³Our 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.
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? ²Is 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?
⁴Value… not [the little things the world sets forth], and they will disappear. ⁵Esteem them, and they will seem real to you.
Such is the choice. ²What loss can be for you in choosing not to value nothingness? ³This world holds nothing that you really want, but what you choose instead you want indeed! ⁴Let it be given you today. ⁵It waits but for your choosing it, to take the place of all the things you seek but do not want.
³Beyond this world there is a world I want. ⁴I choose to see that world instead of this, for here is nothing that I really want. (A Course in Miracles, W-129.1:3;3:1-2;5:3-6:5;7:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 129 Insights.)
The only reason we seem to be in this world which never fully satisfies is because we chose to believe that specialness, having something to ourself alone, is what we want. Yet this wish is the denial of all that is real. The Love we are, in unity with our Creator, is one and the same. There can be no differences or uniqueness in Its oneness. Only this Love is truly satisfying, because It is all that is real. It is eternal and cannot be lost in truth.
The universe of Love is all we really want. Love is our Identity. It unifies us with all that is real. Only our dedication to specialness makes us unaware that we have all that we really want, now and forever. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive this mistaken wish. As we forgive, the awareness of Love will fill our mind.
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