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TEXT CH 21 VI 49-58
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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 21 "THE INNER PICTURE"
VI. "REASON AND PERCEPTION"

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 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.

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  Salvation is a promise, made by God,
   that you would find your way to Him at last.
   It cannot but be kept. It guarantees
   that time will have an end, and all the thoughts
   that have been born in time will end as well.
   God's Word is given every mind that thinks
   that it has separate thoughts, and will replace
   these thoughts of conflict with the Thought of peace.
 
   The Thought of peace was given to God's Son
   the instant that his mind had thought of war.
   There was no need for such a Thought before,
   for peace was given without opposite,
   and merely was. But when the mind is split,
   there is a need of healing. So the Thought
   Which has the power to heal the split became
   a part of every fragment of the mind
   which still was one, but failed to recognize
   its oneness. Now it did not know itself,
   and thought its own identity was lost.
 
   Salvation is undoing in the sense
   that it does nothing, failing to support
   the world of dreams and malice. Thus it lets
   illusions go. By not supporting them,
   it merely lets them quietly go down
   to dust. And what they hid is now revealed;
   an altar to the holy Name of God,
   whereon His Word is written, with the gifts
   of your forgiveness laid before It, and
   the memory of God not far behind.
 
   Let us come daily to this holy place,
   and spend a while together. Here we share
   our final dream. It is a dream in which
   there is no sorrow, for it holds a hint
   of all the glory given us by God.
   The grass is pushing through the soil, the trees
   are budding now, and birds have come to live
   within their branches. Earth is being born
   again in new perception. Night has gone,
   and we have come together in the light.
 
   From here we give salvation to the world,
   for it is here salvation was received.
   The song of our rejoicing is the call
   to all the world that freedom is returned,
   that time is almost over, and God's Son
   has but an instant more to wait until
   his Father is remembered, dreams are done,
   eternity has shined away the world,
   and only Heaven now exists at all.
 
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    Father, Your trust in me has been so great, 
    I must be worthy. You created me,
    and know me as I am. And yet You placed
    Your Son's salvation in my hands, and let
    it rest on my decision. I must be
    beloved of You indeed. And I must be
    steadfast in holiness as well, that You
    would give Your Son to me in certainty
    that He is safe Who still is part of You,
    and yet is mine because He is my Self.
 
   And so again today we pause to think
   how much our Father loves us, and how dear
   His Son, created by His Love, remains
   to Him Whose Love is made complete in him.
  
  
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On my decision all salvation rests. 

Sarah's Commentary:


I look at the words in this Lesson and reflect on how much trust is invested in me to choose on behalf of my brother and the whole of the Sonship. The power of choice is a theme throughout the Course. It is the only power we have in this world. We have chosen separation and everything that comes with that choice, but now we can choose again. "Until that point is reached you have no choice, and you can but decide how you would choose the better to deceive yourself again." (T.31.IV.8.2) (ACIM OE T.31.IV. 40) We have decided who we are and who our brother is and in that choice we have limited him, as well as ourselves, to the body, but we have been wrong. "You who believe that you can choose to see the Son of God as you would have him be, forget not that no concept of yourself will stand against the truth of what you are." (T.31.VI.5.1) (ACIM OE T.31.VI.66) Now we are called to give up these concepts so we can know the Self as our Father knows us. "You created me, and know me as I am." (W.238.1.2) Because He knows who we really are, He can put that kind of trust in us.
 
The self I know as me, Sarah, can't be invested with that kind of trust. When I identify with the ego, I see unworthiness in me. Yet He says I am worthy. What does that say about what I think about myself? It says I am wrong about myself. It says because He created me, He knows the truth of who I really am as the perfect Son of God. He knows the light and glory that is my reality. "Today I will accept the truth about myself. (W.237.1.1)
 
The ego is devious, self-serving, and wants all for itself, but the truth is we are not this ego. The truth is we are grand and glorious beings who have forgotten who we are. It is this truth we are called to accept. The acceptance comes through the process of removing the blocks to awareness of the truth of our being, and this comes through forgiveness of our brothers. Thus, it is about healing through our special relationships. We ask for forgiveness in how we use our brothers to keep ourselves from the love we are. When we see our brothers as responsible for how we feel, we are projecting our guilt onto them instead of accepting responsibility for it in ourselves. We are allowing them to take our peace from us. Now we can reclaim responsibility for willingly throwing away our peace, which is our natural inheritance. We make our brothers responsible when we choose to be victimized by them. It keeps us from taking responsibility for our condition based entirely on our choice for the ego.

