A New Way to See

Morning Reflections

It is only my illusions that I “see.” To me, my illusions are real, so I “live” in a world where the body is real and needs feeding, protection, and a source of money to supply it’s perceived needs.
If I do not follow the instructions for doing the Work Book lessons, it is because of fear to truly relinquish the identity of the body. I have played this game so “long” that I do not remember the truth. I do not remember that I am far more than a body. I am not an ego nor a personality housed in a body. If I gave up the identity with this “self” then what would I be?

Only as I’m willing to drop the thoughts that protect separation, will truth be revealed. My thoughts of illusion hide the thoughts of truth in my mind. A Judy Collin’s song comes to mind, the lyrics being: “It’s only illusions I recall, I really don’t know clouds; love; life at all.”

I am my own magician, making illusion after illusion. How can I really take anything seriously? Nothing is gained or lost in illusions. Images cannot affect me, unless I direct them to do so. It is the unconscious belief (hidden thought) that directs the illusion, my dream. I am allowing the sleeping mind run the dream, project the illusions. I am lost in picture after picture of a past that gets projected onto the screen. The good news is this can be undone.
It is undone as I am willing to see something different, or a new picture in place of the past images. I need only stop being the “master” magician.

Since it is only my illusions that I “see,” that is why only forgiveness will free me. It is my forgiving my illusions that frees me. Is is in accepting that illusions are not real, and only come from my mind, that will free me. Any pain, or the flip side of the coin, pleasure I experience seems to make the illusion real, but still it’s not real. The senses of the body only maintain the illusion but never show reality. What is real, lies behind all the illusions. A loving mind is really hidden behind the illusions.

My Inner Guide will show me the pictures that lead to a happy dream, the perception of a loving world. He gently reveals that mistaken pictures have no meaning at all. What can this bring, but simple relief? Simple peace?
How important are my illusions to me? Do they mean more than the peace and love that is my inheritance? Waking up is not hard to do—but it is a process, and my Guide is forever shining the Light, forever loving me, and leading me in the true direction of Home. He shows me that forgiveness is simple, it is my choice that sets me free

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