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Study of Text, Chapter 9,VI.The Acceptance of Your Brother, P 3. 3-11-15

VI. The Acceptance of Your Brother
3 If your brothers are part of you, will you accept them? Only they can teach you what you are, for your learning is the result of what you taught them. What you call upon in them you call upon in yourself. And as you call upon it in them it becomes real to you. God has but one Son, knowing them all as one. Only God Himself is more than they but they are not less than He is. Would you know what this means? If what you do to my brother you do to me, and if you do everything for yourself because we are part of you, everything we do belongs to you as well. Everyone God created is part of you and shares His glory with you. His Glory belongs to Him, but it is equally yours. You cannot, then, be less glorious than He is.

Journal
In this paragraph Jesus explains our relationship to each other and to God. We are one with each other, part of each other. We don’t see that in the illusion, because of course, that is the purpose of the illusion. We wanted to experience not oneness, and so we made images of separateness. We made different bodies and different personalities with different problems and different experiences. We made different things with which to surround ourselves. It makes for a very believable experience, but it changes nothing. God knows us as His one Son and therefore, we are that.

I am learning to see my brother as one with me. I can’t do this very well, yet, but my willingness to do so is giving me a different experience. I never think that what I do affects only me. I never think that my brother’s feelings are his problem and not my concern. I never think that my thoughts are for me alone. Well, let’s say that I am never far from this understanding. I forget this is true, but then I remember.

At first, I changed my behavior. I started being kinder and more thoughtful, knowing that this was a step in the right direction and that it was my way of making a commitment to see differently. If this person in front of me was actually another aspect of myself, then it only made sense to treat them the way I would want to be treated.

Over time, I began to believe that the person in front of me was an aspect of my self, and I didn’t need to change my behavior, my behavior changed because my mind had changed. I still fall back into ego behavior when I start thinking through the ego mind, but I see it and I realize what has happened. I love that this is becoming so natural that I know my mind is being healed of the desire to be separate.

Jesus is also explaining that God is more than I am, but that I am all that God is. For some reason, that makes perfect sense to me. ~smile~ I think this is a sign of the mind being healed of separation thinking, too. I can’t really explain why I feel comfortable with this explanation and why I don’t need to understand it more completely, but it just feels right to me. I don’t even feel strange saying that I am holy, and that I am glorious as God is glorious. I believe it even when I don’t feel it. This is equally true of all my brothers regardless of our stories in the illusion. 

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