It is essential for your progress in this course that you accept today’s idea [I am not a body. I am free], and hold it very dear. Be not concerned that to the ego it is quite insane. The ego holds the body dear because it dwells in it, and lives united with the home that it has made. [The body] is a part of the illusion that has sheltered [the ego] from being found illusory itself.
The Holy Spirit is the home of minds that seek for freedom. In Him they have found what they have sought. The body’s purpose now is unambiguous. …Without the power to enslave, [the body] is a worthy servant of the freedom which the mind within the Holy Spirit seeks.
You are God’s Son. In immortality you live forever. Would you not return your mind to this? Then practice well the thought the Holy Spirit gives you for today. Your brothers stand released with you in it; the world is blessed along with you, God’s Son will weep no more, and Heaven offers thanks for the increase of joy your practice brings even to it. And God Himself extends His Love and happiness each time you say:
I am not a body. I am free.
I hear the Voice that God has given me,
and it is only this my mind obeys. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 199,W-pI.199.3;6:1-3,6;8. See also ACIM Lesson 199 Insights.)
The immortality of God’s Love is already our true Identity as His Son. But by identifying with the ego, we have chosen to deny the Love that is our true Identity. The ego made the body as a substitute identity to imprison our mind in a dream that makes separation, limitation and lack of love seem real. It seems to achieve this purpose only because we believe in it.
The practice of today’s idea helps us disengage from our belief in the ego as our identity and focus on our true Identity in the Mind of Love. We are reclaiming our immortality in God.
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