Let me not see myself as limited.

1. Let me behold the Son of God today and witness to his glory.^I

²Let me not try to obscure the holy light in him.

³Let me not diminish his strength and turn it into weakness.

⁴And let me not perceive in him the lacks that would attack his dignity.

2. He is Your Son,

my Father.

²And today I would behold his gentleness

instead of my illusions.

³He is what I am,

and as I see him,

so I see myself.

⁴Today I would truly see,

that I may at last recognize him as myself.

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^I What do I want to see?

What do I want to know?

What do I want to be?

What do I want?

What I sincerely desire is, inevitably, what I will see, know, and experience as my identity. Therefore, Father, today I want to see the Truth, and only the Truth, so that this—and nothing else—may be what I behold and recognize as mine.

But to see the Truth, I must first release every definition I have imposed upon myself. Every definition is a limit, and to define is, literally, to put an end—to draw boundaries. “I am like this,” “I am this,” “I am that”… every label with which I identify reduces what I truly am to a narrow and false concept. Even an apparently lofty statement such as “I am the Son of God,” if uttered from the ego—from the personal mind that believes it knows who it is—becomes just another prison, a “holy limit” fabricated by the very mind that deceives me.

The right attitude is not to define myself, but to remain in the cloud of unknowing, without self-imposed limits. For as long as I hold any fixed idea of myself, the ego will use it for its own purposes, appropriating even the purest truths to strengthen its illusory identity. Its power of distortion is so great that it can employ any concept, no matter how sacred it may seem, to keep me trapped in its forms.

That is why, in asking today to see no limitation in myself, I am asking to relinquish all my definitions—even the spiritual ones—so that I may look without filters and behold the Son of God as He truly is: free, unlimited, and real. And as I see Him, so shall I see myself.

Let me not see in myself any limitation.

I behold the glory of Your Son and recognize myself in His light.

Forgiveness ends all suffering and all sense of loss.

1. Forgiveness offers us the vision of a world in which there is no suffering, the idea of loss becomes impossible, and anger is meaningless.

²Attack is gone, and madness has an end.

³What suffering could now be conceived? ^I

⁴What loss could still be felt?

⁵The world becomes a haven of joy, abundance, kindness, and boundless giving.

⁶Now it is so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the Light it merely reflects.

⁷And thus the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the Light from which he came.

2. Father,

we would return our minds to You.

²We have betrayed them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them with thoughts of death and violence.

³Now we would rest again in You,just as You created us.

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^I It is impossible for something you have completely forgiven to continue causing you suffering. To forgive is to let pass—to release from your mind that which you have given great importance because you believe it diminishes the idea you hold of yourself. And, in a sense, you are not wrong: as you tell it, the self you think you are seems to have been attacked. If you intend to preserve that identity, it is natural that you feel compelled to protect yourself or even to strike back.

But this Course does not ask you to act irrationally or to deny the evidence as you perceive it; rather, it urges you to pause, reflect, and ask yourself whether the ideas that underlie your thinking—and determine your behavior—are true.

You are not exhorted to forgive for some lofty and mysterious goal you must accept blindly. On the contrary, you are invited to recognize that what you now take for certain—and believe without question—is false, and that therefore your thinking is mistaken and your behavior senseless. The proof is clear: you are afraid, you suffer, and you are not happy.

The root of the problem is that the idea you have of yourself, the cornerstone of your entire mental system, is false. That idea may indeed be in danger, but you are not. This is why forgiveness consists not only in letting go of grievances and resentments, but also—and above all—of the idea you hold of yourself. If you release the world but cling to that idea, you will be left with the ego “stripped bare”: an experience of absolute emptiness and terror.

The world, with all its apparent conflict, is in fact a distraction the ego uses to avoid facing itself. If the world were to disappear while your self-image remained intact, you would experience the psychological hell of the isolated ego.

Authentic forgiveness, therefore, is not selective. It means letting go of everything you think is important—good or bad—and also of every notion of who you believe yourself to be. When you do so, you do not plunge into emptiness; you encounter what is Real—that which you cannot define or lose, for it is what you are. Then you understand that the only thing that can be hurt or lost is your self-image. You never can be.

Ask yourself: have you ever ceased to be you? If you look at it honestly, you will see that the only things that have changed are the stories you tell yourself. To forgive is to let those stories pass until none remain. In that moment, the mind rests in God as it was created, and suffering and loss become impossible.

