The body is a limit imposed on the universal communication that is an eternal property of mind. But the communication is internal. Mind reaches to itself. It is not made up of different parts, which reach each other. It does not go out. Within itself it has no limits, and there is nothing outside it. It encompasses everything. It encompasses you entirely; you within it and it within you. There is nothing else, anywhere or ever.
The body is outside you, and but seems to surround you, shutting you off from others and keeping you apart from them, and them from you. It is not there. There is no barrier between God and His Son, nor can His Son be separated from Himself except in illusions.
You can stretch out your hand and reach to Heaven. You whose hand is joined with your brother’s have begun to reach beyond the body, but not outside yourself, to reach your shared Identity together. …You are surrounded only by [God]. What limits can there be on you whom He encompasses? (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VI.8:3-9:3;10:1-2,6-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Do we want to be supremely happy? Do we want to experience peace that cannot be disturbed? Do we want to experience perfect Love, without interruption? All this was given us in our Creation by the Source of all Love.
We don’t experience this because we have identified with the body, a limit on our communication with our Source. God is in constant communication with His Creation, His Son, our true Self. Our identification with the body makes us unaware of God’s constant flow of Love to us.
Identification with the body makes it appear that there are things outside us that can harm us or seem to give us pleasure. But these appearances are illusions, along with the body. Illusions have no substance of their own. Only the meaning we give them seems to give them value. But meanings can change. Who seemed to be a friend can become an enemy on a whim.
The world of illusions is out of our control, though we spend most of our time trying to control our circumstances to be happy and safe. But God’s Universe, our real Home, is changeless. What is changeless needs no control. It is eternally safe and extends forever. The Changeless is our eternal Home as God’s one Son. Here we are united with every brother, who shares our one Self.
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