Perhaps you think that different kinds of love are possible. Perhaps you
think there is a kind of love for this, a kind for that; a way of loving
one, another way of loving still another. Love is one. It has no
separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergencies and
no distinctions. It is like itself, unchanged throughout. It never
alters with a person or a circumstance. It is the heart of God, and also
of His Son.
Love’s meaning is obscure to anyone who thinks that love can change. He
does not see that changing love must be impossible. And thus he thinks
that he can love at times and hate at other times. He also thinks that
love can be bestowed on one and yet remain itself although it is
withheld from others. To believe these things of love is not to
understand it. If it could make such distinctions it would have to judge
between the righteous and the sinner, and perceive the Son of God in
separate parts.
Love cannot judge. As it is one itself, it looks on all as one. Its
meaning lies in oneness. And it must elude the mind that thinks of it as
partial or in part. There is no love but God’s, and all of love is His.
There is no principle which rules where love is not. Love is a law
without an opposite. Its wholeness is the power holding everything as
one, the link between the Father and the Son which holds them both
forever as the same.
No course whose purpose is to teach you what you really are could fail
to emphasize there is no difference in what you are and what love is.
Love’s meaning is your own, and shared by God Himself. For what you are
is what He is. There is no love but His, and what He is is everything
there is. There is no limit placed upon Himself, and so are you
unlimited as well.
No laws the world obeys can help you grasp love’s meaning. What the
world believes was made to hide love’s meaning and to keep it dark and
secret. There is not one principle the world upholds but violates the
truth of what love is, and what you are as well. Seek not within the
world to find your Self. Love is not found in darkness
and in death. Yet it is perfectly apparent to the eyes that see and ears
that hear its Voice.
Today we practice making free our mind of all the laws you think you
must obey; of all the limits under which you live, and all the changes
which you think are part of human destiny. Today we take the largest
single step this course requests in your advance toward its established
goal. If you achieve the faintest glimmering of what love means today,
you have advanced in distance without measure and in time beyond the
count of years to your release.
Let us together, then, be glad to give some time to God today, and
understand there is no better use for time than this. For fifteen
minutes twice today escape from every law in which you now believe. Open
your mind and rest. The world that seems to hold you prisoner can be
escaped by anyone who does not hold it dear. Withdraw all value you have
placed upon its meager offerings and senseless gifts, and let the Gift
of God replace them all.
Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. He Himself has
promised this. And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your
mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own
reality and what love means. He will shine through your idle thoughts
today, and help you understand the truth of love. In loving gentleness
He will abide with you as you allow His Voice to teach love’s meaning to
your clean and open mind. And He will bless the lesson with His Love.
Today the legion of the future years of waiting for salvation disappears
before the timelessness of what you learn. Let us give thanks today that
we are spared a future like the past. Today we leave the past behind us,
never more to be remembered. And we raise our eyes upon a different
present, where a future shines unlike the past in every attribute.
The world in infancy is newly born. And we will watch it grow in
strength and health to shed its blessing upon all who come to learn to
cast aside the world they thought was made in hate to be love’s enemy.
Now are they all made free along with us. Now are they all our brothers
in God’s Love.
We will remember them throughout the day because we cannot leave a part
of us outside our love if we would know our Self. At least
three times an hour think of one who makes the journey with you, and who
came to learn what you must learn. And as he comes to mind, give him
this message from your Self:
“I bless you, brother, with the Love of God
Which I would share with you. For I would learn
The joyous lesson that there is no love
But God’s and yours and mine and everyone’s.”