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To be wholehearted you must be happy. If fear and love cannot coexist, and if it is impossible to be wholly fearful and remain alive, the only possible whole state is that of love. There is no difference between love and joy. Therefore, the only possible whole state is the wholly joyous.

— Helen Schucman A Course in Miracles (1976)

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

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The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite.

Through prayer love is received, and through miracles love is expressed.

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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

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The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively. It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end. Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.

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