As long as you perceive the body as your reality, so long will you perceive yourself as lonely and deprived. And so long will you also perceive yourself as a victim of sacrifice, justified in sacrificing others. For who could thrust Heaven and its Creator aside without a sense of sacrifice and loss? And who could suffer sacrifice and loss without attempting to restore himself? Yet how could you accomplish this [restoration] yourself, when the basis of your attempts is the belief in the reality of the deprivation? Deprivation breeds attack, being the belief that attack is justified. And as long as you would retain the deprivation, attack becomes salvation and sacrifice becomes love.
In the holy instant the condition of love is met, for minds are joined without the body’s interference, and where there is communication there is peace. The Prince of Peace was born to re-establish the condition of love by teaching that communication remains unbroken even if the body is destroyed, provided that you see not the body as the necessary means of communication. And if you understand this lesson, you will realize that to sacrifice the body is to sacrifice nothing, and communication, which must be of the mind, cannot be sacrificed. Where, then, is sacrifice? The lesson I was born to teach, and still would teach to all my brothers, is that sacrifice is nowhere and love is everywhere. For communication embraces everything, and in the peace [communication] re-establishes, love comes of itself. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.XI.5;7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
While we identify with the body, it seems that we have a separate mind with private thoughts. It is this perception that blocks true communication, which is unlimited sharing of the Thoughts our mind shares with God. In this scenario, the body is used as a fence to wall off our private thoughts and separate us from the world. The thoughts we believe we think in a body are not real thoughts. They are meaningless hallucinations, which communicate nothing.
This belief has no effect on the Reality of our unlimited unity with God’s Love. This unlimited Love is the universe. It contains all that is real, for only Love is real. In this Love, we experience the peace of God, because what is one and changeless has no conflict. We are perfectly safe in what never changes, for harm is impossible.
Let us join together in welcoming the Prince of Peace, our true Self, into our hearts. As we accept our true Self, we accept the one Self that we share with every brother. We accept God’s Love wholeheartedly.
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