Do not be afraid of the ego. ²It depends on your mind, and as you made it by believing in it, so you can dispel it by withdrawing belief from it. ³Do not project the responsibility for your belief in it onto anyone else, or you will preserve the belief. ⁴When you are willing to accept sole responsibility for the ego’s existence you will have laid aside all anger and all attack, because they come from an attempt to project responsibility for your own errors. ⁵But having accepted the errors as yours, do not keep them. ⁶Give them over quickly to the Holy Spirit to be undone completely, so that all their effects will vanish from your mind and from the Sonship as a whole.
The Holy Spirit will teach you to perceive beyond your belief, because truth is beyond belief and His perception is true. ²The ego can be completely forgotten at any time, because it is a totally incredible belief, and no one can keep a belief he has judged to be unbelievable. ³The more you learn about the ego, the more you realize that it cannot be believed.
The whole purpose of this course is to teach you that the ego is unbelievable and will forever be unbelievable. (A Course in Miracles, T-7.VIII.5:1–6:3;7:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
What we believe determines what we see. What we are in truth, is wholly unaffected by our beliefs. But if our beliefs deny the truth, we are unaware of our true Reality. The ego is the symbol of our beliefs. This is why it is important that we learn that none of the ego thought system is believable.
Having accepted the ego’s teachings, we need to open our mind to the lessons of a different Teacher. The first step in unlearning the ego’s lessons is to accept our responsibility for accepting these beliefs. The important next step is to return to the Holy Spirit with a mind receptive to His lessons which will undo the mistaken beliefs.
The Holy Spirit’s teachings are always lessons in Love. They show us our unbreakable connection with the Love of our Father and every brother. The Light of Love brings healing to the mind that believes in lovelessness.
As we learn to accept the Love we are, the fear and guilt brought by the ego’s beliefs fade away. All our searching in the world is motivated by the desire to return to Love. As we learn to follow the Holy Spirit’s lessons, we remember the Love which we never left in truth. We welcome the forgiven world in which we remember we are Love and nothing else.
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