I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
Loss is not loss when properly perceived. ²Pain is impossible. ³There is no grief with any cause at all. ⁴And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream. ⁵This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. ⁶Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth. ⁷I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. ⁸And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.
Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible. ²Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-284. See also ACIM Lesson 284 Insights.)
The proper perception of loss is that it is an illusion, and therefore does not exist. Pain is impossible because it can only seem to occur between conflicting images which are not real. This recognition is the basis for our release from the dream of separation.
While we seem to be engaged in this dream, we need help to release our investment in loss and pain. This is a process only because we hang on to perceived value of things in the world — bodies, possessions, status and relationships with things.
The practice of forgiveness is the practice of letting go of our investment in the dream and making way for the joy of God’s Love to return to our mind. It seems that we have to forgive many different things. But the differences are not real.
Ultimately we are letting go of our attempts to make illusions real in order to maintain our unique and special status. There is no greater status we could achieve than to acknowledge that we remain eternally held within God’s Love, His joy and peace.
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