In this world, there appears to be a state that is life’s opposite. You call it death. Yet we have learned that the idea of death takes many forms. It is the one idea which underlies all feelings that are not supremely happy. It is the alarm to which you give response of any kind that is not perfect joy. All sorrow, loss, anxiety and suffering and pain, even a little sigh of weariness, a slight discomfort or the merest frown, acknowledge death. And thus deny you live.
Death is the thought that you are separate from your Creator.
What seems to be the opposite of life is merely sleeping. When the mind elects to be what it is not, and to assume an alien power which it does not have, a foreign state it cannot enter, or a false condition not within its Source, it merely seems to go to sleep a while. It dreams of time; an interval in which what seems to happen never has occurred, the changes wrought are substanceless, and all events are nowhere. When the mind awakes, it but continues as it always was. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 167, W-pI.167.2;4:1;9. See also ACIM Lesson 167 Insights.)
Perception of loss or lack of any kind indicates that there is a belief in death or separation from God’s oneness. But the Course is telling us that we, the Son of God, can never be separate from our Creator. We are God’s Thought. And thoughts cannot leave their Source. We are forever united in the Thought of Love.
Yet we can imagine we are separate and experience the sense of loss and lack that this imagined state induces. While we are engaged in this imagined scenario, the Presence of Love is all around, yet unknown to us. This is the thought of death.
But an imagined condition is just a false image that could never be true. No matter how horrific or terrorizing the images our imagination generates, they cannot alter the Reality that we remain united in Love with our Creator. We remain eternally safe, eternally loved and loving, eternally innocent, eternally at Home in the Mind of God.
Today let us rest in the assurance that this is so.
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