²To forgive is to overlook. ³Look, then, beyond error and do not let your perception rest upon it, for you will believe what your perception holds. ⁴Accept as true only what your brother is, if you would know yourself. ⁵Perceive what he is not and you cannot know what you are, because you see him falsely. ⁶Remember always that your Identity is shared, and that Its sharing is Its reality.
²You do not understand how to overlook errors, or you would not make them. ³It would merely be further error to believe either that you do not make them, or that you can correct them without a Guide to correction. ⁴And if you do not follow this Guide, your errors will not be corrected. ⁵The plan is not yours because of your limited ideas about what you are. ⁶This sense of limitation is where all errors arise. ⁷The way to undo them, therefore, is not of you but for you.
The Atonement is a lesson in sharing, which is given you because you have forgotten how to do it. ²The Holy Spirit merely reminds you of the natural use of your abilities. ³By reinterpreting the ability to attack into the ability to share, He translates what you have made into what God created. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.IV.1:2-6;2:2–3:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The fact that we believe we are a body demonstrates that we do not know our true Identity. We do not know the way out of our misperceptions on our own. The thought system that we have embraced denies our reality. Therefore we cannot find our way to truth from a thought system that denies it.
To remember our true Identity, we need a Guide to lead us out of the thought system that denies truth. Every hour of every day we have an opportunity to accept the help of our Inner Teacher. The practice of pausing to welcome peace into our mind opens the door to receive the vision that overlooks error. This vision recognizes the Love we share with all.
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