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Healing Our Divided Mind

Take pity on yourself, so long enslaved. ²Rejoice whom God hath joined have come together and need no longer look on sin apart. …⁴Sin is a strictly individual perception, seen in the other yet believed by each to be within himself. ⁵And each one seems to make a different error, and one the other cannot understand.

Who has need for sin? ²Only the lonely and alone, who see their brothers different from themselves. ³It is this difference, seen but not real, that makes the need for sin, not real but seen, seem justified. ⁴And all this would be real if sin were so. ⁵For an unholy relationship is based on differences, where each one thinks the other has what he has not.

A holy relationship starts from a different premise. ²Each one has looked within and seen no lack. ³Accepting his completion, he would extend it by joining with another, whole as himself. ⁴He sees no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body.

Think what a holy relationship can teach! ²Here is belief in differences undone. ³Here is the faith in differences shifted to sameness. ⁴And here is sight of differences transformed to vision. …⁶It must extend, as you extended when you and he joined. ⁷It must reach out beyond itself, as you reached out beyond the body, to let you and your brother be joined. ⁸And now the sameness that you saw extends and finally removes all sense of differences, so that the sameness that lies beneath them all becomes apparent. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.in.1:1-2,4-5;2:1-5;3:1-4;4:1-4,6-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Oneness and changelessness are boring to the ego. It treasures change and differences. If we do not like our present experience, change offers hope that it can improve. But it also offers fear that it could become worse. Differences depend on change, for they cannot be perceived except if oneness has been changed to separation.

The Holy Spirit sees another use for change. He can help us change our mind, change what we believe. The belief that we are a body is the basis for perceiving differences in the world. The Holy Spirit teaches that we are not a body and differences are unreal.

Only the oneness of Love is real. This lesson is taught through the holy relationship. As we learn to see there is no difference between our brother and ourself, we let go of the mistaken belief in our mind. Now we accept our unity with our brother. We are one Love, not different. Separation is not real.

We are blessed as we let the Holy Spirit use change to heal our divided mind. We welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons today.

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