Knowledge is not the motivation for learning this course. ²Peace is. ³This is the prerequisite for knowledge only because those who are in conflict are not peaceful, and peace is the condition of knowledge because it is the condition of the Kingdom. ⁴Knowledge can be restored only when you meet its conditions.
…the ego has no power to distract you unless you give it the power to do so. ²The ego’s voice is an hallucination. ³You cannot expect it to say “I am not real.” ⁴Yet you are not asked to dispel your hallucinations alone. ⁵You are merely asked to evaluate them in terms of their results to you. ⁶If you do not want [the hallucinations] on the basis of loss of peace, they will be removed from your mind for you.
Your past learning must have taught you the wrong things, simply because it has not made you happy. ²On this basis alone its value should be questioned.
²You cannot learn simultaneously from two teachers who are in total disagreement about everything. ³Their joint curriculum presents an impossible learning task. ⁴They are teaching you entirely different things in entirely different ways, which might be possible except that both are teaching you about yourself. ⁵Your reality is unaffected by both, but if you listen to both, your mind will be split about what your reality is. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.I.1:1-4;2:1-6;4:1-2;6:2-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
In every moment we choose which teacher we would listen to. One teaches Love in an environment of perfect peace. The other denies Love and teaches hate and conflict.
This world is the effect of choosing to deny the oneness of Love. Lasting peace is impossible here. Though our experience in this world shows us that we have chosen the wrong teacher, we have not lost the Teacher God gave us in response to our mistaken choice.
The Holy Spirit is always in our mind, no matter how engaged we are in the ego’s dream. We can choose to pay attention to the ego by choosing peace. We step back from our engagement with the conflicts of the world. We rise above the battleground as we let the peace of God come forward. Peace is the nature of our true Self.
As we let peace step forward, the Holy Spirit’s guidance will teach us how to see beyond the world’s conflict. He will teach us to recognize they have no substance in truth so we can let them go. Our life becomes more peaceful as we let the Love of our true Self direct our thoughts and actions.
We choose peace today to make way for Love to guide our ways and awaken us to our Home in Love.
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