When you react at all to errors, you are not listening to the Holy Spirit. He has merely disregarded them, and if you attend to them you are not hearing Him. If you do not hear Him, you are listening to your ego and making as little sense as the brother whose errors you perceive. This cannot be correction. Yet it is more than merely a lack of correction for him. It is the giving up of correction in yourself.
When a brother behaves insanely, you can heal him only by perceiving the sanity in him [the Son of God]. If you perceive his errors and accept them, you are accepting yours. If you want to give yours over to the Holy Spirit, you must do this with his [errors]. Unless this becomes the one way in which you handle all errors, you cannot understand how all errors are undone.
To perceive errors in anyone, and to react to them as if they were real, is to make them real to you. You will not escape paying the price for this, not because you are being punished for it, but because you are following the wrong guide and will therefore lose your way.
Your brother’s errors are not of him, any more than yours are of you. Accept his errors as real, and you have attacked yourself. If you would find your way and keep it, see only truth [of your brother] beside you for you walk together. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.III.4:1-5:4;6:7-7:3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
As pointed out throughout the Course, to heal our minds we must choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide in all things. It seems to be difficult to receive the Holy Spirit’s guidance only because the part of our minds that is identified with the ego is unwilling to give up control. Much of the content of ACIM is designed to help us with our willingness by teaching us that the ego offers nothing we really want.
As we learn that the ego offers us nothing of value, our willingness to pay attention to the Holy Spirit’s guidance increases. Each time we accept the Holy Spirit’s guidance and forgive our mistaken perception, we experience the blessing of greater peace and happiness. Our motivation and willingness increases to choose the Holy Spirit’s guidance in all things. We dedicate today to the practice of choosing Holy Spirit’s guidance first.
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