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.
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