ACIM basics - 10-5-2010

[Tom Fox]

From A Course in Miracles

"When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know that you will last forever. Many think that this is accomplished through death, but NOTHING is accomplished through death because death is nothing. EVERYTHING is accomplished through life, and life is of the mind and in the Mind. The body neither lives nor dies, because it cannot contain you who are life. If we share the same mind, You can overcome death because I did. Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not willing at all. Like any other impossible solution which the ego attempts, it will not work."

"God did not make the body, because it is destructible, and therefore not of the Kingdom. The body is the symbol of the what you think you are. It is clearly a separation device, and therefore does not exist."

"As you approach the beginning, you feel the fear of the destruction of your thought system upon you as if it were
the fear of death. There is no death, but there is a belief in death."

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What you are not

You are not your body
You are not a separated self (not an ego)
You are not your dreams
You are not your past history
You are not your personality
You are not your possessions
You are not your intellect
You are not your feelings and emotions
You are not your thoughts
You are not your memories