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

ACIM T-27.III Beyond the Symbols

July 5, 2011

As we go along in life we make each one we encounter a symbol of some idea. That symbol reflects what the condition of our relationship is with each of them. Most often that symbol is some idea that doesn’t make any sense. The symbols we make can only stand for nothingness for they are not based in reality. They are not based in the reality of who we really are, so they are meaningless and therefore nothing.

Because these symbols are nothing, they also cause no interference in the changing of our mind, in the opening of our awareness of Truth. The thoughts and perceptions we have made up and defined each other as is therefore easily changed if we are willing to let go of our attachment to these mistaken ideas and thoughts. We have given these thoughts and ideas power that is not real by believing in them and therefore renders them powerless. This is “powerless power”. How’s that for an insane idea? But at any moment we always have the choice of what we believe whether true or illusion.

Spirit asks us to take a moment and let our mind entertain the idea that what we have thought to be true and real just might not be so. If we allow Spirit to shine its light on all our thoughts and ideas what is true and real will remain. And what is not will quickly fade away into nothingness. What is real, what is true about each other will fill the void left by the emptiness of our mistaken thoughts and symbols. There is no trick to this. There are no hoops to jump through. All we need is just a simple willingness to let Spirit show us the truth about each other. We simply surrender our need for everything to be as we alone think it should be.

The joy of our awareness of our Oneness with each other is a blessed gift that asks us simply and only to be who we really are. A simple shift in our thinking is the key to the opening of the realm of God within us and the awareness that we all are the One Child of God, forever One with each other and all of Creation. In this state of awareness and being will we find the everlasting peace, love and joy of Heaven. Let it be so.

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