Tolerance for pain may be high, but it is not without limit. Eventually everyone begins to recognize, however dimly, that there must be a better way. As this recognition becomes more firmly established, it becomes a turning point. This ultimately reawakens spiritual vision, simultaneously weakening the investment in physical sight. The alternating investment in the two levels of perception is usually experienced as conflict, which can become very acute. But the outcome is as certain as God.
Spiritual vision literally cannot see error, and merely looks for Atonement [correction of perception]. All solutions the physical eye seeks dissolve. Spiritual vision looks within and recognizes immediately that the altar has been defiled and needs to be repaired and protected. Perfectly aware of the right defense [spiritual vision] passes over all others, looking past error to truth. Because of the strength of its vision, it brings the mind into its service. This re-establishes the power of the mind and makes it increasingly unable to tolerate delay, realizing that it only adds unnecessary pain. As a result, the mind becomes increasingly sensitive to what it would once have regarded as very minor intrusions of discomfort. (A Course in Miracles, T-2.III.3:5-4:7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Spiritual vision is the means to awaken from the dream of fear and death. Physical sight sees only images of separation, for it comes from the ego belief in the reality of separation. What the mind believes is true is perceived as real. Ego belief in separation projects a misperception of a world that confirms separation’s reality.
The ego’s misperception is corrected by spiritual vision. It sees past the world’s images of separation to the changeless Spirit that unites everyone in the unity of God’s Love. When we reach the point of willingness to consider that what we have believed is true may be wrong, our mind becomes open to another way of seeing.
We begin to question the part of our mind that has embraced separation; we may not be the separate identity that the ego made. We may be free of its limitations and in fact, wholly held in the invulnerability and Love of God. We become willing to receive the Holy Spirit’s vision to let it correct the misperceptions of the ego. We have begun a journey leading out of the fearful dream. As we give priority to spiritual vision instead of physical sight, we awaken to our eternal Home in God.
Our prayer today: Holy Spirit, guide my vision today for my desire is to remember my true Self, united with every brother in Love’s oneness.
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