A Course In Miracles – San Jose Karl J Vidt, ACIM Student/Teacher

ACIM T.24.II The Treachery of Specialness

June 18, 2019

Look within yourself to the loveliness there, when you have looked on another as on a friend. The One we travel with is our escape from specialness, and our friend to what is real in us. No attack we have made on our friend has taken from them the gift that Source would have them give us. Their need to give it is as great as ours to have it. Let them forgive us all our specialness, and make us whole in mind and one with them. The One we walk with now waits for our forgiveness only that they may return it to us. We are the ones who have condemned each other by saving our specialness and denying our true Self.

You have come far along the way of truth; too far to falter now. Just one step more, and every vestige of the fear of God will melt away in love. Your friend’s specialness and yours are enemies, and bound in hate to kill each other and deny they are the same. Yet it is not illusions that have reached this final obstacle which seems to make God and Heaven so remote that They cannot be reached. Here in this holy place does truth stand waiting to receive you and your friend in silent blessing, and in peace so real and so encompassing that nothing stands outside. Leave all illusions of yourself outside this place, to which you come in hope and honesty.   T-24.II.9:1-6

We are each other’s savior – a savior from the mistaken identity we have given each other through specialness. We may have attacked them and they may have attacked us. Those “attacks” have no real power. Yes, they appear to have injured us physically or emotionally, but that hurt is not real and not lasting. It becomes nothing when we allow ourselves to look at each other through Spirit eyes to the holiness within each and every one of us. Each of us are holy. Each of us are pure. The reality of each of us is love ad peace. We can act hateful when we lose sight of who we really are, but we cannot do any real harm. Our intention to extend love and peace is all that can be real. Anything else is empty. We are each other’s savior from our specialness simply by relinquishing our belief in specialness. Let it go, for when we let it go in our friend, it is no longer in us.

You are your friend’s; part of love was not denied to them. But can it be that you have lost because they are complete? What has been given them makes you complete, as it does them. Source’s Love gave you to them and them to you because Source gave Itself. What is the same as Source is one with Source. And only specialness could make the truth of Source and you as one seem anything but Heaven, with the hope of peace at last in sight.   T-24.II.11:1-6

Specialness – or our belief in specialness – is the means by which we deny ourselves peace and love and the awareness of who we really are. It serves as a block to our awareness, keeping what we want hidden from us even while it is all around us. The Ones in this world we encounter hold the key to love and peace for us and are waiting for us to be ready for the door to peace and love to be opened. There is nothing delaying this transformation for any of us except our unwillingness to let go of our attraction to specialness. All of us are complete. All of us are whole. All of us are limitless. And all of us are holy. Our awareness of our holiness is waiting for us to accept our own holiness and the holiness of each other. There is the door opened to our togetherness in Oneness. Stop a moment, look around you, and reawaken to the fullness of who you really are. This is finding Heaven on earth right now.

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