Healing is freedom. For it demonstrates that dreams will not prevail against the truth. Healing is shared. And by this attribute it proves that laws unlike the ones which hold that sickness is inevitable are more potent than their sickly opposites. Healing is strength. For by its gentle hand is weakness overcome, and minds that were walled off within a body free to join with other minds, to be forever strong.
Healing, forgiveness, and the glad exchange of all the world of sorrow for a world where sadness cannot enter, are the means by which the Holy Spirit urges you to follow Him. His gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours; how little practice you need undertake to let His laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death. His life becomes your own, as you extend the little help He asks in freeing you from everything that ever caused you pain. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 137, W-pI.137.8-9. See also ACIM Lesson 137 Insights.)
We are sane when we accept the truth of what is real and disregard everything that is unreal. We are told that only Love is real. Our sane mind accepts the reality of Love and sees nothing else.
The ego is the attempt to wall off a tiny part of the mind in an illusion that seems to maintain a world of separation and fear. In this world the reality of Love is unknown and cannot be seen. Having totally embraced the illusion of separation, the ego is wholly insane, for it does not recognize the unreality of illusions. Instead it defends illusions with all its might because the loss of illusions would mean the end of the ego.
The seeming strength of the ego comes only from our belief in it. When we accept the ego thought system, the unity of Love becomes unknown to us for we have stepped into insanity, which maintains illusions through judgment, guilt and fear. Yet this tiny fragment of a mind which believes it is everything remains connected with the truth through the Voice for God.
Whenever we reach a point of deciding there must be a better way, we can turn to the Voice for God for help to find our way past the wall of illusion. His Voice will teach us to see the Love beyond the form. It will teach us to offer Love in response to calls for Love. And as we learn these happy lessons, we free ourselves from the limitations of belief in separation. We experience the blessing of God’s gift of Love.
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