What has no meaning cannot be perceived. And meaning always looks within to find itself, and then looks out. All meaning that you give the world outside must thus reflect the sight you saw within; or better, if you saw at all or merely judged against. Vision is the means by which the Holy Spirit translates your nightmares into happy dreams; your wild hallucinations that show you all the fearful outcomes of imagined sin into the calm and reassuring sights with which He would replace them. These gentle sights and sounds are looked on happily, and heard with joy. They are His substitutes for all the terrifying sights and screaming sounds the ego’s purpose brought to your horrified awareness. They step away from sin, reminding you that it is not reality that frightens you, and that the errors which you made can be corrected.
Think but an instant just on this; you can behold the holiness God gave His Son. And never need you think that there is something else for you to see. (A Course in Miracles, T-20.viii.10,11:3-4. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
The world we perceive is a projection of the mind that has chosen the ego’s purpose — to make separation appear real. Thus perception starts with belief in separation. Beliefs can be changed, so belief in separation can be changed to acceptance of the truth that only Oneness is real.
The Holy Spirit’s purpose is to guide us away from the belief in separation that could never be true to the full awareness that we remain one in the Mind of Love. The Holy Spirit’s guidance is kind and gentle. It helps us recognize that what we thought we wanted in the world of separation really gave us nothing. All we got was empty forms that we tried to give meaning, but what is nothing cannot have meaning.
While we choose the ego’s purpose, we are on an endless search, finding nothing. Ultimately we all come to the point of recognizing there must be a better way to find happiness and peace. Now we become willing to choose another Guide Whose purpose is to lead us to Reality and true meaning. Today we choose to follow the Guide to Love, the Guide to Truth.
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