1. If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? \u00b2Like the text for which this workbook was written, the ideas used for the exercises are very simple, very clear and totally unambiguous. \u00b3We are not concerned with intellectual feats nor logical toys. \u2074We are dealing only in the very obvious, which has been overlooked in the clouds of complexity in which you think you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? \u00b2This is not difficult, surely. \u00b3The hesitation you may feel in answering is not due to the ambiguity of the question. \u2074But do you believe that guilt is hell? \u2075If you did, you would see at once how direct and simple the text is, and you would not need a workbook at all. \u2076No one needs practice to gain what is already his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. We have already said that your holiness is the salvation of the world. \u00b2What about your own salvation? \u00b3You cannot give what you do not have. \u2074A savior must be saved. \u2075How else can he teach salvation? \u2076Today\u2019s exercises will apply to you, recognizing that your salvation is crucial to the salvation of the world. \u2077As you apply the exercises to your world, the whole world stands to benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. Your holiness is the answer to every question that was ever asked, is being asked now, or will be asked in the future. \u00b2Your holiness means the end of guilt, and therefore the end of hell. \u00b3Your holiness is the salvation of the world, and your own. \u2074How could you to whom your holiness belongs be excluded from it? \u2075God does not know unholiness. \u2076Can it be He does not know His Son?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. A full five minutes are urged for the four longer practice periods for today, and longer and more frequent practice sessions are encouraged. \u00b2If you want to exceed the minimum requirements, more rather than longer sessions are recommended, although both are suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. Begin the practice periods as usual, by repeating today\u2019s idea to yourself. \u00b2Then, with closed eyes, search out your unloving thoughts in whatever form they appear; uneasiness, depression, anger, fear, worry, attack, insecurity and so on. \u00b3Whatever form they take, they are unloving and therefore fearful. \u2074And so it is from them that you need to be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7. Specific situations, events or personalities you associate with unloving thoughts of any kind are suitable subjects for today\u2019s exercises. \u00b2It is imperative for your salvation that you see them differently. \u00b3And it is your blessing on them that will save you and give you vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8. Slowly, without conscious selection and without undue emphasis on any one in particular, search your mind for every thought that stands between you and your salvation. \u00b2Apply the idea for today to each of them in this way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3<\/sup>My unloving thoughts about _________ are keeping me in hell.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4<\/sup> My holiness is my salvation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. You may find these practice periods easier if you intersperse them with several short periods during which you merely repeat today\u2019s idea to yourself slowly a few times. \u00b2You may also find it helpful to include a few short intervals in which you just relax and do not seem to be thinking of anything. \u00b3Sustained concentration is very difficult at first. \u2074It will become much easier as your mind becomes more disciplined and less distractible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. Meanwhile, you should feel free to introduce variety into the exercise periods in whatever form appeals to you. \u00b2Do not, however, change the idea itself as you vary the method of applying it. \u00b3However you elect to use it, the idea should be stated so that its meaning is the fact that your holiness is your salvation. \u2074End each practice period by repeating the idea in its original form once more, and adding:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5<\/sup>If guilt is hell, what is its opposite?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. In the shorter applications, which should be made some three or four times an hour and more if possible, you may ask yourself this question, repeat today\u2019s idea, and preferably both. \u00b2If temptations arise, a particularly helpful form of the idea is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3<\/sup>My holiness is my salvation from this.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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