August 18, 2015

All that is real is Love. No exceptions. Anything that is not Love is not real. Love is our essence. Love is our desire. So why do we seek Love when we are Love. We decided to split from Love and try to make our own love apart from Love. Does that sound insane? The Course would say yes, but we tried anyway. The Course tells us:

Do you really believe that you can kill your real Self? The One has hidden us safely within Oneness, and kept us far away from our destructive thoughts, but we know neither the One nor our real Self because of our destructive thoughts. We attack the real world every day and every hour and every minute, and yet we are surprised that we cannot see the real world. If we seek love in order to attack it, you will never find it. 5 For if love is sharing, how can we find it except through itself? Offer love and love will come to you, because it is drawn to itself – love. But offer attack and love will remain hidden, for love can live only in peace. T-12.VIII.1.1-7

What do we want? Love! When do we want it? Uh…there’s a cheer in there somewhere. It’s our choice when we decide we want love enough to let go of our attempt to find it outside ourselves and instead look within to the guidance of Spirit. When we chose to align with the egoic thought system – the split mind – we separated ourselves from the awareness of Love within us. We separated ourselves from the awareness of who we really are. We could not possibly be aware of who we really are and align with our egoic thought system at the same time for that would be so conflicting we could not bear the conflict. The two are irreconcilable. The One holds our real Self-awareness protected in Oneness in readiness for our willingness to remember who we really are.

How beautiful is that Love? We are given free will to create, even in error, but our real Self is held for us unchanged and undamaged by whatever crazy mixed up “reality” we try to create for ourselves. One world is visible to us at any given time. The world we chose to see is the one visible to us. The other world becomes invisible. Even though the real world becomes invisible to us when we choose to align with our split mind – outside ourselves, it never leaves us. It is always held within us in Oneness for our return. Yet, when we choose to align with the real world within us, the temporal world we made up fades away into nothingness. This is the promise of salvation we have misunderstood. When we realize that we are not finding the Love we are seeking, we can turn from looking without to looking within and there see clearly with the Vision of Spirit held so close for us. Be just a little willing to let go of what we have made outside of us and look within to the Love that is already there. Love will come rushing to you for you are Love and you attract Love. There is no mistake about it.

I am reminded of a metaphor rom the theatre. The Course talks of a veil we have pulled over our sight blocking our awareness of the real world. In the theatre world there is a device called a scrim used to hide the part of the stage behind it. As long as there is no light behind the scrim, the audience cannot see what is behind it. They see only what is in front of it. But the instant light shines behind the scrim, the scrim seems to disappear and what has always been behind the scrim is fully visible. Our true Self is behind that veil, that scrim. It has always been and always will be there. We control the turning on of the lights. When we choose to let light shine on what is behind the veil, the scrim, we will see the Love that is within us, and all the Love there is will come to us and join us in the abundance of Love. What are we waiting for? Look within and let your light shine on the real world within you. There you will find all you have been seeking and more in its abundance.

The At-One-ment is but the way back to what was never lost. The One could not cease to love Us. T-12.VIII.1.8-9

August 11, 2015

Once we choose to look within and accept our function to extend and share peace and love, we will find peace and love which is already within us. Peace and love are not static, for they need to be freely shared to be vibrant. Peace and love are dynamic by nature and thus cannot remain static. The Course gives us this promise:

When you have accepted your mission to extend peace you will find peace, for by making it manifest you will see it. Its holy witnesses will surround you because you called upon them, and they will come to you. I have heard your call and I have answered it, but you will not look upon me nor hear the answer that you sought. That is because you do not yet want only that. Yet as I become more real to you, you will learn that you do want only that. And you will see me as you look within, and we will look upon the real world together. Through the eyes of Christ, only the real world exists and only the real world can be seen. As you decide so will you see. And all that you see but witnesses to your decision. T-12.VII.11.1-8

We must decide what we want, what we really want. A soul searching look within will reveal the desire to recognize our wholeness when we allow Spirit to guide our choice. We have no idea how much effort we have expended blocking Spirit’s guidance within our mind. We will sigh in great relief when we relinquish that effort and allow Spirit to guide our choices and wonder why we fought our true nature so diligently through all our separated days.

