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<center>'''I loose the world from all I thought it was.'''</center>
I loose the world from all I thought it was.
What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs? And what can save the
world except your Self? Belief is powerful indeed. The thoughts you hold
are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth. A
madman thinks the world he sees is real, and does not doubt it. Nor can he
be swayed by questioning his thoughts' effects. It is but when their source is
raised to question that the hope of freedom comes to him at last.
Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind, and
all his thoughts change with it. Now the source of thought has shifted, 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 from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do
not want to find.
The present now remains the only time. Here in the present is the world set
free. For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your
ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world. You have enslaved
the world with all your fears, your doubts and miseries, your pain and tears,
and all your sorrows press on it, and keep the world a prisoner to your
beliefs. Death strikes it everywhere because you hold the bitter thoughts of
death within your mind.
The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it meaning. And what
you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and
think them real. Perhaps you think you did not make the world, but came
unwillingly to what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to
give it meaning. Yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for when
you came.
There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate
release. Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world
must change accordingly. Ideas leave not their source. This central theme is
often stated in the text, and must be borne in mind if you would understand
the lesson for today. 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. There is no world! This is the central thought the
course attempts to teach. Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one
must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth. He will
return and go still farther, or perhaps step back a while and then return
again.
But healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world,
and can accept the lesson now. Their readiness will bring the lesson to them
in some form which they can understand and recognize. Some see it
suddenly on point of death, and rise to teach it. Others find it in experience
that is not of this world, which shows them that the world does not exist
because what they behold must be the truth, and yet it clearly contradicts the
world.
And some will find it in this course, and in the exercises that we do today.
Today's idea is true because the world does not exist. And if it is indeed
your own imagining, then you can loose it from all things you ever thought
it was by merely changing all the thoughts that gave it these appearances.
The sick are healed as you let go all thoughts of sickness, and the dead arise
when you let thoughts of life replace all thoughts you ever held of death.
A lesson earlier repeated once must now be stressed again, for it contains
the firm foundation for today's idea. 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?
What is the lesson for today except another way of saying that to know your
Self is the salvation of the world? To free the world from every kind of pain
is but to change your mind about yourself. There is no world apart from
your ideas because ideas leave not their source, and you maintain the world
within your mind in thought.
Yet if you are as God created you, you cannot think apart from Him, nor
make what does not share His timelessness and Love. Are these inherent in
the world you see? Does it create like Him? Unless it does, it is not real, and
cannot be at all. If you are real the world you see is false, for God's creation
is unlike the world in every way. And as it was His Thought by which you
were created, so it is your thoughts which made it and must set it free, that
you may know the Thoughts you share with God.
Release the world! Your real creations wait for this release to give you
fatherhood, not of illusions, but as God in truth. God shares His Fatherhood
with you who are His Son, for He makes no distinctions in what is Himself
and what is still Himself. What He creates is not apart from Him, and
nowhere does the Father end, the Son begin as something separate from
Him.
There is no world because it is a thought apart from God, and made to
separate the Father and the Son, and break away a part of God Himself and
thus destroy His Wholeness. Can a world which comes from this idea be
real? Can it be anywhere? Deny illusions, but accept the truth. Deny you are
a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world. Release your mind, and you will
look upon a world released.
Today our purpose is to free the world from all the idle thoughts we ever
held about it, and about all living things we see upon it. They can not be
there. No more can we. For we are in the home our Father set for us, along
with them. And we who are as He created us would loose the world this day
from every one of our illusions, that we may be free.
Begin the fifteen-minute periods in which we practice twice today with this:
<center>''I who remain as God created me would loose the world from all I thought it
was.''</center>
<center>''For I am real because the world is not, and I would know my own reality.''</center>
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.
You need not realize that healing comes to many brothers far across the
world, as well as to the ones you see nearby, as you send out these thoughts
to bless the world. But you will sense your own release, although you may
not fully understand as yet that you could never be released alone.
Throughout the day, increase the freedom sent through your ideas to all the
world, and say whenever you are tempted to deny the power of your simple
change of mind:
<center>''I loose the world from all I thought it was,''</center>
<center>''and choose my own reality instead.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
<center>'''I loose the world from all I thought it was.'''</center>
I loose the world from all I thought it was.
