Lesson 127
- Love Has No Opposite
- 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 other principle
- that 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 to
- remember what you really are could fail
- to emphasize that there can never be
- a difference in what you really 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 law 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 darkeness and in death.
- Yet it is perfectly apparent to
- the eyes that see and ears that hear love’s voice.
- Today we practice making free your mind
- of all the laws you think you must obey,
- of all the limits under which you live
- and all the changes that you think are part
- of human destiny. Today we take
- the largest single step this course requests
- in your advance t’wards 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 place 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.
