Bringing illusion to truth, or the ego to God, is the Holy Spirit’s only function. Keep not your making from your Father, for hiding it has cost you knowledge of Him and of yourself. The knowledge is safe, but where is your safety apart from it? The making of time to take the place of timelessness lay in the decision to be not as you are. Thus truth was made past, and the present was dedicated to illusion. And the past, too, was changed and interposed between what always was and now. The past that you remember never was, and represents only the denial of what always was. (A Course in Miracles T-14.IX.1:4-10)
As we learn about the ego, it seems easy to make it into an adversary which we need to defend against. There is a difference between defensiveness and vigilance. We do need to be vigilant to identify when we are choosing the ego as our guide. If we recognize that we have been following the ego and try to fight it on our own, we simply reinforce the belief that the ego is real. This keeps us chained to a belief in what could never be true.
When we recognize that we have been following the ego, the next important step is to bring these thoughts to the Holy Spirit, the Truth in our minds. The Light of truth will make it clear that the ego is nothing more than an illusion. As we recognize this, the illusion is naturally and easily let go.
Today our practice is to be vigilant to recognize when we are following the ego and offer those thoughts to the Truth to be corrected. This is how we shift our allegiance from error to truth.
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