Perception selects, and makes the world you see. ²It literally picks it out as the mind directs. ³The laws of size and shape and brightness would hold, perhaps, if other things were equal. ⁴They are not equal. ⁵For what you look for you are far more likely to discover than what you would prefer to overlook. ⁶The still, small Voice for God is not drowned out by all the ego’s raucous screams and senseless ravings to those who want to hear It. ⁷Perception is a choice and not a fact. ⁸But on this choice depends far more than you may realize as yet. ⁹For on the voice you choose to hear, and on the sights you choose to see, depends entirely your whole belief in what you are. ¹⁰Perception is a witness but to this, and never to reality.
Reality needs no cooperation from you to be itself. ²But your awareness of it needs your help, because it is your choice. ³Listen to what the ego says, and see what it directs you see, and it is sure that you will see yourself as tiny, vulnerable and afraid. ⁴You will experience depression, a sense of worthlessness, and feelings of impermanence and unreality.
There is another vision and another Voice in which your freedom lies, awaiting but your choice. ²And if you place your faith in Them, you will perceive another self in you. ³This other self sees miracles as natural. ⁴They are as simple and as natural to it as breathing to the body. ⁵They are the obvious response to calls for help, the only one it makes. ⁶Miracles seem unnatural to the ego because it does not understand how separate minds can influence each other. ⁷Nor could they do so. ⁸But minds cannot be separate. ⁹This other self is perfectly aware of this. ¹⁰And thus it recognizes that miracles do not affect another’s mind, only its own. ¹¹They always change your mind. ¹²There is no other. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.V.1:1-10;2:1-4;3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Our perception is the effect of what we want to see. This fact explains why we perceive a world where conflict is possible, differences appear real and fear and guilt are justified. A Course in Miracles is dedicated to help us realize that all we really want is to remember that we are Love, united with All That Is and Its oneness. We need to realize that what we believe we want is interfering with our awareness that we remain Love and nothing else.
The desire for Love remains hidden by the wish to have more than everything — more than unlimited Love. Yet the Love we are has not been lost. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to learn that we already are what we seek, our awareness of the Love in our brothers replaces the perception of differences.
The awareness of Love grows stronger as we let our minds be healed of misperceptions. We increasingly recognize calls for Love in others or ourselves and let Love answer. Love becomes prominent in our mind and belief in differences fades. We walk with the Holy Spirit toward awareness of the Love that unites us with All That Is.
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