2.I.1
  
  
• “Forgiveness is an earthly form of love, which as it is in Heaven has no form. Yet what is needed here is given here as it is needed.” W – 186.14.3
  
  
• “To give is how to recognize you have received. It is the proof that what you have is yours.”  W – 159.1
  
  
• “You understand that you are healed when you give healing. You accept forgiveness as accomplished in yourself when you forgive. You recognize your brother as yourself, and thus do you perceive that you are whole. There is no miracle you cannot give…”  W -159.1.7
  
  
• “Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me…. he whom I forgive will give me gifts beyond the worth of anything on earth. Let my forgiven brothers fill my store with Heaven’s treasures, which alone are real. Thus is the law of love fulfilled. And thus Your Son arises and returns to You.“ W – 344.1

Joy – God offers only His joy to all who would unite with Him in His purpose to bring only joy to His beloved children who have fallen asleep into a dream of misery and pain. Miracles awaken the call to joy and that joy calls to everyone to share in it, to unite in healing and in peace.

• “Just as your light increases every light that shines in Heaven, so your joy on earth calls to all minds to let their sorrows go, and take their place beside you in God’s plan. God’s messengers are joyous, and their joy heals sorrow and despair. They are the proof that God wills perfect happiness for all who will accept their Father’s gifts as theirs.” W – 100.4.2
  
  
• “God asks you to be happy, so the world can see how much He loves His Son, and wills no sorrow rises to abate his joy; no fear besets him to disturb his peace. You are God’s messenger today. You bring His happiness to all you look upon; His peace to everyone who looks on you and sees His message in your happy face.“ W – 100.6
  
  
• “The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all. It merely represents your thoughts. And it will change entirely as you elect to change your mind, and choose the joy of God as what you really want. Your Self is radiant in this holy joy, unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable, forever and forever.”  W – 190.6.2
  
  
• “O my child, if you knew what God wills for you, your joy would be complete! And what He wills has happened, for it was always true. When the light comes and you have said, “God’s Will is mine,” you will see such beauty that you will know it is not of you. Out of your joy you will create beauty in His Name, for your joy could no more be contained than His.”  T – 11.III.3

Purpose – Individuals find a new purpose in the Course that gives meaning, direction, healing and new, positive energy and perspective to their lives. The Holy Spirit’s purpose is to help you fulfill the function God has established for bringing joy to your relationships with everyone and everything.

• “How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God’s Son! How free from fear, how filled with blessing and with happiness!” T – 29.VI.6
  
  
• “Peace fills my heart, and floods my body with the purpose of forgiveness. Now my mind is healed, and all I need to save the world is given me.” W – 267.1
  
  
• “Father, forgiveness is Your chosen means for our salvation. Let us not forget today that we can have no will but Yours. And thus our purpose must be Yours as well, if we would reach the peace You will for us.” W – 257.2
  
  
• “Salvation must reverse the mad belief in separate thoughts and separate bodies, which lead separate lives and go their separate ways. One function shared by separate minds unites them in one purpose, for each one of them is equally essential to them all.”   W – 100.1

Teaching Peace – the way to peace is through forgiveness, which removes the obstacles to its attainment. If you want the peace of God, everything that interferes with it must be undone. The students of Jesus in A Course in Miracles, stand with him and teach His peace in all temptation to perceive conflict. Peace extends from them drawing others in to join them in this peace.

• “The only way to have peace is to teach peace. By teaching peace you must learn it yourself, because you cannot teach what you still dissociate. Only thus can you win back the knowledge that you threw away. An idea that you share you must have. It awakens in your mind through the conviction of teaching it.”   T – 6.III.4
  
  
• “Blessed are you who teach with me…Teach peace with me, and stand with me on holy ground… Believe not that you cannot teach His perfect peace. Stand not outside, but join with me within. Fail not the only purpose to which my teaching calls you. Restore to God His Son as He created him, by teaching him his innocence” T – 14.V.9
  
  
• “Peace, then, be unto everyone who becomes a teacher of peace. For peace is the acknowledgment of perfect purity, from which no one is excluded. Within its holy circle is everyone whom God created as His Son. Joy is its unifying attribute, with no one left outside to suffer guilt alone. The power of God draws everyone to its safe embrace of love and union. Stand quietly within this circle, and attract all tortured minds to join with you in the safety of its peace and holiness.” T – 14.V.8
  
  
• “The peace He lay, deep within you and your brother, will quietly extend to every aspect of your life, surrounding you and your brother with glowing happiness and the calm awareness of complete protection. And you will carry its message of love and safety and freedom to everyone who draws nigh unto your temple, where healing waits for him. You will not wait to give him this, for you will call to him and he will answer you, recognizing in your call the Call for God. And you will draw him in and give him rest, as it was given you.” T – 19.IV.1.6
  
  
• “If you want peace you must abandon the teacher of attack. The Teacher of peace will never abandon you… With your perfection ever in His sight, He gives the gift of peace to everyone who perceives the need for peace, and who would have it. Make way for peace, and it will come. For understanding is in you, and from it peace must come. “T – 14.XI.14