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Awakening to Our Life in Love

Dreams are perceptual temper tantrums, in which you literally scream, “I want it thus!” ²And thus it seems to be. ³And yet the dream cannot escape its origin. ⁴Anger and fear pervade it, and in an instant the illusion of satisfaction is invaded by the illusion of terror. ⁵For the dream of your ability to control reality by substituting a world that you prefer is terrifying. ⁶Your attempts to blot out reality are very fearful, but this you are not willing to accept. ⁷And so you substitute the fantasy that reality is fearful, not what you would do to it. ⁸And thus is guilt made real.

Dreams show you that you have the power to make a world as you would have it be, and that because you want it you see it. ²And while you see it you do not doubt that it is real. ³Yet here is a world, clearly within your mind, that seems to be outside. ⁴You do not respond to it as though you made it, nor do you realize that the emotions the dream produces must come from you. ⁵It is the figures in the dream and what they do that seem to make the dream. ⁶You do not realize that you are making them act out for you, for if you did the guilt would not be theirs, and the illusion of satisfaction would be gone. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.II.4:1–5:6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our dreams of being a body living in a world of conflict is a self-deception so extreme that we believe the only way out is death. Yet death itself is a dream as well.

The Self God created one with Him cannot die, for It is one with His eternal Love. Love is our Reality. It never changes. We can awaken to this Reality by forgiving the wish to make a different reality which we think we can control.

This alternate reality is chaotic and unpredictable, despite our attempts to control it. We can awaken from this dream by being willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see the Love in which we live.

Love is our true Reality. With Christ’s vision, we see the Reality of Love everywhere. We recognize denial of Love’s oneness as a call for Love. With His help, we answer these calls for Love with Love.

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