The Holy Spirit is part of every fragment of the One Self, and is quietly waiting for our readiness to replace our thoughts of conflict with His Thought of peace. It means we must be vigilant in looking at the ego thought system and bringing all darkness to the light of Truth. Every thought of conflict, despair, frustration, bitterness, specialness, competition and attack, can be remedied by the Holy Spirit. We go past the turbulence in the mind and turn within to that quiet center where we can know peace. All that stands in the way of that peace is given over for the Holy Spirit's healing. Nothing more is needed from us. Salvation is to recognize the meaninglessness of all of our conflicts and desires for specialness. It is to step outside of the dream. Ii is to look at our issues from a place above the battleground and recognize that the world is nothing more than an outward picture of the thoughts in our mind. All it takes is to change our minds about everything we currently believe.

Our belief is that all this takes time and that time seems long to us, but the fact is we are already home with God. We just need to work through the process of letting go of the drama of our lives and recognize we have made up this dream. To be saved is simply to withdraw our belief from the illusion. salvation basically does not require we do anything. It is only about undoing that which we have made apart from God. By withdrawing our power of belief from the dream, the illusions "quietly go down to dust." (W.PII.Q2.3.3) (What is Salvation)
 
We don't have to go along with the ego. We have choice. The ego says, "Keep looking to the world for your happiness. There is always a new relationship, a new car, a better job, a vacation, winning the lottery or anything in the world you can pin your happiness on." Yet Jesus reminds us, "You have not found your happiness in foreign places and in alien forms that have no meaning to you, though you sought to make them meaningful."(W.200.4.2) Yet this doesn't make what we do in the world wrong. We seem to be in this world for now, and while we see ourselves as bodies, we will need to work, make money, and have special relationships. But while we are occupied in these and other activities, the thing to do is to withdraw our belief that our happiness lies outside of ourselves. It is still all about our thoughts. In other words, we need to withdraw our attachment to the things of this world and recognize that the way back to our true happiness is to forgive ourselves and others. Through the process of bringing the blocks to His healing light, we experience a glimpse of our Eternal Self.
 
What do we do when we are not feeling accepting, joyful, loving, and when we don't feel happy? The answer is always to notice our thoughts and simply choose to see they have no meaning. The only problem is that the Son of God remembered not to laugh at the foolishness of this dream. Have the courage to honestly look at the darkness and see it as nothing. There is nothing to defend. When we surrender our opinions, perspectives, and positions, and admit we don't know, we are willing to be shown what to do. Allow whatever comes up to come up, and look at it with Spirit, knowing you are the dreamer of this dream and not a character in the dream. From this perspective we look at our foibles with love and happy laughter.

A friend was recently sharing with me that she did not attend workshops because her husband did not want her to go. She believed he was threatened by her attendance. One day after reading a relevant passage in the Course, she came to the sudden awareness that her husband was the reflection of her own fears projected outward. When she came to that awareness, she could look at her own mind instead of blaming him. This is a perfect example of how we project our own guilt and fear onto others who will act it out for us. Our responsibility is to own it and to heal it. What we are seeing in any brother is the split-off part of our own minds. Saving the world is simply about bringing together the fragments of the Sonship, which we do when we recognize that the holiness in us is in everyone. All of the fragments of the Sonship look different, but the content of holiness is the same in each. When we recognize the sameness, we see the holiness in each part.

As Jesus tells us, we are completely free to choose to listen to the ego or the Holy Spirit in our minds. We make the decision, on our own, to accept salvation for ourselves or not. The truth about us is held for us in our minds until we are ready to know it. The importance of that readiness and willingness cannot be understated. In the end, our choice is just a matter of time. When we have gone down every road in the world looking for happiness, and find it is not to be found there, we will finally conclude, "There must be a better way." As Jesus tells us, we may have a high tolerance for pain, but it is not without limit. For some of us, our unwillingness to suffer a high degree of pain brings us to this spiritual work before life totally brings us to our knees.

