The body is a fence the Son of God imagines he has built, to separate parts of his Self from other parts.
The body is a dream. Like other dreams it sometimes seems to picture happiness, but can quite suddenly revert to fear, where every dream is born. For only love creates in truth, and truth can never fear. Made to be fearful, must the body serve the purpose given it. But we can change the purpose that the body will obey by changing what we think that it is for.
The body is the means by which God’s Son returns to sanity. Though it was made to fence him into hell without escape, yet has the goal of Heaven been exchanged for the pursuit of hell. The Son of God extends his hand to reach his brother, and to help him walk along the road with him. Now is the body holy.
Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook 5. What Is the Body?, W-pII.5.1:1;3:1-4:4;5:4-8. See also ACIM Lesson Insights.)
All dreams are born of fear because they come from the belief in lack of Love. From within the dream there is no remedy for this fear. The best the ego can offer is empty images to cover the fear. Sometimes we like the images it offers. But sooner or later their fearful foundation comes to the surface. This cycle is repeated over and over until we reach the limit of our tolerance for pain.
In the midst of the dream our true Self calls to us unceasingly from within our mind to return to Love. This call draws us to continue searching for the Love we believe we are missing. But it calls with the Voice of Love. It calls softly and can seem to be drowned out by the ego’s fearful chatter. But we can hear this Voice if we are willing to disown the chatter, quiet our mind and welcome the peace within our mind where our true Self lives and has Its being.
We can choose to listen to this Voice in every moment. Just like we can listen selectively with the body’s ears, disregarding what we don’t want to hear, we can select to listen to the Voice of Love in our mind. It will guide us to see past the barriers the ego erects. Love’s vision shows us the Love we are that unites us with every brother. When we choose to see with Love’s eyes, the past fades away and we recognize that we live now and always in the Presence of Love. We remember Heaven is our Home.
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