Reality observes the laws of God, and not the rules you set. It is His laws that guarantee your safety. All illusions that you believe about yourself obey no laws. …[Illusions] must be neither cherished nor attacked, but merely looked upon as children’s toys without a single meaning of their own. See one [meaning] in them and you will see them all. See [no meaning] in them and they will touch you not.
Appearances deceive because they are appearances and not reality. Dwell not on them in any form. They but obscure reality, and they bring fear because they hide the truth. Do not attack what you have made to let you be deceived, for thus you prove that you have been deceived. Attack has power to make illusions [seem] real. Yet what it makes is nothing. Who could be made fearful by a power that can have no real effects at all? …God’s Son needs no defense against his dreams. His idols do not threaten him at all. His one mistake is that he thinks them real. What can the power of illusions do?
Salvation is a paradox indeed! What could it be except a happy dream? [Salvation] asks you but that you forgive all things that no one ever did; to overlook what is not there, and not to look upon the unreal as reality. You are but asked to let your will be done, and seek no longer for the things you do not want. And you are asked to let yourself be free of all the dreams of what you never were, and seek no more to substitute the strength of idle wishes for the Will of God. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.IV.4:1-3,9-11;5:1-7,12-15;7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The Will of our true Self is the Will of God. The dream of illusions, of myriad idols that hide the truth, has no effect on our true Self. Only our belief in the dream’s illusions makes them seem to have effects at all. Yet illusions cannot change Reality. Salvation comes with the willingness to let go of illusions in the dream.
We will willingly let illusions go when we recognize that they offer us nothing we really want. We want the peace of God. We want to know the Love of God as ours. We want to experience the joy of extending God’s Love without limit. This is our reality. As we let go or overlook illusions because we recognize they are really nothing, we remember our true Self, united with God.
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