Reality observes the laws of God, and not the rules you set. It is His laws that guarantee your safety. All illusions that you believe about yourself obey no laws. …[Illusions] must be neither cherished nor attacked, but merely looked upon as children’s toys without a single meaning of their own. See one [meaning] in them and you will see them all. See [no meaning] in them and they will touch you not.
Appearances deceive because they are appearances and not reality.
Appearances can but deceive the mind that wants to be deceived.
Salvation is a paradox indeed! What could it be except a happy dream? It asks you but that you forgive all things that no one ever did; to overlook what is not there, and not to look upon the unreal as reality. You are but asked to let your will be done, and seek no longer for the things you do not want. And you are asked to let yourself be free of all the dreams of what you never were, and seek no more to substitute the strength of idle wishes for the Will of God.
…[salvation] but asks forgiveness be the substitute for fear. Such is the only rule for happy dreams. …They offer him no single thing that he could ever want. He is delivered from illusions by his will, and but restored to what he is. What could God’s plan for his salvation be, except a means to give him to Himself? (A Course in Miracles, T-30.IV.4:1-2,9-10;5:1;6:1;7;8:6-7,11-13. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Everyone wants love and peace. Everything we do is motivated by this desire. Even murder is motivated by the desire to get rid of what is judged to be preventing the achievement of peace. All fear, ranging from a little irritation to murderous rage, is based on the perception of separation and differences that interfere with our happiness and peace of mind.
But these differences are empty images, made by the ego to make differences and separation appear to be real. Yet appearances are not real, by definition. They are substitutes which cannot offer the reality of Love’s oneness. When we identify with the ego, the thought system of separation, we have chosen to be deceived. It is the effect of wanting more than all the Love of God, to have something we can claim as ours alone. Yet this wish denies everything that is Real (God’s Love), leaving us with nothing.
Today we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts and show us the reality of Love that is everywhere to be seen.
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