One of the passages from the Course that often goes through my mind is this: I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me. (Review Vl) This passage from “From The Christ Mind,’’ scribed by Darrell Price, makes this crystal clear. The ego is the part the part of your mind your mind that is unreal; experience that appears in the mind identified with what is unreal, is also unreal. The solution to the error o misidentification begins with the recognition you are not the ego, and that your mind is most fundamentally the consciousness or awareness in which thoughts, feelings, impulses, and impressions or perceptions appear. This means you are free to choose the thoughts you want and disregard, or choose against, the rest. You are free in principle but not in f act. So long accustomed to identifying with the thoughts, perceptions, and experience of separation, and the egoic thought system, the freedom to choose has been lost. The very idea has vanished from your awareness, and through the automatic, unconscious, and continuous identification with what you are not, illusion has become your reality, your identity in your experience. (p. 65) And here, Jesus speaks to us in His Course. It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in any way. There is no cause beyond yourself that can reach down and bring oppression. No one but yourself affects you. There is nothing in the world that has the power to make you ill or sad, or weak or frail. But it is you who have the power to dominate all things you see by merely recognizing what you are. As you perceive the harmlessness in them, they will accept your holy will as theirs. And what was seen as fearful now becomes a source of innocence and holiness. Lesson 190.5
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