Whenever we look without, outside ourselves without the guidance of Spirit, and react unfavorably to what we see, we have condemned our consciousness to our egoic thought system – our split mind, judging ourselves unworthy. Nothing could be further from the truth, for we are undeniably worthy, whole and complete in our creation. Our egoic thought system cannot change who we are or mar our divine nature. However, it can block our awareness of that divine nature, wholeness and completeness when we align our mind with its desire to separate from our true nature. This mistaken thought system has convinced us we have displeased our Creator, a feat that is impossible for we are One with our Creator. Yet, we have believed this mistaken concept.

When we are tempted to yield to the desire to look outward and be apart, remember that Spirit holds our true nature in our mind, waiting for us to turn around and look within to the truth of our divine nature. Look within and again choose to accept our function to extend and share peace and love. We will find and recognize that same peace and love within us in all its dynamic grace and grandeur. See only what is within us that is eternal and limitless and free. It cannot be stopped. It cannot be compromised. Look within and allow Spirit to guide us back to the awareness of who we really are and look upon the world from within with divine loving eyes. We will see what we know we are. Look within and let it be so.

August 4, 2015

This section of the Course is so important for me. We must learn to look inside and trust what we see. For inside is reality. The wholeness, completeness and limitlessness of who we are is not visible to the physical eye. Nor is it visible at all. But its effects are apparent, even obvious. What is real is within us. And it will be reflected in our awareness in our mind if we will allow. Letting go of our rigid beliefs about how anything should appear is the key to allowing our true awareness to rise within us. We expend a great deal of effort squelching our spiritual sight. Yet it takes much less effort to let go of the squelching and allow Spirit to guide the rising of the awareness of who we really are in our mind. We turn our spiritual eyes away from what is outside of us and focus the on the Divine truth that is within us.

This Section, Section VII, opens with this:

Miracles demonstrate that learning has occurred under the right guidance, for learning is invisible and what has been learned can be recognized only by its results. Its generalization is demonstrated as you use it in more and more situations. You will recognize that you have learned there is no order of difficulty in miracles when you apply them to all situations. There is no situation to which miracles do not apply, and by applying them to all situations you will gain the real world. For in this holy perception you will be made whole, and the Atonement will radiate from your acceptance of it for yourself to everyone the Holy Spirit sends you for your blessing. In every child of the One, the One’s blessing lies, and in your blessing of the children of the One is the One’s blessing to you.   T-12.VII.1.1-6

Learning is invisible. Miracles are invisible. The real world is invisible. But, the results of all this will be apparent when we look within and see with our spiritual eyes. The world outside may or may not appear differently, but we will perceive it differently. We must all play our part in the redemption of the world – seeing it differently.

Likewise, Spirit is invisible. We see and experience the results of Spirit’s presence and guidance in our lives when we look within and allow ourselves to see with our inner Spirit Vision. This is the Vision that sees clearly and correctly. In its sight what is true and real remains or becomes evident and what is not real fades away. In this sight the world we think we see is transcended, for the real world and what is possible in the real world is far beyond the world we think we see outside ourselves. Our mind, with the guidance and partnership of Spirit, sees that as our function in Heaven is Creation, our function on earth is healing. As long as we believe otherwise about who we are, we will block our awareness of peace and who we really are.

We see what we believe about ourselves, and we believe the result of where we invite ourselves to look – inside or outside. What guidance have we chosen? The Course has this to say:

You see what you expect, and you expect what you invite. Your perception is the result of your invitation, coming to you as you sent for it. Whose manifestations would you see? Of whose presence would you be convinced? For you will believe in what you manifest, and as you look out so will you see in. Two ways of looking at the world are in your mind, and your perception will reflect the guidance you have chosen. T-12.VII.5.1-6

Which way of looking at the world have we chosen?   Which guidance have we chosen? Our choice is revealed in what world manifests in our mind. We believe the manifestation of the guidance we have chosen. If we are not happy with the manifestation we see we can choose our guidance again. Choose the guidance of Spirit and see the real world revealed within. Remember always to look within where the real you is waiting.

