It's Those Evil Bastards!
YOUR SURVIVAL AS A SEPARATE EGO is dependent on fear, conflict and war; without them you dissolve. This is why you fear love, oneness and peace; and why you love fear, conflict and war, and refuse to let them go.
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Your mistake is your belief that the problems of evil, selfishness, ignorance and sickness are in others and not in yourself; and that the world needs healing, not you. By answering all evil in the world with an expression of love, you receive healing because you have given it. By projecting evil onto others, you keep it for yourself. We are healed together or not at all.
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When you reject, judge or condemn anyone in the world, you have first rejected, judged and condemned yourself. When you see evil doers in the world, you have first seen yourself as an evil doer. By projecting the "evil" onto another you hope to maintain the face of innocence, avoid your punishment, and have the "evil" ones punished instead of you.
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All speech, behavior and action in the world are either expressions of love or calls for love; this is the Holy Spirit's judgment. When you turn to Him instead of the ego, it is your judgment; and the beginning of the end of the world of pain you made, and the beginning of your perception of the real world. The real world is a reflection of the wholeness and love of God.
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Love is the one and only judgment and response of the Holy Spirit. By choosing the Holy Spirit as our guide, love becomes our one and only response to all our brothers in the world we made.
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We have two emotions; love and fear. Fear is the emotion of the ego. Love is the emotion of the Holy Spirit. Fear is the denial of love; therefore love must exist before it can be denied. Fear only has meaning in its role as a defense to keep love hidden. The only purpose of fear is to hide love. By seeing everything in the world as an expression of love or a call for love, we now see only love; rendering fear useless.
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In your daily life, whenever you experience fear, anger, hostility, or feel you have been attacked — now you know these are all defenses against love. Knowing that everything in the world is an expression of love or a call for love, fear no longer serves any purpose. Fear, conflict and war are defenses against love, and nothing else. Defenses against love are calls for love; the only response to a call for love is love.
From the PDF Book - Notes on the Text of ACIM Condensed Version by Stephen Wingate
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