³The Holy Spirit takes you gently by the hand, and retraces with you your mad journey outside yourself, leading you gently back to the truth and safety within. ⁴He brings all your insane projections and the wild substitutions that you have placed outside you to the truth. ⁵Thus He reverses the course of insanity and restores you to reason.
In your relationship with your brother, where He has taken charge of everything at your request, He has set the course inward to the truth you share. ²In the mad world outside you nothing can be shared but only substituted, and sharing and substituting have nothing in common in reality. ³Within yourself you love your brother with a perfect love. ⁴Here is holy ground, in which no substitution can enter, and where only the truth in your brother can abide. ⁵Here you are joined in God, as much together as you are with Him. ⁶The original error has not entered here, nor ever will. ⁷Here is the radiant truth, to which the Holy Spirit has committed your relationship. ⁸Let Him bring it here, where _you_ would have it be. ⁹Give Him but a little faith in your brother, to help Him show you that no substitute you made for Heaven can keep you from it. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.I.8:3–9:9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Our true Self, along with the Holy Spirit, is committed to the truth that we are one in God’s Love. As we commit to following the Holy Spirit’s lead, He will lead us out of our dream of conflict and loss. We cannot lose our oneness with God’s Love. But we can deny It and dream of a loveless world.
Today we bring every fearful or guilty thought, every thought of judgment, to the Holy Spirit. He will bring it to the truth and show us the truth beyond the veil of denial. With His help, we will see the Light of Love in every brother and dismiss the dream figures that have hidden it in our mind. We want to remember that we are Love and nothing else. With this practice, today will be joyful, peaceful and loving.
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