Healing is a thought by which two minds perceive their oneness and become glad. This gladness calls to every part of the Sonship to rejoice with them, and lets God go out into them and through them. Only the healed mind can experience revelation with lasting effect, because revelation is an experience of pure joy. If you do not choose to be wholly joyous, your mind cannot have what it does not choose to be. Remember that spirit knows no difference between having and being. The higher mind thinks according to the laws spirit obeys, and therefore honors only the laws of God. To spirit getting is meaningless and giving is all. Having everything, spirit holds everything by giving it, and thus creates as the Father created. While this kind of thinking is totally alien to having things, even to the lower mind it is quite comprehensible in connection with ideas. If you share a physical possession, you do divide its ownership. If you share an idea, however, you do not lessen it. All of [the idea] is still yours although all of it has been given away. Further, if the one to whom you give it accepts it as his, he reinforces it in your mind and thus increases it. If you can accept the concept that the world is one of ideas, the whole belief in the false association the ego makes between giving and losing is gone.
Let us start our process of reawakening with just a few simple concepts:
Thoughts increase by being given away.
The more who believe in them the stronger they become.
Everything is an idea.
How, then, can giving and losing be associated? (A Course in Miracles, T-5.I.1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The thoughts of our true Self are in line with the laws of God. Our true Self knows only oneness in the Love of God. The thoughts of our true Self are shared with God.
The lower mind is the part that accepts the ego thought system which denies oneness. The idea of separation makes sharing impossible. This is why the ego always perceives giving as loss. Nothing is shared in the ego mind.
The forms we perceive in the world do not seem to be effect of thoughts. These forms are just mental images which we believe are real. This mistaken belief makes it seem that we must defend what we think we have to protect against loss. Yet what we think we have is an empty illusion. Its seeming value comes only from our belief.
Our release from this fearful state of mind comes from the Holy Spirit, Who guides us to recognize the difference between images we made by belief and the reality of our oneness in Love. He guides us to let go of false beliefs and welcome our true Self in God. This is how we heal our mind from false perceptions and learn to recognize the face of Christ in everyone.
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