DEFENSELESS.................4
the world deals harshly with defenseless innocence? No-one who makes a T 31 E 3 T(1055)869
but temptation to perceive YOURSELF defenseless and in hell. Yield NOT T 31 G 6 T(1070)884
but this Child, Who comes defenseless and Who is protected by W 183 L 10 W(396)
defended, and will be. The defenseless therapist has the strength of P 4 B 10 P(24)
 
 DEFENSELESSNESS.............17
done, but realize that our defenselessness is all that is required W 135 L 22 W(289)
I am attacked. But in defenselessness I will be strong, And W 135 L 23 W(289)
Lesson 153. In my defenselessness my safety lies. W 153 L 0 W(324)
W 153 L 6. Defenselessness is strength. It testifies to W 153 L 6 W(325)
weakness seen apart from Him. Defenselessness can never be attacked becauseW 153 L 6 W(325)
fearful thoughts behind. And in defenselessness we stand secure, serenely certainW 153 L 9 W(325)
you will walk in true defenselessness, for you will know that W 153 L 18 W(328)
Today our theme is our defenselessness. We clothe ourselves in it W 153 L 19 W(328)
are His gifts to you. Defenselessness is all you need to W 153 L 20 W(328)
1. 153) In my defenselessness my safety lies. God is W 172 L 1 W(385)
This Child is your defenselessness, your strength. He trusts in W 183 L 7 W(395)
and Who is protected by defenselessness. Go home with Him from W 183 L 10 W(396)
Today He gives you His defenselessness, and you accept it in W 183 L 12 W(396)
purpose of salvation. G. Defenselessness M 5 M 5 G 0 M(14)
being confident it is tolerant. Defenselessness attends it naturally, and joyM 5 J 2 M(16)
are not necessary, and that defenselessness is strength. This must be P 3 E 10 P(11)
who need the lesson of defenselessness above all else, to show P 3 F 2 P(12)
 
 DEFENSES....................67
The whole danger of defenses lies in their propensity to T 1 B 37r T(32)32
arise in connection with ancillary defenses, to be considered later. For T 2 A 7 T(64)64
T 2 A 18. Defenses aimed at protecting (or retaining T 2 A 18 T(69)69
2 B. The re-interpretation of Defenses (N 230 5:79) T 2 B 0 T(72)72
essentially to the misuse of defenses. Among them is the concept T 2 B 33 T(78)78
signifying your willingness to use defenses to ensure it. T T 2 B 35 T(78)78
apparent that all of the defenses which man can choose to T 2 B 42 T(80) 80
inherent characteristic of all other defenses. The Atonement thus becomes theT 2 B 42 T(80) 80
Right Minds, they turned their defenses from protection to assault, and T 2 B 44 T(80) 80
increased Right-Mindedness. This is because defenses are now being used muchT 2 B 56 T(83) 83
You know that when defenses are disrupted there is a T 2 B 60 T(85) 84
is different only in that defenses are not being disrupted, but T 2 B 60 T(85) 84
In the re-interpretation of defenses, they are not disrupted but T 2 B 61 T(85) 84
Your major improper use of defenses is now largely limited to T 2 B 62 T(85) 84
63. The re-interpretation of defenses is essential to break open T 2 B 63 T(85) 84
light. Since the Separation, man's defenses have been used almost entirelyT 2 B 63 T(85) 84
minimized the two-edged nature of defenses. This is an outstanding characteristicT 2 E 28 T(107)106
that holds for other two-edged defenses. The partly innocent are apt T 3 D 3 T(144)143
your thought-system, and all your defenses are used to attack ideas T 3 I 9 T(183)C 10
the usual series of mixed defenses in the combined pattern of T 4 B 7 T(189)C 16
a therapist work through WEAKER defenses first. That is why I T 4 G 18 T(227)C 54
understand that the misuse of defenses always constitutes an attack on T 9 I 4 T(408)- 235
usefullness by rendering it useless. Defenses which do not work AT T 11 C 2 T(453)- 280
The Holy Spirit uses defenses ON BEHALF of truth, only T 14 D 6 T(548)- 375
you have ATTACKED WITH them. Defenses, like everything you made, must T 14 D 6 T(548)- 375
IT INSANELY. And ALL their defenses are AS INSANE AS WHAT T 17 E 5 T(641)468
essential to realize that ALL defenses DO what they would DEFEND T 17 E 7 T(642)469
the picture, you CANNOT have. Defenses operate TO MAKE YOU THINK T 17 E 7 T(642)469
deceptive frame of all the defenses the ego uses. Its thought-system T 17 E 8 T(642)469
a DISTORTION, and calls upon defenses to uphold it AGAINST reality T 20 D 1 T(740)564
Consider what the ego wants defenses FOR. ALWAYS to justify what T 22 F 2 T(811)630
that self-initiated plans are but defenses, with the purpose all of W 135 L 15 W(288)
W 135 L 18. Defenses are the plans you undertake W 135 L 18 W(288)
is the threat that your defenses would attack, obscure, and take W 135 L 18 W(288)
pain to you. But your defenses did not let you see W 135 L 19 W(289)
heeding only immortality. Let no defenses but your present trust direct W 135 L 20 W(289)
the truth that only your defenses would conceal. W 135 W 135 L 20 W(289)
135 L 21. Without defenses, you become a light which W 135 L 21 W(289)
brothers lay aside their cumbersome defenses which availed them nothing, andW 135 L 21 W(289)
I will learn what my defenses hide.

