One of the of the largest secrets we attempt to keep is a sense of independence and pride. The concept or feeling that you are crucial in some distinct way, that you are loved by a particular person, that someone is giving you distinctive attention, these are some of the ego’s very subtle secrets. We are striving to hide our Sacred Self and are partaking in all these diverse games, which seem to be very disconcerting. It is rather depressing and it really doesn’t go anywhere, so we try to get scraps of distinctive love, attention and acknowledgment to prop ourselves up.

We work so hard at becoming “superior people”, at gaining greater intelligence and more skills. We want to be appreciated more and be more famous. The entire self-help field is focused on bettering the self so you can turn into a better you. That is another gimmick we secretly play on ourselves, thinking we have to keep spinning our wheels trying to grow into better. This self-improvement game is another secret we can to learn to let go of. It is very calming when you start to grasp that you do not have to grow into any better than you currently are. You were formed perfect. It is not through self-improvement that you find serenity but through self-acceptance.

As I collaborated with A Course in Miracles, I could see that there was a dread of divine love in my mind. I recognized this was the ego’s dread of losing itself. The ego is afraid of being exposed and being seen as a puff of nothingness. That is the dread of intimacy. We speak about this terror in relationships, which is sometimes portrayed as fear of sexual intimacy, but it is really a fear of dropping our persona, our mask of distinctiveness. It is the fear of getting swept away by a magnificent love, a love so powerful that none of us can even envision something as glorious and powerful!

For me, those are the big secrets, because it doesn’t start off with this great consciousness. It always starts with feeling like you have done something inappropriate, whether you’ve pleasured yourself, taken something, abused somebody, or there is something in your mind that you have judged as so horrible that you don’t even want to confront it, you just want to dismiss about it and push it out of awareness.

Underneath all those reminiscences and ideas, is the belief that we are divided. This is the “secret” we hide. It really is an unfeasible belief, but we assume that it is true; We have deemed it as horrific and have pushed it out of awareness. All unconscious guilt comes from this belief in separation. And as you really provide yourself over to the miracle, you feel all those hidden beliefs and secrets are being washed away and you finally encounter this hidden belief in separation!

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