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<center>'''Beyond this world there is a world I want.'''</center>
Beyond this world there is a world I want.
This is the thought that follows from the one we practiced yesterday. You
cannot stop with the idea the world is worthless, for unless you see that
there is something else to hope for, you will only be depressed. Our
emphasis is not on giving up the world, but on exchanging it for what is far
more satisfying, filled with joy, and capable of offering you peace. Think
you this world can offer that to you?
It might be worth a little time to think once more about the value of this
world. Perhaps you will concede there is no loss in letting go all thought of
value here. The world you see is merciless indeed, unstable, cruel,
unconcerned with you, quick to avenge and pitiless with hate. It gives but to
rescind, and takes away all things that you have cherished for a while. No
lasting love is found, for none is here. This is the world of time, where all
things end.
Is it a loss to find a world instead where losing is impossible; where love
endures forever, hate cannot exist and vengeance has no meaning? Is it loss
to find all things you really want, and know they have no ending and they
will remain exactly as you want them throughout time? Yet even they will
be exchanged at last for what we cannot speak of, for you go from there to
where words fail entirely, into a silence where the language is unspoken and
yet surely understood.
Communication, unambiguous and plain as day, remains unlimited for all
eternity. And God Himself speaks to His Son, as His Son speaks to Him.
Their language has no words, for what They say cannot be symbolized.
Their knowledge is direct and wholly shared and wholly one. How far away
from this are you who stay bound to this world. And yet how near are you,
when you exchange it for the world you want.
Now is the last step certain; now you stand an instant's space away from
timelessness. Here can you but look forward, never back to see again the
world you do not want. Here is the world that comes to take its place, as you
unbind your mind from little things the world sets forth to keep you
prisoner. Value them not, and they will disappear. Esteem them, and they
will seem real to you.
Such is the choice. What loss can be for you in choosing not to value
nothingness? This world holds nothing that you really want, but what you
choose instead you want indeed! Let it be given you today. It waits but for
your choosing it, to take the place of all the things you seek but do not want.
Practice your willingness to make this change ten minutes in the morning
and at night, and once more in between. Begin with this:
<center>''Beyond this world there is a world I want.''</center>
<center>''I choose to see that world instead of this,''</center>
<center>''for here is nothing that I really want.''</center>
Then close your eyes upon the world you see, and in the silent darkness
watch the lights that are not of this world light one by one, until where one
begins another ends loses all meaning as they blend in one.
Today the lights of Heaven bend to you, to shine upon your eyelids as you
rest beyond the world of darkness. Here is light your eyes can not behold.
And yet your mind can see it plainly, and can understand. A day of grace is
given you today, and we give thanks. This day we realize that what you
feared to lose was only loss.
Now do we understand there is no loss. For we have seen its opposite at
last, and we are grateful that the choice is made. Remember your decision
hourly, and take a moment to confirm your choice by laying by whatever
thoughts you have, and dwelling briefly only upon this:
<center>''The world I see holds nothing that I want.''</center>
<center>''Beyond this world there is a world I want.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
<center>'''Beyond this world there is a world I want.'''</center>
Beyond this world there is a world I want.
This is the thought that follows from the one we practiced yesterday. You
cannot stop with the idea the world is worthless, for unless you see that
there is something else to hope for, you will only be depressed. Our
emphasis is not on giving up the world, but on exchanging it for what is far
more satisfying, filled with joy, and capable of offering you peace. Think
you this world can offer that to you?
It might be worth a little time to think once more about the value of this
world. Perhaps you will concede there is no loss in letting go all thought of
value here. The world you see is merciless indeed, unstable, cruel,
unconcerned with you, quick to avenge and pitiless with hate. It gives but to
rescind, and takes away all things that you have cherished for a while. No
lasting love is found, for none is here. This is the world of time, where all
things end.
Is it a loss to find a world instead where losing is impossible; where love
endures forever, hate cannot exist and vengeance has no meaning? Is it loss
to find all things you really want, and know they have no ending and they
will remain exactly as you want them throughout time? Yet even they will
be exchanged at last for what we cannot speak of, for you go from there to
where words fail entirely, into a silence where the language is unspoken and
yet surely understood.
Communication, unambiguous and plain as day, remains unlimited for all
eternity. And God Himself speaks to His Son, as His Son speaks to Him.
Their language has no words, for what They say cannot be symbolized.
Their knowledge is direct and wholly shared and wholly one. How far away
from this are you who stay bound to this world. And yet how near are you,
when you exchange it for the world you want.
Now is the last step certain; now you stand an instant's space away from
timelessness. Here can you but look forward, never back to see again the
world you do not want. Here is the world that comes to take its place, as you
unbind your mind from little things the world sets forth to keep you
prisoner. Value them not, and they will disappear. Esteem them, and they
will seem real to you.
Such is the choice. What loss can be for you in choosing not to value
nothingness? This world holds nothing that you really want, but what you
choose instead you want indeed! Let it be given you today. It waits but for
your choosing it, to take the place of all the things you seek but do not want.
Practice your willingness to make this change ten minutes in the morning
and at night, and once more in between. Begin with this:
<center>''Beyond this world there is a world I want.''</center>
<center>''I choose to see that world instead of this,''</center>
<center>''for here is nothing that I really want.''</center>
Then close your eyes upon the world you see, and in the silent darkness
watch the lights that are not of this world light one by one, until where one
begins another ends loses all meaning as they blend in one.
Today the lights of Heaven bend to you, to shine upon your eyelids as you
rest beyond the world of darkness. Here is light your eyes can not behold.
And yet your mind can see it plainly, and can understand. A day of grace is
given you today, and we give thanks. This day we realize that what you
feared to lose was only loss.
Now do we understand there is no loss. For we have seen its opposite at
last, and we are grateful that the choice is made. Remember your decision
hourly, and take a moment to confirm your choice by laying by whatever
thoughts you have, and dwelling briefly only upon this:
<center>''The world I see holds nothing that I want.''</center>
<center>''Beyond this world there is a world I want.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
