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Learning to See from the Right Perspective

Pain is a wrong perspective. When it is experienced in any form, it is a proof of self-deception. It is not a fact at all. There is no form it takes that will not disappear if seen aright.

Pain is but witness to the Son’s mistakes in what he thinks he is. It is a dream of fierce retaliation for a crime that could not be committed; for attack on what is wholly unassail­able. It is a nightmare of abandonment by an Eternal Love, which could not leave the Son whom It created out of love.

It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in any way. There is no cause beyond yourself that can reach down and bring oppression. No one but yourself affects you. There is nothing in the world that has the power to make you ill or sad, or weak or frail. But it is you who have the power to dominate all things you see by merely recognizing what you are. As you perceive the harm­lessness in them, they will accept your holy will as theirs. And what was seen as fearful now becomes a source of innocence and holiness. (W-pI.190.1:1-4;2:3-5;5)A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 190, 

Pain is always associated with belief in being a separate identity, disconnected from our Creator. The ego’s principle image for our separate identity is the body. When we identify with the body, we perceive from the wrong perspective of being separate. This perspective could only be believable in a dream of separation. This perspective must be undone for us to be pain free and at Home in the joy of God. 

Whether we experience emotional or physical pain, healing comes by changing our perspective from being a separate identity to being Love in the oneness of Love. From within the dream, we cannot find this perspective. This is why we must practice letting the Holy Spirit direct all our perceptions. As we are willing to turn them over, the Holy Spirit will give us His perspective from the point of view that knows only Love is real. There is nothing else to see, nothing else to know. This practice leads us out of the pain of separation back to the joy of being part of the continuous extension of Love.

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