A New Way to See

WB Lesson 292 (in First Person)

God guarantees that only joy can be the final outcome found for everything. Yet while I think an alien will is real and opposes His Will I will not find the end He has appointed.
His Will is done in earth and Heaven. I will seek and find according to His Will, which guarantees that our will is done.
Help me not interfere, and so delay the happy endings You have promised me for every problem I can perceive; for every trial think I still must meet.

Feelings of loss prevail—- which means only that I’m holding the ego’s hand. I am very mistaken in this, but yet will not let it go.
H.S. help me see this differently. The ego is not my final goal, no matter how it tempts me. Help me recognize that all feeling of loss and lack come from it. My mistaken idea is nothing more than error, it has no life of itself. When I stop paying attention to it, it will cease to exist.

H.S. strengthen my resolve; I am willing to hear only Your Voice. Above all else I want to see differently, above all else I want the truth. Be in my mind all through the day. T.Y.V.M.

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What Is the Real World?

In the real world nothing remains outside of forgiveness. And the sights are gentle. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.

The mind that has forgiven itself has no need of thoughts of death, attack and murder. No danger lurks in anything it sees, for it is kind and only kindness does it look upon.

Nothing in the real world remains outside of forgiveness. The world I see reflects the terror of a mind that thinks it has done the impossible and must suffer the consequence of attack on its Creator.
A mind that has forgiven itself is at peace because it sees the unreal as it is and has let Love be Itself. It sees nothing to be condemned or judged against.

In just an instant of wholly willing to see differently, the gift of true vision is given me. Not more than an instant is asked, for Love knows not of sacrifice. My intent will be to see the real world more often, till knowledge replaces my wisps of dreaming.

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How Do I Choose?

Earlier this came to mind:

This separation/independence has given me nothing that I want. I chose by myself and I was wrong. I am willing to choose differently. I let go of all past decisions. I let Spirit make all decisions for me, knowing He leads me to peace.

Only the ego says that I am guilty. In its insanity it does not know the truth and will not let go of its fantasy. It is the stranger I invited in and made it owner of my home. Insane thoughts made a meaningless world.

I have no control over a meaningless world, but I do have a choice of what thoughts are in my mind. I can let go of all thoughts that hurt. I invite Holy Spirit to abide with me and do not tolerate the nonsense of ego. I ask H.S. to make all decisions for me because in my state of confusion I do not know what anything means or what it is for.

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Loss Is Not Loss

Recently the following thoughts came to mind:

If you are as Love created you, then how can you suffer any loss, or pain or grief?
Love created you as an extension of Itself, one and the same. You can dream of deprivation, punishment and sorrow, but never is a dream made reality. Only Love is real.

Loss is not loss when properly perceived. The Holy Spirit is Love’s gift to you, that you have vision beyond the body’s eyes. That you have peace that is infinite. And that you remember the complete innocence and perfection of which you were created.

I give my mind to God (today and every day).
I will not lose anything but only gain when I let go of my grip on control. I only deceive myself with fantasies of a separate life apart from my Source. If I could really be apart, I would not be at all.

I am safe in the Mind of God.
Somewhere in my mind I know this truth.
Here I am at Home. Only here I place my trust.
I place the future in the Hands of God.

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Morning Thoughts

Spirit:
This world was made only that illusions could appear to be apart from you, or that your thoughts could seem to be apart from you. This in itself is impossible. Thoughts leave not their Source.

This world but pictures fear, and so becomes a source of fear. It has not left your mind. Projection only keeps the error going, and the guilt hidden. Remember: you only hate your brother for what you think you have done. You think you have separated your self from God. Is this a belief worth protecting or keeping? It has value only to those who wish to be deprived of love and who but the insane has desire for what never was?

No matter how horrible the picture you have made, you do love your Father, and you want to be with Him. There is a place in your mind in which your Holy Self abides. It has not forgotten the truth, It has not denied that Love created it. It remains true to It’s Source, its thoughts are real being part of Love.

