To teach is to demonstrate. There are only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you believe one or the other is true all the time. From your demonstration others learn, and so do you.
Teaching but reinforces what you believe about yourself. Its fundamental purpose is to diminish self-doubt. This does not mean that the self you are trying to protect is real. But it does mean that the self you think is real is what you teach.
Except for God’s teachers there would be little hope of salvation, for the world of sin would seem forever real.… God. They are not perfect, or they would not be here. Yet it is their mission to become perfect here, and so they teach perfection over and over, in many, many ways, until they have learned it. (A Course in Miracles, M-In.2:1-3;3:7-10;5:1,5-6)
When we identity with the ego, we believe everything in the world is real. Fear and guilt seem justified because we believe everything that happened to us in our “life” actually happened and had effects. We believe bodies are real and what they do has consequences; ours and others’ actions justify fear and guilt. What we believe about others teaches us what we are. We seem to be in a closed loop continually reinforcing the “reality” of separation.
Yet there is another Thought system we can choose to accept. It is a Thought system based upon the acceptance that only the oneness of Love is real. Nothing but Love exists. This Thought system sees no separation. Yet we have thoroughly taught ourselves that Love does not exist. This mistaken belief can be undone by Truth. But we need a Teacher from outside the false thought system to teach us that separation is not true—to teach only Love and learn that we are Love.
Today we practice asking our inner Teacher to guide our perceptions, for we want to awaken from the dream of separation and accept our true Identity in the oneness of God’s Love.
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