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 them [the things of this world] not, 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;5:4-5;6;7:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 129 Insights.)
While we identify with the ego, we experience a world of lack, loss and limitation. We constantly search for something to replace the loss, fill the lack or make us feel less limited.
But we have been given a world in which we have all we truly need eternally and without limit. We only need to choose to accept this gift. It is already ours, now. It is all we really want. We always have the option to exchange the mistaken values of the ego for the only real value of the limitless Love of our true Self.
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