October 9, 2018
What governs the world we see? Does it make sense? Do we have any involvement in what we see? We always have a choice. We make choices at every turn and we make them with the information we are aware of at that moment. How do we know the information we have at any given moment is reliable? This is the question we must consider. Is the information coming forward in our mind reliable and how do we discern whether or not it is reliable?
Perception selects, and makes the world you see. It literally picks it out as the mind directs. The laws of size and shape and brightness would hold, perhaps, if other things were equal. They are not equal. For what you look for you are far more likely to discover than what you would prefer to overlook. The still, small Voice for Source is not drowned out by all the ego’s raucous screams and senseless ravings to those who want to hear It. Perception is a choice and not a fact. But on this choice depends far more than you may realize as yet. For on the voice you choose to hear, and on the sights you choose to see, depends entirely your whole belief in what you are. Perception is a witness but to this, and never to reality. Yet it can show you the conditions in which awareness of reality is possible, or those where it could never be. T-21.V.1:1-11
Reality needs no cooperation from us to be. Reality just is. Our awareness of reality, however, is another matter. Our awareness of reality needs our cooperation in the sense that it needs our choice. We must choose to want to see reality – to be just a little willing to be shown reality. When we listen to what the ego says, and see what it directs us see, it is sure that we will see ourselves as tiny, vulnerable and afraid. We will experience a sense of worthlessness and feelings of impermanence and unreality. We believe that forces far beyond our own control, and far more powerful than us control almost every aspect of our lives. And we think the world we made directs our destiny. This is our faith. Never believe, however, because we have faith it is real, that makes it reality. What we believe we will see – whether reality or illusion.
There is another vision and another Voice in which your freedom lies, awaiting but your choice. And if you place your faith in Them, you will perceive another self in you. This other self sees miracles as natural. They are as simple and as natural to it as breathing to the body. They are the obvious response to calls for help, the only one it makes. Miracles seem unnatural to the ego because it does not understand how separate minds can influence each other. Nor could they do so. But minds cannot be separate. This other self is perfectly aware of this. And thus, it recognizes that miracles do not affect another’s mind, only its own. They always change your mind. There is no other. T-21.V.3:1-11
The idea of separation has interfered in our mind with all reason. We do not realize the extent this has compromised the awareness of reason in our minds. Our belief in separation has blocked all awareness of reason from the mind we have so thoroughly believed we are. Our whole mind – our right mind – is capable of reason but is relegated to unawareness by our allegiance to our belief in separation and our desire to blame the world for the world we made that we don’t like. The question we must ask stems form reason, so as long as we have pledged our allegiance to separation, we will not ask the basic question that will free us from our own limitation.
If we listened to our reason – to the part of our mind still aligned wit reality and grace – we would recognize our true Self. We would recognize our holiness, limitlessness and divine nature. We would recognize there is no separation and that there has never been separation. We remain One as we are created with Source, never wavering from Oneness except in the dream of our misperception that we are separate. It is time to set aside our mistaken belief in separation and step into the full awareness of Oneness. This is our reality ad our divine nature. Let it rise within us now.
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