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Learning to Recognize Our Wholeness

Take pity on yourself, so long enslaved. ²Rejoice whom God hath joined have come together and need no longer look on sin apart. …⁴Sin is a strictly individual perception, seen in the other yet believed by each to be within himself.

Who has need for sin? ²Only the lonely and alone, who see their brothers different from themselves. ³It is this difference, seen but not real, that makes the need for sin, not real but seen, seem justified. ⁴And all this would be real if sin were so. ⁵For an unholy relationship is based on differences, where each one thinks the other has what he has not.

A holy relationship starts from a different premise. ²Each one has looked within and seen no lack. ³Accepting his completion, he would extend it by joining with another, whole as himself. ⁴He sees no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body.

Think what a holy relationship can teach! ²Here is belief in differences undone. ³Here is the faith in differences shifted to sameness. ⁴And here is sight of differences transformed to vision. …⁶It must extend, as you extended when you and he joined. ⁷It must reach out beyond itself, as you reached out beyond the body, to let you and your brother be joined. ⁸And now the sameness that you saw extends and finally removes all sense of differences, so that the sameness that lies beneath them all becomes apparent. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.in.1:1-2,4;2:1-5;3:1-4;4:1-4,6-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Perception of differences is the foundation of the dream of fear and guilt. Without differences there is no justification for attack nor loss. The fact that God’s Love is uniformly one, with no differences, keeps us eternally safe in the Heart of God.

We have the means within our mind to awaken us from our dream of fear and guilt to the Life we live in Love. Our willingness to let the Holy Spirit show us the reality of Love beyond every appearance of differences opens the door to our return to Heaven, the Home we never truly left.

Today we practice looking on every brother as an opportunity to see him united with us in Love. In the recognition of his wholeness, we join with him and awaken to Love.

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