The ego runs on the variety of predictable patterns because the basis of its thought system is judgment whose origin is due to sin, fear and guilt. Judgment is definitely one or the other. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you’ll project and judge on that brother until you perceive the results 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 truth is well hidden. Handing over judgments for correction (forgiveness) stops the cycle.
Holy Relationships:
The ego uses special love and hate relationships, along with specialness (being different), to help keep the illusion of separation going. Usage of these types of relationships as cause, is also the ego mind as cause; and the effect would be to continue separation between brothers because they’re using the original separation. Remember cause and effect: The mind you choose from, as cause, will result in the corresponding consequences (effect).
This is not about you needing 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 must function as person practicing forgiveness in all of your relationships, even though you are the only one. course in miracles 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 on you both. The ego cannot prevail against Oneness because it is not real.
Form and Content:
A TRAINING 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 or 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 the same as any other.
What the Course says is that content matters. Content is the mind. ACIM concerns itself with you understanding that you can pick the Holy Spirit Right Mind as your internal Teacher thereby creating a different cause and effect.
What 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 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 need to. It is never too late.
There is Only One of Us:
Once you judge a brother, you’re using the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become real effect. That 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 everything you don’t already believe to be true since it is using the actually chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is a statement of the guilt retained in your mind from the original separation because you opting for to use the ego mind. It is where you are still keeping fear and guilt rather than choosing correction (forgiveness) for the truth.
Absolutely anyone who shows up and you with to be able to heal your mind is really a gift you may 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 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 predicated on projection, judgment and perception. The ego’s point is 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’re to know the reality about yourself and a brother, the more you’ll choose against the ego’s attacks in favor of correction (forgiveness) from the proper Mind.
Responding with love often means many things and sometimes, it can even mean no response. Other times, you might need a boundary or to take some action. To respond with love, you absolutely should be practicing forgiveness and using the Right Mind to turn over-all attack and judgment. The Holy Spirit will give you a solution if you completely turn to that Right Mind for help. “Completely” is 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 help keep and learn on your own. What you share you discover you have.
Sharing:
Sharing methods to allow yourself to share with another what you need them to possess. Your only reason behind doing this is because it is what you want to have for yourself. You are teaching them what you need to be yours. Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do that and you may find you have it because you’ve literally said, “Surrender to me what I’ve taught you.”
