Whenever you are angry, you can be sure that you have formed a special relationship which the ego has “blessed,” for anger is its blessing. ²Anger takes many forms, but it cannot long deceive those who will learn that love brings no guilt at all, and what brings guilt cannot be love and must be anger. ³All anger is nothing more than an attempt to make someone feel guilty, and this attempt is the only basis the ego accepts for special relationships. ⁴Guilt is the only need the ego has, and as long as you identify with [the ego], guilt will remain attractive to you. ⁵Yet remember this; to be with a body is not communication. ⁶And if you think it is, you will feel guilty about communication and will be afraid to hear the Holy Spirit, recognizing in His Voice your own need to communicate.
²In the holy instant guilt holds no attraction, since communication has been restored. ³And guilt, whose only purpose is to disrupt communication, has no function here. ⁴Here [in the holy instant] there is no concealment, and no private thoughts. ⁵The willingness to communicate attracts communication to it, and overcomes loneliness completely. ⁶There is complete forgiveness here, for there is no desire to exclude anyone from your completion, in sudden recognition of the value of his part in [your completion]. ⁷In the protection of your wholeness, all are invited and made welcome. ⁸And you understand that your completion is God’s, Whose only need is to have you be complete. ⁹For your completion makes you His in your awareness. ¹⁰And here it is that you experience yourself as you were created, and as you are. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.VII.10;14:2-10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Anger takes many forms. It can be as innocuous as a sigh of discontent or as violent as a murderous rage. These forms are the same because they can only seem to occur where separation seems real. We believe something in the world separate from us needs to change.
Separation is not what God wills for us. He created His Son one with Him and maintains this unity with the uninterrupted flow of His Love. But we cannot be aware of His Love if we interrupt it with belief that separation is real.
Loneliness and fear are inevitable if we believe separation is real. Only in separation can attack or isolation seem possible. God does not will to be alone, so His Creation remains eternally united with Him in Love. Forgiveness is the means to release us from the bondage of belief that separation is real.
As we accept our unity with the Love in every brother and with God, we know that we are complete in Him. We lack nothing for we have all that is real. Fear and guilt are impossible, for we know our Reality in the eternal flow of God’s Love.
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