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All Illusions Are Equally Unreal

Mary:  Am I willing to admit that all illusions are equally unreal? Am I willing to be happy? Am I willing to wake up? All these questions are the same. This morning I observed that I was saddened by what I perceived in the world and I wished it were different. This morning we read lessons 139 and 140, which helped me see that my interpretation of the events I saw was false. Once again, I was reminded that my sadness merely reflected my belief that what I was seeing was real.

I was making distinctions among unrealities. Once again I thought I knew something. In A Course in Miracles, lesson 140 we are told, “Our only preparation is to let our interfering thoughts be laid aside, not separately, but all of them as one. They are all the same. We have no need to make them different, and thus delay the time when we can hear our Father speak to us.” (W-pI.140.11:2-4)

It was really helpful for me to be brought back to remembering that all illusions are equally unreal. When I believe in them and get caught up in them, my mind is sick. I have forgotten what would bring me peace and happiness. But the good news is I can forgive these false ideas. I can return to remembering that no illusion of separation can be real. I can return to allowing the Holy Spirit to bring all my illusions to the truth. I can be still and listen, not thinking that I know anything. I can open my mind again to the Light that cures all sick ideas. I can open to Holy Spirit’s gift of peace, which will return to my mind when I am truly willing to accept it.

I really needed this thought reversal this morning. I am so grateful that the Holy Spirit is always there to return my mind to the truth when I am willing. It is my choice to let that time be now.

Robert: In lesson 140 we also read, “Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. It takes away the guilt that makes the sickness possible.” (4:1,5)  Sickness takes many forms, one of which appears as some kind of body malfunction. This lesson reminds me that the appearance of sickness is simply showing me that I am holding on to guilt. My job is to forgive. The guilt I am holding on to may be deeply hidden in the shadows of the mind that believes it is separate. This does not matter.

My job is simply to offer the Holy Spirit all my thoughts and let Him purify them of the false ideas. He will return them to me in the holiness of Reality. If I perceive myself as vulnerable and offer that thought to the Holy Spirit with an open mind, He will show me the invulnerability of God’s Love That I am. If I perceive sadness and offer that thought to the Holy Spirit, He will show me the happiness that is God’s eternal gift to me and everyone.

Any thought or feeling that does not bring with it God’s peace and happiness is a thought that is alien to my Reality and I need to let it go. Disturbance of my peace is a sign that I have accepted a thought of guilt, a thought that I am separate from Love. The thought of separation is the core of any disturbance to my peace. It is this that needs to be healed.

Today again I will practice being mindful of my level of peace. When I notice disturbance of any kind, I will offer it to the Holy Spirit and allow peace to return to my mind.

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