What Is Forgiveness?

Forgiveness in ACIM is a choice to see each other not as bodies, but as Christ. The sight of people with human limitations, separated from us, is a depressing sight. Only looking with Christ's vision, on the face of Christ in everyone, is joyous.

The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. (ACIM, W-185.6:1)

Father, my mind is open to Your Thoughts, and closed today to every thought but Yours. (ACIM, W-236.2:1)

⁵Today I choose to see a world forgiven, in which everyone shows me the face of Christ, and teaches me that what I look upon belongs to me; that nothing is, except Your holy Son. (ACIM, W-269.1:5)

⁶An idol is an image of your brother that you would value more than what he is. (ACIM, T-29.VIII.1:6)

This world of idols is a veil across the face of Christ, because its purpose is to separate your brother from yourself. (ACIM, T-29.VIII.4:1)