IV. The End of Sickness P 5
5 You are not free to give up freedom, but only to deny it. You cannot do what God did not intend, because what He did not intend does not happen. Your gods do not bring chaos; you are endowing them with chaos, and accepting it of them. All this has never been. Nothing but the laws of God has ever been, and nothing but His Will, will ever be. You were created through His laws and by His Will, and the manner of your creation established you a creator. What you have made is so unworthy of you that you could hardly want it, if you were willing to see it as it is. You will see nothing at all. And your vision will automatically look beyond it, to what is in you and all around you. Reality cannot break through the obstructions you interpose, but it will envelop you completely when you let them go.
Journal
I am free regardless of the experience I have chosen. I cannot undo my Self. I can only choose to experience chaos instead of my natural state, which is peace. I am not being asked to re-make what I destroyed in my choice for separation, because nothing was destroyed. I am only being asked to accept what remains perfectly intact.
It cannot be difficult to simply accept what is true. And yet, I see that my sight is often determinedly fixed on the illusory state of being that I chose as my experience. I see separation everywhere I look. I see its affects; I see anger, fear, guilt, jealousy, sickness, all manner of suffering, and death. I see it as if it is real and true and the mind balks at the idea this is only an illusion and that the truth is its exact opposite.
This is the reason I give workshops and write about releasing guilt and accepting responsibility for our lives. I talk about how Jesus starts early, with Lesson 15 that tells us our thoughts are images we have made, and Lesson 152 that tells us that the world is a representation of our wishes. I remind myself all the time that Jesus says that we but do this to ourselves. I go back to Lesson 325 that describes the process we use to make the images that seem to be our lives.
I focus on this in my teaching because it helps me to learn to believe what Jesus tells us all through the Course. God creates the eternal and the unchanging. Nothing about us has changed even in the slightest. We remain as we were created. We are part of God and in God. Our minds are very holy, and there is nothing our holiness cannot do. And everything else is an imaginative representation of an idea that entered the mind of the Son. It is not real and could never be real no matter how realistic it seems.
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