1. 1If you will lay aside the ego’s voice, however loudly it may seem to call; if you will not accept its petty gifts that give you nothing that you really want; if you will listen with an open mind, that has not told you what salvation is; then you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its messages.

2. 1Listen, and hear your Father speak to you through His appointed Voice, which silences the thunder of the meaningless, and shows the way to peace to those who cannot see. 2Be still today and listen to the truth. 3Be not deceived by voices of the dead, which tell you they have found the source of life and offer it to you for your belief. 4Attend them not, but listen to the truth.

3. 1Be not afraid today to circumvent the voices of the world. 2Walk lightly past their meaningless persuasion. 3Hear them not. 4Be still today and listen to the truth. 5Go past all things which do not speak of Him Who holds your happiness within His Hand, held out to you in welcome and in love. 6Hear only Him today, and do not wait to reach Him longer. 7Hear one Voice today.

4. 1Today the promise of God’s Word is kept. 2Hear and be silent. 3He would speak to you. 4He comes with miracles a thousand times as happy and as wonderful as those you ever dreamed or wished for in your dreams. 5His miracles are true. 6They will not fade when dreaming ends. 7They end the dream instead; and last forever, for they come from God to His dear Son, whose other name is you. 8Prepare yourself for miracles today. 9Today allow your Father’s ancient pledge to you and all your brothers to be kept.

5. 1Hear Him today, and listen to the Word which lifts the veil that lies upon the earth, and wakes all those who sleep and cannot see. 2God calls to them through you. 3He needs your voice to speak to them, for who could reach God’s Son except his Father, calling through your Self? 4Hear Him today, and offer Him your voice to speak to all the multitude who wait to hear the Word that He will speak today.

6. 1Be ready for salvation. 2It is here, and will today be given unto you. 3And you will learn your function from the One Who chose it in your Father’s Name for you. 4Listen today, and you will hear a Voice which will resound throughout the world through you. 5The bringer of all miracles has need that you receive them first, and thus become the joyous giver of what you received.

7. 1Thus does salvation start and thus it ends; when everything is yours and everything is given away, it will remain with you for­ever. 2And the lesson has been learned. 3Today we practice giv­ing, not the way you understand it now, but as it is. 4Each hour’s exercises should begin with this request for your enlightenment:

5I will be still and listen to the truth.
6What does it mean to give and to receive?

8. 1Ask and expect an answer. 2Your request is one whose answer has been waiting long to be received by you. 3It will begin the ministry for which you came, and which will free the world from thinking giving is a way to lose. 4And so the world becomes ready to understand and to receive.

9. 1Be still and listen to the truth today. 2For each five minutes spent in listening, a thousand minds are opened to the truth and they will hear the holy Word you hear. 3And when the hour is past, you will again release a thousand more who pause to ask that truth be given them, along with you.

10. 1Today the holy Word of God is kept through your receiving it to give away, so you can teach the world what giving means by listening and learning it of Him. 2Do not forget today to reinforce your choice to hear and to receive the Word by this reminder, given to yourself as often as is possible today:

3Let me be still and listen to the truth.
4I am the messenger of God today,
My voice is His, to give what I receive.