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How to Dismiss Ego Perceptions

I am as God created me. His Son can suffer nothing.
And I am His Son.

Then, with this statement firmly in your mind, try to discover in your mind the Self Who is the holy Son of God Himself.

Seek Him within you Who is Christ in you, the Son of God and brother to the world;

Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgment as you. And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown.

Seek Him today, and find Him. He will be your Savior from all idols you have made. For when you find Him, you will under­stand how worthless are your idols, and how false the images which you believed were you. Today we make a great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening our hands and hearts and minds to God today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 110, W-pI.110.6:1-8:1;9:4-10-4. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

If we are as God created us, then we dwell in perfect peace, indescribable joy and changeless Love. But this is not what we experience while we identify with the ego and the body image it has substituted for the Self that God created. While we give credence to the ego’s dream, we do not experience our Self as God created It.

We need to let go of this mistaken belief. This is the purpose of forgiveness. It releases us from memories of the past, which the ego uses to hide the Love that is eternally present now. Without retaining the past in our mind, all is Love.

The ego’s seeming existence depends on holding on to the past. It is unwilling to forgive because forgiveness would undo the ego. This is why we must rely on the Holy Spirit. He sees our illusions but does not believe them. As our inner Teacher, His lessons teach us to recognize illusions for what they are. With His help, we see them as meaningless and dismiss them from our mind. The Light of our true Self shines through. In this Light we remember our true Self which God created one with Him.

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