Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false. Every illusion is one of fear, whatever form it takes. And the attempt to escape from one illusion into another must fail. If you seek love outside yourself you can be certain that you perceive hatred [separation] within, and are afraid of it. Yet peace will never come from the illusion of love, but only from its reality.
Recognize this, for it is true, and truth must be recognized if it is to be distinguished from illusion: The special love relationship is an attempt to bring love into separation. And, as such, it is nothing more than an attempt to bring love into fear [separation], and make it real in fear.
No specialness can offer you what God has given, and what you are joined with Him in giving.
Across the bridge [from separation to oneness] is your completion, for you will be wholly in God, willing for nothing special, but only to be wholly like to Him, completing Him by your completion. Fear not to cross to the abode of peace and perfect holiness. Only there is the completion of God and of His Son established forever. Seek not for [completion] in the bleak world of illusion, where nothing is certain and where everything fails to satisfy. In the Name of God, be wholly willing to abandon all illusions. In any relationship in which you are wholly willing to accept completion, and only this, there is God completed, and His Son with Him. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.IV.6:1-7:2;8:7-9:6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
God/Love gave us all of Itself in our creation. The ego is the wish for more than all of God’s Love. It is the wish to be different and special. This could only seem to be accomplished in illusion, since only the oneness of Love is real. Differences and oneness cannot coexist.
We were created one with all of Love, wholly complete. Our sense of incompletion comes with believing that separation is real. This belief leads to searching for completion. Special love is an attempt to find completion, but it never satisfies. Completion cannot be found in the illusion of separation.
We can remember that we are wholly complete only by seeking out all our thoughts and beliefs that make separation seem real. The Holy Spirit in our minds is there to help us recognize our mistaken beliefs in separation and let them go. The practice of bringing all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His interpretation will transform the barriers we have made into bridges to remembering we are whole and complete in God’s Love.
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