The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world; a sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains. The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. Nothing but rest is there. There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there remains outside forgiveness. And the sights are gentle. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.
What need has such a mind for thoughts of death, attack and murder? What can it perceive surrounding it but safety, love and joy? What is there it would choose to be condemned, and what is there that it would judge against? The world it sees arises from a mind at peace within itself. No danger lurks in anything it sees, for it is kind, and only kindness does it look upon. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Part II, 8. What is the Real World , W-pII.8.2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)
We are never happy or at peace when we engage in judgment. Judgment makes differences seem real and conflict is inevitable. Judgment maintains guilt and blinds us to the innocence of Love that is the truth in everyone.
Do we want to be happy? Do we want peace of mind? Do we want to know that we are loved? If we do, we must give up our addiction to judgment. We must be willing to forgive. The thought system of judgment offers no means for forgiveness. Attempts to justify forgiveness in the world must fail because they are founded on the false premise that judgment is justified while maintaining the belief that separation is real.
There is only one judgment that can set us free: That the world we see through judging eyes is not real. This is the judgment the Holy Spirit brings us. To receive this freedom, we must be willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s vision. As we offer our perceptions to Him, with willingness to receive His vision in place of our perception, we are freed.
Now we see past appearances in the world to the changeless Love that is everywhere. The forms that appeared to threaten our peace are recognized to have no substance, to be powerless. Without this sense of threat, we are in peace and the Love we are joyously joins with the Love that surrounds us.
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