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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 7 "THE CONSISTENCY OF THE KINGDOM"
VII. FROM VIGILANCE TO PEACE

Love is your power, which the ego must deny. It must also deny everything which this power gives you because it gives you everything. No one who has everything wants the ego. Its own maker, then, does not want it. Rejection is therefore the only decision which the ego could possibly encounter, if the mind which made it knew itself. And if it recognized any part of the Sonship, it would know itself.  

 

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1 If you are willing to recognize your problems, you will recognize that you have no problems. Your one central problem has been answered, and you have no other. Therefore you must be at peace. Salvation does depend on recognizing this one problem and understanding that it has been solved. One problem-one solution. Salvation is accomplished. Freedom from conflict has been given you. Accept that fact, and you are ready to take your rightful place in God's plan for salvation. 

 

2 Your only problem has been solved! Repeat this over and over to yourself today with gratitude and conviction. You have recognized your only problem, opening the way for the Holy Spirit to give you God's answer. You have laid deception aside and seen the light of truth. You have accepted salvation for yourself by bringing the problem to the answer. And you can recognize the answer because the problem has been identified. 

 

3 You are entitled to peace today. A problem that has been resolved cannot trouble you. Only be certain you do not forget that all problems are the same. Their many forms will not deceive you while you remember this. One problem-one solution. Accept the peace this simple statement brings. 

 

4 In our longer practice periods today, we will claim the peace that must be ours when the problem and the answer have been brought together. The problem must be gone because God's answer cannot fail. Having recognized one, you have recognized the other. The solution is inherent in the problem. You are answered and have accepted the answer. You are saved. 

 

5 Now let the peace that your acceptance brings be given you. Close your eyes and receive your reward. Recognize that your problems have been solved. Recognize that you are out of conflict, free, and at peace. Above all, remember that you have one problem and that the problem has one solution. It is in this that the simplicity of salvation lies. It is because of this that it is guaranteed to work. 

 

6 Assure yourself often today that your problems have been solved. Repeat the idea with deep conviction as frequently as possible. And be particularly sure to remember to apply the idea for today to any specific problem that may arise. Say quickly: 

 

7 Let me recognize this problem has been solved.
 
8 Let us be determined not to collect grievances today. Let us be determined to be free of problems that do not exist. The means is simple honesty. Do not deceive yourself about what the problem is, and you must recognize it has been solved. 
  
             

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This is clearly a follow-up to the Lesson yesterday. Our one problem of separation is only a problem in our minds. It is already solved. The story has ended. It is over, and "If you are willing to recognize your problems, you will recognize that you have no problems." (W.80.1.1) We are just dreaming this existence. Once we wake up, we will realize that all the problems we are trying to solve were not even real. If we got that, we could be at peace.
 
When Jesus starts off with this explicit statement that we have no problems, we may wonder 'how can that be?' Our experience is that we have many problems and they show up daily. Yet based on the Lesson yesterday, if separation is the one central problem and it has been solved, all problems are answered. When we don't experience that, it is because we are deceived by the ego mind that has convinced us that reality is what we experience in the body and the world. The truth is that the Holy Spirit, in our right minds, holds the answer to every problem, regardless of the form or seeming complexity of the problem. We experience our problems as unsolved, when we don't identify the real problem and recognize the answer has already been given. Until we have accepted the answer, we "are not ready to take your [our] rightful place in God's plan for salvation." (W.80.1.8) Our rightful place is acceptance of our function, and our function is always to forgive, so that we can finally know that the problems and conflict we experience are a function of the guilt in our own minds.
 
How does this look in our experience? On a practical level, what do we do? Today, I paid attention to what I was calling a problem. First, someone said something that created a reaction in me, which felt like a problem for me. I felt a loss of peace. When I brought the thought that I was being criticized, back to my mind, I realized that I was choosing to throw away my peace by giving power to what had been said. My reaction had nothing to do with the other person, but was about the guilt in my own mind that I saw in my brother. The answer (peace) was already given, awaiting my acceptance. With my willingness to take responsibility for throwing away my peace, the Holy Spirit will reinterpret this situation for me when I ask.

