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Shifting Our Attention to the Real World

Beyond this world there is a world I want.

Our emphasis is not on giving up the world, but on exchanging it for what is far more satisfying, filled with joy, and capable of offering you peace. Think you this world can offer that to you?

Is it a loss to find a world instead where losing is impossible; where love endures forever, hate cannot exist and vengeance has no meaning? Is it loss to find all things you really want, and know they have no ending and they will remain exactly as you want them throughout time?

Value not [the little things of the world], and they will disappear. Esteem them, and they will seem real to you.

Such is the choice. What loss can be for you in choosing not to value nothingness? This world holds nothing that you really want, but what you choose instead you want indeed! Let it be given you today. It waits but for your choosing it, to take the place of all the things you seek but do not want.

Beyond this world there is a world I want. I choose to see that world instead of this, for here is nothing that I really want. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 129, W-pI.129.1:3-4;3:1-2;5:4-6:5;7:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 129 Insights.)

When we chose to accept the idea of separation, we chose to believe in an illusion of separation. What God creates is one and eternal. Only belief in illusions can make time and separation seem real. Illusions have no meaning or substance of their own. They are made-up images in our mind that only seem real because of our belief in them. This belief blocks our awareness of our Reality in eternal Love, peace and joy. We are deceiving ourselves when we choose to believe illusions are real.

Beyond the world of illusions is the changeless Love of God with which we are eternally united. God gave us all of Himself with His Thought that created His Son. Everything God is, His Son is. And His Son is our true Self.

The real world is the perception of our oneness in Love. It is this world we truly want. We become aware of this world when we let go of giving value to the little things of the world of separation. Reminding ourselves again and again that beyond the world we see is a world we really want teaches us to shift our attention from belief in illusions to the real world, where only Love is seen.

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