Food And Nutrition For Inner Growth 93 (ACIM - specialness)

ACIM quotes (pg 502-507)

Comparison must be an ego device, for love makes none. Specialness always makes comparisons. It is established by a lack seen in another, & maintained by searching for, & keeping clear in sight, all lacks it can perceive.

Pursuit of specialness is always at the cost of peace.

Specialness is the idea of sin made real. Sin is impossible even to imagine without this base. For sin arose from it, out of nothingness; an evil flower with no roots at all.

You choose specialness instead of Heaven & instead of peace, & wrapprd it carefully in sin, to keep it "safe" from truth.

The death of specialness is not your death, but your awakening into life eternal. You but emerge from an illusion of what you are to the acceptance of yourself as God created you.

Forgiveness is the end of specialness. Only illusions can be forgiven, and then they disappear. Forgiveness is release from all illusions, and that is why it is impossible but partly to forgive. No one who clings to one illusion can see himself as sinless, for he holds one error to himself as lovely still. And so he calls it "unforgivable", and makes it sin. How can he then give his forgiveness wholly, when he would not receive it for himself? For it is sure he would receive it wholly the instant that he gave it so. And thus his secret guilt would disappear, forgiven by himself.

What rests on nothing never can be stable. However large & overblown it seems to be, it still must rock & turn & whirl about with every breeze.

It is your specialness that is attacked by everything that walks & breathes, or creeps or crawls, or even lives at all. Nothing is free from its attack, and it is safe from nothing.

They are lost in dreams of specialness. They hate the call that would awaken them, and they curse God because He did not make their dream reality.