July 28, 2015

What have we invested ourselves in? Where have we placed our value? The indication of our self-value is where we have aligned our mind. When we invest our allegiance in the world outside of us, we impoverish ourselves. There is no profit in the world outside of us for there is nothing real there to invest in. Our perception of the outside world is purely conjecture for we have made it out of a mistaken premise that we are separate from it. There is no separation in reality. Our investment in a world outside of us cost’s us the world’s reality by denying our own reality and gives us nothing in return. We cannot sell our soul, but we can sell our awareness of our soul, thus we don’t recognize our true selves while we are invested in something else.

We do have strength even though we don’t realize it. This, from the text:

The Holy Spirit is your strength because Spirit knows nothing but the spirit as you. Spirit is perfectly aware that you do not know yourself, and perfectly aware of how to teach you to remember what you are. Because Spirit loves you, Spirit will gladly teach you what Spirit loves, for Spirit wills to share it. Remembering you always, Spirit cannot let you forget your worth. For the Creator never ceases to remind Spirit of Us – the One Child of God, and Spirit never ceases to remind Us of the Creator. The One is in your memory because of Spirit. You chose to forget your Creator but you do not really want to do so, and therefore you can decide otherwise. As it was my decision, so is it yours. T-12.VI.2.1-8

It is our decision to make. Do we want the world outside as we perceive it or do we want the world love extends in our thoughts. The world is in our thoughts so we must choose our thoughts and world with the guidance of Spirit who holds our reality for us.

In our belief in separation we blind ourselves to real vision. We end up seeing through the lens of perception which clouds and skews all we see. And we, having invested in that lens, believe it to be real. It appears to be outside of us because it is completely incompatible with the reality that remains within us. Yet, it blocks our awareness of what is within us. Within us is also the Vision of Christ. Spirit has held that for us as well and kept our true Vision whole. We cannot see with both visions, because our seeing based in separation is completely incompatible with our true Vision. When we choose to allow Spirit to guide our seeing, we will surely see the real world. We must learn the cost of seeing incorrectly through misperception and choose to place our investment in our Divine wholeness and the Heaven within us. We have denied the reality of our true self for so long that it may seem impossible to make the shift. Yet we need not do it alone. In fact it may be virtually impossible to do it alone. Spirit is waiting for our assent to allow It to move within us where It already is One with us. We are One. We are One with all Creation. Not a single bit of Reality is apart from us. This realization is the key to the awareness of who we really are.

 What is one cannot be perceived as separate, and the denial of the separation is the reinstatement of knowledge. At the altar of the One, the holy perception of Us becomes so enlightened that light streams into it, and the spirit of Us shines in the Mind of the One and becomes one with it. Very gently does the One shine upon All, loving the extension of the One that is Us. The world has no purpose as it blends into the purpose of the One. For the real world has slipped quietly into Heaven, where everything eternal in it has always been. There the Redeemer and the redeemed join in perfect love of Oneness and of each other. Heaven is your home, and being in the One it must also be in you. T-12.VI.7.1-7

Our true nature is the most natural thing we can imagine. Once we invest in the awareness of our Oneness we will wonder why we ever believed and thought differently. Our peace, joy and love is in this shift to the awareness of the Divine One we truly are in Communion with all Creation. Release all and let it go, for Spirit will draw us into the awareness of who we really are. This is what is.

