Chapter 22 Salvation and the Holy Relationship

ACIM – Chapter 22 Salvation and the Holy Relationship VI The Light of the Holy Relationship

1. Do you want freedom of the body or of the mind? For both you cannot have. Which do you value? Which is your goal? For one you see as means; the other, end. And one must serve the other and lead to its predominance, increasing its importance by diminishing its own. Means serve theContinue reading “ACIM – Chapter 22 Salvation and the Holy Relationship VI The Light of the Holy Relationship”

ACIM – CHAPTER 22 SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP V. Weakness and Defensiveness

1. How does one overcome illusions? Surely not by force or anger, nor by opposing them in any way. Merely by letting reason tell you that they contradict reality. They go against what must be true. The opposition comes from them, and not reality. Reality opposes nothing. What merely is needs no defense and offersContinue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 22 SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP V. Weakness and Defensiveness”

ACIM – CHAPTER 22 SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP IV. The Branching of the Road

1. When you come to the place where the branch in the road is quite apparent, you cannot go ahead. You must go either one way or the other. For now, if you go straight ahead, the way you went before you reached the branch, you will go nowhere. The whole purpose of coming thisContinue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 22 SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP IV. The Branching of the Road”

ACIM – CHAPTER 22 SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP III Reason and the Forms of Error

1. The introduction of reason into the ego thought system is the beginning of its undoing, for reason and the ego are contradictory. Nor is it possible for them to coexist in your awareness. For reason’s goal is to make plain, and therefore obvious. You can see reason. This is not a play on words,Continue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 22 SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP III Reason and the Forms of Error”

ACIM – CHAPTER 22 SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP II. Your Brother’s Sinlessness

1. The opposite of illusions is not disillusionment but truth. Only to the ego, to which truth is meaningless, do they appear to be the only alternatives, and different from each other. In truth they are the same. Both bring the same amount of misery, though each one seems to be the way to loseContinue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 22 SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP II. Your Brother’s Sinlessness”

ACIM – CHAPTER 22 SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP I. The Message of the Holy Relationship

1. Let reason take another step. If you attack whom God would heal and hate the one He loves, then you and your Creator have a different will. Yet if you are His Will, what you must then believe is that you are not yourself. You can indeed believe this, and you do. And youContinue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 22 SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP I. The Message of the Holy Relationship”

ACIM – CHAPTER 22 SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP Introduction

1. Take pity on yourself, so long enslaved. Rejoice whom God hath joined have come together and need no longer look on sin apart. No two can look on sin together, for they could never see it in the same place and time. Sin is a strictly individual perception, seen in the other yet believedContinue reading “ACIM – CHAPTER 22 SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP Introduction”