What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs? And what can save the
world except your Self? Belief is powerful indeed. The thoughts you hold
are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth. A
madman thinks the world he sees is real, and does not doubt it. Nor can he
be swayed by questioning his thoughts' effects. It is but when their source is
raised to question that the hope of freedom comes to him at last.
Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind, and
all his thoughts change with it. Now the source of thought has shifted, 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 from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do
not want to find.
The present now remains the only time. Here in the present is the world set
free. For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your
ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world. You have enslaved
the world with all your fears, your doubts and miseries, your pain and tears,
and all your sorrows press on it, and keep the world a prisoner to your
beliefs. Death strikes it everywhere because you hold the bitter thoughts of
death within your mind.
The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it meaning. And what
you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and
think them real. Perhaps you think you did not make the world, but came
unwillingly to what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to
give it meaning. Yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for when
you came.
There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate
release. Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world
must change accordingly. Ideas leave not their source. This central theme is
often stated in the text, and must be borne in mind if you would understand
the lesson for today. 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. There is no world! This is the central thought the
course attempts to teach. Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one
must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth. He will
return and go still farther, or perhaps step back a while and then return
again.
But healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world,
and can accept the lesson now. Their readiness will bring the lesson to them
in some form which they can understand and recognize. Some see it
suddenly on point of death, and rise to teach it. Others find it in experience
that is not of this world, which shows them that the world does not exist
because what they behold must be the truth, and yet it clearly contradicts the
world.
And some will find it in this course, and in the exercises that we do today.
Today's idea is true because the world does not exist. And if it is indeed
your own imagining, then you can loose it from all things you ever thought
it was by merely changing all the thoughts that gave it these appearances.
The sick are healed as you let go all thoughts of sickness, and the dead arise
when you let thoughts of life replace all thoughts you ever held of death.
A lesson earlier repeated once must now be stressed again, for it contains
the firm foundation for today's idea. 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?
What is the lesson for today except another way of saying that to know your
Self is the salvation of the world? To free the world from every kind of pain
is but to change your mind about yourself. There is no world apart from
your ideas because ideas leave not their source, and you maintain the world
within your mind in thought.
Yet if you are as God created you, you cannot think apart from Him, nor
make what does not share His timelessness and Love. Are these inherent in
the world you see? Does it create like Him? Unless it does, it is not real, and
cannot be at all. If you are real the world you see is false, for God's creation
is unlike the world in every way. And as it was His Thought by which you
were created, so it is your thoughts which made it and must set it free, that
you may know the Thoughts you share with God.
Release the world! Your real creations wait for this release to give you
fatherhood, not of illusions, but as God in truth. God shares His Fatherhood
with you who are His Son, for He makes no distinctions in what is Himself
and what is still Himself. What He creates is not apart from Him, and
nowhere does the Father end, the Son begin as something separate from
Him.
There is no world because it is a thought apart from God, and made to
separate the Father and the Son, and break away a part of God Himself and
thus destroy His Wholeness. Can a world which comes from this idea be
real? Can it be anywhere? Deny illusions, but accept the truth. Deny you are
a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world. Release your mind, and you will
look upon a world released.
Today our purpose is to free the world from all the idle thoughts we ever
held about it, and about all living things we see upon it. They can not be
there. No more can we. For we are in the home our Father set for us, along
with them. And we who are as He created us would loose the world this day
from every one of our illusions, that we may be free.
Begin the fifteen-minute periods in which we practice twice today with this:
<center>''I who remain as God created me would loose the world from all I thought it
was.''</center>
<center>''For I am real because the world is not, and I would know my own reality.''</center>
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.
You need not realize that healing comes to many brothers far across the
world, as well as to the ones you see nearby, as you send out these thoughts
to bless the world. But you will sense your own release, although you may
not fully understand as yet that you could never be released alone.
Throughout the day, increase the freedom sent through your ideas to all the
world, and say whenever you are tempted to deny the power of your simple
change of mind:
<center>''I loose the world from all I thought it was,''</center>
<center>''and choose my own reality instead.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
