II. The Decision to Forget

T-10.II.1. Unless you first know something you cannot dissociate it. ² Knowledge must precede dissociation, so that dissociation is nothing more than a decision to forget. ³ What has been forgotten then appears to be fearful, but only because the dissociation is an attack on truth. ⁴ You are fearful because you have forgotten. ⁵ And you have replaced your knowledge by an awareness of dreams because you are afraid of your dissociation, not of what you have dissociated. ⁶ When what you have dissociated is accepted, it ceases to be fearful.

T-10.II.2. Yet to give up the dissociation of reality brings more than merely lack of fear. ² In this decision lie joy and peace and the glory of creation. ³ Offer the Holy Spirit only your willingness to remember, for He retains the knowledge of God and of yourself for you, waiting for your acceptance. ⁴ Give up gladly everything that would stand in the way of your remembering, for God is in your memory. ⁵ His Voice will tell you that you are part of Him when you are willing to remember Him and know your own reality again. ⁶ Let nothing in this world delay your remembering of Him, for in this remembering is the knowledge of yourself.

T-10.II.3. To remember is merely to restore to your mind what is already there. ² You do not make what you remember; you merely accept again what is already there, but was rejected. ³ The ability to accept truth in this world is the perceptual counterpart of creating in the Kingdom. ⁴ God will do His part if you will do yours, and His return in exchange for yours is the exchange of knowledge for perception. ⁵ Nothing is beyond His Will for you. ⁶ But signify your will to remember Him, and behold! ⁷ He will give you everything but for the asking.

T-10.II.4. When you attack, you are denying yourself. ² You are specifically teaching yourself that you are not what you are. ³ Your denial of reality precludes the acceptance of God's gift, because you have accepted something else in its place. ⁴ If you understand that this is always an attack on truth, and truth is God, you will realize why it is always fearful. ⁵ If you further recognize that you are part of God, you will understand why it is that you always attack yourself first.

T-10.II.5. All attack is Self attack. ² It cannot be anything else. ³ Arising from your own decision not to be what you are, it is an attack on your identification. ⁴ Attack is thus the way in which your identification is lost, because when you attack, you must have forgotten what you are. ⁵ And if your reality is God's, when you attack you are not remembering Him. ⁶ This is not because He is gone, but because you are actively choosing not to remember Him.

T-10.II.6. If you realized the complete havoc this makes of your peace of mind you could not make such an insane decision. ² You make it only because you still believe it can get you something you want. ³ It follows, then, that you want something other than peace of mind, but you have not considered what it must be. ⁴ Yet the logical outcome of your decision is perfectly clear, if you will only look at it. ⁵ By deciding against your reality, you have made yourself vigilant against God and His Kingdom. ⁶ And it is this vigilance that makes you afraid to remember Him.