The world can teach no images of you unless you want to learn them. There will come a time when images have all gone by, and you will see you know not what you are. It is to this unsealed and open mind that truth returns, unhindered and unbound. Where concepts of the self have been laid by is truth revealed exactly as it is. When every concept has been raised to doubt and question, and been recognized as made on no assumptions that would stand the light, then is the truth left free to enter in its sanctuary, clean and free of guilt. There is no statement that the world is more afraid to hear than this:
I do not know the thing I am, and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or on myself.
Yet in this learning is salvation born. And What you are will tell you of Itself. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.V.17. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
The core focus of A Course in Miracles is to bring us to the point of accepting that we do not know what we are or what anything means. The early lessons of the Workbook lead us in this direction. There are many places throughout the Course that express this intent. Clearly it is understood that we have great resistance to the idea that we are clueless about what we are. Thankfully we are lovingly and patiently guided in this direction.
As we let go of the importance we give to things in the world, including our concept of what we are, we become happier and more peaceful. This is a good feeling. It motivates us to keep doing the work that frees us from the image of being a weak and separate self, fearful and guilty, in need of constant defense.
The principal mechanism that frees us from all this is forgiveness — letting go of the false images that hide our true Self from our awareness. The strength of God supports us in the practice of forgiveness. His Voice guides us when we are willing to receive His Thoughts. Christ’s vision helps us look past the false images of separation to see and join with the Love that is everywhere to behold. We are on a journey to remembering that we are, together, God’s holy Son, united with our Creator.
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