Understand the Motif
Decision: Decision is the one remaining freedom and power, the continuous choice between two fixed alternatives: truth or illusion, love or fear, God or the ego. Every decision is made at the level of mind and determines what you perceive.
Decision: You are always deciding, in every instant, which teacher to follow and which thought system to align with. The two alternatives are not multiple or flexible; they are fixed and mutually exclusive. Decision is not made by the body or through behavior but only at the level of mind, and what you decide is immediately reflected in what you see and how you interpret the world. The loss of peace is the signal that you have chosen wrongly—information rather than condemnation, since a mistaken decision is corrected by deciding again and not by punishment. When you decide from the ego, you perceive a world of scarcity, attack, and loss; when you decide with the Holy Spirit, you perceive holiness and innocence.
Read Part of a Section
T-16.III The Reward of Teaching · Paragraphs 2, 7 acim.org/acim/en
The fruits reveal the teacher you accepted; choose to teach with peace.
As you read, notice how the theme Decision appears in these paragraphs.
Consider the Context
Decision is shown here in what you accept as your own choice. When you accept the ego’s decisions as yours, the results appear quickly and lead to self-judgment. The section also says you have chosen the movement toward real learning through willingness to teach, implying that the teacher you accept determines the fruits you experience.
This makes decision observable. You do not need to guess which teacher is leading; you can look at the fruits—the emotional and relational outcomes. If the fruits are strain and blame, you accepted the ego’s decision. If the fruits are gentleness and clarity, you chose the inner Teacher. Decision becomes the willingness to change teachers and therefore change what you teach.
Reflect
What fruit in my experience shows me the teacher I’ve been accepting today?
Practice
Notice one bitter effect—tension, blame, fatigue. Admit it is the fruit of a chosen teacher. Choose again: ask the Holy Spirit how to teach peace in this moment, even silently, and let one kind thought be the new lesson.