³Spirit is the Thought of God which He created like Himself. ⁴The unified spirit is God’s one Son, or Christ.
In this world, because the mind is split, the Sons of God appear to be separate. ²Nor do their minds seem to be joined. ³In this illusory state, the concept of an “individual mind” seems to be meaningful. ⁴It is therefore described in the course as if it has two parts; spirit and ego.
Spirit is the part that is still in contact with God through the Holy Spirit, Who abides in this part but sees the other part as well.
The other part of the mind is entirely illusory and makes only illusions.
The mind can be right or wrong, depending on the voice to which it listens. ²Right-mindedness listens to the Holy Spirit, forgives the world, and through Christ’s vision sees the real world in its place.”
“Wrong-mindedness listens to the ego and makes illusions; perceiving sin and justifying anger, and seeing guilt, disease and death as real. (A Course in Miracles, C-1.1:3–3:1;4:1;5:1-2;6:1)
We experience a world of conflict because we choose to listen to the ego. The ego always perceives differences. There is always some degree of conflict if there are differences. Our dedication to listening to the ego makes us unaware of the freedom our Spirit knows in its reality of the oneness of Love. Spirit is universally the same. There can be no conflict in Spirit.
In the dream of this world, we choose in every moment between the illusions of the ego and the oneness of Spirit, between conflict and peace, between fear and Love. We have been given the Holy Spirit as our Guide to lead us out of the ego’s conflict to the peace that is our Home in the Love of God.
Today we remind ourselves frequently to pause and ask for the Holy Spirit’s help to see truly.
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