T-2.VI.6. It is possible to reach a state in which you
bring your mind under my guidance without conscious effort, but this implies a
willingness that you have not developed as yet. 2 The Holy Spirit cannot ask
more than you are willing to do. 3 The strength to do comes from your undivided
decision. 4 There is no strain in doing God's Will as soon as you recognize
that it is also your own. 5 The lesson here is quite simple, but particularly
apt to be overlooked. 6 I will therefore repeat it, urging you to listen. 7
Only your mind can produce fear. 8 It does so whenever it is conflicted in what
it wants, producing inevitable strain because wanting and doing are discordant.
9 This can be corrected only by accepting a unified goal.
Here, ‘my’, for
our purposes, means the Higher Power.
The ideal is to be
surrendered to the Higher Power. However, this is blocked by conflict between ‘what
I want’ and ‘God’s will’. Conflict comes from fear. Fear comes from an error.
The error has occurred in my mind. Only there can it be corrected. Once the
fear is corrected, the conflict is corrected, and the handbrake is off. We’re
motoring, harmoniously.
T-2.VI.7. The
first corrective step in undoing the error is to know first that the conflict
is an expression of fear. 2 Say to yourself that you must somehow have chosen
not to love, or the fear could not have arisen. 3 Then the whole process of
correction becomes nothing more than a series of pragmatic steps in the larger
process of accepting the Atonement as the remedy. 4 These steps may be
summarized in this way:
The error is the
choice to reject: seeing a situation, person, event, or notion as bad, wrong, undesirable,
out of kilter, etc.: essentially evil. This is what ‘choosing not to love’
means: separating myself from the situation, person, event, or notion. It is
this that gave rise to the fear. What is really happening is I am projecting something
within myself I perceive as bad, wrong, undesirable, out of kilter, etc., onto
something external, then fearing it.
The solution:
Take the situation,
person, event, or notion that appears to have prompted or triggered the fear,
and mentally send love as a wave to envelop and neutralise all perceived evil in
it; as the perceived evil in the situation is neutralised, so the perceived
evil in me is neutralised, and I am once again whole.
5 Know first that
this is fear.
Whatever the problem
is, is fear, even if it manifests differently.
6 Fear arises from
lack of love.
All fear comes
from lack of love, so all problems come from lack of love.
7 The only remedy
for lack of love is perfect love.
The answer is to decide
to love, and that decision invokes the power of Heaven to flow through me to
channel love from the infinite to the ‘world’.
8 Perfect love is
the Atonement.
This love joins me
with the object of the love and resolves the conflict within me. This is the
At-one-ment.