The past few months I have hidden in the clouds of doubt, confusion and failure. In other words I had joined with the egoic mind and lost my Self. I had certainly forgotten to laugh!
Only the hidden belief in guilt can cause me to see a world of fear, pain, division and despair. I must see this world because I want the idea of separateness to be real. I make illusions because I want to change my reality. Thank goodness I can not really make any thing that is not Love so it cannot be real. And I am thankful that my tolerance for pain (suffering, punishment) may be high but it is not without limit.
I share with you what stood out to me in Lesson 132.
Belief is powerful indeed. The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth.
Anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it. For to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think. You free the past from what you thought before. You free the future of all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find.
Your mind must give the world meaning. And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them real.
There is no world apart from what you wish, and therein lies your ultimate release. Only change your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. It is not pride which tells you that you made the world you see, and that it changes as you change your mind. But it is pride that argues you have come into a world quite separate from yourself, impervious to what you think and quite apart from what you chance to think it is.
An earlier lesson contains the firm foundation for today’s idea (I loose the world from all I thought is was). You are as God created you. There is no place where you can suffer, and no time that can bring change to your eternal state. How can a world of time and place exist, if you remain as God created you?
There is no world apart from your ideas because ideas leave not their source, and you maintain the world within your mind in thought. To free the world from every kind of pain is simply to change your mind about yourself. If you are as God created you, you cannot think apart Him, nor make what does not share His timelessness and Love. [above italics mine]
God’s creation is unlike the world in every way. As it was His Thought by which you were created, as it is your thought that made the world and must set it free, that you may know the Thoughts you share with God. God makes no distinctions in what is Himself and what is still Himself. No where does the Father end, the Son begin as something separate from Him.
There is no world because it is a thought apart from God/Love and is not real.
Begin your practice with this:
I who remain as God create me would loose the world from all I thought is was. For I am real because the world is not, and I would know my own reality.
Then merely rest, alert but with no strain, and let your mind in quietness be changed so that the world is freed, along with you.
(Manual For Teachers; page 24, is a great addition with this lesson.)
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