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Knowing Our Brother as Our Self

To heal is to make happy. …The light that belongs to you is the light of joy. Radiance is not associated with sorrow. Joy calls forth an integrated willingness to share it, and promotes the mind’s natural impulse to respond as one.

There is no difference between love and joy. Therefore, the only possible whole state is the wholly joyous. To heal or to make joyous is therefore the same as to integrate and to make one.

You are being blessed by every beneficent thought of any of your brothers anywhere. You should want to bless them in return, out of gratitude. You need not know them individually, or they you. The light is so strong that it radiates throughout the Sonship and returns thanks to the Father for radiating His joy upon it. …It is impossible for a child of God to love his neighbor except as himself. That is why the healer’s prayer is:

Let me know this brother as I know myself. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.in.1:1,4-6;2:3-5;3:1-4,6-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We, united as God’s one Son, were created as Love by Love. The ego’s dedication to judgment denies our Love. As long as we participate in judgment, we do not know the Love we are. Consequently we cannot love our brother. We cannot give what we are not aware we have. Yet being unaware of Love does not mean we don’t have Love. As we forgive our judgments, we become aware of the presence of Love.

When we ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our fear-based thoughts, the Light of Love within us is allowed to shine forth. We experience and know this Light as our Self. It radiates to every brother and embraces all in its Oneness. We join together in joyous celebration of the Love we are.

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