The Relinquishment of Attack

Chapter 6.4
The Relinquishment of Attack
 
As we have already emphasized, every idea begins in the mind of the
thinker. Therefore, what extends from the mind is still in it, and from what
it extends it knows itself. The word “knows” is correct here, because the
Holy Spirit still holds knowledge safe in your mind through His impartial
perception. By attacking nothing, He presents no barrier to the
communication of God. Therefore, being is never threatened. Your Godlike
mind can never be defiled. The ego never was and never will be part of it,
but through the ego you can hear and teach and learn what is not true. You
have taught yourself to believe that you are not what you are. You cannot
teach what you have not learned, and what you teach you strengthen in
yourself because you are sharing it. Every lesson you teach you are
learning.
 
That is why you must teach only one lesson. If you are to be conflict-free
yourself, you must learn only from the Holy Spirit and teach only by Him.
 
You are only love, but when you deny this, you make what you are
something you must learn to remember. I said before that the message of the
crucifixion was, “Teach only love, for that is what you are. “This is the one
lesson that is perfectly unified, because it is the only lesson that is one. Only
by teaching it can you learn it. “As you teach so will you learn. “If that is
true, and it is true indeed, do not forget that what you teach is teaching you.
 
And what you project or extend you believe.
 
The only safety lies in extending the Holy Spirit, because as you see His
gentleness in others your own mind perceives itself as totally harmless.
 
Once it can accept this fully, it sees no need to protect itself. The protection
of God then dawns upon it, assuring it that it is perfectly safe forever. The
perfectly safe are wholly benign. They bless because they know that they
are blessed. Without anxiety the mind is wholly kind, and because it
extends beneficence it is beneficent. Safety is the complete relinquishment
of attack. No compromise is possible in this. Teach attack in any form and
you have learned it, and it will hurt you. Yet this learning is not immortal,
and you can unlearn it by not teaching it.
 
Since you cannot not teach, your salvation lies in teaching the exact
opposite of everything the ego believes. This is how you will learn the truth
that will set you free, and will keep you free as others learn it of you. The
only way to have peace is to teach peace. By teaching peace you must learn
it yourself, because you cannot teach what you still dissociate.

Only thus
can you win back the knowledge that you threw away. An idea that you
share you must have. It awakens in your mind through the conviction of
teaching it. Everything you teach you are learning. Teach only love, and
learn that love is yours and you are love.