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Seeing the Holiness in Every Brother

The body is itself a sacrifice; a giving up of power in the name of saving just a little for yourself. To see a brother in another body, separate from yours, is the expression of a wish to see a little part of him and sacrifice the rest. Look at the world, and you will see nothing attached to anything beyond itself. All seeming entities can come a little nearer, or go a little farther off, but cannot join.

To accept the limits of a body is to impose these limits on each brother whom you see. For you must see him as you see yourself.

The body is a loss, and can be made to sacrifice. And while you see your brother as a body, apart from you and separate in his cell, you are demanding sacrifice of him and you. What greater sacrifice could be demanded than that God’s Son perceive himself without his Father? And his Father be without His Son? Yet every sacrifice demands that [Father and Son] be separate and without the Other. The memory of God must be denied if any sacrifice is asked of anyone.

Those who would see the witnesses to truth instead of to illusion merely ask that they might see a purpose in the world that gives it sense and makes it meaningful. Without your special function [forgiveness] has this world no meaning for you. Yet it can become a treasure house as rich and limitless as Heaven itself. No instant passes here in which your brother’s holiness cannot be seen, to add a limitless supply to every meager scrap and tiny crumb of happiness that you allot yourself. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.I.1:5-8;3:7-4:6;5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

To identify with a body is to believe we are separate from Love, the Source of Life. It is the belief that death, the ultimate image of separation, is real. This choice is reflected by our perception of our brother as limited to a body. The body is incapable of seeing the truth of our oneness with every brother in God’s Love.

But this does not mean we have lost our Identity in Love. It only means that we must choose another way of seeing that is not limited by the body’s eyes. This choice is made by forgiving the mistaken belief that we are a body, separate and alone. The Holy Spirit will guide us through this forgiveness to His vision that shows us our unity in Love that was never lost.

The choice to accept Holy Spirit’s purpose as our own opens our minds to the vision of Christ, which sees Love’s innocence everywhere. It gives the world a different purpose that leads to acceptance of our unity and dispels the sacrifice of our true Self. Choosing to accept the Holy Spirit’s purpose instead of the ego’s releases us from imprisonment in its image of separation.

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