Being willing to accept the Oneness.

It’s interesting how often we say we want peace, love, awakening… yet the moment the Course quietly asks, “Are you willing to accept the Oneness?”, something inside us starts to wiggle. The word ‘willing’ sounds so small and harmless, but oh, how much resistance can hide underneath it.

We say we want Oneness, but at the same time we cling to our personal will as if it were a precious treasure: our opinions, our stories, our hurts, our proud moments, even our disappointments…we hold onto them as if they define us. Even when they make us unhappy or exhaust us. And still, we defend them, because they are “ours”…/…”mine”.

By saying that we forget one essential thing:Oneness never asks us to lose anything real. It only shows us that what we fear to lose was never real in the first place.

In this dream, everything seems divided into opposites.

Light and dark.

Good and bad.

Fear and love.

The Course says these opposites are not real opposites at all, but thoughts that come from the same place: a mind that believes it is separate.

We gave these thoughts special values, and by doing so, we created a split that doesn’t actually exist.

When someone says, “This world is hell,” it only means one thing:

They are seeing their own projection.

The world is not hell. Someone may be experiencing the very same world as a total paradise !

So the first step toward Oneness is extremely simple:

Admit that you have been looking through the wrong lens.

This doesn’t mean you are guilty or sinful..you just made a mistake.

And right there, in that moment of honesty, something opens.

The Course tells us: “I have no neutral thoughts.”

We like to believe we see the world as it is, but every thought pulls in one direction or the other. Toward peace or toward conflict. Toward love or toward fear. Always remember : nothing is neutral.

So when we feel unhappy, the first step is not spiritual heroism.

It is honesty.

Just say: “I do not like how I feel right now.”

Nothing more.

The second step is even simpler:

Be willing to consider that your interpretation might not be the truth.

Just willing. You don’t need to fix anything.

That tiny little willingness is already an open window.

Our “personal interests” are the biggest stumbling block.

We think we act from kindness, from clarity, from morality, but often we are only defending our own mental script.

Even when we help, the ego sneaks in to claim the credit or to protect its own comfort. The Course invites us to look beyond this, to see the difference between personal interests (always fear-based) and true interests (always love-based).

Being willing to accept the Oneness means being willing to look without giving things meanings they do not have. To see a person, a flower, a thought, or a situation without dragging the whole mental commentarybox with you. To stop treating everything as separate. To allow Light to show you what is already connected.

Then something miraculous happens. The world softens…..the heaviness evaporates. Not because the world changed, but because our mind is no longer fighting it.

And then we notice:

We have been living inside our own commentary our whole life, like a radio that nobody bothered to switch off, but the switch exists!! and it is called ‘forgiveness’.

It is simply the decision to stop telling the ego’s version of the story.

To stop defending an identity that never existed.

To let the mind become quiet enough to feel the Presence that was always there.

The Course says this is the only way out of fear.

Not through defense ..not through self-protection and not through trying to fix the world, but through letting go of the attack thoughts that create the world we fear.

Oneness is never far away. It is only waiting for you to say :

“I am ready to see this differently today.”

That is where everything begins.

With love and light

G.