"A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. His qualifications consist solely in this; somehow, somewhere he has made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else's. Once he has done that, his road is established and his direction is sure. A light has entered the darkness. It may be a single light, but that is enough. He has entered an agreement with God even if he does not yet believe in Him. He has become a bringer of salvation. He has become a teacher of God They come from all over the world. They come from all religions and from no religion. They are the ones who have answered. The Call is universal. It goes on all the time everywhere. It calls for teachers to speak for It and redeem the world. Many hear It, but few will answer. Yet it is all a matter of time. Everyone will answer in the end, but the end can be a long, long way off. It is because of this that the plan of the teachers was established. Their function is to save time. Each one begins as a single light, but with the Call at its center it is a light that cannot be limited. And each one saves a thousand years of time as the world judges it. To the Call Itself time has no meaning.
There is a course for every teacher of God. The form of the course varies greatly. So do the particular teaching aids involved. But the content of the course never changes. Its central theme is always, "God's Son is guiltless, and in his innocence is his salvation." It can be taught by actions or thoughts; in words or soundlessly; in any language or in no language; in any place or time or manner. It does not matter who the teacher was before he heard the Call. He has become a savior by his answering. He has seen someone else as himself. He has therefore found his own salvation and the salvation of the world. In his rebirth is the world reborn."
-The Manual for Teachers of A Course in Miracles, "Who are God's Teachers?"
Our love for you is unconditional.
"Unconditional Love is not a state of Universal Consciousness, but rather what consciousness itself is. It must be then, since you are conscious, that even though you pretend not to know who you are, that what you are is what Total Love or Truth or God is. No matter how much you protest, there is finally, simply nothing else. As Awakened Teachers, we love you totally. Very simply because the parts about you that you think of as unlovable have absolutely no meaning to us. We understand that you continue to think they do.
 In our process of Awakening, we have all been shown individually and often graphically, dramatically, and sometimes catastrophically, the total unreality of separate individual human minds on earth. In other words, we have come to know who we really are and that there is no world." -From A Spiritual Teacher's Notebook, by Master Teacher
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