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Learning to See with Loving Eyes

⁵The body is itself a sacrifice; a giving up of power in the name of saving just a little for yourself. ⁶To see a brother in another body, separate from yours, is the expression of a wish to see a little part of him and sacrifice the rest.

The world you see is based on “sacrifice” of oneness. ²It is a picture of complete disunity and total lack of joining.

The body is a loss, and can be made to sacrifice. ²And while you see your brother as a body, apart from you and separate in his cell, you are demanding sacrifice of him and you. ³What greater sacrifice could be demanded than that God’s Son perceive himself without his Father? ⁴And his Father be without His Son? ⁵Yet every sacrifice demands that They be separate and without the Other. ⁶The memory of God must be denied if any sacrifice is asked of anyone.

Those who would see the witnesses to truth instead of to illusion merely ask that they might see a purpose in the world that gives it sense and makes it meaningful. ²Without your special function has this world no meaning for you. ³Yet it can become a treasure house as rich and limitless as Heaven itself. ⁴No instant passes here in which your brother’s holiness cannot be seen, to add a limitless supply to every meager scrap and tiny crumb of happiness that you allot yourself.

You can lose sight of oneness, but can not make sacrifice of its reality. ²Nor can you lose what you would sacrifice, nor keep the Holy Spirit from His task of showing you that it has not been lost. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.I.1:5-6;2:1-2;4:1-6;5:1–6:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We need to learn to see the world through the eyes of Love. Love is one. Love sees only Itself extending eternally to all. This is our innate vision, given us in our creation as God’s Son as an extension of Himself.

If we believe what we see through the body’s eyes is real, we are believing we are a false identity as a body. The body is the ego’s image that denies the oneness of Love.

With the Holy Spirit’s help we can learn to rely on His vision in our mind, instead of what the body shows us. This inner vision shows us the rich and limitless Love in which we live. It shows us a world of peace where we dwell in the holiness of our Creator with all our brothers.

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