Then later in the day I was driving onto the freeway and another driver refused to let me onto the lane and again the ego mind defined it as a problem. In fact, stepping back, I recognized that the problem only endured as long as I was willing to hold a grievance in my mind. Then I felt the pressure of doing my taxes and encountered "problems" in getting my documents together and pressure to meet deadlines. I realized again that it was my wrong mind giving meaning to this situation as a problem. I started to think about things that I worried about and realized that many worries I've carried never came about. Every problem is some kind of grievance, and when I am willing to take the grievance to the Holy Spirit, He always shows me another way to see it and to see my brother and myself as innocent.

Whatever the issue is, when we become aware that it cannot separate us from peace, unless we give it power to do so, we will know another choice can be made. We can either continue to listen to the way the ego is telling us to see it, or we can turn to the Holy Spirit for His interpretation. It is up to us. If we keep our upsets, it is only because we want to hold onto them. We want to prove that the way we see the problem is correct and Jesus is wrong in this teaching. We stubbornly resist the healing, being unwilling to release how and why we set up the problem and why we want to see it in our way. It is, of course, always about our desire to maintain the separation---our separate, individual, special self. When we willingly bring our misperceptions to the Holy Spirit, He will undo our way of seeing.

The miracle is always behind our wrong-minded thoughts, ready to shine forth when we do our part. We simply cannot be separated from God's Love. We can only be unaware of it by blocking it with our misperceptions. I just need to forgive myself for worrying about a situation that is already solved. In fact, I can be grateful that whatever happens, I don't need to be pulled out of peace by this or any other event. It is truly a choice. It is really just up to me. I don't say that this is easy. Jesus understands that we have a lot of resistance. That is why he simply reminds us that at least we can start to question how we are currently seeing our problems. There are many times I have been wakeful during the night trying to figure my way through a problem. Even though I know that worry is a decision to listen to the ego, my mind draws back over and over into the concerns I am feeling. Yet I am grateful that I have an alternative, a way to bring my mind back to peace. And for that I am truly thankful.

There is nothing forgiveness cannot do to reveal the miracle in every situation. As discussed yesterday, problems truly are the smokescreen that keep us distracted from seeing the truth behind them all. "You are entitled to peace today. A problem that has been resolved cannot trouble you." (W.80.3.1-2) Why are we troubled? It is only because of our unwillingness to accept the answer that is already there.
 
We can be grateful that this is all just a dream. Of course, we don't really believe it or it would be all over. But in each situation, when we stay open to the Holy Spirit, our attachment to the world and problems, as we perceive them now, is loosened. When we bring our problems to the Holy Spirit, we bring "the problem to the Answer." (W.80.2.5) We will know that we have been successful when we feel peace instead of turmoil about any situation in which we are embroiled. We then won't be troubled by anything that seems to be happening to us. "All problems are the same." (W.80.3.3) We just need to remind ourselves that no matter how we perceive the problem, there is no order of difficulty in the problem or the miracle because it has already been answered. We just need to claim the peace that comes from knowing that this is so.
  
There are many Lessons that help us to bring peace to our minds when we feel besieged by problems. One thing I try to do is to see myself removed from the conflict, to soar above it. I find the section, "Above the Battleground" (ACIM OE "The Fear of Life") very helpful in this regard, where Jesus reminds, "Be lifted up, and from a higher place look down upon it. From there will your perspective be quite different. Here in the midst of it, it does seem real. Here you have chosen to be part of it." (T.23.IV.5.1-4)(ACIM OE T.23.V.51) When I was working and would travel far off to another country, I found that the issues that I considered important and were reported daily in the news in Alberta somehow lost their significance in the 'bigger picture.' From this vantage point, my work back home and the problems I encountered in my involvement in the political environment in which I worked, seemed insignificant. In the same way, if we can remove ourselves from any problem we seem to be experiencing by being lifted to higher ground and becoming observers rather than participants in the situation, we can also disengage our investment in them. When we look from this place, without judgment, we are seeing through the perception of truth. From this place, we can experience the freedom and peace that comes from simply observing without judgment. From this place, we can smile at the situation, because we are looking through the eyes of love and seeing that nothing here is serious. In the illusion, there is much that appears tragic, but from above the battleground, it all loses significance.
 
