VI. The Vision of Christ
1 The ego is trying to teach you how to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. The Holy Spirit teaches that you cannot lose your soul and there is no gain in the world, for of itself it profits nothing. To invest without profit is surely to impoverish yourself, and the overhead is high. Not only is there no profit in the investment, but the cost to you is enormous. For this investment costs you the world’s reality by denying yours, and gives you nothing in return. You cannot sell your soul, but you can sell your awareness of it. You cannot perceive your soul, but you will not know it while you perceive something else as more valuable.
Journal
I was reviewing Section III, The Investment in Reality, which talks about the real world. It says that we made the world we see by projecting ego thoughts from our mind. It also talks about the real world. Here again, Jesus is talking about the real world, or as he says here, “the world’s reality.” If I made the world I see with my ego thoughts, I can make a real world with the thoughts I think with God.
Yesterday I was annoyed with everything at work. Because my thoughts have both power and consequences, I made an anxious, unpleasant world. I sold my soul, so to speak, and got nothing good in return. As the day went on and I realized what I was doing, I withdrew my projections and accepted responsibility for my own experience. Peace returned. My powerful, consequential thoughts added to reality rather than to illusion.
Yesterday is just an example of how I have made a world so completely unlike reality and also an example of how I can undo that world. The world we see is a reflection of our thoughts. To change the world, we must change our thoughts. As Jesus tells us elsewhere in the Course, it is a matter of motivation. As I have given my ego thoughts to the Holy Spirit to be healed and thus have seen how different the world can be, I am highly motivated to continue this process.
Right now the world is unstable for me. I sometimes see the world as a frightening, vengeful place. But as my mind has healed, I have also seen a safe world that loves me and supports me. The only thing that changed is my mind. What kind of world do you think we will see when all of us have experienced this change of mind?
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