The ego runs on the selection of predictable patterns because the basis of its thought system is judgment whose origin is due to sin, fear and guilt. Judgment is always one or another. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you’ll project and judge on that brother and soon you perceive the outcomes back. Once those results are perceived, you’ll use perception repeatedly to project and judge them even more.
Unfortunately, this uses both sides of the ego wrong mind and compounds the initial error until the truth is well hidden. Handing over judgments for correction (forgiveness) stops the cycle.
Holy Relationships:
The ego uses special love and hate relationships, and specialness (being different), to keep the illusion of separation going. Use of these kind of relationships as cause, is also the ego mind as cause; and the result would be to continue separation between brothers because they’re using the original separation. Remember cause and effect: Your brain you choose from, as cause, can lead to the corresponding consequences (effect).
This is not about you needing to be alone or avoid relationships in life. It is, however, all about the way you enter and use them within the mind.
The choice which will set you free is to elect to have your relationships be Holy Relationships. You need to function as person practicing forgiveness in all of your relationships, even though you are the only one. It is “special” and soon you turn it “Holy.” To see another as a brother, a prerequisite to going home, holds true Perception which shines a light of truth on you both. The ego cannot prevail against Oneness because it is not real.
Form and Content:
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is quite clear that form will not matter. You’ll find nothing in ACIM about behavior and when you judge a brother on his or her behavior, this is the same side of the ego mind. They might be acting from the ego “wrong” mind; nevertheless, you are judging from the ego “right” mind. To the ego, one judgment is equivalent to any other.
What the Course says is that content matters. Content may be the mind. ACIM concerns itself with you understanding that you can choose the Holy Spirit Right Mind as your internal Teacher thereby creating a different cause and effect.
Everything you or another does in form (behavior) does not matter. However here are two questions to consider:
When I acted, did I act from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
Is my interpretation of my brother from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
You won’t have peace unless you can answer “yes” to both. Choose again if you need to. It really is never too late.
There is ONLY 1 of Us:
When you judge a brother, you’re utilizing the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become real effect. For this reason we emphasize that everything you see in another has to be forgiven in yourself first. Here’s why: (1) You cannot see fault (judgment) in another if you don’t chose from that part of the split mind to begin with; (2) You cannot judge everything you don’t already believe to be true since it is using the actually chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is really a statement of the guilt retained in your thoughts from the original separation because you opting for to use the ego mind. It really is where you are still keeping fear and guilt instead of choosing correction (forgiveness) for the reality.
Absolutely anyone who turns up and you with to be able to heal your mind is really a gift you can use. Turn it into a Holy Relationship. This is how you will return your personal mind to God, and how others eventually view it for themselves. Contain the light of forgiveness which gives all minds a chance to make a different choice. Judge plus they run and hide further into darkness and error.
A Call for Love:
Attack is a conscious mind behavior based on projection, judgment and perception. The ego’s point would be to protect separate identity and for that reason, all attack is really a call for love, or forgiveness, which is joining. The more determined you are to know the reality about yourself and a brother, the more you will choose contrary to the ego’s attacks in favor of correction (forgiveness) from the Right Mind.
Responding with love can mean many things and sometimes, it could even mean no response. Other times, you might need a boundary or even to take some action. To respond with love, you absolutely should be practicing forgiveness and utilizing the Right Mind to show total attack and judgment. The Holy Spirit will give you a solution in the event that you completely turn compared to that Right Mind for help. “Completely” may be the key word.
Eventually you see no attack (error) occurred and that is to know the reality about you as well as your brother. There is no defense necessary (“defenselessness” on the Split Mind diagram). Once you share your willingness not to see error, you have shared what you need to keep and learn for yourself. What you share you find you have.
Sharing:
Sharing means to allow yourself to give to another what you would like them to possess. Your only reason behind doing this is because it is what you need to have for yourself. You’re teaching them what you would like to be yours. un curso de milagros en espanol Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do that and you may find you have it because you’ve literally said, “Surrender if you ask me what I’ve taught you.”