You have given everything you see the meaning it has for you. The meaning you give determines your response to it and its effect on you. Behind the appearance of separation is your desire to have it so; therein arises its seeming effect on you. The world you see has the power over you that you gave it, nothing more.
Withdraw the desire to believe it real, and its power will vanish. Your eyes will continue to see the forms of separation, but your mind will see the Light and Love just beyond form. Through that perception, you are restored to the Unity beyond all form. Abide in that wholly purified perception, and the world will affect you not.
You need not suffer, though a suffering world appears all around you, if you abide in the heart of Love. Rest in the Self, give all to all, and you will be free. (From the Christ Mind Book II, page 120,121. Italics added.)
Our desire for separation comes from our grievance against God. We asked God for specialness, to have more than everything, something we could call ours alone. God could not give this, for it was asking God to change, to not be Himself. This is the foundation of the ego.
This is why forgiveness is the central theme of A Course in Miracles. Though it appears that we forgive others and ourselves, they are representations of what we believe about God. When we achieve full forgiveness, we are able to accept the limitless, eternal Love God gave us in the creation of our Self.
Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see with His Light and Love, that we may look past appearances and remember our Self.
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