Forgiveness ends all suffering and all loss.

I rest in You, Father, and let Your Light restore peace to my mind.

What suffers is not part of me.

1. I have denied the truth.

²Now I would be as faithful in denying falsehood.

³What suffers is not part of me.

⁴What grieves is not myself.

⁵What feels pain is but illusion in my mind.

⁶What dies has never lived, and only mocked the truth of what I am.

⁷Now I disown these self-deceptions and these lies about the holy Son of God.^I

⁸Now I am ready to accept myself again as God created me, and as I am.

2. Father, my ancient Love for You has come again,

and lets me love Your Son as well.

²Father, I am as You created me.

³Now do I remember Your Love,

and mine as well.

⁴Now I understand that they are one.

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^I At first, you may think this Lesson refers only to obvious suffering—sadness, pain, or grief. Yet Jesus extends its reach much further, pointing out that every human emotion—including joy—belongs to the same illusory realm: that of the character with whom you have identified yourself. The one who suffers and the one who rejoices over external causes are, in truth, the same projection: an idea you hold of yourself, the ego as effect.

As long as you remain identified with that character, you will live in bipolarity—ups and downs, enthusiasms and disappointments, euphoria when expectations are met and dejection when they are not. Even that which you consider “good” or “important” to you—people, projects, beliefs, even this Course—will make you suffer, for everything you deem important is subject to change, loss, or threat.

Here is where the Course breaks radically with the world’s dualistic paradigm, which separates the subject from “the other” and assumes the existence of external realities capable of affecting you. Non-dualistic teaching affirms that there is nothing outside your mind, that everything you experience arises from your own interpretations, and that there is no external justification for them. From this perspective, suffering, affliction, pain, and death are ideas you yourself have conceived and sustained.

The root of suffering lies not in things themselves, but in your sense of personal importance. As long as you—the idea you have of yourself—remain important to you, you will inevitably project that value onto something else and be at its mercy. The only path to true peace is to release that sense of importance, to forgive everything you think matters, and to cease generating new attachments. When you cease to be important to yourself, nothing else can be—and in that state, suffering is impossible.

This reveals something deeper: love is not an emotion. Emotions are always effects, generated when two concepts you consider important collide or interact within your mind. Love, on the other hand, is causal—it is an aspect of your very Being, inseparable from your existence. For this reason, it cannot be defined or expressed in words, just as you cannot confine within a concept what God, will, or knowledge are. All you can do is discover what love is not and make room for its true meaning to arise within you in time.

To accept that “what suffers is not part of me” goes beyond relinquishing sadness or pain; it also means disidentifying from every notion of yourself as a character who experiences emotional ups and downs. In that total detachment, a joy arises that depends on nothing—a constant jubilation that is not human, for it is not born of fulfilled expectations or possession. It is the natural condition of the right-minded mind, in which no character remains to dream.

What suffers is not part of me.

I am as God created me—whole, beloved, and eternal.

If I do not forgive, I will still be blind.

1. Sin is the symbol of attack.

²Wherever I see it, it will cause me pain.

³As forgiveness is the only means by which the vision of Christ can come to me.^I

⁴When I accept what His vision shows me as the simple truth, I am completely healed.

⁵Come, my brother, and let me look on you.

⁶Your loveliness reflects my own.

⁷Your sinlessness is mine.

⁸You are forgiven, and I with you.

2. This is how I would look on everyone today.

²My brothers are Your Sons.

³Your Fatherhood created them,

and gave them all to me as part of You,

and of my own Self.

⁴Today I honor You through them,

and thus I hope this day to recognize my Self.

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^I To forgive is simply to stop telling myself stories about my brother and about myself. Those stories—whether pleasant or unpleasant—are always colored by the past and by the emotions they awaken in me: satisfaction, fear, or anger. They attract me because I find them exciting, and that excitement makes me feel “alive” in a world I believe to be real. Yet that voice which narrates and embellishes the story is none other than my own, and while I listen to it, I cannot hear the Voice of the Holy Spirit or see with the vision of Christ.

Guilt acts as a filter that distorts what I see. If I define someone by a past mistake, I cease to see them as they are now. To maintain that definition is to live frozen in the past and to block myself from perceiving the truth of the present. This not only separates me from my brother, but also keeps me blind to reality.

To forgive is to release those definitions and judgments so I may look again—without the weight of the past—granting my brother the opportunity to show what he truly is. This act, though it may seem small, opens my vision and restores my ability to perceive our shared innocence.