It is also important to remember that behind every problem is a grievance. That is why we are reminded, "Let us be determined not to collect grievances today." (W.80.7.1) Releasing grievances frees us from problems that don't exist. Forgiveness, in the Course, is about letting go of what has never happened. Remember, in the illusion there are no real effects. We forgive our brother for what he did not do. Yes, the behavior may have happened, but how we see it is up to us. When we see it as a call for love, we recognize our own call for love in it. We all are on a path to remembering who we are. Again, we are being reminded of the unreality of this world and all of its problems. The world was over long ago, Jesus tells us. "Both this world and the real world are illusions because right-mindedness merely overlooks, or forgives, what never happened." (CLARIFICATION OF TERMS.1.6.2) "We but undertake a journey that is over." (W.158.3.6)
 
The answer is always forgiveness. To the Holy Spirit, they are the same "because each one, regardless of the form it seems to take, is a demand that someone suffer loss and make a sacrifice that you might gain. And when the situation is worked out so no one loses is the problem gone, because it was an error in perception that now has been corrected." (T.26. II.2.2-3)(ACIM OE T.26.III.11)

Today, we are asked not to keep the problems we think we have from the answer. The answer is always available and "God's answer cannot fail." (W.80.4.2) Of course we can prove God wrong, and we do so by demonstrating our unwillingness to bring our perceived problems to Him. This is how we keep the problem from His answer and choose to hold onto our misery. We do that whenever we want to prove that we are right. That is why Jesus is always asking whether we would choose to be right (about the way we see things) or happy by choosing the answer available in our minds to every problem. By choosing the answer, the result is peace in our minds.

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VII. From Vigilance to Peace                     

54 Although you can love the Sonship only as one, you can perceive it as fragmented. It is impossible, however, for you to see something in part of it that you will not attribute to all of it. That is why attack is never discrete and why attack must be relinquished entirely. If it is not relinquished entirely, it is not relinquished at all. Fear and love are equally reciprocal. They make or create, depending on whether the ego or the Holy Spirit begets or inspires them, but they will return to the mind of the thinker, and they will affect his total perception. That includes his perception of God, of His creations, and of his own. He will not appreciate any of them if he regards them fearfully. He will appreciate all of them if he regards them with love.

 

55 The mind that accepts attack cannot love. That is because it believes that it can destroy love and therefore does not understand what love is. If it does not understand what love is, it cannot perceive itself as loving. This loses the awareness of being, induces feelings of unreality, and results in utter confusion. Your own thinking has done this because of its power, but your own thinking can also save you from this because its power is not of your making. Your ability to direct your thinking as you will is part of its power. If you do not believe you can do this, you have denied the power of your thought and thus rendered it powerless in your belief.

 

56 The ingeniousness of the ego to preserve itself is enormous, but it stems from the power of the mind, which the ego denies. This means that the ego attacks what is preserving it, and this must be a source of extreme anxiety. That is why the ego never knows what it is doing. It is perfectly logical but clearly insane. The ego draws upon the one source which is totally inimical to its existence for its existence. Fearful of perceiving the power of this source, it is forced to depreciate it. This threatens its own existence, a state which it finds intolerable.

 

57 Remaining logical but still insane, the ego resolves this completely insane dilemma in a completely insane way. It does not perceive its existence as threatened by projecting the threat onto you and perceiving your being as nonexistent. This ensures its continuance if you side with it by guaranteeing that you will not know your own safety. The ego cannot afford to know anything. Knowledge is total, and the ego does not believe in totality. This unbelief is its origin and, while the ego does not love you, it is faithful to its own antecedents, begetting as it was begotten.

 

58 Mind always reproduces as it was produced. Produced by fear, the ego reproduces fear. This is its allegiance, and this allegiance makes it treacherous to love, because you are love. Love is your power, which the ego must deny. It must also deny everything which this power gives you because it gives you everything. No one who has everything wants the ego. Its own maker, then, does not want it. Rejection is therefore the only decision which the ego could possibly encounter, if the mind which made it knew itself. And if it recognized any part of the Sonship, it would know itself.

 

59 The ego therefore opposes all appreciation, all recognition, all sane perception, and all knowledge. It perceives their threat as total because it senses the fact that all commitments the mind makes are total. Forced, therefore, to detach itself from you who are mind, it is willing to attach itself to anything else. But there is nothing else. It does not follow that the mind cannot make illusions, but it does follow that if it makes illusions it will believe in them, because that is how it made them.

