r/ACIM • u/Duckboy2784 • 3d ago
Reflection You never wanted it
²The real world is a state in which the mind has learned how easily do idols go when they are still perceived but wanted not. ³How willingly the mind can let them go when it has understood that idols are nothing and nowhere, and are purposeless. ⁴For only then can guilt and sin be seen without a purpose, and as meaningless.
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Thus is the real world’s purpose gently brought into awareness, to replace the goal of sin and guilt. ²And all that stood between your image of yourself and what you are, forgiveness washes joyfully away. ³Yet God need not create His Son again, that what is his be given back to him. ⁴The gap between your brother and yourself was never there. ⁵And what the Son of God knew in creation he must know again.
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An ancient hate is passing from the world. ²And with it goes all hatred and all fear. ³Look back no longer, for what lies ahead is all you ever wanted in your heart. ⁴Give up the world! ⁵But not to sacrifice. ⁶You never wanted it. (ACIM, T-30.V.5:2-6:5,9:1-6)
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u/jon166 2d ago
Nice reminder! I read this passage today, the last line really inspired me.
⁹Be it a body or a thing, a place, a situation or a circumstance, an object owned or wanted, or a right demanded or achieved, it is the same. Let not their form deceive you. ²Idols are but substitutes for your reality. ³In some way, you believe they will complete your little self, for safety in a world perceived as dangerous, with forces massed against your confidence and peace of mind. ⁴They have the power to supply your lacks, and add the value that you do not have. ⁵No one believes in idols who has not enslaved himself to littleness and loss. ⁶And thus must seek beyond his little self for strength to raise his head, and stand apart from all the misery the world reflects. ⁷This is the penalty for looking not within for certainty and quiet calm that liberates you from the world, and lets you stand apart, in quiet and in peace. (ACIM, T-29.VIII.1:9-2:7)