If I do not forgive, I will remain blind.

When I look through the eyes of Christ, I see my brothers as innocent.

To love my Father is to love His Son.

1. Let me not think I can find the way to God if there is hatred in my heart.^I

²Let me not think I can know my Father or my Self if I would harm His Son.^II

³Let me not think I can be aware of my Father, or of all the Love He holds for me and I for Him, if I fail to recognize my Self.

2. I will accept the way You chose for me to come to You,

my Father.

²For in that way I will succeed,

because it is Your Will.

³And I will recognize that what You will is also what I will,

and only that.

⁴And so,

I choose to love Your Son.

⁵Amen.

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^I 1 John 2:9 “Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.”

1 John 4:20 “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”

^II To be is to love. Not to love is to dream. And only one of these two options is real. Today I choose the truth.

To love my Father is to love His Son. Yet this love is not always felt immediately, nor can it be forced. To try to love “out of obligation” often produces inner resistance, for the mind reacts poorly when it is pressured. That is why the path can begin with something much simpler: granting your brother the opportunity to be seen without prior judgments, without dragging along the image you hold of his past, your prejudices, or your expectations.

This willingness to “give him the opportunity” is already a great step. It means allowing him to be born anew in your mind and expecting the best of him or her. Even if you do not yet experience perfect love, this gesture opens the door for love to arise naturally.

The goal is not to force yourself to feel something, but to orient your heart in the direction of love, using whatever resources you have now. If you give the best you can in each moment, however small, you are already walking the path that leads you to God—for that is the path He has laid out for you.

To love my Father is to love His Son.

I choose the path of Love, where I recognize myself in all.

Your Peace is with me, Father. I am safe.

1. Your Peace surrounds me,

Father.

²Wherever I go,

Your Peace goes with me,

and sheds its light on everyone I meet.^I

³I bring Your Peace to those who are forlorn,

to those who feel alone and afraid.

⁴I give Your Peace to those who suffer pain,

to those who grieve a loss,

or feel despair and hopelessness.

⁵Send them to me,

my Father.

⁶I would be the bearer of Your Peace.

⁷For I would save Your Son,

because it is Your Will

that I acknowledge my Self.

2. And so we walk in peace, bringing the message we have received to all the world.

²And thus we come to hear the Voice of God, Who speaks to us as we deliver His Word.

³For we recognize His Love by sharing the Word He gave to us.

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^I I dream, but mine is a lucid dream that remembers the truth. Though it seems I live in this world, I know my only Life is in my Father. I do not fully remember who I am, but I choose to believe that I am the Son of God. At times I feel fear, even knowing that my Father’s Love enfolds me and that my Being is, and always will be, only Love.

My faith sustains me, for it is my will to maintain it. I bring into the dream of the world the attributes of my heavenly reality: peace, joy, and love. Today I choose peace, and in choosing it, I give it, for I can offer only what I have accepted for myself. Thus, even here, the Peace of God is mine.

This lesson reminds us that peace is not “preached” with words, but embodied and shared by living from it. To bring peace to others is not to speak of peace, but to radiate it, so that others may feel it as something real. The Course does not ask you to try to convince anyone or to tell them how they should live or think; it invites you to be a living witness of the change that truth has worked in you.

The world listens to the language of deeds more than to that of words. If you embody the peace, joy, and coherence of this learning, others will want to know what lies behind your way of living. And thus, without imposing anything, you will be carrying the Peace of God wherever you are.

The Peace of God is the only thing that exists, and when I accept it for myself, I discover that it is in everything: I see it in me, and I see it in all that I behold.

Your peace is with me, Father.

I am safe.

I bring Your Peace to every encounter, and in it I hear Your Voice.

I am never in danger in any place I go.

1. Your Son is safe wherever he may be,^I

for You are there with him.

²He need only call upon Your Name,

and he will remember his safety and Your Love,

for they are one.

³How can he fear, or doubt,

or fail to see that he cannot suffer,

be in danger, or be unhappy,

when he belongs to You,

and is both loving and beloved,

in the safety of Your Fatherly embrace?

2. And that is truly where we are.

²No storms can enter the holy haven of our home.  

³In God we are secure.

⁴For what can come to threaten God Himself, or terrify what is forever a part of Him?

