The ego uses a 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 the other. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you’ll project and judge on that brother and soon you perceive the results 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.

a course in miracles Holy Relationships:



The ego uses special love and hate relationships, along with specialness (being different), to keep the illusion of separation going. Usage of these types of relationships as cause, can be the ego mind as cause; and the effect is to continue separation between brothers because they’re based on 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 is, however, all about how you enter and use them within the mind.

The choice that may set you free would be to elect to have your relationships be Holy Relationships. You must be the person practicing forgiveness in every of your relationships, even if you are the only one. 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 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 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 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.

What you or another does in form (behavior) does 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 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 is never too late.

There is ONLY 1 of Us:

Once you judge a brother, you’re utilizing the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become a real effect. That is why we emphasize that what you see in another should 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 to begin with; (2) You cannot judge what you don’t already believe to be true since it is based on the actually chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is a statement of the guilt retained in your thoughts from the initial separation because you are choosing to utilize the ego mind. It really is what your location is still holding onto 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 a gift you need to 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 an opportunity to create 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 therefore, all attack is often a demand 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 contrary to the ego’s attacks in favor of correction (forgiveness) from the proper Mind.

Responding with love can mean many things and sometimes, it could even mean no response. Other times, you may want a boundary or even 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 in the event that 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). Once you share your willingness not to see error, you have shared what you would like to help keep and learn on your own. What you share you find you have.

Sharing:

Sharing means to allow yourself to share with another what you want them to have. Your only reason for doing this is because it is what you need to have on your own. You’re teaching them what you would like to be yours. Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do that and you may find you own it because you’ve literally said, “Surrender to me what I’ve taught you.”