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Crossing the Bridge to Heaven

The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. Since He must bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to knowledge through the grace that God has given [the Holy Spirit], to be His gift to everyone who turns to Him for truth. Across the bridge that He provides are dreams all carried to the truth, to be dispelled before the light of knowledge. There are sights and sounds forever laid aside. And where they were per­ceived before, forgiveness has made possible perception’s tran­quil end.

The goal the Holy Spirit’s teaching sets is just this end of dreams. For sights and sounds must be translated from the witnesses of fear to those of love. And when this [translation] is entirely accomplished, learning has achieved the only goal it has in truth. For learning, as the Holy Spirit guides it to the outcome He perceives for it, becomes the means to go beyond itself, to be replaced by the eternal truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook What Is the Holy Spirit, W-pII.7.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 281 Insights.)

Like getting so engrossed in a movie we are watching that we react to what we see as if it were real, we react to our dream world as though the it is real. We believe we are in the dream, not realizing that the characters and situations in the dream are projections from our own mind. The dream seems to be self-perpetuating and beyond our control. So we need help from beyond the dream to help us awaken.

The Holy Spirit recognizes we are dreaming and offers us familiar images which the ego used to bind us to the world of separation for His holy purpose. His purpose is to lead us away from the ego’s lies to the truth of our oneness in the Heart of Love. The images we have used to engender fear and conflict become images calling us to respond with Love. As we let go of our judgments we learn that the Love’s oneness is our Home. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to teach us His perceptions in place of our own.

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Awakening to the Love We Are

The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world; a sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains. The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. Nothing but rest is there. There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there remains outside forgiveness. And the sights are gentle. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.

The real world is the symbol that the dream of sin and guilt is over, and God’s Son no longer sleeps. His waking eyes perceive the sure reflection of his Father’s Love; the certain promise that he is redeemed. The real world signifies the end of time, for its perception makes time purposeless. (A Course in Miracles Workbook What Is the Real World, W-pII.8.2;4. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)

The ego’s world reflects the belief that separation is real and guilt is justified. The real world is seen through loving eyes, which see only the innocence of Love. Belief in separation creates a veil that interferes with the clear vision of our true Self. Like cataracts cloud our seeing in the world, unforgiveness interferes with Christ’s vision.

We release this interference through forgiveness — letting go of our judgments. When all judgments have been forgiven, we see only the real world reflected all around us. The quiet peace and joy of changeless Love is all we see, for we have awakened from the dream of separation. We have accepted God’s gifts to His Son and we are welcomed Home.

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The Thought That Heals the World

[“I am as God created me” is] …all you need to let complete correction heal your mind, and give you perfect vision that will heal all the mistakes that any mind has made at any time or place. It is enough to heal the past and make the future free. It is enough to let the present be accepted as it is. It is enough to let time be the means for all the world to learn escape from time, and every change that time appears to bring in passing by.

In this one thought is all the past undone; the present saved to quietly extend into a timeless future. If you are as God created you, then there has been no separation of your mind from His, no split between your mind and other minds, and only unity within your own.

The healing power of today’s idea is limitless. It is the birthplace of all miracles, the great restorer of the truth to the awareness of the world. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 110, W-pI.110.2;4:1-5:2. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

The ego world is splintered into many disconnected pieces, based on belief that separation is real. But what God created remains one with Him in the oneness of Love. Because only Love is real, the ego’s world cannot be real.

The lessons of the Course and God’s Teacher in our minds are focused on awakening us to the true Self God created one with Him. This Self knows only the oneness of Love. It is not divided against Itself. As we learn to accept this Self as our Identity, the past fades away, division disappears and we awaken to God’s peace and joy.

As we practice remembering “I am as God created me,” we recognize our brothers are one with us in the Self God created one with Him. This brings healing to every brother and the world. The perception of separation fades and we remember the Love we are.

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Forgetting the Past Reveals Eternal Love

“Let me forget my brother’s past today.

“This is the thought that leads the way to You, and brings me to my goal. I cannot come to You without my brother. And to know my Source, I first must recognize what You created one with me. My brother’s is the hand that leads me on the way to You. His sins are in the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone. Let me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to You. My brother is my savior. Let me not attack the savior You have given me. But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so remember that It is my own.

“Forgive me [Jesus], then, today. And you will know you have for­given me if you behold your brother in the light of holiness. He cannot be less holy than can I, and you can not be holier than he.” (W-pII.288)

Jesus represents the true Self of every brother, including our own. The ego projects its guilt by perceiving everyone as guilty of the “sin” of separating from our Creator. When we identify with the ego, we share its perceptions of guilt.

