X. Open-Mindedness
1 The centrality of open-mindedness, perhaps the last of the attributes the teacher of God acquires, is easily understood when its relation to forgiveness is recognized. Open-mindedness comes with lack of judgment. As judgment shuts the mind against God’s Teacher, so open-mindedness invites Him to come in. As condemnation judges the Son of God as evil, so open-mindedness permits him to be judged by the Voice for God on His behalf. As the projection of guilt upon him would send him to hell, so open-mindedness lets Christ’s image be extended to him. Only the open-minded can be at peace, for they alone see reason for it.
My mind is closed if I listen to the ego. The ego has an agenda and it is for separation, for guilt, and for death. It isn’t interested in anything else. Those who listen to the ego must judge and judge harshly in order to uphold its agenda. But as we judge another, we have judged ourselves and we suffer for it because it separates us from each other and from God.
But when the mind is open to the truth, the Holy Spirit judges each person as wholly innocent. It is the Holy Spirit’s agenda to show us our Selves as we really are, to bring happiness and peace to the Sonship and to bring us back to our rightful place in the Kingdom.
We can’t see ourselves in God if we are holding grievances and the Sonship is not whole until all are seen within it. The only way I was able to become open-minded was to accept that there is never a justification for judgment, never a reason to hold a grievance. I learned to distrust the ego in every situation and to trust the Holy Spirit’s interpretation without exception.
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