T. 22. V. 3 – 6. Jesus: “God rests with you in quiet, undefended and wholly undefending, for in this quiet state alone is strength and power. Here can no weakness enter, for here is no attack and therefore no illusions.
Love rests in certainty. Only uncertainty can be defensive. And all uncertainty is doubt about yourself!
How weak is fear; how little and how meaningless. How insignificant before the quiet strength of those whom love has joined! This is your enemy – ‘a frightened little mouse’ that would attack the universe! How likely is it that it will succeed? Can it be difficult to disregard its feeble squeaks proclaiming its ‘omnipotence,’ with which it would drown out the hymn of praise to its Creator, that every heart throughout the universe forever sings as one?
Which is the stronger? Is it this tiny mouse or everything that God created? You and your brother are not joined together by this tiny mouse, but by the Will of God. And can a mouse betray whom God has joined?
If only you but recognized how little stands between you and your awareness of your union with your brother! Be not deceived by the illusions it presents of size and thickness, weight, solidity and firmness of foundation. Yes, to the body’s eyes it looks like an enormous solid body, immovable as is a mountain.
Yet within you is a Force that no illusions can resist! This ‘body’ only seems to be immovable; the Force within you is irresistible in truth. What, then, must happen when they come together? Can the illusion of immovability be long defended from what quietly passes through and goes beyond?
Forget not, when you feel the need arise to be defensive about anything, you have identified yourself with an illusion! And therefore you feel that you are weak because you are alone. This is the cost of all illusions. Not one illusion but rests on the belief that ‘you are separate.’ And there is not one that does not seem to stand, heavy and solid and immovable, between you and your brother.
Yet there is not even one illusion truth cannot pass over, and so easily and lightly as to convince you, that in spite of what you thought it was, it is nothing! If you wholly forgive your brother, this must happen! For it is your unwillingness to overlook what seems to stand between you and your brother that makes it look impenetrable, and defends the illusion of its immovability.”