The ego is the part of the mind that believes your existence is defined by separation.
Existence [a separate ego identity] as well as being [oneness] rests on communication. Existence [separation], however, is specific in how, what and with whom communication is judged to be worth undertaking. Being is completely without these distinctions. It is a state in which the mind is in communication with everything that is real [Love]. To whatever extent you permit this state [of being Love] to be curtailed you are limiting your sense of your own reality [Love], which becomes total only by recognizing all reality in the glorious context of its real relationship to you. [Love] is your reality. Do not desecrate it or recoil from it. [Love] is your real home, your real temple and your real Self. (A Course in Miracles,T-4.VII.1:5;4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Because only Love is real, nothing exists outside Its all-encompassing oneness. Believing in separation is believing in what could never be real. A defining characteristic of the ego belief in separation is having distinctions between perceived parts. There can be no distinctions in oneness. Believing distinctions are real limits our experience of the Reality of Love. What we deny, we are not aware of. This denial makes a loveless world and leaves us feeling vulnerable because we are denying the power of Love in us.
Our true Self sees Love everywhere and joins with all in that Love. The nature of Love is to extend Itself. When we join with the Love in everyone, we join with the joyous, eternal extension of Love. As we become aware of our limiting thoughts, our perceptions of distinctions, we can release them by letting Holy Spirit in our mind shine the Light of Love on them. In this Light we see beyond the illusion of separation to the one Self we share with all. Our mind is healed.
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