I will step back and let Him lead the way.
There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. ²You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. ³Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. ⁴And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. ⁵Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.
The world is an illusion. ²Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. ³Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. ⁴What other choice is really theirs to make? ⁵To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. ⁶But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.
This is the simple choice we make today. ²The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. ³They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. ⁴And so they need a Teacher [Holy Spirit] Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.”
…there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. ²This is the way appointed for you now. (A Course in Miracles, W-155.1:1–3:4;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 155 Insights.)
The wish to be special, to have a unique identity, is a wish to avoid our true Reality as God’s Son. As His Son, we share all of His attributes. Individuality is impossible in the oneness of His Love.
The Course is teaching us the price we pay for choosing individuality over the unity of Love. Specialness introduces differences and conflict into our awareness. This conflict is the basis for all our fears and guilt because it makes harm, loss and lack seem real. Nowhere in the illusionary dream can we find lasting peace because there is no refuge that protects us from conflict.
But we have a Teacher to guide us out of our insane wish for specialness. He recognizes our insanity but does not believe it. He helps us let go of our insane beliefs by showing us that they offer nothing we really want.
All we really want is the safety, peace and comfort of the Love God has given us. It is already in us. We only need to accept It as our own. As we accept the Love we are, we become messengers of Love in the world. We learn to teach only Love and remember we are Love and nothing else.
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