Perception is consistent. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. Your values are determiners of this, for what you value you must want to see, believing what you see is really there. No one can see a world his mind has not accorded value. And no one can fail to look upon what he believes he wants.
Fear has made everything you think you see. All separation, all distinctions, and the multitude of differences you believe make up the world. They are not there. Love’s enemy has made them up. Yet love can have no enemy, and so they have no cause, no being and no consequence. They can be valued, but remain unreal.
It is impossible to see two worlds which have no overlap of any kind. Seek for the one; the other disappears. But one remains. They are the range of choice beyond which your decision cannot go. The real and the unreal are all there are to choose between, and nothing more than these.
It is impossible to see two worlds. Let me accept the strength God offers me and see no value in this world, that I may find my freedom and deliverance. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 130, W-pI.130.1;4:1-6;5;8:5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 130 Insights.)
The ego treasures specialness so much that it would rather deny the Source of Love and Life to “obtain” what it seeks. But by denying all that is real, it can only conjure images that seem to make uniqueness real. This is what we experience when we accept the ego as our identity — empty images that do not exist in reality.
Fortunately we can make another choice. We can choose to accept as our Identity the Self God created one with Him as perfect, changeless Love. This Identity knows It is complete and safe in God. It has no needs, for all that is real is given It. Peace, joy and Love are the eternal experience of this Self.
We do not really want the empty images the ego offers as a substitute for What we are. While we identify with the ego, Love calls to us from our heart to choose once again. Let us forgive our vain imaginings and choose Love today. In Love we answer all calls for Love from our brothers with Love. Our brothers’ calls are reflections of our own calls for Love that come from accepting the ego’s loveless substitutes.
We choose Love today, for we would remember the Self God created as His Son.
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