You see the flesh or recognize the spirit. ²There is no compromise between the two. ³If one is real the other must be false, for what is real denies its opposite. ⁴There is no choice in vision but this one. ⁵What you decide in this determines all you see and think is real and hold as true. ⁶On this one choice does all your world depend, for here have you established what you are, as flesh or spirit in your own belief. ⁷If you choose flesh, you never will escape the body as your own reality, for you have chosen that you want it so. ⁸But choose the spirit, and all Heaven bends to touch your eyes and bless your holy sight, that you may see the world of flesh no more except to heal and comfort and to bless.
Salvation is undoing. ²If you choose to see the body, you behold a world of separation, unrelated things, and happenings that make no sense at all. …⁶Salvation is undoing of all this. ⁷For constancy arises in the sight of those whose eyes salvation has released from looking at the cost of keeping guilt, because they chose to let it go instead.
Salvation does not ask that you behold the spirit and perceive the body not. ²It merely asks that this should be your choice. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VI.1;2:1-2,6–3:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Do we want to keep our unique identity in a world of differences? The price we pay for this identity is a “life” of uncertainty, loss, pain, fear and guilt, and ultimately death.
But if we are willing to recognize the spirit in which we are eternally joined with our Creator in the oneness of changeless Love, all effects of choosing a body as our identity are undone. We experience the comfort, peace and joy, free of pain, fear and guilt. We live in the constant flow of giving and receiving Love. Today we choose to recognize that we are spirit.
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