The ego runs on the variety of predictable patterns because the basis of its thought system is judgment whose origin stems from sin, fear and guilt. Judgment is definitely one or another. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you’ll project and judge on that brother until you perceive the outcomes back. Once those results are perceived, you’ll use perception repeatedly to project and judge them a lot more.
Unfortunately, this uses both sides of the ego wrong mind and compounds the initial error until the facts are well hidden. Handing over judgments for correction (forgiveness) stops the cycle.
Holy Relationships:
The ego uses special love and hate relationships, together with specialness (being different), to help keep the illusion of separation going. Usage of these kind of relationships as cause, can be the ego mind as cause; and the effect would be to continue separation between brothers because they’re in line with the original separation. Remember cause and effect: Your brain you select from, as cause, will result in the corresponding consequences (effect).
This is simply not about you having to be alone or avoid relationships in life. It really is, however, all about the way you enter and use them within the mind.
The choice that will set you free is to choose to have your relationships be Holy Relationships. You must function as person practicing forgiveness in all of your relationships, even though you are the only 1. It is “special” until you transform 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 does not matter. You’ll find nothing in ACIM about behavior so when you judge a brother on his / her behavior, this is the same side of the ego mind. a course in miracles online They may be acting from the ego “wrong” mind; but 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 is the mind. ACIM concerns itself with you understanding that you can choose the Holy Spirit Right Mind as your internal Teacher thereby producing a different cause and effect.
Everything you or another does in form (behavior) will not matter. However listed below are two questions to ask yourself:
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 if you don’t can answer “yes” to both. Choose again if you want to. It is never too late.
There is ONLY 1 of Us:
Once you judge a brother, you’re using the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become real effect. This is why we emphasize that what you see in another needs to be forgiven in yourself first. Here’s why: (1) You cannot see fault (judgment) in another unless you chose from that part of the split mind in the first place; (2) You cannot judge what you don’t already believe to be true since it is based on the mind you chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is really a statement of the guilt retained in your mind from the original separation because you opting for to use the ego mind. It is what your location is still holding onto fear and guilt rather than choosing correction (forgiveness) for the reality.
Absolutely anyone who shows up and you with to be able to heal your mind is a gift you should use. Turn it into a Holy Relationship. This is one way you will return your personal mind to God, and how others eventually see it for themselves. Hold the light of forgiveness gives all minds an opportunity to make a different choice. Judge and 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 often a call for love, or forgiveness, that is joining. The more determined you’re to know the truth about yourself and a brother, the more you’ll choose against the ego’s attacks in favor of correction (forgiveness) from the Right Mind.
Responding with love often means many things and sometimes, it can even mean no response. Other times, you may want a boundary or 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 if 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 and your brother. There is absolutely no defense necessary (“defenselessness” on the Split Mind diagram). When you share your willingness never to see error, you have shared what you need to keep and learn for yourself. What you share you discover you have.
Sharing:
Sharing methods to allow yourself to share with another what you would like them to have. Your only reason for doing this is basically because it is what you need to have on your own. You’re teaching them what you need to be yours. Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do this and you may find you have it because you’ve literally said, “Give back if you ask me what I’ve taught you.”
