M-8.5. There can be no order of difficulty in healing merely because all sickness is illusion. 2 Is it harder to dispel the belief of the insane in a larger hallucination as opposed to a smaller one? 3 Will he agree more quickly to the unreality of a louder voice he hears than to that of a softer one? 4 Will he dismiss more easily a whispered demand to kill than a shout? 5 And do the number of pitchforks the devils he sees carrying affect their credibility in his perception? 6 His mind has categorized them all as real, and so they are all real to him. 7 When he realizes they are all illusions they will disappear. 8 And so it is with healing. 9 The properties of illusions which seem to make them different are really irrelevant, for their properties are as illusory as they are.
The lesson for the programme: there is no depth to the Steps. They simply are. We take them. We get well. When we get sick again, we take them again. We're not going deeper. There are no layers to the onion. There is no onion. All sickness is an illusion.
T-26.III.1. Complexity is not of God. 2 How could it be, when all He knows is One? 3 He knows of one creation, one reality, one truth and but one Son. 4 Nothing conflicts with oneness. 5 How, then, could there be complexity in Him? 6 What is there to decide? 7 For it is conflict that makes choice possible. 8 The truth is simple; it is one, without an opposite. 9 And how could strife enter in its simple presence, and bring complexity where oneness is? 10 The truth makes no decisions, for there is nothing to decide between. 11 And only if there were could choosing be a necessary step in the advance toward oneness. 12 What is everything leaves room for nothing else. 13 Yet is this magnitude beyond the scope of this curriculum. 14 Nor is it necessary we dwell on anything that cannot be immediately grasped.
The problem may appear complex but isn't really. The solution certainly is not complex, because it is of God.
T-14.II.2. The Holy Spirit, seeing where you are but knowing you are elsewhere, begins His lesson in simplicity with the fundamental teaching that truth is true. 2 This is the hardest lesson you will ever learn, and in the end the only one. 3 Simplicity is very difficult for twisted minds. 4 Consider all the distortions you have made of nothing; all the strange forms and feelings and actions and reactions that you have woven out of it. 5 Nothing is so alien to you as the simple truth, and nothing are you less inclined to listen to. 6 The contrast between what is true and what is not is perfectly apparent, yet you do not see it. 7 The simple and the obvious are not apparent to those who would make palaces and royal robes of nothing, believing they are kings with golden crowns because of them.
Keep it simple. God is good. Your ego is not your amigo. Let's quietly look at how you've been doing (Steps Four through Eight), mend what needs to be mended (Step Nine), and then get on with it.