The world tells us that evil is real. Religion tells us that we are all sinners. We are taught to fight evil in the world and to resist temptation within. This lesson—taught in the language of blame, shame, and guilt—is false.

What the world calls evil and what religion calls sin is, in truth, only error. The error is always the same—to act without love. The only correction to error is perfect love. The only way to teach love is to love.

The world has miscreated something called ego and we have believed that it is real. All forms of thought and belief lead directly to action, so we have judged, defended, prosecuted, and jailed just as we have also offended and been victimized. We have made an idol of the ego and this has been the justification for human drama and suffering. We have carried such a terrible burden. Now we let it go.

Now we remember that we are innocent. All the lessons we have been taught through attack are false. If we have errored, it is only because we have believed those false lessons and have acted without love. The eternal correction is to find self-love, which is easy now that you know you are innocent. Now when you see error in another, you will see it in truth. All error is a cry for love. To correct error, extend love. We continue tomorrow and each day after that.

“Innocence is wisdom, because it is unaware of evil and evil does not exist. It is aware, however, of everything that is true.” -A Course in Miracles