To think and reason wisely is your inheritance. Say
these words daily that the world may be benefited by you: "My
Mind is God." ECH
As Emmet Fox, talking of true teachers, stated in 1933 "they tell you to look away from themselves, to seek the Presence of God in your own heart, and to use books, lectures, and churches only as a means to that one end".
By applying
the Holy Spirit's interpretation of the reactions of others more and more
consistently, you will gain an increasing awareness that HIS criteria are
equally applicable to YOU. For to RECOGNIZE fear is not enough to escape FROM
it, although the recognition IS necessary to demonstrate the NEED for escape.
The Holy Spirit must still TRANSLATE it into truth. If you were LEFT with the
fear, having RECOGNIZED it, you would have taken a step AWAY from reality, not
TOWARDS it. Yet we have repeatedly emphasized the need to recognize fear, and
face it WITHOUT DISGUISE, as a crucial step in the undoing of the ego. Consider
how well the Holy Spirit's interpretation of the motives of others will serve
you then.
Having taught you to accept only loving thoughts in others, and to regard
everything else as an appeal for help, He has taught you that FEAR is an appeal
for help. This is what RECOGNIZING it really means. If you do NOT PROTECT it,
HE will reinterpret it. That is the ultimate value TO YOU in learning to
perceive attack as a call for love. We have learned surely that fear and attack
are inevitably associated. If ONLY attack produces fear, and if you see attack
as the call for help that it IS, the REALITY of fear MUST dawn upon you. For
fear IS a call for love, in unconscious recognition of what has been denied. The
Judgment Of The Holy Spirit~ACIM~urText
A Course In Miracles says that "The Holy Spirit sees everything in the
world as either an expression of love or a call for love." (Acim T.217).
The call for love is expressed as a form of fear
(anger, resentment, frustration, sadness, attack, wanting to fix someone). And
it’s mutually inclusive. Examine your thoughts. Are you neutral?
Thoughts
on “THOUGHTS”.
Morty Lefkoe teaches events
have no meaning in themselves. It is the meaning we give things based on our
beliefs. And we are the creator of our own emotions.
When we can see the “call for love” under difficult behavior, forgiveness naturally occurs,
and we are left in a state of compassion rather that locked into anger, fear,
or guilt. It is our compassionate mind than can then make proactive decisions
which result in a more positive life.
"Projection
makes perception"
We look inside first, decide the kind of world we want to
see and then project that world outside, making it the truth as we see it. We
make it true by our interpretations of what it is we are seeing. If we are
using perception to justify our own mistakes—our anger, our impulses to attack,
our lack of love in whatever form it may take—we will see a world of evil,
destruction, malice, envy and despair. All this we must learn to forgive, not
because we are being "good" and "charitable," but because
what we are seeing is not true. We have distorted the world by our twisted defenses,
and are therefore seeing what is not there. As we learn to recognize our
perceptual errors, we also learn to look past them or "forgive." At
the same time we are forgiving ourselves, looking past our distorted
self-concepts to the Self That God created in us and as us.
Knowledge
is truth, under one law, the law of love or God. Since love is all there is,
sin, defined as "lack of love", in the sight of the Holy Spirit is a
mistake to be corrected, rather than an evil to be punished.
The opposite of seeing through
the body's eyes is the vision of Christ, which reflects strength rather than
weakness, unity rather than separation, and love rather than fear.
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