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^I This world is an illusion, and your personal life is a dream. Your true life is the one you have in God, where you create eternally, for to live is to create, to extend, to give, and to love. That is why, in truth, you are never in danger: your perfect condition is unchangeable.

Yet you are free to form any opinion you wish about yourself, and those opinions—ever shifting—determine your states of mind. The apparent conflict arises between the image you make of yourself and the truth God knows of you. The purpose of the Atonement is to unite your will with God’s, for in reality they are the same. The Course asks only that you stop telling yourself stories that are not true. Sooner or later you will have to choose between “being right” and “being happy.”

The phrase “I am in danger nowhere in the world” is as true now as it has ever been. If you read it in the past tense—“I have never been in danger anywhere I have been”—you will see that it holds: what you truly are remains untouched. The only thing that ever seemed “in danger” were the false ideas you held about yourself—your definitions, your attributes, your circumstances. All of that is changeable and therefore destined to disappear.

You, on the other hand, remain unchanging. The only real thing in you—your Self—has never been threatened and never will be. The sooner you cease identifying with the transitory, the sooner you will recognize that your safety is absolute. Believe you are safe and you will experience it; believe otherwise, and you will live in fear, anger, and attack. The world you see is a dream reflecting your beliefs: master them, and grant yourself peace, even within this illusory scene.

Today remember that nothing real can be threatened, and that you are forever an inseparable part of God.

I am in danger nowhere in the world

In Your embrace, Father, I live secure and without fear.

I will not judge anything that occurs today.

1. Today I will be honest with myself.^I

²I will not think I already know what lies beyond what I can see at this moment.

³I will not believe I understand the whole from little bits I glimpse, which are all that I can see.

⁴Today I acknowledge this is so.

⁵And thus I am relieved of judgment, which I cannot make.

⁶In this way, I free myself and all that I behold, to be in peace, as God created us.

2. Father,

today I let Creation be what it is.

²Today I honor every part of it,

including myself.

³We are one, for every part contains Your memory,

and truth must shine in all of us as one.

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^I Honesty is the quality of those who are willing to grant themselves the truth, and nothing but the truth. If truth is something desirable, why then is honesty so rare? The cause is always fear. Only one who fears the truth coming to light will lie, and fear is incompatible with truth. If you wish to know the truth, you must first cease to fear it—or at least learn to manage that fear. And you fear only when you believe you can lose something you love; yet what can be lost is never worthy of the Love that comes from God.

Your emotional discomfort is a most valuable indicator. Each time you judge, you inevitably feel bad. That discomfort is a warning signal to stop judgment before it is translated into words or actions that could harm your relationship with your brother. The sooner you recognize your unease and act to release the judgment, the less harm there will be and the less energy you will need to restore peace. Time here is crucial: the longer you delay stopping, the more costly and difficult the repair will be.

To respond with such quickness, you must become highly sensitive to your inner states, both mental and emotional. Your vigilance must be twofold: one eye attentive to what the mind thinks, and the other to what the heart feels. With practice, you will detect even the slightest absences of love and be able to correct them instantly. In this way, you will protect not only your peace but also your bond with your brothers, preventing a passing judgment from eroding a relationship that is, in truth, sacred.

Judge nothing that you think you see today. Acknowledge with humility that you do not understand it, and forgive it. What is real you will love, for it is like you; what is not has no power over you. Today, abandon fear, clothe your mind in honesty, and give thanks to God for the certainty that nothing real can be lost.

Today I will judge nothing that occurs.

I remain at peace, letting Your Creation be as it is.

This day I give to God. It is my gift to Him.

1. Today I will not lead my life alone.

²I do not understand the world.

³Therefore, trying to direct my life alone can only be madness.^I

⁴But there is One who knows all that is best for me.

⁵And He gladly makes all choices for me that lead to God.

⁶I give this day to Him, for I do not want to delay my return home.

⁷And He it is who knows the way to God.

2. And so,

we give You this day.

²We come with wholly open minds.

³We ask for nothing that we think we want.

⁴Give us what You would have us receive.

⁵You know all our desires and our needs.

⁶And You will give us all that we truly want,and all that will help us find the way to You.

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^I You only want to be at peace and to be happy, and that is a legitimate aspiration, not a spiritual luxury. If you do not enjoy that state now, it is worth asking yourself honestly: what is preventing it? You may discover that it is because you still allow yourself to conceive of unhappiness and conflict—and that the idea attracts you.

