⁵The body is itself a sacrifice; a giving up of power in the name of saving just a little for yourself. ⁶To see a brother in another body, separate from yours, is the expression of a wish to see a little part of him and sacrifice the rest. ⁷Look at the world, and you will see nothing attached to anything beyond itself. ⁸All seeming entities can come a little nearer, or go a little farther off, but cannot join.
The world you see is based on “sacrifice” of oneness. ²It is a picture of complete disunity and total lack of joining.
…to accept the limits of a body is to impose these limits on each brother whom you see. ⁸For you must see him as you see yourself.
The body is a loss, and can be made to sacrifice. ²And while you see your brother as a body, apart from you and separate in his cell, you are demanding sacrifice of him and you. ³What greater sacrifice could be demanded than that God’s Son perceive himself without his Father? ⁴And his Father be without His Son? ⁵Yet every sacrifice demands that They be separate and without the Other. ⁶The memory of God must be denied if any sacrifice is asked of anyone.
Those who would see the witnesses to truth instead of to illusion merely ask that they might see a purpose in the world that gives it sense and makes it meaningful. ²Without your special function [to forgive] has this world no meaning for you. ³Yet it can become a treasure house as rich and limitless as Heaven itself. ⁴No instant passes here in which your brother’s holiness cannot be seen, to add a limitless supply to every meager scrap and tiny crumb of happiness that you allot yourself. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.I.1:5–2:2;3:7–4:6;5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
When we believe we are a body and see our brothers as limited to a body, we sacrifice the oneness of Love that is our true Identity. This is why we feel an innate hunger for Love. We substitute identification with bodies in place of awareness of God. But in every instant we can forgive or let go of our self-imposed limitations.
We can choose the inner vision of Christ to see the unity we share in the Love that we are with every brother. Love is our true Home. We no longer choose to sacrifice our Home. We choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide for seeing and learn to accept our Self as God’s one Son, united with every brother. This is why we all go Home together.
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