II. The Way to Remember God

T-12.II.1. Miracles are merely the translation of denial into truth. ² If to love oneself is to heal oneself, those who are sick do not love themselves. ³ Therefore, they are asking for the love that would heal them, but which they are denying to themselves. ⁴ If they knew the truth about themselves they could not be sick. ⁵ The task of the miracle worker thus becomes to deny the denial of truth. ⁶ The sick must heal themselves, for the truth is in them. ⁷ Yet having obscured it, the light in another mind must shine into theirs because that light is theirs.

T-12.II.2. The light in them shines as brightly regardless of the density of the fog that obscures it. ² If you give no power to the fog to obscure the light, it has none. ³ For it has power only if the Son of God gives power to it. ⁴ He must himself withdraw that power, remembering that all power is of God. ⁵ You can remember this for all the Sonship. ⁶ Do not allow your brother not to remember, for his forgetfulness is yours. ⁷ But your remembering is his, for God cannot be remembered alone. ⁸ This is what you have forgotten. ⁹ To perceive the healing of your brother as the healing of yourself is thus the way to remember God. ¹⁰ For you forgot your brothers with Him, and God's Answer to your forgetting is but the way to remember.

T-12.II.3. Perceive in sickness but another call for love, and offer your brother what he believes he cannot offer himself. ² Whatever the sickness, there is but one remedy. ³ You will be made whole as you make whole, for to perceive in sickness the appeal for health is to recognize in hatred the call for love. ⁴ And to give a brother what he really wants is to offer it unto yourself, for your Father wills you to know your brother as yourself. ⁵ Answer his call for love, and yours is answered. ⁶ Healing is the Love of Christ for His Father and for Himself.

T-12.II.4. Remember what was said about the frightening perceptions of little children, which terrify them because they do not understand them. ² If they ask for enlightenment and accept it, their fears vanish. ³ But if they hide their nightmares they will keep them. ⁴ It is easy to help an uncertain child, for he recognizes that he does not understand what his perceptions mean. ⁵ Yet you believe that you do understand yours. ⁶ Little child, you are hiding your head under the cover of the heavy blankets you have laid upon yourself. ⁷ You are hiding your nightmares in the darkness of your own false certainty, and refusing to open your eyes and look at them.

T-12.II.5. Let us not save nightmares, for they are not fitting offerings for Christ, and so they are not fit gifts for you. ² Take off the covers and look at what you are afraid of. ³ Only the anticipation will frighten you, for the reality of nothingness cannot be frightening. ⁴ Let us not delay this, for your dream of hatred will not leave you without help, and Help is here. ⁵ Learn to be quiet in the midst of turmoil, for quietness is the end of strife and this is the journey to peace. ⁶ Look straight at every image that rises to delay you, for the goal is inevitable because it is eternal. ⁷ The goal of love is but your right, and it belongs to you despite your dreams.

T-12.II.6. You still want what God wills, and no nightmare can defeat a child of God in his purpose. ² For your purpose was given you by God, and you must accomplish it because it is His Will. ³ Awake and remember your purpose, for it is your will to do so. ⁴ What has been accomplished for you must be yours. ⁵ Do not let your hatred stand in the way of love, for nothing can withstand the Love of Christ for His Father, or His Father's Love for Him.

T-12.II.7. A little while and you will see me, for I am not hidden because you are hiding. ² I will awaken you as surely as I awakened myself, for I awoke for you. ³ In my resurrection is your release. ⁴ Our mission is to escape from crucifixion, not from redemption. ⁵ Trust in my help, for I did not walk alone, and I will walk with you as our Father walked with me. ⁶ Do you not know that I walked with Him in peace? ⁷ And does not that mean that peace goes with us on the journey?

T-12.II.8. There is no fear in perfect love. ² We will but be making perfect to you what is already perfect in you. ³ You do not fear the unknown but the known. ⁴ You will not fail in your mission because I did not fail in mine. ⁵ Give me but a little trust in the name of the complete trust I have in you, and we will easily accomplish the goal of perfection together. ⁶ For perfection is and cannot be denied. ⁷ To deny the denial of perfection is not so difficult as to deny truth, and what we can accomplish together will be believed when you see it as accomplished.

T-12.II.9. You who have tried to banish love have not succeeded, but you who choose to banish fear must succeed. ² The Lord is with you, but you know it not. ³ Yet your Redeemer liveth, and abideth in you in the peace out of which He was created. ⁴ Would you not exchange this awareness for the awareness of fear? ⁵ When we have overcome fear—not by hiding it, not by minimizing it, and not by denying its full import in any way—this is what you will really see. ⁶ You cannot lay aside the obstacles to real vision without looking upon them, for to lay aside means to judge against. ⁷ If you will look, the Holy Spirit will judge, and He will judge truly. ⁸ Yet He cannot shine away what you keep hidden, for you have not offered it to Him and He cannot take it from you.

T-12.II.10. We are therefore embarking on an organized, well-structured and carefully planned program aimed at learning how to offer to the Holy Spirit everything you do not want. ² He knows what to do with it. ³ You do not understand how to use what He knows. ⁴ Whatever is given Him that is not of God is gone. ⁵ Yet you must look at it yourself in perfect willingness, for otherwise His knowledge remains useless to you. ⁶ Surely He will not fail to help you, since help is His only purpose. ⁷ Do you not have greater reason for fearing the world as you perceive it, than for looking at the cause of fear and letting it go forever?