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Learning We Are Love and Nothing Else

I do not know what anything is for.

Purpose is meaning. ²Today’s idea explains why nothing you see means anything.

You perceive the world and everything in it as meaningful in terms of ego goals. ²These goals have nothing to do with your own best interests, because the ego is not you. ³This false identification makes you incapable of understanding what anything is for. ⁴As a result, you are bound to misuse it. ⁵When you believe this, you will try to withdraw the goals you have assigned to the world, instead of attempting to reinforce them.

Another way of describing the goals you now perceive is to say that they are all concerned with “personal” interests. ²Since you have no personal interests, your goals are really concerned with nothing. ³In cherishing them, therefore, you have no goals at all. ⁴And thus you do not know what anything is for.

It is crucial to your learning to be willing to give up the goals you have established for everything. ²The recognition that they are meaningless, rather than “good” or “bad,” is the only way to accomplish this. (A Course in Miracles, W-25.1:1-2;2,3;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 25 Insights.)

An initial step to finding peace of mind is to acknowledge that we do not know what anything is for. With this recognition, we are open to learning a new purpose. This “new” purpose is actually the only purpose we can ever have as God’s Son. God gave us His purpose: To extend Love and nothing else.

When something disturbs our peace of mind, we can remind ourselves that we do not know what the situation is for. Then we can ask the Holy Spirit, “What is this for?” With an open mind, we will be led to extend Love in a form that is helpful in the world. Love answers every call for Love. The call may appear to be coming from another, but it always starts with our own call for Love, represented by our misinterpretation of the situation.

As we let our mind be opened to answers for calls for Love, our minds are healed. We learn that we are Love and nothing else. We accept our unity with God’s Love.

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Welcoming Holy Spirit’s True Perception

God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.

Perception is not an attribute of God. ²His is the realm of knowledge. ³Yet He has created the Holy Spirit as the Mediator between perception and knowledge. ⁴Without this link with God, perception would have replaced knowledge forever in your mind. ⁵With this link with God, perception will become so changed and purified that it will lead to knowledge. ⁶That is [perception’s] function as the Holy Spirit sees it. ⁷Therefore, that is its function in truth.

In God you cannot see. ²Perception has no function in God, and does not exist. ³Yet in salvation, which is the undoing of what never was, perception has a mighty purpose. ⁴Made by the Son of God for an unholy purpose, it must become the means for the restoration of his holiness to his awareness. ⁵Perception has no meaning. ⁶Yet does the Holy Spirit give it a meaning very close to God’s. ⁷Healed perception becomes the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother, and thus forgives himself.

You cannot see apart from God because you cannot be apart from God. ²Whatever you do you do in Him, because whatever you think, you think with His Mind. ³If vision is real, and it is real to the extent to which it shares the Holy Spirit’s purpose, then you cannot see apart from God. (A Course in Miracles, W-43.1–3. See also ACIM Lesson 43 Insights.)

In truth, we cannot be apart from God. But in this world we seem to be disconnected from Him. We seek for His Love, and fear His judgment. Yet God does not judge. He knows us as an extension of Himself, one and the same.

While we believe we exist in this world as a separate identity, we need help to forgive our misperceptions. This help is the function of the Holy Spirit. He has been given us to heal our conflicted mind. His true perception shows us that what we believe happened never occurred in truth. We remain irreversibly united with our Father, one with Him and every brother.

The replacement of misperception with true perception is the forgiveness we need to awaken to our true Self. With true perception, we see the Love that is our brother, and recognize it as our own.  We give thanks to the Holy Spirit for His help and dedicate today to welcoming His true perception.

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Welcoming Love’s True Perception

You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. ²And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. ³Therefore, it is the tiny part of yourself, the little thought [of guilt] that seems split off and separate, the Holy Spirit needs.

³Its thinness and transparency are not apparent until you see the light behind it. ⁴And then you see [guilt] as a fragile veil before the light.

This world of light, this circle of brightness is the real world, where guilt meets with forgiveness. ²Here the world outside is seen anew, without the shadow of guilt upon it. ³Here are you forgiven, for here you have forgiven everyone. ⁴Here is the new perception, where everything is bright and shining with innocence, washed in the waters of forgiveness, and cleansed of every evil thought you laid upon it. ⁵Here there is no attack upon the Son of God, and you are welcome. ⁶Here is your innocence, waiting to clothe you and protect you, and make you ready for the final step in the journey inward. ⁷Here are the dark and heavy garments of guilt laid by, and gently replaced by purity and love. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.IX.1:1-3;5:3-4;9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Guilt is the thought behind all misery and pain. It is built upon a mistaken belief that we have succeeded in separating from the Love that created us. This could never be true except in dreams. We remain as God created us.

While we believe we are in the dream, we need the means to let go of our mistaken beliefs. We have been given a Helper to help us forgive the mistaken thoughts that hide the eternal presence of Love.

Today we pray for Holy Spirit’s help to heal our fear based thoughts. As we hold His hand, we look with Him upon our guilt and fear and welcome His Light which reveals their nothingness. Each time we judge or interpret anything in the dream, we offer to Him for His purification.

The Light He shines reveals the Love beyond the judgment that seemed to separate us from our Source. As we accept His help, we welcome the Light of Love in the real world. We awaken to the Self Love created us to be.

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