July 21, 2015

Our potential is limitless. Once we decide to deny our denial of who we are and accept that we are whole, complete and limitless, we allow Spirit to move within us, recognizing that Spirit is One with us. The guidance we need to relearn we are love and that love is all there is flows within the holy Mind within us we have denied for so long. Misery is gone. Attack and defense are discarded by the side of the road and vanish into nothingness. We rest in the One Mind and forget we ever thought anything different. As we rest we extend the infinite love we are with each One, recognizing the whole in each One as they ask.

 Your learning potential, properly understood, is limitless because it will lead you to the One. You can teach the way to the One and learn it, if you follow the Teacher Who knows the way to Oneness and understands the One’s curriculum for learning it. The curriculum is totally unambiguous, because the goal is not divided and the means and the end are in complete accord. You need offer only undivided attention. Everything else will be given you. For you really want to learn aright, and nothing can oppose the decision We make. Our learning is as unlimited as we are. ACIM T-12.V.9.1-7

Make the choice today to release the insane curriculum we have become so attached to. Choose to allow Spirit to guide you in relearning the sane curriculum and find the peace, joy and love we have been seeking. We were seeking outside ourselves when it has always been within us. Let this sanity be our choice today and flow in the grace of love within us. Accept this sanity now and rest in the One and Be.

July 14, 2015

We choose either a sane curriculum or an insane curriculum. Which have you chosen? Is your life in the flow with love or are you riding the peaks and valleys of the egoic thought system, separation from love? At some point we chose to align our mind with the egoic thought system and believe we are separate. The result of this choice is to separate us from the awareness of who we are and the awareness of the power of love within us. Love thus appears to be limited and we see ourselves as weak and limited, needing to find love for ourselves somewhere out there in the world. Often, it appears that the only way to gain any love or power is to take it from another by attacking them. What we don’t realize in this limited way of thinking is that we are actually attacking ourselves and taking what we are seeking away from ourselves. This is the insane curriculum we have been learning by aligning our thoughts and minds with the belief in separation and the egoic thought system we made.

The truth is that we are love and lack nothing. We are unlimited, complete and whole in our true loving state, One with our Source and all Creation. We are one with all our brothers and sisters in this world and share all that is real equally. That doesn’t mean equal parts, but we share the totality of reality in our Oneness. The Course tells us this:

That is why the recognition of your own invulnerability is so important to the restoration of your sanity. For if you accept your invulnerability, you are recognizing that attack has no effect. Although you have attacked yourself, you will be demonstrating that nothing really happened. Therefore, by attacking you have not done anything. Once you realize this you will no longer see any sense in attack, for it manifestly does not work and cannot protect you. Yet the recognition of your invulnerability has more than negative value. If your attacks on yourself have failed to weaken you, you are still strong. You therefore have no need to “equalize” the situation to establish your strength. T-12.V.2.1-8

This is the sane curriculum. It is the learning that unlearns the insane curriculum and replaces it with sanity and the awareness of what is real.

We need a teacher that can transcend our mistaken allegiance to our egoic thought system, one that is not swayed by any belief in limitation. A teacher that knows the true power of real Love. Spirit is this teacher and Its Love is our strength. We do not embark on this sane curriculum alone, for Spirit is the teacher within us that guides us on this journey of learning the sane curriculum.

You have learning handicaps in a very literal sense. There are areas in your learning skills that are so impaired that you can progress only under constant, clear-cut direction, provided by a Teacher Who can transcend your limited resources. This Teacher becomes your Resource because of yourself you cannot learn. The learning situation in which you placed yourself is impossible, and in this situation you clearly require a special Teacher and a special curriculum. Poor learners are not good choices as teachers, either for themselves or for anyone else. You would hardly turn to them to establish the curriculum by which they can escape from their limitations. If they understood what is beyond them, they would not be handicapped. T-12.V.5.1-7

When we try to teach ourselves alone without Spirit’s guidance, we learn with very limited resources and understanding. Spirit is the Teacher that has held our true essence within us, knowing it cannot be harmed. We have always been and always are and will be who we really are, even though we have denied the awareness of that reality. The power of Love is within us waiting to be rediscovered as we allow Spirit to guide us on the sane curriculum that teaches us to see who we really are and recognize that every one of our brothers and sisters are One with us and our Source. As we release our mind to Spirit’s Teaching, we learn and remember the reality of our Divine wholeness. The sane curriculum, taught by our Teacher, is powerful in Love that has no limits. We already have what we are seeking within us. It is ours and there is no sane reason to attack anyone or anything to get it. Let go of the insane curriculum and allow Spirit to guide you in the sane curriculum that brings you home. Join together in the I Am flow of Divine Love.

