This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. ²Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:
³I am responsible for what I see.
⁴I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide
upon the goal I would achieve.
⁵And everything that seems to happen to me
I ask for, and receive as I have asked.⁶Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. ⁷Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear.
It is impossible the Son of God be merely driven by events outside of him. ²It is impossible that happenings that come to him were not his choice. ³His power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which he seems to find himself by chance or accident. ⁴No accident nor chance is possible within the universe as God created it, outside of which is nothing. ⁵Suffer, and you decided sin was your goal. ⁶Be happy, and you gave the power of decision to Him Who must decide for God for you. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.II.2:1–3:6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The choice to identify with the ego is the choice to be powerless. It is the choice to be a victim of the world we see. And ultimately it is the choice for death. The ego is not our friend. It wants us dead as the final “proof” that separation is real.
Just as the ego is a choice, we still have the choice to remember our true Self. Because the ego is not real, it cannot block us forever from remembering the truth. Only our choice keeps the ego in charge.
When we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide for Its interpretation of every perception, the ego is dispelled. Just as turning on a light in a dark room dispels the darkness, choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide enlightens our mind and dispels the ego’s denial of Love. We are free to choose Love today, in this instant. Love is our eternal Life.
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