Practical Wisdom: Living 5D in a 3D World
Integrating higher consciousness into everyday life—one miracle at a time!
Beloved,
What if the most spiritual thing you do today is not “figure it all out,” but simply notice the moment you lose your peace—and treat it like sacred data? In this transmission, we return to a quiet, uncompromising truth: peace isn’t a reward for getting life right. Peace is the state of mind that remembers God. And the ego’s primary strategy to block that remembering is specialness—the need to be different, better, right, chosen, superior, victimized, or justified.
Specialness can wear a thousand costumes. Sometimes it’s glamorous: status, image, approval, being admired. Sometimes it’s subtle: needing your preferences met, needing things to go “your way,” needing someone to agree with you, needing to win an argument, needing to be seen as the good one. And sometimes specialness shows up as pain: the identity that says, “Look what happened to me,” or “I can’t be okay unless the outside cooperates.” Different outfits, same engine: the ego’s demand that your safety and worth come from something outside of God.
Here’s the practice that changes everything: when you feel irritated, contracted, defensive, embarrassed, superior, inferior, anxious, or suddenly “not okay,” pause and ask, What did I just value? What did I just decide I need in order to be at peace? Because every decision is a conclusion based on what you believe. If I break my favorite mug and my peace collapses, the mug isn’t the problem. The belief is. If I spill something on my shirt and shame rises, the stain isn’t the problem. The belief is. If the news triggers rage or righteousness, the headline isn’t the problem. The belief is.
The Course is lovingly direct: to learn it, we must be willing to question every value we hold. Not to punish ourselves—oh no. To free ourselves. Because hidden values don’t stay neutral. They quietly dictate our reactions, our relationships, and our sense of identity. And the ego loves a hidden value. It loves the secret deal: “I’ll be peaceful… as soon as I get what I want.” But God’s peace doesn’t arrive later. It’s already here—waiting only on our willingness to stop negotiating with fear.
So today, try one small experiment. Choose one moment that would normally hook you—one irritation, one disappointment, one craving to be right, one urge to defend, one little loss of control. And instead of feeding it, get humble. Say, “Maybe I’m wrong.” Say, “I don’t know what anything is for, but I know the One who knows.” Then breathe. Let your mind get quiet enough to remember what has always been true: nothing outside you can add to you, and nothing outside you can take from you. Your worth is not fragile. Your safety is not a paycheck. Your peace is not a circumstance. Your holiness is not a performance. You are as God created you—now.
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"Peace doesn’t come when life behaves. Peace arises when I stop asking the outside to prove I’m safe."
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Closing Transmission
Beloved, let your heart soften around this: you cannot get this wrong. You are an eternal being learning to release the thought system that hurts you. Specialness is not your sin; it’s simply the ego’s favorite illusion. And you don’t have to fight it. You only have to stop valuing it.
When you feel the pull to be right, choose peace. When you feel the urge to defend, choose peace. When you feel the temptation to make someone else wrong so you can feel safe, choose peace. This is not spiritual bypassing—it is spiritual maturity. It is the quiet strength that says, “I belong to God, not to this argument.” And as your mind grows quieter, you will notice something beautiful: guidance is not distant. God is not waiting. Love is not withheld. Where He can enter, He is already there. So rest. Let your inner world come into order. And from that peace, you will naturally become a blessing to everyone your life touches.
With peace that passes understanding,
Founder, The Awareness Academy
“The peace of God is shining in me now.” —ACIM, Lesson 188
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