God’s Teacher speaks to any two who join together for learning purposes. The relationship is holy because of that purpose, and God has promised to send His Spirit into any holy relationship. In the teaching-learning situation, each one learns that giving and receiving are the same. The demarcations they have drawn between their roles, their minds, their bodies, their needs, their interests, and all the differences they thought separated them from one another, fade and grow dim and disappear. Those who would learn the same course share one interest and one goal. And thus he who was the learner becomes a teacher of God himself, for he has made the one decision that gave his teacher to him. He has seen in another person the same interests as his own. (A Course in Miracles, M-2.5:3-9)
Everyone in this world is seeking peace, because the world is the denial of the Source of peace. The ego will always direct us to seek peace in the outside world, where it cannot be found. The addict seeks for peace in the substance of choice; the terrorist seeks for peace by “killing” those he believes are the cause of his lack of peace; those who feel inadequate seek for peace in accolades. These are but some of the myriad forms of the same search.
Yet peace cannot be found outside for peace is already within, hidden by a mistaken belief that we are separate. All the different forms of looking for external sources of peace are simply calls for Love. Peace is an attribute of Love; they are always found together.
The answer to our searching was given us the moment we accepted the false idea of separation. As we are willing to accept direction from the Holy Spirit instead of the ego, we will be helped to let go of the barriers that have hidden the Presence of peace from our awareness. This is what forgiveness does.
Today we would let Holy Spirit guide our thoughts and actions so that we may see our brother one with us, sharing one interest, which is to give Love as Love has been given us. This is how we find the peace we seek.
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