If you point out the errors of your brother’s ego you must be seeing through yours, because the Holy Spirit does not perceive his errors. This must be true, since there is no communication between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The ego makes no sense, and the Holy Spirit does not attempt to understand anything that arises from it. Since He does not understand it, He does not judge it, knowing that nothing the ego makes means anything.
When you react at all to errors, you are not listening to the Holy Spirit. He has merely disregarded them, and if you attend to [errors] you are not hearing Him. If you do not hear Him, you are listening to your ego and making as little sense as the brother whose errors you perceive. This cannot be correction. Yet it is more than merely a lack of correction for him. It is the giving up of correction in yourself.
When a brother behaves insanely, you can heal him only by perceiving the sanity in him. If you perceive his errors and accept them [as real], you are accepting [your errors]. If you want to give them over to the Holy Spirit, you must do this with his. Unless this becomes the one way in which you handle all errors, you cannot understand how all errors are undone. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.III.3:1-5:4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The Course makes it clear that our experience as a body in the world is an illusion — not real. Yet the images we see in the world through the body’s senses seem very real. To ignore what we perceive seems at best irresponsible and at worst life threatening. This “life” that is threatened is a pseudo-life. It is an imagined image of the ego, which the ego demands we believe is real because its existence depends on our belief. This is the fundamental error that maintains the ego.
Correction of this fundamental error must come from a Source that knows it is not real. This is why we must learn to rely on the Holy Spirit’s vision at all times and in all ways. His vision will show us that the ego’s images are just vain imaginings, having no effect whatsoever on the truth of What we are. The Holy Spirit’s vision will show us the Son of God beyond the image of the separate identity. It is the Son of God that unites us with our brother in the oneness of God’s Love.
Each time we let the Holy Spirit help us see past our judgments and our interpretations of what we perceive, we take another step toward healing ourselves along with our brothers. Today we will practice walking in the way of Love’s vision. It will be a day of gratitude, for we will be remembering God.
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