November 8, 2016
One of the things we try to combat in this world is loneliness. Most of the time we do not want to feel lonely. So, we try to resolve loneliness by being with other people. This may make sense in the temporal world, but it often disappoints us. Those we have chosen to make us feel not lonely, often let us down or disappoint us. Then we blame them for the loneliness we experience. The Course explains that what we are doing is trying to avoid loneliness by joining bodies while trying to keep separate minds and hiding thoughts from each other. We are looking for communication while we are hiding part of ourselves from each other, even those we think we want to join with.
The Course teaches us we are One in the Mind of God, the One. Our true nature is divine as we are One with the Divine. The Course also teaches we are not bodies, but thoughts of God. Because we are of the One Mind, we are in constant communication with our Source and each other through the One Mind we all share. Because we are One, we are inseparable and cannot sever communication. Yet, we have believed the mistaken idea that we are separate and have blocked our awareness of our Oneness and our communication in the One Mind. So, we try to reestablish communication through the body and a separate identity we made. We also try to protect ourselves from each other by hiding some of our thoughts we feel would jeopardize the temporal connections with others we have established on the lower or physical level. Thus, have we “sacrificed” what is real – Oneness – for something less – special relationships. The basis of this mistake is the fear of loneliness. We also believe that we must keep our minds private or we will lose them.
As we remain attached to the idea that we are all bodies, we keep each other imprisoned in the idea that we are bodies and separate. We keep each other imprisoned in the idea that communication happens at the temporal or lower physical level and keep our awareness of true communication and our true nature blocked. Forgiveness – the healing of the mind – cannot happen at the temporal level, for it transcends the lower level and heals at the spiritual level. As long as we remain attached to the physical identity we made, we will remain unaware of our true identity and our divine nature. Forgiveness is the shift in awareness from seeing each other as separate to realizing we are all One and that all that is real is shared. We are whole, complete, limitless and divine. Love and peace dwell within us and we will realize that fact when we allow Spirit to guide our thoughts. This may seem impossible now, but it is realized in the holy instant.
It is through the holy instant that what seems impossible is accomplished, making it evident that it is not impossible. In the holy instant guilt holds no attraction, since communication has been restored. And guilt, whose only purpose is to disrupt communication, has no function here. Here there is no concealment, and no private thoughts. The willingness to communicate attracts communication to it, and overcomes loneliness completely. There is complete forgiveness here, for there is no desire to exclude anyone from your completion, in sudden recognition of the value of their part in it. In the protection of your wholeness, all are invited and made welcome. And you understand that your completion is God’s, Whose only need is to have you be complete. For your completion makes you God’s in your awareness. And here it is that you experience yourself as you were created, and as you are. T-15.VII.14:1-10
Allow the desire for true communication to rise in your mind. Allow Spirit to guide you in forgiveness and heal your mind into the awareness of the Oneness you are. Experience the love and peace that well up within you as you release all from the imprisonment of your belief in separation. We are all One, and all is well in the awareness of Oneness.
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