You need to be reminded that you think a thousand choices are confronting you, when there is really only one to make. And even this but seems to be a choice. Do not confuse yourself with all the doubts that myriad decisions would induce. You make but one. And when that one is made, you will perceive it was no choice at all. For truth is true, and nothing else is true. There is no opposite to choose instead. There is no contradiction to the truth.
Heaven is chosen consciously. The choice cannot be made until alternatives are accurately seen and understood. All that is veiled in shadows must be raised to understanding, to be judged again, this time with Heaven’s help. And all mistakes in judgment that the mind had made before are open to correction, as the truth dismisses them as causeless. Now are they without effects. They cannot be concealed, because their nothingness is recognized.
Heaven is the decision I must make. I make it now, and will not change my mind, because it is the only thing I want. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 138, W-pI.138.4;9;12:5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 138 Insights.)
In many places the Course tells us that there are only two categories — real and unreal. By definition, what is unreal does not exist and has no substance or value. We are also told that only Love is real. When we choose to recognize and accept what is real and disregard the unreal, we choose Heaven.
The practice of asking for Holy Spirit’s interpretation of all our perceptions is the way the myriad forms the ego brings up are brought to Light. In the Holy Spirit’s Light the unreality of the ego’s illusions becomes clear. Each time we choose the Holy Spirit’s judgment in place of our own, we take a step toward Heaven. The illusions of the ego are less believable. This practice leads to the final choice for only what is real. When nothing but the real is valued, we have accepted Heaven as our Home.
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