July 7, 2015

If we are truly honest with ourselves, I think we will each say that what we are seeking is love. That is, real love. Love that brings us peace, completeness, wholeness and security. This sounds like we are seeking reality, and so we are. We have lost the awareness of reality by investing in the idea of separation and thus invested in our own egoic thought system we made up in our mind. And for our egoic thought system to exist, it invests in maintaining and reinforcing the belief that we are separate from each other and all creation, thus maintaining a split mind.

Everyone who believes their egoic thought system’s plan for salvation seems to be intensely engaged in seeking love. Yet the egoic thought system, though encouraging the search for love very actively, makes one provision; do not find it. This is the one thing the ego is completely consistent in. It does everything in its power to keep us from finding what we are really seeking. Thus the search we take guided by the egoic thought system is bound to be defeated. The Course tells us:

And since the ego also teaches that it is your identification, its guidance leads you to a journey which must end in perceived self-defeat. For the ego cannot love, and in its frantic search for love it is seeking what it is afraid to find. The search is inevitable because the ego is part of your mind, and because of its source the ego is not wholly split off, or it could not be believed at all. For it is your mind that believes in it and gives existence to it. Yet it is also your mind that has the power to deny the ego’s existence, and you will surely do so when you realize exactly what the journey is on which the ego sets you. ACIM T-12.IV.2,2-6

Our salvation, our certainty, is that we cannot completely sever our split mind from the One Mind. It is impossible. The fact is, the split is not possible at all for we always remain completely connected to the One. Any sense of being split is a complete illusion or a dream from which we will awaken.

The journey on which the belief in separation takes us is anything but joyous. Its purpose is to keep us from finding love and reality, wholeness and completeness. But Spirit offers us a different promise, one that will lead to joy. Spirit promises, “Seek and you will find.” As we accept Spirit’s guidance, we cannot fail and we will not be defeated. The Course tells us this about our journey:

You will undertake a journey because you are not at home in this world. And you will search for your home whether you realize where it is or not. If you believe it is outside you the search will be futile, for you will be seeking it where it is not. You do not remember how to look within for you do not believe your home is there. Yet the Holy Spirit remembers it for you, and will guide you to your home because that is Spirit’s mission. As Spirit fulfills Its mission Spirit will teach you yours, for your mission is the same. By guiding each other home you are but following the One. ACIM T-12.IV.5.1-7

Changing our belief about who we are is the healing of our mind that is Atonement. In our mind’s healing we begin to awaken to the reality that we are really One and that there is no separation. Spirit is our guide on this journey showing us in each one we encounter a lesson in seeing who we really are, seeing the Divine within. Our journey is not an outside journey, it is an inner journey. Spirit guides us to and interprets every lesson on this journey if we will allow ourselves to see. The return to the awareness of our own Divine essence is inevitable. It’s our choice when we will allow ourselves to go there. Choose now and let us be on our way to the awareness of Heaven and Love within us.

June 30, 2015

We know not what we do. We do not realize what we do when we believe the mistaken idea of separation, the mistaken belief that we are not who we really are. Identifying with separation, the alignment with the egoic thought system, is to attack ourselves and make ourselves seem poor. Thus we feel deprived. We then experience depression or anger among a myriad of other feelings because we have exchanged Self-love for self-hate, making us afraid of ourselves. And we have believed this so thoroughly that we don’t realize we have done this. No matter how aware we are of our anxieties, depression or anger, we do not recognize its source as our own identification with our own egoic thought system, so we attempt to resolve it with some arrangement with the world we think we see. Since we believe the world we think we see is outside of us, we never get to the root of the problem and thus our attempts at resolution are futile. We do not realize that we make the world we think we see, for there is no world outside of us and our mind.

