October 23, 2018
We have learned that reason is within the part of our mind that remains untouched, unchanged and holy. Reason cannot be corrupted. There is great power in reason and thus within us if we will recognize it. Reason has the power to correct errors if we will allow it to do so. But to deny reason the permission to correct our errors, we deny it both to ourselves and each other. When we deny ourselves correction, we allow misery to occur in everyone. Reason cannot make way for correction in you or me alone, but in all of us together. Reason does not recognize separation, only Oneness. The Course asks us how the belief in separation could possibly make any sense and so separation must be insane.
Correction cannot be accepted or refused by you without your friend. Sin would maintain it can. Yet reason tells you that you cannot see your friend or yourself as sinful and still perceive the other innocent. Who looks upon themselves as guilty and sees a sinless world? And who can see a sinful world and look upon themselves apart from it? Sin would maintain you and your friend must be separate. But reason tells you that this must be wrong. If you and your friend are joined, how could it be that you have private thoughts? And how could thoughts that enter into what but seems like yours alone have no effect at all on what is yours? If minds are joined, this is impossible. T-21.VI.2:1-10
The Reason in our right mind holds our Oneness for us when we deny it to ourselves by believing in separation. Sin is really nothing more than the belief in separation – an idea that is mistaken and cannot possibly be true. So, reason remembers it for us and gently reminds us when we allow ourselves to revisit our true nature. This place in our mind dedicated to holding our sanity and undoing our insanity is joined with all “other minds” in the One Mind, remembering our wholeness and our wholeness and divine nature. Allowing ourselves to go within and reconnect with this right mind is all we need ask for. The Spirit within us is waiting for our willingness to guide us to this reconnection we never lost, yet blocked form our awareness. All we need is within us and so why continue seeking outside us for what is already within us? There is no sane answer to that question. It is nothing more than a mad attack on reason which cannot succeed.
If you teach another that they are separate from you and from their Source forever, without a hope of safe return, you will learn of them exactly what you taught. For you can teach them only that they are as you would have them, and what you choose they be is but your choice for you. Yet think not this is fearful. That you are joined to them is but a fact, not an interpretation. How can a fact be fearful unless it disagrees with what you hold more dear than truth? Reason will tell you that this fact is your release. T-21.VI.6:3-8
What do you hold dear in your mind – separation or Oneness? It’s your choice. And your choice determines the world you see. Your belief in separation will show you a world that appears to be full of attack and limitation. Reason will show you the real world of peace, love and joy. It’s the same world viewed through the lens of insanity or sanity. Make your choice but know that your mind holds a place of reason and sanity you can return to at any time you choose. Choose to return there now and return to the awareness of Oneness that has always been within you.
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