Only your allegiance to it gives the ego any power over you. …The ego is nothing more than a part of your belief about yourself.
The ego and the Spirit do not know each other. The separated mind cannot maintain the separation except by dissociating. Having done this, [the separated mind] denies all truly natural impulses, not because the ego is a separate thing, but because you want to believe that you are [separate]. The ego is a device for maintaining this belief, but it is still only your decision to use the device [ego] that enables it to endure.
Because you are the Kingdom of God I can lead you back to your own creations [extensions of Love]. You do not recognize them now, but what has been dissociated is still there.
As you come closer to a brother you approach me, and as you withdraw from him I become distant to you. Salvation is a collaborative venture. It cannot be undertaken successfully by those who disengage themselves from the Sonship, because they are disengaging themselves from me. God will come to you only as you will give Him to your brothers. Learn first of [perfect Love in] them and you will be ready to hear God. That is because the function of Love is one. (A Course in Miracles, T-4.VI.1:2,6;4;7:7-8;8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The body and the world we experience with it can only seem to exist by making us unconscious of our true Mind. God’s Son, our one Self, is an extension of the Mind of God, forever united with It. Because the Mind of God is Love, our true Self is Love. The ego dissociates from this fact, denying Its existence. This leaves a void which the ego fills with images of separation, starting with the body. It tells us that we are a body and uses the body to show us that we are separate from everything and everyone else.
There is no safety in this ego-made world because it is all illusion. Our safety lies in remembering our true Identity. As we let the Holy Spirit help us see past the ego’s images of bodies and other forms to the radiant Light of Love that is ever present in Reality, we find safety.
Love is eternal and changeless. As we learn to see the presence of Love beyond the ego’s barriers to Love, we find peace. We forgive or let go of our investment in separation and make way for the Love we are to shine forth. We see the truth in our brothers, recognizing they are one with us in God’s Love. Here we know perfect safety and peace.
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