Day 54
6 The body’s eyes will continue to see differences. But the mind that has let itself be healed will no longer acknowledge them. There will be those who seem to be “sicker” than others, and the body’s eyes will report their changed appearances as before. But the healed mind will put them all in one category; they are unreal. This is the gift of its Teacher; the understanding that only two categories are meaningful in sorting out the messages the mind receives from what appears to be the outside world. And of these two, but one is real. Just as reality is wholly real, apart from size and shape and time and place-for differences cannot exist within it-so too are illusions without distinctions. The one answer to sickness of any kind is healing. The one answer to all illusions is truth.
Oh man! This is so helpful. I love simplicity. I look at what the body’s eyes show me and I sort in only one way; is it true? In the past when someone’s body appeared ravished with sickness, my mind would decide how sick they were and what were the possibilities for healing. Some sicknesses cannot be healed, I am told. A friend has Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. The world says this cannot be cured. The doctors told her, go home and put your affairs into order and make the most of what time you have left.
If I accept what I see, and accept what I am told by others who can only see with the body’s eyes, the options are limited. Maybe I can scour the internet for some alternative healing. We can all pray that the diseased body be healed and get our miracle this way. Or maybe the best thing is to accept what is happening to the body as perfect for this person. I could avoid my friend so I don’t have to see it and feel inadequate because I don’t know what to do. These are all thoughts I have had about sickness.
What I was overlooking is the most basic of all answers. There is not a worse disease, or a more horrible disease, or an incurable disease. Disease is either true or it is not true, and this includes all the many forms in which ego projects its belief in suffering pain and death. If disease is true then God is not, because disease is not in God.
The only answer to sickness is healing. Healing occurs at the source of the sickness which is the beliefs held in the mind. What difference does it make how the sickness manifests if the cause is a belief in sickness? Sickness is a thought. Healing is a different thought. Do I have a bigger thought or a smaller thought? Hahaha. That’s funny to think of.
What are my eyes showing me? Is it an illusion? The answer to all illusion is truth. I see my dear sister in law and my body’s eyes report a body suffering from emphysema. My heart shows me something different. It shows me my sister in God, perfection itself. Do I get tempted by the ego’s picture? Yes, sometimes. But then I am attracted to the brilliance of her true self, I feel the Holy Spirit in me touching the Holy Spirit in her, and I am back to reality.
My sister in law has chosen to use her story of sickness to help her wake up because she recognizes her purpose. My part in her story, of course, is to use it to help us wake up. We share one purpose in this and so strengthen each other. No matter how many times the ego invites us to return to fear, we are always willing to hear the Voice for God calling us to truth and to healing. We refuse to be undone by the appearance of illusions.
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