⁶What the body’s eyes behold is only conflict. ⁷Look not to them for peace and understanding.
Illusions are always illusions of differences.
⁷When he realizes they are all illusions they will disappear.
“The body’s eyes will continue to see differences. ²But the mind that has let itself be healed will no longer acknowledge them. ³There will be those who seem to be “sicker” than others, and the body’s eyes will report their changed appearances as before. ⁴But the healed mind will put them all in one category; they are unreal. ⁵This is the gift of its Teacher; the understanding that only two categories are meaningful in sorting out the messages the mind receives from what appears to be the outside world. ⁶And of these two, but one is real. ⁷Just as reality is wholly real, apart from size and shape and time and place—for differences cannot exist within [reality]—so too are illusions without distinctions. ⁸The one answer to sickness of any kind is healing. ⁹The one answer to all illusions is truth. (A Course in Miracles, M-8.1:6–2:1;5:7;6)
We have taught ourselves that differences are real. We depend on the appearances of differences to function in a dream of differences. This self-taught lesson keeps us embedded in the dream. To wake up from this dream, we need a Teacher from outside this dream.
To awaken from this fearful and guilty dream, we need to welcome our inner Teacher’s lessons in Love. The practice of asking for the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of our perceptions to replace our own brings Light into our darkened mind.
As we welcome His lessons, the appearances that seem to affect us diminish. We learn to look past appearances to the presence of Love in everyone and everything. We learn that the appearances are unreal and dismiss them. Our dreams become more loving and Light filled. Peace replaces conflict. Joy replaces sadness and a sense of loss. And the differences we perceive fade into the oneness of Love.
We can make this year all the same as we let our mind be taught that only Love is real.
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