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We All Want to See the World of Love

The world as you perceive it cannot have been created by the Father, for the world is not as you see it. God created only the eternal, and everything you see is perishable. Therefore, there must be another world that you do not see.

Every loving thought that the Son of God ever had is eternal. The loving thoughts his mind perceives in this world are the world’s only reality. They are still perceptions, because he still believes that he is separate. Yet they are eternal because they are loving. And being loving they are like the Father, and therefore cannot die. The real world can actually be perceived. All that is necessary is a willingness to perceive nothing else. For if you perceive both good and evil, you are accepting both the false and the true and making no distinction between them.

…everything true is like [God]. Perceiving only the real world will lead you to the real Heaven, because it will make you capable of understanding it.

The real world is all that the Holy Spirit has saved for you out of what you have made, and to perceive only this is salvation, because it is the recognition that reality is only what is true. (A Course in Miracles, T-11.VII.1:1-3;2;3:8-9;4:9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

All forms are defined by limits and therefore cannot be real. Only limitless, eternal Love is real. The world we perceive is made up images that hide limitless Love from our awareness. This Love remains ever present, but we do not recognize it is there. Love continues extending Itself unencumbered, whether or not we are aware of It.

This is good news. The Love our true Self is remains unchanged as God created It. We are not stuck in a dream of separation and isolation. God’s Voice calls to us eternally while we sleep. This call touches our heart and at the very least reminds us that something is missing in our world and so we search to find that missing piece. The ego offers substitutes for Love but they never fully satisfy. Eventually everyone reaches a point of acknowledging there must be a better way.

Our mind now has an opening to hear God’s Voice calling. We begin occasionally paying attention to it. His Voice helps us to see the changeless Love beyond the world’s appearances. With vigilance and practice, we are increasingly willing to dismiss the ego’s substitutes for Love and look past them to see the unity, safety and joy that the natural condition of the one Self we share with every brother — the Son of God.

Today we will be vigilant to listen to the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love, for our deepest desire is to awaken to our home in Heaven. Beyond this world is a world we want to see. It is a world of perfect Love.

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Choose Love Today

Perception is consistent. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. Your values are determiners of this, for what you value you must want to see, believing what you see is really there. No one can see a world his mind has not accorded value. And no one can fail to look upon what he believes he wants.

Fear has made everything you think you see. All separation, all distinctions, and the multitude of differences you believe make up the world. They are not there. Love’s enemy has made them up. Yet love can have no enemy, and so they have no cause, no being and no consequence. They can be valued, but remain unreal.

It is impossible to see two worlds which have no overlap of any kind. Seek for the one; the other disappears. But one re­mains. They are the range of choice beyond which your decision cannot go. The real and the unreal are all there are to choose between, and nothing more than these.

It is impossible to see two worlds. Let me accept the strength God offers me and see no value in this world, that I may find my freedom and deliverance. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 130, W-pI.130.1;4:1-6;5;8:5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 130 Insights.)

The ego treasures specialness so much that it would rather deny the Source of Love and Life to “obtain” what it seeks. But by denying all that is real, it can only conjure images that seem to make uniqueness real. This is what we experience when we accept the ego as our identity — empty images that do not exist in reality.

Fortunately we can make another choice. We can choose to accept as our Identity the Self God created one with Him as perfect, changeless Love. This Identity knows It is complete and safe in God. It has no needs, for all that is real is given It. Peace, joy and Love are the eternal experience of this Self.

We do not really want the empty images the ego offers as a substitute for What we are. While we identify with the ego, Love calls to us from our heart to choose once again. Let us forgive our vain imaginings and choose Love today. In Love we answer all calls for Love from our brothers with Love. Our brothers’ calls are reflections of our own calls for Love that come from accepting the ego’s loveless substitutes.

We choose Love today, for we would remember the Self God created as His Son.

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Recognizing the Truth in Our Brothers

The way to recognize your brother is by recognizing the Holy Spirit in him. I have already said that the Holy Spirit is the Bridge for the transfer of perception to knowledge…

The Holy Spirit is the idea of healing. Being thought, the idea gains as it is shared. Being the Call for God, it is also the idea of God. Since you are part of God it is also the idea of yourself, as well as of all His creations. The idea of the Holy Spirit… is strengthened by being given away. It increases in you as you give it to your brother. Your brother does not have to be aware of the Holy Spirit in himself or in you for this miracle to occur. He may have dissociated the Call for God, just as you have. This dissociation is healed in both of you as you become aware of the Call for God in him, and thus acknowledge Its being.

See him through the Holy Spirit in his mind, and you will recognize Him in yours. What you acknowledge in your brother you are acknowledging in yourself, and what you share you strengthen.

The Holy Spirit has the task of undoing what the ego has made. He undoes it at the same level on which the ego operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.III.1:1-2;2;3:4-5;5:5-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

If we perceive anyone as a body, we are not recognizing him as he is. The body is a construct of the ego, an illusion that distracts us from recognizing the truth in our brother. His truth is the same as our own — an eternal extension of God’s Love, and nothing else. The Holy Spirit is God’s call to remind us of the truth in our brother and ourselves. It is this truth that unites us.

What we perceive is always a reflection in what we believe we are. As we let the Holy Spirit guide our perception, our minds are healed of the false belief that our brother is separate and different from ourselves. Beliefs are held in our mind. As the Holy Spirit heals our beliefs, we recognize His presence in our brother and accept our true Self and our unity with every brother.

Holy Spirit, guide my seeing today, for I would recognize my brother truly, and remember my Self as God created It.

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