I want the peace of God.
To say these words is nothing. ²But to mean these words is everything. ³If you could but mean them for just an instant, there would be no further sorrow possible for you in any form; in any place or time. ⁴Heaven would be completely given back to full awareness, memory of God entirely restored, the resurrection of all creation fully recognized.
No one can mean these words and not be healed. ²He cannot play with dreams, nor think he is himself a dream. ³He cannot make a hell and think it real. ⁴He wants the peace of God, and it is given him. ⁵For that is all he wants, and that is all he will receive.
The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. ²And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.
No one who truly seeks the peace of God can fail to find it. ²For he merely asks that he deceive himself no longer by denying to himself what is God’s Will. ³Who can remain unsatisfied who asks for what he has already? ⁴Who could be unanswered who requests an answer which is his to give? ⁵The peace of God is yours. (A Course in Miracles, W-185.1:1–2:5;6:1-2;11:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 185 Insights.)
The wish for a special unique identity brings with it uncertainty and chaos. Uniqueness must be constantly defended in a dream where other figures are in search of the same specialness. The dream focuses on comparisons and finding differences. Where there are differences there is conflict. Peace is impossible.
When we honestly want the peace of God, the circumstances that bring peace come to us. No longer are we seeking to be different. Instead we seek to join in the oneness of Love. There are no differences in Love so there is no conflict or uncertainty. Our true Self is the peace that seems to be missing in the dream. Our innate desire is to remember the Love we are. In this we find the peace of God. It really is all that we want. We no longer seek to maintain a unique identity.
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