Every accusation, every outrageous demand, every personal attack, are calls for help and love. Whether it comes from another or from your own mind. You have no need to defend against anything, you are as God created you, wholly safe and wholly loved.

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Do I Want to Be Happy?

Do I want to be happy? Then I have to allow Spirit to decide for me. I must accept the fact that what I choose on “my own” which is with the false egoic mind, I am mistaken. From that standpoint I can only be wrong as the false ideas of separation are themselves based on fantasy.

(The following thoughts are from NTI, Regina D. Akers, ©2008.)
“What if nothing was as it is? What if everything was different than it is? That was an impossible question, pure fantasy. But then you judged the fantasy as if it was real and decided through judgment that it was. This judgment did not make the unreal real. ....The sin you judged yourself for was the sin of making what isn’t. But what isn’t cannot be made, and so you have not sinned.

“The guilt that you feel and believe and express is all part of the fantasy. .... but your belief doesn’t make it true. .... You reverse the “laws” that made the fantasy by ceasing to play the game. You let go of judgment and all perceived guilt. You no longer believe what isn’t true.” [the fantasy you’ve made in play].

My fantasy can never be made true no matter how long I play in it. The playing becomes wearying and I experience sadness instead of fun (joy). At least I can decide I do not like the way I feel.
And so I hope I have been wrong. I want another way to look at this. (T.30.1.8-11)
This choice opens the door to Spirit for His interpretation; I allow His thought to replace my ridiculous thought of separateness.

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What Do I Choose?

Dream: this was the part that stood out to me:

I asked mom if she had looked at any of the brochures of homes that we’d left for her. She hadn’t because she wanted to remain in her house. She’d rather be alone than be with “strangers.”
I explained to her that I couldn’t/wouldn’t be around there any longer to help her, finally stating: “You’ve got to choose life. There is nothing more I can “do” for you. You have to choose to live. If you want to sit in your chair, doing nothing, I can not help you.”

That last sentence seemed to me was Spirit telling me I can choose to sit in my chair, doing nothing, and He cannot go against my wish or desire. Of course, that is the false ego desire to be alone.

Spirit: You have to choose to live. I cannot go against your choice.

Your purpose is to free yourself from your dream of hell, of isolation. Your purpose is to forgive the dream you made, the “life” you made, for it is not real.
You could never be without your Source which is Love. When you choose to sleep you are not extending love—and not giving is not receiving.

When you choose to live, you choose Love, you accept your only purpose for being here, to wake from the dream of separation. Choose to join with Life/God and it is done.

Decide that you have been wrong in your choice, and H.S. removes everything (thought) that would hurt you, with only truth remaining. In Truth is your true joy, your true Life. You live in Love and no place else. Only the split mind wants this world to be reality, for here it thinks it can keep you from truth.

Yet you have the power, the energy to release this dream world. It is not your home. Your only home is Heaven, the complete awareness of One.

Remember that I cannot choose for you, without your consent or collaboration, I cannot go against your will.

T-8.IV.4. Do you not think the world needs peace as much as you do? 2 Do you not want to give it to the world as much as you want to receive it? 3 For unless you do, you will not receive it. 4 If you want to have it of me, you must give it. 5 Healing does not come from anyone else. 6 You must accept guidance from within. 7 The guidance must be what you want, or it will be meaningless to you. 8 That is why healing is a collaborative venture. 9 I can tell you what to do, but you must collaborate by believing that I know what you should do. 10 Only then will your mind choose to follow me. 11 Without this choice you could not be healed because you would have decided against healing, and this rejection of my decision for you makes healing impossible.
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T-21.V.2. Reality needs no cooperation from you to be itself. 2 But your awareness of it needs your help, because it is your choice. 3 Listen to what the ego says, and see what it directs you see, and it is sure that you will see yourself as tiny, vulnerable and afraid. 4 You will experience depression, a sense of worthlessness, and feelings of impermanence and unreality. 5 You will believe that you are helpless prey to forces far beyond your own control, and far more powerful than you. 6 And you will think the world you made directs your destiny. 7 For this will be your faith. 8 But never believe because it is your faith it makes reality.

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