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Letting Go of Specialness with Christ’s Vision

Comparison must be an ego device, for love makes none. Specialness always makes comparisons. It is established by a lack seen in another, and maintained by searching for, and keeping clear in sight, all lacks it can perceive. This does it seek, and this it looks upon. And always whom it thus diminishes would be your Savior, had you not chosen to make of him a tiny measure of your specialness instead. Against the littleness you see in him you stand as tall and stately, clean and honest, pure and unsullied, by comparison with what you see. Nor do you understand it is yourself that you diminish thus.

[Christ’s vision sees] the shining radiance of the Son of God, so like his Father that the memory of Him springs instantly to mind. And with this memory, the Son remembers his own creations, as like to him as he is to his Father. And all the world he made, and all his specialness, and all the sins he held in its defense against himself, will vanish as his mind accepts the truth about himself, as it returns to take their place. This is the only “cost” of truth: You will no longer see what never was, nor hear what makes no sound. Is it a sacrifice to give up nothing, and receive the Love of God forever? (A Course in Miracles, T-24.II.1;6:2-6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Here it is clearly defined how the ego thought system sees the world and how Christ’s vision sees. This is very helpful because we have mistakenly believed in the ego’s way of seeing and now we can choose a better way.

Christ’s vision comes to us as we truly want it. It is our willingness to see the truth behind all illusions of differences that brings Christ’s vision to our awareness. With Christ’s vision comes peace and eternal happiness that does not come and go.

Today we practice noticing when we have fallen into ego’s thought patterns of seeing differences and specialness. Today we hand over these mistaken ideas to the Holy Spirit to receive the truth instead. Through Christ’s vision we see innocence instead of guilt. Instead of comparing and focusing on differences, we see that every Son of God is still whole and perfect as God created them. All the worldly differences and mistaken thoughts mean nothing, because they are nothing.

We remember that only Love is real and that the ego’s thoughts mean nothing. Only in the ego’s illusions could they appear to be real. Now we choose to see past all ego thoughts to the truth.

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