The ego runs on the selection of predictable patterns as the basis of its thought system is judgment whose origin stems from sin, fear and guilt. Judgment is always one or another. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you will project and judge on that brother and soon you perceive the results back. Once those email address details 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 original 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. Use of these kinds of relationships as cause, is also the ego mind as cause; and the effect would be to continue separation between brothers because they are based on the original separation. Remember cause and effect: The mind you select from, as cause, will result in the corresponding consequences (effect).
This is simply not about you needing to be alone or avoid relationships in life. It is, however, all about the method that you enter and utilize them within the mind.
The choice that may set you free is to choose to have your relationships be Holy Relationships. You need to function as person practicing forgiveness in every of your relationships, even if 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 you both. The ego cannot prevail against Oneness since it is not real.
Form and Content:
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is very 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. They may 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 producing a different cause and effect.
What you or another does in form (behavior) will not matter. However here are two questions to ask yourself:
When I acted, did I act from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
Is my interpretation of my buddy from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
You will not have peace if you don’t can answer “yes” to both. Choose again if you want to. It really is never too late.
There is ONLY 1 of Us:
When you judge a brother, you are 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 if you don’t 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 in line with the mind you chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is a statement of the guilt retained in your mind from the initial separation because you are choosing to use the ego mind. It is what your location is still keeping fear and guilt instead of choosing correction (forgiveness) for the truth.
Absolutely anyone who shows up and provides you with to be able to heal your mind is really a gift you may use. Turn it right into a Holy Relationship. This is how you will return your own mind to God, and how others eventually see it for themselves. Contain the light of forgiveness gives all minds an opportunity to create 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, which is joining. The more determined you are to know the reality about yourself and a brother, the more you will choose against the ego’s attacks and only correction (forgiveness) from the proper Mind.
Responding with love often means a lot of things and sometimes, it can 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 over-all attack and judgment. The Holy Spirit will give you a solution in the event that you completely turn to that Right Mind for help. “Completely” may be the key word.
Eventually you see no attack (error) occurred which is to know the reality about you as well as your brother. There is no defense necessary (“defenselessness” on the Split Mind diagram). a course in miracles When you share your willingness never to see error, you have shared what you need to keep and learn on your own. What you share you discover you have.
Sharing:
Sharing methods to allow yourself to give to another what you need them to possess. Your only reason for doing this is basically because it is what you need to have on your own. You are teaching them what you would like to be yours. Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do that and you will find you have it because you’ve literally said, “Give back to me what I’ve taught you.”
