Do you believe that truth can be but some illusions? They are dreams because they are not true. Their equal lack of truth becomes the basis for the miracle, which means that you have understood that dreams are dreams; and that escape depends, not on the dream, but only on awaking. Could it be some dreams are kept, and others wakened from? The choice is not between which dreams to keep, but only if you want to live in dreams or to awaken from them. Thus it is the miracle does not select some dreams to leave untouched by its beneficence. You cannot dream some dreams and wake from some, for you are either sleeping or awake. And dreaming goes with only one of these.
The dreams you think you like would hold you back as much as those in which the fear is seen. For every dream is but a dream of fear, no matter what the form it seems to take. The fear is seen within, without, or both. Or it can be disguised in pleasant form. But never is it absent from the dream, for fear is the material of dreams, from which they all are made. Their form can change, but they cannot be made of something else. The miracle were treacherous indeed if it allowed you still to be afraid because you did not recognize the fear. You would not then be willing to awake, for which the miracle prepares the way. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.IV.1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
At the beginning of the Course we are told that fear and Love are opposites, but only Love is real. Fear can only seem to exist in dreams of lovelessness. Our true Self exists eternally in the oneness of God’s Love. Dreams cannot change what Love is.
The ego is the wish to be separate from universal Love. The best it can offer are loveless dreams that disguise fear in images. Some dreams appeal to us, giving a semblance of happiness and pleasure, or offering protection from other dreams we don’t like. None of these dreams are real and cannot affect What we are in truth. Our true Self is unknown to us while we dream of fear — lovelessness.
The miracle comes when we welcome the Holy Spirit’s correction of our misperceptions. It dispels the ego’s images that hide the Light of Love. We welcome miracles, today, by asking the Holy Spirit to show us the truth beyond our misperceptions. He heals our fear-based thoughts, clearing the way for Love to light our mind and awaken us from dreams of fear.
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