Since the thoughts of which I am aware do not mean anything, the world that pictures them can have no meaning. What is producing this world is insane, and so is what it produces. Reality is not insane, and I have real thoughts as well as insane ones. I can therefore see a real world, if I look to my real thoughts as my guide for seeing.
My thoughts are images that I have made. Whatever I see reflects my thoughts. It is my thoughts that tell me where I am and what I am. The fact that I see a world in which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. Yet God’s way is sure. The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not my will that they do so. My will is His, and I will place no other gods before Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 53, W-pI.53.1:2-5;5. See also ACIM Lesson 53 Insights.)
Insane thoughts come from belief in illusions. Belief makes illusion seem real. Reacting to illusions as if they were real is the definition of insanity. When we believe that what our body perceives is real, we react insanely. Fear, guilt, loneliness, sadness, a sense of not being loved are reactions to illusions.
All this passes away as we learn to recognize illusions for what they are and turn instead to the real thoughts we share with God. God is Love and His Thoughts are extensions of Love. To share His Thoughts is to join with Thoughts of Love to the exclusion of all else, for there is nothing else.
Forgiveness reveals the real world to us for it lifts the veil that hides our real Thoughts of Love. Today we would turn to the Thoughts of Love in our mind that we may see the real world.
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