Awakening
Edited from Chapter 29, The Awakening
Posted by aplecompte on July 17th, 2010
The body is nothing. Do not condemn your brother because he thinks he is a body.
You cannot wake yourself. Yet you can let yourself be wakened. You can overlook your brother's dreams. So perfectly can you forgive him his illusions he becomes your savior from your dreams. And as you see him shining in the space of light where God abides, you will see that God Himself is where his body is. Whom you forgive is given power to forgive you your illusions. By your gift of freedom is it given unto you.
Every dream is a dream of fear, no matter what form it seems to take. Make way for love. On earth this means forgive your brother.
You get angry when someone has failed to fill the function you allotted him. This justifies your attack on him. The dreams you think you like are those in which the needs you ascribe to yourself [as a body/person] are met. But it doesn’t matter whether or not your need is met. Your fears arise from your belief that you have these needs. The dream is just the flimsy covering over your belief that you have needs because you separated from God.
If you were not the one who gave the "proper" role to every brother in the dream, your dreams would become happy. Your brother can only fail your idea of him, and this the only betrayal. Perceptions are determined by their purpose, in that they seem to be what they are for. With the Holy Spirit’s purpose, a brother who attacks becomes a brother giving you a chance to help. And dreams of sadness are turned to joy.
What is your brother for? You do not know. Do not ascribe a role to him that you imagine would bring happiness to you. And do not try to hurt him when he fails to take the part that you assigned to him, in what you dream your life was meant to be. Your brother asks for help in every dream he has, and you have help to give him if you see the function of the dream as the Holy Spirit perceives its function. Because He loves the dreamer, not the dream, each dream becomes an offering of love. For at its center is His Love for you, which lights your brother with love.
Accept only the changeless and eternal that abide in your brother, for your Identity is there. The peace in you can only be found in him. And every thought of love you offer him brings you nearer to your wakening to eternal peace and to endless joy.
This sacred Son of God is like yourself; the mirror of his Father's Love for you, the soft reminder of his Father's Love by which he was created and which still abides in him as it abides in you. Be very still and hear God's Voice in him, and let It tell you what his function is. He was created that you might be whole. The only gift the Father asks of you is that you behold in your brother His perfect gift.
Your brother thinks he holds the hand of death. Do not believe him. But learn, instead, how blessed are you who can release him, just by offering him your hand. He is your savior, not your enemy in hate. The Holy Spirit gives you a dream in which you have forgiven him for all his dreams of death; a dream of hope you share with him, instead of dreaming evil separate dreams of hate.
Forgiving dreams are means to step aside from dreaming of a world outside yourself, and lead finally beyond all dreams, unto the peace of everlasting life.
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