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Undoing the Ego

Peace and happiness are the antithesis of the ego. The ego cannot tolerate true happiness. The ego’s attitude toward happiness shows up in common statements such as: “I’m okay now, but I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop; the bad always comes with the good.”

The ego always has a tolerance level it sets for how much happiness it is willing for us to experience. When we reach this level, it starts bringing up thoughts or situations to sabotage our happiness. The ego does this because if we truly let go of our grievances that keep us unhappy, if we truly forgive, we will have let go of the ego entirely.

We will give it no credence because we will know with certainty that we remain in the perfect happiness that God wills for us. In this certainty, the ego simply ceases to seem to exist.

This is why the daily, moment by moment practice of bringing all disturbing, unhappy, judgmental thoughts to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His corrective vision is the key to true happiness. This practice undoes the ego. It is our practice for today.

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Listen and Receive

In quiet listen to your Self today, and let Him tell you God has never left His Son, and you have never left your Self.

Only be quiet. You will need no rule but this, to let your practicing today lift you above the thinking of the world, and free your vision from the body’s eyes. Only be still and listen. You will hear the Word in which the Will of God the Son joins in his Father’s Will, at one with it, with no illusions interposed between the wholly indivisible and true. As every hour passes by today, be still a moment and remind yourself you have a special purpose for this day; in quiet to receive the Word of God. ( A Course in MiraclesW-pI.125.8:4;9:1-5)

What the body’s eyes see is so compelling. It captures our attention and blinds us to the vision of Christ, which would show us the truth that unites our brothers with ourselves. This is why the practice of being quiet and listening to the Self within is essential to breaking free from the blinding images of the body so we can return to full awareness that we remain at one with Love.

This is true freedom. This is the return to perfect happiness and changeless peace. It’s worth the effort. We want to wake up to the fact that we are still the perfect Love that God created us to be. We want to listen to our true Self and receive the gift of Love so we can share it with our brothers. This is how we remember What we are.

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Our Only Purpose

Forgiveness is our only purpose here. To accept this purpose is to make way for perfect happiness and the calm certainty that we rest in Love.

The practice of being vigilant to recognize every disturbing, fearful or guilty thought and offering that thought to the Holy Spirit in our minds for his kind correction is the path to happiness. It is worth the effort. Today is another happy day of practice.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Help

Today I have the opportunity to open up and accept the Help that lies within. I do this by allowing my mind to quiet… I quietly welcome Holy Spirit’s Light…

I let the peace and gentleness fill every corner of my mind… I let go of control… I let all tension be washed away in Holy Spirit’s ever-flowing river of peace… I give every distracting thought to the Holy Spirit… He knows what to do with it.

I am brought into a journey without distance… I become aware of the eternal joy and peace that lies within everyone… I see that everyone is at home in God now… I am filled with a sense of gratitude that nothing other than God’s eternal Presence of Love could ever be real…

I am brought to the awareness that carrying this awareness of God’s presence with me all through the day is how I heal and am healed. As I accept Holy Spirit’s help, I will see the Light of the presence of Love in everyone I meet or think of today.

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See Past Form to the Love

The body’s eyes see only form. They cannot see beyond what they were made to see. And they were made to look on error and not see past it.…

Let your awareness of your brother not be blocked by your perception of his sins and of his body.… Beyond his errors is his holiness and your salvation.…

A holy relationship, however newly born, must value holiness above all else. (A Course in Miracles T-22.III.5:3-5;8:3,5;9:1)

It is helpful for us to be reminded frequently that everything the body’s eyes see is illusion. Seeing separate bodies is the opposite of seeing with the vision of Christ, Who sees only Love’s oneness. Seeing through the ego’s thought system of separation only brings pain and suffering.

Through forgiveness we learn to see past bodies and what bodies seem to do and say. The Course’s mind training program in the Workbook begins with helping us recognize that nothing we see means anything and we don’t of ourselves know what anything means. This is an essential step to help us open our minds to the forgiveness that comes when we accept Christ’s vision in place of what the body sees. With Christ’s vision, we see only Love in our brother and learn that we are only Love. This practice is the path to freedom.

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Letting God’s Light Shine Away the Past

In the holy instant nothing happens that has not always been. Only the veil that has been drawn across reality is lifted. Nothing has changed. Yet the awareness of changelessness comes swiftly as the veil of time is pushed aside.…

In the holy instant God is remembered, and the language of communication with all your brothers is remembered with Him. For communication is remembered together, as is truth. There is no exclusion in the holy instant because the past is gone, and with it goes the whole basis for exclusion. (A Course in Miracles T-15.VI.6:1-4,8:1-3)

We have one goal and that is to awaken from the false idea of separate, unique identities. This goal is accomplished by the Holy Spirit as we are willing to listen and be open to letting our thoughts be purified of ego thinking. We do this by consistently stepping back from our interpretations based on the past with willingness to accept Holy Spirit’s vision.

In truth every Son of God is changeless Love, including ourselves. In truth the past is gone and only Love is there. Love extends equally to all without exclusion or limitation. Letting awareness of this return is our practice for today.

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Joining to Awaken

God’s Teacher speaks to any two who join together for learning purposes. The relationship is holy because of that purpose, and God has promised to send His Spirit into any holy relationship. In the teaching-learning situation, each one learns that giving and receiving are the same. The demarcations they have drawn between their roles, their minds, their bodies, their needs, their interests, and all the differences they thought separated them from one another, fade and grow dim and disappear. (A Course in Miracles M-2.5:3-6)

There is only one meaningful lesson to learn — Only Love is real. It is in learning this lesson that we recognize that there is truly no difference between us. When we meet another in the world, it does not seem that there is no difference between us at the level of form. But when we are willing to let our inner Teacher show us the Reality beyond the form of that seeming “other,” this meeting becomes an opportunity to recognize our holiness. As we see the holiness in our brother with the Holy Spirit’s help, we learn of our own holiness. Giving and receiving are the same.

When we allow ourselves to accept Holy Spirit’s vision of a brother, it is a joyful experience, free of conflict and infused with Love. These moments bring a hint of Heaven. They are so enriching that they motivate the ongoing practice of asking Holy Spirit’s help to be our Interpreter in each moment. With this practice, each moment can be a holy encounter in which our shared innocence is recognized. What a joyful lesson to learn.

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