A Course In Miracles

Choose Again

A lesson from A Course in Miracles...

"There are no triumphs of love. Only hate is concerned with the triumph of love at all. The illusion of love can triumph over the illusion of hate, but always at the price of making both illusions. And as long as the illusion of hatred lasts, so long will love be an illusion to you. And then the only choice that remains possible, is which illusion you prefer. There is no conflict in the choice between truth and illusion. Seen in these terms, no one would hesitate. But conflict enters the instant the choice seems to be one between illusions, for this choice does not matter. Where one choice is as dangerous as the other, the decision must be one of despair... Every illusion is one of fear, whatever form it takes. And the attempt to escape from one illusion into another, must fail. If you seek love outside yourself, you can be certain that you perceive hatred within, and are afraid of it. Yet peace will never come from the illusion of love, but only from its reality... Every fantasy, be it of love or hate, deprives you of knowledge, for fantasies are the veil behind which truth is hidden. To lift the veil, which seems so dark and heavy, it is only needful to value truth beyond all fantasy, and to be entirely unwilling to settle for illusion in place of truth. Would you not go through fear to love? For such the journey seems to be. Love calls, though hate would bid you stay. Hear not the call of hate, and see no fantasies. For your completion lies in truth, and nowhere. See in the call of hate, and in every fantasy that rises to delay you, but the call for help, that rises ceaselessly from you to your Creator. God loves you, wholly without illusion, as you must love. For love is wholly without illusion, and therefore wholly without fear."

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