To heal is to make happy. I have told you to think how many opportunities you have had to gladden yourself, and how many you have refused. This is the same as telling you that you have refused to heal yourself. The light that belongs to you is the light of joy. Radiance is not associated with sorrow. Joy calls forth an integrated willingness to share it, and promotes the mind’s natural impulse to respond as one.
To be wholehearted [love-hearted] you must be happy. If fear and love cannot coexist, and if it is impossible to be wholly fearful and remain alive, the only possible whole state is that of love. There is no difference between love and joy. Therefore, the only possible whole state is the wholly joyous. To heal or to make joyous is therefore the same as to integrate and to make one. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.in.1:1-6;2:1-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
Happiness comes with letting go of separation and returning to oneness. As we let go of our barriers to Love, we naturally return to the awareness of Love’s oneness. This is what being wholehearted means. Being wholehearted is being Love-hearted — filled with and motivated by Love. When we are filled with Love, we want only to extend Love and join with the Love in every brother. Love infuses everything we do as we let go of barriers to Love through forgiveness.
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