Excerpt from Lesson 262: Let me perceive no differences today.
(ACIM, W-262)
This is a conversation I had with the Holy Spirit when I was just learning to see differently.
Me: Holy Spirit, what do you have to say to me this morning about today’s lesson? How can I move past what my eyes show me, that is, a world of differences, and see a world of one?
Holy Spirit: Precious one, the eyes show you only what the mind wants to see. Look upon the world, and you will see your wishes played out before you. Then it is a matter of changing your mind about what you want, and as you change your mind about what you want to see, your perception changes.
Me: And so the raging monster becomes the frightened child acting out his fear?
Holy Spirit: Yes, that is so. And what seemed to be a disaster, with acceptance and love, becomes your next step home.
Me: Holy Spirit, yesterday I noticed separation thoughts in the form of judgment. These two people keep coming back into my life, and each time I find myself in judgment of them. Why is it so hard to let go of this feeling of separation in their cases? They have not done something really horrible. I don’t understand my resistance.
Holy Spirit: What have you failed to forgive within yourself that you have projected upon these holy children of God.
All hatred is self-hatred. Do not search your mind but simply rest in God a moment and allow the answer to rise gently to the surface of your awareness. Your resistance to knowing what needs to be forgiven is your resistance to seeing it and knowing it has made a home in your mind.
I assure you that you are not condemned because you have carried an ego belief. It seems to you yet that some ego beliefs are worse than others, and therefore you are afraid to look within that you might find the one unforgivable thought. But I tell you that all ego thoughts are one ego thought. Any thought that is not love is simply a thought that is not love. The many forms these ego thoughts take distract from this fact but do not change it.
Me: Holy Spirit, the word that keeps coming into my mind is value.
Holy Spirit: Yes, if you value the ego thought, you will keep it.
One of the ways to keep a thought that is not true is to justify it. You look upon the actions of a brother and see wrongdoing rather than error; in this way, you justify your failure to forgive. Another way you keep a thought is to “turn a blind eye” to it, that is, to refuse to understand what is happening. If you have a thought in your mind, you know very well it is there.
Me: You caught me! I am guilty of doing just that. I said yesterday that I did not know why I cannot forgive these people.
Holy Spirit: No child, you are not guilty; you are merely placing a value on keeping a certain thought. This is not a sin, only an error. You have given value to what has no value. Are you willing to know you are wrong about being guilty?
Me: Thank you, Holy Spirit. I don’t know how to express my gratitude that you remain within me, unchanged and ever ready to take me to the truth.
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