The simple fact that you are capable of bringing about such states is proof that, in some corner of your mind, you value them. Yet that is not what you truly want, nor what your Father wants for you. It is, rather, the fruit of your desire to be separate from Him and to maintain your own exclusive identity.

It takes great honesty to recognize and admit this inclination. And the same honesty, illuminated by the light of truth, is needed to accept that on your own you cannot abandon this fictitious condition of isolation. The core of the problem lies precisely in your wish to live “on your own,” and so, as long as you insist on solving it by yourself, you will not succeed.

To be happy is your natural condition, but it is also a decision you must make. Peace, likewise, is permanent, but it is perceived as optional only when its opposite is given appeal. For this reason, it is helpful to ask yourself, “Why do I keep choosing what I do not truly want?”

Give to the Holy Spirit all the decisions you think you must make concerning the illusions you see, and rest. In your present state, you cannot make sound decisions about the affairs of your life. Your task now is to heal the root of your unhappiness, and this is accomplished by giving your life to God, remembering that that life is both His and yours, for there is nothing you do not share with Him.

This day I dedicate to God, and it is my gift to Him.

I trust in His guidance and let Him direct my way.

3. What Is the World?

1. The world is a false perception.^I

²It was born of error and has not left its source.

³It will remain as long as the thought that gave it birth is cherished.^II

⁴When the thought of separation has been replaced by one of true forgiveness, the world will be seen in a completely different light.

⁵A light that leads to truth, in which the whole world will vanish, along with all its errors.

⁶For when its source has disappeared, so will its effects.

2. The world was made as an attack on God, and it symbolizes fear.

²And what is fear except the absence of Love?

³Thus the world was meant to be a place where God could not enter, and where His Son could be apart from Him.

⁴It was this the birth of perception, for Knowledge could not have produced such insane thoughts.^III

⁵But eyes deceive, and ears hear falsely.

⁶Now error is possible, for certainty has gone.

3. In its place were born the mechanisms of illusion that search for what they have been told to find.^IV

²Their aim is to serve the purpose for which the world was made—to witness to it and make it real.

³In their illusions they behold a solid base where truth exists, upheld without a trace of doubt.

⁴Yet everything they report is but illusion, having no relationship to truth at all.

4. And yet, sight was made to lead the mind away from truth, but it can be redirected.^V

²Sounds become the Call of God.

³For He whom God appointed Savior of the world gives seeing a new purpose.

⁴Follow His light and see the world as He beholds it.

⁵Listen only to His Voice in all that speaks to you.

⁶And let Him give you peace and certainty, which you have cast away, but Heaven has preserved for you in Him.

5. We will not rest until the world has joined our changed perception.

²We will not be content until forgiveness is complete.^VI

³And we will not attempt to change our function.

⁴We must save the world.

⁵For we, who made it, must behold it through the eyes of Christ, that what was made to die may be restored to Everlasting Life.

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^I The world is only a way of seeing, a manner of thinking. It does not exist as an objective reality; only Mind exists, and the pure idea of Being, which is One, unchanging, and impossible to divide. Yet the freedom of Mind allows it to conceive the impossible: change, separation, the absence of Light. Change itself is unreal, but Mind, in its freedom, can imagine and project it outward, perceiving thus a world that seems real.

Illusion was never an entity; it is a matter of perspective. Since Mind is all that exists, any appearance of multiplicity is nothing but its own play of hiding and revealing. Separation—the denial of Light—is for the Mind absolutely unbearable, for it would mean being left without Love, without Will, and without Being. And since such a thing is impossible, it invents a “compromise solution”: drawing shadows upon the Light, as if they were forms.

Reality is like a white board bathed in Light. The idea of separation is black ink. Mind cannot cover all the Light, but it can trace upon it forms, outlines, and words, thereby creating landscapes of light and shadow. Then, instead of beholding the Light that sustains everything, we focus on the dark strokes, and from those absences of light we invent stories: “the sky is blue,” “the sea is vast.” The content seems meaningful, but it is nothing more than an interpretation of lack.

This is how perception works: it seeks and confirms the story we have decided to tell. The ego focuses on the shadowed areas and sees threat, loss, and death; the Holy Spirit, on the other hand, directs the gaze toward the Light that remains behind everything and reminds us that only that is real. The world is nothing but the playing field of these two interpretations.

