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When you realize that all guilt is solely an invention of your mind, you also realize that guilt and salvation must be in the same place [in your mind]. In understanding this you are saved.
The seeming cost of accepting today’s idea [My salvation comes from me] is this: It means that nothing outside yourself can save you; nothing outside yourself can give you peace. But it also means that nothing outside yourself can hurt you, or disturb your peace or upset you in any way.”
My salvation comes from me. It cannot come from anywhere else.
Devote a few minutes, with your eyes closed, to reviewing some of the external places where you have looked for salvation in the past;—in other people, in possessions, in various situations and events, and in self-concepts that you sought to make real. Recognize that it is not there, and tell yourself:
My salvation cannot come from any of these things. My salvation comes from me and only from me.
Now we will try again to reach the light in you, which is where your salvation is. You cannot find it in the clouds that surround the light, and it is in them you have been looking for it. It is not there. It is past the clouds and in the light beyond. Remember that you will have to go through the clouds before you can reach the light. But remember also that you have never found anything in the cloud patterns you imagined that endured, or that you wanted. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 70, W-pI.70.1:5-2:2;7:3-8:6. See also ACIM Lesson 70 Insights.)
The most empowering idea we can learn is that both the source of guilt and the means to release it are in our own mind. No longer are we at the mercy of events in the world, the behavior of others, our circumstances or even the thoughts that drift through our minds. All perception of guilt comes from the fevered imagination of the ego’s belief in separation and its attempt to make separation seem real. The truth of the Self we are remains free of guilt, safe in the oneness of God’s Love.
God placed the means for release from guilt in our minds. It is the Light of the Holy Spirit, the Light of Truth. It contains the strength of God, given us to support our willingness to see past the clouds of ego images to the truth that none of our imagined images in the world can harm anyone or ourselves. We remain God’s one Son, changeless and unchangeable.
We claim this truth by offering all our perceptions that disturb our peace to the Light of the Holy Spirit in our minds. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help, it becomes clear that what we thought justified guilt and fear had no effect whatsoever. We see that nothing has happened to change the truth of What we are, at one with God.
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