I loose the world from all I thought it was.
What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs? ²And what can save the world except your Self? ³Belief is powerful indeed. ⁴The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth.
Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it. ²Now the source of thought has shifted, for to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think. ³You free the past from what you thought before. ⁴You free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find.
The present now remains the only time. ²Here in the present is the world set free. ³For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world.
There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. ²Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. ³Ideas leave not their source. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 132, W-132.1:1-4;2:1–3:3;5:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)
It seems that we are constantly changing our mind. First we like one thing, then we tire of it and want something else. But according to the Course, this is not a change of mind at all. It is only a change about which illusion we prefer. The ego is capricious and is always sending us on fruitless searches for what it tells us would make us happy or safe. Yet its offerings never satisfy because they are only fantasies. All we really want is to know we have the Love God gave us when He created His Son.
A true change of mind occurs when we change our allegiance from the ego to our true Self, the Son of God. Our true Self is eternally joyous, peaceful and loving. As we let God’s Voice teach us to see past the ego’s false offerings to the presence of Love in us and everywhere, we are free. The freedom we demonstrate brings freedom to the world.
We choose to listen to God’s Voice today and let Love be free to bless our world.
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