You see the flesh or recognize the spirit. There is no compromise between the two. If one is real the other must be false, for what is real denies its opposite. There is no choice in vision but this one. What you decide in this determines all you see and think is real and hold as true. On this one choice does all your world depend, for here have you established what you are, as flesh or spirit in your own belief.
Are you invulnerable? Then the world is harmless in your sight. Do you forgive? Then is the world forgiving, for you have forgiven it its trespasses, and so it looks on you with eyes that see as yours. Are you a body? So is all the world perceived as treacherous, and out to kill. Are you a spirit, deathless, and without the promise of corruption and the stain of sin upon you? So the world is seen as stable, fully worthy of your trust; a happy place to rest in for a while, where nothing need be feared, but only loved. Who is unwelcome to the kind in heart? And what could hurt the truly innocent? (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VI.1:1-6;6:1-10. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
We each have two ways of seeing and each excludes the other. One way sees us as a body in a world of guilt and fear. The other sees us as Spirit, wholly innocent and loving. We are always choosing between these two ways of seeing. The vision that sees Spirit comes from Spirit and cannot be seen with the body’s eyes.
To have this vision, we need Help from beyond the world seen by the body’s eyes. The practice of mindfulness through which we bring our thoughts and perceptions to the Holy Spirit to help us see as Spirit sees is the way out of the hell of a world of fear and guilt.
Today we practice holding our minds open to the Holy Spirit’s vision that we may see a safe world of innocence and Love, happiness and peace.
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