The real world is the loving thoughts that are in the Mind of the One Child of God, all of us in Oneness. This truth has always been, is now and will always be. This is incontrovertible. Our mistaken “insane” thoughts are also in our mind, creating an internal conflict of such magnitude that is intolerable. Our recognition that a split mind encompassing completely opposing thoughts within itself, and that this is completely intolerable, cause the mind to project the split, not the reality. Thus, everything we perceive as the outside world is mainly our attempt to maintain our egoic thought system identification. We believe this world we made up is real, more real than reality, and we are at odds with it because we think it is antagonistic to us. This antagonistic world, or any world we see outside ourselves, is not reality. Reality is within our mind. Reality is only love. Our real thoughts are loving thoughts. This “other” world we believe we see outside ourselves is also within our minds. We must first accept that this is so to begin to get rid of it by releasing our attachment to its reality and thus begin to see and perceive the world as it really is, completely loving.

How do we escape this misery? How do we resolve this conflict in our minds? The Course tells us this:

If you will recognize that all the attack you perceive is in your own mind and nowhere else, you will at last have placed its source, and where it begins it must end. For in this same place also lies salvation. The altar of the One where Oneness abideth is there. You have defiled the altar, but not the world. Yet the One has placed the Atonement on the altar for you. Bring your perceptions of the world to this altar, for it is the altar to truth. There you will see your vision changed, and there you will learn to see truly. From this place, where the One and the One Holy Child dwell in peace and where you are welcome, you will look out in peace and behold the world truly. Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as you project it, allowing the Holy Spirit to extend the real world to you from the altar of the One. T-12.III.10.1-9

It is really a matter of release rather than accomplishing. Letting go of our alignment with the egoic thought system we made is a most freeing release. It takes little effort compared to the effort we expend to maintain our belief in separation contrary to our Oneness. Take a moment, decide to be open to Spirit’s guidance and let reality flood your mind with what is already there – the awareness of who we really ate.

June 23, 2015

We are in this world to give and receive – share – love. We are here to find our way back to the awareness of love and to answer the call for love of others. When we are attached to this world, it is difficult for us to see the reality of love from the perspective of our egoic thought system until we decide to ask Spirit for guidance. Once we accept Spirit’s guidance, we can then recognize others’ calls for love and be in a state of mind where we can understand their belief in their lack. We are much more likely to be truly helpful when another sees that we understand and have experienced where they think they are. This is what Jesus meant when he asked his disciples to sell all they had and give it to the poor. We must know where our treasure is to be able to share it with others who do not know. Are we invested in our real treasure or are we invested in lack or the things of this world?

A similar condition arises when another asks us to do something we think we don’t want to do. That one’s insistence demonstrates their belief that their salvation lies in it. In refusing to do what they ask, we may create opposition in that one which demonstrated that we believe our salvation lies in not doing what they ask. Is opposition truly helpful? The Course asks us, Would you rather be right or happy? What are we invested in? Our investment is always related to our notion of salvation and reality. As with all other actions in this world, ask Spirit for guidance. When someone asks us to do something, ask Spirit how we can be truly helpful. Perhaps doing what another asks will show them love and won’t hurt anyone or make any real difference in reality. Then we have answered their call for love and perhaps allowed them to be willing to see a little differently. Are we invested in being right or in being happy? Investing in reality rather than separation always brings happiness and peace.

