The ego’s fundamental wish is to replace God. In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of that wish. For it is that wish that seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone, and unable to reach other minds except through the body that was made to imprison it. The limit on communication cannot be the best means to expand communication. Yet the ego would have you believe that it is.
We will try today to stop these senseless attacks on salvation. We will try to welcome it instead. Your upside-down perception has been ruinous to your peace of mind. You have seen yourself in a body and the truth outside you, locked away from your awareness by the body’s limitations. Now we are going to try to see this differently.
The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. To be without a body is to be in our natural state. To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God’s plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. And wherever His plan is accepted, it is accomplished already. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 72, W-pI.72.2,8,9. See also ACIM Lesson 72 Insights.)
One of the fundamental messages in A Course in Miracles is that we are not a body. The body is wholly unlike God in every way; thus it is impossible that the body could be created by God. This idea frees us from all guilt, fear pain, suffering and sense of loss. Only if we think we are a body do we experience any of these symptoms.
We can free ourselves in any moment by dis-identifying with the body as what we are and accepting the Self that God created as His Son. This Self we are is wholly loving, eternally at peace and overflowing with joy. This is our natural state.
Because we have identified with the body so completely, it takes time to peal away the layers of attachment to this false identity. We do this through forgiveness, but we do not do it alone. Thinking we are alone is the cause of the problem. We must let the Holy Spirit help us see past the loneliness and isolation to our unity with the Love that is eternally present. This is God’s plan for our salvation.
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