Peace is the state where love abides, and seeks to share itself. Conflict and peace are opposites. Where one abides the other cannot be; where either goes the other disappears. So is the memory of God obscured in minds that have become illusions’ battleground. Yet far beyond this senseless war it shines, ready to be remembered when you side with peace. (A Course in Miracles T-23.I.12:5-9)
To remember God we must be willing to accept peace. Because God is peace, conflict interferes with our awareness that we remain in God, safely in His peace. But here we are told that conflict is illusion. Because God is one, two “entities” that conflict with each other cannot exist.
Yet it seems that the world we perceive through the body’s eyes is in constant conflict. This can mean only one thing: The world is an illusion, and all the conflicts it seems to contain are illusions. Illusions are maintained through belief. This is good news because we can always change what we believe. The moment we withdraw belief in an illusion, it disappears.
We are blessed with an inner Teacher Who can teach us to recognize illusions for what they are. The moment we recognize an illusion as illusion, it fades away. Our practice today is to open our minds to the Holy Spirit’s loving lessons in truth so we can to let go of the illusions that obscure God’s gift of peace that is our own. With His help, we will experience increasing peace today.
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