You see the flesh or recognize the spirit. There is no compromise between the two. If one is real the other must be false, for what is real denies its opposite. There is no choice in vision but this one. What you decide in this determines all you see and think is real and hold as true. On this one choice does all your world depend, for here have you established what you are, as flesh or spirit in your own belief. If you choose flesh, you never will escape the body as your own reality, for you have chosen that you want it so. But choose the spirit, and all Heaven bends to touch your eyes and bless your holy sight, that you may see the world of flesh no more except to heal and comfort and to bless.
Salvation is undoing. If you choose to see the body, you behold a world of separation, unrelated things, and happenings that make no sense at all. This one appears and disappears in death; that one is doomed to suffering and loss. And no one is exactly as he was an instant previous, nor will he be the same as he is now an instant hence. Who could have trust where so much change is seen, for who is worthy if he be but dust? Salvation is undoing of all this. For constancy arises in the sight of those whose eyes salvation has released from looking at the cost of keeping guilt, because they chose to let it go instead.
Salvation does not ask that you behold the spirit and perceive the body not. It merely asks that this should be your choice. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VI.1:1-3:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Workbook lesson 97 is titled, “I am Spirit.” This lesson brings into focus the recognition of What we are in truth. Spirit is one and has no limits because it is one with God.
The world we see seems to show us that we are not Spirit. The image of a separate body has been substituted for the formless, unlimited Spirit that is our Self. The body’s eyes cannot see Spirit, for they were made to limit perception to what confirms the “reality” of separation. We are not asked to deny what the body’s eyes see. But we are asked to recognize the body does not see reality and choose instead to accept our true Identity as Spirit.
We free ourselves from identifying with a body through forgiveness. Only bodies can seem to harm or be harmed. The perception of harm justifies judgment and guilt. When we choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to reinterpret our perceptions, we learn that nothing has happened to change our true Identity. We forgive the misperception that blinded us from knowing that we remain whole, as God created us.
Today we practice remembering “I am Spirit.” This practice opens our mind to the Holy Spirit’s guidance that will free us to identify with the one Self that God created as His Son.
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