Living A Course in Miracles — How to Accept a Miracle

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How to Accept a Miracle

Illusions will not last. Their death is sure and this alone is certain in their world. It is the ego’s world because of this. What is the ego? But a dream of what you really are. A thought you are apart from your Creator and a wish to be what He created not.… We name it [the ego] but to help us understand that it is nothing but an ancient thought that what is made has immortality.”

What is the ego? Nothingness, but in a form that seems like something.

The ego’s opposite in every way,—in origin, effect and consequence—we call a miracle.

What is a miracle? A dream as well. But look at all the aspects of this dream and you will never question any more. Look at the kindly world you see extend before you as you walk in gentleness. Look at the helpers all along the way you travel, happy in the certainty of Heaven and the surety of peace. And look an instant, too, on what you left behind at last and finally passed by.

This was the ego — all the cruel hate, the need for vengeance and the cries of pain, the fear of dying and the urge to kill, the brotherless illusion and the self that seemed alone in all the universe. This terrible mistake about yourself the miracle corrects as gently as a loving mother sings her child to rest.

The miracle forgives; the ego damns [judges].… Who chooses hell when it is recognized? And who would not go on a little while when it is given him to understand the way is short and Heaven is his goal? (A Course in Miracles, C-2.1:1-6,10-11;2:1;5:1;7:1-8:2;10:1,5-6)

How do we accept a miracle? By choosing the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of our perceptions. His interpretation overlooks the form to the content of all that we perceive. Illusions have no content. And so the Holy Spirit does not see them, although He recognizes what we believe we see. He offers instead the vision of all that is real — Love and nothing else.

Perceptions we interpret as fearful the Holy Spirit sees as calls for Love and answers them with Love. The ongoing practice of choosing the Holy Spirit as our interpreter of every perception sets us on the path of awakening to the fact that we are in Heaven now. There is nowhere else to be. We free ourselves to be the Self, the Son that God created.

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