The search for the special relationship is the sign that you equate yourself with the ego and not with God. For the special relationship has value only to the ego. To the ego, unless a relationship has special value it has no meaning, for it perceives all love as special.
The special relationship is totally meaningless without a body. If you value it, you must also value the body. And what you value you will keep. The special relationship is a device for limiting your self to a body, and for limiting your perception of others to theirs. The Great Rays would establish the total lack of value of the special relationship, if they were seen. For in seeing them the body would disappear, because its value would be lost.
For a time the body is still seen, but not exclusively, as it is seen here. …For you will realize that the only value the body has is to enable you to bring your brothers to the bridge [to Heaven] with you, and to be released together there.
The Holy Spirit asks only this little help of you: Whenever your thoughts wander to a special relationship which still attracts you, enter with Him into a holy instant, and there let Him release you. He needs only your willingness to share His perspective to give it to you completely. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.VI.1:1-3;4:1-6;6:2,5;12:1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
In the special relationship, “love” is exclusive. It leaves out everything that is not valued by the special relationship. This denies the universality of God’s Love, which is given equally to all, without limit.
The ego is an attempt to limit God’s extension of Love. The special relationship is the ego’s key tool in its attempt to limit love by denying God’s unlimited Love. When we believe in limited, exclusive love, we are denying our true Self. This denial leads to guilt and fear. For beneath the layers of the ego’s illusions is the awareness that limited love is an attack on God by denying His limitless Love.
The way to free ourselves from the ego’s limits is to be vigilant for any thoughts of limitation. These thoughts characteristically have an underlying guilt and fear: sadness, resentment, conflict and many other forms of lack of peace. We need to be mindful of our level of peace.
Whenever our peace is disturbed, we need to pause and open our minds to the Holy Spirit’s healing. He will show us the radiant Light of Love that shines everywhere to be seen with His vision. In this Light, the body and every image of separation fades as the value we give them diminishes.
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