There is a way of finding certainty right here and now. Refuse to be a part of fearful dreams whatever form they take, for you will lose identity in them. You find yourself by not accepting [dreams] as causing you, and giving you effects. You stand apart from them, but not apart from him who dreams them. Thus you separate the dreamer from the dream, and join in one, but let the other go. The dream is but illusion in the mind. And with the [right] mind you would unite, but never with the dream. It is the dream you fear, and not the mind. You see [the mind and dream] as the same, because you think that you are but a dream. And what is real and what is but illusion in yourself you do not know and cannot tell apart.
Like you, your brother thinks he is a dream. Share not in his illusion of himself, for your Identity depends on his reality. Think, rather, of him as a mind in which illusions still persist, but as a mind which brother is to you. …Your mind and his are joined in brotherhood [oneness]. His body and his dreams but seem to make a little gap, where [your dreams] have joined with his.
And yet, between your minds there is no gap. …Therefore release him, merely by your claim on brotherhood [oneness], and not on dreams of fear. Let him acknowledge who he is, by not supporting his illusions by your faith, for if you do, you will have faith in [your illusions]. With faith in yours, he will not be released, and you are kept in bondage to his dreams.”
…if you see there is no truth in [your dreams], his dreams will go, and he will understand what made the dream.
The Holy Spirit is in both your minds, and He is One because there is no gap that separates His Oneness from Itself. The gap between your bodies matters not, for what is joined in Him is always one. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.IV.2:1-3:3;3:6-4:1;4:3-5;6:6-7:20. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
There can be no certainty in illusions, for they have no meaning in truth. We need to learn that the images we see in the dream of a world of separation are not real. The certainty behind the constantly changing images is the eternal Love of God. His changeless Love is in every brother as it is in us. It is This that is the one Self that God created as His Son.
Here is the certainty of changeless, eternal Love. We find this certainty by letting go of our faith in dreams of fear and separation. The Holy Spirit in our minds is our Guide for learning to distinguish between dreams and the Reality of Love’s oneness. In every moment of every day we make the choice between faith in dreams and accepting the Holy Spirit’s confidence in the certainty of Love.
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