You think that death is of the body. Yet [death] is but an idea, irrelevant to what is seen as physical. A thought is in the mind. It can be then applied as mind directs it. But its origin [the mind] is where [the thought] must be changed, if change occurs. Ideas leave not their source. The emphasis this course has placed on that idea is due to its centrality in our attempts to change your mind about yourself. It is the reason you can heal. It is the cause of healing. It is why you cannot die. Its truth established you as one with God.
The mind can think it sleeps, but that is all. It cannot change what is its waking state. It cannot make a body, nor abide within a body. What is alien to the mind does not exist, because it has no source. For mind creates all things that are, and cannot give them attributes it lacks, nor change its own eternal, mindful state. It cannot make the physical. What seems to die is but the sign of mind asleep.
Let us today be children of the truth, and not deny our holy heritage. Our life is not as we imagine it. Who changes life because he shuts his eyes, or makes himself what he is not because he sleeps, and sees in dreams an opposite to what he is? We will not ask for death in any form today. Nor will we let imagined opposites to life abide even an instant [in the mind] where the Thought of life eternal has been set by God Himself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 167, W-pI.167.3;6;10. See also ACIM Lesson 167 Insights.)
Let us put God in charge of our thoughts. As we are vigilant only for God and His Kingdom, we feel God’s grace. We remember we are being carried. We remember we have only one real purpose — to return our minds to the real Life we live in God.
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