You need to be reminded that you think a thousand choices are confronting you, when there is really only one to make. And even this but seems to be a choice. Do not confuse yourself with all the doubts that myriad decisions would induce. You make but one. …There is no contradiction to the truth.
And the truth cannot be learned, but only recognized. In recognition [truth’s] acceptance lies, and as it is accepted it is known. …Ours are teaching goals, to be attained through learning how to reach them, what they are, and what they offer you. Decisions are the outcome of your learning, for they rest on what you have accepted as the truth of what you are, and what your needs must be. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 138, W-pI.138.4:1-4,8;5:2-3,5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 138 Insights.)
The goal of the Course is to teach us to distinguish to what is real from what is unreal. In the Introduction it states, “The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite” and “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.” Only Love is real. This is the lesson we must learn.
To learn this lesson we must learn that this world, made by the ego, is not real. The Course’s curriculum helps us learn that this world offers nothing that we really want. It cannot bring us undisturbable peace or eternal joy. It also teaches that we have an inner Teacher in our mind to Whom we an turn in every instant to help us see the reality of Love behind the ego’s illusions.
With our inner Teacher’s help, we learn that we are Love and nothing else. As we accept these lessons, the appeal of the ego’s unreal substitutes for love weakens. We choose the reality of Love instead, which brings with it the experience Love’s attributes — eternal peace and happiness. We choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide today, to help us choose Love in all our doing.
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