The outcome is inevitable, but the time is of our own choosing. Today, take in the thought of how deeply loved you are, and do not refuse to turn to Him as often as possible to ask, "What would you have me do? How would you have me see this brother? Where would you have me go?" Let's approach the Lesson with the confidence in ourselves that we are totally worthy of this effort.
 
Love and blessings, Sarah
  
 
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VI. Reason and Perception           

49 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 God 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.
 
50 Reality needs no cooperation from you to be itself. But your awareness of it needs your help because it is your choice. Listen to what the ego says and see what it directs you see, and it is sure that you will see yourself as tiny, vulnerable, and afraid. You will experience depression, a sense of worthlessness, and feelings of impermanence and unreality. You will believe that you are helpless prey to forces far beyond your own control and far more powerful than you. And you will think the world you made directs your destiny. For this will be your faith. But never believe because it is your faith it makes reality.
 
51 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 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.
 
52 You do not realize the whole extent to which the idea of separation has interfered with reason. Reason lies in the other Self you have cut off from your awareness. And nothing you have allowed to stay in it is capable of reason. How can the segment of the mind devoid of reason understand what reason is or grasp the information it would give? All sorts of questions may arise in it, but if the basic question stems from reason, it will not ask it. Like all that stems from reason, the basic question is obvious, simple, and remains unasked. But think not reason could not answer it.
 
53 God's plan for your salvation could not have been established without your will and your consent. It must have been accepted by the Son of God, for what God wills for him he must receive. For God wills not apart from him, nor does the Will of God wait upon time to be accomplished. Therefore, what joined the Will of God must be in you now, being eternal. You must have set aside a place in which the Holy Spirit can abide and where He is. He must have been there since the need for Him arose and was fulfilled in the same instant. Such would your reason tell you if you listened. Yet such is clearly not the ego's "reasoning." Its alien nature to the ego is proof you will not find the answer there. Yet if it must be so, it must exist. And if it exists for you and has your freedom as the purpose given it, you must be free to find it.
 
54 God's plan is simple-never circular and never self-defeating. He has no Thoughts except the Self-extending, and in this your will must be included. Thus, there must be a part of you that knows His Will and shares it. It is not meaningful to ask if what must be is so. But it is meaningful to ask why you are unaware of what is so, for this must have an answer if the plan of God for your salvation is complete. And it must be complete because its Source knows not of incompletion. Where would the answer be but in the Source? And where are you but there, where this same answer is? Your Identity, as much a true effect of this same Source as is the answer, must therefore be together and the same.
 
55 Oh yes, you know this and more than this alone. Yet any part of knowledge threatens dissociation as much as all of it. And all of it will come with any part. Here is the part you can accept. What reason points to you can see because the witnesses on its behalf are clear. Only the totally insane can disregard them, and you have gone past this. Reason is a means which serves the Holy Spirit's purpose in its own right. It is not reinterpreted and redirected from the goal of sin as are the others. For reason is beyond the ego's range of means.
 
56 Faith and perception and belief can be misplaced and serve the great deceiver's needs as well as truth. But reason has no place at all in madness, nor can it be adjusted to fit its end. Faith and belief are strong in madness, guiding perception toward what the mind has valued. But reason enters not at all in this. For the perception would fall away at once if reason were applied. There is no reason in insanity, for it depends entirely on reason's absence. The ego never uses it because it does not realize that it exists. The partially insane have access to it, and only they have need of it. Knowledge does not depend on it, and madness keeps it out.
 
57 The part of mind where reason lies was dedicated by your will in union with your Father's to the undoing of insanity. Here was the Holy Spirit's purpose accepted and accomplished both at once. Reason is alien to insanity, and those who use it have gained a means which cannot be applied to sin. Knowledge is far beyond attainment of any kind. But reason can serve to open doors you closed against it.
 
58 You have come very close to this. Faith and belief have shifted, and you have asked the question which the ego will never ask. Does not your reason tell you now the question must have come from something that you do not know but must belong to you? Faith and belief, upheld by reason, cannot fail to lead to changed perception. And in this change is room made way for vision. Vision extends beyond itself, as does the purpose which it serves and all the means for its accomplishment.
 
   

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