It can be but myself I crucify.
…to attack another is but to attack yourself. …[Your brother’s] safety is your own, and in his healing you are healed.
…teach your mind that you are not an ego. For the ways in which the ego would distort the truth will not deceive you longer. You will not believe you are a body to be crucified. And you will see within today’s idea [It can be but myself I crucify] the light of resurrection, looking past all thoughts of crucifixion and of death, to thoughts of liberation and of life.
For once you understand it is impossible that you be hurt except by your own thoughts, the fear of God must disappear. You cannot then believe that fear is caused without. And God, Whom you had thought to banish, can be welcomed back within the holy mind He never left.
When the fear of God is gone, there are no obstacles that still remain between you and the holy peace of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 196, W-pI.196.1:2,4;3;8:3-5;12:2. See also ACIM Lesson 196 Insights.)
The ego always plays the blame game. First it tries to project blame on others to convince us that they are the cause of our pain. If that doesn’t work, it points to our own guilt, our inadequacies and “sins.” This is the way the ego insures the maintenance of guilt that keeps the ego in place. So the ego would try to turn the fact that our thoughts are responsible for everything we experience into justification of our guilt and continuation of our hell.
But it’s really good news to learn that our thoughts are the cause of our experience because we can change our thoughts. The ego cannot take this power from us, but we can give it to the ego by believing we are the ego. One of the most important lessons we can learn is that we are not the ego — never were and never will be. As we withdraw our identification with the ego, we open the way for the help of the Holy Spirit to show us that in fact we remain Love as we were created. Only our loving thoughts are eternal. This is our freedom from the ego’s tyranny.
Today we will remind ourselves that we remain Love and nothing else. We will let the Holy Spirit show us the truth of Love in everyone and in ourselves.
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