The only purpose worthy of your mind this world contains is that you pass it by, without delaying to perceive some hope where there is none. Be you deceived no more. The world you see holds nothing that you want.
Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world, when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. It will be grateful to be free a while. It knows where it belongs. But free its wings, and it will fly in sureness and in joy to join its holy purpose. Let it rest in its Creator, there to be restored to sanity, to freedom and to love.
Give it ten minutes rest three times today. And when your eyes are opened afterwards, you will not value anything you see as much as when you looked at it before. Your whole perspective on the world will shift by just a little, every time you let your mind escape its chains. The world is not where it belongs. And you belong where it would be, and where it goes to rest when you release it from the world. Your Guide is sure. Open your mind to Him. Be still and rest. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 128, W-pI.128.2:3-5;6-7. See also ACIM Lesson 128 Insights.)
A hot air balloon rises to the level where its buoyancy is in balance with the atmosphere. Love is the only atmosphere where the mind of our true Self is in balance with Its surroundings. Love is our only Home. This is the only Source of true happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed. This is everything we want. There is nothing else.
The world we experience as a body offers no lasting peace, only fleeting moments of seeming happiness and special love which denies the oneness of God’s Love. We do not really want this world. Only the mistaken belief that it holds something of value binds us to the world.
Today we pause to open our mind to the presence of God’s Love. In this pause, we experience an inkling of what our real Home offers in place of the ego’s substitute. It touches our heart, calling to us to return to Love. The value we have given the things of the world fades as the attraction of Love grows stronger each time we pause. We return to this world with the Light of Love that brightens our thoughts and feelings. We bring this Light with us into the world.
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