Let the Holy Spirit remind you always of His fairness, and let me teach you how to share it with your brothers. How else can the chance to claim it for yourself be given you? The two voices speak for different interpretations of the same thing simultaneously; or almost simultaneously, for the ego always speaks first. Alternate interpretations were unnecessary until the first one was made. T-5.VI.3:3-6
A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition.
“Fairness” in the above verses refers to the teaching that the Mind Of God is in every person as it was in Jesus. However, the Mind Of God is often marginalized and superseded by the voice of the ego. When we share the Mind Of God with our brothers and sisters we strengthen the awareness of the Mind of God in ourselves.
The verses above remind us that the Mind Of God and the voice of the ego give us different interpretations of our perceptions and that the voice of the ego usually supersedes the Mind of God because we make the voice of the ego up while the Mind Of God is always there. To attend to the Mind Of God we can set aside, or overlook the voice of the ego.
In Unitarian Universalism we join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning which is to be found in the Mind Of God not in the voice of the ego. The search involves learning to tell them apart so we can focus on the Mind Of God rather than on the voice of the ego which we usually hear first.
Today, it is suggested that we practice being mindful by monitoring our awareness for which interpretation of our perceptions we are focusing on: the Mind Of God or the voice of the ego.
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