You see the flesh or recognize the spirit. There is no compromise between the two. If one is real the other must be false, for what is real denies its opposite.
Salvation does not ask that you behold the spirit and perceive the body not. It merely asks that this should be your choice.
You who believe that you can choose to see the Son of God as you would have him be, forget not that no concept of yourself will stand against the truth of what you are. Undoing truth would be impossible. But concepts are not difficult to change. One vision, clearly seen, that does not fit the picture as it was perceived before will change the world for eyes that learn to see, because the concept of the self has changed.
Are you invulnerable? Then the world is harmless in your sight. Do you forgive? Then is the world forgiving, for you have forgiven it its trespasses, and so it looks on you with eyes that see as yours. Are you a body? So is all the world perceived as treacherous, and out to kill. Are you a spirit, deathless, and without the promise of corruption and the stain of sin upon you? So the world is seen as stable, fully worthy of your trust; a happy place to rest in for a while, where nothing need be feared, but only loved. Who is unwelcome to the kind in heart? And what could hurt the truly innocent? (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VI.1:1-3;3:1-2;5-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The practice of forgiveness progressively leads to increasing awareness of the Spirit that is our true Self. It diminishes our attraction to separation and specialness. As the Reality of Love is accepted, the daily experience of conflict, fear and guilt is replaced by increasing peace, happiness, gratitude and the free flow of Love to the truth of everyone’s being.
Eventually everyone reaches the point when dissatisfaction with the world we experience becomes intolerable. We seek a better way. Forgiveness is the answer to that search. We become open to another way of seeing the world. We begin to use our perceptions of the world as opportunities for mind healing. We are willing to ask for help to see with the eyes of Love instead of the body’s eyes, which were made to deny Love.
Every moment becomes an opportunity to choose once again; to choose our true Identity and see the Love that is the only Reality. We cannot make this choice with the reasoning of the world. The choice becomes clear when we accept Christ’s Vision in our mind to see the presence of Love’s innocence and peace beyond the appearances of the world. It is this transformed vision that heals and reminds us we have not left the safety and comfort of our Home in God.
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