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II. The Invitation to Healing, P 7
7 Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God? You will accept only whom you invite. You are free to determine who shall be your guest, and how long he shall remain with you. Yet this is not real freedom, for it still depends on how you see it. The Holy Spirit is there; although He cannot help you without your invitation. And the ego is nothing, whether you invite it in or not. Real freedom depends on welcoming reality, and of your guests only the Holy Spirit is real. Know, then, Who abides with you merely by recognizing what is there already, and do not be satisfied with imaginary comforters, for the Comforter of God is in you.
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There is only one kind of healing, the healing of the mind. From a healed mind, a healed world is reflected. The only way to heal the mind is to invite the Holy Spirit to look with us on what is not healed and to undo what we see there. In joining with the Holy Spirit, we join with God, and we know our Oneness.
This is our function, our only function and the only way we are going to Awaken and achieve peace. The Holy Spirit waits with us as we make this decision. As we call to Him, He steps forward and lights our way. When we look to the ego for comfort and guidance, the Holy Spirit steps back. He must do this because He cannot override our will.
What we discover is that the ego is not a comfort and guides us deeper into nowhere. Eventually we must return to our true Guide because no one will choose darkness forever. The way this has unfolded in my life and probably in most lives, is that I don’t make this choice only once, but over and over. Each time I make the choice for God, the ego gets smaller and less substantial in my mind, and the choice for God is easier to make.
Let us not be satisfied with imaginary comforters, for the Comforter of God is in us.
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