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Old 29-01-2019, 02:37 AM
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overcoming the illusion of specialness

Two quotes from ACIM are:

'You were at peace until you asked God for special favor, for you made of Him an unloving Father.'

And, 'If salvation is the end of specialness, and I assure you that it is...'

By 'specialness' and 'special favor,' it's talking about the idea that some people are 'better' than others and that God loves some people more than others.

ACIM seems to be saying that this false belief in inequality is part of the entire problem people have.

Yet Jesus says through Paul Ferrini, 'God loves and values everyone equally.'

And a few more quotes from ACIM are:

'Everyone is equally worthy of forgiveness.'

'God is not partial. All His children have His total love.'

'You have attacked your own glorious equality with God.' (saying that we're equals with God)

The following affirmation would probably be helpful in overcoming the illusion of inequality:

'All beings are equals, and God loves all beings equally.'

Also, consider the great suffering that can come from illusions of inequality. Slavery, the Holocaust, exploitation of women, and countless tragedies in the personal lives of people clearly demonstrate the dangers of false superiority (what ACIM calls 'specialness') and the importance of embracing the truth of equality and embodying it in a social context.
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Old 30-01-2019, 11:13 AM
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Perhaps we are all special?
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Old 30-01-2019, 02:08 PM
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Those are some great quotes happy soul. I've recently been thinking about the concept of specialness so good timing. Thanks for sharing.
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Old 01-02-2019, 04:14 AM
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Honza, exactly. ACIM says we're all equally special.

Thanks Michelle!
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Old 02-02-2019, 07:07 PM
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Quote:
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Perhaps we are all special?

I love this, yes

I grew up being told "God is a respecter of no person" but I believe that quote should be "God is a respecter of all persons".
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Old 03-02-2019, 03:57 AM
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Old 03-02-2019, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by happy soul
ACIM seems to be saying that this false belief in inequality is part of the entire problem people have.
Hi...love it when ACIM is brought up!

This is my take, happy soul...placing anyone as 'special' is, indeed, for me,
a hindrance on my Path.
Why is this person who makes me feel spontaneous feelings of love...
more special than the latch on my gate?

Sounds silly, doesn't it ...but, it was my thumb on my latch that elicited
one of my many ecstatic, cosmic moments...the atoms of my thumb felt the Divine Bliss within
the atoms of the metal latch one day...that went directly to my mind and heart...as if
touching my newborn for the first time or the hair of a forbidden love...the electrically charge thrill
that permeates your being, takes your breath away...and changes you forever.


All is, indeed, Satchitanand...Bliss is the Reality of all that is...
We have not left Heaven, as The Course points out.

A 'special' person is no different than the wilted flower I hold in my hand.
Why limit myself ever to think Bliss does not lie in the most mundane.
Each is a doorway to the Divine.


It is then, that I have been able to see a world in a grain of sand (Ha, Key West! 1972).

If Bliss and Heaven are everywhere...nothing is special...it is all the same.
That is the point I take from ACIM.



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Old 03-02-2019, 10:11 PM
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Thanks for sharing your inspiring thoughts, Miss Hepburn.
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