III. The Relinquishment of Attack

T-6.III.1. As we have already emphasized, every idea begins in the mind of the thinker. ² Therefore, what extends from the mind is still in it, and from what it extends it knows itself. ³ The word "knows" is correct here, because the Holy Spirit still holds knowledge safe in your mind through His impartial perception. ⁴ By attacking nothing, He presents no barrier to the communication of God. ⁵ Therefore, being is never threatened. ⁶ Your Godlike mind can never be defiled. ⁷ 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. ⁸ You have taught yourself to believe that you are not what you are. ⁹ You cannot teach what you have not learned, and what you teach you strengthen in yourself because you are sharing it. ¹⁰ Every lesson you teach you are learning.

T-6.III.2. That is why you must teach only one lesson. ² If you are to be conflict-free yourself, you must learn only from the Holy Spirit and teach only by Him. ³ You are only love, but when you deny this, you make what you are something you must learn to remember. ⁴ I said before that the message of the crucifixion was, "Teach only love, for that is what you are." ⁵ This is the one lesson that is perfectly unified, because it is the only lesson that is one. ⁶ Only by teaching it can you learn it. ⁷ "As you teach so will you learn." ⁸ If that is true, and it is true indeed, do not forget that what you teach is teaching you. ⁹ And what you project or extend you believe.

T-6.III.3. 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. ² Once it can accept this fully, it sees no need to protect itself. ³ The protection of God then dawns upon it, assuring it that it is perfectly safe forever. ⁴ The perfectly safe are wholly benign. ⁵ They bless because they know that they are blessed. ⁶ Without anxiety the mind is wholly kind, and because it extends beneficence it is beneficent. ⁷ Safety is the complete relinquishment of attack. ⁸ No compromise is possible in this. ⁹ Teach attack in any form and you have learned it, and it will hurt you. ¹⁰ Yet this learning is not immortal, and you can unlearn it by not teaching it.

T-6.III.4. Since you cannot not teach, your salvation lies in teaching the exact opposite of everything the ego believes. ² This is how you will learn the truth that will set you free, and will keep you free as others learn it of you. ³ The only way to have peace is to teach peace. ⁴ By teaching peace you must learn it yourself, because you cannot teach what you still dissociate. ⁵ Only thus can you win back the knowledge that you threw away. ⁶ An idea that you share you must have. ⁷ It awakens in your mind through the conviction of teaching it. ⁸ Everything you teach you are learning. ⁹ Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love.