This is salvation’s keynote: What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one’s own. From insane wishes comes an insane world. From judgment comes a world condemned. And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God, to offer him a kindly home where he can rest a while before he journeys on, and help his brothers walk ahead with him, and find the way to Heaven and to God.
Our Father, Your ideas reflect the truth, and mine apart from Yours but make up dreams. Let me behold what only Yours reflect, for Yours and Yours alone establish truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 325, W-pII.325.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 325 Insights.)
A Course in Miracles is a course that teaches the difference between truth and illusions. Most of it focuses on helping us recognize illusions as illusions. Because the images of the world are coming from our mind, we believe they are real.
Some of the images we see in the world do not seem to come from our mind. They come from the collective ego mind we have identified as our own. Through what the Course calls “the quick forgetting,” we forget that these thoughts are coming from our ego-identified mind. This is the slight of hand that makes it appear that we are locked into the dream with no way out. Events in the dream seem to happen to us, beyond our control.
It’s really good news to learn that all images in the world are coming from our identification with the ego mind, which we have chosen. But we can choose again. We can choose to accept the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Who brings us God’s Thoughts of perfect Love to replace the ego’s thoughts that deny Love. This is the miracle the Course is teaching us.
Today is a day of opportunity to choose once again, to choose the guidance of the Holy Spirit to see through the eyes of Love. With this choice, this day will be a blessed day indeed.
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