Each day, each hour and minute, even each second, you are deciding between the crucifixion and the resurrection; between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The ego is the choice for guilt; the Holy Spirit the choice for guiltlessness. The power of decision is all that is yours. What you can decide between is fixed, because there are no alternatives except truth and illusion. And there is no overlap between them, because they are opposites which cannot be reconciled and cannot both be true. You are guilty or guiltless, bound or free, unhappy or happy.
Guiltlessness is invulnerability. Therefore, make your invulnerability manifest to everyone. Teach him that, whatever he may try to do to you, your perfect freedom from the belief that you can be harmed shows him that he is guiltless.
God is the only Cause, and guilt is not of Him. Teach no one he has hurt you, for if you do, you teach yourself that what is not of God has power over you. The causeless cannot be. Do not attest to it, and do not foster belief in it in any mind. Remember always that mind is one, and cause is one. You will learn communication with this oneness only when you learn to deny the causeless, and accept the Cause of God as yours. The power that God has given to His Son is his, and nothing else can His Son see or choose to look upon without imposing on himself the penalty of guilt, in place of all the happy teaching the Holy Spirit would gladly offer him. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.III.4;7:1-3;8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
The ego is the belief that separation (harming Oneness) is possible. Guilt is inevitable when this belief is accepted. The Holy Spirit’s lesson is that separation (harm) is impossible, and guilt is causeless. If we believe we or anyone else is vulnerable to harm, we have chosen the ego. We will feel guilty and see guilt everywhere.
The Holy Spirit teaches us how to forgive. Each time we accept the Holy Spirit’s lesson, we open the self-made prison door built by guilt. The fear and depression that comes with guilt is replaced by the peace and happiness of remembering our innocence and unity with God’s Love. Forgiveness is the key to happiness because it removes the barrier to awareness of Love’s presence.
Today we open our minds and hearts to the Holy Spirit’s happy lessons in forgiveness. For we would teach our brothers of their innocence and learn that we are innocent.
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