The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.
Today devote your practice periods to careful searching of your mind, to find the dreams you cherish still. What do you ask for in your heart? Forget the words you use in making your requests. Consider but what you believe will comfort you, and bring you happiness. But be you not dismayed by lingering illusions, for their form is not what matters now. Let not some dreams be more acceptable, reserving shame and secrecy for others. They are one. And being one, one question should be asked of all of them, “Is this what I would have, in place of Heaven and the peace of God?”
This is the choice you make. Be not deceived that it is otherwise. No compromise is possible in this. You choose God’s peace, or you have asked for dreams. And dreams will come as you requested them. Yet will God’s peace come just as certainly, and to remain with you forever. It will not be gone with every twist and turning of the road, to reappear, unrecognized, in forms which shift and change with every step you take.
You want the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 185,W-pI.185.6:1-2;8:1-10.1. See also ACIM Lesson 185 Insights.)
It is helpful to know that if we seek for any form in the dream with the belief that the form will bring us comfort, happiness or safety, we are choosing against the peace of God. We are choosing a substitute for God’s Love that will never bring us lasting peace. Peace is found in the changelessness of Love.
Everything in the dream of separation changes and therefore is not a substitute for God’s peace. Because of the unreliability of the dream, the peace of God cannot be found there. This is why it is important for us to search our minds to identify the ways that we seek for comfort or happiness in the world.
To find the peace of God, we need to set aside these mistaken wishes and choose only to follow the Holy Spirit’s lead in all things. His guidance will always direct us to the remembrance that only Love is real and in God’s Love we have His peace. This is why all we really want is the peace of God.
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