Living A Course in Miracles — The Choice to Be Love

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The Choice to Be Love

The acceptance of sickness as a decision of the mind, for a purpose for which it would use the body, is the basis of healing.

What is the single requisite for this shift in perception? It is simply this; the recognition that sickness is of the mind, and has nothing to do with the body. What does this recognition “cost”? It costs the whole world you see, for the world will never again appear to rule the mind. For with this recognition is responsibility placed where it belongs; not with the world, but on him who looks on the world and sees it as it is not. He looks on what he chooses to see. No more and no less. The world does nothing to him. He only thought it did. Nor does he do anything to the world, because he was mistaken about what it is. Herein is the release from guilt and sickness both, for they are one. Yet to accept this release, the insignificance of the body must be an acceptable idea.

With this idea is pain forever gone. But with this idea goes also all confusion about creation. Does not this follow of necessity? Place cause and effect in their true sequence in one respect, and the learning will generalize and transform the world. The transfer value of one true idea has no end or limit. The final outcome of this lesson is the remembrance of God.” A Course in Miracles, (A Course in Miracles, M-5.II.2:1;3;4:1-6)

It doesn’t seem that we choose to see a world of disasters, conflict and death. This perception starts with believing we are a body. The body is an instrument of the ego, made to be blind to Love and see only images of separation. As long as we identify with the body, we will believe what we are seeing is real. We are choosing to accept a way of seeing that denies reality. We are responsible for this choice and the world we see is the effect of it. But the fact that it is a choice means there is another option.

This option is to choose to see with the vision of our true Self — to see with Love’s vision. Love sees no differences, no conflict, no loss. It sees only the eternal extension of Itself. When we choose this vision in our mind, we see Love’s reflection everywhere, because Love is everywhere.

As we practice choosing Love as our Guide, the importance of what the body sees and seems to do diminishes. We increasingly accept the fact that we are not a body. We are free to be the Love that is our true Nature. In every moment we are free to choose to accept that we are Love and nothing else as Love’s Creation.

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