Each [holy relationship] has looked within and seen no lack. Accepting his completion, he would extend it by joining with another, whole as himself. He sees no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body.
Think what a holy relationship can teach! Here is belief in differences undone. Here is the faith in differences shifted to sameness. And here is sight of differences transformed to vision. Reason now can lead you and your brother to the logical conclusion of your union. It must extend, as you extended when you and he joined. It must reach out beyond itself, as you reached out beyond the body, to let you and your brother be joined. And now the sameness that you saw extends and finally removes all sense of differences, so that the sameness that lies beneath them all becomes apparent. Here is the golden circle where you recognize the Son of God. For what is born into a holy relationship can never end. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.in.3:2-4;4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The ego’s seeming existence depends upon belief that the body is real. This is the purpose the ego gives it. Every body is unique, identified by its uniqueness. We give bodies different names to reinforce the belief differences are real.
As we begin to accept that we are not a body, we start to question the importance of these differences. As we practice asking the Holy Spirit what everything is for, we learn the differences that seem to separate us do not affect the truth that we are Spirit, complete and whole, united as one in God’s Love.
Our true Self is in need of nothing; God has already given It all His Love, peace and joy. As we learn this, we no longer seek for completion through relationships with “others.” Now relationships become a means to join together in the awareness of Love’s oneness. The acceptance of oneness automatically includes all. What was once perceived as different becomes accepted as one and the same in the unity of Love.
Today we practice asking the Holy Spirit to help us see past the perception of differences to the unity of Love.
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