³Pain is but witness to the Son’s mistakes in what he thinks he is. ⁴It is a dream of fierce retaliation for a crime that could not be committed; for attack on what is wholly unassailable. ⁵It is a nightmare of abandonment by an Eternal Love, which could not leave the Son whom It created out of love.
It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. ²Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in any way. ³There is no cause beyond yourself that can reach down and bring oppression. ⁴No one but yourself affects you. ⁵There is nothing in the world that has the power to make you ill or sad, or weak or frail. ⁶But it is you who have the power to dominate all things you see by merely recognizing what you are. ⁷As you perceive the harmlessness in them, they will accept your holy will as theirs. ⁸And what was seen as fearful now becomes a source of innocence and holiness.
My holy brother, think of this awhile: The world you see does nothing. ²It has no effects at all. ³It merely represents your thoughts. ⁴And it will change entirely as you elect to change your mind, and choose the joy of God as what you really want. (A Course in Miracles, W-190.2:3-5;5:1-8;6:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 190 Insights.)
We can “dominate” the world we see because what we see is only a projection from our mind. Nothing exists outside of us. We perceive what we believe we are reflected back to us.
ACIM is a training program to teach us how to change our mind about our world. We need to learn first that our thoughts and beliefs are the cause of what we perceive. The next part of the lesson is that we can change our thoughts and beliefs. The next step is to accept the Help we are given in our mind to let go of false beliefs and learn to recognize the reality of Love. This process the Course calls forgiveness. As we let go of mistaken beliefs, we awaken to the Love in which we live and have our being.
We are God’s Son, forever united with our Father, safe in His eternal Love. His joy is ours, now and forever.
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