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

ACIM T-28.VI The Secret Vows

November 8, 2011

Our bodies do not make us appear separate. Our bodies have no power and no meaning of themselves. Our bodies are just there and do nothing on their own. They are learning tools. And can be used for any purpose we decide to use them for. They carry out the desires and directions of our mind. They do the bidding of our thoughts and beliefs. But they are incapable of doing anything solely on their own. We make the mistake of projecting the responsibility of our thoughts onto the body and thus make it something separate and self determining in our minds.

This mistaken idea is a secret agreement we have made with each other. In fact, it is so secret we have made it secret from our consciousness. Thus we think our bodies, or the world, are totally out of our control and we are its victims, subject to the pain and suffering, the limitations of the body. How else could we forget our divinity, our unity, our limitlessness, except through this mistaken idea we believe is true? We have taken secret vows of separation! In our divine creation we have looked away and secretly vowed to see each other as unconnected, as separate, as completely independent of each other. In this way we shirk responsibility for our thoughts without ever acknowledging they were our thoughts in the first place.

The joy of this agreement is that once one decides not to agree any more, there is no longer an agreement. Once one of us refuses to abide by our mistaken thoughts and ideas we agreed to share, there is no support for the other’s agreed upon or shared thoughts and ideas. There is power in sharing. There is power in agreement. If we agree or share separation, or unreality, we give it the power to appear real in our mind. But when we take that power away by ceasing to agree the mistaken idea, we immediately make that mistaken idea powerless.

Shifting our thoughts and ideas to those aligned with Spirit, with divinity, we have made a new agreement for ourselves and each other. The power of our shared thoughts is shifted to Truth. It is shifted to the awareness of who we really are, the awareness of our unity, our divinity, our limitlessness. We realize the Oneness of our Creation, that which can never be compromised except in our thoughts and the little gap in our mind we have made seem real for ourselves. Let go of those secret vows. Realize that, in the first place, we made them with each other. And relax into the awareness of who we really are. It is our choice to let go of those secret agreements, no one else’s. The real world follows in the wake of our awakening.

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