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By: Santi Chacon
Executive Coach
Driven by the need to excel in our talents and abilities. We dig in our heels and push against the tide of what others said we could not do. Working long hours, we move from smaller wins to larger wins and we began to feel a sense of pride about what we have accomplished. We learn to be competent and skillful and we learn to deliver our product or service more effectively with time. We shortly find that through the lens of our accomplishments we grow less and less tolerant of those around us who do not deliver value to our goals or business.
We have attempted to push our way to the top where a delicate balance between reality and illusion lie. Reality is defined by a mindset that is based on love and illusions are defined by a mindset that is based on fear. The world we slip into is a world where our projected guilt transforms into critical attitudes toward ourselves and others. This is a superficial existence that feeds on strategy, knowledge, drive, and lack of love in its many forms. We have entered an illusion, in which we strive to receive and people are used to satisfy an appetite. In this world it is easy to lose recognition of who our brothers and sisters are beyond a physical body.
Back To Eden
Now the serpent was more subtle and crafty than any living creature of the field which the Lord God had made. And he [Satan] said to the woman, Can it really be that God has said, You shall not eat from every tree of the garden? And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit from the trees of the garden, Except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. But the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die, For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing the difference between good and evil and blessing and calamity. And when the woman saw that the tree was good (suitable, pleasant) for food and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate. Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves apronlike girdles. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you? He said, I heard the sound of You [walking] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Our Perception Of An Exchange
Adam had exchanged his innocence for a perception of God, which made him feel ashamed and afraid. Every day we have an opportunity to make the same judgment of body identification or spiritual identification. We can see ourselves separate and use the body for our appetites or we can see our brothers and sisters for who they truly are.
Jesus: You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that everyone who so much as looks at a woman with evil desire for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye serves as a trap to ensnare you or is an occasion for you to stumble and sin, pluck it out and throw it away. It is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be cast into hell (Gehenna). And if your right hand serves as a trap to ensnare you or is an occasion for you to stumble and sin, cut it off and cast it from you.
Jesus speaks of one of the most dangerous of appetites, which is the first step down a path that will consume us. This is a journey, in which each step becomes easier and easier to take enticing our senses into a perpetuated illusion, where lust is mistaken for love; a world where only guilt abides.
The Choice Of Exchange
Communication ends separation. Attack promotes it. The body is beautiful or ugly, peaceful or savage, helpful or harmful, according to the use to which it is put. And in the body of another you will see the use to which you have put yours. If the body becomes a means you give to the Holy Spirit to use on behalf of union of the Sonship, you will not see anything physical except as what it is. Use it for truth and you will see it truly. Misuse it and you will misunderstand it, because you have already done so by misusing it. Interpret anything a art from the Holy Spirit and you will mistrust it. This will lead you to hatred and attack and loss of peace.
Yet all loss comes only from your own misunderstanding. Loss of any kind is impossible. But when you look upon a brother as a physical entity, his power and glory are 'lost' to you and so are yours. You have attacked him, but you must have attacked yourself first. Do not see him this way for your own salvation, which must bring him his. Do not allow him to belittle himself in your mind, but give him freedom from his belief in littleness, and thus escape from yours. As part of you, he is holy. As part of me, you are. To communicate with part of God Himself is to reach beyond the Kingdom to its Creator, through His Voice Which He has established as part of you.
-ACIM
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