To forgive, therefore, means to cease giving value to the shadows and to let the Light reclaim our attention. Though we may still see forms and absences, we can choose to focus on what shines within them. It is like choosing to see the glass as half full instead of half empty: it is the same glass, but the emotional resonance changes completely. What once seemed a scene of lack becomes a reminder of abundance.

The world thus ceases to be an attack upon God and becomes instead a reminder of His Presence. Seen through the eyes of Christ, what was made to die is restored to Eternal Life.

^II The thought that gave rise to it is more than an idea: it is a vocation, an idea infused with desire for the impossible, and that is what brought time into being—the desire for what cannot be; the perverse idea of orphanhood and loneliness.

The Son of God can embark on a journey toward what is nothing, but he cannot cease to be what he is and forever will be. A mistaken vocation and devotion to what is untrue can only be dispelled by the Light of Truth. Therefore you shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free—again.

^III Knowledge cannot be attacked, denied, or resisted, for the known and the knower are the same. Knowledge is unquestionable, because to know is to be, to love, and to create.

^IV The mechanisms of illusion are the so-called “senses,” from the Latin sentire, which means “to hear.” The mind “hears” that to which it directs its will to listen. It has at its disposal both the Word of God and its own demented voice—its ego, its “beloved” exclusive and personal identity.

The persistence of illusion is explained only by that “love” for the aberrant creature the mind has conceived. And love, of whatever kind, creates. The creature of perverse love is called “belief,” and, being the fruit of exclusive “love,” it is recognized only by its progenitor. For this reason, beliefs cannot truly be shared, though they can be transmitted; and anyone who presents his beliefs may awaken similar beliefs in other minds, though they are never truly shared, for they are always exclusive.

^V Mind is free and unchangeable; its capacity is ever at its disposal. That capacity is will—the power to create. The sane mind creates; it does not believe. Indeed, it cannot cease to create, for having been created of Love by Love Itself, it can never cease to love. This is reflected even in its devotion to its spurious creations—its beliefs.

It is not possible to return to what has always been and forever will be, but it is possible to cease believing in what is believed—and that is salvation.

^VI To forgive is the means by which you cease to believe and return to knowing.

LESSON 241

Salvation comes to every heart this holy instant.

1. How blessed we are today!

²Today is a day of special celebration.

³For today the darkened world is offered the instant set for its release.

⁴This is the day when sorrow ends and pain is gone.

⁵The glory of salvation dawns today upon a liberated world.

⁶This is a time of hope for countless millions.

⁷They will be joined today because you have forgiven all of them.^I

⁸For you will also have forgiven me today.^II

2. Now we have forgiven one another,

and so we come at last to You again.

²Father,

Your Son, who never left,

returns to Heaven and his home.

³How joyful are we that sanity has been restored to us

and we remember we are all one!

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^I To forgive is to recognize that everything you see is a reflection of yourself and to cease denying it.

^II Forgiving Jesus is a theme that appears both in the  Text and in Part II of theWorkbook (see also Lessons 288 and 342).

Jesus asks us to forgive him: “I have been welcomed in grace, which means that at last you have forgiven me. For I became the symbol of your sins, and for that reason had to die in your place” (T-19.IV.B.1:1-2). “I ask for your forgiveness, for if you are guilty, so must I be. And if I overcame guilt and transcended the world, you were with me. Do you wish to see in me the symbol of guilt, or of its ending? For remember that what I mean to you is what you see in yourselves” (T-19.IV.B.9:1-4).

This points to the fact that, throughout history, Jesus has been presented as a divine judge who came to “convict the world of sin” (John 16:8) and to die for our sins. Thus his image has been bound to the memory of our supposed guilt. Jesus asks us to forgive him for this—not because he has done anything, but because that image is merely a collective projection that made him the symbol of a sin that never existed.

When we forgive him for what he never was, we automatically forgive all humanity, for what we see in him is what we have chosen to see in ourselves. This is the profound meaning of “In this holy instant comes salvation”: the holy instant can be any moment, because the only real time is now, and now is the moment when we decide to free everyone—including Jesus—from the roles and symbols our mind has fabricated.

In doing so, we remember that there is no future to wait for in order to be happy or at peace; salvation and joy are now. This is an act of will: choosing for it to be now, and not later. In this sense, forgiving Jesus—and with him, the whole world—is allowing the one real instant to be filled with the certainty that we are all one and that separation never occurred.

In this holy instant comes salvation.

Today the world is set free, and we all return to the Peace of God.