 the life of the holy relationship. Do you want freedom of the body or of the mind? For both you cannot have. Which do you value? Which is your goal? For one you see as Me, the other end. And one must serve the other and lead to its predominance, increasing its importance by diminishing its own. The end is reached because the value of the means decreases. He clips entirely when they are recognized as functionless. No one but yearns for freedom and tries to find it. Yet he will seek for it where he believes it is and can be found. He will believe it possible as mind or body and he will make the other serve his choice as means to find it. The whole purpose of the world was made up was for the mind to run away from the pure Epsilon and run into the concrete into the specific with form to forget, dissociate from the light. And to even forget about the mind. Because I know when I was growing up you know there was all this stuff about you know you talk about concrete in the form but there wasn't a lot of discussion of mind or it was one of those real hazy vague kind of things. You even talk about mind or thoughts or anything like this and it's like what do you value and which where do you want your freedom? Freedom of the body or freedom of the mind that they're mutually exclusive and that whichever one you decide is what's going to be your value and is going to be your freedom. Whichever one you decide where the freedom is then you'll pursue. Look at life I mean look at my whole life and it's like that's in a sense that's what I was doing sleeping in a sense of all of the you know all the years in college all the education we do all of the skills and abilities we learn with our mind intelligence and everything if if that's seen as the means and the end is the body you know to buy bigger better things for it to shelter it in better ways to provide more convenience for it more comforts that and that and that and it's obviously the mind is like the means and it's being worked which do you want you know if you want to have a free mind you want to have a free and open mind to do so you've got to have let the body do nothing section and the first paragraph is the one that says you still have too much faith in the body as a source of strength what plans do you make that do not involve its comfort or protection or enjoyment in some way this makes the body an end and not a means in your interpretation and this always means you still find sin attractive no one accepts the term for himself is still except sin is his goal so it's like I mean that's a that's almost like a companion paragraph so the one we just read I'm perceiving the body as long as I'm perceiving it the body is the end misperceiving the sense sin still attractive in that sense it could seem kind of like I could seem a pretty big stretch like why why is it seem that if I see my body as an end that I find sin attractive how does that connect you know where does this stuff come in you know and this stuff it's um I think because another paragraph's come to mind it helps try to start to bring that connection back it's way back at the back of case 32 in the manual so we're trying to make the connection like well what's the big deal about making the body the end and the attraction of still finding sin attractive you know how is how is that sin and what he's doing in a very specific specific on of this world where the body is the focal sacred paragraph starts out it takes greatly what can the sacrifice and nothing mean it cannot mean that you have less because of it and here's where he starts to zone in a bit there is no sacrifice in the world's terms it does not involve the body think a while about what the world calls sacrifice power fame money physical pleasure who is the quote hero to whom all these things belong could they mean anything except to a body physical pleasure they're all very rooted in the body that's what all the striving about is trying to to get ahead you know trying to move up the totem pole trying to get more than the next person where the body is representing a separate self yeah which is what it that yeah even if you couldn't see that you know it may not be an enhancement for the body you know specifically but a lot of times i think we try to enhance our image you know the separate self image which the body represents so that ties in with the body the sense intelligence you could throw that into it a sense that that's more of a mental kind of thing but it's tied into that self image yeah our body when it's strutting around trying to figure out who's better yeah there's lots of relate to that and a sense you know he's kidding he's using this to get at that meaning of sacrifice of i remember this year i was watching the uh before the elections maybe the last year i guess so they had the democratic national convention and they have all the speeches and there was a lot of that we must sacrifice for our children and for future generations you know in many ways you know it's just noticing all the ways to sacrifice but there's a good benefit to sacrifice when i listened to the speeches it still had to do with better money better job points could they mean anything except to a body yet a body cannot evaluate the body in the brain because basically the the body in the world is just a it's like a learning device all it does is it responds to the intentions of the mind bodies don't judge bodies don't evaluate bodies don't even learn they don't you know they don't even react in the sense that they're told to react to the mind now we're shifting to the mind part though by seeking after such things the mind associates itself with the body obscuring its identity and losing sight of what it really is so that's our key sentence right there that that's why um making the body an end that's why sin is attractive because once again the natural condition of the mind and the true identity is pure spirit and it's purely abstract there's no form connected with it at all so once it starts associating with the body and with form and with the finite then obviously it's starting to seek outside of itself obviously it's it's saying that it believes that his has thrown away its its eternal home so to speak or its eternal identity and it's going to going to cling on to and and attach on to this finite kind of a thing that uh pretty gets it what happens once this confusion has occurred it becomes impossible for the mind to understand that all the pleasures of the world are nothing but what a sacrifice and it is sacrifice indeed all this entails now has the mind condemned itself to seek without finding to be forever dissatisfied and discontented to know not what it really wants to find this profound confusion it's just like completely turned around and twisted because it's it's um it's identified with the mind is used as means whose value lies in its ability to contrive ways to achieve the body's freedom yet freedom of the body has no meaning and so the mind is dedicated to serve illusions this is a situation so contradictory and so impossible that anyone who chooses this has no idea of what is valuable yet even in this confusion so profound it cannot be described the holy spirit waits in gentle patience as certain of the outcome as he is sure of his creator's love he knows this mad decision was made by one as dear to his creator as love is to itself he's a comfort he senses because that i mean who who has not experienced what he's talking about he's personally that's that's been our life too to do and it's kind of like it's backwards and now he's telling us that it's backwards what he's telling us that's holy spirit's in your mind saying but he's this great patient disturbed at all to think how he can change the role of beings and then so easily in what god loves and would have free forever but be you rather grateful that you can be the means to serve his end this is the only service that leads to freedom to serve this end the body must be perceived as sinless because gold is sinlessness contradiction makes the soft transition from means to an as easy as is the shift from hate to gratitude before forgiving us you will be sanctified by one another using your bodies only to serve the sinless and it will be impossible for you to hate what serves you would heal that's what to me the value of the course is that there's there's just many forms of attack that are not forms of attack that's where the mind is to see state i mean it doesn't even know what are the what are the forms of attack and what the course starts to do is through the special level relationship sections and and various different sections in here it starts to say you don't know all the forms of attack but if you if you can get clear on that then you can withdraw your mind from that you know you can it's nice to say you can stop attacking yourself but until you kill yourself yeah what a nasty idea until you get clear on this how about this when the body ceases to attract you and when you place no value on it as a means of getting anything then there will be no interference in communication your thoughts will be as free as god's yeah the paragraph that way in a paragraph right before it on the previous page it begins with in the holy instant which is a few paragraphs in the holy is where the great rays replace the body and awareness the recognition of relationships without limits is given so you're talking about relationships without limits but in order to see this it is necessary to give up every use the ego has for the body and to accept the fact that the ego has no purpose you would share with it for the ego would limit everyone to a body for its own purposes and while you think it has a purpose you will choose to utilize the means by which it tries to turn its purpose into accomplishment this will never be accomplished yet you have surely recognized that the ego whose goals are altogether unattainable will strive for them with all its might and will do so with the strength that you have given it it's just like just slowly getting more accustomed to that sense of mind that abstractness that that uh there's a part of this restriction