This “passage” is comprised of the last three paragraphs of Section V (“The Undivided Will of the Sonship”) of Chapter 8 (“The Journey Back”) in what's known as the Text. And who is narrating these words? The image at left provides the answer to that question.
I share this passage with no accompanying commentary or interpretation, just an invitation to whoever has come across it here and chooses to read it, to take from it anything that for you “shimmers” with deep truth.
When you unite with me you are uniting without the ego, because I have renounced the ego in myself and therefore cannot unite with yours. Our union is therefore the way to renounce the ego in you. The truth in both of us is beyond the ego. Our success in transcending the ego is guaranteed by God, and I share this confidence for both of us and all of us. I bring God’s peace back to all His children because I received it of Him for us all. Nothing can prevail against our united wills because nothing can prevail against God’s.
Would you know the Will of God for you? Ask it of me who knows it for you and you will find it. I will deny you nothing, as God denies me nothing. Ours is simply the journey back to God Who is our home. Whenever fear intrudes anywhere along the road to peace, it is because the ego has attempted to join the journey with us and cannot do so. Sensing defeat and angered by it, the ego regards itself as rejected and becomes retaliative. You are invulnerable to its retaliation because I am with you. On this journey you have chosen me as your companion instead of the ego. Do not attempt to hold on to both, or you will try to go in different directions and will lose the way.
The ego’s way is not mine, but it is also not yours. The Holy Spirit has one direction for all minds, and the one He taught me is yours. Let us not lose sight of His direction through illusions, for only illusions of another direction can obscure the one for which God’s Voice speaks in all of us. Never accord the ego the power to interfere with the journey. It has none, because the journey is the way to what is true. Leave all illusions behind, and reach beyond all attempts of the ego to hold you back. I go before you because I am beyond the ego. Reach, therefore, for my hand because you want to transcend the ego. My strength will never be wanting, and if you choose to share it you will do so. I give it willingly and gladly, because I need you as much as you need me.
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• A Course in Miracles: A Gift of Peace
• Why A Course in Miracles Is Not “New Age”
• Mysticism and Miracles
• Gifts of Abundance
• Choosing to Awaken
• Choosing to Understand
• I Am One With the Beloved
• Being One With the Beloved, the Source of All Things
• The Mystic Jesus: “A Name for the Unalterable Love That All of Us Share”
• Your Peace Is With Me, Beloved One
• Dwelling in Peace
• The Peace of God
• You Are My Goal, Beloved One
• Be In My Mind, Beloved One
• Stepping Out of Time and Resting Your Mind
• Resting in the Presence of the Beloved
• In the Stillness and Silence of This Present Moment
• The Beauty and Challenge of Being Present in the Moment
• Today I Will Be Still
• I Need Do Nothing . . . I Am Open to the Living Light
• Aligning With the Living Light
• An Expression of Humility
• A Course in Miracles and the Sufi Way
• “The Thoughts of God Are With You”
Related Off-site Links:
Foundation for Inner Peace – “Scribe-authorized publisher of A Course in Miracles.”
9 Lessons from A Course in Miracles to Transmute Fear into Faith – Shannon Kaiser (Thrive Global, September 7, 2020).
The Deep Wisdom of A Course In Miracles: An Interview with Marianne Williamson – Aubrey Marcus Podcast (December 24, 2024).
Image: Artist unknown.
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