This lesson (24) reminds me that my perception is the problem. I am not capable of seeing the entirety of reality when my thoughts about my life, my situation, my relationships are so focused on me, me, me. I am completely asleep in the dream if I think I am the center of the universe. In the lesson it states: What I do is determined by my perception of the situation and that perception is wrong. Wow.
So, now what? I am asked to let my perception go. Allow a new perception to arise within my mind. But it doesn't happen until I let go of the one I'm manufacturing and holding onto. This requires that I step back, and let a miracle occur. The miracle occurs instantly, when I allow it. Why? Because God has already saved me from my dream! This is all already over! I see only the past. Remember the fundamental lessons. I am upset because I see what is NOT THERE. I think it's there, because I put it there out of a desire that it be there. But I am the image maker. Lesson 14, God did not create a meaningless world. I did. I gave everything all the meaning it has for me. Because, as it states in Lesson 15: My thoughts are images I have made.
OK. Now we are getting somewhere. I am the maker of the world I see. I can resign as the image maker. I can let God show me what is truly there instead. God creates only like Himself...and therefore, since God is love, there is only love. If I am perceiving anything unlike love, I am hallucinating. This is powerful stuff! I am in a hallucination of my own making, and I can simply choose to stop hallucinating. In fact, I have to, if I want to be free. Amazing that there truly is a way out of a dream of suffering, pain and death. And it is so simple, if I will just apply it.
I am constantly reminded that my awakening occurs as I let go of my own ideas and keep an open mind. A closed mind can do nothing, it is closed, just like the thought system of the ego is an entirely closed system unto itself, that is why it is totally noncommunicative. It is only concerned with itself. It cannot see beyond its own miniscule idea of itself as a body in a dream world. So, my mind will change when I get sick and tired of this closed system.
What do I want to see? I want an open system. I want to know that my life does have meaning, that there is a purpose for which I came into this place. I want to experience my life as full, meaningful, joyful and free! Well, guess what? God wants that for me too, because that is how He created me! I must know it's possible, because I remember it. I do remember being totally happy and free. I want it above all else.
So, it doesn't really take any time at all for this to be true. I don't have to work at it really, or wait for happiness, it is already given me. My job is to accept it. That is all. Simply accept that God created me perfect and I don't have anything to say about it. I am a perfect, whole, complete idea in His Mind. Everything is an idea. I am an idea of total love within the Mind of God. No one can take it away from me.
Can you accept that God knows you perfectly and that you have always been taken care of...even in the midst of turmoil, grief, illness, loss? Can you imagine what it would be like if you totally trusted God? You would have no fear. You would be totally free. Being enlightened just means that you have lost your fear. You are shown that fear is a misperception that you are maintaining. And you can let it go, let it be changed into a dream of freedom and light.
This freedom and light is all around you and you cannot be separate from it. If I have learned anything from my teacher, it is this: Everything is true by the possibility of it. If I can imagine being free, then I can experience being free. I can be free right now, because in truth, I already am. The release of my conceptual ideas is how I experience it. That is why the Workbook is so important. It is the way out of hell or separation or fear. It is the way to let this entire dream world be undone. It is so easy, yet you must practice it.
The world will change when I change my mind about it. I will see peace, I will experience an incredible harmony of communication with all of life itself. Because it is already happening, even though I slept. I wasn't aware of it for a while, but that is over now. Love doesn't ever sleep. It extends, it gives of itself constantly. I am not aware of it when my mind is asleep dreaming fearful dreams. But the dreams are just dreams! It is time to wake up!
One time, I heard someone say that you cannot become enlightened by practicing A Course in Miracles. I was so amazed! Why else would you want to practice it? Don't you want to be free? Aren't you doing the Course because you want out of the dream of death? Come on! It really does work, but you do have to want it to work. You do have to know that the possibility of becoming enlightened is there, and that it is true, just because it's possible! God doesn't keep secrets from you. He isn't keeping you asleep...you are!
Isn't it time to put away your children's toys--your crazy ideas of fear and death? You are a whole and complete thought in the Mind of God. You cannot lose anything. You cannot die, you can only make up a dream of death and think its all really happening, and you will be asleep for a very long time.
I love you and I don't want this dream for you any more. I want you to be free, because I'm free. I know it's true, I know first hand that God is love and I am what He is. I love you!
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