It takes great learning both to realize and to accept the fact that the world has nothing to give. What can the sacrifice of nothing mean? It cannot mean that you have less because of it. There is no sacrifice in the world’s terms that does not involve the body. Think a while about what the world calls sacrifice. Power, fame, money, physical pleasure; who is the “hero” to whom all these things belong? Could they mean anything except to a body? Yet a body cannot evaluate. By seeking after such things the mind associates itself with the body, obscuring its Identity and losing sight of what it really is. (A Course in Miracles, M-13.2)
The most repeated affirmation in A Course in Miracles is “I am not a body. I am free. I am still as God created me.” Wholehearted acceptance of this statement brings the complete release from the belief in sacrifice. Being still as God created us means that we already have been given all that is real. We already have all of God’s gifts. Because God is eternal, His gifts are eternal. In truth, we can never lose.
The belief that we are a body puts a limit on what we believe we have. This belief carries with it a sense of loss of all that God gave us. Out of this sense of loss, we are compelled to seek to fill the emptiness. But having already identified with the belief in being a body, our seeking is always directed to look where we cannot find what we seek. Remembering that we remain as God created us frees us from the vain belief that we are limited and lacking. It releases us to the experience of the infinite, eternal flow of God’s Love, always being given and received.
This is the complete opposite of what the world teaches. The Course offers us the means to reverse our thinking so that we may once again remember we are as God created us. Loss is impossible. Our joy is complete as we accept our place in the Home created for us by Love Itself.
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