The ego uses a selection of predictable patterns because the basis of its thought system is judgment whose origin stems from sin, fear and guilt. Judgment is always one or the other. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you will project and judge on that brother and soon you perceive the outcomes back. Once those results are perceived, you will use perception repeatedly to project and judge them even 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, and specialness (being different), to help keep the illusion of separation going. Usage of these kind of relationships as cause, is also the ego mind as cause; and the result is to continue separation between brothers because they are using the original separation. Remember cause and effect: Your brain you choose 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 utilize them within the mind.
The choice which will 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 though you are the only 1. It is “special” and soon you transform 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 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 and when you judge a brother on his / her behavior, this is the same side of the ego mind. They might 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 knowing 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 here are two questions to consider:
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 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:
When you judge a brother, you are using the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become real effect. For this reason we emphasize that everything 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 portion of the split mind in the first place; (2) You cannot judge what you don’t already believe to be true as it is using the mind you chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is really a statement of the guilt retained in your mind from the initial separation because you are choosing to use the ego mind. It really is what your location is still keeping fear and guilt instead of choosing correction (forgiveness) for the truth.
Absolutely anyone who turns up and provides you with a chance to heal your mind is really a gift you should 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 which gives all minds a chance to create a different choice. Judge plus they run and hide further into darkness and error.
A Call for Love:
Attack is really 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’re to know the truth about yourself and a brother, the more you’ll choose contrary to the ego’s attacks and only correction (forgiveness) from the proper Mind.
Responding with love can mean many things and sometimes, it could even mean no response. Other times, you might need a boundary or to take some action. To respond with love, you absolutely must 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 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 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 on your own. What you share you discover you have.
Sharing:
Sharing means to allow yourself to give to another what you want them to possess. Your only reason for doing this is because it is what you would like to have for yourself. You are teaching them what you want to be yours. Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do that and you will find you own it because you’ve literally said, “Surrender to me what I’ve taught you.” un curso de milagros