Only my condemnation injures me.
My condemnation keeps my vision dark, and through my sightless eyes I cannot see the vision of my glory. Yet today I can behold this glory and be glad.
It can be but my gratitude I earn.
Who should give thanks for my salvation but myself? And how but through salvation can I find the Self to Whom my thanks are due?
I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 218, W-pI.218.1:1-3 & 217.1. See also ACIM Lesson 218 Insights.)
The body is like an anchor that keeps us stuck in the ego’s fantasy of separation. The way to release ourselves from this anchor is to forgive the thought that values separation and specialness over the unity and happiness of God’s Love.
The ego has disguised the thought of separation with many forms. Thus it seems that forgiveness must be repeated many times as we learn that forms are not real and cannot separate us from the reality of universal Love.
With practice we learn that these many forms have a common thread. Our forgiveness generalizes as it is applied to specific situations. The release from the ego’s anchor is magnified with each forgiven perception. We do not have to forgive the myriad forms the ego presents, for we increasingly recognize they are all the same. They are illusions that have no substance and no meaning. We lay them down in gratitude as we experience the happiness that comes with recognizing we are not a body.
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