Knowledge is not the motivation for learning this course. Peace is. This is the prerequisite for knowledge only because those who are in conflict are not peaceful, and peace is the condition of knowledge because it is the condition of the Kingdom. Knowledge can be restored only when you meet its conditions.
…the ego may seem to interfere with your learning, but the ego has no power to distract you unless you give it the power to do so. The ego’s voice is an hallucination. You cannot expect it to say “I am not real.” Yet you are not asked to dispel your hallucinations alone. You are merely asked to evaluate them in terms of their results to you. If you do not want them on the basis of loss of peace, they will be removed from your mind for you.
Your past learning must have taught you the wrong things, simply because it has not made you happy. On this basis alone its value should be questioned.
You cannot learn simultaneously from two teachers who are in total disagreement about everything. Their joint curriculum presents an impossible learning task. They are teaching you entirely different things in entirely different ways, which might be possible except that both are teaching you about yourself. Your reality is unaffected by both, but if you listen to both, your mind will be split about what your reality is. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.I.1:1-4;2;4:1-2;6:2-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The ego teaches conflict — separation and differences. The perception of loss or harm can only come with the belief in conflicting differences. In the oneness of God’s Love, differences are impossible. Conflict is unknown. His Teacher offers lessons in perception that lead us past conflict to the peace of unity in Love. If we want to experience peace consistently, we need to learn that nothing the ego teaches is real and thus it has no real effect on our true Self.
In every moment we choose which teacher we would follow. Let us join together in choosing the Teacher of Peace as our Guide. We will be guided to bring peace to the world as we teach what we need to learn. United in Love, we will learn that we are Love and nothing else. We will learn that God’s Will is our own.
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