Trusting [the truth in] your brothers is essential to establishing and holding up your faith in your ability to transcend doubt and lack of sure conviction in yourself. When you attack [judge] a brother, you proclaim that he is limited by what you have perceived in him. You do not look beyond his errors. Rather, they are magnified, becoming blocks to your awareness of the Self that lies beyond your own mistakes, and past his seeming sins as well as yours.
Perception has a focus. It is this that gives consistency to what you see. Change but this focus, and what you behold will change accordingly. Your vision now will shift, to give support to the intent which has replaced the one you held before. Remove your focus on your brother’s sins, and you experience the peace that comes from faith in sinlessness.
And as our focus goes beyond mistakes, we will behold a wholly sinless world. When seeing this is all we want to see, when this is all we seek for in the name of true perception, are the eyes of Christ inevitably ours. And the Love He feels for us becomes our own as well. This will become the only thing we see reflected in the world and in ourselves. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 181, W-pI.181.1:1-2:5;8:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 181 Insights.)
We see what we want to see. If we align with the ego’s desire to make separation real, we see a world of fear and guilt, separation and lack of Love. With this intent, the world we see shows us sickness, loneliness, destruction, hate and fear. This is what the ego wants because it makes separation seem real. It gives the ego seeming existence.
But we can change our intent by aligning with our true Self, represented by the Holy Spirit in our mind. The Holy Spirit’s intent in every moment is to see with Love, to see with the vision of Christ. When we choose this intent, the real world of peace and Love is revealed to us. The false images generated by the ego’s intent fade into the nothingness from which they came.
What do we want to see? It is a simple choice. Do we want to protect the ego’s dream of fear and guilt? Or do we want to welcome the vision of the real world, where innocence is recognized and the unity of Love welcomed?
Today we practice welcoming the Holy Spirit’s gift of Christ’s vision, for we would see the real world of innocence and peace through the eyes of Love.
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