³The only purpose worthy of your mind this world contains is that you pass it by…
Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world, when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. ²It will be grateful to be free a while. ³It knows where it belongs. ⁴But free its wings, and it will fly in sureness and in joy to join its holy purpose. ⁵Let [your mind] rest in its Creator, there to be restored to sanity, to freedom and to love.
Give it ten minutes rest three times today. ²And when your eyes are opened afterwards, you will not value anything you see as much as when you looked at it before. ³Your whole perspective on the world will shift by just a little, every time you let your mind escape its chains. ⁴The world is not where it belongs. ⁵And you belong where it would be, and where it goes to rest when you release it from the world. ⁶Your Guide is sure. ⁷Open your mind to Him. ⁸Be still and rest.
Protect your mind throughout the day as well. ²And when you think you see some value in an aspect or an image of the world, refuse to lay this chain upon your mind, but tell yourself with quiet certainty:
³This will not tempt me to delay myself.
⁴The world I see holds nothing that I want. (A Course in Miracles, W-128.2:3;6:1–8:4. See also ACIM Lesson 128 Insights.)
The happiness and peace we desire cannot be found in the dream of separation. The images only seem to have value because we have accepted the ego’s goal of being unique and special. Because the oneness of Love is all that is real, the images of the world are illusions and have no real value.
To learn this, we need to recognize that this world holds nothing of value. We already have God’s gift of all of His Love. That is the real value of everyone and everything. We do not need to seek for Love. We need to accept It by joining with Its eternal extension. In this joining, we become co-creators with God.
As we learn to pass by the forms of this world and join in Love’s extension, we will recognize that God’s peace and joy are ours now.
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