Love holds no grievances.
You who were created by love like itself can hold no grievances and know
your Self. To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. To hold a grievance
is to see yourself as a body. To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule
your mind and to condemn the body to death. Perhaps you do not yet fully
realize just what holding grievances does to your mind. It seems to split
you off from your Source and make you unlike Him. It makes you believe that
He is like what you think you have become, for no one can conceive of his
Creator as unlike himself.
Shut off from your Self, which remains aware of Its likeness to Its Creator, your Self seems to sleep, while the part of your mind that weaves illusions in its sleep appears to be awake. Can all this arise from holding grievances? Oh, yes! For he who holds grievances denies he was created by love, and his Creator has become fearful to him in his dream of hate. Who can dream of hatred and not fear God?
It is as sure that those who hold grievances will redefine God in their own image, as it is certain that God created them like Himself, and defined them as part of Him. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt, as it is certain that those who forgive will find peace. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are, as it is certain that those who forgive will remember.
Would you not be willing to relinquish your grievances if you believed all this were so? Perhaps you do not think you can let your grievances go. That, however, is simply a matter of motivation.
from A Course In Miracles
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