Among the biggest secrets we try to help keep is really a sense of autonomy and pride. The theory or feeling that you're important in some special way, that you're loved with a special person, that somebody is giving you special attention, they're some of the ego's very subtle secrets. We are attempting to hide our Divine Self and are playing every one of these different games, which appear to be very upsetting. It is pretty depressing and it really doesn't go anywhere, so we try to get scraps of special love, attention and recognition to prop ourselves up.
We work so hard at becoming “better people”, at gaining greater intelligence and more skills. We want to be liked more and be much more popular. The whole self-help industry is dedicated to improving the self so you can develop into a better you Acim. That is another trick we secretly play on ourselves, thinking we have to help keep spinning our wheels attempting to become better. This self-improvement game is another secret we are able to to master to release of. It is very relaxing once you start to understand that you may not have to become any better than you already are. You're created perfect. It is not through self-improvement that you will find peace but through self-acceptance.
As I caused A Course in Miracles, I really could note that there clearly was a fear of divine love in my mind. I realized this is the ego's concern with losing itself. The ego is afraid of being exposed and being seen as a puff of nothingness. That is driving a car of intimacy. We speak about this fear in relationships, which might be projected as concern with sexual intimacy, but it's really a fear of dropping our persona, our mask of individuality. It is driving a car to getting swept away with a glorious love, a love so powerful that none folks can even imagine something as glorious and powerful!
For me, those are the big secrets, since it doesn't start out with this specific great awareness. It always starts with feeling like you have done something amiss, whether you've masturbated, stolen something, mistreated somebody, or there is something in your head that you have judged as so hideous that you do not even want to manage it, you only want to forget about this and push it out of awareness.
Underneath those memories and thoughts, could be the belief that we are separated. This is the “secret” we hide. It truly is an impossible belief, but we believe that it is true; We have judged it as horrific and have pushed it out of awareness. All unconscious guilt originates from this belief in separation. And as you really give yourself to the miracle, you're feeling those hidden beliefs and secrets are increasingly being washed away and you finally face this hidden belief in separation!
A Course In Miracles is a book which brings you tools to reverse all fearful thoughts and beliefs. Using these tools afford them the ability to get the complete sense of freedom and peace you've been yearning for.
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