Page 24. Bodies—both the physical and psychological—were made to have problems: to suffer, change, deteriorate, and die; to be alone, and then to join in an insane expression of comfort and union that never works. One of my favorite passages in the text is T 18 I: The Purpose of the Body in which it is explained that the “infinitely small” circle we draw around bodies and believe contains not only ourselves but into which we try to bring God is such a tiny part” of the mind we share that: “could you but appreciate the whole, you would see instantly that it is like the smallest sunbeam to the sun, or like the faintest ripple on the surface of the ocean.” It is often considered “humble” to refer to ourselves as just a “tiny piece” of the whole or to “my truth” as just one of thousands of “truths.” ACIM calls it “amazing arrogance.” I agree. “Truth is different for everyone” is not a “law of peace” but the first “law of chaos.” If I am violating copyright laws by quoting from the FIP version of the Course rather than another, I hope I will at least be warned before I am charged. T-18.VIII.1. It is only the awareness of the body that makes love seem limited. 2 For the body is a limit on love. 3 The belief in limited love was its origin, and it was made to limit the unlimited. 4 Think not that this is merely allegorical, for it was made to limit you. 5 Can you who see yourself within a body know yourself as an idea? Or how about recognizing yourself as “beyond and encompassing ALL ideas?”
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