III. The Investment in Reality, P 10
10 If you will recognize that all the attack you perceive is in your own mind and nowhere else, you will at last have placed its source, and where it begins it must end. For in this same place also lies salvation. The altar of God where Christ abideth is there. You have defiled the altar, but not the world. Yet Christ has placed the Atonement on the altar for you. Bring your perceptions of the world to this altar, for it is the altar to truth. There you will see your vision changed, and there you will learn to see truly. From this place, where God and His Son dwell in peace and where you are welcome, you will look out in peace and behold the world truly. Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as you project it, allowing the Holy Spirit to extend the real world to you from the altar of God.
Journal
Normally I don’t have any trouble recognizing where the attack originated. Sometimes though I get confused and think that I am being attacked by someone or something outside myself. I overhear someone at work criticizing something I did and maybe I will think that this person is my enemy. Maybe I will think I need to do something about this. Maybe I should work harder, maybe do or say something that sways their opinion of me. Maybe I should get to the boss first with my side of the story.
Eventually, hopefully soon, I come to my senses. All perception of attack is in my own mind and nowhere else. I take these dark thoughts and these dark feelings to the altar and lay them there so the light of truth can do what light does to darkness. The ego tugs at my coattail trying to pull me back into the story. This time, it says, I cannot afford to overlook this attack. Look, it says, at how real it is. Hear it, it says, with your own ears. Everything, it says, depends on a perfect defense.
I will watch my mind for attack thoughts today with more vigilance than ever before, because today I am more interested in being invested in reality than in defending against the imagined enemies I have projected. I quickly and gladly place these perceptions on the altar. I surrender them to the Holy Spirit in absolute confidence that He will dispel them and extend the real world to me.
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