Your peace lies in its limitlessness. Limit the peace you share, and your Self must be unknown to you.
Only you can deprive yourself of anything. Do not oppose this realization, for it is truly the beginning of the dawn of light. Remember also that the denial of this simple fact takes many forms, and these you must learn to recognize and to oppose steadfastly, without exception. This is a crucial step in the reawakening. The beginning phases of this reversal are often quite painful, for as blame is withdrawn from without, there is a strong tendency to harbor [blame] within. It is difficult at first to realize that this is exactly the same thing, for there is no distinction between within and without.
If your brothers are part of you and you blame them for your deprivation, you are blaming yourself. And you cannot blame yourself without blaming them. That is why blame must be undone, not seen elsewhere. Lay it to yourself and you cannot know yourself, for only the ego blames at all. Self-blame is therefore ego identification, and as much an ego defense as blaming others. You cannot enter God’s Presence if you attack His Son. (A Course in Miracles, T-11.IV.3:1-2;4:1-5:6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The fact that separation is impossible means that every brother is one with us. There is no “other” to blame. The attempt to blame is an ego defense to escape from its perceived guilt. But guilt can only be justified in the made-up world of separation. Our attempts to blame are based upon the fearful thought that we have succeeded in separating from God’s Love. The ego uses blame to reinforce the belief that separation is real.
The practice of asking the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts neutralizes the basis for blame. Without the presence of fear in our mind, the oneness of Love floods our mind. On the foundation of the Love we are, the thought of blame cannot occur. We see our brother as one with us and remember that together we are one with our Father. We accept the salvation inherent in our Creation as God’s one Son.
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