Salvation is healing and healing is always of the mind. It has nothing to do with the world, just our mind. Salvation and healing are attained or recognized through peace. Any response other than love arises out of an investment in our egoic thought system. The Course tells us:

Salvation is for the mind, and it is attained through peace. This is the only thing that can be saved and the only way to save it. Any response other than love arises from a confusion about the “what” and the “how” of salvation, and this is the only answer. Never lose sight of this, and never allow yourself to believe, even for an instant, that there is another answer. For you will surely place yourself among the poor, who do not understand that they dwell in abundance and that salvation is come. T-12.III.5.1-5

Recognize what does not really matter. Ask Spirit – your Higher Holy Self – for guidance in recognizing what does and does not matter. Do not make it matter to you, for then you have invested in the world and lack and made the unreal seem real to you. Thus you have placed in your mind another block to your awareness of who you really are. No “outrageous” requests can be made of one who recognizes what is truly valuable and real and does not want to accept nothing else. Remember, nothing unreal exists, nor does it matter. What does matter is recognizing and answering another’s call for love. Ask Spirit for guidance and let it be so.

June 16, 2015

Do not let anything stand in the way of love. Nothing can withstand the power of love, unless we hide it from love. Awake and remember your purpose, for it is your will to fulfill your purpose. Our purpose is to share love, giving and receiving the unlimited love we are. There is nothing that can block this purpose, nothing that can take away this purpose and nothing that can destroy this purpose. Our purpose goes on in eternity, never beginning or ending. The only thing that can interrupt this is our lapsing into an unawareness that we are love. If we allow the distractions of our egoic thought system – a mistaken way of thinking rooted in our belief in the thought that we are not love – to occupy our mind, we block our awareness of who we really are and our true divine purpose. Little do we realize we have a divine purpose and we share that divine purpose with all of Creation.

We cannot, nor do we need to, fulfill this divine purpose alone. To attempt to do this alone is contrary to the very idea of sharing. We must come together to share. We must join in unity to share. To divide and separate is completely foreign to sharing. Yet we still hang on to our mistaken idea that we are separate and need to “get” some little part of a limited “something” to find love. We have Spirit to guide us to the fulfillment of our purpose. Not only is Spirit there to guide us, but Spirit is already within us holding us in Its love waiting for us to ask for guidance. Perhaps we think Spirit is hiding from us. However, the opposite is true. We are hiding from Spirit. We are hiding from the One, our Source, who we are One with. In essence, we are hiding from our true Self! As long as we hide one thought, one idea, one fear from the light of Spirit within us, we remain in the darkness made by that one wall that blocks our full awareness of who we really are and our divine love.

 There is no fear in perfect love. We will but be making perfect to you what is already perfect in you. You do not fear the unknown but the known. You will not fail in your mission because I did not fail in mine. Give me but a little trust in the name of the complete trust I have in you, and we will easily accomplish the goal of perfection together. For perfection is, and cannot be denied. To deny the denial of perfection is not so difficult as to deny truth, and what we can accomplish together will be believed when you see it as accomplished. T-12.II.8.1-7

As it states in this paragraph from this section, we accomplish this together. We accomplish this together with Spirit, with the Christ Spirit, and also with each other. Every One we encounter in this world is one we are meant to join with in Oneness. We are to recognize perfection in each other, not by looking at how they appear in this world, but beyond that appearance to the divine perfection beyond we share with them in Oneness. Trust in each other that we are the divine love we are and look beyond the appearance that anything else is real. Once we pull down all the walls that are keeping our belief in fear, attack and guilt hidden, the light of divine love will shine away any doubt that they are unreal and do not exist at all.

We are embarking on an organized, well structured and carefully planned program aimed at learning how to offer Spirit everything we do not want. Spirit knows what to do with it and will guide us in doing so. Yet we must be willing to look at everything we have hidden, for otherwise it remains hidden to Spirit and cannot be released from our mind. As long as we hide any thought from the light of Spirit and love, we cannot release it and let it go and it therefore keeps us limited. It is time to release all the thoughts we have hidden in the dark recesses of our egoic mind and remember the divine nature of who we really are. We are complete, whole and perfect and are divine love itself. Be who you are.