X. The Equality of Miracles, P 9
9 This is characteristic of the ego’s judgments. Separately, they seem to hold, but put them together and the system of thought that arises from joining them is incoherent and utterly chaotic. For form is not enough for meaning, and the underlying lack of content makes a cohesive system impossible. Separation therefore remains the ego’s chosen condition. For no one alone can judge the ego truly. Yet when two or more join together in searching for truth, the ego can no longer defend its lack of content. The fact of union tells them it is not true.
Journal
I am not certain, but I believe it was Diederik Wolsak that said the following.
“It is so clear that what I do is irrelevant. It is the purpose behind it that gives what I do meaning. Confusion arises because my ego cannot distinguish between form and content and always rushes in to ‘improve’ form. Our financial system, our political system, our relationships are based on form and not on content. Time to turn inwards and embrace the content: giving and receiving Love.”
I think this perfectly illustrates what is being explained to us in this paragraph. Here is an example that I can think of. When I was married, I realized that my relationship with my husband was falling apart. I tried to recover it by looking outward for the problem. He was the problem. That seemed to make sense on the surface. I could see how true this was by observing his behavior. It was our financial situation. Many marriages that end do so over problems with money and so that seemed reasonable too. And many of our arguments and the pressures we experienced stemmed from financial strain.
I could see all sorts of things that I could “fix”. What I failed to see was that the form the problems took was just outward projections. The real problem was the content. A strong relationship is based on giving and receiving love. I would have done better had I looked within for the blocks to this love and allowed them to be removed for me by the Holy Spirit. Everything else would have flowed from that.
I have since learned that important lesson. The form (or the story) might alert me to the problem. But then I disregard the story and look at the content. What is it really about? If I am sick, the body’s illness is the form. What is the content? It is guilt, which is lack of love. Our stories can all seem different, but the content remains the same. It is either love or a lack of love.
But when we look only at the form the story takes, we miss the content altogether. Taken one at a time, we can make sense of judging by form. But if we start putting it all together, it feels like chaos. It feels like our problems stretch before us in an endless line, the end of which we will never reach. Each problem must be solved individually and as we try to do this, we fail more often than not.
If we start looking at the content, however, we see that all the problems are the same, love or lack of love. This understanding not only helps us to actually solve our problems but also shows us that the problems are not endless. We solve a number of problems and soon we see that they are all the same and so we solve the one problem and it is done.
Love is wholeness and lack of love is separation, so union is the solution. When we join in this search for truth, we are no longer separate and so the problem as we saw it before becomes indefensible. Our very joining proves that separation is not real. And instead of looking at each situation as if it is separate from all others, we look at each situation as being part of the one problem. This problem is the belief in separation, or to say it another way, the lack of love.
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