Truth cannot deal with errors that you want.… Sane perception induces sane choosing. I cannot choose for you, but I can help you make your own right choice. “Many are called but few are chosen” should be, “All are called but few choose to listen.” Therefore, they do not choose right. The “chosen ones” are merely those who choose right sooner. Right minds can do this now, and they will find rest unto their souls. God knows you only in peace, and this is your reality. (A Course in Miracles, T-3.IV.7:2,10-16. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
Being sane means knowing the difference between illusion and reality, and choosing reality. Thus the key to sanity is knowing what is real and what is not. The Course is offering us help to learn what is real and what is illusion. It can bring us to the brink of sanity, but we must make the choice for reality.
When we believe we are a body with a separate identity, we are investing our belief in illusion instead of truth. The effect of this investment is the perception of a world of separate images, which conflict with each other and with what we believe is our identity. It is a dream of conflict, attack and defend, fear and loss. Yet it is a dream and does not exist in reality.
As we practice applying the message of A Course in Miracles in our daily experience, we learn that our investment in maintaining a separate identity is bringing us nothing that we really want. It cannot bring us lasting happiness, peace and eternal Love. In fact, this investment leaves us with an empty feeling that causes us to search for something that will assuage the sense of lack of Love.
The Course is helping us see that the answer to this search cannot be found in the world. We learn that the world offers us nothing we really want. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can learn where to find what we really want. We learn to set aside the false images of the dream through forgiveness. This makes way for us to accept the truth and know the peace of God.
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