Forget not that the choice of sin [separation] or truth [oneness], helplessness or power, is the choice of whether to attack or heal. For healing comes of power, and attack [comes] of helplessness. Whom you attack [see as separate] you cannot want to heal. And whom you would have healed must be the one you chose to be protected from attack. And what is this decision but the choice whether to see him through the body’s eyes, or let him be revealed to you through [Christ’s] vision? How this decision leads to its effects is not your problem. But what you want to see must be your choice. This is a course in cause and not effect.
The power of the Son of God’s desire remains the proof that he is wrong who sees himself as helpless. Desire what you want [separation or oneness], and you will look on it and think it real. [Every thought] has the power to release or kill. And none can leave the thinker’s mind, or leave him unaffected. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.VII.7:1-8;13:5-8)
Separation requires belief in order for it to seem to be real. Fear is the inevitable effect of belief in separation. Reality is Oneness and does not require belief. But It does require acceptance for us to experience the attributes of Oneness — Love, peace and happiness. Belief in separation is the denial of Reality, of Truth.
We always experience the effects of what we want. If we want separation to be real, we experience its effects of fear, helplessness and guilt. When we choose instead to accept that we remain one with Love as Love created us, we experience Love and all Its effects. In every moment we choose between belief in error and acceptance of Truth.
Left to our unconscious habits, we automatically choose error, belief in separation. But we can kick the habit with Holy Spirit’s help. Our job is to be vigilant to bring all of our perceptions, born of belief in separation, to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let go of the meaning we have given them. Thus we open minds to accept Holy Spirit’s replacements, which will always show us the truth of Love behind the false perceptions. This is our dedication today.
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