The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. It cannot come where there is conflict, for a mind at war against itself remembers not eternal gentleness. The means of war are not the means of peace, and what the warlike would remember is not love. War is impossible unless belief in victory is cherished. Conflict within you must imply that you believe the ego has the power to be victorious. Why else would you identify with it? Surely you realize the ego is at war with God.
The war against yourself was undertaken to teach the Son of God that he is not himself, and not his Father’s Son. For this, the memory of his Father must be forgotten. It is forgotten in the body’s life, and if you think you are a body, you will believe you have forgotten it. Yet truth can never be forgotten by itself, and you have not forgotten what you are. Only a strange illusion of yourself, a wish to triumph over what you are, remembers not. (A Course in Miracles, T-23.I.1:1-7;5:1-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
It is literally mind-altering to realize that the world we see through the body’s eyes was made as a barrier to prevent us from remembering our eternal unity with our Source, with Love. The ego thought system is the denial of the truth. Thus all the constructs of the ego are made to hide the truth from our awareness.
Yet the ego cannot change the truth. It can only hide the truth from us if we choose to identify with the ego as what we are. The Course says in many places we are not the ego. This recognition is essential to enable our release from the limitations imposed by the ego.
As we dis-identify with the ego it becomes easier to see that no one is the ego which appears to be acting out in a body. As we recognize this, forgiveness comes naturally. We look past the body of our brother or ourselves and Christ’s vision shows us the Light of innocence that is really there.
Today we will remind ourselves frequently: We are not a body, we are not the ego. We are Love as Love created us.
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