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Freeing Ourselves from Imprisoning Beliefs

Freedom is the only gift you can offer to God’s Sons, being an acknowledgment of what they are and what He is. Freedom is creation, because it is love. Whom you seek to imprison you do not love. Therefore, when you seek to imprison anyone, including yourself, you do not love him and you cannot identify with him. When you imprison yourself you are losing sight of your true identification with me and with the Father. Your identification is with the Father and with the Son. It cannot be with One and not the Other. If you are part of One you must be part of the Other, because They are One. The Holy Trinity is holy because It is One. If you exclude yourself from this union, you are perceiving the Holy Trinity as separated. You must be included in It, because [the Holy Trinity] is everything. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.IV.8:1-11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The body is a limit the ego imposes on the Son of God. To perceive ourselves or others as a body is to imprison God’s Son. As is repeated many times in the Course, we are not a body. God created His Son as spirit, eternally one with Him. The truth of What we are is His Son, eternally one with Him.

His Son cannot be divided in multiple, separate parts. It is this fact that keeps us free to be the Love God created His Son to be. We free ourselves from limitation by identifying with the unlimited Spirit we are. We do this by forgiving — letting go of — our belief that forms are real. The world we perceive is a world of forms, thus it cannot be real.

To heal our mistaken belief in the reality of the world, we need the help of the Holy Spirit. He is the Translator Who can use our perceptions as teaching aids to help us learn that forms have no substance. Under His tutelage we learn to see beyond the forms to the Light of Love that unites us with our brothers and God. We are one Self united with our Creator; there is no distance between us.

Today we practice opening our mind to the Holy Spirit’s vision to see our oneness with All That is. This practice leads to the peace of God.

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