You want salvation. You want to be happy. You want peace. You do not have them now, because your mind is totally undisciplined, and you cannot distinguish between joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, love and fear. You are now learning how to tell them apart. And great indeed will be your reward.
Your decision to see is all that vision requires. What you want is yours. …God has one Son, and he is the resurrection and the life. His will is done because all power is given him in Heaven and on earth. In your determination to see is vision given you.
…as you repeat the idea [I am determined to see], you are stating that you are determined to change your present state for a better one, and one you really want.
The extra repetitions should be applied to any situation, person or event that upsets you. You can see them differently, and you will. What you desire you will see. Such is the real law of cause and effect as it operates in the world. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 20, W-pI.20.2:3-7;3:1-2,6-8;4:3;5:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 20 Insights.)
In the ego’s dream, special relationships are its substitutes for Love. The ego seeks to find a situation or person which it believes will make us happy or feel complete. But if we find that special person or situation, there is always an underlying fear that we will lose it because nothing in the world is permanent. We may think that a special relationship is pleasurable, but beneath the surface is the pain of guilt and fear that comes from believing we have separated from God’s Love.
The antidote for these perceptions is to see beyond the the surface of forms to the eternal presence of God’s Love. Happiness and peace are attributes of Love. In the changelessness of Love, we are perfectly safe and in need of nothing.
As we identify with Love, there is nothing to fear, no chance of loss. In Love’s oneness, there is no thought of separation, only the joyous sharing of God’s Love. It is this we are determined to see. This vision frees us from the ego’s limitations to accept our unity with unlimited Love.
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