All things are valuable or valueless, worthy or not of being sought at all, entirely desirable or not worth the slightest effort to obtain. Choosing is easy just because of this. Complexity is nothing but a screen of smoke, which hides the very simple fact that no decision can be difficult. What is the gain to you in learning this? It is far more than merely letting you make choices easily and without pain.
Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. We will attempt to reach this state today, with self-deception laid aside, and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real. …begin with this:
I will not value what is valueless,
and only what has value do I seek,
for only that do I desire to find.And then receive what waits for everyone who reaches, unencumbered, to the gate of Heaven, which swings open as he comes. Should you begin to let yourself collect some needless burdens, or believe you see some difficult decisions facing you, be quick to answer with this simple thought.
I will not value what is valueless,
for what is valuable belongs to me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 133, W.pI.133.12-14. See also ACIM Lesson 133 Insights.)
The early lessons of the ACIM Workbook teach us that the world we experience with the body is not real and is therefore valueless. If we value anything in the world of form, we are valuing illusion and therefore nothing. We have identified so completely with the body as what we are that it is difficult to accept that there is no value in the world.
Certainly the ego teaches us that only things of the world have value. At the very least we believe we need protection from the dangers of the world. We also believe that things we acquire in the world — status, possessions, relationships — give us value. Yet all this is a deceptive smokescreen that hides the truth that our true value lies in the Love we are.
By being willing to step back from valuing the valueless — the images of the world — we open our minds to receive the gift of Heaven. Heaven offers us the oneness of Love. There is nothing else for us to receive or give. It is the reality of our true Self. The Holy Spirit will help us see past the smokescreen of the world to the true value of changeless Love everywhere. We open our minds to His gift by choosing not to value the valueless.
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