An unholy relationship is based on differences, where each one thinks the other has what he has not.
A holy relationship starts from a different premise. Each one has looked within and seen no lack. Accepting his completion, he would extend it by joining with another, whole as himself. He sees no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body.
Think what a holy relationship can teach! Here is belief in differences undone. Here is the faith in differences shifted to sameness. And here is sight of differences transformed to vision. Reason now can lead you and your brother to the logical conclusion of your union. [Your union] must extend, as you extended when you and he joined. It must reach out beyond itself, as you reached out beyond the body, to let you and your brother be joined. And now the sameness that you saw extends and finally removes all sense of differences, so that the sameness that lies beneath them all becomes apparent. Here is the golden circle where you recognize the Son of God. For what is born into a holy relationship can never end. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.in.2:5;3:1-4;4. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
Love created us complete, wholly like Itself. Because Love lacks nothing, it has no needs and makes no demands. The holy relationship comes with the recognition of the complete Love within and sees that same Love in another. From the point of knowing completion, Love sees Itself everywhere, joining with all in the unity of Love. This is our natural state.
The ego is the denial of Love and therefore believes it lacks Love. This sense of lack drives its continuous search to find Love, to find completion. But the ego’s world of illusions cannot provide what the ego seeks. The way to find completion is to forgive; to let go of the belief in separation (lack of Love) as reality.
To see the truth of the complete Love within, we have to forgive all the mistaken beliefs that tell us we are incomplete. As we learn that we in fact need nothing for we already have all that is real, we no longer seek for completion in others. Instead we join with the completion in others, the Love that they are. Through forgiveness, our experience of the world shifts from fear and guilt to a joyful extension of Love without end. Our holy relationship includes everyone, for Love makes no exceptions.
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