…to teach is to learn, so that teacher and learner are the same. It also emphasizes that teaching is a constant process; it goes on every moment of the day, and continues into sleeping thoughts as well.
To teach is to demonstrate. There are only two thought systems, and you demonstrate [teach] that you believe one or the other is true all the time. From your demonstration others learn, and so do you. The question is not whether you will teach, for in that there is no choice. …You cannot give to someone else, but only to yourself, and this you learn through teaching. Teaching is but a call to witnesses to attest to what you believe. …Any situation must be to you a chance to teach others what you are, and what they are to you. No more than that, but also never less.
It is the teaching underlying what you say that teaches you. Teaching but reinforces what you believe about yourself. Its fundamental purpose is to diminish self-doubt. This does not mean that the self you are trying to protect is real. But it does mean that the self you think is real is what you teach. (A Course in Miracles, M-in.1:5-6;2:1-4,6-7,10-11;3:6-10)
In every moment, we teach (demonstrate) what we believe is true. When we are disturbed by a situation or the actions of someone, we teach ourselves that we are vulnerable and separate. This is because we are believing in a false identity that is separate and alone, at the mercy of outside forces beyond our control. This is the condition of everyone in the world while they believe they are a body with a separate identity.
The Course is teaching us that we are not separate; we are not a body. This is the thought reversal that will free us from the world of fear and guilt. Only bodies seem to hurt or be harmed. As we disconnect our identity from the body and accept our one Self, we free ourselves from fear and guilt. Our true Self is Love and nothing else. Because Love is one, it cannot harm or be harmed. It shares the eternal innocence of our Creator.
Today we ask the Holy Spirit to guide our thoughts that we may teach only Love and learn that we are only Love.
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