A New Way to See

Senseless Judging

What I am learning from ACIM, seems to come in thoughts like the following:

Whenever I have a judging thought about anyone, it is really a judging thought I hold about myself. It is a condemning thought, hurled outwards in the attempt to be “innocent” because I already think that I’m guilty. So any judging thought is a useless attempt to rid myself of guilt. If I understood that the guilt is not real, because I never left God, then there would be no more projection and no reason to hold onto guilt.

It is only the false mind that maintains guilt is real and cannot be ignored. If I choose to see my brothers as guiltless, then I will learn that I must be guiltless too. My brothers show me the way home, if I will let the Right Mind guide me through the illusions I have made. The illusions will never protect me or buy me salvation. The illusions are really nothing but my belief in them has made them seem solid and very real. I must choose to let go of what I think is true. I must choose to let everything be redefined for me, by the Voice for Love. This One Teacher holds the truth for me, and will always share it with me when I truly lay down my definitions, or thinking that I know what anything means.

I concede that my dream does not make me happy—for I feel I’m in constant fear or conflict. I feel that I allow no room for peace into my day and scurry about trying to find solutions and making ends meet. This dream of conflict and fear only brings me feelings of tiredness, defeat, aloneness, lack, and despair. All this comes from the choice to follow the ego and make it’s world—it’s dream the way I move and think. The ego arose from a false thought and anything coming from it is only false as well.

The Course also teaches me that: Now it is my simple task to stop using the body as a defense against Love, against the extension of Love. And begin to use the body as an instrument for Love. It means to simply let go and accept a new way to look at the dream world, a way that is given me by the one Teacher. The one way that shows that every son is the guiltless Son of God. This way to see, is looking past the forms to see the holiness (wholeness) of Love’s Creation. To use the body for a new purpose of extending Love, is the way I will remember that guilt is never real, never justified and wholly without meaning. I ask the Holy Spirit to show me the truth in each brother. It is with His shining the Light, that I will be able to look past the forms, to the truth. It is in loving my brothers, that I will be loving my Father, and that is what my Heart longs for.

© 2004, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this notice is included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

Morning Reflections

It is only my illusions that I “see.” To me, my illusions are real, so I “live” in a world where the body is real and needs feeding, protection, and a source of money to supply it’s perceived needs.
If I do not follow the instructions for doing the Work Book lessons, it is because of fear to truly relinquish the identity of the body. I have played this game so “long” that I do not remember the truth. I do not remember that I am far more than a body. I am not an ego nor a personality housed in a body. If I gave up the identity with this “self” then what would I be?

Only as I’m willing to drop the thoughts that protect separation, will truth be revealed. My thoughts of illusion hide the thoughts of truth in my mind. A Judy Collin’s song comes to mind, the lyrics being: “It’s only illusions I recall, I really don’t know clouds; love; life at all.”

I am my own magician, making illusion after illusion. How can I really take anything seriously? Nothing is gained or lost in illusions. Images cannot affect me, unless I direct them to do so. It is the unconscious belief (hidden thought) that directs the illusion, my dream. I am allowing the sleeping mind run the dream, project the illusions. I am lost in picture after picture of a past that gets projected onto the screen. The good news is this can be undone.
It is undone as I am willing to see something different, or a new picture in place of the past images. I need only stop being the “master” magician.

Since it is only my illusions that I “see,” that is why only forgiveness will free me. It is my forgiving my illusions that frees me. Is is in accepting that illusions are not real, and only come from my mind, that will free me. Any pain, or the flip side of the coin, pleasure I experience seems to make the illusion real, but still it’s not real. The senses of the body only maintain the illusion but never show reality. What is real, lies behind all the illusions. A loving mind is really hidden behind the illusions.

My Inner Guide will show me the pictures that lead to a happy dream, the perception of a loving world. He gently reveals that mistaken pictures have no meaning at all. What can this bring, but simple relief? Simple peace?
How important are my illusions to me? Do they mean more than the peace and love that is my inheritance? Waking up is not hard to do—but it is a process, and my Guide is forever shining the Light, forever loving me, and leading me in the true direction of Home. He shows me that forgiveness is simple, it is my choice that sets me free

© 2004, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this notice is included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

One Voice

I was fortunate to be able to attend the Miracles Studies course at POL. We were given a little
extra assignment to do on our own time. We were to take one of the qualities found in the Manual for Teachers, and ask Spirit for more insight on how to use that quality in our life.

I had “honesty,” and what stood out to me was in the first paragraph, and sentence 4 of the second paragraph. I then sat in silence, after asking how I could stop deceiving myself and being in conflict. I share the following response with you.

Spirit: To let go of conflict, is to listen to one Voice. The many voices of ego land keep you confused, feeling in submission, defeated. Conflicting advice can not be constructive. And the voices you choose between only bring peace or pain. One is true, the other false, a poor imitation of what Love really speaks.

So, to be honest, to be without conflict, means to practice listening to one Voice, one Teacher.
You are indeed the director, producer and actor in your chosen script and one choice can bring freedom to the mind caught in the many stages.
Recognize, when you feel the twinge of pain however small, that you have made a poor choice and you have the right to choose again. Choose to be still and listen in perfect ease, to the Voice that removes every cloud and purifies every thought. This is what you truly desire in your heart—and listening to one Voice removes the conflicting thoughts that lead to conflicting action and results.

When you listen to one Voice, the problems that appeared as many are seen to be as one. When you listen to one Voice, the belief in sin (separation) is step by step cleared away. Listening to one Voice, you stop deceiving yourself with illusions and with fear stories. Self deception is seen for what it is, a block to Love’s Presence. You are never without the true Voice for Love—as you practice listening with consistency, you will not fear what this Voice will reveal to you. You are as Love created you.

© 2004, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this notice is included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

<< Back to main page of A New Way to See

Has this page been helpful to you?
Your contribution to support this site is greatly appreciated. To make a tax deductible contribution with a credit/debit card, click here.
Click here to donate from your PayPal account.
Or send a check to Pathways of Light, 12530 Lions Chase Court, Huntley, IL 60142.