 

60 The Holy Spirit undoes illusions without attacking them merely because He cannot perceive them at all. They therefore do not exist for Him. He resolves the apparent conflict which they engender by perceiving conflict as meaningless. We said before that the Holy Spirit perceives the conflict exactly as it is, and it is meaningless. The Holy Spirit does not want you to understand conflict; He wants you to realize that because conflict is meaningless it cannot be understood. We have already said that understanding brings appreciation, and appreciation brings love. Nothing else can be understood because nothing else is real, and therefore nothing else has meaning.

 

61 If you will keep in mind what the Holy Spirit offers you, you cannot be vigilant for anything but God and His Kingdom. The only reason you find this difficult is because you think there is something else. Belief does not require vigilance unless it is conflicted. If it is, there are conflicting components within it which have engendered a state of war, and vigilance therefore has become essential. Vigilance has no place at all in peace. It is necessary against beliefs which are not true and would never have been called upon by the Holy Spirit if you had not believed the untrue. You cannot deny that, when you believe something, you have made it true for you.

 

62 When you believe what God does not know, your thought seems to contradict His, and this makes it appear as if you are attacking Him. We have repeatedly emphasized that the ego does believe it can attack God and tries to persuade you that you have done this. If the mind cannot attack, the ego proceeds perfectly logically to the position that you cannot be mind. By not seeing you as you are, it can see itself as it wants to be. Aware of its weakness, the ego wants your allegiance, but not as you really are. The ego therefore wants to engage your mind in its own delusional system, because otherwise the light of your understanding would dispel it.

 

63 The ego wants no part of truth because the truth is that the ego is not true. If truth is total, the untrue cannot exist. Commitment to either must be total, since they cannot coexist in your minds without splitting them. If they cannot coexist in peace and if you want peace, you must give up the idea of conflict entirely and for all time. [This requires vigilance only as long as you do not recognize what is true.] While you believe that two totally contradictory thought systems share truth, your need for vigilance is apparent. Your minds are dividing their allegiance between two kingdoms, and you are totally committed to neither.

 

64 Your identification with the Kingdom is totally beyond question, except by you when you are thinking insanely. What you are is not established by your perception and is not influenced by it at all. All perceived problems in identification at any level are not problems of fact. They are problems of understanding, since they mean that you believe what you can understand is up to you to decide. The ego believes this totally, being fully committed to it. It is not true. The ego therefore is totally committed to untruth, perceiving in total contradiction to the Holy Spirit and to the knowledge of God.

 

65 You can be perceived with meaning only by the Holy Spirit because your being is the knowledge of God. Any belief that you accept which is apart from this will obscure God's Voice in you and will therefore obscure God to you. Unless you perceive His creation truly, you cannot know the Creator, since God and His creation are not separate. The Oneness of the Creator and the creation is your wholeness, your sanity, and your limitless power. This limitless power is God's gift to you, because it is what you are. If you dissociate your mind from it, you are perceiving the most powerful force in the universe as if it were weak because you do not believe you are part of it.

 

66 Perceived without your part in it, God's creation is perceived as weak, and those who see themselves as weakened do attack. The attack must be blind, however, because there is nothing to attack. Therefore, they make up images, perceive them as unworthy, and attack them for their unworthiness. That is all the world of the ego is-nothing. It has no meaning. It does not exist. Do not try to understand it, because if you do you are believing that it can be understood and is therefore capable of being appreciated and loved. That would justify it, and it cannot be justified. You cannot make the meaningless meaningful. This can only be an insane attempt.

 

67 Allowing insanity to enter your minds means that you have not judged sanity as wholly desirable. If you want something else, you will make something else, but because it is something else, it will attack your thought system and divide your allegiance. You cannot create in this divided state, and you must be vigilant against this divided state, because only peace can be extended. Your divided minds are blocking the extension of the Kingdom, and its extension is your joy. If you do not extend the Kingdom, you are not thinking with your Creator and creating as He created.

 

68 In this depressing state, the Holy Spirit reminds you gently that you are sad because you are not fulfilling your function as co-creators with God and are therefore depriving yourselves of joy. This is not God's Will but yours. If your will is out of accord with God's, you are willing without meaning. Yet because God's Will is unchangeable, no real conflict of will is possible. This is the Holy Spirit's perfectly consistent teaching.

 

69 Creation, not separation, is your will because it is God's, and nothing that opposes this means anything at all. Being a perfect accomplishment, the Sonship can only accomplish perfectly, extending the joy in which it was created and identifying itself with both its Creator and its creations, knowing they are one.

 

 

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