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L 25. All your defenses have been aimed at not W 135 L 25 W(290)
not an accident. Like all defenses, it is an insane device W 136 L 2 W(291)
parts. The aim of all defenses is to keep the truth W 136 L 2 W(291)
W 136 L 3. Defenses are not unintentional, nor are W 136 L 3 W(291)
sets up a series of defenses to reduce the threat that W 136 L 4 W(291)
making your reality which makes defenses seem to be beyond your W 136 L 5 W(292)
Mistake this not for fact. Defenses must make facts unrecognizable. TheyW 136 L 5 W(292)
slaves to laws which your defenses would impose on it. Yet W 136 L 10 W(293)
apart from all of this. Defenses are plans to defeat what W 136 L 11 W(293)
futile your attempts to plan defenses which would alter it. It W 136 L 12 W(293)
be but what they are; defenses which protect your unforgiving thoughts W 140 R4 3 W(311)
W 153 L 4. Defenses are the costliest of all W 153 L 4 W(324)
feel the threat of our defenses undermine our certainty of purpose W 153 L 19 W(328)
attempt to go past all defenses for a little while each W 180 IN2 5 W(387)
imagined. These concerns are but defenses against present change of focusW 181 L 5 W(389)
is he who comes without defenses, offering only love's messages to W 183 L 9 W(396)
which would cheat you of defenses to ensure that when He W 197 L 1 W(441)
For only then are its defenses lifted, and the truth can W 333 L 1 W(586)
until he fully understands that defenses are but the foolish guardians M 5 G 1 M(14)
fiercer and more powerful its defenses seem to be. Yet when M 5 G 1 M(14)
not danger that comes when defenses are laid down. It is M 5 G 1 M(14)
nothing! Nothing at all! Your defenses will not work, but you M 17 A 6 M(42)
can one believe in one's defenses? Magic again must help. Forget M 18 A 6 M(46)
seen through the egos defenses here, although they are not M 26 A 5 M(61)
would be impossible. Therefore, the defenses sought for must be magical P 3 E 6 P(10)
his task to demonstrate that defenses are not necessary, and that P 3 E 10 P(11)
retreat into fear. For fear's defenses are fearful in themselves, and S 1 D 4 S(8)
 
 DEFENSIVE...................5
this as sin, you become defensive because you EXPECT ATTACK. The T 5 I 18 T(269)C 96
ARE threatening the ego's whole defensive system too seriously for it T 21 E 2 T(777)598
CERTAINTY. Only UNcertainty can BE defensive. And ALL uncertainty is doubt T 22 F 3 T(811)630
the need arise to be defensive about ANYTHING, you have identified T 22 F 6 T(812)631
God with him, but the defensive therapist has lost sight of P 4 B 10 P(24)
 
 DEFENSIVENESS...............11
T 22 F. Weakness and Defensiveness (N 1631 11:6) T 22 F 0 T(811)630
of it, you would forget defensiveness entirely, and rush to its T 30 E 1 T(1027)841
little things appear to raise defensiveness in you and tempt you W 135 L 27 W(290)
to help us rise above defensiveness, and let the truth be W 136 L 15 W(294)
occur, by not allowing your defensiveness to hurt you longer. Do W 136 L 19 W(295)
world gives rise but to defensiveness. For threat brings anger, anger W 153 L 2 W(324)
name of self-defense. Yet is defensiveness a double threat. For it W 153 L 2 W(324)
peace of God by your defensiveness. For you behold the Son W 153 L 5 W(325)
W 153 L 7. Defensiveness is weakness. It proclaims you W 153 L 7 W(325)
Experience of what exists beyond defensiveness remains beyond achievement while itW 180 IN2 5 W(387)
who in simple honesty, without defensiveness and self deception, would denyW 183 L 2 W(394)