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Freeing Ourselves from the Past

How can the Holy Spirit bring His interpretation of the body as a means of communication into relationships whose only purpose is separation from reality? What forgiveness is enables Him to do so. If all but loving thoughts have been forgotten, what remains is eternal. And the transformed past is made like the present. No longer does the past conflict with now. This continuity extends the present by increasing its reality and its value in your perception of it. In these loving thoughts is the spark of beauty hidden in the ugliness of the unholy relationship where hatred is remembered; yet [the loving thoughts are] there to come alive as the relationship is given to Him Who gives it life and beauty. That is why Atonement centers on the past, which is the source of separation, and where it must be undone. For separation must be corrected where it was made.”

“[To the ego,] the past becomes the justification for entering into a continuing, unholy alliance with the ego against the present. For the present is forgiveness.

“For you can never choose except between God and the ego. Thought systems are but true or false, and all their attributes come simply from what they are. Only the Thoughts of God are true.” (A Course in Miracles, T-17.III.5;8:1-2;9:5-7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Forgiveness is selective remembering — remembering only our loving thoughts and forgetting unloving thoughts. That is what the Holy Spirit helps us do to undo the past and bring our attention to the now moment, which is the presence of Love.

Love is eternal, timeless and always now. As we let the Holy Spirit help us forget our thoughts of the past which seem to make separation real, the presence of Love now comes into focus.

While we experience ourselves in the dream of separation, it is impossible to see the past as meaningless and unreal. The Holy Spirit knows only the truth of God, yet sees the illusions that we are believing in. Because He does not believe them, He can teach us that our dreams are untrue. As we learn His important lessons, we free ourselves from the past to experience the joy and Love of the present. That is why forgiveness is the key to happiness.

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