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Attaining the State of Peace

Forget not that the motivation for this course is the attainment and the keeping of the state of peace. Given this state the mind is quiet, and the condition in which God is remembered is attained. It is not necessary to tell Him what to do. He will not fail. Where He can enter, there He is already. And can it be He cannot enter where He wills to be? Peace will be yours because it is His Will. Can you believe a shadow can hold back the Will that holds the universe secure? God does not wait upon illusions to let Him be Himself. No more His Son. They are. And what illusion that idly seems to drift between Them has the power to defeat what is [the Father’s and Son’s] Will?

To learn this course requires willingness to question every value that you hold. Not one [value] can be kept hidden and obscure but it will jeopardize your learning. No belief is neutral. Every [belief] has the power to dictate each decision you make. For a decision is a conclusion based on everything that you believe. [A decision] is the outcome of belief, and follows it as surely as does suffering follow guilt and freedom sinlessness. There is no substitute for peace. What God creates has no alternative. The truth arises from what He knows. And your decisions come from your beliefs as certainly as all creation rose in His Mind because of what He knows. (A Course in Miracles,T-24.in.1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

All our guilt, fear, any lack of peace, comes from our belief that there is an alternative to God’s peace. The core of this belief is the wish to usurp our Creator and make our own universe, separate and distinct from the universe of Love’s oneness.

Only Love is real. Thus only in illusion does it seem to be possible to make a separate universe. This separate universe seems real only because of our belief in it. Beliefs can change. The reality of oneness cannot. The value we give everything in the dream of separation comes from our belief. This is why we must learn to question the value of everything we perceive in the world.

The Course provides a curriculum to teach us what is valuable and what is valueless. Illusions are valueless, but we must learn to recognize illusions for what they are. The curriculum is a guide for this learning. The benefit of learning this is peace. It is learning that we are perfectly safe, always. We remember that we are loved and loving. There is nothing else.

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Trusting the Truth in Our Brother

We seek for innocence and nothing else. We seek for it with no concern but now.

We do not look to past beliefs, and what we will believe will not intrude upon us now.

if a brother’s sins occur to us, our narrowed focus will restrict our sight, and turn our eyes upon our own mistakes, which we will magnify and call our “sins.” So, for a little while, without regard to past or future, should such blocks arise we will transcend them with instructions to our minds to change their focus, as we say:

It is not this that I would look upon.
I trust my brothers, who are one with me.

As our focus goes beyond mistakes, we will behold a wholly sinless world. When seeing this is all we want to see, when this is all we seek for in the name of true perception, are the eyes of Christ inevitably ours. And the Love He feels for us becomes our own as well. This will become the only thing we see reflected in the world and in ourselves. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 181,W-pI.181.3:5-6;5:6;6:2-5;8:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 181 Insights.)

The appearance of a body that we have given a name is not our brother. It is an ego-made image of separation made to hide the truth in our brother. This illusion cannot be trusted because its function is to justify fear and guilt. Yet illusions can never justify sin because an illusion is nothing and can have no effect.

When we say, “I trust my brother who is one with me,” we are focusing our attention on the one Self that we share with every brother. This Self is Love and nothing else. We are being asked to trust that only Love is real and only the Love in our brother and ourselves can be trusted.

Eternal, changeless Love deserves absolute trust. There is nothing else to trust. This is a complete reversal of what the world teaches because the world teaches the ego’s thought system that denies the reality of Love. It uses the illusion of a past to overlook the present and make up scenarios for the future that repeat the past. This is how the ego maintains its appearance of reality. But Reality cannot be based on illusions.

The practice of focusing on and trusting in the truth of our brother is a powerful tool for reversing our mistaken beliefs and returning to the acceptance that we are Love and nothing else.

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