Why Does the Course Emphasize Relationships?

You will never know that you are co-creator with God until you learn that your brother is co-creator with you. (T-9-VI.7)

In A Course in Miracles “creation” means Oneness with God. The quote above means that you will not know you are One with God until you learn you are One with others in this world.

Sometimes students ask me why the Course puts such an emphasis on relationships with others when it teaches you that God is within you. Why do you have to see God in others?

If your brothers are part of you, will you accept them? Only they can teach you what you are, for your learning is the result of what you taught them. What you call upon in them you call upon in yourself. (T-9.VI.3)

And meaning always looks within to find itself, and then looks out. All meaning that you give the world outside must thus reflect the sight you saw within; or better, if you saw at all or merely judged against. (T-20.VIII.10)

We’re back to the law of mind: The mind always sees itself. There is really only One Mind, but in the choice to be separate there appears to be many minds encased in bodies. This is never the Truth, but when you choose separation this is what you focus on. However, by overlooking – forgiving – the appearance of many minds and many bodies and remembering that you have never left God, that God is in your mind and therefore in all you see, relationships become a means to remember Oneness.

The Holy Spirit teaches that you always meet yourself, and the encounter is holy because you are. (T-13.IV.6)

You are really always only in a relationship with yourself. All relationships, then, are really the same. When you turn a relationship over to the Holy Spirit you are choosing to see your own holiness. You are taking back the power you gave to illusion and therefore remembering you are Part of God. This is why you cannot remember you are One with God until you remember you are One with all you see.

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