II. The Happy Learner, P 8
8 Behold your brothers in their freedom, and learn of them how to be free of darkness. The light in you will waken them, and they will not leave you asleep. The vision of Christ is given the very instant that it is perceived. Where everything is clear, it is all holy. The quietness of its simplicity is so compelling that you will realize it is impossible to deny the simple truth. For there is nothing else. God is everywhere, and His Son is in Him with everything. Can he sing the dirge of sorrow when this is true?
Journal
Just as Jesus tells us over and over that the darkness that seems to imprison us is nothing, he also tells us over and over that we find our release in our brother. How does that work? We release our brother and then we are released. We see in his freedom our own freedom. When we hold our brother hostage to our beliefs about him, we imprison our own mind and fail to see our own freedom.
Here is an example. I had an upsetting thought about my son yesterday. For awhile now I have been free from these kinds of thoughts. I gave them to the Holy Spirit over and over and finally left them there. But for some reason yesterday one of those negative thoughts found a sticking place in my mind. I had one unkind thought that had no basis in truth, not even in the shifting perceptions of the world. Just a stray thought, a memory of past transgressions and a “what if it is happening again” fear.
Suddenly I was right back there, judging and feeling anger and resentment and I lost the vision of my son. I traded it for the screwy perception of the ego mind. I was afraid, unhappy, sad and guilty. In other words, I saw darkness in him and I was suddenly standing in darkness and it felt awful. It only lasted a few minutes because I saw immediately what had happened and I let it go to the Holy Spirit. But for those few minutes I put him in hell and followed him there.
The opposite happens as well. Someone asked me for prayers. Their situation would seem impossible to the ego mind, but I see in that person something else, something not in trouble, not afraid, not guilty. I see them with a vision much closer to knowledge of who they really are. In that moment of clarity, I see myself with a vision much closer to knowledge of who I am. The words for this came later, but the feeling was happiness. I felt at peace and happy.
So now when I see someone behaving badly, or when I see someone depressed or angry, whenever I see someone who has forgotten who they are, I realize that is me over there. That is me expressing my untrue nature as if it is reality. That is my anger or depression being acted out by another part of the Sonship. I ask that my mind be healed of what I see in them. I ask for vision to see past the ego behaviors and to know who that is that I am looking at. And surely it is God, because God is everywhere and His Son is in Him with everything. And so It must also be in me.
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