Robert:
Sorting the unreal from the real is essential to waking up from the dream. If I believe something really happened in the world, it is impossible to justify forgiveness. The justification for forgiveness is the recognition that what seemed to happen did not happen in truth. When this is fully recognized, forgiveness is automatic and complete.
The experience of a world of separate images is the effect of believing in the ego thought system of separation. From within that belief, it is impossible to see the world as unreal and untrue. My judgments will always seem justified; guilt and fear will seem real; anger will seem justified; and forgiveness cannot be justified as long as this belief in separation is maintained. This is why it is impossible, from within the dream, to sort the unreal from the real.
The good news is that we have within our minds the means to remember what is real — the Holy Spirit, our true Self. The daily, moment-by-moment practice of stepping back and opening my mind to my true Self’s perception is the way to awaken. If I am willing to receive my true Self’s interpretation, I will learn to recognize the untrue for what it is. I will be able to see from my true Self’s perspective that what I thought happened did not and had no effect.
This is how I forgive. This is how peace is returned to the troubled mind that believes it is alone and separate. This is how the mistaken belief in being separate is gently and lovingly undone and the mind is restored to the recognition of its wholeness as Love created It. Today is another day to practice stepping back and opening my mind to receive my true Self’s perception. Together, we will gently laugh at the misperceptions and let them go.
Mary:
One way that helps me when I find that I am caught up in making a world of separate bodies real is to step back and quiet my mind… I imagine that I am under a shower of Light, a shower of God’s peace… I remain open to receiving God’s gift of peace and taking it in to heal every tense spot.… I let it heal all the tension in my body, starting with the top of my head and flowing down clear to my toes… I see peace taking over where there was once tension… Everything drains away and only peace is left… Here there is quietness… Here there is rest…
In this sacred place of peace, there is a feeling of gentleness and comfort… There is a feeling that everything is all right and that all is well… Where there was once a feeling of conflict, now resides a gentle smile… In this quiet place of peace, I ask for inner direction and whatever I need to know is gently there… I remember that Love is… God is… There is nothing else.
The Holy Spirit gently moves me past the clouds and I see their unsubstantial nature… What matters is that I am still as God created me… God’s Son is one and nothing has happened to change God’s one Son…
Only the eternal is true… I can relax now… I can laugh with the Holy Spirit at the unsubstantial nature of dreams of separation… Everyone is safe in the one Mind of God and has never left in truth… And I give thanks.
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