When we forgive, we let go of the ego’s projections of guilt. Judgment binds us to a past that does not exist in truth. To forgive Jesus is to forgive every brother, including ourselves. We no longer project our dream of a past onto the world. This frees us to look past the ego’s images of separation to the one Self the unites us all in the eternal Love of God. We practice this today.

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Choosing to Follow the Guide to Heaven

You are my goal, my Father. Only You.

Where would I go but Heaven? What could be a substitute for happiness? What gift could I prefer before the peace of God? What treasure would I seek and find and keep that can compare with my Identity? And would I rather live with fear than love?

You are my goal, my Father. What but You could I desire to have? What way but that which leads to You could I desire to walk? And what except the memory of You could signify to me the end of dreams and futile substitutions for the truth? You are my only goal. Your Son would be as You created him. What way but this could I expect to recognize my Self, and be at one with my Identity? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 287, W-pII.287. See also ACIM Lesson 287 Insights.)

The ego is the choice to turn its back on our Father and make up a dream with substitutes that seem to meet our needs, sometimes make us happy but always carry an underlying sense of guilt for denying our Creator. The ego’s path is ever changing and chaotic, unreliable and never offers lasting peace or happiness.

Though we have accepted the ego’s goal, our true Self remembers that our true Home is Heaven. The Holy Spirit calls to us on behalf of our true Self to turn around and walk the path that leads us Home. This is the path to eternal peace and incomparable joy. This is all we truly want.

The ego would lead us on myriad journeys seeking to find what only God has given. But the ego’s direction never succeeds to find what our heart desires.

Today we choose Love as our only goal. We want to see the oneness of Love that joins us with our brothers. We want to feel the joy that comes with giving and receiving Love. We want to experience the peace that comes with dwelling in the changeless Love of Heaven. We choose to follow the Guide Whose purpose is to lead us there.

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The Path to Freedom to Be Love

Look, then, beyond error and do not let your perception rest upon it, for you will believe what your perception holds. Accept as true only what your brother is [Love], if you would know yourself. Perceive what he is not and you cannot know what you are, because you see him falsely. Remember always that your Identity is shared, and that Its sharing is Its reality.

You do not understand how to overlook errors, or you would not make them. It would merely be further error to believe either that you do not make them, or that you can correct [errors] without a Guide to correction. And if you do not follow this Guide, your errors will not be corrected. The plan is not yours because of your limited ideas about what you are. This sense of limitation is where all errors arise. The way to undo them, therefore, is not of you but for you. (A Course in Miracles, T-9-IV.1:2-6;2:2-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Forgiveness seems difficult because we are trying to do it on our own. The belief that we are on our own is the core of the error that needs to be corrected. Error cannot be corrected by error. This is why we need the Holy Spirit as our Guide to forgive.

We have taught ourselves that what we perceive is real. Yet perception is the effect of the erroneous belief that separation is real. Thus our perceptions are inherently false. We need to let the Holy Spirit correct our perceptions. True perception will always look beyond the form to the changeless Reality of Love. Only in our willingness to share His perception can we experience the forgiveness that lets us see the Love that our brother is.

The Truth in us wants to forgive because It wants to share the Love we are. We want to follow the Holy Spirit’s perception of all things because this is the path that will free us to share and be the Love we are.

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Doing Our Part to Save the World

Salvation of the world depends on me.”

The means are given us by which [our function] will be perfectly accomplished. All that we are asked to do is to accept our part in genuine humility, and not deny with self-deceiving arrogance that we are worthy. What is given us to do, we have the strength to do.

All false humility we lay aside today, that we may listen to God’s Voice reveal to us what He would have us do. We do not doubt our adequacy for the function He will offer us. We will be certain only that He knows our strengths, our wisdom and our holiness. And if He deems us worthy, so we are. It is but arro­gance that judges otherwise. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 186, W-pI.186.2:4-6;4. See also ACIM Lesson 186 Insights.)

The ego teaches that our minds are powerless. The Holy Spirit teaches that our minds share all of God’s power. There is no opposing power. When we accept the ego’s lessons in limitation, we are denying our true Will, the Will we share with God. The denial leads to a dream world of limitation where it appears we are unworthy and impotent to save the world.

By choosing to listen to God’s Voice, we learn that the world cannot keep us from the peace, happiness and Love that is God’s Will for us. God has deemed us worthy and he has not changed His mind about His creations. Today we choose to do our part for the salvation of the world by listening to His Voice.

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